Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-27
FOREIGN.
The TroubIe in ireland.

DUBLIN, december ZOtn.--A ciTCulaf Vi tilc
Magistrates in reply to Forster's circular
carry out the law, owing to terrorism.
A farmers house at Portadown has been
maliciously burned.
The Monaghan AntiLeague Association
has issued manifesto calling on loyal men
to combine for mutual defense, and to COM
bat the hateful teachings of the Land League.
The Land League meeting which was to be
held in Barris, in Ossory, Sunday, was pro-
hibited. Both military and police were
present to enforce the prohibition.
There was riot Saturday in Dublin be-
tween soldiers and civilians. The police sep
arated the combatants.
The Gazette publishes proclamation pro-
hibiting meeting at kthgreny, Wicklow,
Sunday, which was called for the purpose of
denouncing certain individual.
The Gazette declares the county of Linn
erick to be in disturbed state. requiring adj
ditional police
At Cork to-day, on the police ordering a
disorderly crowd to dispense, volley was
fred at the police from revolvers A police
man was shot, but not mortally wounded.
STARTLING RUMoR.
New YORK. December 26bh-The Worlds
London special says: There is great COM
motion in the War Office, in consequence of
rumor that the Dublin mailbag has been
intercepted by FeDians on the way to Lon
don, and rifsd of its contents. Whether
there is any truth in the rumor or not, it is
certain that the War Office authorities have
received no letters from Ireland since Thurs
day.
LONDON EXCITED.
The crisis in the Transvaal, coupled with
the crisis in Ireland, has raised the excite
ment in London to an almost unprecedented
pitch. Nothing else is talked about in places
of public resort, and scarcely anything else is
thought about by thoughtful people but the
grave troubles which beset the Government
on every side.
The Rebelli0us Beers.
DURHAM, December 26th.-The Beers fred
on a detachment on the Pretoria and Lyden-
burg road under cover of flag of truce. At
Potchefstroom the greatest excitement pre-
walls. -Four persons have been murdered.
LONDON, December 26th.-A correspond
ent at Durham reports that the wagons which
adetachment of the Ninety fourth Regiment
was in charge of got into a swamp, and all
hands laid aside their arms to extricate them.
The Beers suddenly appeared and demanded
their surrender. The soldiers rushed for their
arms, but before they were able to defend
themselves they were shot down.
While Boer was attempting to hoist a
republican flag at Potchefstroom he was shot
by a British officer, whom the Beers imme-
diately shot dead.
The four persons reported to have been
murdered at Potchefstroom were a command
ant of the Cape mounted police and three
civilians They were brutality murdered in
the midst of an assembly of 5000 Beers.
A driver of the post cart was murdered
and the mail bag carried off
Another report says the Beers were shelled
at Potchefstroom and hundred killed and
many wound ed.
LONDON, December 26sh.-A Durham dis
patch reports that the Roers have given no.
tice that they will seize certain town on
specified day.
LONDON, December 26th-The authorities
at Cape Town have communicated further
with the home authorities in regard to rein
forcements, and it is probable that two regi-
ments of cavalry, two of infantry and two
batteries Of artillery will be sent to the Trans
wall
The Government Arraigned.
LONDON. December Goth The disaster in
the Transvaal is almost universally ascribed
to cfffcial blundering, and the number of
those who ascribe the trouble in Ireland to
the same cause is by no means small. It is
ODculJ CLaISCu Oudb Ndbdl auIIlOIILl6S
were long aware of contemplated rising by
the Dutch Beers, and that they paid no heed
to the repeated warnings, and took no pre-.
cautions to protect themselves. When the
s5orn broke it is charged that they
were utterly unprepared to meet it,
and the result of Jurse could Il 9
notl ing else but shameful defeat. and
dis stsr. The Home Government has
decided, as usual, when it is too late, to send
military aid to the colonists of Natal. They
were asked to do this some time ago, but the
request was put aside until now. The Sixth
Dragons, it is announced, will be sent to
Natal in a few days, with instructions to re-
port to the commandment at Durham. The
flower of the army is rapidly leaving England
for the inhospitable shores of Ireland and
Africa.
Disastrous Floods.
NIcosIA, December 26th.-Sixty houses
have been destroyed by floods at Limasol.
Eighty persons were killed, and damage to
the amount of 10000 DONE
snow-storm in Scotland.
LONDON, December 26th-A great snow
storm prevailed in the north of Scotland
from Friday until this morning. A number
of trains are embedded in snow banks and
traffic is stopped.
CameIs Recaptured.
LONDON, December 26th.-A dispatch from
st. Petersburg reports that the Russians
have retaken, with the loss of 20 killed, the
1000 camels that were recently captured by
the Turcomans.
The siossOn.efgnauX Return Match.
PARIS, December 26th-The return match
between Slosson and Vignapx for 10000
francs is talked of to be played in New York,
but Vignaux does not want to cross the At
lantic.
Terrible Accident-FOur Persons Killed
and Two Injured.
LUcAN (Ont), December 26th.-A party of
six were returning late Christmas night from
visiting friends in the township of McGil-
livray, when, upon approaching the railway
track, the horses bolted, and their sleigh was
struck by train of the London, Huron and
Bruce Railway, near Claudeboye station.
James McGrath, his wife and brother
Matthew, and Ellen Blake, a cousin, were
instantly killed. McGrath's child, Is months
old, was dangerously hurt, but may recover.
The sixth, named Annie McGrath, saved
herself by jumping.