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| KINGSBRIDGE TERMINUS, DUBLIN. -Dublin, metropolitan in every feature, boasts many fine railroad structures, but none more greaceful and commodious than the fine building pictured in the above sketch. It stands on the right bank of the Liffey, at Kingsbridge, a structure built in 1827, and named after the most unworthy George IV, in commemoration of his visit to Dublin six years before. It is the terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway lines, which traverse most of the southern, eastern and western portions of Ireland. Kingsbridge station offers every possible accommodation for travellers. It has good restaurants and excellent attendance. The porters handle baggage with the dexterity of their American brethern, but with considerable more care for the contents of trunks and "boxes" than our world-renowned baggage smashers. During the Fenian troubles of 1865-7, the Irish revolutionists and Scotland Yard detectives played hide and seek with each other around this station several times. Among the "suspects" of the period was Captain John A. Geary, of Lexington, Ky., one of Stonewall Jackson's men. His military bearing attracted the "lynx-eye" of a "sleuth." He approched the Captain, who, pointing to his own trunk, said: "Break it open at once!" The "bobby," completely deceived, did as ordered. Geary jumped on the moving train, made his way to Limerick, vanquished there a constable who sought to arrest him, and escaped to America. |
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