It is commuted and he is sentenced to transportation for life. By August the Breakwater at the new bridge near the Grove is almost completed. The probability of another failure in the potato crop continues to alarm the people and the exodus from this part of Ireland is going on at a rapid rate. Farmers are disposing of their effects. Labourers are likewise flying with their families to England and Scotland.
Emigration is now a familiar thing.
I have made an immense sacrifice of time and property in making my discoveries and I will not impart my knowledge, to enrich others. without receiving the compensation I am fully entitled to. In September one of the soldiers, lately returned from California said he observed gold in the gravel being quarried at the Grove Bridge. Gold fever hit the town. It was too late to do anything. That shows us the English will never let us rise' someone else commented.