General News

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4482, 17 May 1883, Page 2

General News

Mr Redmond, IYT.P., is far too moderate for some of the wild Irishman in Queens* loud, but this deficiency is tcade up for by his associates. One rather rabid opponent of anything in the way of England's rule or England's Crown said tki other

evening, after youusf Redmond and Walsh had been speaking at Ipswich, " Sure thim's the bhoys j bedad they're worth a do2en of the M.P., with hit loyalty to the Queen and his goodwill to all mea preachin'. Shure what the devil's ■ the good of a man that won't wake us up. Lyalty to tha Queen —bad scran to him for a half-bred Sassenach." The Pall Mall Gazette records a tale of horrible cruelty by a stepmother to a little girl, aged 11 years. The unfortunate little victim was clothed in rags, starved, and once left for three days and V' nights without any food whatever. Her body was covered with bruises and sores, - both her eyes were blackened, and her ; toes were so injured that, they would shortly have dropped off. Her stepmother had branded her on the back with a hot poker. She held her Euger in a lamp to burn it, and put it in a door and squeezed it. She also dug a fork into her hand. The girl had a chilblain, and after hammering it with a hammer the stepi mother put it into boiling water, and then covered it with salt and then with sugar. Every day before 9he dressed it she used.: to strike it with a piece of wood. 8h» also hit the girl several times on the head with a cane. As a result of "mental sympathy " caused by this ill-treatment, the girl has now got heart disease, and will probably die. "Have 4.card, sir?" asked the doorkeeper of the house. The man loooked a little surprised, and answered, "Card? No, I don't carry a pack." Where, tri you from?" inquired the doorUeeDer "Nothe Carliny," was the £2t' " What do you do down in North Carolina when you go a visiting ? Don't you send * in a card to the man you want to sooP" The tarheei laughed outright. "Lor * massy I" he exclaimed. •' Why, we ride up to a feller's fence and holler to him to tie up his dog, and then we light and go in. "—American Paper.

The police know Very well who " Fo. 1" is, but he is not within their grasp. He was in Dublin not. long ago, but managed to get away before Carey gave information •bout him. He is an Irishman, and lived in Kingstown for some time, where his wife had a lodging-house. He afterwards removed to London, which appears to bore been his head-quarters. . It is a mistake, however, to suppose that because of his title he isa person of commanding authority in the conspiracy. He was not the leader •r head of tbe " Invincibles." but an organiser having higher rank than otiiei •gents, biit still subordinate to a superior executive.

The New York Herald says that Ireland wants altogether a new set of patriot?. The men who are to lead her to freedom must be men oi unblemished teputation, like O'Connell, not men whose methods resemble that of runaway cashier.

A resident at Ararat, living in a tent Bear the township, bad occasion to be absent for a few hours. On his return. so says the P. C News, he was surprised to find, all that remained of his habitation were a few shreds of calico hanging from tbe ridge pole, while, near by, a couple of cows were contemplating the frame »nd ruminating calico. A sturdy ctlf, m«de bold by the example of its elders, essayed to put away a pair of moleskin trousers in a similar fashion. It seemed to have managed the legs, but could get ao farther. In the midst of its attempts to make a clean fini-h the indignant owner armed, and withdrew, his property with great promptitude.