Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-11
BELFAST MODS IN CHECK.

Five thousand troops and twenty. five
hundred constables occupy tie disturbed
districts of Belfast. The presence of the pc.
lice tends to increase instead Of suppressing
the disorders. Professionals declare that
Catholics were the aggressors by wreckine
Protestant houses, while Catholics are equal
| ly certain that Professionals were the aggres.
sors. OF one thing there il no lonbt; never
did two MODS Of different religions display q
more bloodthrsty desire to kill or MAIN each
other. During the fighting on Sunday and
Monday whenever powder ran out viragoes
on both sides, with ilatrous and other i'm
! pleuents, ground large grains Of blasting
powder into SEE suitable for small arms,
while boys Of tender aye melted lead into
bullets and slugs. While the rioters were
firing youths and women stood behind tnem
busily loading spare guns in order to pre-
vent waste of time. The fusillade lasted
until o'clock Monday morning, when en-
munition gave out and tact truce ensued
both sides removing the dead and wounded
| TO their homes. Both sides are doing their
utmost to hide their losses. On Monday
| The ProtestanLs received a welcome dona-
ton Of twenty. five rifles and much ammuni-
| BalIynsbiuch Nationalist sent the Catholics
a supply of ammunition and many revoIvers
of the type called 'sweethesrts" The
pentiness Of weapons will constitute the
gravest danger in the future. There is n
general demand for Il house-to house search
| for arms.
| A visitor, who has been studying the cause
Of the riots, writes: at Is Useless mincing
matters The police have fired and slain
people from panic, if not from vindictive
ness. The people assert that the latter was
the cause. The people regard the police AZ
murderers, not protectors. That issue must
be placed. Hundreds Of The people have
friends dead or dying. The police now rep.
resent the peoples deadly, death dealing
enemies The friends and neighbors OF the
killed and wounded all regard the police as
foes. Thei7 bare presence is terror to the
| repulaed. and excludes the lea Of wanton-
ness. This is now the great, supreme diff
Guilty, I have seen mon in respectable
houses throwing stones at batch of twenty
policemen escorted by one hundred horse
soldiers.n
Numerous complaints have been made of
the behavior of the police. One citizen says
that while going home Though quiet
street, he was stopped by six constables,
who rudely searched him. ordered him to
give an account of himself, and then imper
atiyely commanded bim TO 90 home at once
Another writes that three constables who
drifted into respectable tobacconist's shop
upon seeing pouch engraved with like
ness Of Chamberlain, flung it down, cursing
Chamberlain for going against them" One
of them, addressing the lady behind the
counter, said: "You're afraid of the Tippe-
rary boys; put six bullets into an Orange.
man last night and I'll give them double
to night. III had my way, wouldn't leave
ope."
The Dublin Gazette announces that Bel
fast and Londonderry bave again been pro-
claimed under martial law. There had
been no more rioting in Belfast up to mid
night last night. MIR. Bigger, in a speech
before Catholic committee yesterday even
ing, said that the justices and the Protestant
clergy of Belfast encouraged the rioters and
acted unjustly. The mayor of Belfast, ho
said, ought to be put in the deck as crimi-
nal