The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-06
IRELAND.

Imp0rtant Events Occurring In That Un'
fortunate Country During the Past Week.
A farmers house at Portadown has been ma
Gciously burned
The Monaghan anti-League Association has
issued a manifesto calling on loyal men to COM
hateful teaching of the Land League.
The Land League meeting which was to be
held in Boris in Ossory, Sunday, was prohib-
tied. The military and police were present to
enforce the prohibition.
There was a riot Saturday in Dublin between
soldiers and civilians. The police separated the
combatants.
The Gazette declares County Limerick to be
in a disturbed state.
At Cork, on the police ordering a disorderly
crowd to dispense, a volley was fired at the pc
lice from revolvers. A policeman was snot but
not MORALLY wounded.
A party of men attacked the police patrol at
Cork, and q policeman was shot in the leg.
Several of the assailants were wounded. Nc
arrests were made. There were several serious
ARRAYS between civilians and soldiers in Dublin.
The Home Rule LENDERS of Parliament held
a meeting in the City Hall, Dublin, and a reso-
luton was carried, pledging member to con-
suit together on important questions, and to
abide by the decision Of the majority. A reso-
luton was also adopted binding members to sit
In opposition to- every Government that refuses
the just demands Of the Irish people, especially
that for legislative Independence. When Par
nell, on coming out from the meeting, entered
his carriage, the crowd detached the horses and
drew the carriage through the streets.
The Boycott Relief Fund has now reached
ETA, 600.
Several notices have been posted at Olona.
kitty, threatening Bence Jones, or his EN-
ployes, or any person furnishing him with sup
plies, with death.
The Land League have closed the subscrip.
ton to the Parnell Defense Fund, as ETA, 00C
have heen collected
Five hundred troops have been sent to differ.
emit parts of Ireland since Christmas day.
One hundred soldiers patrol the roads in the
P~arsontown District nightly.
After much tronble and delay, a Jury was
finally secured to try the Traversers. The jury
consists of eight Catholics, three Protestants,
and one Quaker.
When the jury had been constituted the At
torney General opened the case for the Crown,
in a firm but moderate tone. He said the OBJ
ject OF the conspiracy in which the Traversers
were engaged was to cause the social excom-
munication of a number of persons, and to
make their lives not worth having, He point
ed out the absurdity of the idea of p~arceling
out ireland among a population Of five millions,
which would only add to the misery of that I'M
fortunate country. He severely condemned
the policy of the Land League, which, he said,
advocated the freedom, yet brought all its pow
er to bear in the coercion of private individuals.
tt government, he said, was bound to insti-
tute proceedings 10 put down the WICKED agl-
tation.
The trial is in progress.
THE examination of an army corporal
charged with drilling the members of o FeniaI
organization, is in process before Magistrate
of Limerick.
Respecting the trials Of the Traversers, a cor
respondent of the London Times, writing
from Dublin, says:
''The first day of the State trials was re
markable only for gloom and dizziness. Thost
who expected that the city would be full of ex
element, that thousands would assemble in tn
streets, and that the Court would be besiege'
by an eager crowd clammering for admission
were sadly disappointed. There has not beef
the slightest manifestation of public feel
ing beyond the gathering of about two hun
dred persons of the lowest classes on the qua:
in the vicinity of the courts. The absence o
any sympathy with the cause, or interest in tn
proceedings on the part of the respectable cit
zens was very significant, and presented +
those who remembered the O'Connel trial
very striking contrast"
Fresh cases of 'Boycotting'' are continual
reported from ireland.
A large meeting was held at Craughwel
County Galway, to protest against the Stat
prosecutions.
Ri. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, President G
the Board of Trade, received a letter fror
Dublin, threatening the lives of himself, Glad
stone, and John Bright, If they continue to OF
pose coercion.
Patrick Hennelly, arrested for the murder O
Lord Mountmorres, belongs in Divery Village
a few miles from the spot where the murder wa
committed.
The c%onstabulary guard Hennelly's father q
Clonbur.