The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-28
QUAKER CITY MUSINGS.
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QUAKER CITY MUSINGS.
international Press Bureaus letter.
Mozzie Magatires preparing to enaigrate
Playful SkirnaiSb auth bGyOqaetS
and the fatal resUlt-The a0ork a0hicb
Investigating committees haze not
done-HogTibIe be'1zi9ae eGpIosiOq-
Tribulotiops of the commissions.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18th, 1877.
Philadelphia has for the past week
been jealousy regarding every move
ment of the Board of Pardons- not
that the very estimable gentlemen
composing this body need watching
particularly, but because strong infiu-
ences were at work in favor of the
condemned Mollie Maguires. Yester-
day all doubt was set at rest by tele-
grams which informed us that the
dread penalty would be enforced. Now
it must be admitted that Philadelphia
has not been directly Inconvenience
by the Mollies, and no doubt they
always spoke we'll Of us; but then the
marrow in the backbone of our pros-
perity is darkly tinged with anthracite,
and any laWlessnesS in the coal regions
has an i'll effect upon all other Penn
sylvania industries. Hence we have
no affection for the Mollies. These
horny-handed and Well-armed sons Of
toll have had things pretty much their
own way for long time; but the CORY
lane has had it's turning, and eleven Of
the coWardly murderers will soon step
down and out from a platform which
they were evidently born to grace
Forty-One others will rest from their
sanguinary labors in the penitentiary
No small comfort is it to reflect that,
after twelve long years of UNPUBLISHED
crime, during which period hundreds
Of unoffending men have been shot,
stabbed, and beaten to death for pre-
ferring work to starvation, the ring
leaders in the bloody arena will at last
meet their just deserts. Let no morbid
sentimentalism find Judgment in your
thoughts OF these men. Remember
they were banded together for murder
and arson; not a man in the organize
ton was brave enough to meet foe
face to face; the black deeds were
committed under cover of darkness,
when the victims suspected no harm,
and when the armed assassins many
times Outnumbered the defenceless
men who were slaughtered for earning
bread for their wives and babes. The
full details of the manner in which the
Mollies were tracked by detectives will
soon be published, and the story reads
more like the distempered fancies of
an unbalanced brain than plain
record of facts. Detective McPharlan,
who worked up the case, is a slim,
why, prepossesSing man, not over thir-
ty-tWo years Of age; wonderful char
acter actor, and as cool-headed as he is
daring He can sing, dance, play cards,
drink, and fight "wid the best of
thin" and it was through these ac-
complishments that he ingratiated
himself into the affections of the men
who had reduced murder to a fine art
No doubt, like most of their prede-
cessOrs, the condemned Mollies will die
in the blessed consciousness that the
gates of paradise are yawning to re-
ceive them, and let us charitably hope
that their numerous victims are already
searching for the brightest crowns
and tuning up the latest improved
celestial harps for their accommoda-
ton. The names of those who will
migrate from this wicked world on
Thursday are Alexander Campbell, Ed
ward J. Kelley, Michael Doyle, Jack
Donahue, James Carroll, Hugh Niece
han, James Boyle. James Roarty,
Thomas Munley, and Pat Duffy. The
first four will depart via Mauch Chunk,
and the others from Pottsville. The
rest will follow in due season. :.
Philadelphia uses every month from
one and half to two million gallons
of milk. The members of the Board
of Health are wrestling with the prob
lem as to what proportion of the whole
amount consumed is milk and what
proportion water, chalk, SC. The esti-
mate places the aqueous supply
through this source at IS per cent, the
value of which would be about $780,
900, rather a high price for Schuylkill
water, palatable as it certainly is.
What is needed to purify the milk is a
good healthy drought; nothing less
will accomplish the desired result. /.
CARL FOsTELLE.