Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. PHILIPS EXAMINATION. Closed on the Part of the De-
 fenSe. A PETITION FOR DISMISSAL. Witnesses for the Defense Arrested
 for Perjury. THE LAND TROUBLES IN IRELAND. Fears of an Insurreetion at Bal
 linrObe.
THE LAND TROUBLES IN IRELAND.
NEW YORK.

1 He Lived-The Case Finfshed-Several
 Witnesses Arrested for Perjury.
 l NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The examination in
 the case of Kenward Philip was resumed to.
 day before Judge Davis. After several un-
 important witnesses had testified, Robert
 Lindsey, who said he was detective for a
 secret organization of workingmen in Ale
 ghany county, Maryland, was examined
 for the defense. He testified that he knew
 Henry L. Mercy travelled with him in Feb
 ruary last on the train between Lowell and
 Lynn, and Mercy showed him the Chinese
 letter in Boston. The letter was here hand | ed witness, who said it was either the original
 letter shown him by Mercy or fac-simile.
 The witness was cross-examined at great
 length, and said he first became acquainted
 with Mercy through a letter of introduction
 purporting to have been written by certain 1 secret organization, the name of which he
 refused to reveal; he admitted that the letter was forgery. He said he was employed in
 some of the mines in Alleghany county, Maryland, and was questioned sharply re- l garding his knowledge of the mines and their ownership and his duties. He said his business was chiefly walking about the mines doing nothing; he was recently in the Eek hart mine.
 1 Mr. Bliss asked him if it was not true that | the Eckhart had been flooded for fifteen | years Witness answered that it might, but | that 1t did not prevent him from going in. | He first met Mercy in the fall of "A. When he presented the forged letter of introduction to him he was employed by the president of the | Workingmen's Union. Witness declined to give the name of his employer, saying he was under oath not to reveal any business of this organization Judge Davis or | dered hinf to answer the question, and he finally admitted that it was W. H. Thompson, lawyer residing in West Cum berland, Md. He was questioned minutely | regarding his knowledge of streets, but pro- fessed to know little or nothing of them; he received his pay in letters from MT. Thomp- son which were placed in niche in the mine. Concerning his trip from New York to Bos= ton last February witness remembered noth- ing except that he had stateroom and when he woke up he was in Boston.
 Question-Where have you slept nights during the past month? Answer-Well, generally sleep in houses along the Frostburg road, but cannot give the names of any fam flies. They were private families. I would go in on seeing sign of rooms to let and go in and hire room.
 The court here adjourned for recess. After recess Dr. Jonathan W. Goode1 was called, and testified that he was g physician in practice at Lynn, Mass. There was no other man named J. W. Goodell in Lynn. He was not the executor of MT. Moreys es- tate and did not send letter to the 11'aIth office.
 Mrs Clara T. Mercy, of Lynn, was next the previous witness named Mercy, and said she was not acquainted with any person named Henry l.. Mercy.
 Roger A. Pryor, counsel for the defense, then summed up and moved that the case be dismissed. Judge Davis denied the motion and said he would render his decision on Saturday.
 On complaint of Mr. Bliss. the witnesses Samuel s. Mercy and Robert Lindsey were arrested for perjury. Both were taken to the district attorneys office and after formal af- fdavits had been made out against them Lindsey was conveyed to the Tombs and Mercy, who is cripple, to the Ludlow street jail. It will be remembered that s. s. Mercy swore that H. l.. Mercy was his uncle, while his testimony in this respect was contradict ed by several witnesses who swore that none of the Mercy family was named Henry l.. Mercy Lindsey swore he knew Henry L. Mercy and was shown the Chinese letter by him. The arrests caused no little excitement in court, and some interesting developments are anticipated before the end of the week. Ahoat Forecastle Deek-Tossed About
 
 ShipVyrecked Sailors.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-First Officer McDon- ald of the British bark County of Richmond, arrived in this city to-day, and relates ter rible story of exposure and suffering expe- rienced by himself and seaman of that yes sel. On Thursday, October 14, the bark was wrecked in the Atlantic ocean, and Mcdonald and a sailor named Leary were the only two who managed to float, which they did on a ladder which had been tossed overheard by the former shortly after the laundering of the vessel. The two men managed to get OF board the forecastle deck of the bark which had hoated of as she sank. On this they re- mained, tossed about by the sea for several days, enduring all the horrors of hunger and thirst conceivable. On the second day sail was seen, which the shipwrecked men were unable to signal on account of their weak and exhausted condition. From that hour | until the sixth day no sail was seen On the l fifth day Leary became delirious from drink | ing salt water, and was in an utterly exhaust ed condition. Mcdonald, however retained his senses throughout the exposure and hor- TOT of the situation, which were beyond de- | scription. On the sixth day two more sails were seen, but bothAwere standing in an op- posite direction and both bearing away from l the apparently doomed men. On the seventh | day they were seen by the bark Landro, 1 Captain Goudalh, who bore down and took | them on board and cared for them. Both men were ln helpless, semi-conscious state when picked up. They were taken into Bos- ton and cared for by the British Consul. | Mcdonald and Leary are from New York No others of the crew are known to be | saved. The County of Richmond was 1 owned in Halifax and was bound from Eliza bethport, N. J., for St. Thomas
 I
 | Storms i'm South America Terrible Force of the EsIements-Cattle Perish- l ing by Thousa1lds-Evidences of ship wreck.
 l NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The steamship Archimedes, which left Buenos Ayres on the
 the 10th of October for this port via Monte 1 video and Rio Janeiro, arrived here this ! morning. She reports that fearful storms of l wind and rain, followed by intense cold, have raised sad havoc in South America. I The Buenos Herald of October 18th con tains 8 letter from correspondent " hich I says
 and kept up till the 16th inst. has been something l terrible: In all my camp experience have never
 tie was fearful Nothing is seen but dead animals
 They are heaped up beside the wire fences like solid
 calculation from 40 to 50 cent of those left us
 ter the epidemic lat Rauch have perished with the
 cold and this includes stock in good condition The
 losses of sheep may be reckoned from ten to fifteen
 per cent. For fortyeight hours it impossible
 let them out of the corral The rain trihing, but
 the wind terrific, it being mulch could
 do to stand against it. Nothing a
 voyage the horn when everything one put his
 hand on is of ice It seemed whole of | Terra del Fuego had come up to pay a visit am
 sorry be the hamburger Of bad nevs 1t is use
 less allow persons in the city having interests ! side to ignore the worst. hear Of another Major I Domo being assassinstad the Estoncia Loma Alta
 de Rufno. As have to attend to the sknning of my
 dead cattle, have time for much prose, and re- l main yours in haste, "CAMPMAE." Chief Officer Az McJefrey of the Archim-
 edes says news similar to that contained in the above letter reached him a. different points along the coast. During two weeks the weather has been terrific beyond prece- dent Cattle have been starved and frozen l to death by tens of thousands But the