The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-20
FROM The GREEN ISLE
What Is Going on At Present In the
Land OF The Shamrock.
The Constabuiary Prosecuting
Priests and Other Marked Men
In Certain LocalIties-The Evic-
ton of Tenants Continues.

Priests N Otnor MarNe wen
In Certain Localities-The Evio-
ton Of Tenants Continues.
IN ONE respect the members of the
present government have shown a re-
~markable capacity, namely-in the
power Of spreading discomfort amongst
their employees, SAYS the Dublin Freeman.
Mr.. Raikes quarrelled first with h tele-
graphists; before he had settled with
them he fell out with the postmen, and
now there In every likelihood that he will
have to give way to both bodies and so
make himself supremely ridiculous. Mr..
Matthews goaded the London police into
discontinued agitation, and then, finding
that his police commissioned was too
much inclined to remedy the men's
grievan ces irritated him into resigna-
ton. He has put into the
position of commissioner an autocratic
ex-military officer, who has SO little sym
pathy with the men that he will not even
reply to a respectful memorial from them.
Mr.. Monro wisely allowed the police to
meet for the discussion OF their g%rievan-
ces, on official premises, and thereby
forced them to take quiet and moderate
Sir Edward Bradford, drives them out of
the barracks, forces them into the street,
orders them to be dispersed as IL they
were a brawling mob, compels them to
take up an aggressive attitude, and even
on Saturday night to enter into open re-
volt over the dismissal Of some of their
colleagues.
The lexicon OF Coercion needs a new
word, 'Shadowing'' is only a mild and in
capable word for the practice Of the con-
stabulary i'm their persecution of some
marked men, priests and laity, in certain
localities. The habit Of the constables Is
To walk shoulder to shoulder with their
quarry, m even to jostle him of the
footpath,in heir excess of zeal. Questions
were asked i'm the house of m
about the ''shadowing'' or "shouldering"
of priests. The police have gone so far
as to shadow them TO sick calls. And the
case of n lady just come from New Yea
land who was inquired after by police In a
bank in Enniskillen, illustrates most
strikingly the circ umstances OF rural life
and executive tyranny now pushed to
such extremes In Ireland. The lady is IN
utter stranger to Ireland. is the sister-in-
law of the rector, n has no sympathy
whatever with home rule.
Between five and six hundred Tipperary
children marched i'm a body to their va
rious schools n announced their deter
mination not TO enter until the police
mems children attending the schools were
removed. This request being refused, the
children marched in procession through
the streets of the town. The police dis
persed them and captured several flags
from them, but they quickly reformed
and marched to the Arcade.
A young man named Hennessy met
with a curious accident at Barnard,
Middleton. He was engaged at the dam
gerous pastime of firing blank shots from
"A kind of iron tube somewhat like the bar
rel of a gun filed with powder and
stopped ut n end. The tube being
charged with powder, a light was applied,
with the result that the tube exploded, in
juring the young mans hands.
The Olphert evictions at Falcarragh
have beer resumed. Up TO the present
LOO people have eel evicted on the Oh
phert and other estates around Falcar-
ragh, and 200 yet remain TO be turned out.
A large body Of police and emergency
men was present, but no resistance was
offered, and the constabulary marched
back TO their barracks to the tune of
"Glory, glory, Hallelujah."
T~wenty-three families. numbering 140
persons, were evicted on the Olphert es-
tates June "a. No resistance was offered.
Two tenants on the Murroe estate of Lord
C~loncurry were also evicted by the county
Limerick sub-sheriff. One of the tenants,
Morgan Hayes, offered "A years rent, but
it was refused.
The bronze medal Of the Royal Humane
society has been awarded to Thomas
Hamilton. for R~allantly saving the life of
George Kirk, in Donegal bay, on May 4;
a.. Ia.... r. ......
James earthly, at Wexford, ON May "a
and TO Robert James Burrows for saving
Hugh McSweeney, at Cork.
The rowing contests under the auspices
of the Derry Rowing club, developed into
a disgraceful row. Two crews. named
Foyle and the City of Derry, fouled, and
quarrelled repeatedly. They ultimately
~belabored ont another with their oars i'm
a savage manner.
The Dublin Express alleges that Mr.,
William Sadleir, son of a tenant of the
Smith, Barry estate in Tipperary, who Is
stated TO have paid his rent, was fired al
when standing at his W gate, but not
injured. He returned the fire, and his as.
sailants decamped.
The Athlone guardians threaten to re.
sign en- masse il the local government
board persist in their refusal to confirm
the election of an evicted tenant as work
house master.
The police prevented the lighting of thu
usual bonfires on st. John's Eve around
Casbel.
THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS.
Remain Of 100000 Human Being,
said to Repose There.
From the It. Louis Republic.