Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 9, 21 June 1889, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim.— M. B. O'Malley, J.P., visited Mr. Carew in Belfast Gaol on March 21. He found the hon. gentleman very cheerful, and in reply to inquiries ascertained that he is satisfied wiih his treatment. Mr. Carew looks pale and thin. He is much lighter in weight than when committed to prison. He is visited daily by the prison chaplain, Father McAlister, and occasionally by M. M' Car tan, M.P., and Dr. Dempsey. There was a crowded meeting of the Ballymoney branch of the League on March 24. D. Dempsey occupied the chair, and the following resolution was adopted : That we firmly believe as time passes on, and when even the grossest outrages are buried in oblivion, there will ataud out three names which will be a cause of humiliation to all Englishmen, and those three names are Salisbury, Webster, and Balfour, men who can most fitly be ranked with Castlereagb, of detested memory. Armagh. — At the regular meeting of the National League on March 21, Owen Loaghnan in the chair, the following resolution was passed by acclamation : That we convey our most hearty thanks to the electors of Kennington for the glorious victory which they achieved over Pigottism and Toryism, and we warmly thank tbe electors of Gorton f ;>r again returning a Home Ruler with a greater majority than heretofore. J. J. McParland addressed the meeting in support of the resolution. CarlO'W.— P. J. Conlan, of the Carlo w Nationalist, who was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at a recent Coercion Court, has been taken to Kilkenny Gaol. Clare— Be y. Michael Quinlivan, of Kiikee, had an interview with Captain Hector Vandelsur at Eilrush House the other day. Captain Welsh, 8.M., and Mr. Studdert, agent on the estate, were also present. The landlord's long-standing dispute with his tenants was discussed in a conciliatory manner, after which Captain Vandeleur consented to refer the question for settlement to Very Rev. Dr. Dinan. An amicable settlement on this estate wiil be heard oi with much pleasure. Sincere and patriotic Irishmen the world over will regret to heai of the death of Thomas Sheedy, of Kiikee, which occurred on Marct 23. Mr. Sheedy was a sincere patriot, and was one of the first t( inaugurate the Amnesty Association in West Clare. Later on, Mr Sheedy was the first individual in the West to inaugurate the Butl Testimonial, which also proved a success. The handsome monumen that has been raised in Glasnevin Cemetery to one of the creates and most brilliant Irishmen of bis age, the late Rev. Dr. Canill, D.D. and the bringing home of the mortal remains of tbe illustrious divin< to repose on the hillside of his native land, a movement that wai materially helped by the Irish World, was also inaugurated by Mi Sheed>. For many years be represented the electoral divisions o Clooncoorka and Kiikee, and was remirkable for his assiduity an< honesty. Cork. — J. C. Flynn, M.P., was presented with an add i ess an testimonial of £355 from his constituents at Kanturk. He subsc quently pave a dinner to his friends at the Young Men's Society Hal (Several clergymen attended, and Father Buckley, Buttevant, occupie the chair. Father Coveney, of Dunmanway, has instituted proceeding against Dixon Hartland, an English M.P., for blander in repeating i a speech at Stainea a statement which the reverend gentleman ha previously contradicted, that he had said he prayed to God to blot the hand that murderei Inspector Martin. The other day a new line of action in connection with tt s'ruggle on the l'unsonby estate was opened up in Youghal. Tv Plan of Campaign, if ontinued in, must eventually lead to son: important action being taken by those who are directly interested i the matter. A lepresentative of Messrs. Hussey and Townsend visite Youghal for the purpose of colleci ing the rents from the tenants < E. U'Fairell, B. L., Dublin. Tha tenants on the estate, which situate, in the parishes of Youghal ami Kileaub, received circulai from Messrs. Hussey and Townsend ,cal ling on them, as was cus ornar to meet their representatives iv Youghal for tbe transaction o£ tt above business. In obedience to the circular ihe tenantct came mi the town, but on coming together a meetirg was held in the Ma House. Here it was unanimously agreed by them that not a perm of their rents should go to their landlord through the agency < Hussey and Townsend, This course of action was decided on as i indignant protest against the part which that firm has taken i reference to their fet low-parishioners on the Ponsonby estate. Tl tenants of Colonel Hayman have resolved to follow the example s them by their fellow-ttnants, and it is also stated that 'hose ot Mi Toulon, for whom the same firm are agents, have decided to ado similar measures of protesting against the attempt to prevent s amicable arrangement on the Ponsonby estate. As a sii<n of tl interest shown in the struggle, P. P. O'Neill is being literally dclugi with letters from prominent English members of Parliament ai journalists. Information on all matters relating to the struggle eagerly sought f >r. On March 27 the second attempt was made to evict Micha Donovan of Ballyduvane, Olynakilty, from his holding, un i prov like tbe nrt>t, unsuccessful, Tne attacking party consisted of Sbrr Cambridge and Heenan. a Cork bailiff, piotected by a force of police under District-Inspecor Carr. Owe i Sweeney, the Widlon represent «tiv ■, was present but remained at a respectful distan from the house. Tbe bailiffs effectei an entrance by using the cro bar on the door, and then proceeded to remove the furniture a other effects. In the meantime Doctor Haynes and his aesi6tai having a black bag of medical appliances, examined old Donovi who was lying debilitated in beii. These learned gentlemen p nounced the old man of 86 winters fit for removal. The baih; having the house cleared, took the poor man out of bed, and desp

the entreaties and threatening of his family proceeded to pat on his clothes, la the act of putting on the coat the poor old man from exhaustion swooped, to the alarm of all present. The doctors were apprised of what had occurred. They were quickly on the scene and exhibited much uneasiness. They applied the galvanic battery and other means to restore animation. A bailiff wa9 despatched for stimulants to the landlord's house and some brandy was procured. The poor man got a few sDoontula of it from Dr. Haynea. For a time matters looked most serious, aa it was considered life was fast ebbing. The old man's family and a few neighbouring women who had assembled expressed themselves very strongly as to the treatment Donovan had received. After some time, he showed signs of animation, when Dr. Huynej, after communicating with Mr. Oarr, the police and the bailiff's party retired, leaving old Donovan in his bed and the family in possession. Father Hill, having heard of the proceedings, arrived at thi9 juncture. He referred to the harsh conduct of the landlord, and still hoped, for the sake of the peace of the district, he would be amenable to reason and justice. He congratulated the Donovan family on their being still in possession, and promised to give them all the assistance in his power. Derry.— At the Derry Petty Sessions, before the local justices and Mr. Harvey, 8.M., a number of Nationalists were charged by the police with riotous conduct on St. Patrick's night. They had been confined in gaol, and, after evidence bad been given, were all returned for trial. The solicitors for the defence said that the police system on such occasions was a menace to the peace of the city. Donegal* — In view of the Olphert evictions, there reached Letterkenny an lron-hoooed, spiked battering-ram, 16 feet long, on a four-wheeled ram carriage. The ram, suspended by chains from four iron nprights, will work borizmtally. The " rammers " are protected by a wall of sheet iron. The accompanying appliances consist of boat-hooks, chains, ropes, shod -poles, crow-bars, picks, sledges, and scaling ladders admitting four abreast. These weapons of war make three cut-loads, and are all addressed to Count y -Inspector Lennon. They have been stored in the police barracks here. On the eve of the National festival a proclamation was issued prohibiting any meetin? in Falcarragh on St. Patrick's Day. A hundred of the Rifles stationed at Dunfanaghy and 30 of the Scots Greys were drafted in to enforce the proclamation. These followed in the , rear of a Nationalist procession through the parish. After the proL cession, Father Stephens proceeded to the parish graveyard to read ( the burial service over two of his parishioners. He was followed by a troop of Scots Greys, who remained on guard during the reading of • the funeral service. The greatest indignation is felt over this outrage [ to religion. Notwithstanding all the vigilance of the authorities, an ► enthusiastic meeting was addressed by the rev. gentleman. The Dublin Freeman correspondent gives the following examples ' of the police terrorism and midnight raids on the poor people of tbe j Gweedore district, which has been goin<; on there for a number of weeks. The correspondent has had his information in each of the | cases from the lips of the people themselves, aad no commeat could I increase the detestation and indignation with which such doings must beregirded by all right-thinking people. The firat story was related to the correspondent by a poor woman, who said her husband was away hiding in the mountains, acting on the general impulse of ■' terror, but he is now back again. She was left in the little cottage '• with a large family of small children. Upon the occasion of the first d visit of the police she was approaching her confinement. They came In the night time and searched the house. Ttey cams again three 8 nights after her cocfiaement. They knocked at the door with their a rities, and her little girl got out* of bed and let them in. They '* searched the house again, pushing the bed-clothes off the little cbills dren. Having gone through tbe lofts and the other apartments, one of the number mounted the canopy of the bed in which she and her > c newly-born infant were lying, tine was so dalicate tbat ghe could 13 not get out cf bed. She sr.id, "The head-conatable behaved like a c madman. I was fainting and shuddeiiog with fear." They roughly a asked the children for information about their father, and having satisfied themselves that he was not in the house they left. >f I The husband said he was five weeks in the mountains, but hs might ' b as well have been in gaol as shivering wuh cold in the hills. He ran ' s away when the police were making wholesale arrests, but h> is now ft moving about at home without any fear of molest ition. An old man, ie whose daughter had already been arrested, was visittd in the night ° time as he lay sick in bed. One of the policemen said to him to him, N "We have your daughter in, and it is better for yourself to come y now." He pleaded that he was sick, but the leader of the police bawled out at him, " D your scul, don't keep me ull the night, or lU I will drag you out of bed I " Tnig is the treatment that was n giveu to a man against whom the police subsequently admitted that ie they had not the shadow of a case. 8 Dovn.-Bev. Peter Mcßhane presided at the recent meeting J of tbe Uoalisland National League. The following resolution was [n adopted : — Th*t we thank the electors of Kennington for their action ie in returning trie Home Kule candidate ; and we congratulate ourselves jj on the indication affjided by the election of the coming triumph of the Irish National cause. Francis Vallely supported the resolution j 8 in a lengthened speech, which was loudly applauded. Kerry. —An old inhabitant of Castlemamj, Daniel L. Griffin, el died a few di.vs ago at tha ripe old age o? 109 years. He retained id all his fnculties up to a few days before his doath. He was parish iff clerk of K-iel and Caitlemaiue and discharged lhat duty under six 25 successive parish priests, I'a Th.3 hearing of the appeal against the sentence of six months' cc imprisonment paesed on William O'Biien, M.P ,by a Coercion Court w- in Tralee is to be tnei at the Killarney Quarter 8 ssions by County rid Court Judge Curran. A proclamition was pasted by the police proit) hibiting any demonstration ia the town on the occasion of tbe trial, in, The proclamation is signed by Mr. McDermott R.M., and it states that ro- informations have been sworn that a meeting was intended to be held 1^ in the town, and lhat the object and effect of suoh a meeting would ite be an interference with and obstruction of the administration of the

Jaw and intimidation, and also that it would cause alarm and lead to • breach of the peace. KilQarC — Sheriff Daly carried out a number of evictions on the O'Kelly estate at Clongory, Mar^b 26. There was a large force of constabulary present under the command of County- inspector Lock. The names of the evicted are -.—Michael Ross, Anne Fallam, Daniel Donnelly, Peter Keogh, Jag. Heavy, Patrick K«ely, John Fox, B. Trench, James Heavy, and Patrick Fox. At the holding of Patrick Fallam, Solicitor Hurley and Father Kinsella produced a medical certificate to the Sheriff Btating that John Fullam, aged 25, was unfit to be removed. A man the people did not know, but who was said by the Emergency men to be a doctor, gave it as his opinion that John Fallam could be removed. la a few minutes tbe young man, who has been bed-ridden for 13 years, was carried out by an Emergencyman in a very weak condition. He was taken to a neighbour's house. I*eitrim* — Terence Connolly presided at a recent meeting of tbe Roseinver branch of the League. Resolu'ions were passed protesting against tbe cruel treatment inflicted by the Coercion Government on the political prisoners, and condemning the notion of Landlord Johnston in serving 50 of his tenants at Rossinver and Glenaniff with ejectment processes. The Ballinamore William O'Brien and the Carrick Robert Emmets played a G&elic match on March 24 at Ballinamore. The borne team won by one goal and three points to one point for Carrick. Afterwards a meeting was held. Michael G. Walstae, of Oarrick said :— Gentlemen of Ballinamore Gaelic Athletic Association, —On behalf of the Carrick-on-Shannon team I am desired to express Iheirsincerest thanks for the generous and hospitable manner in which yon have received us. One of the greatest influences that impresses the minds of Irishmen from their early years is admiration lor the deeds of daring and physical strength for whici our countrymen have been so renowned sioce the earliest ages of their history, and a finer example of their physical superiority I have never seen than in the splendid athletes who competed here to-day, thus keeping up the worthy traditions of our fathers that Irishmen have no s-ipenor* among the nations of the earth (loud cheers). I cannot conclude my expression of thanks without referring to a subject which is foremost in the minds of all, and that is the explosion ot that va t fabti; ot iniquity in London, wbich has now come to the light of day. It is the most foul conspiracy recorded in history, and the infamous plot has now recoiled on its authors, covering them with defeat and disgrace. LtimeriCk* — At the opening of the Rathkeale Quarter Sessions Judge Purcell was presented by the Sheriff with a pair of white gloves, there being no criminal cases on the calendar. The appeals from Coercion decisions by Me3srs. David Sheehy, M.P. ; John Finucane, M.P. ; Bey. Mr. Marri&m, and Mr. Horan, solicitor, are to be heard at an early date. Tbe cruel work of eviction on the Towerhill estate was resumed on March 26, when sub-Sheriff HobsoD, with bailiffs and a party of police in charge of District-Inspector Dunne, paid a visit to the property. This is one of the Campaign estates. One of the tenants evicted, John O'Malley, was so ill in December last that he could not be dispossessed. He was once a strong man and of such a spirit as would ill brook a Sheriff's visit, but still weak and wasted after his severe illness, he could only look scornfully on the heartless pmcec iingof the evictors. Mrs. Kelly, with her helpless family, was next flung out on the highway. Siuce the starting of the Plan, Mrs. Kelly's husband died, as the result of disease produced by his toil ant? ■truggle to pay a cruebing rackrent. The eviction being completed, the Sheriff departed, Emergencymrfn were placed in charge of both holdings. Meatll.— Archbishop Walsh consecrated Doctor Higgins Coadjuior to Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, Australia, at the parochial chuich, Navan. Monaggliail.— Sheriff Swan, accompanied by a large force of police under District-Inspector Fuzsimmons, recently proceeded to Durnasell, near Scotßtown. on the Hamilton estate, for the purpose of carrying out a number of evictions. The party succeeded ia evic - ing a family named Eye, who are m the greatest poverty. Tbe p >or tenant, when asked by the bailiff to settle the arrears ot ren wtnch j Stood against him, icplied that he wished h" could g. tfoo.l f it is family first. The pover y-sm'eken amil\ w le li ft to s rka t-helti'i as bent they could. In another case, lha of Hugh R■• MeKt-nun, the wite of the tenant was bedridden, aud the Shi nff conbentoi to ace pt two-years' rent and costs. Tbe Killeny National League held a special meeting on March 24 for tbe purpose of considering the case oi P. ConloD, one of the evicted tenants on the estate of S. E. bhirley. There wns a very large attendance of members, and univeisal sympathy was expressed for tbis victim of Shirley's greed. The following is the tenant's story, as taken down at the meeting :—": — " I was evicted in January of the present year for the non-payment of arrears of a rent which the Land Commissioners reduced last year by 'A 0 per cent. E.foie being evicted, I offered to pay two of the three years' arrears of the old reut, but the landlotd refused everything nhort of the total amount of the decree with costs, and as this amount was entirely out of my reach I was in consequence evicted. Since eviction 1 repeatedly offered terms for a settlement, and on one occasion a friend of mine (Mr. McKenna) and myself waited on tbe landlord and offered to pay all arrears at the fixed rent, but tbis was refused ; and as an alternative I was a6ked to pay an increase on the judicial rent of 15 per cent., and to take a portion of an adjoiniug tarm ho-a which Peter Ward was evicted in '88. As this offer was so unm.mly and unnatural I", of course, declined, Since that time 1 have been told, in aopwer to another request for a settlement, that as 1 refused bis last off^r he refused dealing with me any more." As the above shows that tlvs poor, industrious tenant is singled out for a special vengeance at tie hands of Shirley the meeting pledged itselt to useeveiy legitimate 1 meanß in their power to have the poor man reiustated, despite the puny attempts of Bhirley at tilling the evicted lands.

Mayo. — The farm of Sarnasrhr, nn Lord Lucan's e^ate, near Castleb r, and containing about 600 acres, is t> be divided among the occupiers of smitl holdings on the adj jlning tnwntandß. Thousands of people assembled at GUnn, Kilmovee, on March 24, far the purpose of condemning the late outiages perpetrated in the name of law and order in the parihh of Curry, now re dered notorious by the action of the tyrant rack-renter, Knox. If we can take the filing of the people about here as an iniica.ion of what is thought of the evictions in Curry by the surrounding country, we must. b<3 convinced thai the evicted tenants will never want f >r aympatov and support, or tha evictor for determined opposition. The cry was— '' Gid. b!e*9 tho m' nof Curry and sreng h«u their arms to strike * heavy blow agaiust 'yranny." Rev. M. Henry was moved to the chair, amidst great and enthusiastic cheering. The following resolution was parsed unanimously — That we tuartily sympathise with the evicted tenants on the Knox property, and prora.se them evoiy material support in our power ; and that words cannot convey our ttehngsof h ar<_d of the men and the laws that encouiaged the tyrant Kuox to cast out the poor from the houses to which they have a God'given right. RoSCOmtnon.-Joba Path, P. Flanagan, John Flanagan, I and Simuu Brodenck have been arrested and conveyed to Gastlebar Gaol, to be imprisoned for three months for refusing to give bail to be of good behaviour. They were sentenced some time ago on a charge of illegal assembly at Cregban. Jobn Croghan, of Cloonkeen, who was sentenced to one month's hard labour for illegal assembly at Cloontrask, is now the only convicted Leaguer in the Castlerea district against whom a warrant has not yet been executed. On March 27, at Athlone, Judge O'Connor Morris heard a number ot Crimes Act appeals from the decision of tbe magistrate at the BallaghaJereen Petty Sessions, ai which the following defendants were each semeucea to a months imprisonment for taking part in a National Le gue meeting at Lisnaculla Cnapel, a proclaimed district id County Ri>eomaaon, nud also fur assaul ing the police : — Michael McGiane, Thomas Buhany, RjbertK>ng, Michael Cassidy, and John R>ddy. It jap reared thit on New Year's Day, Luke P. Hayden, M.P., who had taken part in a National League meeting at Carrick, came to Lisnaculla, and remained a.-» tbe guest of Father Martin. After Ma9s 600 oi 70 J people ai». mole 1 in the chapel grounds to hear Mi. Hayden speak. The police theu madv, their appearance, and, as usual, caused a breach of the peace. The sentences were reduced from one month to ten days' imprisonment. Tipperary. — Nineteen men were brought up at Cabir Patty Sessions charged with riot and unlawful assembly. The evidence vas that on the occasion of William O'Brien getting back his clothes in Clonmel Gaol, tne people assembled and lit bsnfires on the square, and that stones were thrown at the police. After a lengthened hearing, seventeen of the accused were bound over in their own recognisances, and the remaining two in sureties of £5 eacb, to be of good behaviour for six months. The defendants were then liberated • Tyrone.— T. W. Russell, M.P., has received a letter from a Lancashire gentleman suggesting that a movement Bhould be set on foot for assisting tenant farmers from Ulster and Scotland to take evicted farms on the Plan of Campaign estates. He adds that if the idea ia thought worth eutertainiug he will contribute £1000 to the fund. James Donnelly was moved to the chair at tbe recent meeting of tbe Greencastle League. Rev. J. McConalogue proposed, aud P. Conway seconded, this resolution : — That we extend our sympathy to the lindlor i-stricken tenantry of Gweedoie in seeing their gallant priests mercilessly taken from them by order of lying Balfour, aud we pay that heaven may boon decree the dissolution of tbe present Tory Government. ■Westmeatll.— lrishmen everywhere will deeply regret the death of Very tiev. Michael Coffty, D D., of St. Petti's, Atblone, at the advanced age o! 82. Dr. Ct ft'oy bad a high ly distinguished course in tbe college of Maynooth, which be fioisud at a ntudent in the Dunboyne establishment. He was a class-fel ow of the late Professors Murrty hjxA Ciolly. He laboured in the early part of his ministry in ftligo and Athlone, und wa-t for many years Pioid nt cf the Sutnmerhill College. A learned theologian, a prudent eouusi Uor, his hsa will be long lelt by the priests if tut dioctae 'f Klphin. "Wexford.— A convention of National Le.gue branch -was held iv he Tholsel, New frows to take ni .msuies to upp r- <^ie e>t iei ants in the county. There w;ih h Uigc atten<ia c if ''e^aea fnirn brauchee in >he cun i-s • f VV. xtoid, W .t rf-> ti, Kilke nj, .»u'l Larlow. John E. Redmond, on being uio»< d to the chaw, naid ih« object of the convention was to assist tbe movemi nt on foot in County Wexiord to supportthe tenants who were engaged in a terrible battle with t^e landlords. Father O'Neill proposed a series of resolutions, which were seconded by Father Coicoran, of Kilkenny, ana adopted. The death is announced of the venerable pastor of Litur, Rev. John o'Bnen, the oldest priest in the diocese of Ferns, after sixty years' earneßt and unremitting 1-ibour. Father O'Brien was born at The B.illf>L'b in ]BO 1, was amongst ihe first students w h .o enter, d St. Peter"v College, wheie he pursued Ins classical studies, concluding hia theological courtc at Maynoot;-. Ho wus ordained about 58 years ago, aud was shortly afterwards appointed to the curacy ot Cairn, and thence to Craanlord, where he remained for 29 yearp. He built chapels at Ciaanford aud Monaseed. He was an ardent patriot, and in the old dajs kept the popular flag flying in North Wexford. In the stormy elections or' t'nrty and tortv years ago he always headed his parishioners coming to the poll, and often combated the imira''datious and bnbes of the landlords and iheir agents. Father O'Brien wan also he..rt and feoul in the 48 movement. About twenty years ago, on the death of the Very Rev. James binnott, one of the first missionaries from W.xford who went to Newfoundland, Father O'fnen wi\9 appointed to the pastoral charge of Lit;er. Even in late yean K.ither "'Brien took a deep interest in the struggle iv which hia country is engage! for the redtess of her wronf^. "WicklO"W«— Tba other nay » number of emergency cattle from the County Wicklow were put on Bale iv the Dublin Cattle Mar

ket. It eventually leaked nut that a number of boycotted cattle had been pold, and that, upon the purchasers learning the facts concerning them, they refused to take the animals. No serious difficulty, however, arose between tbe buyers, and finding that the efforts to dispose of tbe cattle were frustrated, the beasts, about 30 in number, were driven to the North Wall for shipment to England.