Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 9, 24 June 1887, Page 19

Irish News.

Antrim.— A jury at Belfast on March 28, in the face of the clearest evidence, acquitted John Walker, charged with murdering Head-con-stable Gardener during the Belfast riote. His acquittal was made the occasion of a demonstration on the Shankhill road by mobs of mange rowdies. During the night the police, wherever they were yound on duty in small groups, were brutally stoned by the Orangemen. Several constables received more or less serious injuries. The Father of the Land League lectured in Belfast on March 28, in St.^Mary'- Hall, his subject being the " Work of an Irish Parliament," The a was a very crowded attendance, and the lecturer was listened to with rapt attention. Mr. Davitt arrived in Belfast at a quarter past six by the train trom Dublin. He was met at the platform by F.;tL.r Convery, Adm., President of the National League, Belfast ; FatLer Desmond, Lurgan ; D. M'Aieece, Vice-President Belfast National League ; Thomas M'Veagh. junr.; Alexander Bradley, Assistant Secre;ary ; John Griffith, P. M'Ginley.and other Nationalists. Mrs. Davitt was to accompany her husband, but was unable to undertake the journey, owing to a rather severe bronchial attack. A committee of Belfast ladies had been formed for the purposee of reading &n address of welcome to Mrs. Davitt, and presenting her with a souvenir of the visit. They waited upon Mr. Davitt, and through him conveyed the address and present to the lady, whom, they very deeply regretted, they had not the good fortune to receive in person. Mr. Davitt returned to Dublin the followiag morning. Cobk. — The Munster Challenge Football Cup has been won by the Queen's College, Cork, who defeated Limerick in the final tie at Cork Park on April 1, by two goals to nothiug. On ilarch 26, under a drizzling rain, a seizure for rent was effected in Killavullen. A poor man named Andiew Falvey, who is at present in receipt of out-door relief, holds a house from Jeremiah Walsh, for the rent of which, amonnting to £1 2s, Walsh decreed him some time siuce. The decree was not executed until this day, when a man named Ccx, summons-server at Castletownroche, entered the cabin and seized ihe poor man's bed, a small quantity of potatoes, a lew pois, a kettle, a candle, a spoon, a little lump of soap, and some other little »nfles, the house containing nothing of any value. He was rssi -d by the landioid L>"tn?o'f i.i? wife, son, and daughter. Immediately after the seizure the articles were put up for sale by Cox and bought mby the landlord. The " landlord's " son smashed the poor man's jdstead and table in pieces for fuel. When they had performed tLeir t«st, wmcli seemed a congenial one to them, Falvev was obliged to seek hia breakfast (which he had been in the act o"f preparing v hen. the kettle was taken off the fire) in a neighbouring house. ° On April 1 a large force of police under District-Inspector Carr, accompanied th(? Sheriff's officer and bis assistants to carry out evictions in the town land of Courleigh, parish of Castleventry, for nonpayment of rent on the property of Richard Beamish, Bandon. The proceedings weie taken against two tenants— G orge Ross and Edward Unkles for a yen- and a half's rent up to last September. There was no opposition whatever, the furniture and other effects being removed quietly ; both tenants have laige families. They were put out ana not allowed back as caretakers. A sub-teuant of Ross, named Cullmane, was also put out with his fanmy. • r, On March 27 the funeral of a '67 man, Marcus Adams, took place in Cork, and was very largely attended. Dennis O'Connor, acd John •Kradshaw, felluw-piisonerH of the deceased, walked immediately after the coffin. About 100 of the Cork Young Ireland Society walked in the procession, headed by the mayor. The Society placed beautiful wreaths on the coffin. On ilaruh 2\ a large number of men with horses and farming Jtnplemems assembled on the farm of Maurice Burke, about three miles from Killavullen, and turned a gre t poition of the land up and prepared it for tillage. The landlord is Captain Giey, and the tenant nas adopted the Flan of Campaign, haviug been refused a reasonable abatemeut. Gaelic sports were held at Charleville on March 25 in presence of a large assemblage. At football, Charleville beat Ballyhea by three points to nil, and Kanturk beat Bally landers by 1 point to nothing A very huhy-conicstul hurling match between Charleville and Ballvhea ended in a diaw. A raid for arms took place on the morning of March 27 at txlounaglough, uear Macronni, the houses of Tnomas Gleeson and David Mahony being visited and guns taken, while the occupants, who are boycotted, were at Mass in Sheskma Chapel. The police pursued the raiders, out failed to overtake them. Oq Maich 31, District-Inspector Somerville and Constable Garrett vvard, wbo were in gaol on the charge of having murdered the youn^ nsnerman, Hanlon, at Youghal, were released on their own recognisances. It is not probable that they will ever be tried for their crime. A largely-attended public meeting was held on March 27 in Youghal preside a over by the Town Commissioners, at which it was resolved to raise a fund on behalf of Mrs. Hanloo, mother of the murdered man. Down. — Only one petty larceny case was set down for trial at Downpatrick Quarter Sessions on March 29, anu the County Judge Thomas Lefroy, Q.C., congratulated the Grand Jury on the peaceable state of the district. Fermanagh.— John Madden, J.P., of this County, whose tenants have for some time waged war against bim under the Plan of Campaign, has surrendered through his agent, Athol Dudgeon, who met •Bey. P. M'Kean, Kosslea, at his resideuce on March 26, and settled the matter by allowing all the tenants asked for: that is, by giving 25 per cent reduction, with one year's rent, a clear receipt up to the Ist of May, 1886, foregoing all costs and wiping away arrears. Gaway. — The sub-commissioners, -sitting at Gal way recently, made reductions varying from 25 to 65 per cent. Marquis of Clanricarde had rcital on ffiey c holdings reduced from £53 14a, to £37 15s ;

Marcus Lynch, £10 4s to £6 ; Harriett* Blake, £14 14s to £6 15s Francis Blake, £41 12s to £20; Francis L. Comyn (two holdings), £27 to £17 ; representatives of J. D, Meldon, £31 3s to £20 ; Hon. K. D. St. Lawrence (two cases), £12 14s to £7 165, and Martin Bodkin had his rent claims from six small farmers reduced from £32 13s to £23 10s. Kerry.— On March 25, a numerous staff of bailiffs, protected b 7 a large force of police under the command of District-lnspeeto r W. H. Bice, accompanied by Lord Listowel's steward, Mr. Sweetmaa* proceeded to Finuge for the purpose of evicting a farmer named James O'Connell for the non-payment of rent, When the bailiffi arrived at the place there were only Mrs. O'Connell and her children in the house, Mr. O'Connell being in town at the time. Mr. Sweetmen demanded possession. Mrs. O'Connell replied that her husband was not at home. Bailiff Browne and his comrades set about their work. So roughly did they hustle out the furniture and bedding that the bystanders, smothering their feelings, actually assisted in removing the various articles of furniture to save them from being injured. When the house was cleared, a caretaker was pot into possession and two policemen left to guard him. When Mr. O'Connell came on the scene the eviction was almost completed. When the police and bailiffs left he found himself surrounded by his wife and children. He had no place to shelter either himself or his family. He came into town and asked the agent for a night's lodging iv the home from which he was evicted. The agent refused. That night the caretakers took compassion on Mrs. O'Connell, and gave her shelter. The next morning the agent, Mr. Fitzgerald, met Mrs. O'Connell and warned her that if she visited the house again he would prosecute her. Since that time the caretakers have refused to give shelter to the poor woman and her infant child. The neighbours, however did not leave her long without protection. Mrs. O'Connell ia now sheltered and has a temporary home under James Murphy's rooftree, and the children are scattered about amongst the other neighbours. On March 25, the lone and sequestered Glen of Clydagh, about 25 miles to the south-east of Killarney, was the scene of an eviction campaign. At an early hour the Sheriff's .bailiffs, accompanied by a large force of police, under the command of Head-Constable Monson, proceeded to the place. After a long and tedious drive the glen was reached, and the operations were at once commenced. The houses of Charles Buckley, John Buckley, Patrick Buckley, and Julia Buckley were first visited and all evicted, and the house of Jer?miah Dineen was next visited. The tenant in this case produced a letter from the agent, George Sandes, which stated that he was recently paid some of the outstanding rent by the tenant, and the eviction was abandoned for the present. The houses of Daniel and Fioience McCarthy, at Knocknagowan, were next visited. The passage into these houses is through an old mountain footway, which is in a wretched state. The public road does not go within five miles of the place and the journey to it took up a lot of time. During the proceedings the shrieval p^rty were followed by a large concourse of people, who " booed " »t the bailiffs. On their homeward journey the police found the road blocked. Huge stones were rolled down the mountain sites, which completely blocked the road. It took about half an hour's hard working to get the cars over these impediments, aud in two places so great was the obstruction that the horses had to be unyoked and the cars lifted over the rocks. On their way through the glen the police were afraid that the people might roll down stones on them from the hillsides. It was a late hour at night before the police reached Killarney. Kilkenny. — Over 4,000 spectators assembled at Johnstown on March 20 to witness the final ties for the football championship of the County. Crosspatrick beat Lisdowney by one point to nil. A remarkably well-contested game between Johnston and Sart ended in a tie, each side scoring one point. Time did not permit the games to be finished. Sub-commissioners on March 25 delivered judgment in applications for fair rents heard from the Oastlecomer Union, and made reductions varing from 33 to 75 per cent. The landlords who were thus convicted of rackrenting were H. McTernan, who had the rental on one holding reduced from £13 to £8 Bs. ; Mrs Waadesforde (4 cases) total rent reduced trom £138 Is 6d to £90 10*. ; H. J. McCance (8 cases) total rental reduced from £400 tv £173 ; Rev. B. Heatley (9 cases) rental reduced from £98 16s to £54 10s ; J. Andrews 1 case) rent reduced from £59 5s to £40, and Carberry Trustees (4 cases) rental reduced from £133 7s to £77 10s. The cas.s from the property of H. J. McCance deserve quoting as a specimen of the extortion that in the opinion of Crown officials has been practiced upou the tillers of. the soil. The reductions made on the eight appeals for fair rents from tenants on his estate were :— W. Mansfield, from £62 12s to £29 ;J. Carroll, £43 to £17 ;J. Bergin, £107 to £50 ;J. Cass £76 to £30 ; J. Downey, £27 6s to £16 ; M. Comerford, £64 to £20; M. Mansfield, £14 10s to £6, and W. Doushan, £15 12s to £5. On March 22 James Fleming, of Poulgour, who was evicted in September last at the suit of his landlord, Captain Wheeler, for the non-payment of one-and-a-half year's rent, was reinstated in his farm, having signed an argeement under Lord Ashbourne's Act for the purchase of his holding. The event is regarded not only as a signal victory for Mr. Fleming, but also a triumph for the National .Leaguj of which he was a staunch and faithful member since its inception. Mr. Fleming was evicted under circumstances which evoked intense popular indignation, as he owed only one year's rent and the farm has been in the possession of the Flemings for generations. Vac sounds of the crowbar had scarcely died away at Poulgour when thousands assembled, with the faithful priests at their head, to protest against the treatment meted out to Mr. Fleming by an absentee landlord. At that great meeting pledges were given that no man would take ihe farm, and that the tenant and his family would be sustained in the struggle until they were restored to the old home and the landlord taught a bitter lesson. The result was that the grabber did not show his face within the confines of Poulgour, and the landlord saw that he had taken a false pnd foolish step in coming into conflict not with a single tenant but with a united people enrolled under the banner of the Plan of Campaign.

Limerick. — Seven families were evicted on March 30, in the neighbourhood of Kilfinane on the properties of Lord Massey, Lady Ashton, and Mr. Hamilton Geale. Ail the tenants were re-admitted as caretakeis. At the County Courthouse on March 26, a farm on the Lloyd property at Cappamore, the tenant being Martin Ryan, was, amidst a scene of much excitement, bought in on behalf of the Undlord. The tenant said no man should pay rent so long as there was a priest in gaol. R. Brown, junior, the agent, was followed from the court by an angry crowd, who groaned and pelted him with mud. Mayo.— The Sheriff of Mayo, Mr. Rutledge, with bailiffs, protected by about 100 police, was engaged for three days, March 29, 3C, and 31, evicting tenants in districts situate east of "Castlebar. Miss Cardiner attended for the purpose of taking possession. A large crowd assembled and threw stones, injuring a bailiff, and one policeman. The Sheriff refused to evict some of Miss Gardiner's tenants, whose families were suffering from illues3. On March 30, seven families were evicted on the estate of Mrs. Semple in the townland of Keelogues. During the eviction of one of the tenants a missile thrown at a bailiff hit a constable named McCoovey, inflicting serious injuries, Sub-Inspector Seagrave at once ordered the police to charge the crowd, who numbered several thousand ; but through the exertions of Mr. James Daly, of Castlebar, order was restored and a collision avoided. The people were subsequently addressd by Rev. P. McPhilpin, C.C. Monaghan. — Over 100 police were engaged on March 30 in protecting the » Sheriff and his bailiffs in carrying out evictions on the Tedavnet estate of the Earl of Dartry, in the northern part of the County Monaghan. The police were unable to prLCure cars in Monaghan, but they got an ample supply of cars from the Burrounding towns, including, probably , Carrickmacross, from which place they had a week before to send to Monaghan for cars to carry out evictions in the vicinity of Carrickmacross. The proceedings passed off without any serious disturbance, although at oiae time the aspect of affairs looked threatening, especially when at the eviction of a man named Mcllroy, his wife, after appealing without result to stay the proceedings, fainted. At another house there was some stonethrowing, and one man was arrested for abusive language and brought into Monaghan in the evening in custody. Several of the houses had the doois blocked up with stones, and in one case where this was done, and when the bailiffs began to make a breach in the wall it was found that there was a woman and a number of children in the house. Queen's County. — The evictions on the Marquis of Lansdowne'a estate were continued on March 26. Six tenants, representing fifty human beings, were evicted. This makes a total of 121 persons evicted on the estate since the campaign began. The evictions were discontinued for a fortnight. At the meeting of the Mountmellick Guardians, on March 19, Relieving^officer Molloy handed in eviction notices at the suit of the Edwards and McNeals (minois), signed by the receiver, S. W. Jennings, against Catherine Dowhng for possession of part of the lands of Clonbogue ; against Martin 1) >njgbue and John Qaigley, for lands of Kilbnde ; Honora Sweeny, for pare of the lauds of Lea and Inchacooley ; Edward Nolan, for lands of Lea; Richard Brady, ior lands of Lea and Inchacooley ; Michael Ourley, lands of Kilbnde ; and Hugh Forau, for lands or Doulough. TirPERAKY. — Captain Quinn has granted his tenantry at Orange an abatement of 20 per cent, on judicial rents. The tenants, having adopted the Plan of Larap.iign last December when the reduction was refused, have handed over ihe rents to Mr. Condon. M.P. For some nights past there has bten a great augmentation of the guard on duty at the military bair.icki of Temnlemore. The story going the rounds is that a communication has been received by the authorities warning them of the intended visit to Templemore of an American dynamitard, whose mission is tne destruction of the barracks. Hence the precaution*. Outside the walls the matter is looked upon as the rather good joke of some wag. A couple of years ■ince the people of Templemoru were stariled one fine morning by a story that a determined raid had b 'eu made on the magazine the previous night. When the truth came out it was discovered that the " much ado about nothing " had been caused by the attempt of a drunken tinner to climb the barrack w ill to get refreshed at the canteen. The fool of a sentry gave the alarm, and had the gairison under arms in a j iff ey . Wexford — The second gap in the ranks of the Fethard evicted tenants, undergoing the hardships of gaol life in the New Ross workhouse, occiNred on St. Patrick's Day, when a girl named Warren, aged about nine years, breathed her last. This is the second death which his occurred amongst the Feihard tenants since their entry to the workhouse in August, and strange to say the two deaths occurred in one family. The funeral left New Ross on Fiiday, March 18, and was accompanied to Fethard by a largd concourse of people. The final ties in the trial matches for the Inter-County championship were played at Murrimown on March 20. Kilmannon beat Lady's Island by a goal and fi* r L points to )iil. Castlebiidge won a hard contest from Oulart by a goa.l and two points to five points. The deciding cjntest between Kilrrjannon and Castlebridge proved exciting in the extreme, the pl.iy on both sides being brilliant and the teams so ovenlv matched that at the call of time neit! cr bad gained any advantage and the decision w^s a ijourncd.

Wisconsin will place a statue of tue great Jesuit exp^ier, Father Marquette, in the House uf i.i pieb..n'atives at Washington. lhe Eight tW, Bishop He'inf-s -j, on Ai>nl 3rd, laid the cornerstone tor a Dew German (Juti uhc church in Dubuque, whicn, when complete, will make five Catholic churches in that city, three of them being the largest church buildings in Dubuque. This church, which is called the Sacred Heart, will cost 60,000 dollars, and will have the largest seating capacity of any church building in Dubuque, lowa.