The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-11-26

BRIAN BoRU.-The favorite hereof Celt-
ic bard and historian fell fighting, as every
body knows, or ought to know, on the field
of Clontarf; or, rather, he was slain towards
the end of the battle by some fugitive
Danes, who found him praying in his
tent-like Moses-for the success of his
people. He was at this time eighty
eight years of age. Many of his kith
and kin persisted in the same battle.
His eldest son, Murrough, we are told.
used his battle-ax with great effect upon
the Danes until his right hand and arm
became so swollen that his blows We're
unable to deal death through the armor
of his enemies. In this condition he was
set upon by the Danish chief Arnulf.
Selling his enemy with his left hand,
Murrough first shook him out of his
armor, and then killed him with his ak;
but it is said that the Dane, in his last
moment, snatched his opponents knife
from his belt and plunged it into his side.
Tordleback, or Turlough. son Of Muir
rough, and grandson of Brian, also died
hard that day. He was only a boy of
sixteen, but, despite his youth, the can
nails Of Clonacnoise" tells us that his body
was found after the battle floating in the
tideway of the Tolka River, with both
his hands twisted in the hair of Dane
whom he had followed into the sea.
Fortunately for the future of the Mac
Mahons, some of Brian children survived
this famous day at Clontarf. Trodleback
the second-son of another son--left a
child, Murrough, who afterwards became
King of Ireland in 100. He left son,
Mahon O'Brian. the first MacMahon, of
Corca Basca. That the family came of
good fighting stock, we think the above
details will sufficiently attest. By what
process Mahon O'Brian became chief of
Corca Basca-namely, of all the shore
line, hillside, river, vale and meadow we
have looked at from the height of land
on this Summer evening lately described
there is now no record; but title to pos
session could not have proved a matter
of grave difficulty to the kin of Murrough,
the armor shaker, or Tordleback, the
hair twister. Contemporary Review.
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DIsowNED BY HIS Sons. Carl H.
Harder, an old and decripit Prussian,
crawled into the rotunda of the Castle
Garden yesterday, weeping like child
and begging for food. In answer to in.
quiries he said that he was born in Meek.
lenburg in 1870, and when Is years old
enlisted in the Prussian army and fought
against Napoleon until captured. After
being in prison few months he was
forced to join the French army, and tool
part in the campaign against Russia il
1912. Returning to the eastern part o
Prussia a few years afterward he engaged
in farming, and accumulated some prop
erty. In 1871 he came to this country
and went to visit son in Missouri, WHIT
was circuit preacher. Later he went tt
Kansas to visit two sons, to whom h,
lent all his money, about $1,000, will
the promise that he should have it whel
he wanted to return to Prussia. He mex
went to visit son in California, will
whom he staid for time, and then re
! turned to his sons in Kansas. About
year ago his sons declined to support hir
longer, and he went to the Almshouse j
. Atchison, Kansas, when they sent him t
New York to be rid of his support. Sec
rotary Jackson presented his case to tn
: State Board of Charities, which will en-
deavor to secure him a free passage to hi
e home in Prussia.