Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — TROOPS IN IRELAND. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS IN IRELAND.

An Army ot Nearly Thirty Thousand There. Philadelphia Ledger. Ireland always absorbs a very large poition of the military forces at home, and jost now there are some 200 more troops there than twelve months ago. Prince Edward of Baxe-Weiinar has command of about 27,300 officers and men, with 3,000 horses and 60 guns, the whole being divided into three com* mands. In the Belfast district, under Major General Wiseman-Clarke, there are 4,300 officers and men, and 450 horses, constituting a regiment of cavalry, 300 artillerymen, four battalions and three depots of infantry, and a proportion of departmental troops. In the Dublin district there are about 14,000 men, 2,000 horses and 28 field guns, forming three regiment of cavalry, six batteres of artillery, three engineer companies, fourteen battalions and three depots of infantry, eight companies of the commissariat and transport corps, and two divisions of the medical staff. In the Cork District, where Major General Stevenson commands there are two cavalry regiments, seven batteries of artillery, an engineer company, eight battalions and two depota.of infantry ad a few departmental troops, making up altogether B,Boo’officers and men with 1,100 horses and 24 field guns. The present total of troops in Ireland is thenearest approachtothe 30,000, which is the highest reeord of recent years. Mrs: VlrgiifiaHansbhhMbeeh elected to her third term as State Librarian of Kentucky.