The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-30
SUFFERING IN IRELAND.

| Some or tho stories Of suffering In The
| rending. and call for tho most prompt and
| liberal generosity on tho part Of oil those
who can afford to give.
correspondent of the Now York Hrrdid
| writing from Dublin. gives an account of II
scene Of turbulence in Gonnaught. growing
out Of mn attempt on tho part
Of man namod Iangley. to serve
wrta of ejeeiment II appears that
the people In tho ueighhorhood rose. seized
Langley. took him ont into n field and d-
vested him Of hla clothing. He made his way
10 u house near by whore he procured clothing.
aud thon went 10 police station whore he
summoned about ono hundred and fifty CON
stables to protect him In serving tho wrta.
The crowd proceeded some Distance whom
they were met by mob of about five hun
dred women and girls, who barred tho way
and finally furiousy assaulted tho eonsta-
bles. The correspondent gives the following
account Of the dreadful scene:
when tho main body cnme no they wore
greeted with enouts If Whore L. Langley r.
Hut no was Roon eRpted. and tho women at onca
preoipit themselvaa on the oonatAhnInry
10 get q, Langley aud secure his papers A
aofno of terrible confusion and dteHd snsued.
| The of1iceIa drew thoir ewDrda and ruahed
| among tho women, most Of whom were bnro
had her scalp cnt by sword, another had u
| hayunet thrust In her arm, eeFeral ware
Knocked down, trampled on and had thoir
draRsaa torn Some Of the annRtnblas behaved
with wonderful moderation. bur others were
| provoked into rnther violent conduct
| ENrEavoRINa TO DEMONSTRATE.
| Tho magistrate Mr., MacSheehy. who accom-
panied the constahulArY Ia y Catholic. ani Ia
uttf mt AFT
| raahines to liston to all they have to aaY He
| demonstrated. but In vain. Tho sight Of Lang
| Icy seemed to e1hapeernte the women md do
prIve them Of NIL self control At last lane
| waa forced md In tho teeth of andless inter-
| rupton and scenes Of wild violonce. anch aa
that described, Knoekriekard was reached. But
| tho women had formed In n serried mass In
| front of tho house. making approach impossi-
BILE. Mr.. MaeSheohy appealed to Thorn ngain.
asking them to allow Langley to fix the eIact-
nent writ to tho door. TINT was tho only form
Of service he would need Several voices ex-
| claimed. No, never: we W i dio first.
never lot him do IT," Several voices from whore
the men stood said. III they Kill yo others Will
he killed. too
Mr. MacSheeHy-I sympathize deeply with
thing. -
A Yoice-You nre n good man. but II you had
n wife and large family and nothing for them
to cat you'd do ,what We arc doing.
MIR. Marsheehy-I have heon five or six years
among and have never injured anybody. but
whatovor could do for you have done, and
now AJAX You 10 allow the law to be enrrled out
We have Il duty to discharge. and ii we wore
here till to morrow morning we must do It be-
fore wo leave
A voioo-The womens blood will be spilled
first
Mr. MaeSheehy-N Now, I'd be sorry to see n hair
Of any OF your heads hurt, but tho law must be-
ohnyed.
He then ordered that n double line Of CON
stabulary be formed from tho road to the door
OF the house but before this could b. done the
women should be first removed. which was ao-
cordingly done. The women. Of course. re-
sisted aud the scene that followed. which lasted
fully fifteen minutes. battles deseripi ion.
Women were dragged by his mir. several re-
ceved cuts and bhyonet thruats; some We're
struck With the butt ends OF rifles. At last the
women were removed A double line OF con
stables was formed, and Langley pasted his
solitary writ to the door.
This scene gives vivid idea of the suffar-
ing which must be endured by the unfor-
tunate people of Ireland. No such scene Of
violence would be possible unless the people
had been goaded to despair and 1t Is mar
velous that during such a condition OF want
and misery the landlords should be so short
sighted as to attempt to enforce writs OF
ejectment. In this particular case the poor
fellow who was being driven out Of house and
home had only one bed In the miserable
howell he occupied for hta entire
family, and that bed was only a
mere roll Of straw; he had one barrel and a
half OF potatoes upon which to support his
family OF nine persons for the coming year,
and bitterly lamented the loss OF two pigs,
which had been taken from him for debt.
This Is only one Of thousands Of similar