Connecticut western news., 1890-12-17
FORTY ROUGHS ROUTED.
A Lively Scrimmage with Blackthorns at Tipperary.
PARNELLs PARTIsANs PUT OUT.

Adherenrs-The Power of the Priests.
 The Wave of Reaction Swelling.
 LONDON, Dec. 15.-The wave of reaction against MT. Parnell is becoming more pro- nounced. The. influence of the priests is rapidly making itself felt. In the churches everywhere, but especially in Kilkenny, Sunday the clergy urged openly upon their hearers the duty of following the ad vice of the bishops and striking blow Ut immortality in high places by voting against Parnell. The bishop of Cloyne has requested the members of the league in his diocese to withdraw from the pres ent organization controlled by MT. Par nell, and to form a reorganized league. free from alliance with the discredited leader. The East and South Down branch es of the league have stopped remitting to the league treasury at Dublin until the right to dispose of the general fund is made more clear. The scenes at the Tip perary meeting are regarded as a prelude to a campaign of violence that may reach a degree little short of civil war before the question at issue is finally decided by the Irish people, -'
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 A gang of forty roughs captured the meeting and temporarily carried every thing for Parnell But the contingent of country people from radius Of twenty miles around came in and the situation was speedily changed. After a lively. series of scrimmages the anti-Parnellites got control of the meeting and the most violent of the Parnellites were expelled The latter hRd come to the spot armed with heavy blackthorns, and there is no doubt that they had premeditated violence. Such events go far to sustain Davltt's as- ton that Parnelps following is made up of the riff raff of the cities, or as he puts it ''the residum."
 The meeting was attended by 2,OO0 per sons. Messrs. Healy and Sexton, who had, been expected to speak, telegraphed their respects, the latter on account of illness. MT. Davitt telegraphed that he was un- able to leave Kilkenny, where he said the fate of home rule depended on the strug- gle. The meeting was disorderly one from the start, the trouble beginning. when Canon Cahill took the chair.
 The Parnellites made an uproar, and the confusion was so great that the attempts at speaking could not be heard. A body of men armed with stout sticks suddenly raided the platform and drove away the chairman and leaders of the meeting, but before they could reorganize the meeting the opposite faction rallied and recaptured the platform, driving the roughs off the scene After order had been restored, resolutions supporting the Mccarthy party were adopted
 The Pot Calling the Kettle Black.
 Mr. Healy's statement to the effect that he and Biggar at one time contemplated strangling the Parnell- O'Shea connection was the subject of severe animadversion by John O'Connor, one of Parnell's sup porters, who said to correspondent that Biggar especially had no right to reflect upon any private affairs of Parnell, hay ing been himself the paramour of woman by whom he had child, to which child and mother he bequeathed nearly all his property, and none to the national cause. Mr. O'Connor said these facts did not derogate from MT. Biggar's services to his country, and he did not believe that Big gar ever joined in any reflection upon MT. Parnell.
 Parnen's Mental Balance all Right.
 The salaried members of parliament Op- posed to MT. Parnell are already in serious pecuniary embarrassment. It is reported that two of them have applied to and re- ceived temporary aid from Mir. Gladstone. In an interview William Redmond secuted the reports that MT. Parnell was mentally unbalanced. 'The same has been said" he remarked, "of Caesar, Napoleon and every great man in the critical moments of history, when their extraordinary eff forts were too great for the comprehension of ordinary critics"
 Prominent Irishmen Against Parnell. NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The Irish Parlia- mentary Fund association issued docu- ment last night declaring against Parnell. The paper is signed by the members of the executive committee, including the best known and wealthiest Irishmen in New York.
 The document is signed by Eugene Kel. ly, Joseph J. O'Donohue, w. R. Grace, John Byrne, J. D. Crimmins. Morgan J. O'Brien, J. F. Daily, Dr. T. A. Emmett, Dr. J. D. Emmett, J. $. Coleman, Miles M. O'Brien and B. D. Farrell.
 William O'Brien Sails. This morning William O'Brien, Timothy , Harrington and T. G. Gill sailed for Flu rope Messrs. O'Brien and Gill went by the steamer Obdam, of the Netherlands line, and MT. Harrington sailed on the Etruria. The three embarked last night about 10 o'clock, but before doing so they
 
 i the Hoffm man house. The visitors had none but the kindest words for the departing envoys. Mir. Harrington received dele 1 gation of members of the Irish National i league that are in sympathy with MT. Par | nell. i O'Brien's Farewell Words. 1 William O'Brien favored the newspapers with farewell interview, which was as I follows: "Mr. Gill and leave for France ; to use our best efforts to secure reunion of Irish factions. MT. Dillon and MT. T. P. O'Connor remain in America with the ! object of continuing our work in the event 1 of our consultation in France proving sue. cessful. .. %
 "We do not go by the German Lloyd line, for I fear the English authorities might arrest me when the steamer should. stop at Southampton, and think it is best to post our work. The Obdam will stop at Bou. logne, in France, and let us off. All oul : colleagues, except MT. Harrington, are i agreed as to the object and scope of our ! mission, and know that MT. Harrington wishes us success. The object of our mis. sion is, in one word, to save the general election without inficting humiliation ol any person. It would not do to expect toe much from this trip. We are painfully sensible of the dangers, but we have the strongest reliance in the good will of the two sections of the party.
 O'Brien Is Hopeful.
 Our hope is that when the fever is over the thought how we will save the general election will drown all others and reason nill exert itself We have received cable grams telling us that our forbearaMce had been misrepresented, and all sorts of lying rumors had been spread. All are abso lutely false. Every hour is deepening the