Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-27
Az Night

Canal street presented much the same ap-
pearance as on the previous evenings when
Momus and Proteus made their appear
ances, except that the crowd was larger in
consequence of the numerous arrivals of
visitors during the past week. The pro-
cession appeared on Canal street promptly
on time, at 8 o'clock. The central figure,
a gigantic Irish bard over twenty feet
in hight, playing upon harp, announced
that the subject of the tableaux would be
1.-The History OF Ireland
1t commenced from the very earliest
and legendary period, the first float repre-
senting the landing on the island of Par
tholan, the grandson of Japhet, who ar
rived there at time when the mammoth
and lEes.odon were still abundant. Then
followed tableaux illustrative of the inva-
sion by other barbarous tribes.
The NEMEDIANs, who came under Ne
medius from the Black sea, and waged a
long war with the Formarian pirates from
the Hebrides;
THE FIRBoLGs, descendants of the Ne
medians, who returned to Ireland from
Finland and drove out the Formarians;
THE TUATHA DE DEMAN, who came from
Greece and conquered the country, and,
finally,
The GAEL, ancestors of the present Irish.
Then followed numerous legendary kings
OF Ireland: Della Nuadh Meledh Eochiad
who married the daughter of David,
Prince of Wales, and established friendly
relations with Albion; Scote, the great
huntsman; Milesius, in whose reign Ire
land reached such high pitch of civiliza-
ton and wealth; 1riae Faidh, the prophet
King, and others.
OssIAN - A tableau represented the
courtship of Ossian, the poet, who slays
n l. 90. .,t, g.,
wins the hand of the princess.
QUEEN NAB AND HER COURT made a very
pretty picture. 1t is not generally known
that Nab, the queen of the fairies, was an
Irish queen, a sort of Western Semiramis,
who rode to battle at the head of her army,
and was always victorious. Comus, how
ever, showed her after she became the
queen of the fairies, drawn in her pea-pod
chariot by butterflies, and surrounded by
a circle OF flower fairies.
KING NEAL, OF THE NINE HOSTAGES, the
last pagan King of Ireland, returning in
triumph with the trophies he had won in
England and France, both of which coun-
tries he subdued.
ST. PATRICK, at the Druidical festival of
the lighting of the fires of Baal at Tara, so
eloquently setting forth the beauties of
Christianity as to win King Leary to his
faith
The LAST RALLY OF DRUIDIsN against
Christianity; King Tergesuis cutting off
the noses of the tax-resisting peasants of
Leinster; Murketach, the Hector of Ire
land, driving the Danes from the country !;
the marriage of the daughter of King
O'Brien to Sigend, King of the Orkneys.
The FIRST INVASION OF THE NoRMANs
under Earl Strongbow, showed an attack
of the invaders in a strongly fortified Irish
castle.
CARNIVAL OF MIscHIEF.-The last tableau
was the great council of the Irish chiefs
called by King James II, just before the
Battle of the Boyne, to decide upo;. that
unfortunate camnaign.
With this scene, Comus closed the his
tory of Ireland, for siace then it has been
part of the British Empire. The finest
tableau in the procession were "King
Milesiers, "Queen Nab and ''St. Patrick
Before King Leary."