The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-20
IRELAND.

~4S u al JIG ~ Nob4Ahg
are prohibited from marching into the country
without an escort.
The examination of the Tralee Land Leaguers
was held in jail, to avoid a riot.
A land meeting to be held at Tralee was pro-
hlblted. -Four hundred troops were on the
ground, when the crowd, large one, assembled,
but quickly dispersed. Davitt spoke in Tralee
afterward without disturbance.
A large land meeting has been held at Ar
magh.
The Court of Queens Bench continues taking
merely formal evidence against the Travers-
sers.
The farmers are forcibly hunting over the
landlords property in County Galway. Three
arrests have been made for the attempt to MUIR
der q policeman near Headford last week.
Michael Davitt delivered a speech at Tralee,
but was subsequently prevented from speaking
at a prohibited meeting at Clogher, where a
collision between the people and police was
narrowly voide
A desperate attempt to murder one Dorney,
a schoolmaster at Dublin, has been
made. Dorney was under the protection of the
police, and he and two policemen maintained a
regular fusilade with a large party of disguised
men.
Five flying columns, including all arms of
the services, are to be sent out on a two days
march.
The examination of the Land Leaguers is
proceeding in the jail at Tralee. the police fear
ing to remove the prisoners to the court, owing
TO the excitement.
A meeting of the English and Irish Liberals
to, express their dissatisfaction at the mcom-
p~leteness of the changes proposed in the land
system is attracting much attention.
The London Times says: 'A body of poll
ticians, English as well as Irish, are conveying
menace, not in words, but quite intelligibly,
| that unless sweeping changes in the land sys-
tenn, going far beyond the lines of the act of
1870, are proposed, a stand will be made against
coercion"
There is a rumor tina Earl Cowper desires to
resign the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
principally for private reasons.
Davitt called attention to the immense services
of the Land League in America.
Parnell advised a postponement of the Ma
tional Convention until the Government had
dealt with coercion.
A meeting of the Orange Emergency Com
mittee resolved to send assistance to several
"Boycotted" persons.
MI. A. NJ. Sullivan, member of Parliament
for Louth, who sued the Irish Times some
time ago for defamation, has obtained a verdict
against the paper for fifty pounds.
A dispatch from Dublin says it is understood
that the object of the robbers of the Tralee and
Llstowel mail car was to get possession of some
official cumen which they believed were
passing through the post.
The Tralee and Listowel mail car was again
attacked near Long Hill. The car was smashed
and the mail DESTROYED.
In the Court -of-euccn's Bench Nc
DOhOuSn ODCICu " JIG utltISC. ne HduC u
touching reference to the fact that he was al
most sole survivor of counsel employed in the
O'Connell case. He denounced the prosecution
as the landlords indictment against the tenants
of Ireland. The court was crowded. Before
the opening of court two hundred persons, of
both sexes, understood to be rack rented and
evicted tenants, marched from the offices Of the
Land League to the Four Courts.
McDonough's speech consisted of a vindica-
ton and reassertion of the principles of the
land Teopna which OrponizatiOn ha said ~
as legal as a trades union. He declared that
the Traversers profess the principles of JOIN
Stuart Mill, and said that but for the support of
England, the landlords would be driven into
the sea. The people, he said, pay the shop.
keepers 940, 600 for food, and were they, he
asked, to deprive their wives and children OF
sustenancei in order to pay the landlords? He
had not concluded his speech when court ad.
journed.
Two companies of infantry have arrived al
Longbreagh, where, witha large force of police
they will be principally employed in protecting
process servers.
When McDonough concluded his speech in
the Court of Queens Bench, he was loudly
cheered. He said he submitted with confidence
to the jury that the Land League was a per
fectly legal organization to cause, by agitation,
certain alterations in the land laws, with the
necessity of which, not only Ireland, but al
England, vas now ringing. He set before the
jury the example of a jury who acquitted sever
Bishops, and drew a moving picture of ths
~evictions which followed the Irish famine
Samuel Walker followed on The same side with
a powerful speech. He quoted the charter O.
the Land League, and commended that it wa
legal. He read extracts of the Parliamentar,
speeches of Gladstone, Law, and Bright in sup
port of The compensation for the dis.urbanc,
bill. He insisted that Traversers had sale
nothing more calculated to damage landlordisn
than was said in the speeches in Parliament re
ferred to.
After a land meeting on one OF the Aria1
Isles, twenty-one head of cattle were missing
which, it is said, we're driven over the cliffs int
the sea.
The examination of the officers OF the Trale
branch of the Land League has been concluded
Brassill, proprietor of the Kerry Independent
and Jeremiah Leahy, President of the Fire
branch of the Land League, were discharged.
An attempt has been made, it is believed b
!, Fenians, to blow up the armory of the infantr
barracks at Stafford, where the rifles of th
r volunteers were deposited. A meat store nea
the armory vas blown to atoms, but no othe
:. damage was done. An investigation is in pre-
= gress. The explosion is believed to have bee
j effected with dynamite, which was smuggle
: into the barracks by some one having cuisines
D with the regiment.