CHAPTER XXIII.

1881.

Elm and All Its People Destroyed by an Avalanche--A Foot Trip in Ireland--Fenians--Red Coats--Poverty--The Queen Hooted--Out of Jail and a Hero--Muckross Abbey by Moonlight--An Irish Funeral--A Duplicate Blarney Stone-- Letters from General Sherman--The Duke of Wellington--The Assassination of President Garfield. 205