Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-01
POOR IRELAND.
The Most Distressful Country. Where the
People StarTe at One End and are
Hanged at the other.
The ClamOr for Food at LOughrea,
Which the Government Will Not Re-
spOBd T0-The 4ssassins.

DUBLIN, February 2S.-The Ffeensan's
Journal says it il authorized TO state that no
warrant has been issued for the arrest OF
Brennan.
KING HARMON ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT.
The election in county Dublin To fill
seat 10 the Commons made vacant by the
death of Col. Taylor, Conservative, resulted
in the return of Col. King Harmon, Conser-
vative.
PROMINENT LANDLORD BEATEN ALMOST To
DEATH.
TAYLOR a prominent Landlord OF Holly
we'll Park, county Limerick, was wayiaid
and beaten. 1t is feared the injuries will
prove fatal.
LONDON, February 2S.-The Times says
there was no meeting of the Parpellites
of a revolt against Parnelps leadership. His
following is now reduced hall. Dawson and
GRAY, and other wel-kuown members who
usually followed Parnell, have not appeared
at Westminster this session.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE sTARv-
ING PEOPLE.
Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
discussing in the Commons the distress in
ireland, said the government would not
shrink from taking strong measures if they
we're likely to have permanent effect. He
| pointed out that wages were high and the
| distress only affected the overcrowdsd dis
tricts. He hoped the Irish members would
| do what they could to restore confidence in
! ireland, so that the promoters of public
| works would be able TO obtain loans from
private sources instead of from the govern
ment.
FRANK BYRNE ARRESTED IN PARIS.
| PARIS, February 28.-Frank Byrne, i'm
| plicated by iniormer Carey in the assassina.
lions in Ireland, has been arrested. He de-
MES any political relations with Carey. The
Minister of the Interior will consider if the
case is one of extrsditiou.
Byrne, before the public prosecutor, reiter-
ated his replies at the prefecture of police
and denied The assassination. He refused TO
answer further questions, and is kept close
prisoner. No visitors ara allowed to see
him. The ministers will finally decide the
question of exradition.
THE FRENCH RADICALS EXCITED OVER
BYRNEs ARREST.
The Radicals sre angry at the arrest of
Frank Byrne at the instance of the British
government. The Iatransigeant accuses the
government of basely criDging in order 10
meet English exigences. Active investiga-
lions are being made into the circumstances
of the arrest. 1t is expected that other ar
rests OF persons supposed to be connected
with the troubles in Ireland will be made.
CLAMoRING FOR FOOD.
4 LoueHREA, February 29.-The distress
| among the people here is alarming. Crowds
| are besieging the houses Of the priests, clam
oring for food. The Town Commissioners
have been hurriedly convened TO take meas
| ures toward relieving the wants of the pie.
what 8evoy Says VI Cares's Testimony.
John Dewey, the editor of the Irish Nation,
said to New York Tribune reporter yester-
day, when asked what he thought about the
evidence now being given 10 the trial at
| Dublin, that he did not consider th at the
testimony implicated him in any way in the
murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Under-Secretary Burke. "The witness" he
| said, Testified that he had not seen me In
| Ireland since 1879, and that the InvIncibles
were not organized until November, 1881.
/ will not ssy when / was in Ireland last.
Carey was the only one of these men on
trial that know. He is not the man whom
would suspect OF being concerned in the
murder, or Of turning Queens evidence il he
was. 1t is stated that the $50 in The org ami
cation that planned the murder were picked
out of the Fenians or Nationalist, but that
does not make the whole party responsible.
Being Fenian l cannot disclose secrets OF
| the organization any more than an Odd
Fellow can oNhis brotherhood. / expect to
see all the prisoners hanged. A witness will
say anything for 100000, and there ia nc
prospect Of justice from three judges chosen
Tor their anupathy to the Irish"
sketches OF the Dublin Prisoners a.
They Listen 10 she Evidence
The London Tines gives the following &C
count of the Dablin trials and of the scene
when Kavanagh turned iuformer:
{ "The two Muilets, who had been in The
front, were now hardly visible in the back
, 4 k,,t t. IL Il
which he occupied on the last occasion
while james Carey, the town councillor o.
the Dublin corporation, had resigned his OLD
place 10 Fnznsrris more generally known
on the cabs,ands Skin the Goat Had
/ an artist arranged the group for effect il
' could not have been better done, for Skin,
as he is fondly called by his friends, looked
at once a contrast and a counterpart of Joe,
! WAC might sill have been regarded as the
villain OF the piece but for the superior
= title TO that distinction which was stamped
E on Fiizharris face. To attempt &c
S describe his features would be useless for i
is difficult 10 find any. They appeared tc
have been all knocked into one, like thost
= Of battered priz Fl shter fresh from mill,
s ! his eyes being almost closed and his most
t hattened out, with only enough of it left Il
mark the spot where 1t had been. Indeed
e his whole face is of vermillion hue, gnarlec
az an oak and grizzly as a beir. Beside hin
/ stood another stranger, young man naneC
Hanlon, about twenty-five years of age, will
: black hair and mustache and of rather re
+ | spectacle appearance. Next TO him in from
! | of the dock stood Timothy Kelly, who look
quite lad, OF a soft, bcylsh coun:enance
: | but of q reckless manner. The party, oil
e entering the dock, 10 manifested, but 10 les
/ | degree, the defiant spirit which they had a
y trst assumed, but there was remark bl
transform nation In their demeanor whei
n Kavansgh assembled the table to Civ,
2 evidence against them. They looked sghas,
< and in them confusion and despair were be
= tfsyed in every look, though they sometime
made an fort 10 seem Indifferent. As tn
witness related each incident in The dread
:, full story and identified the prisoners whom
!, be named, their CONTINGENCIES effected in tn
u DARK ehadows which passed across them tn
dismay which they felt. Brady literally Ut
tered growl OF nate aud fury like that of
d wild beast when Kavansgh pointed 10 hin
:. and theu buried his face in his hands. III
q rested on the bar Of the deck while The nery
d Gus working of bis face indicated the agiia
ton and excitement under which he labored
II The account which the witness gave OF tn
e movements of the assassips before they di
! their cruel work, and the route they tool
5 when they effected their escape, was hsLene,
T to with breathless interest. The sener
silence o. served by the audience was rudel
broken occasionally by such eIclamatious a
|. You scorpion and You are liar iron
It Filzharris, who, with arms folded and hi
e face as red as his muffi sr, scowled upon tn
= witness from the dock, while Delany, VIII
J. sat in front OF ii, crouched 80 low as hsrdl
n to be visible"
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