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THE TELEGERAPH AND MESSENGER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY G. 1885.
RnRnnM ,< s nFTFN^F \ littleorer half the 4X100,000 allowed itIn
UU nUtFli O ULilIsOL, tho extraordinary table to which I bare
THE CHARCEB AGAINST HIS ROAD GEN-
ERALLY DENIED.
He Claims That There la Plenty ot Land
to Meet the Demands of the ln«
ternatlonnl Railroad and
Steamship Company.
Atlahta, Oa., January “SI.—Editor Tel
egraph and iteuenger—Dxab Bib: I
saw for the first time a few days
since the communication over the
signature “H. 8. E" in your ia-
ene of the 18th instant. Your correspon
dent’s letter is based upon represents-
, lions made to him, which have done me a
grit*"qua wrong. I cannot and do not for
at moment believe that such was the object
of your correspondent, but that he has
been betrayed into giving publicity to this
informant's statements, every material
allegation of which, at I shall prore, itfalte
infact or intent and grotshj libelout fn
character. The illy-disguised effort ot this
informant to create the impression upon
jour correspondent's mind and upon the
public that any undue or improper In
HuenceB were used to secure the act to
-which he refers is a crime against truth
sn^ common decency. No member of
the Legislature, no individual In any way
connected with the government has or
everhad one farthing of financial interest
in the enterprise, directly or indirectly, re
motely or contingently, nor any promise
or shadow of promiee of interest; nor pay
nor remuneration of any description or
amount whatsoever. No attorney even,
nor agent nor advocate in any capacity
whatever, waB employed or requested to
represent the enterprire before the Legis
lature. 1 his enterprise, which is of vast
national as well as State im
portance, stood before the
legislature of Florida upon its merits, and
its rierits alone; and it merited every vote
it received and received every vote in the
Benato except four, and an overwhelming
majority of the Bouse of Representatives.
It commanded this vote without any paid
advccate irt it* Interest—Indeed, with no
advocate ft all save my tell alone.? The in
sinuation, therefore, that any improper or
unwarranted influences were brought to
hear is so grossly fairs in intent and so
t-landerou. <>f the high character of Flori
da's late executive and of her intelligent
and hi right body of legislators as to de
serve the contempt of all truth-loving and
honorable men.
'ihe statement made by this Informant
to your correspondent that "peonie are
coming into the State with their Gordon
land-wsrrnts from every direction” is an
unblushing falsehood cut from whole
cloth. The fact is that not one man frem
any direction has ever been in that Stale,
or any oilier State, witb a “Gordon land-
warrant,” or n land-warrant signed by
tiordiin or h sued by him or by aoy com
pany or any person associated with Gordon
extraordinary
referred.
The second road to which allntion was
made received its grant for the same
amount per mile in tue same year (1879),
which was extended in 1881, sndclsin s to
have constructed about tbe asms number
of miles with the road above discussed.
Tbe third road which is credited with
15:0,000 seres, received Its grant In
March, 1881, of 6000 acres per
mile, and was allowed five years
in which to earn its grant. Four of the
lire years will have past on tbe 8th day of
March, and yet it has not completed, I be
lieve, one mile of its road. I repeat that
this road, in order to earn the amount of
lands with which It Is credited in this ex.
traordinary table or exhibit, mast build st
tbe rate of 6,000 per mile 250 miles of road
in one year, whereas it has not completed.
1 believe, a single mile in tbe four years of
the five allowed it.
In tbe array of facts which I have here
given (not one os which will be denied by
any truthful, responsible msnoverhliown
slgntaure), enough is presented to show
tbe utter absurdity of such an eabibit of
tbe pnblio lands and the animus of this
remarkable informant, who seeks by inch
meant to damage the moat important en
terprise yet chartered by the Slate ot
Florida.
But let us examine a little further this
extraordinary exhibit burnished to voar
correspondent. It mentions tbe names of
twelve other roads. Suppose tbe nnmuer
ot snch roads bod been doubled? Wbst
appreciable eflect would that have upon
tbe lands grsDted by special acts to other
roads? Even if they should ever be built
their lines would fie in those counties
mainly wliere even the alternates which
they would obtain would amount to very
few sections. Four of them, I believe, bave
no existence, except in name. Two bave
already been merged into other systems,
having received all the lands they can
ever obtain, and three of them st least os
X now recall ihe facts, by amendments
passed by tbe last I-egiiltture, bad even
tbeir alternate sections made expressly
subject to all previous grants and, there
fore, to that ol the International, in whose
charter there is no provlsim whatever
making its grant enbject to that of any
other road. On the contrary an amend
ment to that effect was oilered by tbe me-
mica of the road in both homes and wu
voted down in both almost nnsnimonsly.
But f present this matter in another
form. In January, 1884, the Hon. W. D.
Bloxhtm, then Florida’s able and impar
tial executive,{assembled the companies
interested in land grante, and in the pres
ence of the representatives of these com-
f isnics he hsd reported from the State
and office tliennmber of acres then held
by the State under thejset of 1850. That
statement wes as follows:
Exclusive ot alternate sections with
drawn, about — C,SCO,COO
Alternate withdrawn, about (addi
tional) — 500,000
Making then on band about 7,000,000
teres. To this be reported there must be
added 1,000,000 acres which be expected to
obt.in ot the surveyed portion of the
State—making a total of 8,000,000
acres trorn the lands al
ready surveyed. Add to this
the 7,549,502 acres of unsnrveyed lands
in the lower end of the State or Everglades,
and we have a grand total available for
railroad purposes of 15,549,562.
Are these figures correct? Tbe only
item in tbe calculation about which there
could poesibly be any donbt is tbe 7,060,000
scree reported by the Governor as on
hand. There is no doubt about ths other
items, for the State haa already received,
I believe, more than tbe 1,0(0,000 acres ex
pected from tbe surveyed lands; and the
other Item, the unsurveyed lands, is given
by the highest authority on that subject.
So careful was I to ascertain whether ibis
7,000,000 item wss correct or not that I de
termined to prate akialutely its correctness
or incorrectness. 1 seat to the general land
office at Washington tor tbe exact number
ot seres patented to the State since 1850.
1 obtained this, as jollows:
Patented to tbe Stats prior to June 3,
18S3 14.05V0S
Since the 3d June, I8tt3 720.351
in any capacity. Hieland-warrants which
ore to accompany tiio bonds (not "slock”)
have never been signed nor even printed.
The bonds Ihtmtclves have never been
leaned-not a single bond nor nslnglo land-
warrant linn been issued or signed. Nor
has one dollar ol the money subscriced
and paid in (for bonds hereafter (0 be Is
sued) been louched by myseli or the com
pany. Every dollar is held by the trustee,
the Farm era 1 loan and Trust Company ol
New Yotlr. Is it not marvellous that one
ean be found 10 lost to every sentiment ot
honor as to utter so willful and shameful
and inexcusable a falsehood in tho bopeof
damaging a uicritoilous though rival en
terprise?
Tbe eCbrt ol this iniorment lo damage
me personally by talking to make the im
pression that I tnado headquarters in Tal
lahassee during the session ol Ihe legisla
ture, oreven from Ihcllmcthe charter was
introduced to its final passage, la also false
in ils intent. Had 1 been able to remain
in Tallsbastce 1 should bavo perlormcd
only a duty to Ihe counlry in advocating
an enterprise which disinterested, able end
public spiritt d citizens in every section
unite in considering one o! Ihe most Im
portant lo the whole country yet conceived
or projected. Tho fact is, however, that I
waa not able tort main In Tallabnsrcc tut
a few Java during ite wliola session (leav
ing no one to represent me), during w hich
law days l endeavored to explain lo lead
ing members ot belli liousta the vast re
sults to follow sr.d llio almost incalculable
benefits which must ensue both to the
State and the country from ths
connection of all tho great com
mcrcial centers of our own counlry
by abort, sate and quick lines of centum-
mi-alien with the Mtstlndis Islands and
the ccuntilcs bordering on tho Caribean
Sea. in this connection, I endeavored lo
•how th<m what the committees ot bolh
houses ot the jnational Congress had re
ported upon years ago, that when agrtat
trunk line ni railway should be constructed
to Tutlic llstbcr, opposite tbe lowest ex
tremity ol the mainland and within a few
hours' run of Cubs, w e should command
at our doors a commerce so vast as to
_J» nearly three times the aggregate
amcuul lorolthtd to this countiy by bolh
China ai d Japan combined, lo obtain
which we bad already constructed three
gteat lines ot railway ccrcis this continent.
The iflorts ol ycur correspondent's in-
lorn:sot to dtceive tLe public In reference
to the amount ot lands available lor rail
road purposes is closely skin in Ils charac
ter to his other elTorts which 1 have al
ready eiDMCd in this communication. I
shall now bo able to show Irom c fflclal rtc-
orda that the object oi this Informant Is
to understate the amount o! public lords
on tbe one band and to greatly exstgerste
«^nedVyoid , Y£&tom 1 ,Ued‘ n ,ith •g****^
%TatrTntafin'e»fture a very mild thtt^li? W-
expression) of lie ojjkj® t **Z2S tcrnitional being free from tbe '‘conditioru
ccrr«pandent, m ixrite \'r<ctdcnl" incorporated In the other
for M83. to ■£I?*.!,* grant*.givesthe International precedence
^r.ubls whlcTi^t^eV”.^ ^,y o b h %ld h “ ,0 * d5 ' “"“hat th* courts
ol ‘SlVJ&K.HSl It will be' also observed that I have id.
mltted, for the sake ot argument, that the
acres. Whet lato bethouphlqt misstate other roods had complied witb the condi
tions ol tbeir grants, as they must do
tlricthj in order to cam lands , whereas.it
is 1.01 only denied that such Is the case.
Total patented at that date .....15,085,0C9
1 then wrote to Tallabasteetoget the ex
act number of acres deeded away by tbe
Btate of tbeis lands since 1850. This
amount was given by Judge White, the
commissioner, August 1, 1884, embracing
the Hlsston purchase, amount sold to set
tlers sod others, and oil deeded to
corporations or others and is, as offi
cially given, 8,415.097.25, leaving as
•mount on bind lJMjSB2.lt,
or an absolute proof of the correctness of
Gov. Bloxbam s figures.
Having thus obtained through the offi
cial ligates tbe exact amount of lands
avoilable, we are prepared to complete
this calculation.
To this snountthen on bond....... 7,2(9,3*2.75
Add the acm sines obtained..—. l.coocco
Add tbe uneutveyed lands - 7,549,5*2
Giving til 15,818,924 75 acres as the exaet
amount available for purposes of tbe
grants.
Now deduct frem this tbe amount
claimed by the t. A A, B. It. Co.
lOunrcTaimedby l’tIaIT W.”for
.10 miles completed-.—.—
Amount still due Florida Southern
lor completed road
Amount likely to be earned by Flor
ida Southern during piescnt year
100 milt'
AVV WilCl -
Amount to K A J. for road likely to
he completed, 70 nulls, at 0,000
semper
Deduct tor the drainage company 2,100,000
in view of the actual fact, which I
now give from tbe highest authority on
list subject in Ibe United States end an
absolutely inefutable authority. Hers it
baraavnaiiT or the Isvasioa, ctaaaAL
Lawn urnen, WaaHixotox, D. c , February
1S.1MH— • • • • • I have now to inform
von. 1a further reply to your letter, thsl the
tStmIud erea ol lind lu Florida remaining
on.untied on Junero.irss asebown bytha
la.t annual report of IhH offlM. page 17, wu
-.A€*JS2trrcs. Very respectfully,
N. C. McraaLagu, Commisiloner.
Here, then, in one Item, ie a enpuruslnn
ol the tenth to the extent ol 3,549.502
" Again. In tbie same table, three reilroadi
are credited with being entitled to land! as
follows:
One to 4 000.000 acres.
One to 3.0 0,000 acres.
One to 1,600,000 acre-.
limit to tbe value of tins* lands. It is tbe
borne of |the sugarcane, and caus wifi pay
8100 per at re net.”
Lient. Gov. Bethel says: * * • • “The
statements of Hon. James 1’. Ferkius *
* * do not exaggerate their fertility
and productiveness * * * * The com-
plelkn of tbe canals now being cut and
tbe constructional your railroa-1 will be
yond doaht convert ths southern end of
the Florida peninsula into a va-t sugar,
vegetable and fruilproduring country. ’
Let us take some testimony from att en
tirely different source. A correspondent
oi the Boetou Journal who accompanied
an “excursion to tho everglade region’’
states among other things that a steamer
130 ioDg and 30 fett wide came across the
Gull and up the “artificial canals already
cut; that the cutting had already turned
an "impasenble morass into arable land
about 150 equare miles." He adds: “I
have teen sugarcane growing where two
years ago tbr first dredgeboat came to an
chor."
Why your correspondent's Informant
wboeo vainly endeavors to defeat great
works of Internal improvement, which are
destined to bring such untold wealth to the
State and tbe country, should be so con
cerned in this ocnnection I leave the pub
lic lo judge.
The statement of this eager informant
that I used language or indulged a thought
“which amounted to a proposition to bor
row tbe Slate’s indorsement, with tbe un
deretsnding that ebe was not to be ret pom
sible for auy contract to which it was at.
tached,” is wickedly and foolishly false.
Sach a proposition, or anything which ap
proximated to it, would have been simply
idiotic in me and a direct sod flagrant in
sult to every member of both Houses
-forty-seven ot whom iu tho House voted
for tbe bill to fifteen against it, and twenty-
two in the Senate to four against it—after
the emendment to which be refers hod
been detested in both Houses almost unan
imously. Whstl did say then and repeat
now, wss that it wss useless to attach the
amendment (which was oilered in both
Honsee by the enemies of tbe enterprise),
because the mate had tho lands, and the
useless amendment would simpiy embar
rass nsgotistions with capitalists. To sup
pose anything else ss true is to suppose
either that the Legislature ot Florid-, was
devoid of intelligence or that all Us intelli
gence wss mono) olfxed by the four enemies
ol the enterprise in the Senate, or lhat this
overwhelming majority in both Houses
who voted for tbe bill and tbe able execu
tive who approved it were engaged with
me in a gigantic fraud upon the public,
wicked in its conception aud utterly nee-
less in its results. What tbe Legislature
taw and understood wss this, viz: tbe ani
mus of tbe combined opposition to tbit en
terprise. the fallacy 01 the pretended ex
hibit of the public lands, tbs unwarranted
dallying of seme of these corporations for
long yeirs with the State's bounty, and tbe
Legislature determined to turn over these
lands to this great line, which will be
spt edlly constructs -. and which is destined
to do more for tbe 8tate and the country
than any other ever chartered by that
State.
lu conclusion, let me add that tbe state
ment of this most anxious informant, that
tbe Internetionslbss dons nothing beyond
“the mere show oi beginning” is also a
falsehood. Only eleven months have trans-
S lred since it was necessary for tbe work
> be begun. More than fifty miles have
been graded, some of this through the
heaviest work upon tbe entire line, and ar
rangement? are perfected (or the beginning
1 track laying as soon as vessels can reach
Florida port with steel rails. I believe
it to be true, and 1 challenge the compiri-
son, that, with probably a single exception,
more work haa been doneon tuisline since
the charter wae signed than has ever been
before accomplished in equal time by any
company receiving tbe bouuty ol the State.
This hae been accomplished in the lace oi
opposition tbe most determined, per
sistent and formidable, and in the face ol
tbe rapid fall In railroad securities in this
country to the enormous amount ot
mote than a thousand millions ot
dollars. It would much belter comport
with the pretended patriotism ol this self-
seeking informant to aid, instead cf op
ining,this Important work, whose success
s destined to add still greater lostre to tbe
well-earned isms of tbs most progressive
and prosperous administration in the
State's history.
In this letter I have nsed some strong
language in reference to your correspond
ent’s informant—stronger then I am ac
customed to employ. Bat what words are
•trong enough to characterize the conduct
of a man who, without provocation or ex
cuse other than a desire to demage a rival
enterprise or bnalness, would resort to such
untruthful statements, would blacken tbe
fair name of tbe Btate itself by utterly
false accusations—would assail reputations
wblcb to tbeir possessors are above price
•nd dearer than life? Do not snch mo
tives end such methods deserve the execra
tion of all honorable men ?
That yonr widely circulating journal will
endeavor, a* far as In its power lies, to re-
tair the wrong which has been unwittingly
ntticted I do not at all doubt. Respectfully,
J. B. uoanox.
2,000,000
1.300,000
400,000
1,000,000
420,000
•,<•8,134
1.(00,000
Deduct for other purposes, Includ
ing alternate section giants
Leaving for International 7,MO,024
or mors then 15,000 acres per mile for £00
miles of track, wberets, should ths P. and
1. railroad, in combination with th» 1. T.
and K. W.. build lo Sanfoid daring tho
irtaent year, as I hope and believa It trill,
t would reduce the distance to be bit it by
be International by at least 125 miles.
In thli calculation, It mnat be borne in
bat in one instance at least Ihe question is
now being tested in the courts as to
whether one of these roads is entitled to
any land at all, and a chancellor baa or
dered an injunction, ao that it is believed
that tbe road referred to has clearly for
feited all claim lo the State’* bounty.
In anbtber case I have allowed for tbe
the bniiding of os many mile* in the one
remaining year aa In the six yean ex-
In still another I have credited ■ road
wills tbe building of seventy miles in the
one year remaining, whereas it has not. I
believe, finished one mile In tbe toot yean
gone by. Yet with all these concessions
the fact still remain* that there ire more
lands than are required for the Interna
tional, ao that when the real legal statoa
I omit the names of these 'pads because u' a«cert*ined then will be left to the
I do—twi-h to Orsg. them ln their basL Bt4te ta probability several million
aetea even after In* line* of the Interna
B-wwitltllcm baton the public ; but any I
on-- interested in this discussion can ascer
tain the correctn. -s of my figures by re-
1 erring to the table given In joor corre
spondent's article near ill dee*.
The road credited with 4,000008screi re-
reitavl'ti era: t in Match, 1879, and hod
,11.,wed it seven yean In which to earn
lauds at the rate ol 10 (AM seres per mile.
It niiot therefor*boild400miles of railway
at 10 ’XX) seres per mile to secure the 4,000,-
irei^ref. hix of the seven years are p me
in March next. It lias constructed about
12s miles in the six jc-are past Willit con
struct as many mile* in the one year ro-
malritngss it did iu thap*st*tx? Itwlll
le- observed that four of tbs alx yean
already gone embraced an cn of an paral
leled pr£parity In rolirowd development
and tbe one year remaining open* wLhan
unparalleled drtreuion 10 railroad build-
kw ssd la Urn financial world on Inch
aides of tbe Atlantic. Bat even should Ibis
rowdbaUdas many miles during the one
yeas cf dcpecaaSoo remaining os it has fn
six jean pest, it would even t«|
tional are completed to Tampa and to Tur
tle Harbor.
Yonr correspondent's Informant ieems
specially anxious lo create the impression
that tbe lands south of parallel 27, all of
which ar* withdrawn In (be charter for tbe
benefit of lb* International, are of tittle 01
no vain*. For haps the motives of this In-
formant will be still more dearly aewo when
hi* statements an contrasted with those
of tho Hoc. Janus P. Perkins, the Intelli
gent member from Monroe county, and of
Lieutenant Governor Bethel, who hat
lived in that county for thirty-five yean.
These ar* both gentlemen of a high order
of ioielligenc* end of unblemished cbtrac-
tcr. Mr. Perkins says In hie letter tone
that when the Drainage Company shall
have finished tbeir canals “the lands will
command hlgherpnces than any in the
Southern Stales. They are among the rich
est lands in the world. There is doubt
11 any portion of the country is more
healthy. When the gnat lines of yonr
road art completed it it difficult to Ml a
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
A Young Workman Found With Dyra-
mlte In His Possession—He Re
fuses to Cl*/ His Anteeo-
dontt—General Notes.
ItatzoaAPHZD to the ASSOCIATED razes.]
Lokdoh, January 31.—Sir Wm. V. Har-
conrt, home secretary, to-day received a
letter which alleged that an extensive dy
namite plot is being hatched, and mentions
a number of buildings the dynamiters in
tend to blow np. It also gave tbe names
ol several plotters and tbe pieces at which
they could be found.
Extra guards have been placed on dnly
at tbe Bank of England, in consequence of
threats made to blow np the building.
The police are making an investigation.
LoXDote, January 31.—A man giving the
name of Newbold was arrested at the Cen
tral station of tbe Midland railway at
Derby to-day, with dynamite in his pos
session. He declined to give his history
for the past month. He was examined
before a magistrate. Evidence was pro
duced against him in the shape of letters
received from tbe south of England threat
ening to blow up the town hall in Derby.
He admitted that the handwriting on the
envelopes containing the letters was his.
The letters described a plot tor blowing up
with dynamite the town • ball
end a bank in an adjoining county. When
asked to explain sway this evidence, New-
bold said he conld not, although be insist
ed that be was innocent of any wroog. He
•aid he replied to several adverUsemen'a
about the time of tbe dates on
the envelopes, and said tbe envelopes
he bad used in these replies must
have fallen Into bad hands and again
been nsed, and in Ibis way come into the
possession of the police. The prisoner is
about twenty-nine years, and gave the
magistrate to remand the prisoner.
It is declared that the detectives pos
sess in an incomplete state other evi
dence against Newbold of a more serious
and circumstantial character than that
produced. He was remanded until Feb
ruary 7th.
Later developments excite much atten
tion and constantly grow more aeriois.
It is stated that the police found among
the prisoner’s papers a document revealing
rPdynamite plot of considerable magni
tude. The document is not in Newbold's
handwriting, bat the envelope contained
his address, which wss proved to haze
been penned by bimself, so that tho recip
ient might know where to send the an
swer. During tho proceedings the pris
oner was very much agitated.
At the time tbe letter w»s written and at
the time of his arrest Newbold was em
ployed in the Derby shops of the Midland
Railway Co., and he regularly wore tbe or
dinary clothes of a working man. In per
son Newbold is ot dark complexion and of
ahort, thick set figure. Derby town hsll
has been placed under special police pro
tection and tbe officials of the Midland
Railway Co. are using great vigilance to
trace ont all clews ol tbe discovered con
spiracy. Orders have been rent Irom
London to detain and search ail
suspicious persons found travel
ing over the Midland road,
WILL SOMEBODY KILL ROSA?
aulcld* at Thcmasvllle'
[SFXCIAL TKLKOKAM.)
Tbohasviux, January 30.—Thomasvllle
la earning tbe name once applied to her,
the Atlanta of Southwest Georgia. An
other suicide startled the town to-day. In
dilapidated old boarding-boose, kept by
his mother, between Broad and Msdiion
streets, Eaton B. Allen, an unmarried man
thirty-five years old, blow off half bis bead
witb a shotgun this afternoon. His
mother says she has feared his mind was a
little off for the past few days. He went at
noon to-day to go on a train to Florida.
The train had left, and he went Immedi
ately home to his room and emptied the
contents of Ihe gnn into hi* head. He fell
on a iron* in the corner ol theroom. His
brains were scattered generally. Breathlrg
continued for an hoar after the shot was
fired. <
Hotel Burned.
[SrSClAL TELloaAN.I
Louisville, Oa., January 29.—The Cen
tral Hotel at this place waa burned here
this morning at 2 o'clock. The bniiding
and contend,with the exception of proper
ty of boarders,was entirely consnmed. The
building wss tn old one.baving stood over
three-quarters of a century. Mr. W. J,
Lattice, tbe proprietor, claims that hit Ion
is between five and six thousand dollars
and only fifteen hundred dollars lnsur-
Ha Gets Soma Threatening Letters, Ono
of Wnloh Sounds Very Homelike.
Nxw Yoax, January 28.—Whoa Dyna
miter O'DonoTan Rssia sorted his mall
yesterday he struck a postal card from
Philadelphia tbe first thing. Oa the beck
of the card waa a skull and cross bones
sketched in blood-red ink. Tho send
er said that the skull and cross
bones were the remnants of Ross*.
Until a reporter came aronnd and
translated tbe Inscription tbs dynamiters
couldn’t make out this Latin, Otnet timidi
tehcmenliut latrant," that was writ.eu un
der the bones.
"Oh. It's the cowardly curs that bark
hardut, is it?” muttered the dynamiter, as
he drove a rusty dagger throiwh tbe end
of so envelope that was postmarked Pilta-
bnrg. This latter dropped to the Door.
"tyDonovan Rotta—Fiaan: I and four of
my companions base vowed to riel tbe
earth of yonr loathsome presence. Three
of my friends bate been tracking yonr
footsteps for ths last twentv-elght hours,
and I shall arrive in New York Monday,
and I pledge my word as an Eagltsbman
that wherever and whenever I meet yon
either in public or private, I will send n
bullet through your cowsrdlv heart.
Think not you can evade us. We know
yon, we know yonr haunt* and habits,
aud as lore ss the sun rises SBd sets
so sore shall yon die. You ar* a coward
and a moDster. If yon had th* courage of
a man I would meet you p'atol to pistol,
but I know you to be a cowardly assassin
and I and ray frisnda and England shall
no longer inner at ths hands of a viper,
who, is afraid to strike like a man, and
who. by God's hslp, shall he shot as a
venomous bust. I am here. Retribution
for onr murdered countrymen.
“Nemesis.”
The dynamiter drove his dagger clean
through this letter, which he ia suspected
of writiDg to bimself and sending to Pitta-
burghtooo posted. Then he sat down
and wrote that he wasn't afraid of all crea
tion.
Pat Joyce said somebody had cabled
from London for money r > defend Cun
nlnghara.
"Ho bad a great gall." Joyce said, "tc
think we are such fools as to send money
to England to defend prisoners.”
KILLED BY HAIR-DYE.
A Barber days That He Cave It to Them
br Mistake for Anise Seed Cordial.
Nsw Yobk, Janaary 29.—A tragedy in
volving two deaths by accidental poison
ing occurred last evening in Sa.tb Brook
lyn. It happened in the barbershop oi Lo
renzo Janero, at No. 00 Hamilton avenue.
The victims were Csstanza Tergo, aged
forty-one, a shoemaker, of Philadelphia,
and Ereste Kgiito, a cargenter, aged thirty,
of No. 229 South Fifth avenue, this city,
bolh Italians. They went to the barbershop
with Joseppa Bsetia and Andrew Oslo,
who live in the same house at Egisto. The
last named went from this city In tbe
evening together to No. 44 Union street,
Brooklyn, a tailor shop, where they met
Ferzo. After Uaio bad his cost mended,
they went to Janero's barher shop .to get
shaved. They drank several times on the
wsy, and while Oslo was in the barber’s
bands, the others played pool in the back
room. Janero was glad lo see them and
kissed them. After a while they wanted
something to driuk, aud said they would
take anise-seed cordial. Janero prepared
the drink for them and gave
it to them in wine glasses. Oslo was ont
of the room, st tbe time, and when be re
turned he found his three friends writh
ing in agon; on tbs floor. Ferzo and Egis
to died in a lew minutes. Bsetts, who
had taken two drinks, had euougli pres
ence of mind to seek an antidote and ran
to an adjoining grocery and secured some
olive oil which censed him to vomit freely
and he soon recovered.
Janero beat his bead with his hauls and
cried out that he nad given them the cor
dial out of tbe wroog bottle, and they bad
drank hair ’dye. He shed tears and be
moaned bis lot, but belore the police were
summoned he ran away, and u
a late hear had not
arrested. A man named Cos-
tro hurried to Eleventh Precinct
Station end informed tbe sergeant that
two men were dead and a third was sick
in the barber sbop. Ambulance Surgeon
Belcher wss called from the Long Island
Uollege Hospitsl. The police found the
two men lying on a pool-table and appar
ently dead, ana the ambulance surgeon
could do nothing for them, as life was en
tirely extinct npon bis arrival. Other
physicians were called in, bnt none of
them could tell just what the poison was.
From ils effects it wss decided that it was
not arsenic, but it was thought that it
might be strychnine. The bottle from
which the poison was taken conld not be
found, nor the anise seed bottle. Janero
had no license to sell liquor. Cola and
Saetta were looked up as witnesses.
AVERY DOUBTFUL CONFESSION.
One Which If True Would Relievo n Man
from a Life Sentence.
Boston, January 27.—In the State prison,
serving a life sentence, having barely es-
cated hanging, his sentence having been
commuted while tbe gallows was being
erected, is Steams Kendall Abbott. The
crime of which be was convicted wss tbe
mnrder ot Mrs. Maria L. Crue, ot Groton,
in her own bouse, situated on a farm
about a mile from the vUIsge. This was
one of tits several noteworthy criminal
cases of recent years in this State. To
day tbe atory was mads public that James
Orue, the husband ot tho murdered
woman, had just died in the out-of-the-
way town of Bolton, in Worcester county,
and before his death had made a confession
ot the murder. It was also added that s
wiitteu confession of tbe murder, from
whom no one knew, was sent to Abbott's
counsel from some place in tbe West after
his arrest, and that this was withheld
because it wss supposed to have
been written by it crank and of
no value. The fact that the evidence
egalntt Abbott was circumstantial, and
no reasonable motive wu shown, and that
tbe chief of the police force believed him
guiltless of the crime and bestirred bim
self in the ellort to eeenre his reprieve, and
that in the inveitigalion before the Gov
ernor and council, which resulted in the
commutation of bis sentence, tbe evidence
of one of the principal witnsues against
him at the trial was impaired by new evi
dence submitted, made it easy for min;
who had followed th* cue to believe to
day’s story.
But inquiry soon showed ihst it wss not
to be credited. The report was that the
confcuion had been msdete Dr. Perley P.
Courey, of Clinton, who hul attended Crue,
but a dispatch slates that this physloian
knows nothing of the case and has not at
tended Crue; that other physicians are
equally ignorant of the affair, and further
more that Crue Is believed to be still alive,
not in Bolton, but in the town of Lincu-
ter. It la a curious fact that Judge Lord,
before whom tbe case wu tried, the prose
cuting attorney, Attorney-General illu
sion, and tbe senior counsel tor the de-
fensa, George Slovens, have all died since
the trial. Abbott is spoken of by Warden
Usher, of th* State prison, es en Industri
ous, well-behaved and nieful prisoner,
BRAVERY OF TWO YOUNO CIRLff.
How They Repulsed a Oang of Burglars
Until Rescued by Friends.
Ean, Pa., January 28.—Two young la-,
dies, tbe Misses Idalie and Jeanne Guthrie,
living a few miles east of Erie, last week
had a thrilling experienco with a band of
masked burglars. The sisters had been
left iu charge of their home, their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Guthrie, having been
decoyed to Jamestown, N. Y., by a bogus
dispatch. Boon after dark four muked men
knocked at the door and demanded ad
mlttance. The house being strong and
well secured, owing to Its louely situation,
the girls resolved to stand the siege. Thev
barricaded the doors and windows with
furniture, a precaution almost unnecessary
owing to the strength of the lock*, ban
and bolts with which the lower part oi the
house wss secured. The burglars tried ev
ery terrible threat that suggested Itself to
induce tbe young ladies to surrender, but
the heroic girls held oat resolutely. Tbe
men commenced to file away tue staples
or bars of a lower window, whioh had the
effeot of terrifying though not subduing
the (air defenders. Their younger
brother, Henry, was absent at
the home of a schoolmate named
Hlggtni, between whose house and the
Guthrie home was telegraphic connection,
the two boys having fixed the wires and
batteries for tbe purpose of studying tele-
graphy. Miss Jeanne, who h id also ac-
quired a knowledge of telegraphy, rushed
to her brother’® room and frantically call
ed him up, in the hope of transmitting in
telligence of their danger, and obtaining
help from the Hifgina folks. But to their
dismay there was no response to their calls,
and it was evident that Henry had left,
and was on his way home, which was the
case, his friend accompanying him part
of ths way. In the meantime, the burg
lars had succeeded in partially cut
ting away the fastenings, and the girls
began to lose all hope. In the distance
they could see the light of their young
b other s lantern as he came across the
fields, a circumstance that Intensified their
terror, believing the villains would kill
him. In their telegraph studies they had
practiced signaling or conversing in many
ways with Hags and lights. With a small
magic lantern light, placed in an upper
window, they succeeded in attracting Hen
ry a attention and in making known their
peril. The boy hastened hack for help
and two of the ruffians were captured, one
of whom has confessed that the scheme to
rob the house was planned by the nephew
of Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, one Ed Camper,
who had manufactured the decoy tele
gram.
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Th* K mo alt Ion.
New OaLZAxi, January 31.—Tbe weather
to-day was bright and balmy and the ex
position groonde crowded. Northern vis
itor! are having really their first experi
ence of tba deligbls of tbe Southern cli
mate. Tbe newly-planted tree, have re
vived under tbe genial warmth and make
glad the hearts of hortlcoltaraUets.
Orange trees beering fruit end blooming
plants are the features which Impfeet vis
itors by their novelty. Among th* arrivals
to-day waa a car-load of excursionists from
Iowa, who by special arrangement trill
make a ten-days’ stay, Using doling their
visit in their special sleeping-car. They
came in over the Southern Pacific route.
THI ILLINOIS SINVORSHIP.
A Reoublioan Scheme to Prevent an
EleetlonraBrldsa*’ Condition.
iTlLCUUraaD TO THS AMOCIATID ntSSS.]
Cbicaoo, Janaary 31.—The Doily Newt'
Springfield correspondent says: Toe Re
publicans in the Btate Senate have organ
ized a s theme to cat off tho Democrat*
from any benefit that might accrue to
them from gaining two member! In the
Hones as ths result of throwing out Par
ker and Set tig, who were elected as Repair-
licani, but who ara liable to be unseated
by contests. The plan is to nee the Re
publican majority in the Senate to pre
sent e joint session of (he two Iiou-m, and
thereby prevent the election ol e United
State* Senator. As tbe success of this pro
gramme would place the appointment uf a
United States Senator in Ihe bands of
Got. Oglesby, it is thought Gen. Logan's
friends look on th* plan witb favor.
Cbicaoo, January 31.—A telegram from
Carrollton, III., lays: "State Senator
Bridget's condition remains unchanged.
He cannot speaks word. No one from
Springfield has yet seen him. It Is stated
that some alphabetical blocks have been
K actd before him to th* hope of their be-
gnsed as a means to receive any com-
mualcation from him, bnt he ciold hot
tue them.
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A Kuktus Captain H tnaed.
Littlx Rock. Ask., January 30.—At
Corning, CUy oounty, to-day, LtFayette
Melton, awhile men, aged 23. wu banged
for th* murder of Franalin Hal* four years
ago. It wu proved on the trial that Mel-
ton wu a captain in th* Kuklox brother
hood. Hale had been talking
•boot a plot the order end
wu formed to whip him. A muked party
found Hal* in th* wood* at night anri
whipped bio to death. Melton wu eon
rioted chiefly on the evidence of H. 8.
Lawrence, oo* of the party, who tamed
State's evidence • year after th* occur-
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MELVILLE WANTS TO CO NORTH.
Ha Anneals tor Money to Bend nn Expe
dition to Franz Oosaf Land.
Philadiltbia, January 27.—Chiei En
gineer Melville issued to day an address to
Ihe American public wherein be expri
his belief that the time is now ripe for
tbe making of a successful voyage
to the North Pole. The route he
advoealeiieby way of Franz Josef Land,
and he decluea it to be an entirely sate
and feuible one. It would be, he thinks,
an actual saving of life to make th* at
tempt now before the knowledge bora of
experienna expire*, and its trnzi-tbeiels
some man In America “who will rise to
th* occulon, and, from his abandonee,
supply the peltry earn requisite to fit sn
Arctic expedition.”
This sum he places at (80.000, providing
ha transport ship Is only chartered, or
: 1130,000 it Ithe retained, which, he userte,
a not necessary. He will write, be says,
the name of his patron acrou the face of
tbe polar continent. He has volunteers
for every position connected with tbe pro-
paced enterprise. For the detslle of the
expedition he refers ths pnblic to bis re
cently published book, and the letter con
clude* with the query: "Who will be the
patron ? "
A CURICUS ACCIDENT.
Th* Kick of a Calf Dlsohars** a Oun and
Wound* a Negro.
Charlotte Observer.
Abe Torrence, a colored man ol Sharon
township, is now nnning a gnnsbot wound
in hla tcoip, inflicted in a eery curious
manner by a calf. Abe's intention wu to
•Uaghter ihe calf and procuring a doable
barreled shot gnn, he marched to the barn
yard, accompanied by a young Whiteman.
Abe approached tbe ctlf and getting into
a good p rliloo. raised his gun and fired.
He wu not a good marksman and instead
ol killing the animal, only wounded it ■
rerely. The eslf plunged about st such
rate at to make shooting at it again fra
practicsbie su Abe laid hi* gnn on tbe
ground rud went for an axe Th* young
man canghl the calf by the tail to tbe en
deavor to hold it so that Abe could dis
patch lt srith tbe axe, bnt u tho execution
er approached the call lunged around and
gate the gun an accidental kick. The
wupon wu discharged and tb* toed per
forated Abe's scalp. Alter this, the two
men succeeded in killing th* calf. Abe’
injury is very peininl, bnt not serious.
A Terrible Domestlo Troasdr.
Bismivoham, Ala., January 28.—A spe
cial to th* Age. from Jonesboro, Ale., leys
Bennett Parsons, a rrii-cctabl* farmer
*g«d 72, wu shot aad killed in bis room
lut night and his body Ml into the fir*
and wu badly,horned The venlict of tb*
coroner's jury charges ths mnrder npon
his srife, and charge* bis two daughters
srith being access or let.
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Jersey Citt, N. J,,Jan. 30.—'The Philadel
phia express on tbe Reading railroad wu
wrecked at Greenville this morning, and
some fives are lepuried lost. Tbs train
consisted ot four coaches, well filled with
psssencers. Tbe accident occurred be
tween tbe Dantorth avenue station and tbe
cemetery bridge. The train was running
rapidly whea a wheel of the forward coach
broke and the car was derailed. It ran in
to a coal train and wunpsetand the other
three cars wrecked. The accident wu wit
nessed by a mounted policeman, who tele
phoned tbe (sets to police headquarters.
Ths Ysrious hospitals have dispatcasd sur
geons and ambulances to the scene. Up
to tbe present time twenty-five wounded
persons have bsen removed from tho wreck
ami many more remain to be extricated.
No person was killed and it la not suppos
ed any one will die from the Injuries re
ceived. A large number of people were
hurt more or lets seriously, e good many
limbs were broken snd the inmates oi one
car which had bnmped orer the ties some
distance and then upset were clad princi
pally in raga when retcucl.jTwenty insen
sible persons were taken from one car,
which had a similar experience. Eight of
these remained insensible for from one to
two hoars after tbe reecne. The over
turned stoves set fire to ths wreck in eer-
ersl places, but tbe fire was promptly ex.
tlnguished by tbe railtoad men. The ac
cident was caused by a broken wheel, but
no explanation of the cause ot the wheel
breaking has been discovered.
LITTLE CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Matches and a Locked Door—The Child'*
Companion* Hide while It Burns.
Bsistol, Coax., January 28.—Mrs. John
Ailig lives about two miles from this place
She hu a family of three babiet, the oldest
five years, the yonngeit ont. Oa Monday
•be went ont to spend tbe afternoon, lock
log th* children in alter putting them in
bed. Alter the mother wss gone the chil
dren arou, loan d a box of matches and
began lighting them and Ihrowiug them
about tbe borne. Tb* clothes of tbe
; roungest Ignited, and, stricken with terror,
be others rtn back to bed and hid under
the ctothea. Th* mother did not return
till 4 o'clock, when ihe found tb* houu eo
fall ot smoke that the had to grope her
way abruL Shs conld find noth
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to giva tbe alarm when she stepped
npon a bandit on th* floor. On investiga
tion it wu found by tbe borrot-strleken
mother that the bundle wu her youngest
child, with ite clothing already consnmed
snd itself burned to ins-nsibility. Itwu
too late fur a doctor'! aid, and the child ex-
I (red in great pain. Th* other children
were found bidden in the bed, where they
bad sought refuge. The coroner la mak
ing his examination to-day.
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Baltimore, January 28.—A grandson of
King Stanislaos, of Poland, under tbe
namt of Tlikddens Louis Fanlstowiki.hu
far the put two years beea working u a
cattle tender on the farm of Dr. Patterson,
near Mount Hop* Insane Aaylam, Balti
more county. Hs came to this country
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(arm and begged for work. He proved a
good hand, ana worked faithfully far two
? eart. It wu bnt a few daye ago that Dr.
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SUCH STATEMENTS
CAERY WEIGHT!
Mr. Bonner fires in Macon and no one
is better known than ho. Strangers can
rely upon tbe statement he makes:
In August, 1881, lt was discovered that
my son’s srife wu In ths last stages ot con
sumption. She was coughing in ceaaanfiy
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pus from her longs, could not sleep or re
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Bsastowx, Pa., Janaary 18.—An lnqnut
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died suddenly, and whose dangbter Emma
bad spoken only to three persons Inapc-
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of Interest in connection srith tbe latter pe
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u mate u If unable to ipeak. She wen
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when quite small her father tempted her
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cn* word to him, bat it ‘—
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