Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-20
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FAMINE IN IRELAND. A Terrible Tale From
 County Donegal. AWFUL SCENES OF SUFFERING. Three Hundred People in a
 Starving Condition. THE TARIFF BILL IN THE HOUSE. Republican Members to Push its Consideration.
 THE OLD WORLD.
 Ireland.
Ireland.


 Suffering and Want-The People Prefer
 Work to Charity-Traitors Among the
 Gangs ofAssassins.
 BOSTON, Jan. 19.-A special to the HeraI6
 from Dublin under date Jan. 19. says:
 have just returned from the famine district
 of county Donegal where more than three
 thousand people are in starving condition,
 existing from dayto day on the meagre re-
 lief afforded by scattering charity The
 whole North of Ireland is in a most wretched
 condition The same nature of things exists
 to large extent in the West, but the desti-
 tuition is not as a rule SO complete as 1t IS in
 the places where have just come from. In
 many cabins entered during the past five
 days the sole articles of consumption were
 limited to the quantity of Indian meal and
 slight portion of seaweed. In most of the
 villages whole families exist in that manner.
 On the north and west coasts, where the soil
 is either mostly composed of rocks or mud,
 special destitution prevails this season, owing
 to the complete destruction of the grain
 crops in September by terrible tornado and
 the rotting of the entire potato crop owing to
 the constant rain. The worst cases of famine
 I saw in the parishes of Killybegs and Glen columbkille. In the latter parish Rev. Father Gallagher was working with superhuman energy to save the people from death. l found him in driving rain in mud up to his ankles experimenting gang of men who were digging drains to be paid for from the funds sent in charity. The inhabitants are strongly opposed to receiving money as gift, but the average applications received by Rev. Father Gallagher for work are between two hundred and three hundred daily. About four men are now employed at shilling per day, for which many walk ten miles before and work with feverish energy un- til dark before returning home. The wo- men and girls are all employed in knitting and other work for slender compensation. Many spectacles observed in the hovels'of families of the most revolting and pathetic character. In place thirty Irish miles beyond the rail way such general destitution prevails that twenty tons of Indian meal per week are re. quired to keep the people barely alive. All the farms are small and wretched in quality and the people are honest, sober and indus ! trious. This place was visited by Trevelyan one week ago. His party munifcently left ten shillings among the starving families, but I would promise no official relief. In the Kill l lybees district the famine though not so ex tensive, is equally painful. The condition of the people is hopeless. Both the priest and l Protestant clergyman are very old and inca l pablo of properly caring for the sufferers. While here saw sick man whose three children were absolutely naked, shivering l over a fire of damp hay almost asleep under pile of filthy rags the rain dripping through the roof Relief is coming very slowly and despair is staring everybody in the face.
 Regarding the,f Dublin arrests some kla on record will be expected on the trial of the prisoners. I have been care fully searching the basis on which these ar- rests are undertaken and have succeeded in getting more remarkable material than ever imagined was in existence. It is now beyond l doubt that some members of 8 secret organ ization have gone back on their former asso- ciates for motives of gain or terror and are doing their best to bring them to prison. No other theory explains the information l now held by the police. Certainly it is fact | that great organization exists for the pur- l pose of harrassing the government by any l and all means. 1 have reason to know that l absolute evidence will be produced during the trial showing that the two attempts made | upon Forsters life failed owing to a very slight hitch in the code of signals among the | assassins Forster came out of the castle to l take his afternoon drive in Phoenix Park The | man at the opposite door wiped his face with a handkerchief. Another man one hundred l yards away did the same. A third man, an l equal distance off, repeated the performance, l so it went on for fully 11 miles to the park l gate. The sentinel at this point happened to l be of duty for the moment and neglected to 1 pass the signal inside where the car with the l murderers was in waiting, hence Forster 1 escaped. The same failure occurred at | another time when another portion of the | chain of sentries were off duty. The police | have reason to believe that the parties who | were waiting for Forster are the same who l killed Cavendish. The evidence is growing | that Delaney is a traitor who has been giving | leading to these arrests. The | has offered e5, ,000 and @ free | pardon to whoever betrays these secrets. | Delaney has just been sentenced to ten years, | but it is thought that he hopes for pardon l and to escape with the reward. Whelan, l whose house was searched on the first raid, | has since been arrested and is now in jail. | The police now think that the crime was not 1 executed by the same band who murdered l Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke, | but planned by some other head. They think | that they have the. right man. Regarding | this charge the opposition party still think | that nothing serious has been divulged. Their | notion is that the whole thing is a bluff game | to influence the Mallow election next week | where the hottest contest for five years is | now progressing. The prisoners, they say, l are to be brought up shortly before the vot- | ing and that the evidence of the prosecution | will then be taken and no opportunity offer l ed for rebuttal until after the election is | over The suggestion is plausible, but hardly | explains the extreme confidence of the po- | lice I hear tonight that more arrests are l contemplated within few days. There is l