The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-04-12 00:00:00

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A bailiff named Murphy who had served a large
number of writs on The hlcGillycuddy's tenants for
rents, has been visited by about fifty armed usin, who.
after firing several shots at the door of the house,
made him deliver to them the reniainfler a the writs,
and they then made him swes,r, ft lus knees, that he
would serve no more write.
Barley Walsh, the tenant farmer who prosecuted
the Rev. Mr. Cody, QC., at the laAt Kilkenny &assize,
onthcchargeof "Boycotting " him last week, has been
waylaid and beaten. Two men named Ivory and Foskin
will be prosecuted on the chanie of wismitting the
assault

The New ROM Board of Guardians have elected
Mr. Ryan, a farmer now undergoing three months'
' imprisonment for "Boycotting," as vice-chairman of
the Union for the coming year.
A sale .if cattle under seizure for rent was held on a
farm situated within six miles of Limerick, and caused
great popular excitement. Mr. Goddard, Mr. Brown,
and others, agents of the Property Defence Associa-
tion, attended, and there was a large force of police
present. The crowd hooted the sheriff, who
threatened to adjourn the sale to Limerick.
Ultimately, the sale was stopped by the tenant paying
the whole rent and costs. 'l'%e mob we infuriated
at the defeat of the Land Lest ue, and stoned Mr.
Goddard and Mr. Brovm IVI they were leaving. Mr.
Brown was severely hurt In the head, and Mr. Goddard
was struck with heavy stones.
Achn Hassan. an old man, and Richard and James
Nally, brothers of " Shrab " Nally, one of the
traversers in the recent trials, have been arrested in
Mayo, on the charge of inciting to outrage, and (edged
in Rilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
A dwelling.house and farm buildinga of- a farmer
named Belly, near Tralee, who, recently took land
from which a tenant fisd, been evictecbghwere on
Thursday night dielroyed by &re. A n bowing
house was also Wild.
At Wkitogate. county Galway, a member of the
Lenkl league, who had paid his rent, had his
beam wrecked on Thursday by a party of unknown
men. No clue to the guilty parties tuts been ob-
tained.
A farmer mimed Tobin, at Rommore, county
Tipperary, died on Thuraday night, front. inji.,zies
received from two men, who knocked Iltae down
and beat him about the head. The gyjurei is said to
have arisen about the ownerahiEet a house.
A serious disturbance tcok place on Wednesday
night at Newcastle West. county Limerick. An
attack was cb.de on A train in which were tine&
policemen eciaing Mr. W. R. Croker, ages* to,
Vilectint 'Guillemot*. Mr. Croker had been, servins ,
Writs on the tenants. The crowd on tkie
became extremely violent, but th,e Or etiViesinen
easily repelled the attacks of thelliyadere, betook
themselves to a large heap, oic4,onft and kept up a
continuous volley until tiler had utterly ruused the
carriage. Pdattoro,bereine so serious that the police.
sergeant cftvabolici to the front of the carriage and
wnrixect all present that if they persisted in the riot
he would order his men to fire. The crowd, however
took no heed of this, but cunmenced throwing atece,a`
with renewed vigour. Just then a rifle was seen, pro.
truding through the carriage window, directed towards
the crowd, but the unfortunate pal ifen"ll WU knocked
senseless, his forehead being spljz by a blow
of a
stone. At this crisis thp beff wag rung for the
departure of the kaic, and as it steamed out of the
station a farewell volley of stones was fired In,
injuring two policemen and smashing the glees of every
ss,vfacts window.
as can at present be ascertained, the Land
Bill has given much satisfaction amongst moderake
politicluis in Ireland The DwUsie
oft.sn
of the 'n' surrender" party of lamdlifiZef: orli
of mime
dissatisfied, but confines itself to si,ggeettrig that
dimrderly districts, where tbF Olierctue Act is in
operation, should bo 'x01414441 from the peuvisions of
the Bill until older has been restored. It frankly
approves c( the emigration clauses. The Irish Times, anctior Oenservative paper, (lettere* that the Bill
win rear up and sustain the fabric of society, applatck., the soundness and purity of its "Pidt, and deo:cedes
any factious treatment of its prov*piaiit The
Parnellite journals are very reserved,, Wing doubtless
far from delighted at the pr, ape,d'of future content.
wont; but the Pressife's ;finarnal admits that the
Bill, in givicr the three F's and promoting a velment
propHe'..aky, will be "a measure of enormous benefit.'
he Patnellities, it is said, will oppose the entil 90 tauaes ; but the party manifests symptoma of al 't ' Into two or throe fractions with
le 9e ty
ad* clause's of the unasu referen
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