The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-12-17

raging in that poor mothers heart. l
appreciated the torrent Of emotion that
rushed through her breast as, standing
beside that lonely bed, she looked upon
the face of her slumbering darling and
thought of the cold, freezing winter yet
to come. The flood was too strong for
her to resist; it swept away every bar
rier; the lamp shook like an aspen leaf
in her hand and she burst into tears.
Here. then, had seen two homes
and two women--one filled with riot
and revenge, the other of wemanhood
and woe +; one ready to rush into the
street and mete out death to all she
met, the other raking the expiring en-
bers of a dreary hearth, working her
poor, hungry, fainting life away to keep
her children clean ard warm. passed
out into the night again. Down in the
ravine below I could see the dusky
chimneys of the furnace and mills,
which all summer long were idle and
are so still. 1t was upon these that
these people depended, and now every
thing threatens that during the entire
winter they will run only upon halt
time. If such is the case even those
who are now working in them cannot
live, and how will they pass their win
tera
It is useless for me to continue the
| reproduction Of these sad pictures.
went into more than twenty homes, te
oil of which, unless something be done
death and starvation must come before
spring. l saw poverty and distress II
all their forms. and saw no home thai
was comfortable or we'll fed.
Letters Of the Molly Macguires.
[Scranton Letter Dec. u N. Y. Herald. u
From time to time many prominen
gentlemen residing in this locality hav
received threatening and brutal letter
ordering them to vacate the nelghtor
hood within a given period or else sub
init themselves to the pangs OF sufferln
and death. Many of these letters hav
fallen into the possession Of your cor
respondent, and here they will be foun
exactly as they were written. The 10
lowing was addressed to Constabl
Adam Pfefer:
Mister adam fifer esq of hyde par
YOU take noatis to leave hyde park !
ten DAYS from this time or git you
coffin reddy.
by order of the
president.
LETTER TO AN EDITOR.
AGAIN. the editor of one Of the repr
sentative newspapers here has bee
treated to the following murdero,
threat:
Mr.. Coon, Scranton, Pa:
You had better discontinue your a
facts upon the mollie macquires az
leeye for the simple reson that if yo
don't you will be the subject of co
nor's inquest the same as Monaga
was. There will be an eye on you in Il
$ future. and the first chance they e
$ they will put nife thro your har
/ You had better leeve this country al
r do 1t soon. AS ! give you this advise
e you done me good turn once.
e ANOTHER LETTER.
t Mr.. Heermans. very wealthy &c
7 tleman of Hyde Park. district with
!, the city's limit, has also received
4 murderens epistle, reading as follow
n Mr.. HEERNAks-f you don't lee
n town in tenn days wea will kill you.
During the past forty years one hu
e dred and twenty taree murders ha
l. been committed and only three M
/, have been hanged. Within four yea
n twenty-five murders have occurred a
y no man executed at all. Most OF t
d murderers escaped; only two were
y raigned, one was acquitted and t
o other imprisoned for only few month
Every man in Scranton who ventur
le upon the street at night carries rev
h yer. and, with the recent murders, III
N and crucifixions, if worse state
sr society exists anywhere your corr
pendent would like to know where It