j-- Sk tuM -sc LANCASTER, PA., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23. 1882. Price Twe Crate. n . X'. ES!--S-.U8 VLOTHJJfO. WALK : Cln Kf.nus hu-, i-emc ami gene. Tin: old year ha- kied iu "geed bye " te '62 and dieppsd back into t lit: pint, taking il- place anion;; the most uventtul jean et history. The Holiday-, :;i : evi-i . 1 he Kilty givei 3 have cui-cil thi-lr giving, and the time w hen any thing and veil Ihlni; .uld m-11 se leadily li5 yeii". The "ld i(t;y " merchant! aie piepuiins te ueai out cliah cushions and tieuseis by bittiii; l hemic! ve down during the months or .lanujiy. February and March, te await the coming el H'JtlNG TKAHE." The-WIUK AWAKI' Ml.KUIAXr, th-j ' Man-Who-Xctei-Has-a-Dull-Seasen.' hu Miau wlie lias learned th it trade can be mml in the usually dull mentli3 by uerklng fei if m touching feith Kime new Wei, some attraction which will draw the people; anil accordingly kcej) the tiade a "to-emiiig " and give Ills -deepy neighbors "ernethliiK te talk about and weny evei. Cm any per-.ou tjr- -1 obstinately blind Ui net te '-co that the "lIVi.lt Ul?SY MEUCHANT " 1-, Hit en.- who Ki:iH'Cl III-s GOODS TO COST in the dulUcafcen rather than store them away fei tin- n-l -.uen, whether hN neighbor likes it 01 net. and such a stele H being sought altei by the summing theus nidi of Lancaster city's and county'- piuchascis. AND NOW WE HAVE Ol'll STOKE ILLUMINATED Y THE ELECTRIC LIGHT by w hieh -i y lint and oler tan be i-ccn as well bv night as by day. I theiefeiu call jour attention th-i'.cvciy garment haB been MAKKED DOWN TO COST I OK THE NEXT THIRTY DAYb, wheieby you v. Ill be enabled tebuyan OVEUCOAT Oil SLIT OF CLOTHES AT A VERY LOW PKICE Having fllll a geed ii-'itinent en hand te select ireni. My "Custom Made Ucpailmcnt" U tilled with the choicest Woolen-, the maiket alteidf-. A vi'nt fit trlii nys fwiraitlecd. AL. EOSENSTE1N, THE PIONEER OF MODERATE PRICES, NO :!7 NOltlll Ql'EEN .STItELT. NeAt doei te Phillip & liie.'d Hat Stele. " MUX HlTTUKti. fKON UITTiSUH. IRON BITTERS! A TRUE TONIO. SURE APPETISER. lltON ISlTTKKSat.jhighlylroceuimcudedtor all diseases requiring a certain and effi cient Ionic; especially INIMOE3TION, DYSPEPSIA. INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OF APPE TITE, LOSS OF STRENGTH, LACK OF ENERGY, &c. It i-iiiK-lii-- the bleed, diciiglhcii- the niuscle, and gives new Hie te the- nerves. It acts likeacl.aim en tin- dlgcMivc organs removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as Tasting tht reed, Jlilcliiri', Jktilin the Klemtich, Item fat:;:, rtc. The only Iren Preparation that will net macn-ii llie Ihuiii .i give headache, held by all druggists. Write ler the ABC Boek, J2 pp. et useful aii-1 nunming 10 ulltiij sent free. BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, iii-iykiw BALTIMORE, MD. Fer Stile at COCHRAN'S DRUG STORE. 137 and 139 North Queen street, Lancaster. JlOUSi: FUltXiSlIMXU uuevs. IKINN .V tvii.i.s;. HOUSEFURNISHING ! LARGE STOCK, GOOD FT LI LINE iK HOUSESTIRES ! STOVES. UKATKKS S. UKATKKS 'in ,i.n-li i- the n.e-t cemr-lcte Bargains en the 5c, 10c, lia.-lu aim-. -NO ,t i.-.-.-i-...d a lel el AI'CTIOX GOOD - I'lUlt itl.i: TO slIOW 1:00ns. FLINN & VI. VM I! i:tl'S 1 zz At'.MII.II. 10 UN 1. PATENT COLD-CASE HEATERS, BEST PORTABLE IN USE. SLATE KOOFEU AND HOOFS REPAIRED, PLUMBMG AND GAS FITTING, Step and Valves for Water, Gas and Steam. JOHN L. Nes. 11, 13 & 15 BAST ORANGE MSiltlCAI.. lAKKl.K'S IIA1K tSAI.SAIi. l'AUKKIl'-. 11 Ilt rAIAM. The Ke-l. Cheapest and Me-,t Kconeniical Hair Diessing Never taiK te rt-ster.- Miuthlul eoler te Kiay hair. 5Uc. anil $1 sizes. I'AUKKU'a t;iNt.i:u TOXIC (Jinser, Itin-hu, Mandrakc.and many of the best medi cines known ai- lu-te combined into a medicine of such varied pew era, sin te make it the Kicalc--t Itloed I'uiilk-ranii Tne llcsl llealtn ana MrenUi Itcsternr Ever Used. It cures Cempl.iintMOt Women, and dtsc-ist. of the btem-ieh. Iteuels, I.iuirs, I.iver and Kidneys, nnd is entirely dilTcienl Ireni Hitler-, tiinger K-m-iic.--., and etner Tonics. a it never intoxicates Mc audi vixe-. IllisCOX & CO.. Chumlst". N. Y. I.ai go saving buying fl size. epl2-lj-codeew&w r.VUHH AX1 SfAlWNJ-:il. X7-ALKNTINli. Valentines and Valentine Cards. In Gi-eat aiictj at BOOK AND STATIONERY STOHE, Ne. 4 WLf-T KINtl STUIiKT. TTALKM'IM: SKASstlN. V Valentines ! IN GREAT VARIETY. VALENTINE CARDS NOVELTIES, At the Uoek'-tore of JeIhl Baer's Sens, Nes. 15&17 North Queen Street. SIGN OF THE BOOK. CAKUlAtSWS, Art. Oi'Eit'ns ! SI.IUHs EDGERLEY & Ce., Market Street, rear Market Houses I.AXCASTEU, 1A. We haviia Large and Splendid assortment of l'OKTLANl). ALBANY nnd DOUBLE; SLEIGHS. They aic made or the best selected voedwoiks the best ironed, fec-st trimmed, and the flncit painted nnd ornamented SLK1GI1S ever ollcr ellcr cil for sale In the city. llcinember we pay cash ler our m-iteii.il ami allow no one te undersell us. Our Molte: "Quick Salxs aki :j.ll Ii:ei-its." It costs nothing te call ami examine 0111 work. W- als-e have en han-l a lull line el FINE CAKIIIAin; WOKK, in w hici: wi- dely comiictltlen. All work ivarruu ted. ltepaiiin;;ef all hind promptly attended te. f n2C-tlU4 w rKON 1IITTEKS. GOODS, LOW PRICES. AND KAJWES. AND in Ccnti.il lVuniylvaiiIa. 15c. and 25c. Counters. , whieli vicaie clliiiK nt much helew liiiillct WILLSON, Lancaster, Pa. S UVVLIF.S. "I OI1N 1.. AIINOI.IV. AKNOLD, STREET. LANCASTER, PA. raprS-tni )arkkk's ;in:i:k tonic VAVJiJtUAXUlXOS, ate. i: HAVh. new7 salk Ol'K .STOCK OF w WALL PAPER AND Window Shades. I SMtillTI.Y PAMAGKObyFIHKand WATEH Which will be sold VEUY LOW In erdei te cO0 OUt, The line vuibiaceb e cry dcsciiptien el PAPER HANGINGS, The Kicaterpait being goedi-pelcctod ler this bpi ing's Trade. , Window Shades, Paper Curtains, Arc. I CALL EAKLY FOR BARGAINS. Phares W. Fry, NOS. 12U-131 NOKTH UUKKN STKKET cleiiuxu, uxvEJin-jsAM, c. XfK 1IAVK THK IIANDSUKKST y y linesl window display in the city. AND Don't ian te steiu SILK IblNDKEliClIIEFS, SUSPENDERS, NECKTIES, MUFFLERS, POCKET-BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIGAR CASES, AT ERISMAN-S, NO. .-. NORTH O.UEK.N STREET. llVOTs & SJIOltS. f A1M1-S ASH CSr.NTs, IF YOU WANT A j Geed nnd Fine titling lioet or Shoe lie. i'l v-made or Made te Order, ee te " .. .wYnm.OTVVnan Jr. lllii !,. a. Xe. 105 Xerth Queen Street. Custom Werts Specialty. Jy2-tlclSS CLUT1IIXG. T'AN'AMAUKIt i; illiOWN Clothing that Mfears Well. Year after year out customers icturu because they are uet di:. apiieiutcd in tbe kind of Cloth ing we supply tbeui. With all our reasonable piices we insist en the goodness of tbe materials. Tbe stock of lien's and I3ey' Overcoats and Suits is still quite complete, WANAMAKER fc B110WN. Oak Hall, .Sixth .md Maiket bli; Philadelphia. :elp, KA1CJ cuAsci:. A feUlT OK HUB CLOTHES -or. ax OVERCOAT Made Up te Order at Cost Price. In elder te rcditee my heavy -deck et FINE WOOLENS I hIiiiII make them up te elder ler the NEAT TII1HTV DAYS ter Cash only at cot price. Thh is -without exception the 111 eatest iu iu luctien evi-r made in UNK CLO't'i!t, and 1 done te make room fei out heavy Spring Importations, which we expet-t In have in -.! k by the eaily part of February, We have the sample eanK of these noeds nlieady in stele, and anvenc di'Binouset seeming llrt el-eice ler Sl'KINU WKAU can de he new, and Hie 'CeiIm ill he tuineil for him. Ki-memherthe above reduction i- ler Heavy "Weights and Cash Only. H. GBRHART, TAILOR, Ne, 6 East King Street, 1I.OTII JN! ! CI.OTll INt- ! ! A -e t ili te Cle-u Out tin- l'-il.m- i! mil "WUSTTEE CLOTHING ! XV. I1AVK MAIH-. SWEEPING REDUCTIONS Throughout our Whole hand a large tock el 'U-ck, We have en HEAVY SUITS mid OVERCOATS, MAKKED AT !-UCII LOW miCl.S AS WILL l?.-t'Hi: A IXM'V (iALC. je3Ve only ask tint you call and evunine oiii-Pteck and he com ineed et what we sy D.B. ei Tailors and Clothiers, 24 CENTRE SQUARE, 2! lyd I ANCASTK1C, I1 gift liXA vrixun. WSIMOSWKAliTH mSTKlISUTlOX CO. 4lst Popular Monthly Drawing OF THB COMMONWEALTH DISTRIBUTION CO. In the City of Louisville, en TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2Bth,1882. These drawings occur monthly (Sunday excepted) under previsions et an Act et inn General Assembly et Kentucky. The United States Circuit Cem I en Match 31, rendered the tollewinj; decisiens: 1st That the Commonwealth Iittribiitleti Company Ik legal. 2rt Its draw Iukk arc lair. N. II. The Ceihiuiiv has nev. en ham! a large icserve fund. Ke the FKIHICAUY the li-"t of pi.es ier DItAWINU. 1 prize. .........-...- I prize.. ....... ............ ......... 1 prize lOprizcs $l,0Mt-uc!: 20 prizes 500 each "100 prizes $100 each 200 prizes 50 each 600 prizes 20 each lnmnrizrcilOeach .? :w,txe . 10,W.0 . n.eec ,. lO.O1 ,. 10,0 0 ,. 10,000 .. 10.00C 12,(X'0 10,000 9 prizes 300 i-ach.appioxlnritlen prizes 2,700 9 prizes SOU each, ' " 1,0 9 prizes 100 each. 9C0 l.neeprlzes Whole tickets, $2 .$112,400 tickets halt ticket-, 1 ; JM; 55 tickets, hw. . Kciuit Meuev or js.mlc IM-jlt m Letter, e: BemlliyKxprc. DON'T SEND IIY KKUIS TEKED LETTER OU i'OsTOFFICK OKDKIl. Orders of $5 and upwind, by Epre, can be sent at our expense. AiMii"" all enb-i-s te It. M. UOAKUMAN", Courier-Ieiirii.il I'mlding Louisville, Ky., Ol K. M. KOAIEIMIAN, Ureadwav. cw Verlt. lebi-TuTh&S&w txsuki: veir, iavi: stock. THE FAltMEUS' MUTUAL LIVE STOCK PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF XOHT1I AMERICA Is a responsible and progressive company, and prides itself in the prompt and lull pay ment of all its losses. It insures against less by death whether by Arc, accident or natural causes. It accepts none but geed risks, and gives ir-ere real protection at less cost than any ether company. New is the time te insure, -while your stock is free ireni disease. J. A. WOLFURSBEUGEIt, Agent, Xe. 17 Centre fceuare. janlHmu2taw Hes teit km llanrastcr Sntclligenrer. THURSDAY EVENING, FiSB. 23, 1882. FOLK WKEKS IN IKKLAND. A (H'AIICn LAUi ;:OAIt!)lN WITU "tknaMi .n i..iuioi:e. Hei Lxpcrlmce In the Cabin of a Farmer new alie Lleuiu nil Irish CaMle What Mie Ate, UrauK, Saw, Did and Heard Tne irisli l.ami League and lt- lnlluence. Jli. I". i: l.lbbens m N. Y. Sun. Continued. DiatHleib atnl bieweis are reat tueii in hiich a ceuutiy.I hvaid of several celebrated Protestant chtiiclie- indebted te tliein for fuutls. A distiller gave i"20.000 and a Incwcr .'JIO.OOO te assibt in building an Kpis-cepal cathedial in Ceik. It is said te have cost Guinness:, the ieat brewer, C200.000 te remodel rt. Patiick's Episco pal ebuieli in Dublin and te build the ap put tenant houses. Te return te my fai :acr, Cellins, in whose lioure I saw no intoxicating liquor drunk. He tented i.etentyitetcs, et which twenty wete be, nearly worthless. Collius's tent is JL'ul, or about $170. He has slatc slatc slatc soefed his house and greatly improved it. 1I has jiNe built a stone stable and a dairy, with slate loefs. The Iaudleid ave him almost uethiuj; tewaid these iinpteveuK-uts, net even thelloeriu; of the left. The stone Cellins et oil the place. When he came heie the walls of the farm wcie mostly of clay or mud, and he has built stone ones. In this ueiyh ueiyh ueiyh boiheod the walls ate mostly built el stone. I:i butnc ease-, they are covered with eattli, and yra-.s aud ether plants are jiJewinji en them. "Tliesu walis," I said te him, ' must take up a great deal of room. That one beside your house is a yaul act ess the top.' Cellins'.-, lent is under !jt?0. h m.l sold in lee simple, appaiently a tare tiling, geueialiy brings twenty times the annual lenlal. Yet, as a lawyer in Ceik infeuued me, the avei.iu value heie new, under piesent depiessiugciiTiim.-.tance:!, is net ever $75 per acie. 1 have spoken of sjine of Collin's land as of infeiier quality. His tepert of the produce, I theieleie ialer, is net the aver aver age eiep. He s.iys thyt en thisland wheat ought te biiug 15 ewt. per acre, the ewt. of 112 pounds. On land of best quality in geed yeais wheat is eipeetedle bring 25 ewt. lu this soil of Collius's eats fre quently biinu 14 ewt. te the acre. This land produces about 1 tens of hay, and better land abjut 2 tens per acie. A patch of potatoes is called a potato gar den, even if it contain sevetal aeies. The maimer in which potatoes arc plauted was stiangc te my ee. The land is laid out in beds about four feet wide. lJetween these beds are deep ttenches one and a iialf feet wide. These beds or lidgesaie madebj tinning the sels iuwitii the plow. Theie aie four tows of potatoes te a bed These ate hand weeded, and never heed. The people m mine a heavily a- they can for potatoes ; and then, without addi lienal manuie, pill the land into wheat. Uarnyaid, guatie.uid.ittilici.il inanities aie used.' On Collius's. ! potatoes turn out about lhe tens te theneie. Potatoes have degenerated in It eland : but et late a new kind, the Champien, h.ne enceuragtd the people !e much. At an exposition iii Ceik n 1531". some latmi-i.s eiauneii i-) nave :':i raised Ireni 1 t- 15 tens per acie. Tin nips aie manuied. sewed in dulls or lows in Jlay and June, thinned, heed, and hand weeded. They tain out twelve tens te the acie. Twe men can let k out an acie in a d.iy. and two men can top an acre a day, leaving the tops en the gr- nnd. Demestic animals sell high for feed. IJeevcs sometimes weigh 11! and 11 ewt., and bi nig about ie per ewt. C'ei'il fat eilves el tiuee 'uenth sell for JL'5. Fat sheep, weighing dressed nb,ut 12ljieiinds will hi ing .-.'I, or near $15. Mr. Cellins had an exceptional pig, supposed te be a line bacon pig, lean and fat well mixed, or a "libben" pig. An Iiishman Nsaid te have kd his pig one day and starved him the next, that these might be a sti; ak of hit and stieak of lean. That pig of Mis. Celiiu's weighed whin dieted, 2'5"pjiiuds and she get .'Jl 10s. for it, or about 20 c:i:ts a pound. In view of such prices the saying of my Ceik ltndl.idy i- net strange: May the Lind el heaven spa us the American nn-at let within our reach It keens the mat- I Punt is ii.'L plentiful in enuntiy towns of the county Ceik. " The ehil lieu would pluck uoeseberiies,"' was a leaseu given ler i.ei hiving them. A ceitain pnest was supposed te hae stiawberries ami j loef-ebi'i l ie.- in hi-. L'aiden. Probably liuit loving ciiililien did net distuih these efhis icveienci'. When a retiicd lawyer took me into his i(.in!eu he unlocked the gate, lie had cut down an old eiehaid and v.euld net plant another, because the ucixbherinx childieu jet at the fmit. Collin:-, his v.ife'audl weic liding en the cart yeiur te the maiket town for but ter. I asked whether he expected that theie would be a time when theie would be no tents te imv. He answeied that he did uet. "I undei steed you te tay the ether cveniiiii that you did,' I continued. " Xe' he'ieplieil; " theie has been a piopeMlioii for the government te take the lauils and the people te pay i cut for thiitv ycais ." " And then the kind be theirs'.'"' I in termitted. ' Yes,' he an'-weied ; " but they will never giantth.it. "Mere nio.lciate things they have lelused. A' 1 we want is ic dueed lents, as the people can no longer pay high ones." On our return jeiunej I had an admira b!e oppeitunity te talk with him as he walked bv the waireii. I had called en a magiitiatc in the maiket town, a Protes taut gentleman, who had .seemed very lg lg neiant or uncommunicative. lie had. however, suggested ever-population as a leaseu for this condition of Irish attains. I had handed te this gentleman the intro duction given me by a Reman Catholic clergyman. Cellins had .suggested an offi cer in the maiket as suitable te introduce me. Hut. I was in haste and can ied the letter. The tnagisti ate said that he did net knew the priest. ''Ne,' said Cellins en my icturu, "you were wieug in two tilings. Yeu said 30U wcie from Philadel phia, and they are afraid of the Ameri cans, or de net like them, and Father O'livinc is net their kind of man " 1 told Cellins that some papers in Amer ica had said that their magistrates should be elected, as with us in some states. He replied that they are appointed frflin the aristocracy, the land holding class, and, of course, in casesef dispute between land land leuib and tenants, their sympathies arc with their own class. "If you wcie in Amciiea we should siy that your head is level," I said ; but I had te interpret the slang. " Theio has been a change iu liciand," he added, " within some ycais. Formerly the wealthy elassfcs and the learned could make dupes of the Iiish people, but of late years theie has been meie education, and the people sec things differently. Iie laud was a dark country before the Cath olic emancipation. Bcleie the passage of that act no Catholic could held office in this country. New many places arcepen te them iu the excise and elsewhere." Cellins intimated that the English are wrong in fearins the Catholic priests, for they counsel the people te peaceful meas ures, and they are the only persons who have sufficient authority ever them te quiet them down. I spoke of Father Murphy and of priests who had presided at Land League meetings. "Yes," said Cellins, ,: when peaceful measures were advised." I replied that the government would uet trust them, because it thought that the people might become excited and burst fiem the priests' control, and be cause they feared that the priests might deceive them. The remark did net please Cellins, lie said that the people were ex cited at the repeit of Father Murphy's an est because they arc se united te their priests. " One is already iu prison," he said, " Father Sheehcy ; and many tncct li ,s have been held te petition the gov ernment te release him and ether leaders of the Laud League movement." In a disturbed region in another pait of the County Cerk 1 was told of a priest who had lefused te join the League. The members refused te send their childieu te the national school under his supervision, and the people thus opposed te him did net call him Canen Desmond, but only Desmond. On the ether hand, I was told of two influential priests, lately sent out of Cerk by the bishop for being tee active iuthe Land League. They were placed in country curacies p: onvitieu baekwatd en account of the intlueucoef a wealthy Catholic clique, which doc.; uet in pjlitics held te the Conservative, late Lord Bea Bea cenlicld party, " like the Protestants," but holds te the Liberal party, which is midway between the Conservatives and Laud Leagers. It was added that one of these priests had gene te Heme te lay his case bcfoie the pope, net having been able te get the archbishop te interfere. The aichbishep did net think it pruduit te enteitain the complaint. One, at least, of Cellins lenuuks may seem unjust te the government. He said that men's constitutions have changed. They are no longer able te live en potatoes. They must ha e Indian meal and bread and tea." " I think I would have been dead," he said, " if I had been kept en potatoes ; and when men's constitutions arc altcied any laws the government can make cannot have effect." But it is free ttade iu Great Britain and Ireland that makes biead and tea cheap. The great domestic iuauufaeteiies et the people demand a w -eid. Cellins weic te maiket one day agiay fiiczc coat (there pioneunccd frize). Calling at the house I found an old woman engaged iu spinning wool for the boys clothing wool that had been beautifully carded at a factory. Col lin's coat seemed te be black and white mixed, but the fiicze is often dyed blue or led. and is also used for women's petti coats. The question of the waut of m.inu f.ietuic.s is a gieat and somewhat puzzling one. At Dublin it was surprising te lind that even the matches iu my chamber weic m.uked Louden. The want of eeal has been given as one reason of the want of mauu lactenes, but thcie is gieat anil abundant v.atei power. The want of capital is also given as a cause of the lack of manufactuies, and if we leek into this point we conic te two of the open seie.s el heland absent capitalists and want of unity. In Guy's Almanac may be found a list of landholders of 1,000 acres and up waids in the County Ceik, leaseholders of ever ninety years being put down as abso lute ewneis. There are 375 of these lautl hnldeis, of whom about 200 have iesi deuees in the county, and the remainder are entirely non resident nearly lilty per cent. ! As regards the want of capital, asked a Pietestant baukcr why they did net combine and form companies te m.inii factuic. He replied " As seen as eight Iiishmcn combine te de a thing, niue will combine te oppose them . The want of unity is owing, at least in pair, te tueir being still two nations, if I may be allowed te say s, the cenqucrers, and the con quered. Methodists and Quakeis born in li eland may be hcaid speaking contempt uously of the Irish. A woman of Scotch Presbyterian eiigin icniarkcd : "It's a common sayinir, it's a. blessed land and a cursed people," AFiicnditi Dublin said te me that the Protestants of the Xeith are as bitter as the Catholics, "and moie blamablc, as they have the sciiptures." ...1 T ftml tl.i i.t'itnmmit. in mv notebook that these who desired te be considered i the "turner ten, " and Pietectants Jrem eeuutry localities, spcaK very contempt uously of the Land League. Finally, the laws aie uuequa the qualification for higher in Ireland thau veteis being much m England On manufactures an liisli ueuiicmau .v.;id te me : " Theio aie lets of American siiecs bi ought te Ceik. Blacksmiths' tools, agricultural implements, and car pcnteis tools are brought te this country from Ameiiei. There's a fiuish and a style about them that they don't get heie." A Catholic manufacturer attrib utpd the want of manufactures te the lack of .skill and knowledge in the people ; but does this account for the decline in m.tuu factiiies'.' As lately as 18"7 there were 100,000 hides tatined yearly at Cerk. It had seven iron foundries, live factories of snades and shovels, numerous and exten sive paper mills, and two large houses makiii!r flint idass. But where arc most of thein new? My spiightly little landlady at Cerk, a Catholic, expressed in very simple tcims a natural reason for this de cline, saying: " We want energy, for thcic's net an atom of tiadc that the Eng lish de net sneil. There was a cotton factory heie in Cerk, and the English sent their goods in and sold thejn a half penny lower. They have ciushcd us out of the maiket in v.uieus ways. Theio is a little screed of liuen manufaetuic in the north, but I believe that they cannot make it as geed in Euglaud.' However, Mr. Mahony, a successful manufacturer of tweeds at Blarney, says that manufactures arc lcviving in Ireland. He thinks that 'J00 power looms have been established within fifteen years. I talked with a working farmer, lie had a tidy place near Cerk, perhaps the neatest farm house I saw, although there was no fleer and no window in the princi pal room. Twe hearty children and a do mestic were present. The wife had been confined that morning, and the husband's breath indicated potations. " Such," said my landlady, who accompanied me, " de net emnlev'a physician, but a 4 kuowlcdge able woman.' She is net iccemmcnded for skill in her profession, but ' she is lucky.' Had we gene into the room where the baby was, it would have been insisted en that we should take a glass of punch or we'd take away the beauty of the baby." Dan Donevau, the father, said that he had sixty-live acres, all tillable, for which he paid the landlord l,14'! yearly. He was also obliged te pay 112 a year te the widows of the man who rented the farm before him. His taxes amounted te about 23, if net mere, making the whole outlay in money about 830 a year for sixty-flve acres. lie uau ncen mere noeui iuur years, and was only a yearly tenant, but lie had manured the farm and put it in heart. That he was one el the very tiiriv ,- -.. nvirleniMri bv his stock eight cew.s eight calves, a piir of her,es and a foal, a pair of donkeys aud twelve JK. lie employed mere hands than an American weuldcmplcy en se small a farm four laborers at six shillings a week atid their diet aud ledgiug, which cost him as much mere. He told us that he could net get ahead at all. "I am iu debt te my master. He's a very intelligent man and fend of aie. When I paid last year's rent the landlord premised some abatement this year." Donevau is a voter. Te a person of ex perience 1 mentieued hew many hands Donevan employed. He answered : " He cannot get aleug with less, as lie hauls manure from the city and hand-weeds." The speaker himself has four hands hand weeding grain fields, "taking out thistles aud deck roots that a previous tenant left as a been." On another walk I saw two meji beside the read, one of them a remarkably neat old man, a farmer. They confirmed what I had heard, that very few around there could affeul te save their hay aud straw and feed cattle during the winter te manuie their farms. " Hew de thv manage them?" I asked. "Like that man," pointing te a haud haud haud soiue Held opposite; "let land at five pounds an acre te these who have matiuie pits " Such, I understand, aie men who, hav ing donkey carts, go around Cerk gather ing fietn houses the offal aud g.ubage te thiew into these pits. I have said that Donevau was a voter, and this brings up the most serious com plaint that the Irish have against theBiit tsli government the inequality of the suffrage. While in Euglaud these who live iu towns have household suffrage, and even the ledger franchise, entitling them te vote for members of Pailiament, the qualification of Iiish voters is iu towns tour pounds rent aud in counties twelve I see by a late estimate that in Englaud two mcti out of live aie veteis ; iu Ireland only one out of live is a voter. As te the operation of this high property qualifica tion, we may ebserve that the ceuuty of Cerk, having a population in 1871 of oier 300,000, returns uuder 13,000 votes. The city, having within the paili.imentaiy beuudaiy nearly 08,000, ivc.s under 3,000 votes ! But here is an illustration of the old rotten boieugh system of Englaud : The county of Ceik, with ever 11,000 veteis, elects two members at large. The city of Cerk, with ever -1.000 veteis, elects two membcis, while four beiuughs in the county elect each a member. Thus Bran Bran eon has i:0 veteis:, Mallow 29:),, Yeuugh 280, Kiusaie 191. If new v.-- come te teachers as veteis. I hear that of the teachers of lieland net mere than one-twentieth can vote for members. This probably refeis te teach crs of national schools, neaily resembling our public schools. II. I beaidcd some days at a castle, the residence of a gentleman who fermcily be longed te one of the learned professions. Had his tenants been paying rent, it is possible that 1 should net have been re ceived as a boarder. Te this castle I went by rail. On the way I saw soldiers, el course, but they wete se common that I hardly noticed them. The castle was a handsome stone building in a gieve. The wall el the old part measuicd six feet in the embrasures of the windows. The new part measured three feet. I was shown into a greit parlor, baiely furnished, with atuifliie in the grate. It was in June. I call my host, Mr. Leftus. The family were Protestant and Conservative They wcie members of the Church of Ireland as the Episcopal church is called since its disestablishment. The tenants of Mr. Leftus sent a dele gatien te him. They ettered rent en the basis of Griffith's valuation, which Mr. Leltus declined, lie ettered te allow them about one-fourth of the proposed reduc tion, or ever sixteen per cent, en the rate of tent. It was inconvenient for him, te say the. least, as he had annuities te pay and bills te meet. Heie I may add that a lawyer in Cerk told :uc that the present unsettled state of a Hairs puts everybody en his guard against spending money, and se the laborers suffer. Seme landlords have gene without their icnt for tv.ejcais perhaps longer. Thus the bettuni scorn-. , te he dropping out of society. ' Mr. Leftus legictted the condition of t the laborers in this distiict. The ve. y. f.unici who lefiiacd them rent received ( rent himself fiem the l.ibeicr. I heaid of , a larmcr who lias inree i.uju.eius aeu- him. Mr. Prier lets the laud te the Os-1 berncs, who get it fiem him en a perpet ual lease el 2.s. (id. pcractc. The O.sbernes lei it te Daniel MeUiide, who has bought out a lease, but who had te pay also 10s. I3d. per acre. Daniel McBride has ether occupations, and docs net wetic the land himself, but rents te a faircer, who takes portion of the land and pays McBiide 17s. per acre. As said farmer holds thirty-six aeies, possibly he has one or two labeiers' houses which he rents out te men who would thus have four landleid" above them. Te return te Mr. Leftus. "The farmers of this county, ' said he, "are the weist in the world. Thev diive the l.ibeieis vciy hard, aud tie.it them badly. Oiteu , they de net give them a house lit te put :t pig into. The houses ate reefed with sods, as they want the straw for f.uiuiu- ' purposes. Xcaily all the peer people he1 en straw beds ; and it is haul te get stiaw fi ein the fai mei s. They allow the labor it about one-fourth of an acre for his potato patch, aud charge him rent of from 2 te Hi, sometimes iu advance. Tne laborer's wages may be counted at one shilling a day the year round, and as his wife weiks in harvest we may reckon ucrs at sixpc.icu a day for six months. I bpeak only of my own neighborhood. I de net knew the Kites in ethers. There is near here a cluster of about a dozen cabins, all upon one farm. They aie mud walled and wietchedly ioeR-d. A quarter of an acre of miserable boggy land is set apart for each tenant, and there is a large peel of t. ..,-. i-.t wati-r oimesitc each house. The teuant pajs in advance 2 10s. yearly. The farmer sometimes makes the whole lent of his farm by what he receives from these people. I think the place a nuisance aim liable te breed a fever. Nene of these houses ve windows, and many have no doers, except bunches of furze. The walls are prepped up en the outside with pieces of bogweod te keep them from tumbling The. laborer, having no eutbuildiugs, must necessarily protect his precious domestic animals under his own reef. Most laborers have a goat, and the poorest have peultrv, but since the potato famine pigs have net been kept as before. Sometimes, however, there is a donkey. "The children of the laborer," said Mr. Leftus. "irotethc national school until they are about 12 years old. In most cases they go winter and summer without shoes and stockings. The laborer takes crcat pride and pleasure in being able te send his children te school. Laborers go te mass en Sunday, and in the afternoon may often be seen in the house, or beside a ditch reading a newspaper. After mass they play ball in parties against each ether, or have a fiddler and dance en the green or under trees. And they play caids, i.cnrrinllv in Dublin county, wheiejeu of ' can sec them en bunuays niaying en me , banks of the ditches under shelter el a wall." "What games de they play ?" I asked ' " Forty-hve and spoil five,-' he replied. The laborer has no political privileges. Unless he pays a rent of ever live pounds he pays no peer rates, aud no ether taxes except the county or grand jury cases, aud for malicious injuries, such as burn ings. He pays this tax, but is net allowed te vote. " Would you put us under the Papists?" once cried an Irish Protestant ou the question of universal suffrage. On one occasion, when Mr. Leftus's man was driving for me, he speke of the desire or the efforts of the laborer te keep his little family together, for in the unions or poorhouses, the sexes are separated. Mr. Leftus pointed out te me a buildiug which he called the curse of the country. It is a union. "Children," he said, " brought up there are well led, and idle, and uever want te work." The uumber uumber ef these houses aud the amount of money paid te sustain them seem almost incredi ble. Mr. Leftus's district is very heavily taxed, about live shillings in the pound, or 23 per cent, en the valuation of a man's property. The farmer pays this rate, but the landlord allows him half. In the county of Cerk there are sixteen poor peer houses. The one iu Mr. Leftus's district contains about 400 inmates, and the ene in Cerk ever 1,000. The Cerk peer rate amounts te from 2 te 4 shillings a pound annually en every pound valuation of houses and lands, but the valuation for taxes only about GO per cent of the aunual income. When the country is poorest these taxes aie heaviest. Very few who go into the unions ever get out, exoeptiug children. Said a guardian of the peer : " What causes the rmmense number of paupers in Ireland is the able-bodied persons leaving the isle. All the lower classes here speak of America as their home or final place of settlement. When the peeple send part of the money for their children the beard of peer law guardians will sometimes supplement it gratuitously and send the children out at their ewu expense. The beard sometimes seuds out lets of young women that are in the unions." The region in which Mr. Leftus lives is a disturbed one. Ou a recent Suuday a Land League meeting was te be held in the town. It had been extensively adver tised iu the newspapers. On the day before the meeting was te be held the lord lieu tenant issued a proclamation forbidding it. About 200 dragoons aud infantry and 100 armed police arrived at the town, bringing with them previsions, us no farmer nor storekceperweulddarcto sell any te them. One storekeeper had already been boy cotted for net joining the Land League. On the appointed Sunday, after mass, or about 1 o'clock, some 5,000 or (5,000 people came together, with bauds of music. Five or six Reman Catholic clergymen were among them erecting a platform en sonie ether spot. Twe stipendiary, or salaried, magistrates were present. At the solicita tion of tire priests, they agreed that the .soldiers aud poliee should net in terfere with the people if they listened te no speeches, but simply formed iu an orderly precession aud paraded iu the town. The affair weut off peaceably, and the people weut quietly home, although feeling much discontent at the action of the priests. If they had net obeyed the contract the priests would have retired and left them te the mercy of the armed men. At dinner, ene day, in the course of conversation, Mr. Leftus said: "The country's well enough if it is left alone." 'But," said I, "you approve perhaps of one agitator, O'Cenncll ; you like the ett'ects of Catholic emancipation?" " O'Cenncll," he cried, " the best man Ireland ever produced ; a clever man. Net such a fellow as this Parncll, net fit te clean O'Cenn all's shoes in cleverness. O'Connell never allowed any quarrelling or disturbance. He kept up the agitation but the people were kept in order. The repeal collections were kept up, but there wes nothing like the weuuding aud killing that is going en in these times." I askeil whether there might net be a home Parliament for local affairs.and dele gates te a general Parliament. He an swered that the people are se much given te eonteutieu that they could net carry en affairs. " If half a dezeu of them," he added, " come together at a peer law meeting, they can't behave themselves." Concluded to-merrow.l Mi--rs. Jeiricss, Kebcrts & Ce., Seuth llos lles llos teii, Va., wi itc: " Have used Dr. Hull's Cough .Syrup and pioneunccd it the hest medicine in iie. A cusp of consumption here was cured ly lis use. Wi cheerfully recommend it te all suircicis." Ii ice only !E cents. It is the. heignt et Telly te wait until you ate in bed with disease that may last month, when you can he cured by u timely useet Parker's Ginger Tonic. We liavn known sickly iamiliui made the healthiest by it. Oh- Noting the KITects. K. (Jihhsei Buffalo. N. Y., writes: " Hcur i ' veur ISurdeck llloed Hitters favorably Miek'en of. I was induced te watcli their effect, and lliMl that in chronic diseases el the bleed, liver ami kidneys, your bitters have been sig nally marked with success. I have used them iiiyM-lf with best results, ier torpidity or the liver ;iiiul in case of a Mend of mine hUtTer intf liem dropsy, thn effect was marvelous." I'liccfl. rei-sine at ii. j. uwuimi e ..i", -teie, I'lTNei Ih Queen stieet. , Lancaster. A Bcavy Swell. Jacob II. Itloemer. et Virgllh-, X. -. writes: - our Themas' Eclcctrle Oil cuied a badly swelled neck and sere threat en my son In leitvelaht lieun ; one application also re moved the pain Ireni it veiy sere tee: my We'-, loot was also much inllamed se much w, that she could net walk about the house; h: applied thc-Oll, and in twenty-four hours wincialrclv cured." Fer wile at II. . Coch Cech lan's li uis store, 137 Xerth Queen stieet, 1 nn t aster. The Itltit Sert of General. .Jacob Srmith, Clinten street, Iluffnle.Huy.s he hasu-ed bpiin;,' ISHhsehi in his lamily as a L'cnural medicine ter eases of indigestion, bll: ieusness, bewi-1 and kidney complaints, ane di-orders ari-diu; fiem inipurltiejef thebloed ; i.. mMn lilir ilv or lis euicacy. i i ij .-"" Ker sale lit. II. 1'- Cochran's drug store Xerth Queen street, Lancaster. 137 CHINA AMU Ot,AtiSWAJCA. 1r A- MAIIT1X. AT CHINA HALL. Wc have new open a large assortment el CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENSWARE. WK HAVE THE BEST MAKES OF WAKE IX THE MAKKET. u r. OfAKASTEB OCK WARES. We Exchange any Goods net Satisfactory. We have always en hand a large let of DAMAGED WARE. 43-CALL AXD HE CONVINCED. High & Martin, 15 BAST KING STREET. wmm
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