The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-14
ImPREssIoss or IGELAND.
Talk wilma GeniIemSn who has last
Returned From Erin.

AeNuNNNuAFou kFlus
Mr. JAMES Mccullough, the well known
hardware merchant and bride, returned 70
this Oily ThundSy night from Ireland where
they IPsnt nearly ali Of their honeymoon.
They sailed from New York on the steamer
ssrviA on the OH Of last Nay. Yesterday an
IHrELu0EScER representative bad q pleasant
hali hours chat with Mr.. Mccullough and
ltAEntd something OF the Impressions his trip
made on him. lie spent moAt Of
his time In the north Of Ire
and, bis fiGndI beIBg IN counties
Down, Antrim aud ArnIUgh This Is the
most prosperous part Of the iSle, and gen.
eral spirit II cOutentmrnt was found. bone
Of the farmers are land owners One that
was Visitedby Ar. Mccullough had farm Of
900 acres a msJonIy, however, are lsssees,
aud their farms vary 10 S'Es from 90 70 100
acres. As far ~ he could learn they wsre
on good terms With the land.
lords aud emigration from that sec
ton 10 very u hL Land League talk 10 not
much kSArd, aud In Mr.. MeCullough'B opinion
they lfe not - well pottd there ~ 70 the
destitute portions Of Ireland as the people Of
this county. Toe crIpI SeFe looking eI-
sel ent When be left, the carly part OF this
month, and an unusually big Yield WAl ex.
peetsd. The farmers In these counties were
not only cultiYRllng their farms but were
Deauillylng them. He found that Wages paid
we're higher BY abiE psr cent then when he
was boy. Then farm baud waS found
and paid three pounds per halt year. Now
he Is found aud paid ten 10 twelve pounds
n half year.
Mr.. Mccullough says that while he would
not care 10 live In Ireland again for any COL.
idsrAllon, btlll were he compelled TO be 4
FARMLAND, be thinls that be would prefer
being one 10 the no.th Of Ireland al twenty
four pounds year and found, than 10 DO onS
In this county. ClutbinV, he says, Is cheaI
sr, also sugar, hour aud other essentials TIE
farmers have = fair average education and
are seeing to II, that their children aIe beinI
cared for in this line. At several OF the farm
houses that he ylSite2, the young ladie,
played The plano and sang Is nicely rs any
farmers daughter 10 this lair land. Will,
all this u the case, yet tle fTmers do no
grew rich fast for the rea'on that the price
they receive for their produce are loE, and
the rent eats up con ,iderAbleO Of the ineJme
"HoW about tue soath9 i Ireland z. querieC
the reporter.
"A6i we'll, there everything Is prett,
dreary, yet do you know saw nothing re
semblinG the condition Of those poor creature
lnAt we're rsceh,ly IAudvd ~ New York AuI
sel back. read about them since my N
turn. ltthtre are many AuGh people thel
must come from tie interior Of the Souti
counties. | spent very little time In ib
south. lisa poor country - cut,vAts at th
besi, ana as the FARMS range from oaly Ave /
ten acre., at the fArthist, In size, why vel,
littla eau be AiSed and that little usually zoe
for rent As natural come Quencs there
poverty. A man gets married there, hA
Jour OF i've little UbtB-why Its En imposs
bIlity TO care for them, and suffering follow
The man goes North asa larl Eb1rer. 40,
the wife aud little ones work the little farm
No time for education there, Sill"
"And the Laud League question thOrt2"
"Well, there, OF course II Is Hgitatsd cor
. slderably, but from my observation, duhnI
. the short time was there, / am led to b.
. lieve that the reports We read In this eoun
try are exaggerated 10 some extent l Twas Il
Dublin the day ole Of the Lord Cayendis
: murderers was hanged, andeyerythlpg was q
! q Iiet and orderly As usual. You woull
never hAYe suspected anything OF that u
tuTe was going on. That evening after dit
! ner, a. was walking 10 the Para spoke :
4 gentleman abOutit. Said he: OF course
5 Is being t,lked Of, but It's all done qnlItly.n
Mr.. Mccullough also visited that porIiol
Of reclaimed sea land b,tWeen Londjnderr
: aud Port Rusn. A blk scottish corporation
has hundreds Of acres leased here. The
: dltshed, canAled and bui dykeN They hAv
D an enormous pumping engine, used when th
heavy sea oYeItiDNs the embankment, Tb
! soil thus reclaimed Is very nch. He speu
four days In lsoHdon and bad pleasant iiml
lie observed many things but has been y
= busy shaking hAndsSince bis raturn that the
are all Iumbled up 10 his mind." Iii.n
J trouble for one, however, 10 become interet
ed ln listening 10 Mr.. Mccullough.