Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HORRID IIOODEE IN THE COUNTY OF WOO.  We regret to say that this hitherto most peaceful county has bees stained with the horrid crime of assassination, now so dig graLeful to the Irish name and character. We were • generous, br,ve, elaralrous, hospitable people; but our valour is gone, our nt Lure is changed; acme cowardly villains lurk in society thirsting fr the blood of their fellow-creatures, end have robbed our island nf her good name. On Tuesday evening last, as Mr. Samuel M'Keirlo was sitting in his parlour reading, near the road, leading Itrannhfield to Sligo. be was shot by some assassin, through In, sni .d so near was the murderer to his victim, th.t the shot carried nosy a portion of his bead, and stretched him lifeless on the in loot. Mr. M•Heirin was • Protestant, • most In e respectable, indostrious farmer, had rot taken land, or in any "111 11+01)liged his neighbour% and probably at the moment was uhno,i.ciuus that he had aii enemy lu the world, We regret to say that as !et no elite to this foul transaction has been discovered. ANOTIIIR 111UNDIR SMOTE°.  On Tuesday night last, or Wednesday morning before day, an armed party attacked the house of Patrick Curren, a small farmer, On the lands of Gurteen, near Tubber, in the King's County, and forcing their way into the house, discharged several shots at the lkh,loss inmates, one of which nearly shot Curren's arm off, the ball lodging in the upper part, near the shoulder, when after some denunenttione and threstenings, and thinking he WAS dying, they dee,noped. Land was the cause of the visit, be having been paid vett., emit, on a former occasion, relative to the farm he Is now in or the last four years, there being sense grudge against his tJkg it. lie lies dangerously ill, and it Is supposed will comply null the mandates of the midnight legielators, if he meows, by leaving his Lirm. What a state of things 7—and what times we leee  CL nA, Dec. 5, 1844.—The seed sown by sedition' publicatlOns and assemblies in Dublin and elsewhere, have commenced fructifying In our county and neighbourhood with frightful luxuriance. Yon have already had an account, as I perceive, of the horrible and treacherous slaughter of the two brothers of the servant of the lien. Mr. Cresson—l have now to inform you of an unsuccessful aticupt (es I hope) at murder on the evening of Tuesday last, within two miles of this village (—Patrick Curren, • substantial farmer, liven on the read from Clara to hioate, at a place called Gorilien. The back wall of the house abuts on-1144dg* of the Toad. Through a small window in this wall, • Shot was fired by minima person standing on the road. He *,arising from a seat before his fire, when one ball passed through his4ght shoulder, sod several slugs wounded him about the arm andThreast, but not severe,. It in thought he had been covered, but the act of rising Soddenly saved his life. His present danger arises only from possible fever. He came into possession of some land about two years xg°—before held by himself and others in co-partnership—but it is understood that.he gave money for their good will, as it is *ailed, and there is reason to think that this outrage has not arisen from what are so tenderly styled agrarian motives, but from that recklessness of human life, which has so fearfully infected our lower orders.