Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07

offered another farm farther up the
mountain, a piece of land, bog and
rock, which he may 60 on and convert
into smiling fields only to be evicted
from that when his landlord sees fit,
or he may die by the roadside,
WHAT "BoYoOTTING" IS.
"Boycotting" is a little system de-
vised by Mr.. James Redpath, of
America. 1t is this: The landlord,
when be has made up his mind that he
wants to rob a tenant of the land he
once owned, and which he has, does
not eyict him in the spring. He waits
till the tenant has dugup the ground,
planted it and tended it and it is ready
for the harvest. He wants to steal
the crop as we'll as the land, and so
Just before harvest he gets out bis
process, and, accompanied by the ever
lasting thirty eonstables armed with
carbines, he makes his descent. The
process is served, the tenant and his
family placed out into the street, and
the place taken possession of.
Prior to the blessed Land League
the villain had no difficulty in employ
ing labor to secure the crop, thus Civ
ing the agent his percentage of the
robbery, and enabling my lord to in
dulge in fresh extravagances in Lon
don or Paris, or wherever he might
be. But the Land League steps 10
now, and my lords agent cannot find
a man who will put sickle into the
ground No matter what price be
offers, or how sorely the labOrer needs
work, or how cheaply he would be
glad to work for any one else, he will
not work for this man at any price.
Consequently the crops rot on the
ground, and if the robbed tenant gets
no benefit from his labor, my lord in
Paris and his sgent at home does not.
SHOOTING LANDLORDS.
You hear a great deal in America
about shooting landlords. How many
landlords have been shot? 1t is much
to the discredit OF the Irish race that
more have not been, but the melan-
choly fact Is, only a very few have
been put out Of the way by buckshot
When | look over the meager list |
blush for the Irish. It is something
in the way of an offset to know that
they are not permitted to have arms,
and it may be pleaded in extenuation
that the police and soldiery are all.
peryading, but nevertheless it does
seem as though a few more might be
picked of. II they cannot have fire.
arms there are at least pitchforks and
stones. Clearly, the Irish arc not 50
public-spirited as they should be.
One was shot some years ago, and a
great TODD was made about it. 10
this case, as in most Of the others, it
was not a question Of rent. Ny lord
had visited his estates to see how
much more money could be screwed
out Of his tenants, and his lecherous
eye happened to rest on a very beauti-
full girl, the eldest daughter of a
widow with seven children. Now this
beautiful girl was betrothed to a nice
sort Of a boy, who, having been in
America, knew a thing or two. Ny
lord, through his agent, who is always
a pimp as well as a brigand, ordered
Kitty to come to the castle. Kitty.
knowing very well what that meant,
refused.
VERY good" says the agent, your
mother Is in arrears for rent, and you
had better see my lord, or | shall be
compelled to eyict her"
Kitty knew what that meant also.
1t meant that her gray haired mother
and her six helpless brothers and sis.
ters would be pitched out by the road
side 10 die OF starvation and exposure,
and SO Kitty, without saying a word
to her mother or any one else. went to
the castle and was kept there three
days, till my lord was tired Of her,
when she was permitted to go.
She went TO her lover, like an hon.
est girl as she was, and told him she
would not marry him, but refused to
give any reason.
Finally the truth was wrenched out
Of her, and Mike vent and found a
shotgun that had escaped the watch
full eye Of the royal eonstabulary, and
he got powder and shot and old nails,
and be lay behind a hedge under a
tree for several days. Finally one
day my lord came riding by all 50 gay,
and that gun went of, and "~subsequeni
proceedings interested him no more
There was a hole, a blessed hole, clear
through him, and he never was So
good a man before, because there was
less Of him.
Then Mike went TO Kitty and told
her 10 be Of good cheer and not be
cast down; that the little difference
between him aud my Lord had been
happily settled, and that they would
be married az soon as possible. And
they we're married, and / had the
pleasure Of taking in my hand the
very hand that fred the blessed shot,
aud Of seeing the wife to ayengo
whose cruel wrongs the shot was
fired.
Vengeance is minel" is written.
In such cases it is we'll to facilitate
the vengeance a triae by means of a
shotgun. / object TO keeping such a
man out Of fire and birthstone a min
ute. Give the devil his due, and
never let the note he holds 20 to pro
test.
An immense reward was offered for
information loading to the conviction
Of the noble man who fred the shot,
but though every man, woman and
child in a radius Of twenty miles knew
exactly who did it, no one was found
base enough TO lodge information
against him.
For you sce tho Iri p al have
daughters aand they are II c,uiely,
and If she ing Lords for such crimes