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

frelant.

Very eaciouraging and gratifying information 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 hey, the saving of whieb has been
satisfactorily effected. A large breadth of the grain
crop still presents a 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.
THRICATILTING NOTICES. —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 a number of reports are given, which strikingly
exhibit the disturbed state of the district.

In the county of Longford the comtabulary have
collected 50 stand of arms from the people, some of thew
in fine condition. They consisted of guns, pistols,
swords, and bayonets. In the course of their seurob for
arms they found a set of mail bugs lost so far back as
October, 1859. and which contained money to the
amount of £lOO. They were found in the house of a
farmer n‘med 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 seems capable of reclaiming them. On Sunday
night the miatress of the probationary ward locked up
the girls as usual in their dormitory at the regulat
hour, 7 o'clock, when there was no sign of anything
wrong. Between 10 and 11 o'clock they piled up the
beds and bedding, get !Ire to them, and, having escaped
through a window, they looked on from the yard at the
operations of the flames. Property to the amount of
£4O was destroyed before the fire was discovered, and
had it not been extinguished in time a number of liven
would have been lost. They confessed the crime, and
seemed to exult in it with the most brazen impu-
dence. It is surely an abuse of the poorhouse
system to be pampering such persons in idleness and
vice!

l'iwsEcuros FOS RELIGION IN Inetaxn.—A local
journal shows that a bitter feeling of sectarian auhnosity
has been excited in the county Kerry. A young man
named Harold, who was recently attacked violently in
fair, and narrowly escaped, has again been smiled
and his life threatened. It appears that he has become
obnoxious no the Roman Catholic party because he has
presumed to hold prayer meetings in his house, at
which two children, over whom their father, a Pro-
testant, had appointed him guardian, thought proper to
attend, contrary to the wishes of their Roman Catholic
mother. For this he has been repeatedly denounced
from the altar, and the result is that lie is exposed to
the vengeance of the populace.
Something like a reign of terror still prevails in
Tipperary. Mr. William Scully, brother of the member
for the county of Cork, travels about on business accom-
panied by two armed policemen, who keep a sharp
look-out at cross roads, short turns, 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
comes within pistol-shot. It has been suggested that it
would be more prudent for this gentleman to change his
iesidenee than to be exposed to such tremendous risks.
It will not be easy to evade the persevering, patient
hatred of his enemies ; but it sometimes happens,
even in Ireland, that threatened people live long."