The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
CLANCY'S BUDGET
OF IRISH NEWS
Provincial DemonStra-
ton at Castelar,.
FLIGHT OF ENGLISH ARMY
CAUSES USE OF THE RATHER
SARCASTIC NAME RACES"
Sound Advice Given Those Who Con-
template Putting In Claims to
Ancient Estates In
Ireland.
FLIGHT OF ENGLISH ARMY
CAUSES USE OF THE RATHER
SARCASTIC NAME RACES"
BY j. d. CLANCY.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

brations reached their eliminating
point, no doubt, in the demonstration
in honor of Wolfe Tone in this city on
the 18th Of last month, but the prov
inces have their innings all the same.
The scene of the latest provincial dem
onstration was Castelar,, where last
Sunday a tremendous crowd assembled
to celebrate the historic races" called
after that town. the county town of the
County of Mayo. The Castelar,
races" is the sarcastic name given to
the flight Of the English army from
Mayo on the mere report that the
French, who had landed at Killala, in
the same county, under General Hum
bert, were advancing. So great was
the terror of the English veterans I'M
der Lake that they never stopped till
they reached Tuam, sixteen miles
away, and then they continued their
helter-skelter march to Athlone They
never regained their presence of mind,
in fact, till they learned that Humbert
had under him but a few hundred men
and the rest of his force was made up
of raw and unframed Irish pikemen
They rallied then and joined by a large
army under Lord Cornwallis-which of
times-they valiantly returned to the
combat, which terminated at Ballina-
muck, in the County of Leitrim, in an
easy victory for the English. The
French, who were taken prisoners We're
treated as prisoners of war and event
ually sent home; all the Irish who were
captured, or nearly all, were massacred
in cold blood, While for months after
= InA Trio1 C
treason, which resulted in as many exc
cuIlons. Among those who died on the
scanoId was the popular leader, Bar
tholomeW feeling, whose descendants
We're atterWard connected by marriage
with the late Lord O'Hagan, the nrst
Irish Catholic who has occupied me
post of Chancellor in Ireland since the
reign OF James II. 1t was to ce4e.,....s
these events that a monument was
erected in Castelar, in honor of the
French general, and that the meeting
OF Sunday last was held, at which,
among others, the foreign delegates to
the Wolfe Tone celebration were pres
ent; and it is for the same purpose that
another great meeting viii be held to-
morrow at ColIooney, in the County of
Sligo, near which monument will be
soon erected in memory Of the valiant
feeling.
Irish Nationalist are just now en-
Joytng the unwonted spectacle of a
split among the Orangemen of the
north. 1t is all over the representation
In the House of Commons of one of the
seats for the County of Down The
representative of North Down, Colonel
Waring, recently died, and for his place
there are two Richmonds-a Mr. Blak-
iston- Houston and q Mr.. Corbett Both
are Orangemen, but with a difference
The former is the aristocratic and land
lord candidate, the latter is the demo-
n re- or e
the people," as opposed to the select
coterie of genteel folk who have hither-
to run the elections in Ulster in the in
tereSt Of the Tory Government of the
day. The former is supported by Lord
Londonderry, whose son, Lord Castle
reagh, hopes to step into the seat, it is
said, when he has done soldering a few
years hence. and for whom Mr.. Blaki-
ston- Houston, II is charged. will
merely keep it warm till that time ar
rives. He is also supported by the ia
nous Orange chief, William Johnston,
NJ. P, of Bally Kilbeg, and other sup
porters of the present Government in
the House of Commons. Mr. Corbett.
pm the other hand, has as his principal
hacker the famous Orange divine, Rev.
DR.. Kane of Belfast, who has threat
sned to denounce the hero of Bally Kill
beg before the assembled brethren of
the Orange order at the first opportu-
tul and vigorous oratory-more power
tul l should say, on a hillside in Down
pr Antrim than in the pulpit-is a host
IN himself. 1t is hard to say how the
light will go, and the result will be ex-
ceedingly interesting, as it will be in
5icatiVe of the future course of events
In the Orange quarter of Ireland If
Corbett and Kane win it will mean the
entire smash-up of the Irish landlord
party in the only quarter of the coun-
Try where they have any power or in
huence left. Nor would such an event
mean much of a loss even from the
Orange point of view, for never has
there been in any Parliament in the
world such a collection of utter dead
heads as the Irish landlord members In
the House Of Commons. During my
Dwn time in that assembly have never
known a single one of them worth
straw in debate, in strategy, or in
he least, considering what advantages
the landlord class have had over all
other classes in Ireland for two hun
5red years. Mr.. Lecky and Mr.. Carson,
he present representatives of Dublin
University. are apparent exceptions;
put neither Of them in reality belongs
10 the landlord class, and / rather
'ancy that neither in his heart of
hearts has much sympathy with It,
A series of remarkable feats Of Irish
feminine heroism was commemorated
n this city few days ago. In June of
asst year fearful epidemic of typhoid |
broke out in one of the islands on the
Atlantic coast-Inniskea-a twen-
y miles from Belmullet in the County |
Of Mayo. There was no medical Of
5cer on the island, and no skilled |
nurse This was the state of things
when Miss Frances Dorothy McAllister
md Miss Honoria Kenny started on
he 10th Of June from Dublin for Bel |
nullet. They had to wait at Belmullet |
,or day. for there was a storm on in |
he Atlantic, and only those who have |
Ieen the ocean there in It's wildness can |
appreciate what a storm is on the west |
coast of Ireland. AS the force of wind |
and tide abated they decided not to |
wait for the Government steamer, |
which was to convey them to their des- |
.ination. but to start at once on their |
twenty miles journey in coracles, a |
1ery primitive style of boat, as the |
name indi rs. How they succeeded |
n crossing is a marvel. but they did, |
md Immediately settled down to work
They had to fight against unsanitary |
,opditiops of living and even against |