The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-05
IRISH NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Mallow Farmers Club have passed
resolution haing with satisfaction the return
of j. ODonovan Rosa, Esq, as representative
for the shire OF Tippcrary, in the English Par
lament.
"A Dublin paper publishes the names of the
four hundred and eleven honest electors who
voted at the recent contest In Longford for
Martin and fathcrland, and calls 1t 'Thc Roll
of Honor"
A party of soldiers made raid into Bally-
landers recently, In search of Fcnian arms, and,
after ransacking several suspected houses, de-
parted cmpty-landcd.
Efforts are making to raise money, by
voluntary subscriptions, to erect new build
ing upon the site of ST. Joseph's Catholic Male
Blind Asylum, the present structure having
crumblcd nearly to decay.
At meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy
OF the Deancry of Tralce, Dean Nave, of anti
Fcnian celebrity, presiding, resolutions In
favor Of 1lXity of tenure, valuation Of rent,
and justice to laborers, were unanimously
adopted.
Tho body of Mr.. John Moore, of Monnsud,
situate near Corey, and q highly respectable
gentleman farmer, was found recently on the
Dublin and Wexford Railway, near Corey Sta
ton, shocklngly mangled, the train having
passed over him.
One of the speakers of the meeting Of the
Kauturl Laborcrs' Club, held on January "A
Mr.. Johnson-asked what had become of oil
the petitions sent to the British House of Com
mons, He was satisfied if oil the petitions
sent by the Irish people to st. Stevens were
collected they would paper the whole world.
Sergeant Brown, of the Sixty-fifth Regi-
mcnt while on his way from Cork to Ballin-
collig, recently, was attacked by party OF un-
known men, who demanded of him his sword,
one of them presenting revolver at his head.
a short passage-at-arms took place, from which
the sergeant came ont sound and finally made
good his escape In flight.
The Cork Herald reports that letter just
received from Captain Mackey, the imprisoned
Fenian, represents himself as fast recovering
his health, after a recent severe fit ofllness.
He writes with the utmost cheerfnlness, char
acterizcd by q strong religious feeling. En-
tircly free from the illusion that the British
Government will grant any amnesty, he
''spraks confidently of the enterprise OF
greater power to shorten the imprisonment Of
himself and his fellow prisoners"
A poor woman, 4 convict, in MountlOy, has
died of broken heart, according to the coro-
ner,s verdict She had committed larceny, the
penalty of which is imprisonment only. They
gave her death. The doctor, who proved hui
name this time, reported that she was dying,
and would lnfallbly die If her Imprisonment
were continued. The Irish Viceroy and Chief
Secretary were apprlsed of that They re-
piled: they would not interfere; the law should
take its course So her Imprisonment was
continued till it killed her.
General Sir De Lacy Evans, who died on
the 9th uIt., was one of the many brave
and skiful officers whom Ireland has given to
raise the prestige Of British arms abroad. His
military career was long and brilliant. COM
manding in India Us early as 1907. He served
in the Peulnsular war, in the American war of
1914, being present at the capture of Washing
ton, and returned TO Europe in time to take
part in the battle of Waterloo, where two
horses were shot under him. In the Carllst
war in Spain he had command of the British
Legion, and, on the outbreak Of tAe war in
Russia, his country again claimed his sword.
He was appointed to the command of the
Second Division, and distinguished himself
as Irish officers generally contrvc TO do-at
the Alma and Inkerman, as well as in the
minor encounters of the campaign, until he
was invalided and sent home, when he receiv-
ed the thanks of Parliament.
"A poor woman named Margaret McCor-
mack, who resided in q small cottage on the
roadside leading between Drumconsco, County
Meath, and Kingscourt, in til" County Cavan,
was brutally murdered by some unknown per-
son short time since. The body was discov-
cred in the house with the skull smashed In.
A Wholesale attempt was made some three
months since to destroy this whole family by
cntrapping them into the use of arsenic, which
was mixed up with quantity of flour and
other materials as if intended to make cake,
and in this manner was made mp In parcel,
anu. rs it were, accidentally dropped on the
road. where it was known some of the family
would soon pass. The diabolical trap succeed
cd. The -four was picked up, brought home,
and that very night converted into cake, Of
which the whole family partook, and three of
them, brothers, afterwards died from the ef-
rot, or noieon thns insiliouslv odminfstnrn,l