The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
IRELAND.
,,,, ortaut Events Oecurine i'm that Un-
fortunate Country During the Past Week.

fortunate Country Dufihs IN ~se " e0A'
The batteries of artillery stationed at Dublin,
are prohibited from marching into the country
without an escort.
The examination of the Tralee Land Leasuers
was held in jail, to avoid riot.
A land meeting to be held at Tralee was pro-
hibited. Four hundred troops were on the
ground, when the crowd, a large one, assembled,
but quickly dispersed. Davitt spoke in Tralee
afterward without disturbance.
large land meeting has been held at Ar
magh.
The Court of Queens Bench continues taking
merely formal evidence against the Travers-
ers.
The farmers are forcibly hunting over the
landlords property in County Galway. Three
arrests have been made for the attempt to muir
der policeman near Headford last week.
Michael Davitt delivered speech at Tralee,
at a prohibited meeting at Clogher, where a
collision between the people and police was
narrowly avoided.
desperate attempt to murder one Dorney,
a schoolmaster at Dublin, has been
made Dorney was under the protection of the
regular fusilade with large party of disguised
men.
Five flying columns, including all arms of
the services, are to be sent out on 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 incom-
pleteness 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,
tenn, going far beyond the lines of the act of
1870, are proposed, stand will be made against
coercion"
There is rrmor that Earl Cowper desires to
resign the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
principally for private reasons.
AT meeting of the Land League in Dublin
Davitt called attention to the immense services
of the Land League in America.
Parnen advised postponement of the Ma
tional Convention until the Government had
meeting of the Orange Emergency Com
mittee resolved to send assistance to several
"Boycotted'' persons.
Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, member of Parliament
for Louth, who sued the Irish Times some
time ago for defamation, has obtained 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
Listowel mail car was to get possession of some
official documents which thev 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 Queens Bench Nc
Donough opened for the defense. He made
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 crowded. Before
the opening of court two hundred persons, of
both sexes, understood to be rack rented and
evlcted tenants, marched from the offices of the
Land League to the Four Courts.
| McDonough's speech consisted of vindica-
tion and reassertion of the principles of the
Land League, which organization, he said, was
as legal as trades union. He declared that
| the Trayersers profess the principles of John
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 FAC, 900 for food, and were they, he
asked, to deprive their wives and children OF
sustenance in order to pay the landlords? He
had not concluded his speech when court ad-
journed.
Two companies of infantry have arrived at
Longbreagh, where, with 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 all
England, vas now ringing. He set before the
jury the example of jury who acquitted seven
Bishops, and drew moving picture of the
evictions which followed the Irish famine.
Samuel Walker followed on he same side with
a powerful speech. He quoted the charter Of
the Land League, and contended that it was
legal He read extracts of the Parliamentary
speeches of Gladstone, Law, and Bright in sup.
port of The compensation for the disturbance
bill. He insisted that Traversers had said
nothing more calculated to damage landlordism
than was said in the speeches in Parliament re-
ferred to.
After a land meeting on one of the Ariar
Isles, twenty-one head Of cattle were missing,
which, it is said, were driven over the cliffs into
the sea.
The examination of the officers of the Tralee
branch of the Land League has been concluded.
Brassill, proprietor of the Kerry Independent
and jeremiah Leahy, President of the Fries
branch of the Land League, were discharged.
An attempt has been made, it is believed by
Fenians, to blow up the armory of the infantry
barracks at Stafford, where the rifles of the
volunteers were deposited. A meat store neal
the armory vas blown to atoms, but no othel
damage was done. An investigation is in pro
gress. The explosion is believed to have beer
effected with dynamite, which was smugglet
into the barracks by some one having business
with the regiment.