The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-15
WOES 0E THE IRISH.
a plrlFuL TALE OF DISTRESS

The Ruin Of Tenants By unscrupulOus Landlords
The Price PaId by aAuy Unfortunate Beings.
A landowner. PSupsr slsterln Law.
A Wicked Landlords DOIns.
PHIbADELPHIA, August 14.-A CORES
poudent Of The Philadelphia Press writes
as,follows from Cahernakelly, Ireland:
drove through the private demesne o.
Lord Dunsandle to-day. This place be
longs to the estate. His Lordship, who Il
now quite an old man, does not fluid the
atmosphere hereabouts wholesome. Hs
thinks there is lead in the air. He is
living down at Kingstown, near Dablin.
1t is a little seaside resort, and also the
departing station for boats 10 Holyhead
There the disreputable and immoral old
Lord is doing penance for his sins. He
did more clearing Of his lands than any
man in Ireland for the size OF his estates,
His rents are said 10 be over Sl00,0O0u
year. Besides the desire to put his land
under grass, hehad the second motive o.
gettiag rid OF many Of his tenants. II
waste get innumerable girls whom he had
ruined off TO America. He used to pay
the expenses OF whole families who emf
grated TO America.
HALF LORD, HALF PEASANT.
The family name is DAILY. All the chill
dren that he acknowledges as his were born
out OF wedlocs. Willie DAILY, hiseldest son,
lives on the demesne and acts as his natural
fathers agent. He has several sisters.
They stay on the place with him. Though
he sprang from the peasantry he is SCUM.
popular with them that his own ,nscieuce
tells him to go armed and guarded. The
dren after all OF them were nearly grown,
through lear OF outraged public opinion.
He Draved that for long time but a
very serious talk Of tarring and ieathering
him, increasing popular Indignation, aud
aggressive influence OF the Catholic clergy,
compelled the reprobate 10 do what little
he could by way OF reparation on this
earth. The woman is now dead. Had the
old lord been compelled to marry oil the
mothers of all his children, his plight
would have been intolerable. He would
have had to emigrate and become saint at
Utah.
IN TIE LANDLORDS POWER.
However bad Dunsandle is and has been
in his terrible conduct towards his peasant
girl tenants, he may console himself on
what is only greater regret TO the world,
that he Is not alone. Itind that on other
estates in ireland landlords did not scruple
10 give c0meIy peasant women their alter.
NAIVE OF crime or eviction, which meant
sin or death. 0verworked and halfied,
poor, wre,ched women who yielded! They
were scarcely able to combat. Many re-
sisted at fHt, and stood out grandly for
their chastity, and not few, alas! fell ear
ly in the fray. 1t was an unequal match.
The Establishments OF hell and OF polished
devils OF men, aided by the paugs OF hun
ger aud the necessary degradation OF star
vation, were TOO strong.
THREATS OF EVICTION. a
Fally one.half Of these larger landhold.
ers in Ireland worked the evils Of their ter
rible Vaccinations by the threat OF evic-
ton aud blythe reward OF feither a marriage
portion ora free farm 10 husband on
marrying. Ia it any wonder that many OF
them go armed and guarded by police,
while others fear to be seen at all /? Before
the peasant wasa seri, a slave. Now he ia
q freeman. He ia no longer afraid OF the
landlord. Centuries OF tnls slavery had
gotten these benighted persons to submit
10 almost anything from landlord, on the
same principle as that the king can DO no
wrong. 1t is not so to-day; and ! believe
that much lalter.day absentee landlordism
il due 10 fear oil retribution. Lord Lett.
rim paid the penalty Of his foul wrongs.
There are more TO follow.
LIVING oSTHIRrY SIX GENTS A WEEK.
At Bookeen, which is one-halt mile from
the entrance, by one road, to the demesne
OF Lord Dunsandle, lives aud old woman
named Mary Broderick. She has no means
Of support, and she is to old to work. She
is a public pauper. The outdoor relief
officer allows her thirty-six cents week.
That is all that the humane officer, who is
son Of Lord Qunsandle's balitf, allows
her for fuel, clothes aud food. when |
visited Stary Broderick l found her in
great poverty. She was, however, thrifty,
and the cabin looked mater and cleaner
than many others | haye seen. Another
old woman, about her age, is in the cabin
with her. She, too, is on outdoor relief,
and has to be grateful for the magnificent
sum Of thirty.six gents.
"Can you live on thatT l asked her.
swell, yes, sir, do, and on less, for
only spend thirty flour cents on myself,
though often want more to eat than l
have" t..
"What do you do with the other penny
two centslY
"WelI, you see, sir, 1 keep that, and
every Saturday buy little wax candle
with it, aud burn 1t IN honor Of the blessed
Virgin"
LORD pUNsANDLE's slsTER-IS-LAw.
Could scott at such sweet, simple,
abiding taith9 Had ever more doubling
man than heard and seen that pure, good
old woman telling in her innocence, Of
buying that candle to burn on Saturdays in
respect to the mother Of Jesus Christ, lie
would have, at least, reverenced the faith.
As left the cabin the gentleman who
had accompanied mesaid: "Well what do
you think OF Mary Bruderick?"
100, she is neat, respectable old
woman"
4You know who she it7"
" have heard ftdoes not seem to be
any secret in Galway
"Well, it is true, she is lord Dunsandle's
sister-in. law. She is the sister Of the dead
woman, who was mother to all the DAILY
children up at the Manor. She is blood
aunt OF Willie DAILY, who is, by some hook
or crook in the bastard law, heir OF the
title and the estates OF his father, yet he lets
her siarye there within a half mile Of his