The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-01-04 00:00:00

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"BOYCOTTING" THE LAWYERS IN
IRELAND.

Thrre have been several instances of "Boycotting"
solicitors in Ireland, and it now appear,' that the bar
are to be subjected to this process. We hear from an
Irish journal that at a meeting of a local branch of
the Land League at Eimistymon it wee unanimously
resolved, "That as Mr. Swift McNeil, barrister-at.
law took up the case of Richard Stacpool, J.P.,
against the evicted tenant, Martin Walsh, Rannagli,
we hereby pledge ourselves to give him no more
professional support in this county; and we hereby
direct our secretary to send copies of this resolution to
every branch in this county, to invite them to co-operate
with us in pushing this gentleman for backing up the
worst case of landlord tryanny that has ocoured in this
county since the formation of the Land League.
The man Hennelly, whose house was visited on
Wednesday night by the police at Clonbur, warn in bed
suffering from a fracture of the skull, ani could not be
moved. Tin police searched his house, and took
away a letter from his son. It is said the men had a
I dispute at a fair, when Hennelly's head was smashed,
and the names of the murderers were freely mentioned.
Hennelly being unable to be moved, the police are on
guard at his house.
The military correspondent of the frisk Fiala states
that the authorities have it in contemplation to
despatch almost immediately flying columns over the
country, as wile done during the late Fenian rising. It
is said that every step necessary for this movement has
been already arranged, and that nine different columns
will be started —two from Dublin, two from the
Curragh, one from Athlone' one from Cork, one from
Fermoy, one from Limerick and Belfast. Each column
will comprise one troop of cavalry, a division of Royal
Artillery with two guns, four companies of infantry,
and ten sappers. It is also stated that • detachment
of the Army Service Corps, with four general service
waggons and ambulance waggons, will be despatched,
each soldier carrying sixty rounds of ball cartridge, and
the cavalry and artillery a full supply.
At the County Petty Sessions, Limerick, on Thurs-
day, John Collins WM charged with taking forcible
poession of a house, the property of a man named
. Healy. Healy, it appears, gave Collins the sum
of ETIS for the house and land, which is situated at a
place called Coonagh, in county Limerick, but he
received a threatening letter calling on him to give up
possession. A heifer, the property of Healy, was
maliciously killed. Collins WM returned for trial.
At Clocunel on Thursday six men were committed
for trial on a charge of rioting and assaulting the police
on the occasion of Boycotting the cattle of two local
gentry at Golden Caidiel Fair.
At Cashel Sesiocut two men were fined kli each, or
two months' imprisonment, for Boycotting. The
Crown Solicitor prosecuted.
A miller named James Rearney, living near Clare.
morris, has received • threatening letter, bearing the
Balliyhaunis post mark, which states that if he grinds
oats for any man who dares to pay above Griffith's
valuation, the worms in the grave shall won have a
New Year's gift of his body. Rearney has handed the
letter to the police.
The tenants on the Kdenderty estate of the Marquis
of Downshire petitioned the trustees for an abatement
of ni per cent., and on its being refused they met on
Wednesday and passed • resolution refusing to pay
any rent until the Government Land Bill had been
passed or the reduction granted. The agent asserts
the property is underlet.
Mr. W. D. McCormick, of Dublin and Mayo, who
took a farm from Mies Ganfiner, an unpopular land-
lady, residing at Bennie, has been "Boycotted," His
cattle were driven off and dispersed throughout the
county, and he has finally been compelled to give up
the farm. Two additional arrests have been made in
aninecti n with the alleged murder of a farmer named
1 McKenna near Bailin*.
A sub-constable named James Byrne, of Bedford,
county Tipperary, has been fired at while returning to
his station, and lies in a precarious state.
' Armed men have been visiting the houses of
' obnoxims tenants in the Glen of Aberlow, county

Tipperary.
Six men have been committed for tri:tl at Golden,
county Tipperary, for riot and attacking the police
during the fair day, when an effort wee made to
'Boycott' the owner of some cAttle.
The Earl of Kenmare hae telegraphed orders that
the labourers on his Killarney estate who were recently
thrown out of employ 'Mould be restored to their
work.