Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-16
GREAT BRITAIN.
IRISH REvoLuTIoN1srs.

aboutthe proposed exhibition OF Irish manu-
facturers committee to advance the enter
prise was appointed, after prolonged and
noisy scene, the Land Leaguers insisting upon
adding. names to neutralize the objec tionable
names first proposed. The names were added
on division, the Land Leaguers being in a
large majority.
Immediately after the Dublin convention a
series of monster land meetings will be COM
menced, the first at Beat, an Irish town, Sun
day, on the very spot where Michael Davitt
began the Land League movement in 1879.
Parnell will preside.
The Pail Mall Gazette, discussing the open
ing of the Irish National Land League con-
The irrecoDcileable element which is at present
uppermost will find its level, and the League,
like trades unions, will become, in the best
sense of the word, the conservative forces of
the social system.
IRISH SECESSION.
LONDON, Sept Is. The Times discussing
voice which the Land Leagures uniformly
breathe is a note of continued agitation. There
is no sign from first to last of any intention
on the part of the men who live by agitation,
TO accept the land act as settled Irish ques-
ton. Once and for all Ireland must under
stand this kingdom is and will continne to be
politically united. The kingdom of Great
Britain will no more tolerate secession than
the United States tolerated it in 1860.
MIsGIvINGs.
A Dublin correspondent says misgivings are
felt in regard to the possibility of uniting all
parties in movement for review at the ex-
hibition OF Irish manufactures, or indeed for
any useful object, are fully justified by the
result of the meeting yesterday, in connection
with the proposed exhibition. The Land
League felt, no doubt, that their existence is
involved in the result, and that if
they allowed the thoughts of
practical measures for the promotion of hon
est labor, their own occupation would be
gone, and the country will become fearful and
refuse to listen to their wild and wretched ap-
peals. Hence organized obstruction to the
meeting was resorted to. The confusion was
at one time 60 great that it was nearly hand
to hand. fight. Had the league element not
entered the meeting would have been highly
representative.
CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS.
DUBLIN, Sept 15.-About thousand dele
gates attended the opening proceedings ofthe
national convention to-day. Biggar, O'Con-
nor, Sexton, ", Healey and Sullivan were
present Previous to the opening of the con.
vention, conference of delegates Of the Labor
League was held, and Sexton informed them
the convention would adjourn in consideration
row for the purpose of enabling the labor del
egates to confer with Parnell and the
executive committee of the Land
League. Twenty-one members of parliament
were present. Parnell, amidst the greatest en-
thusiasm, took the chair. Sexton read num-
Der of kilograms, particularly from the Amer
lean branch of the League, exhortlng the dele
gates never to rest until landlordism is abol-
ished, not to pay rent, to hold back their har-
vests, etc. Parnell in his opening speech re-
ferred TO the thinning of their ranks
by coercion since the last convention.
He said that for every ten imprisoned
one hundred would joia the League. lie re.
capitulated the reasons and said the question
of self government was most important. He
always considered it could never be settled as
long as questions in regard to rent remain in
dispute. The land act left the rent question
as continual source of discomfort and strife
between different classes in Ireland. He had
no doubt this was cesignedly SO arranged bY
the British government. He warned the
farmers not to trust to the land act. 1t was,
he said, designed to break down the league.
Nobody should appeal to land courts until
the test cases which had been prepared by the
league had been submitted. They should
press forward to abolish landl0rdism and to
secure Legislative independence. He advised
farmers to borrow money under the land act,
ted the latter 10 join branches
of the League. He pledged himself to head
the laborers' movement if the farmers did not
give them fair plav
Parnell further reasserted fair rent would
be the value of the land in state of nature,
before it was improved by the tenant or any OF
his predecessors. In regard to the industrial
question, he said Irishmen should encourage
home manufacturers, even if they had to pay
dearer than for foreign goods. Things not
produced in Ireland should be bought In
America. English goods should not be
bought IN any event.
The reading of congratulatory kilograms
occupied an hour. Among the more notable
were threats to stop American subscriptions
in the event of the agitation slackening. Sex
ton and T. P. O'Connor were elected secretarye
of the convention. There was very large at
tendance of priests.
SACRIFICES.
LONDON, Sept. 14-Advices from the west
coast of Africa states that the king of Da.
honey with his army of Amazons had raided
and destroyed the towns of Ignano and
O'Kepe. They had captured the population oi
many thousand who were unable to escape,
and they were brought to Abomey, the capi.
tai of Dahomey, for sacrifice at the great
annual custom.
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
LONDON. Sept. IA. AT a large meeting al
Exeter hall last night in connection with the
Ecuminical Methodist conference Gen. Fisk
spoke very earnestly of increasing the friendli
ness between Great Britain and the United
States. He prayed they might never be op
posed in war. Rev. DR.. Tiffany explained the
position and prospects of the Methodist Epis.
bal church of America. Rev. DR.. Wilson
gave similar explanation relative to the
Methodist church Of the South. The meet.
ing was instructive and enthusiastic.
THE PRESS AND RELIGIOUS WORK.
The session ecumenical conferences to-day
was occupied in the discussion of the use Of
the press for the advancement of Christianity,
embracing clauses on periodical publications
of every grade for adults, juvenile literature
in the daily press, and the use to be made Of
1t by the church, etc. Marshall, Of Vicks-
burg, Miss, recommended the establishment
OF q well endowed church newspaper,
which, he SAID, would do as
much for the church as the great