Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-30
BALTIMORE WALKING MATCH
BATTLE OF Geek TEPE.
THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR ILL
IRISH ANTI-RENT EXCITEMENT.
PLAGUE STRICKEN MEMPHIS
THE POLICE COMMISSION MUDDLE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Irish Tenants Right TrOu,

The Irish Tenants Right Troubles
LONDON, Sept. 30.-The Pail Mall Gazette, Ia
the leading article briefly summarized last
night, comedies that the complaints of the
Irish tenant farmers are mostly genuine, and
their rent; and that they believe in their right
to remain on the land In every event. They
are fresh from the exhortations Of the most
popula politician In Ireland (meaning Mr.
ParneDD to stick to their homesteadS at what-
ever consequence. If the general refusal to
pay rent is followed by wholesale eviction
this again will almost certainly be followed by
series OF agrarian murders; and unless the
Irish executive isprepared to support the land
lords by measures amounting to little less than
military occupation OF a large part Of the coun-
virtually concedlng the tenants claim to fixity
OF tenure and giving the signal for an outbreak
of something hardly distinguishable from civil
war oIuna The ant,tenant Sa agitation is only
tie general unrest Of Ireland. For the moment
1t Is the most urgent; but even II the worst
pinch OF the agrarian distress were relieved by
universal reduction OF rent, there would still
be mucn to disquiet us in the condition OF the
country. ''The enthusiasm by which Mr.. Par
nells progress has been attended has Infinitely
weakened the hands Of the more moderate
home rulers and emboldened the ultras; and
among its first results was somewhat to precip-
ttate the proposal to assemble national con-
yent1on. The fate OF this particular project is
which the more violent section of the home
rulers have entered will in one shape or another
produce its inevitable results upon the party
generally. The troublous prospect In Ireland
is not really affected by the success or failure OF
any given scheme for organizing pressure upon
the government. The present temper of the
Irish people and their leaders concerns us much
more seriously than any particular proposal for
It's manifestation, and while this temper re-
mains what 1t tS-Semi seditiouS among the
people and recklessly 1ncendiary among the
leaderS-the situation must be a grave one,
whether the convention ever meets or not. 1t
should be noted that the old statute which pro-
h1bited conventions In Ireland has been re-
peafed.'
The Times ON the SituatiOn.
The Times, in leading editorial article on the
disorganiZing effects Of Mr.. Parnells policy,
says 1t would become really formidable only If
Il should extend all over ireland. The Times
does not believe that 1t will do so. "Nothing,'
it says, twill tend to paralyze the anti-rent
projects more effectualy than the improve
ment In the harvest prospects which Is report
ed from the greater part OF Irelard."
The Counts Retirement.
Count Schouyalon will quit the Russian en-
bassy In London at the end of october.
The Czar's NIalady.
~, A vienna disPatch to the Daily Telegraph says
fatigue and is daily getting worse.
The Battle Between Russians and
TUfcOmans.
LONDON, Sept. 3O.-The special dispatches to
the Daily Ne,rs from Tchikislar and st. Peters
burg give different account Of the Geok-Tepe
affair from that of the official report teie-
graphed from st. Petersburg yesterday. The
Tchikislar telegram merely says there was q
severe engagement between the Russian ad-
vance guard and the Turcomans. The Rus
slams lost two hundred killed. The st. Peters
burg telegram says the engagement resulted In
the temporary capture OF Geok-Tepe. The
opinion prevails at Baku that the expedition
will return and winter at Tchikislar In conse
quence OF the sickness and the scarcity of pro
visions. General Tergukason had arrived a.
Tchikislar, replacing General Lomakin in the
command.
Election Excitement in Germany.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times says
''The elections which take place to-day and
years. The issue, by common admission, is
reduced to simple personal one-for or against
Prince Bismarck. The correspondent expresses
the Dellef that the liberal cause is hopeless and
that Prince Bismarck success is a roregone
conclusion