The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-16

incorruptible patriots.
Dunmore-the same place that gives its
name to the Deanery whose adhesion to the
Home Rule movement have noticed above
has been for some weeks the scene of moving
bog. The bog In or rather was situated about
mile and a-hsh from the town it is now
within mile of it, and the movement still
continues. It has already unhoused several
families and swamped hundreds of acres
Of arabic land; and besides this, waters of
the neighboring streams in all directions
are very much discolored. The bog is on q
high level, and the thick fluid matter suddenly
rose beyond is usual bounds, and kept flowing
downwards for days and nights in rapid
streams of surprising width and depth. This
disaster, which although rare in ireland, is by
no means unknown, is evidently due to some
kind of subterraneau actioR-very probably
either the pressure of confined cir or the force
of volcanic movement OF course, much
suffering has been caused to the poor people
whose houses and holdings have been over
whelmed forever by the flood but am happy
to say that they are even now receiving at the
| hands of their landlords and others practical
| proofs Of kindly sympathy with their misfor-
tunes.
We had all begun to hope that agrarian
murders were q thing Of the past But am
sorry to cay thst ION Friday evening last q
Landlord named Thomas Langley Lefroy-a
nephew, by the way, of the Baron afterwards
Chief Justice) LEROY, who sentenced John
Mitchell to transportation in 1s4s-was shot
dead in his own house, in Cloone, on the bord-
ors of Longford and Roscommon. It was
| quite dark at the time of the murder. LEROY
had risen from his seat in the parlor and was
in the act of walking into the adjoining room,
when a charge of small, shot, fred through the
window, penetrated his heart. 1t is supposed
that the assassin in taking aim made use Of q
paling few yards outside the window to
steady his aim. He was not pursued instantly
and when IN attempt was made to discover
him no trace of him was visible. One arrest
however, has been made on suspicion-that OF
| o young man who, it is alleged, was one Of
those not invited to the harvest home
! which LEROY was about giving to his tenants
and dependents. But the chief fact apparently
against this man is that he possessed some
blunderbuses and ammunition which he was
not licensed by the government to carry. There
is little doubt that the crime was of an agrariar
nature. LEROY had turned out some of hi
tenants, and was, it is believed about raising
the rents of the others. 1t is a very deplorabl
circumstance no doubt; but it shows how
little after all the Land Act is able to do t.
, prevent the poor Irish tenant farmer from be
ing obbed and cast out upon the world by hi
landlord. cannot, for my part, make out ye
whether LEROY is dead OF alive.
los MI Of oil Of
very able lecture by Mr.. T. D. Sullivan, at
D. ST." the poet of the Nation and the brothe
r of Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, on Thomas Franci
/ Meagher. Somehow or another, Meagher
not a very attractive subject to lecture upo
to an Irish audience in Ireland. The fact
O certainly not creditable to Irishmen; bu
n nevertheless it is fact and might be easil
n explained. Therefore, although the lectur
q was q first-rate performance, reminding one @
q Wendell Phillips, there was a rather thi
( house. The lecturer painted Meagher in bettC
@ and more athful colors than those in whic
IS he has hitherto been delineated dwelling NJ
70 on his career as patriot, orator and soldier
Q and established to my satisfaction at least thu
b Meagher wss q much moro estimable charact,
y than had been previously led to suppos
% OF course, Mr. Sullivan said nothing IL
10 merits of the quarrel between the two section
IT of your American Union, in abiding
10 Meagher's and the Irish Brigade's share in yor
g. great civil war. He only pointed out no
Il bravely both had fought against a bra,
@ enemy. The Rev. w. Carroll, however, a we
N known Protestant clergyman of this city, VIII
a, moved . vote of thanks to Mr.. Sullivan for b
10 lecture was not 80 reticent. He openly d.
= Slared that he thought Msaghsr had fougt
90 ! a0ainak the cauae of freedou in taking Z
n arms against the Southern ConfedeFacy; AZ
7. hs vsas loudIy sra heartily ehaeEua. unds
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