The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-10
TELEGRAPHIC'
THE WILD IRIsHMEN.
Stirring scenes in the Emerald
Isle.
The Charity Fefe.

nounced to be opened at 3 o'clock, but it
was long past that hour when, finally,
| admitiance was given and ladies and
gentlemen had to push and squeeze them
| selves ir q most unaristocratic fashion
| toward the narrow entrance, the door OF
/ which was, from time to time, closed in
their faces amid cries of disapprobation
and hisses. Then, when all obtained ad-
mission, the throng was so great that
hundreds contented themselves with sit
ting III the stalls and gazing in stolid
English fashion at the backs of ELIZA
bethan houses,n the effect of which was
very much of that of the scenery of q
theatre, viewed from the back Of the
| stage
New York, 9.-Wortd's London:
Private dispatches from Cork, say in
tense excitement prevails in the city and
| throughout the county. The tenants On
the large estates, notably those Of the
Earl of Bantry, the Duke Of Devonshire,
Lord Kenmore, Sir Geo. Colthursts,
Lord Fermoy, the Earl Of Cork and the
Earl of Egmont and on the Countess of
Kingston's estates, at MitchsllstowR, are
said to have cobspired to make general
strike. The league branches are very
active and armed resistance is openly
/ preached.
Lieut.. General Hamilton the officer
commanding the Cork district, has
asked for more troops and the detsch-
ments at Fermoy, Mallew, Buttevant
and elsewhere will be reinforced at once.
| The 3rd drsgoons at Ballincolig have
been split up into half troops and scat
! tered all over the country. The forts on
the Lee, Camden, Carlyle and Hsulbow-
line, have been drained Of men and the
gusrdship Revenge, lying in Queenstown
harbor, stripped of her marines, and yet
| Gen. Hamilton has not men enough to
supply the demand Of the local magis-
trate. Just before daylight this morning,
fifty dragons from BAllincolig, (by the
way the usual rumors are flying that the
Fenians intend to blow up the govern
ment powder works there) and nearly
| 800 men drawn. from the first battsllon of
the Doth foot, the second battalion OF
the rife brigade and the army service
corps, were despatched by special train
| to Skibbereen. Orders were also tele-
| graphed for the One hundred and Seventh
Foot, lying at Buttevant, and the second
battalion of the TWenty-ffth Foot at
Fermoy, to send eighty mon each to
Schulz and Bslly Dehob. 1t was re-
ported that both the railways running
west from Cork, the Cork aid Bandon
and the Cork and Mscroon, had been
tempered with and pilot engine was
sent on in advance Of the special
Four miles from Skibbereen, II
was found that number o.
cid rails had been placed Gcross the road
and that the culverts had been torn up
but the train was stopped 10 time to avoid
| run off.
i Mr.. Warburth, the resident magistrate
at Skibberesn, accompanied By The
O'Donovan, the Messrs. SWanton, one Of
whom it will be remembered was fired a
on the Bally Dehob road three week.
ago, and other magistrates, net the
troops who we're reinforced by the ar.
rival of body of constabulary under
inspector Fraser. The streets Of the tewr
were Tiled with peasants, and the soldiers
and police were hooted and stoned 81
they marched TO the market square
Meantime news arrived of Q riot at Bally
Dehob, last night, liz which q body O
marines was compelled to retreat under
the protection of the priests, and soon TIT
BalIy Dehob rioters, with an en-
ormous mob from Schulz, Dumanwsy
and the districts round about, marched
into Skibbereen. The priests, however
addressed the people, urging them t
disperse. During the forenoon, peasant
focked into town from every side, anc
at IL O'Clock there were 1000 or 5000
present. Special trains, later in the day
brought more troops from Fermoy anC
Cork, and large drafts on the constabu
| lazy from the outlying barracks. Th
priests numbering nearly fifty. stood be
tween the military and the mob.
A2p.m., sd attack was made on tn
branch Of the Munster Bank, stone
being flung through the windows. Ihl
was done apparently out of pure mis-
chief, as no attempt was made to bate
down the door or enter the building
The branches Of the Provincial Bani
and Bank of Ireland were not attacked
Troops were at once ordered to dispers
the mob, and they charged clean throu8
them. not, however, using thel
bayonets. A few of the soldier
were injured by stones an
some of the rioters were dubbed Wit
| the butts Of the rifles, but no lives wer
lost. The Minister Bank was probsol,
attacked because the lard agents IN tn
western part of the country deal largel.
with it. The bank opens Temporal,
branches on fair and market days at To
villages of the western district, and II
local managers who, like the manager
of other banks in Ireland. are mostl
Scotchmen, have the reputation of bein
q sc, mbeen men,"i. e.: usurers.
Lste in the afternoon desultory ski
/: mishing between the military and tn
: mob began. The main body OF the sol
diers and police is quartered Tor the Hlgf
a in the town hall, but strong patrols al
, on the streets and those receive an oecs
sienal volley of stones. The Skihberee
: houses and hotels were closed at sunset
{ BY order of the magistrates.
: At the scrimmage at BallV Deho6
last night, the marines were roughi
. handled. Some of the men lost the
: bsyonets, and only fought their wa
through by using their belts vigorously
Tonight, Skibbereen is small CAM
but it is thought the worst is over. III
priests are sxhorting the people to GO,
their homes, and many have lef!, Oh
their places are taken by new crowds:
. Bally Dehob has bad reputation
Twenty years ago the "battle OF tn
spuds,h in which many lives were los
n was fought there. During the famlI
i the peasantry there were compelled
eat their asses, and the people do not III
| +bof paoa of their history to be cast up