The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-08-25

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DIR. ]. L. Magic, writing to the New
Orleans Picayune, from Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, uader date OF
August Stb, relates the follow ing start
ling iueident:
just after the great fire in Boston,
aud while the ruins were sucking and
tumbling into great waves OF fire, /
WAS sketehing the features OF the dis
aster for a certain illus.rat ed paper.
While examining the outlook, q queer
looking person came to me and said /:
You are from the south, Ell aa'
Yes; from New Orleans"
"Lived there long?"
YES"
"Reb?v
ayes, so called, and what of it ~
sob, only this much, that Ii | re-
mem Der Alright this fire was the ami
versary OF the great CONFEDERATION In
Charleston. Chicago was almost an
other, and every specially notable
thing OF the kind that occurred In the
south at the hands of the federals will
have retaliation st the hands of an
svepging Nemesis
Were you q soldier in the eonfed-
crate army, or belonged to the southss'
s'No, AN a leader of the Interua
tionai league, aud the brotherhood
believes in destruction OF property as q
means OF giving employment to many
Who become idle without their own
consent. Amongst Us are men and
aud women who are fire fiend-, who
become maDiacs when the fla mes rage,
aud who burn and destroy for the love
Of intoxieation that they hnd in such
action. They always escape detection,
for they create demand for the ser
vices OF cur men who are nnwiiiiDgly
idle. The society has agencies in
every city IN the country. A small
order exists in the Crescent City, but
they will never do aPy mischief there,
because the mechanics AID lat,orers
are too few in number, and there is
always sufficient employ ment for those
workiDgmen who wish TO LABOR. We
are well aware also that II an extern
sive conflagrstion occurred there, the |
place would not be builded again, SO |
there is no object 10 he gained in any |
such a course. We only destroy north |
ern towns, and our big tires are ami |
versaries in commemoration of those |
which were most prominent in the |
late war of the rebellion
"Look here! you have made mis-
take In giving me such confidence, |
for IL you are the incendiary you con- |
Tess yourself, you should lie arrested. |
| fought through the war In ss fair and |
square way Al | possibly could, but |
having been whipped acknow ledge the |
corn, and that's the end of tie matter !
with me and every true soldier who
" as in the confederate army and We /
don't believe in any such doctrines a.
you communists practice
every well that's all right for you, {
but 1t don't keep us from carrying out
our designs and plans Good-byu ~
He disappeared from view before |
could turn my head. That evening ]
went to the editor of Re publican
paper in Boston, and told him the
ABOVE conversation. After listening
to me in very quiet way, he drew
forth manuscript and read a paper
To me in which the same story WAS
detailed, only more elaborsteiy, and (
which he said had been received that
day. | had not given the N after any |
serioas thought since then, but all /
this was again revived few days ago
by my receiving note Unmarried |
Pittsburg, and sent VIA New Orleans, |
which, without signature, reads: "fou |
what | told you ct Boston
on the Sabbath after the great fire.
The Pittsburg riot began on July %, |
first Manassas, The I'D |
Of July was the fiery anniyersary of /
the battle of Atlantis, when General /
was killed"