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REDPATIVS ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
HISTORY OF THE WEEK (XY IRELAND
AS TOLD BY TILE BRITISH CABLE REPORTERS.
(Revised and corrected for Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly.)
THE MURDERERS OF CAVENDISH AND BURKE,
UBLIN, Oct. 4.—The weapons used by the murderers of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke were
found concealed in the rafters of a stable in (he rear of a house
belonging to a maa who was recently sentenced to penal ser-
vitude for intimidating Mrs. Kenny, the widow of the man
- murdered in Seville Place, because he was suspected of having
given information concerning the murders. It is alleged that
Kenny was the driver of the car in which the asssssins rode
on the night of the murder. The weapons found were four
knives, pine inches long, with blades three-quarters of au inch
wide. ey are quite new and very sharp, and are evidently
surgical dissecting knives. There were discolorations on
them, which on chemical analyzation proved to have been
made by human blood. It, is hoped that the murderers will
yet be captured. Meanwhile the authorities observe the strict-
est secrecy.—Special to Herald.
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THE SELF-ACCUSED PUENIX PARK ASSASSIN.
Krvaston, Jamaica, Oct. 4.—The prisoner Westgate, alias
O’Brien, who confessed to havingsstabbed Lord Frederick
Cavendish, is not to be sent to England after all. The au-
thorities in Jamaica have received instructions to do with him
as they deem best, He is confined in the Spanish Town Jail
and is remanded weekly.
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THE MURDER OF THOMAS BROWNE.
Dusrix, Oct. 4.—Three boys witnessed the murder of
Thomas Browne, the farmer who was shot dend in Castle Is-
land yesterday. ‘The inquest in the ease was held to-day, and
the jury returned an open verdict.
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THE MURDER OF THE UUDDYS.
Dvstrs, Oct. 4.—A man named Patrick Higgins has been
arrested in connection with the murder of the Huddys, at
Lough Mask. He was conveyed to Cong under a heavy es-
cort,
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EXHIBITIONS OF IRISH MANUFACTURES.
Dvprax, Oct, 4.—At a meeting of the directors of the Irish
Exhibition Company the report of the special committee was
ne
various places of England and the United States during 1883,
with a view to popularizing Irish manufactures, and also urge
the formation of a new association to assist manufacturers,
It was decided that this report should be published in order
to elicit public opinion on the matter pending a special meet- _
ing to be held on the 11th inst.
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CARDINAL MCCABE AND THE LAND LEAGUE.
Lonpvox, Oct. 5.—There is consternation among the Par-
nellites owing to a report that on the recommendation of
Archbishop McCabe the Irish Catholic hierarchy, now in sess-
ion, has refused to allow priests to atteud the forthcoming
conference. The correspondent of the standard at Dublin, says
he has good reason to believe that the proposed national con-
yention will be postponed.—Special to the Heral
*
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JOUN DILLON'S*WITUDRA WAL,
DON, Oct. 5.—Mr. Dillon, in reply toa resolution of the
Liverpool Land League, requesting him to reconsider the res-
ignation of his seat in Parliament, writes that he will give the
matter his earnest attention and says that nothing butill health
could have caused him to quit politics,
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LORD MOUNTMORRES’ MURDER.
Dusit, Oct. 5.—One Flannigan and his wife, who are sus-
ected of being connected with the murder of Lord Mount-
morres at Clonbur, county Galway, September 25, 1880, have
been arrested at Cong, in that county. ountmorres
was murdered at Rusheen, within a mile of Clonbur, county
Galway. He had attended a meeting of magistrates, and was
seen to leave the town about eight o'clock. Haif an hour
is horse and carriage arrived at his residence, a
mile distant, without him. Search having been made he was
found lying on the side of the road, in a pool of blood, life-
Jess. His body was taken to Ebor Hull, the family seat. He
had been in very unhappy relations with his tenants, against
two of whom he had obtained decrees of ejectment, just before
the murder. He was forty-eight years old at the time of his
death. He lived a very frugal life, his estates yieldivg scanty
means of subsistence.—Special to the Herald.
I saw Lord Mountmorres about half an hour before he was
killed. his Fiannagan, I think, was the man near wh
cottage the corpse of the slain lord was found. The constables
wanted to carry it into his cottage and he was not unwilling ;
but his wite und daughter refused, owing to a superstitious
notion generally held in the West of Ireland that if the body
of a person killed is allowed to come into a house, some one
of the inmates will die within a year.
The body was then carried to Ebor Hall, the residence of
Lord Mountmorres, where his sister and daughter lived, and
they, also, refused it aimittance and ordered it left in the coach
house. The peasant family was denounced in Belfast by Mr.
Gibson, member of Parliament for Trinity College, as bratal
in refusing to admit the dead body anda horror of these *‘sym-
pathisers with assassination ” as they were called, was aroused
in Englan Nothing was said about the brutality of Lord
Mountmorrres’s own family in doing precisely the same thing.
Lord Mountmorres boasted that he een a Castle spy
i ii as @ corrupt magistrate, a bar-
room loafer, @ drunkard, a tyranical landlord. He died uni-
yeraally unlamented by all who knew him.
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LAND AGENTS MISSED.
Dusiim, Oct. 7.—Two land agents named Scoot and Froome
have been fired at from behind a hedge at Ballycastle, but were
not burt. Both men had previously been fired at.
‘A farmer named Hogan has been shot in the thigh at Bal-
lina. One arrest has been made.
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THE IRISH WORLD FUND OLOSURE.
[The announcement of the ‘closure’ of the Irish World fand
a3 cabled to London and Dublin. The Herald’s correspon~
dent telegraphs :
Dusty, Oct. 7.—The closing of the League Fand creates
much sensation here, many persons demanding an explanation
as to how the money has been spent.”
Yes—persons like Lady Florence Dixie, for example, and
the English garrison who never gave a penny to. it. . Every-
body in Ireland knows how the Land League funds have been
expended, Tne amounts given to evicted tenants, with the
names of the receivers, were published from week to week in
all the Dublin daily payers, both by the Land League and the
Ladies Branch. A letter from Mr. Davitt, dated Paris, Sep-
tember 24, says:
“My visit to Paris is to confer with Patrick Egan in refer-
ence to the coming conference in Dublin, A financial state-
ment will be prepared for that occasion aud be afterward pub-
lished, if the conference so decides. It is probable that a board
of trustees will be elected by the conference, aud the moneys
in the hands of Mr. Egan be placed by him in those of such
board. . This is Mr. Egan’s own desire. That portion of the
public represented by Lacy Florence Dixie will be somewhat
surprised when the amount of the balance in .
Lands is made known to busybodies and slanderers. No doubt
the landlords will be particularly disgusted when they also’
discover that ten of thousands still remain with which to
combat them, where they have been declaring through their
organs, that nothing was left save Land Leagne bankiuptcy.”
r, Smaliey, cf the Tribune, cables from London ;
‘The closing of the League fund in America is announced
to-day. It is regarded here as decisive proof that the Land
Act has beaten the Land League. Agitation in Ireland will
cease to be formidable the moment American supplies are cut
°
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[Mr. Jennings telegraphs to the World:
**The announcement of the closing of the Land League
Fand by the Irish World in your city is very generally regard-
ed here as affording conclusive proof of the successful work-
ings of the “Kilmaivham treaty.” ‘The belief is very strong
that Mr. Parnell and his followers intend working with the
Liberals during the adjourned session of Parliament which is
soon to open, under, it is supposed, a promise of further con-
cession next year. The followers of Mr. Davitt and Mr. Dillon
have scarcely had time to rally themselves, and their future
course is very uncertain. The probability, however, seems to
be that under the double influence of the good harvest and
the energetic enforcement of the law, Ireland will be more
peaceful for the next few months than it has been.”
[When these gentlemen find that the Irish National Land
League in America has no thought of disbanding, how disep-
pointed they will be!”
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AN AMERICAN FLUNKYS SLANDER.
Lonpon, Oct. 7.—The release of Mr, Gray proves once
more how insensible the Irish are to acts of clemency.
Gray retorted by accusing Judge Lawson of the basest motives
and personal malignity. Various Irish journals break out in
furious language against the Court. The attempts at intimi-
dating juries obviously have been renewed.
~ [This is Smalley’s way of selling his shrunken soul to Eng-
land. Our readers know that the Freeman's Journal never
printed a single line to intimidate avy jury—that it was not un-
til the drunken gang who condemned young Hynes to die had
given in its death verdict that it published a card giving an ac-
count of their orgies at the Imperial Hotel. This card was
written aud signed by a man of unimpeachable veracity and
one whose family have always had a vastly better social po-
sition than any Smalley of Boston or London. There
have been no attempts to intimidate jaries in Ireland and
“obviously” Mr, Smalley is acowardly slanderer. Ichallenge
him to prove by a single reference or qnotation from the
Freeman’s Journal c-lumnies against Mr. Gray. ]
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THE JUDICIAL MURDER OF WALSH.
Mr. Davitt writes to the Daily News frem Paris (Sept. 24)
of one of the victims of the modern Jeffreys :
“ Another execution in Ireland, and another declaration of
innocence from the coudemned man, at the very foot of the
seaffold, I heard, on leaving Dublin on Monday last, that an-
other had confessed the murder of the policeman Martin Lyden,
for which alleged crime Patrick Walsh was hung in Galway
rail on Friday last{ It appears to be a matter of indiffer-
ence to the Castle whether an accused man is guilty or not of
the crime imputed to him. Two things only have to be looke:
to in the interests of ‘law and order” now. One is that
some one wust be executed or imprisoned for some murder or
outrage committed by somebody; the other is, to sustain the
verdict of packed juries at any cost, lest their ‘impartiality’
should be called into question by an admission that a wrong
a mn executed on the verdict. Walsh’s last words
on the seaffold were: ‘I am going now before my God, and
I declare my innocence of the crime. Certainly I never com-
mitted the murder. I was not there at all, Witnesses came
and swore falsely against me;’ words that will baunt the
memory of Jndge Lawson and Earl Spencer, I warrant, for
some time to come, if these functionaries place any value
whatever upon the life of any outside of the garrison class in
Treland.”
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HENRY GEORGE LAUGHED AT.
Loxpon, Oct. 7.—Henry George's letter to the President
excites laughter, especially his attempt to pose as a martyr af-
ter thirteen Lours’ detention.—Tribune,
[The detention of an American citizen for a single hour is
an outrage which should be resented by our Government, and
an outrage which ill be resented some day. Not, however,
by such Orange Presidents as the “lone fisherman” and ex-
uachine ranner, Arthur. They laugh best who laugh last. ]
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GOLDWIN SMITH AND THE IRISH.
Loxvon, Oct. 7.—Professor Goldwin Smith, replying toMr.
E. L. Godkin, who had written an article in the Spectator
criticising Professor Smith’s views of the Irish question from
a professedly American point of view, writes that he hasad-
vocated measures of repression not because of any hostility to
the Irish, bat becanse the Parnellites abused their privileges
as members of Parliament for the purpose of wrecking parlia-
mentary government in tho interest of disunion. There is no
doubt, says Professor Smith, that if a party of Southern mem-
bers of Congress had similarly endeavored to wreck the
American legislature, they would have been put down with as
little compucction as was shown in repressing the Irish in
o draft riots in New York. It seems to be forgotten, he
adds, that in the agrarian reign of terror the murdered as well
the murderers are Irish, while the chief authors of the sys-
tem are New York Fenians; and their organ, the Irish World,
it the property of a Jew. Mr, Godkin himself, he says, is
not a native American, but an Irish Nationalist.—Herald.
[October 18, 1882,
NOTE ON SMITH'S VIEWS.
{Goldwin Smith is an educated crank, who is always run-
ning a muck with some one, and who is noted, like Froude,
for combining both the English and German methods of. lite-
rary work, as illustrated by the camel story—for both of them
try to reach the camel in the intellectual deserts where they
range, but when they fail to find them they ‘construct
them from their inner consciousness.” The preceding dis-
[He advocated as severe a method of Government in Ire-
Jand as Russia empploys in Poland. Why?
[Obviously —because he believed that the English have the
right to rule all other races whose country, either by superior
military training (as in India), or by an overwhelming pre-
ponderance of numbers and fatal proximity, (asin Ireland),
the British have been able to conquer au a. That would
ave
repellant theory. Mr. Frou ta
theories equally abhorrent to Republicavs. But Goldwin
Smith asserts that he favored repressive measures—which is
the new form of saying despotic rule—for Ireland, because a
handful of {rish members of the Imperial Parliament were
abusing the rules that bad governed the House of Commons *
for lo! these many years! Remember that “‘ the Parnellites,”
as ho calis the patriotic members of Parliament, rarely num-
pered more than 22 out of the 106 Irish members! Yet, be-
cause this one-fifth of the Irish members acted, as he thought,
in a manner calculated to “ wreck’? Parliamentary institutions
Mr, Smith lent his influence to destroy all civil liberty over
five millions of people, and to vindicate the authors and sup-
porters of this outrage before the court of the world’s public
opinion
(Mr. Smith then goes further—to fare worse—although the
ignorance of the English people about American history and
modes of government will cause them to think that, even in
so tyrannical a procedure as the suspension of all Parliamen-
tary freedom, “there isn’t so much difference, you know, be-
tween our governments.” ‘The Southern members did act pre-
cisely as Mr. Smith says that, had they so acted, they would
by the Norther members. Yet there
Houses, at every great crisis, and it has been
resorted to several times during the last three years—that is,
since Mr, Biggar and Mr. Parnell introduced it into the Eng-
lish Parliament. We cali it ‘“‘fillibustering.” ‘‘ Obstruction”
is fillibustering—‘‘ just so much and nothing more.”
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DAMAGE 10 THE FLAX CROP.
‘DON, Oct. 7.—There has been during the early part of
ale i north of Scotland as
has not been known since 1839. All the hay and flax in
Armagh has been blown away, and the fields left clean swept.
Fully one-half of all outstanding crops are lost.
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“THE BLOODY ASSIZE.”
_Lonpon, Oct. 7.—The late Special Commission having ex-
pired in Dublin, the United Jreland newspaper styles it the
loody Assize, and says of Walsh’s trial that it was distin-
guished from that of Hynes only by its greater atrocity. The
ry was as shamefully concocted, its partisanship as inde-
cent, and the evidence was evidence on which an English jury
would not hang a dog. -This startling language, uttered in
the face of the example made of r, Gray, has produced a
profound impression both in England and in Ireland.
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DAVIT? ALT WEXFORD. ,
_Lonpon, Oct. 8.—To the Associatea Press: ‘* Mr. Davitt, in
his speech at Wexford to-day, expressed regrot at the results
achieved by the Land League, which had been arrested in its
career by the Coercion Act. Every murder committed since
the suppression of the League had been an additional nail
driven into the League’s coffin.
I.
_Dusity, Oct. 9.—Special to the Herald: ‘‘Mr. Davitt, in
his speech at Wexford yesterday, declared that the people
should rely upon Irish determination at home to arraign land-
lordism before the civilized world as the cause of crime and
L by
some of the Irish people. Pleading for justice, at Westminster,
he said, was useless.” :
_ As Mr. Davitt is neither a lunatic, a traitor, nor a sot, there
is no likelihood that these reports are correct, It is ree possi-
ble that Mr. Davitt could have ‘‘ expressed regret at the re-
sults achieved by the Land League.” ‘I'he Land League found
the western peasantry a race of obsequious serfs and awoke
them to a resolute manhood. It found them starving and
naked ; it fed and clothed them. It found them cowering i
hereditary robbers of the Irish race. It and it alone has
the farmers of Ireland millions of dollars in rent ever: rae
aud for Oey No other Irish i
wn of Irish history, has a record that can com: i
practical results for the good of the ‘common people, tk
the luminous record that has been made by the Land League.
No American movement ever did so much good in so short a
time. If Mr. Davitt is disappointed at this outcome of the
agitation, his Expectations must have been founded, not on
6 experience o} i é i
the exp: ¢ human race but on his own ardent aspi-
Since when has Mr. Davitt discovered that pleadi j
tice at Westminster is useless ? ld not have caideo,
becanse be most Gssuredly did take an active in sug-
gesting and selecting the men who shoul i
candidates on Mr. Parnell’s return from aoe vn AL thet
time such action was against the traditions of the Nationalists.
enough—by fearless and wise action have force i
Parliament to discuss the wrongs of Treland oes re ae
some measures of relief, And a'though the Land Bill was in-
adequa: 6 a8 & permanent remedy, it was an enormous con-
cession to wring from a hostile body. The reduction of rents
25 per cent. on an average, although less desirable than the
establishment of peasant proprietory is vastly better then un-
estricted landlord taxation or putting all the land of Ireland