The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

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DZATH OF JODGC M'CAN.—Mr. M'Can, one of the
judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, died very suddenly
on Wednesday morning at Rathbone's Hotel, Kings-
town. He presided on Tuesday in his court, and then
appeared in the enjoyment of good health. The emolu-
ments of the judgeship are 2,000 a year. The Hon.
Mr. Plunket is the second judge, and his retirement has
fur some time been spoken of.
The Inch militia is to he called out on the 15th of July
next, for the annual training of twenty-one days, pre-
paratory to it. permanent embodiment.

THE DUBLIN HORPITALB. The annual report on
them institutions, just published, shows that the total
income thereof last year was £26,780, and the espendi•
tun. E 25,151. The admiraions were 12,549; the dis-
charge', 12,041; and the number of deaths, 560,
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DESPCHATII OuTBAGE.—At three o'clock on the
morning of Sunday week James Condron, a farmer, resid-
ing at Lumpeloon, in the barony of Garrycastle, King's
County, and his family, were aroused from their slum
hers by the loud barking of a watch-dog; on hearing
which Daniel Condron, one of James Condron's sons,
opened the door and went out to see what occasioned
the dog's barking, when he observed a party, consisting
of sixteen or eighteen persons, crouching behind a hedge
• short distance from the house. The majority of the
gang were armed with doable-barrelled pistols, and the
remainder with heavy bludgeons. On perceiving the
party in ambush he hastily retraced his steps towards
the house to give the alarm, when one of the ruffians
fired at and wounded him, lodging thirty-seven
grains of large shot or small slugs in his back and
neck. Six or eight of the fellows then rushed into
the house, and made • desperate onslaught on
the elder Condron with pistols and loaded sticks.
Condron seized the handle of • pickaxe, with which he
gallantly defended himself, and knocked one of his
assailants down. The ruffians inflicted several wounds
on his head and body. Another son, Patrick, • youth
of only fourteen years of age, courageously went to his
father's assistance, when one of the party fired at him,
but happily without effect. Seeing that he was not
wounded, another ruffian struck the poor lad • violent
blow with • loaded butt on the top of the head, which
inflicted • large wound. Condron was ordered to give
up his land, but was told that he might take his crop.
They then advised him not to bring them there again.
or to mark the consequence, after which they directed
tie door to be closed, and then took their departure.
Daniel Condron, who was wounded on the back and
neck, although very seriously injured, is not considered
to be in danger. The polioe were on the alert imme-
diately after the commission of the outrages, and are
employed endeavouring to discover the perpetrators.
This is the second attack made on Condron. He was
visited by an armed party in 'larch last. It appears the
former tenant was evicted from the farm which
Condron holds by a Mr. Doorley, who purchased the
property in the Encumbered Estates Court, which is
the cause assigned for the commission of this brutal
outrage.