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Show TELEGRAPHIC ORGANIZED IJkCESDIARIEI. Revival ol tin Anll-Kenlers' fiocleij .V'i Yurk Xrw York, 1. Charles Mootunye. on complaint of iieorge CUrke, of SpriiiRli il. l)t-,p j;o couuty, was lodged m jiii in dei.iult of $'20,000 bail in r suit brou J; iit by Clarke for $46,000 Jimnej lor property burned by Montgomery's Mont-gomery's leu Lit, the mutual tsociety of which Monwuye ts alleged to have betn & active member, between DecemHpr 20ib, 1873, and September let, lS7i. Clarke id ssid to be the largest land owner in tliia state, own- i ing between 40,000 and 50,000 acres! in the couoiies of tiieen, Dutcbeas, j Oneida, Otaego aDd .Montgomery, Tbe aUidavit of Clarke seta forth that he became possessed of the lands through a grnt by the colonial council to William Corry and Others; the associates of Corry transferred the undivided moiety to George Clarke, ancestor of the present owuer. During the anti-rent anti-rent excitement from 1840 to 1850, suit was brought, on petition of the tenants, by tbe state against Clarke to vacate his letters patent on tbe ground of original fraud in obtaining the grant. This suit was decided in Clarke's favor in every court. Clarke's father bad let out land in farms of abcut 200 acres each, upon leases of (wo lives in being, but not leas than thirty-three years, at the annual rental of 12J cents per acre. These leases began to expire in large numbers num-bers about '70, and new teases were oflered the tenants at increased rates of lrom 50 cents to $1 50 and $2 an acre. This increase met with great opposition from the tenants and the Montgomery Tenants' Mutual society was formed. Fires have constantly occurred up to the present lime and property worth thousands of dollars has been destroyed, and it is believed Ihe society still exists, although ita movements are conducted with the strictest secrecy. Affidavits of detect ives recite conversations had with people of Charleston, Four Corners, and Btate that on several occasions Montanye admitted to them that the sole object of their mutual society was the destruction of Clarke's property. To bind its members tbe society so-ciety bad oaths with tbe pen alty of death lor their violation. |