. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. ade no S3^ effort toexpose and punish the Molly Maguires brought suchgeneral reproach upon the order that it was formallyexcommrinicated by Archbishop Wood, and althoughthe order has largely recovered from the dishonor anddemoralization caused by the Molly Maguires withinits household, the record of the Mollies remains as afearful reproach upon the org
. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. ade no S3^ effort toexpose and punish the Molly Maguires brought suchgeneral reproach upon the order that it was formallyexcommrinicated by Archbishop Wood, and althoughthe order has largely recovered from the dishonor anddemoralization caused by the Molly Maguires withinits household, the record of the Mollies remains as afearful reproach upon the organization. It is a secret order with signs and passwords which arechanged quarterly and given out by the Board of Erin,with headquarters in Great Britain, where it is thegoverning povrer of the entire organization. TheAmerican headquarters of the order are in New Yorkcitv, where the national board meets, and in this Statein the city of Pittsburg, where the State delegate rulessupreme. Beneath him are county delegates in eachcoimty of the State in which the organization hasmembers, and beneath the coimty delegates are body-masters, who are the heads of the various local signals and passwords are communicated from the. (Oy^ttusy c>Z. c-yvSt^/W-**^- THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Astor, Lenox and TUdenFoundations. Of Pennsylvania 431 Board of Erin to the national headquarters in NewYork city, thence to the various State delegates, andby them to those who are subject to their orders. In the earlier days of mining in the anthracite regionthe majority of the miners were Irishmen, and most ofthem members of the Ancient Order of becam_e greatly inflamed against the coal opera-tors, their employers, and gradually, and perhaps with-out originally intending it, drifted into the lines pursuedby Ribbonism in Ireland. The chief center of theMollies in Schuylkill County was in Cass Township,where I first struck them, when in charge of the draftmade imder the State
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