Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-13

tie during the passage. The steamers Prince
 Edward and Chilian. from Liverpool, have been in collision, and both have returned for repairs.
 Resisting the Process Servaxs-RloOd l Spilled i'm Mayo-DsspeYate Restst- ance to the POlfce-MOFe Trouble i'm Prospect.
 LONDON. Jan. 12.-Ths utter hiassusness of the crowbar and pickaxe eviction system in
 Ireland, by which the relentless landlord rids himself of his unfortunate tenants, was ex-
 emplided on Saturday at the village of Knock
 rickard in the County Mayo. The process
 server is synonym in Ireland for everything
 that is vile, sneaking and degrading in human
 nature, and the informer or process server in
 the discharge of his unsnviabls duties is
 obliged to have special body guard of con
 stabulary or soldiers, as left to himself he
 would be torn to pieces in the first village he
 entered. Frequently the vengeance of some
 desperate peasant reaches the process server
 even amid the ranks of his protectors. The
 village of Knockrickard Is 6 collection of
 primitive novels in the widest part of the
 district of Ennis in the northern part of the
 County Mayo. Bleak moors and huge cliffs
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 Ireland. A strong force of constabulary
 with swords. rifles and bayonets accompanied
 process server to this district On attempt
 ing to serve notices to quit on the enraged
 tenants most determined attack was made
 on the process server and his posse. So fierce
 was the onslaught that the police were almost
 overpowered, and were compelled to use sword
 and bayonet hberally. As at Limerick in the days of Sarsfeld the women fought before the
 men, and many of them were severely wound ed. Their husbands and other male relatives melted them to resist to the bitter end the serving of the process. The sight of the blood of the poor desperate women maddened the men, and it was with difficulty that terri ble loss of life was avoided. Grave appre- tensions are entertained concerning the serv ing on the late Lord Leitrim's estate at Maam, County Galway. There is little hope that bloodshed can be averted, as both parties are determined. A large force of constabulary has been concentrated at this place, which is situated in Connemara. The passions of the people are excited to 8 dangerous degree and crowds are pouring in from the adjoining dis tricts, all determined to resist eviction to the last extremities. Never before in the history of the west of Ireland was there such a bitter feeling between the people and the constabu- lary. The murder of the landlord of this district CLord Latrim) on the 2d of April, 1878, is still fresh in the minds of the people, although the obnoxious noblsman met his fate in the county of Derry. He was well known as a landlord whose ideas of the rights of property prompt ed him to stretch the powers given to him by law to the utmost limit, and who was there fore extremely unpopular with his tenantry and with the small farmer class generally. He owned immense tracts of land in Done gal, Leitrim, Derry and Galway, and preba- any man in Ireland. His successor seems to have carried out the same unrelenting policy. The terrible fate of Earl Leitrim, who wes while driving near his lodge, does not appear to have any terrors for the present landlord. Many of his tenantry in Galway live on the coast of the Atlantic, where the soil is very poor, and eke out miserable existence by \ fishing partly and by gathering ''kelp" on the l which is sold for manufacturing purposes. Unless some feelings of forbear- ance enter the breasts of the landlords in | Connaught, there will be some lamentable scenes enacted. The people are houseless and starving, in some districts have become desperate, and the majesty of the law, as | represented by the constabulary and soldiers has little terrors now for them. The wound l ing of the women in Mayo has made . pro- fcund sensation on the minds even of people zho were disposed to uphold the execution of l he law as it exists, and they now emphatical- | 3 condemn system that necessitates such brutality in it's practical working.