Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-31

rent. He then quoted the judgment of Chief Justice
Cockourn, 70 the eject that conspiracy was an act
OF two or more persons conniving to injure third
party, ana that 1t was not necessary that the act to
be done be criminal mere combination TO effect
civil injury would come within the law. He
wished to read the opinion of Daniel OConne on
the proposed strike OF farmers against rent-roll
but this was not allowed by the Court. Law pro-
ceedsd to explain the punishments which the trav-
ersers advocated for those who took the evicted
farms, and declared that OF the traversers had
been continued in his post a paid agent of the
Land League after having held persons up BY name
to popular execration and murder. He dwelt with
much effect on the point that the trayersers had
given prominence TO statement that if 10000 per.
syns were enrolled in the Land League, no army
could enforce the land laws. Laws speech was not
concluded when the Court rose.
"A large number of the constabulary and Gov
eminent reporters who took notes at the meetings
OF the Land League in attendance at the trials
A barrister has been sent to the west OF Ireland
in behalf OF the trayersers to collect evidence for
the defense.
MORE BoYCoTTING-CHARGEDw WITH ANOTHER
MURDER.
LONDON, December 30th.-Fresh cases of boycott
ting reported from Ireland.
Patrick Heney, arrested at Upton charged with
the murder Of Lord Mountmorris in Ireland Sep
TENDER last it is claimed is the man who recently
shot an Irish laborer near Birmingham, and acted
under orders of a secret society. He is the of a
butcher living near the scene of the murder Of
Mountmorris.
PUBLlC INTEREST ABAIlAGs
DUBLIN December 30th.-Public interest in the
Irish State trials is considerably abated. There is
little excitement in the neighborhood of the
Court and large number Of Irish members Of Par
lament, who attended Tuesday, did not appear
Wednesday,
PROTEST AGAINST THE STATE TRIALs-oTHER
THREATENING LETTERS.
LONDON, December 3oth-A large meeting was
| held at Crswghwell, County Galway, last night to
protest against the State prosecutions.
Right Hon Joseph Chamberlain, President of the
Board of Trade, received etter from Dublin, threat
ening the lives of himself, Gladstone and John
Bright if they continue to oppose coercion.
TENANT RIGHT MEETING.
DUBLIN, December 3Oth.-A tenant right meeting,
under Liberal auspices, held at Kilea, County
Londonderry, to-day. thousand persons were
present. Resolutions passed in favor of an
equitable settlement of the land question.
THE ALLEGED MoUNTMoRRIs MURDERER.
Patrick Hennelly, arrested for the murder of Lord
Mouutmorris, belongs to Divoroy, village few
miles from the spot where the murder COM
mitted.
THE COERCION AND LAND BILLS.
LONDON, December Both The Neaps, discussing
| the coming session of Parliament, says The coer-
con bill must be passed first and the land bill Sec
ond We believe that when the explanations of the
Ministers heard it will be found that no effort
has been spared to make the existing laws sufficient
for Iceland.
IN A PRECARIOUS CONDITION.
DUBLIN December S0th.-The policeman fired
upon and wounded at Halford, County Tipperary is
in precarious condition.
PEREMPToRY COMMANDS.
ROME, December 3oth-The Vatican has sent
peremptory commands to certain OF the Irish epis-
copacy to abstain from language tending to cause
belief that the Pope approves of the operations of
| the Land League.
PRIESTS AND THE LAND LEAGUE.
ROME, December 30th.-The propaganda has re-
ceiyed communication from Ireland, stating that
only three Bishops and sixty priests have Joined
the Land Leaguers. The Others assisted at the
meetings owing to menaces
PLYING COLUMNS.
| DUBLIN, December 30th.-Nine flying columns
to be formed Immediately, and sent through Ireland
| for the purpose of overawiDg the peasantry by
display Of superior force and military discipline.
Appointment Accepted.
LONDON December 30th.-Leonard H. Courtney,
member Of Parliament from Liskeard, has definitely
accepted the Under Secretaryship of the Home De-
partment, made vacant by the retirement OF Arthur
| Wellesley Peel
Disastrous Floods.
| LONDON, December 30th.-Most disastrous floods
are reported in Derbyshire. Several hundred hands
| are thrown out of employment at Derby by the
| flooding of the cotton mills.
Eighteen Villages Flooded.
| AMSTERDAM, December 30th.-Thc dykes between
Nienwinik and veymen, province of North Brabant,
are broken, and eighteen villages are flooded. The
damage by the foundations is immense A COM
| mittee for the relief of the sufferers has been
| formed
| Thu HAGUE December 30th.-A very great num-
Der of cattle and sheep have been lost by the break
| ing of dykes between Nieunkuik and VI ymen
The BOers Attack British Fort.
CAPE TowN, December 30th--The Beers formed
two camps near Potchefstroem, on the 18th instant,
and on the Goth 200 mounted Beers and 1000 loot
TOD tha
by 800 soldiers They advanced to within 200 yards
| Of the fort but were repulsed by shot and shell.
| Seven insurgents were killed and many wounded.
LONDON, December Soth.-The telegram to the
| War Office from Petermaritzburg, dated December
S0th, reports that the Beers captured Major Clark,
| Police Commandaut Radie and twenty men, who
! were occupying the Court house at Potchefstroom
1t is rumored that the Beers occupy Pretoria, and
| the troops have retired to the fort.
The Campaign Against the TurcOHlans.
ST. PErsRsBuRe, December 3oth.-An official tele-
gram has been received from General kuropatklsce
who left Sanaricano early in November with fly
| ing column to cooperate with General Skobelof
announcing that he has arrived at point eight
miles from Geoketpe. 1t is sidered that he is
sufficiently strong to prevent the Merv Turcomans
from marching to the assistance OF the Akh Tekkes
| at Geoketpe. Renforcements for General kuro-
patkisce are available ii required, and General Sko-
! belof is ready to attack. News OF serious and
possibly decisive character may accordingly be ex-
pected daily
| Opening OF tie Spanish COrtcS = The
Kings speech.
MADRID, December 30th.-The King, opening the
| Cortes TODAY said that actuated by no ambition
| abroad and fettered by no fears at home, Spanish
| diplomacy trying to extend commercial rela-
| tions with America and Europe, and would neglect
no effort to obtain from foreign nations equal adj
vantages with those Spain granted them by treaties
| of commerce. The King, in conclusion, said: The
results of the Morocco conferences satisfactory
| and the relations between Spain and the Vatican
| were most cordial.
EnOppOrtune Proposal.
| BERLIN, December 30th.-The Porte is trying to
obtain the consent Of the Powers to a new confer
! ence on the Greek question. in which Turkey and
Greece shall participate Germany declines the pro-
posal as inopportune.
The Panama Canal.
| PARIS December 30th.-The first detachment Of
engineers and workmen will start January 9th, to
prepare for the commencement of the Panama
Canal.
Death Of a Grand Duchess.
LONDON, December soth.- The Dowager Grand
Duchess of Mecklenbtrg Strelitz died at New
Strelitz yesterday.
Anti-Jewish Meeting.
BERLIN, December 3eth.-A great ant-Jewish
| meeting was held yesterday. Several members OF
Parliament were present, and the hall was so over
crowded that the police were obliged to close the
doors, thousands Of people remaining outside
A Schooner Missing.
L n. 81,
W. H. Brookfield, from Port Midway for Boston
December 4th and not since heard FROM had a crew
of five persons three brothers named Robert Hall
master, single; George Hall, mate, married; David
Hall, cook, single-Thomas Smith and Burton
| Maryeatte seamen, unmarried; Alfred Mitchell and
james hawthorne, of Mil Village, and Samuel
Verge and David Crowley-ail married and all pas
sengers.
| Collision of Trains.
BUFFALO, December 3oth.-A collision occurred
on the Canada Southern road near Welland to-day
| between the wav-freight and through passenger
| trains badly damaging the engine of the passenger
and the rear car of the freight train, seriously
scaldng John Bennington and breaking the arm OF
Thomas Cary, the fireman Of the freight.
Montreal a Recruiting Ground for West.
| ern BrotheIs.
MONTREAL, December 30th.-Gustave Chenel, a
brothels in Western cities, was sentenced to six
| months IMPRISONMENT and fued 500 to-day. The
Gazette says it is fact that Montreal is the recruit
ing ground for Chicago houses of i'll fame 1t
pires that Chenel was leading spirit in the Paris
Commune, and under the name of Colonel Rsbl
committed fearful outreges, and was sentenced to
death as an abettor of the murder of the Arch
bishop he came to Montreal with horde Of out
casts The French Canadians refuse to consort with
the French Communists who are treated as pariahs
here The Vigilance Committee recently formed is
principally directed against them
MI CELLANEOUs.
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