The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-06

MIR. Kflbourne's Revenge.
None of the conspiracies which have been
ished the country more than that in which
Mr.. Hallet Kilbourne has just been detected.
This gentleman was put in Jail because he
would not tell what he knew Of the real es-
tate pool and since he has been there has
apparently had better time than if he had
ner and supper, which we printed few
days ago, show that imprisonment has not
had any bad effect on his appetite Lent
did not discourage his ideas of epicurean
feeding. No man ever ate SO much in SO
short a time. The enormous consumption
of spring chicken, tenderloin, terrapin,
Philadelphia squad, birds, buttered par
snip, French peas, stewed peaches and sar-
dimes of which Mr. Kilbourne has been
guilty attracted the attention of Mr. Glover,
the Chairman Of the Real Estate Pool Com
mittee, and now the terrible explanation of
his diabolical appetite is plain. The dark
and damning fact is apparent that Mr.. Kill
bourne is in a conspiracy to cripple the in
vestigations in which Congress is engaged
by exhausting the appropriations
Breakfast, dinner and supper; supper,
luncheon and dinner dinner, luncheon and
breakfast, follow each other in Mr.. Kill
bourne's little bill, like the buff trip slip,
the blue trip slip and the pink trip slip in
the railroad rhyme, but with this difference,
that six cent fare or eight cent fare were far
below his sublime ideas. He held that his
slieber Freund" should punch in the pres
ence Of the prisonaire, ten dollar check for
a dinner fare" When Mr.. Kilbourne was
locked up in his double cell he was naturally
much enraged with the government. He
was in position not unlike that of Cousin Joe
in s'The Rough Diamond, who was kicked
down stairs by gentleman who afterward
invited him to dine. ''Well, said Cousin
Joe, as he picked himself up, ''if can't be
rewenged on him I'll be rewenged on his
whites" So it was with Mr.. Kilbourne and
the government he determined to be re-
venged-and he was.
What other motive than that Of revenge or
conspiracy can be attributed to man who
eats for breakfast one sirloin steak, 81; one
cold turkey, 81 one tenderloin steak, 50 ;
two squads, 81 so; one shad Lent), 81, be-
sides bacon, eggs, potatoes. cold tongue,
chicken salad, water crosses, apples, iced
cream, cakes, cucumbers &C., and follows it
up with dinner which respect for our read
ers forbids us to describe, whose Unsuitable
NAV devours food of the value of $25 40 in
day? Does Mr.. Kilbourne eat such enor-
nous meals as this in state Of freedom
think not. When at liberty he probably
breakfasts on tea and toast, lunches at bar,
where he gets bowl of soup for glass of
whiskey and dimes on stewed potatoes,
which, we have the highest authority for
saying, are mighty filing at the price.
No; revenge alone could inspire such gnaw-
ing hunger combined with the cheering con-
ISOLATION that the bill would not go to him
but to the Chairman of the Real Estate Pool
Committee. Mr.. Kilbourne, like Cardinal
Wolsey, is evidently q man of the
s'most unbounded stomach" aid when
we mark the steady growth of his
bills for breakfast, lunch, dinner and sup
per" from SO so to SIS 40, we find prac-
tical illustration Of how increase of appetite
has grown by what it fed on" Let us hope
the consciousness of his fearful crime
against the government will sit lightly upon
his-well, let us say, his breast.
We learn from the sTrue History of the
Bastile" that the State prisoners therein cdn-
fined were allowed certain sum for their
meals, and that they frequently entered into
conspiracy with their jailers to speculate in
the provision market. There is good reason
to suspect that this has been the case with
Mr. Kilbourne, Boss Shepherd, John o.
Evans, Sam Young, the jailers and Freund,
and that they have endeavored to get up
corner in tcrrapin and shad, Kilbourne
being employed as the active agent in missing
all luxuries to exorbitant rates. It is certain
that the price of edibles has increased since
his arrest. Thus we find this daring man
engaged not only in q conspiracy to ruin the
government by exhausting the already de-
pletcd Treasury, but also in plot to create a
famine in Washington. Well, let Mr.. Kill
bourne 60 on in his mad revenge. He may
ruin the government and make fortune out
of the markets, but in the end there are well
founded hopes that he will perish of indiges-
ton. Eighteen dollars worth Of food day
would destroy even the nine stomachs of q
camel or give an ostrich the dyspepsia.
DISASTERS ALONG THE COAST have been
distressingly frequent during the last month,