The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
srnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
Inv ORLEANS, sUNDAY, JANUARY IL. ITs.
IRDLoRDs AND TENANTS IN IRELAND
STORY OF TIE GREAT eALTEE CASE.

&EDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IRELAND
history OF TIE GREAT GALTEE CASE.
Il End of the Celebrated Casey Trial.
m the middle of December a trial ter
mated which has occupied the Court o
&een's Bench seven days, and has excited
b interest throughout the length and
|sadth of Ireland only equaled by the
latest political trials. Il 10 likely To
I'm q new departure for that agitation fol-
reform of the Irish land laws that Mr.,
{Aastone limited to the Dublin Corporation
S1l have his support.
Right in the heart of Munster. between
% counties of Cork and Tipperary,
retches the chain of the Galtees, rieine in
me points to 5000 feet. The slopes of
Iese mountains were inhabited by some
scple who were aslaboriously and patient
Industrious as the Chinese, but who had
deal with very different soil from that
.the FlOwery Land. In truth, at the Gal
Pc there was no soil at all except what
D poor people toilsomely carried up from
3 plains In panniers on their backs. The
~ of the wintry rains aud torrents was
great that, unless carefully embarked,
little patch of hand made ground, put
ether with such pains in the long days
MANNER, was almost certain to be- wash
away before the next spring came round.
course, the crops raised under these
were of the poorest kind
tched potatoes. miserable oats. Some
All, half starved cattle cleaned q sub
zsnce by browsing on the mountain
&ther.
& EXISTENCE AMoNa THE GALTEEs.
10 the trial it WAS shown that most of
L. ~, =
&potatoes and Indian meal porridge.
~, eggs, butter they never tasted milk
by. In some cases even the very young
edren had to go without milk. They
70 so poor that they were always heavily
1ebt TO the dealers in tho pei9hborine
sll towns in, the plains. Yet they were
honest that whenever they got any
ley, either as wages or for prodoce,
81 first care was TO pay off those liabili
"a AS for their dwellings, they lived in
zs which the most compassonated Bal
IAN peasant would probably scorn.
% Is what one independent witness says:
In one cottage there was a wretcied
ben floor; the water was dropping
70 from wretehed thatch. There wers
qnple of bees in diugy room, bit there
"a no blankets. The house of another
!snt was ak feet high aud had no win
"a In another cottage tho father, euf-
s1g from pieUrisy, was sitting over a
Rll fire, and ten children were scattered
sat. In one dwelling dam had been
4e scroes the floor, to prevent the water
z Hooded in from putting out tie fire."
tie dwellings are either mere mud
rs, or novels constructed ru6ely out of
hes.
TO complete the picture, it may be added |
1t all the holdings were either unreclaim-
mountain waste or patches reclaimed
j brought into cultivation exclusively
the exerticns of the tenants. The only
p from the landlord consisted in letting
poor people alone, allowing them to exc |
an existenca as they could, like the |
1s of the air or the wild animals that
ltered themselves in the heather. Indeed, |
landlord might with almost equal jus |
1Om the human deuizenB of those noun
Wilds.
"a THE LORDS OF TIE MANOR.
De whole of this tract of country was
Merly the possession of the King family,
70 of Kingston, the gathered fruits OF
81 considerations of native Irish owners
ing the seventeenth century. They
% an improvident lot, with a certain |
lce,y indifference to money, bouhtlless
expenditures, profuse in hospitality,
ser paying their debts. It deserves.
ever. to be here recorded that one of
Kingsborough-at the end
ne last century spent considerable sumo
s0methin& better than mere frivolity.
got together from all quarters the ma
als which enabled him to publish a
At and famous work on the antiquities
6exicO, consisting of several folio VOL
%, prOfusely illustrated.
he Kings were easy going In their deal
with their tenaptry, never exactiDg
q the wretched people were really un-
TO pay. Deep and widespread was
grief when their estates-valued at
9.OOO q year-were sold to pay debts
Early half a million. The famoua John
ser formed company to buy them,
ibis company managed to obtain them
Don't eight years purchase. Sadlier
ne charge of the arrangements. Sub
ntly the owner of q Manchester calico
named Nathaniel Buckley, purch aeed
fticn of the Kingston estatee, compris,
aome of that GaItee tract, whore welt
miserable tenants above referred to-
"a was an agent resident in the neigh.
BOD, named Patten Bridge. With
tey's consent Bridge had the property
&eds" ayowedly in order to increase
nts.
low THE RENTs WERE RAISED.
re valuation vas so we'll performed
IN Some cases the rents were raised
ser cent; in several doubled; in most
1aaAH forty In fifkp nor cant Tho Tam |