Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-11
IRELAND AND THE IRISH
THE FIGHT FOR O'DONNELI,S
LIFE MORE WIDESPREAD.

County Galway Members of the Leaeue
Meet Despite the Governments Proc
iamatiOn-Mrs. O'DonneIl Arrives at
LondOn-FOur Members of an Assassi-
nation Society in the Dock.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-Mr. Guy, O'Don-
nelPs solicitor, in a letter to the news
papers, begs that the members of the Jury
which tried O'Donnell will confdentiallv
communicate with him, as he desires to
address them upon matter of extreme
urgency. He says that all other means of
communicating with them have failed. as
ne was refused a copy of the panel of the
jury before the trial and he has been una
Die to ascertain their identity since.
o'DoNNELL's WIFE IN LONDON.
ODonnell's wife, who arrived at Liver
pool from Philadelphia on the steamer
British Princess, has come to London to
visit her husband.
PATRIOTIC BROTHERS RETURNING.
A dispatch from Armagh, Ireland. saws
that forty men who abscOnded from Cross
maglen When the members of the Patri-
otlc brotherhood were being arrested,
have recently returned from America.
THE o'DONNELL EXCITEMENT INCREAs-
ING.
Owing to the growing excitement in
Irish circles in this city relative tc the
sentence of O'Donnell, extra guards have
been stationed at all the prisons and gov
ernment offices as a precaution against
any effort that may be made by O'DOn-
nelPs friends in the way of uprisals.
LIBERAL wORKMEN MEET.
A meeting of Liberal workmen was
held at TOrquay tonight to get UP petit
tion to Sir William Harcourt, Home Sec
retary, to commute O'DonnelPs sentence.
A letter was read from Mr.. Samuelson,
Liberal member of Parliament, denounc-
ing the object of the meeting, and the mo-
tion in favor Of a petition in O'DonnelPs
behalf was defeated by a large majority.
ANOTHER STORY OF THE KILLING.
OD0nnel's brother writes from Letter
kenney, Ireland, under date of the 7th
inst, stating that what O'Donnell had
determined to say in court if he had been
permitted to speak, was that Carey drew
a revolver after heated discussion which
was begun by Carey cursing Americans.
ODonnell struck the pistol from Carey's
hand, and as the latter was STOPPING to re-
gain it O'DOnnell fired three shots instan-
taneously. James Paris, the Steward of
the Melrose Castle, who testified that he
was present when the fatal shot was fired,
was not present during the quarrel,
PROCLAIMED MEETING HELD.
DUBLIN, Dec. Notwithstanding the
fact that the government issued a prOcla-
nation fOrbidding the holding of a Ma
tional League meeting at Loughrea,
county Galway, yesterday, meeting was
held close to that town. The authorities
learned of the assemblage, and dispatched
a force of police to disperse it, but it had
adjourned before the police reached the
spot. A motion was passed by the meet
ing denouncing emigration from Ireland.
read, saying that there is room in Ireland
for double the present population.
THE sMYTH MURDERERs.
DUBLIN, Dec. 10.-In the Court of
Queens Bench to-day, before Chief Justice
May, the trial was begun of Robert Elliott,
Swords, Magrath and LeStrange, on
charge of conspiracy to murder William
Smyth, of Bardavilla. A true bill for the
murder of Mrs. Smyth, ON Sunday, April
q, 1882, had been returned at the Court
of Assizes on the 9th inst, against Robert
Elliott, and his arraignment to-day for
trial for minor Offense only created sur
prise. The counsel for the Crown re-
counted the circumstances connected with
the case, and said that he would prove
that men were waiting on all the
roads leading from the church to the resi-
dence of Smyth to kill him. Patrick Nc
Keon testified that before the murder of
Mrs. Smyth the prisoners met in a barn
and formed an assassination society, the
avowed objects of which was the removal
of tyrants and bad landlords. Five OF the
landlords whom the society condemned to
be shot were VIM. Barlow Smyth, W. E.
Smyth, Earl LongfOrd, VIM. Keating and
"Wild' O'Connor.