The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-06

CRUEL DAYS IN fREtxrD..
= RECENT EvIcrIONs IN COUNTY
MAYO.

THE RECENT EvIcrIoNs IN COUNTY
MAYO.
The story of the eviction of the DENIM
seys from their little home in, County Mayo
Ireland, has been briefly told by telegraph
as has also the fact that they were restored
by private subscriptions. The Connaueht
'1ctcgroph gives the details of the eviction
rs follows:
The Dempsey family has been for eighty
years past tenants on the Blosse estate, and
ABOUT thirty years ago it was removed from
one portion OF 1t to Loonamore, where it has
been tOiling for that period, paying Blosse
annually sum of EGG as rent. The Gov.
ernment valuation is Ell 10 shillings.-
Dempsey.
OWED ONE YEARS RENT
In May last, and ut the following County
Court sitting the landlord took a decree for
possession on account of the non. PAYMENT.
The costs amounted 70 about a7, mixing a
total of e33. This Dempsey was unable
to pay, and the sheriff attended at his home
on the 18th of November last for the pur.
pose of evicting him. Dempsey was in O
most helpless condition. His mother, aged
~ years, depended upon him for support,
together with young wife and five helpless
children, the oldest of whom is only seven
years OF age, and three of them suffering
from scarlatina of a malignant type. Ow
ing to the state of the children the sheriff
could not carry out the eviction, and with.
drew, stating that on that day week he
"ou'd return, and charging Dempsey
92 FOR HIS VISIT.
Yesterdays proceedings surprised every
body, for although more ample arrangements
were made, aud a large number of police
were drafted in from Castlebar, Claremorris
Belcarra, Balla, and Ballyglass, no one even
suspected that the eviction Was to take
place. The sheriff left Westport by the
$50 A. NJ. train, and on arriving at Castle
bar party of armed police, numbering ten,
entered the train and went to Manulla.-
The sheriff then sent for the constable, who
learned for the first time his destination.
The police marched off towar1 Loonamore.
and the sheriff waited for sometime at the
station. So strict was the privacy main.
tanned that the sheriff on being asked at
Manulla whittier he was going declined to
tell. A car subsequently arrived on which
Mr.. Tandy, j. p, the agent of Sir Robert
Blosse, was seated. The sheriff took his
scat on the vehicle aud drove off. On over.
taking the police tho horse walked SLOWLY
for long distance Immediately before them.
The appearance presented was something
like that of
MILITARY FUNERAL.
On arriving the sheriff informed the now
distracted Dempsey that he had come to
execute the decree. Dempsey pleaded for
time to endeavor to procure the money by
some means at Balla, and this the sheriff
agreed to, but before Dempsey returned the
work of eviction had commenced. There
were at least fifty or sixty police present,
headed by sub Inspector Pepper. The
morning was extremely cold, and there was
a severe frost. The children, mother and
aged grandmother, were turned out by the
bailiffs, and cried loudly and bitterly during
the sad ceremony. The children, who were
barefooted and poor by clad, rushed into the
house several times from the cold, but were
again and again led out by the baiIffs The
beds and furniture were next hurriedly
thrown out, the house was locked up, and
the sheriff, the agent, and the police turned
from the scene, leaving the unfortunate vic.
tins behind, still sobbing bitterly and
sHIvERING WITH COLD.
Mr.. Thomas Reilly and the broked hearted
Dempsey arrived, having failed to procure
the money. A fire was lighted in field,
around which tho family seated themselves.
The sheriff before leaving handed Dempsey
the G2 which he received on his former
visit. A neighbor of Dempscy's, struck
with pity, came up and offered the family
the shelter of his house if Mr.. Reilly would
obtain for him the consent of the agent C)
as he would be afraid to allow them in
This Mr.. Reilly refused to do, and he re-
turned to Balla, stating that he would take
the family to his own residence. At 8
o'clock in the evening he and party from
Balla arrived with cars, and the unhappy
family bade adieu to its homestead, prOba-
bly, forever. The whole proceedings were
of most revolving nature.
THE CRUELTY OFT.
The following particulars are taken from
the Mayo Examiner All the signs of fear
and apprehension operating upon their in.
nocent little minds were painfully evident
on the children's faces. One poor little
follow was in bed and awoke after he en-
tered the house. The playful dreams Of
childhood were soon forgotten-his full.
bright eye beheld the grim reality, and, af,
frighted and nervous, he made for the
side Of his old granny. The
silence, the agony Of mind, depicted in the
poor little household at this trying time, far
exceeds this necessarily hasty description
Without were heaped many mute but sig.
nifcant memorials Of what was passing
the big red household chest, bed, chairs
pots, delf, bedding and the poor old grand
mothers cot. The fine old woman bore i,
xyoll fnr 1, lone t;n,o t. H. oo,,u.. r. IL