The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-09 00:00:00

infant.
A MAGISTRATE FIRED AT IN LONG-
FORD.

On Wednesday evening, as Mr. Charles Dudgeon,
J.P. was returning on foot from a farm near Clondra
to Longford, he was fired at from behind a ditch. Mr.
Dudgeon, who was accompanied by his bailiff's Non 4
named Casey, was armed with a revolver, which tin
took out, but the intended assassin had already de-
camped. Mr. Ihidgeon escaped unhurt., but his face
wa.„ blauktnied by the powder. He cmne on ta Long.
ford and lodged informations with the constabulary,
who were quickly on the alert. A party of police and
sob-inspector were promptly on the scene of the out-
rage, and are making strenuous exertions to discover
• clue to the assailant. Mr. Dudgeon saw a man
running across • field after the shot had been fired. It
appears Mr. Dudgeon had some litigation at the Long-
ford Quarter Session, but not of much importance. A
young man named Niuigle was apprehended at Moira
last night en a charge of shooting at Mr. Dudgeon. It
is alleged when the prisoner sax t,he ronstshijary
making a seait.h qf hi• prentiaeis, he produced • gun,
Irpi • certain leper ens found near the neighbourhood
Which would have fitted it an wadding. Prisoner was
remanded.

Thursday morning, John William Nally, one of the
persons about to be prosecuted by the Government,
was served at his residence, Balla, Ireland, with a
summons to attend the Queen's Bench within four days
to answer the charge alleged in the indictment. A
summons was also left at the residence of John
William Walsh. All the summonses and indictments
i cut the Irish Latkd Leaguers, except,Mr. Boyton,
Itav, now f.eetl served,
A Iwo ement is on footin London to establish among
the various Irish organisations in the Metropolis and
throughout Great Britain a national subscription for
the defence of traverser', so that the funds of the Land
League may not he in-trenched upon.
Additional troops have been ordered to Team and
Headfonl, for the 15th inst., and on the same day a
party .1 Marines will be quartered in Bantry. A troop
..f the 111th Hussars has been ordered to join thedepnt
at Navan, and it is also intended to station troops at
Killarney.
On Sunday night a Ratty of 12 men visited the house
of a fanner named Michael Smith, near Virginia.
county Cavan, draaed him out, and, having 6,raea
him.,. to his knees, fved shots over him, and compelled
hut, to swear that he would give up his farm, which he
has occupied for the last 23 years.
The amount collected for the fund to provide
labourers to save Captain Boycott's crops is now far
beyond what was called for, and it is proposed to apply
the surplus for similar purposes. Great excitement
was caused in liallinrobe on Wednesday by the report
that a number of Orangemen were coming down to
reap captain Boycott's crop. A large crowd assembled
and attempted to throw Captain Boycott into the
river. The military had to be called out to maid the
police in protecting him.

THE PROSECUTION OP THE AGITATORS.

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The Dublin Court of queen's Bench sat on Friday
In order to take the first step in connection with the
pr. tion by the Attorney General for Ireland of
Charily* Stewart, Parnell, John Dillon, Joseph Gillis
Biggar, Timothy
Ihmiel Sullivan, and Mantas Sexton,
members .4 Parliament ,• Patrick Egan, Thomas
Brennan, Malachi M. Sullivan, Michael P. Boyton,
Patrick joaeph Sheridan, Patrick Joseph Gordon.
Matthew Harris John W. Walsh, and John W.
Nally. The indic:tment, which is a very voluminnue
document, contains 19 counts, charging the trevergunt
with having wickedly devised, contrived, and intended
to impoverish and injure large numbers of her
Majesty's subjects, and with having incited tenant
farmers to combine together in order to violate their
contracts with reference to the payment of rent.
The judges on the Bench were Lord Chief Justice
May, Mr. Justice O'Brien, Mr. Justice J. T.
Fitzgerald, and Mr. Justice Barry, Thu court WAN
..rowded long lidure they took their seats on the
Bench, but their was not the slightest sign otherwise
than that that any event .4 unusual importance was
expected to take place. Mr. Dillon, who has charge of
the care of the traverser*, stated before the court rose
that he would not enter appearance until Saturday.
The subssens, in which to snake answer to it. When the
laws all, we four clear days after the serving of a
traverser,, intimate to the Crovni-office thrmgfi their
counsel that they have accepted the service of the
writs, then the Attorney-General will move for a rule
calling upon the defendants to show cause why al
criminal information should not be served upon than.
Thus a delay of a week in preliminary lega.l proceed- !
in;.:s may take place before the actual trial conunences,
A esti„ind subscription in order to defray the pet .4
defending the traverser, has ipen started, and on
Friday. the sulauriptions amounted to nearly 1.100. The
LandLeagne publishee an appeal to the Irish people,
,tainting out the object of the battle they are fighting,
and asking for sympathy and support. The extensive
indictment is admitted to be very ably drawn up, and
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it actually anticipates the defence r. Parnell has
already foreshadowed on behalf of himself and his
colleagues—namely, that it is Mg legal to combine in
Ireland for the purpose of reducing the rent of land as
it is to combine in England to ***crews° the price of
labour.
Mr. H. M. Allen, of Waterfonl, who recently
denounced Mr. Parnell aa a ruffian, has received
several threatening letter*.
An Orange demonstration was held in Portadown on
Friday, attended by 5,000 persons, Mr, Maxwell
M.P., presided. The Government was censur3T;
apathy in allowing anarchy and confusion to reign
throughout the country.
A good lea] of excitement has been caused in
Dublin by the announcement that orders have been
on S.irtird.ty I.l.fore the
issued for the despatch of the Channel Squadro to
n
the Irish coast. The squadron, which is Cmioirtlidel
by .I..indral Mood, is c0mp....1 f,,01 'easel, tAch
which has more than 700 menus Is.anb
Mr. Parnell and Mr. T. Is.. :4nm%. ..resent at
aapeltriningee,olgmaetneedAthlothnee
watf,,ral
gave
way,
and
several .4 its occupants were seriously hurt. Mr.
Parnell spoke at some length, defending the 141,0 League and condemning the G.svernment. The printed
o,,py of the charges against the land Leaguers was torn
to_pieees by the crowd.
The Irish Land Leggee have published a frothy
appeal to "the Irish people at home and abroad, and
to all supporters of public Ii erty." The landlords
are denounced an a "cruel aml selfish class.," in whose
cause " • so-called Liberal (b.vernment is not nab:tined
to unsheath that rusty weapm, the law of
conspiracy." The Irish people are, therefore, appealed
to for funds to defend "the men who have atood in
the vanguard of the land movement,"

An indignation meeting was held on Sunday at Bally-
hearne, near Caetlebar, to protest against a man
named Joyce taking a holding of land which had been
for enne tune unoocupie I. About 200 persons were
meant. A strong party of police attended with •
Government reporter, who obtained the chairman's
permission to take notes. rho reporter, however, was
seven,' times pushed off the platform. Speeches
denouncing the Ooveniment promotion were deli vered
by Messrs. Daly and Walsh, and several resolutions
were carried amid considerable uproar.
The movement for sending a body of Ulster Orange-
man to wow Capt. Boycott in Mayo is still proceed-
ing; but ig is believed the Government will prevent
anything like an armed demonstration.
Three allele were tired through the bedroom window
of Mr. Allen, lend agent, at Woodborn, county Gal-
way, on Saturday. Fortunately Mr. Allan was in
another department at the time. A threatening notice
was also posted on the gate. Mr. Allen shortly after-
wards left the locality, being protected to the *station
by a strung force of police.