The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

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Very encouraging and gratifying iiformation as to
the good condition of the crops is received from most
parts of the country. In all places farmers are busily
getting in their hay, the saving of which has been
satisfactorily effected. A large breadth of the grain
crop still presents • green appearance, but with such
weather as we at present enjoy this cannot last long.
The potato as yet shows almost complete impunity
from the dreaded blight and is of the most excellent
quality.
THIMATNNING NOTICE& —The cowardly missives con-
tinue to be sent in various parts of the south of Ireland
especially in the county of Tipperary. In the local
journals • number of reporte are given, which strikingly
exhibit the disturbed state of he district.

In the county of Longford the conatabulery have
collected 50 stand of anus (rum the people, some of them
in fine condition. They consisted of guns, pistols,
swords, and bayonets. In the course of their se irch for
arms tiny found a set of mail bags lost so far bask as
October, 1859. and whioh contained money to the
amount of £lOO. They were found in the house of a
farmer named Murphy, and in a good state of preserva-
tion.

There is a set of young women in the South Dublin
Union workhouse who are incorrigible savages. They
have been imprisoned several times for outrages, and
nothing DOOMS capable of reclaiming them. On Sunday
night the mistress of the probationary ward locked up
the girls as usual in their dormitory. at the regular
hoar, 7 o'clock, when there was no min of anything
wrong. Between 10 and 11 o'clock they piled up the
beds and bedding, set fire to them, and, having escaped
through a window, they looked on from the yard at the
operations of the tames. Property to the amount of
£4O was destroyed before the fire WAD discovered, and
had it not been extinguished in time a number of lives
would have been lost. They confessed the crime, and
seemed to exult in it with the most brazes impu-
dence. It is surely an abuse of the poor house
system to be pampering such persons in idleness and
vice! _

PIIIIEBOOTION 70It RELIGION IN lIIELAND.—A local
Journal shows that a bitter feeling of sectarian animosity
haa been excited in the county Kerry. A young man
named Harold, who was recently attacked violently in
a fair, and narrowly escaped, has again been assailed
and his life threatened. It appears that he has become
obnoxious to the Roman Catholic party because he has
presumed to hold prayer meetings in his house, at
which two children, over whom their father, • Pro-
testant, had appointed him guardian, thought proper to
attend, contrary to the wishes of their Roman Catholic
mother. For this be has been repeatedly denounced
from the altar, and the result is that he is exposed to
the vengeance of the populace.
Something like • reign of terror still prevails in
Tipperary. Mr. William Scully, brother of the member
for the colinty of Cork, travels about on business aocom-
peeled by two sinned policemen, who keep a sharp
look-out at arose roads, short tarns, and in the neigh-
bourhood of walls and hedges. He always carries arms,
and takes care that the road he is to take is not
known. He mistrusts every one even the
postman, who his obliged to place Mr. Scully's
letters and papers on the ground before he
wines within pistol-shot. It has been suggested that it
would be Note prudent for thisgentleman to change his
residence than to be exposed to such tremendous risks.
It will not be easr to evade the persevering. patient
hatred of his enemies; but it sometimes happens,
even in Ireland, that "threatened people live long."