The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-27 00:00:00

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SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

Information hie been espaliered at Athboy, count,
Meath, of • diabolical attempt at murder. Tbe
particulars are as follows t—The victim is one Thomas
Misgaghey, living at Kliegs°, near Athboy, an old
man of about 60 or 65, quiet and Inoffensive, hardly
capable of incurring the displeasure of anyone. He is
• constabulary pensioner, having left the twos some
twenty yews ago. Magagitey and his family live
quietly in the lodge houh of Mr. Blood, a bergs
farmer, whose residence is but • few hundred yards
distant, and who frequently employs Magegney
and hie Pas in farm work. On Sunday the
old man was sitting in the kitchen of Me house
readin; a eswimper to the members of his
(Araby who bep..enord to be pressot, as al.o to • friend
who had just dropped in, wow they were startled by
the abrupt eetr wce of two men. Mageghey started
up, but his simi silents immosiwely re.ognising him
presented a carbine, or blunderbuss, point blank and
bred, the °entente lodging in his shoulder. Though
almost mortally wounded, the brave old mien rnthed
at his would-be murderer., who at MOO got out of
the house. Magaghey then sank down exhausted.
His daughter, then looking thy ..tqh the window, saw
four men c wily walk &wee. No one attempted to
molest them or follow. So great is the terrorism that
no
tram of the assassins can be obtained. The men
I mass all disguised, had blackened faces and false
beards, and are evidently strangers to the locality. It
is said that Hr. Mood, the owner of the lodge where
IlLageghey now Bun, received • threatening letter
seine two year. ago warping him to get rid of Magag•
boy on his peril. irtageghey's son works as • gardener
aboa,t the coliolri. and he himself is occasion.by
employed by farmers about. It is not expected that
1/Lagsghey will recover, his wounds are of so severe •
nature. The priori* slug wound has made the hole
large enough to insert two fingers from the top of his
left shoulder coming out under his arm at the breast.
The police have suspicions, and no do lot in a day or
two several arrests will be made. Dr. It Kinsey Atithoy,
and Dr. Hackett, and • medical gentleman from Clon-
mellon, render every possible aid to the wounded
man, hut they entertain very small lives of his
recovery.
A movement of a remarkable character is announced
in coenexion with the Irish land question. Many of
the leadhis landlords have resolved on forming • cam.
bination styled the Land Corporation of Ireland, with
• capital of £750,000, and • guarantee fund of £125,000,
which latter hoe been already subscribed, amongst the
chief subscribers Whirr the Duke of Devonshire, the
Marquises of Bath, Waterford, and Ormond, end Lord
Fit:snits= The undertaking, which is non-political
and unsectarien, proposes to counteract the designs of
the Land League by cultivating the farms from which
tenants are evicted for refusing to pay rent, and vrahts
will also be made to landlords whose farms are thrown
on their hands.—A party of shout 50 men were sur-
prised whilst drilling on Thursday, near Kilmore, and
the police suooe.ded in capturing eight of them.—A
" moonlight" outrage is reported from Sallintaffy, •
man having been fired at and severely wounded for
having recently taken • holding from which a farmer
was evicted two years ego.
Some men working in • bog near Virginia. county
Cavan, hays found the remains of a fall-grown female.
The police, having been communicated with, took charge
of the body, which was in a perfect state of itemervatlon
and wrapped in • horse cover. The body has been
identified as that of • young girl who was in the
employment of • farmer named Jennings about five
years ago. Jennings has been arrested. The Inquest
ham been adjourned pending further inquiries-
An extraordinary scene took place on Wednesday
evening between Colonel Wowing Llepenstall, J.P.,
end one of his tenants. It appear@ that a man named
Hand wan cutting turf when he was suddenly accosted
by the colonel, who told him he had no right to be
there or to cut any turf. Hand persisted, and the
colonel in his efforts to prevent him jumped into •
bog-hele, went up to his neck in mud, sad was with
great difficulty extricated. Hs then called on his own
servants to prevent Hind from cutting turf. The
servants, ten in number, refused to obey, and were
Instantly dismissed by the colonel, who told them to
clear out at once. Colonel Hepenstall bag been under
Wipe protection for a long thus, and has lately got
Weirrd iDereaged from two to four men. Hehas
gone through the Land Court, and the majority
of hie tenants express themselves dissatisfied with the
decisions of the Land Commissioners.
An enormous crowd of labourers arrived in Dublin
on Saturday evening from the West of Ireland Ca reefs
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for ngland for harvesting operations. The Liverpool
and Holyhead steamers could only convey a small
Proportion of them, and 1,000 remained. Application
for aid to the High Sheriff and Lai Mayor were
I unavailing, and they nineties.] in the streets.
The will in the celebrated Begot wee glee 5444
Proved in Dublin on Friday, the utipati having mad.
onsagemat.