The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-06
TURNED OUT TO DIE.
HOW GREAT BRITAINIs DEPoPUI,AT-
ING THE EMERALD ISLE.
Outrageous Acts Sanctioned by Ty-
rannical Land Law Amount Virtually
to Murder-Blazing Cabins Light Evic-
tion's Inhuman Work.
From the Chicago Times.

Inc Deuulleb Oh hHeTlON ldI-ducu
glen have been woven into song and
legend, but can not say that they i'm
pressed themselves very strongly on my
mind, for the good reason that they were
still obscured by the gloom Of cold, chilly.
early morning, when drove around the
foot Of the storied Galtee hills on route TO
witness the evictions announced to take
place that day at Skeeheenarinka.
Early as was the hour, the dawn was
Just crcsting the mountain tops-the coun-
try as we journeyed along bore unmistaka.
bic signs OF unusual life and hustle. The
chapel bells were ringing in the villages in
the vale; horns were sounding far up on
the hillsidos, while on two or three OF the
higher peaks bonfres, which had blazed
brightly through the night, were just
fecbly surrendcring TO the stronger light OF
day. Crowds OF people were trooping
from every direction in answer 70 thesum
mons OF bell and beacon. Long trains Of
vehicles, too, lined tho roads, bearing
those who had journeyed from distance.
Indeed, 1t would not have been difficult to
have imagined ones self IN a country
cursed with the scourge Of war, and that
the journey along that mountain road
amid strange sights and unusual sounds
was being made with marching army on
the morning Of what was destined TO be
the date of memorable battle. Nor Was
the illusion lessened when few minutes
later the buglcs Of an infantry regiment
rang out clearly and shrilly on the cold air
OF the infant day, as the soldiery who had
biyonackod during the night in the noun
tain glen were breaking camp. But the
picture OF war could scarcely longer be
called Elusive when one OF those curves 80
common in mountain roadways displayed
10 our view two large columns OF armed
men, marching with steady martial tramp
along the road which We were travelling,
their rod uniforms and glittering accouter-
mcnts standing out in bold relief from the
somber backing OF the brown mountain
peat On another road, nearly parallel
TO tho one which we drove on, and join
ing IL a little further on, the clatter OF
horses hoois attracted our attention 10 n
saundron OF bpss.helmetcd Dragons that
had ridden from Cahir during the night
And all this waIlike pomp aud martial
panoply, this studied threat and menace
by a rich and powerful Government to a
people unarmed and defenscless, but noted
ior their cxcltability this direct challenge
10 deeds OF violence aud acts Of lawless-
ness by u heartlcss Administration that
seemingly wishes 10 provoke another '93,
with It's rapine and It's massacrcs- this
had been Occasioned because Of the greco
! Of a Manchester cotton broker whom the
| law 2linytstcd with Sentences Of death,
rs Gladstone terms the DEGREES OF eviction;
and whose ninions the armed forces OF
the Crown protected and assisted in the
unhOly work of driving score Ol humble
peasants with their wives and little ONES
| from their wrciched mountain sheclings.
skccheonarinlal The guidebooks give
no alternative for this little cclogue in
euphony; aud my companion, unable toen-
| tighten me more definitely, aud judging
| iror' ita sound, could only opine that IL
| was la somewiso connected with hun.
ger, llomoic derivation which
saw no ruason for rejecting. For
certainly a more poverty stricken, God
forslkcn district eye never rested on
than that unhappy townland with the
Scandinavian name perched high up amidst
the bleak aud barren hills Of Gaiteemoro.
The land Is neither bog nor marsh MOI
mountain, but seems 10 combine whatever
In ,re IL bad in all three without the com
ponsalion Of including a single one Of theiI
good qualities. Seen at a distance the lit
tic patches OF cultivation that have in
vadcd the native slcrility of the place lool
like ugly blols ON the azurc-tinlcd pictur,
of the brown, cherries, but bcaulilu
mountain. Those miserable fragments o
tillagc land have boon literally made b!
their toillng owners, who-and their iath
ers before them, and their mothers, too,
regret 10 add-slayod rs slaves ncye
. shaved, carrying on their backs from tn
. lowlands tho manure and soil that was 4
p rob the rugged hillside Of It's barrcnnesl
! And the houses What mockcry 10 Civ
! tho name 10 the wfctched mud cabins tina
were burrowed In the mountain!
Hut still they were homes, miscrabl
homes, IL IA truc-but homes in whic
there dwclt a holiness and sanclity aud
= happiness that are unknown 10 palaces Q
7 mansions. There the brawny peasant ~
}, content by his peat fine In the evening an
= forgot his toll in the pratllc Of his children
Thrrc, too, lived a mothers love aud
mothers protection for the maids Of mattel
less beauty that clambcrcd the mountain
1t sides with the swift agile graces Of II
4. iawn Or antelope.
= The property was owned by the Earl ,
, Kingston until few years ago, when
passed through compulsory sale from a
" old and popular family to Manchosl,
~ man named Buckley, whose history as
ct landlord, like w many stories OF It's kin,
n has the chapters written alternately
~ blood aud tears.
v A winlry wind blew over the heath,
= clad hills In biting blasts on tho 2O,Ot
. people assembled 10 witness the eviction
"a at Skcchecnarinka. A gloom and sulloi
,u ness indcscribablc had settled on the va
!, throng, and the dcmeanor Of the poop
- could be likcncd 10 nothing within u
range OF comparison better than th
strange, bodciul silence which possesses
crowd gathered around a gibbot 10 view
IN execution. Men and women, old ~
young. were therc-all kept well beyor
u the line Of bayoncts that formed an NJ
40 broken Gordon around tho pariyoi exierI
VI. inalors and tho little homestead doomed
IA destruction. There was not oven the ser
NO blanco OF resistance. Weeping childr
~ aud hyslcncal mother were led fort
The father, bearing baby In his arm
'c' followed. And then, nature reversed,
he 4 'eble grandsirc, blind and tottcring wi
p old aged, guided by fair haired girl
he ten years
=, As the scanty furniture was being throy
~ ON tho roadside tho old man-urgcd
," instinct, II must have been, for reason h
long since left him--rushed wildly ba
through the constabu,nry and, Anchls,
like. In frenzy commenced kissing I
Wy door.posls Of what Tor nearly centu