THE IRISH REPUBLIC

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 9, 1895.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Irish Republic.

   There is rich satire in the cable dispatch which was sent from London to that convention in Chicago, exhorting the Irish of America to stand unitedly for the freedom of the country. If the Irishmen of Ireland had stood united, even those of them in the British parliament, home rule for Ireland would now be very near if not an accomplished fact. It might not have been actual independence and an Irish republic, such as many of Erin's patrons in America are clamoring for at the safe distance of 3,000 miles, but it would be such independence as a state of the American Union enjoys, which is enough for anybody. Only for the disastrous splits and sub-splits of the Irish members of parliament the Conservatives would never have returned such a majority in the present parliament. Under the circumstances it looks well, does it not, for Irishmen in London to cable to the delegates to the convention of Irish Nationalists in Chicago to "stand united?"

   If Irish independence could have been achieved in America, the thing would have been done long ago. Money and eloquence have poured from this country across to the Emerald Isle in a steady stream.

   ◘ Remarkable is that statement made by a medical man who has attended the leading prizefighters of the time that Corbett, the champion, is a coward in the grain of him, and that he is scared into a blue funk every time there is any prospect of his meeting a man of his size. The doctor believes Fitzsimmons will whip Corbett because Fitz has confidence in himself. Corbett ought to be whipped. Then somebody stronger than Fitzsimmons ought to arise and whip him, and the process should continue till the whole brutal, gambling, debauching business of prizefighting is abolished, likewise White Capism and the aristocracy of money. They all alike are relics of barbarism.

   ◘ When politics is comparatively quiet in a given state, it may be taken for granted that its people are prosperous and so busy making money that they have no time to waste elsewhere.

   ◘ New Jersey has probably the best country roads of any state in the Union. Over them the farmer finds he can haul nearly twice as heavy a load with the same horses as he was able to do under the old system of rut and mudhole. Under the excellent plan of roadmaking and repairing now in use, farm property has increased in value, the farmer is able to save both time and expense in going to and from market, and the whole state within an area of a hundred miles of New York is becoming apparently a suburb of the big city and a market garden for it. Besides that, hundreds of families are attracted as residents to New Jersey. The drives are delightful and trolleys are cheap and abundant. The era of prosperity was inaugurated with the movement for good roads. The expenses of road building in New Jersey are apportioned as follows: The state pays 33 per cent of the cost, the county through which the road passes 57 per cent and the property owners along the route of the new road 10 per cent, which makes the tax come light upon them.

Charles Stewart Parnell.

Timothy M. Healy.

A THIRD IRISH PARTY.

Healy's Fight With McCarthy May Cause an Anti-Parnellite Split.

   Timothy Michael Healy, the famous Irish M. P. who materially aided in driving Charles Steward Parnell into retirement and an early grave, after Parnell's social shortcomings had been exploited in the divorce courts, is now endeavoring to force Justin Huntley McCarthy, the present leader of the Anti-Parnellite faction, from his place. Healy is also at odds with John Dillon, M. P., McCarthy's chief lieutenant in the conduct of the party's affairs. Healy hates McCarthy and Dillon as heartily as he hated Parnell after the great Irish leader refused to surrender the scepter, and there seems excellent reason for believing that if Healy does not succeed in driving McCarthy from the chairmanship of the Anti-Parnellites he will cause a split in the most powerful faction battling for Irish home rule. In this event there will be three Irish parties in parliament engaged in a Kilkenny cat sort of strife that will effectually kill whatever little chance Ireland may at present have of securing home rule.

   Healy was born May 17, 1855, at Bantry, in the county of Cork. From boyhood he displayed great interest in Ireland's political struggles, and at the age of 25 was arrested for delivering an incendiary speech at Bantry. He escaped conviction, and soon thereafter was elected to parliament from Wexford. Once in the commons he speedily established a reputation, owing to his zeal for Ireland and his marked talent as an orator. In November, 1881, he and T. P. O'Connor attended the Land League convention held in Chicago, and his wealth of Irish wit, his fiery oratory, his pathos and his pugnacity won for him many admirers. The Land League voted $250,000 to assist the Irish movement, and the American tour was a glorious success.

   In 1883 Healy served four months in prison for seditious speech, and the following year was called to the Irish bar. In 1890, when Parnell was driven from the party leadership, Healy abused him with a virulence that shocked even the other enemies of Parnell. Since then Healy has been very conspicuous in Irish matters, and he will doubtless have a party of his own before long.

BATTLEFIELDS ON CYCLES.

A Very Interesting Tour Taken by Officers of the Army.

   A special dispatch from Fortress Monroe to the Baltimore American says:

   "As an instance of the professional work done by the energetic student officers of Fortress Monroe, the recent bicycle tour of the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, made by Lieuts. W. O. Davis, (of McGrawville, N. Y.,) Fifth artillery, and A. W. Chase, Second artillery, was a unique method of familiarizing those officers with many of the famous battlefields of the late war. They made a twenty six days' tour by way of Petersburg, Lynchburg, Lexington, New Market, Front Royal, Winchester, Antietam, Gettysburg, Manassas, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness and the successive fields of Grant's advance on Richmond. Riding heavy wheels and carrying baggage, as in heavy service marching, they made the entire trip on their bicycles, traveling the roads used by the two armies in the strategic marches of the late war, and critically examining the principal battlefields. They carried a camera, and took over three hundred views enroute, showing the terrain of the fields of combat and the principal features of the country traversed. It is said that they are now at work on an official report of the trip, embodying a carefully kept 'roadbook,' giving military character of the roads and the present condition as to preservation of the mere prominent battlefields."

A VERY CRAZY MAN

Ran Into the Arms of Chief Linderman this Morning.

   This morning when Chief Linderman made his regular trip to the E., C. & N. station he found there a man dressed in blue overalls and frock and without a hat running up and down the railroad yard, climbing over freight cars. A decided impression was made upon the minds of the residents of that section of the town that he was either a wild man or an escaped lunatic. The chief promptly placed him under arrest and on the way to the cooler the prisoner expressed a desire to be hung and shot. He said his name was John, but would give no further clue to his identity.

   It was afterward found that he escaped from the county house last night and that he was picked up in Solon and brought there yesterday. Keeper Kingsbury was notified and came down after the man this morning, but who he is or where he came from is not known by the authorities.

Old Central Depot Burned.

   The old New York Central depot in Syracuse which was abandoned for the new Station Sunday and which had been partly torn down on Monday and Tuesday was destroyed by fire last night between 8 and 9 o'clock. It is not known how the fire started. Through trains east and west had to be switched around the city on the freight route from East Syracuse to Geddes and local trains from the vicinity of the station were made up to carry passengers east and west to meet the through trains at the freight junctions. Armies of rats filled the streets having been driven out by the flames from under the old station.

Y. M. C. A. WORK

Outlined at a Conference at Mr. C. F. Wickwire's Last Night.

   Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wickwire's home last evening opened in honor of a meeting of the different committees of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. The plans of association work were presented by the secretary, Mr. Osterhout. Miss M. H. Taylor, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who was present, briefly outlined the line of work to be brought before the people of Cortland at the secretaries' conference, in this place, Oct. 30. College secretary Miss N. J. Allen's remarks concerning the work of the Y. W. C. A. among colleges and educational institutions were listened to with much interest.

   After light refreshments were served the time was passed in a social informal way and Mrs. Wickwire's reputation as hostess was fully sustained by the hospitality shown last evening.

JURY DISAGREE

In the Case of McCarthy vs. The Town. Fitts Case Called.

   The case of Mary McCarthy vs. The Town of Cortlandville which was on trial Monday and Tuesday went to the jury last night. The jury failed to agree and was discharged.

   The case of William C. Keating vs. George Fitts was called. This is an action for damages for false imprisonment, the amount claimed being $25,000. Fitts was buncoed out of a considerable sum of money in the spring of 1892. Keating was arrested on the charge of being one of the parties and was kept in jail here in Cortland for some time. He was finally discharged, there being no proof against him, and now claims damages from Fitts. The plaintiff is represented by Harry S. Pattern, O. U. Kellogg and John Courtney, Jr.; the defendant by G. M. Stoddard and Samuel Haliday. Four witnesses have been sworn.

BREVITIES.

   —The hospital is in want of its winter supply of potatoes. Donations will be very acceptable.

   —Rev. B. B. W. Turner, the new M. E. minister for Freetown, will preach on Sunday at both Freetown and East Freetown.

   —Regular convocation of Cortland chapter No. 194, R. A. M., to-night. The Mark degree will be worked on two candidates. All chapter masons are requested to be present.

   —Friday, Oct. 18, will be observed in the public schools as Hospital day. The interest shown by the parents through their children in previous years has been very gratifying. More definite instructions will be received later.

   —The box factory of McGraw & Son at McGrawville is doing a thriving business. Paper boxes are made of all sizes and are shipped all over the country. An order for 14,000 boxes received Saturday is but a sample of what almost every mail brings.

   —Owing to the unpleasant weather, the ladies' of Homer will not hold their trolley party for the benefit of the Old Ladies Home to-day, but have postponed it till to-morrow. If the weather is still unpleasant, the party will be postponed till the first pleasant day.

   —A traveler going through the city this morning on a Lehigh Valley train carried two large satchels, which was not at all unusual, but the fact that one contained two half-grown wildcats and the other an alligator made it appear like a small menagerie.—Ithaca Journal

   —A number of the members of the Cortland county bar have received invitations to a reception to be given by the Century club of Syracuse to the members of the Onondaga county bar in honor of the justices of the general term of the supreme court which is now in session in Syracuse. The invitation was signed by P. B. McLennan, president.

   —Hon. P. H. McGraw is fully convinced that when the Erie & Central

New York railroad is built from Cortland to Cincinnatus, and then on further east a very paying investment would be an electric road from Cincinnatus up to the bustling little town of Otselic. There would be a great deal of way freight as well [as] passenger traffic through the fertile Otselic valley.

   —The regular meeting of the Sons of Veterans Friday night should draw out a large attendance. The members of the McGrawville camp with their ladies are expected and the members of the local camp are requested to bring lady friends. The ladies of Grover Relief Corps are also especially invited. The camp will meet promptly at 7:30 for the business session.

   —It is a fact that when the sun is visible a watch may take the place of a compass. This information will be of value to anglers and other sportsmen in emergency. Point the hour hand of a watch to the sun and south is exactly half way between the hour and figure 12 on the watch. For example, if it be 4 o'clock point the hand indicating 4 to the sun, and the 2 on the watch will indicate due south. If it be 8 o'clock in the morning point the hand indicating 8 to the sun and the figure 10 on the watch is due south. If the hour hand be at 3 due south will be exactly half way between 1 and 2, and so on.