Widnes Examiner. — 1882-09-02 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OUR OLD NOBILITY,'  THE STATE OF IRELAND.  A Swineford telegram states that on Tuesday night an extensive search for arms was made in the neighbourhood of Foxforcl by a strong force of constabulary. Many houses were visited. No arrests were made nor arms found; but documents of a treasonable character were seized in two houses. •  The 16 prisoners in custody for the Maamstrasna massacre were brought up on remand Jon Saturday in Galway gaol, before Mr. A. Newton Brady, R.M. Sub-inspector Gulkins appealed fora remand of 13 of the prisoners for a week, on the ground that further time was required to complete the case against them. The application was granted. Three of the prisoners were discharged. An agrarian outrage is reported from the townland of Corr, county Tyrone, not far from Dungannon. A farm of land from which a tenant was evicted was taken possession of by a man named William Hamilton. It appears from the reports to hand that the premises have been visited by a large body of armed men, Is ho carried off the crops and _put them into bogholes. William Terrie, a butler, and his an Richard. toth of Upper Exchange-street-, were charged on 'Wednesday by twe Terrie's children with the murder of their mother Ellen, aged about 50, on Tuesday night, by kicking her in the stomach, and causing hemorrhage. She was found dead, and covered with blood. An inquest was held, and the accused brought before the police magistrate. In an article on " Mr. Parnell's Policy," the Spectator comments on the absence from his speeches of any condemnation of the outrages in Ireland. Our contemporary says that after reading Mr. Parnell's " smooth " speech in introducing the Labour League, it," felt that the Irish people could not be much to klaine if they did assume " that the member for Cork •• does not go out of his way to inveigh against crime, just because, as he finds it advantageous to his movement, he likes to find excuses for it- in his own breast."  The Prevention of Crime Act has been put in force by the j magistrati s at Millstreet—a pre-eminently 'disturbed " neighbourhood—against a man named Mullane who had intimidated and boycotted a farmer. A gang of men of whom Mullane was the leader assaulted a fanner named Donoughue and his ,rife on the public road, and the proof of identity being complete the accused was committed for six months with hard labour. The power of appeal given in the Act was of course taken advantage of, and Mullane is at liberty on bail. MORE OUTRAGEs.—lntelligenee was received on Saturday at Carrick-on-Shannon of a daring outrage near Cloone, co. Leitrim. As a Boycotted man named Bernard Galloghy was standing outside his own door in the eerzning, two shots were fired at him by a cohple of men. Gelloghy rushed into his house, seized his gun, and fired after them, and, the patrol arriving immediately afterwards, he was escorted to Mohill to lodge information. The assailants escaped, and no arrests had been made. The police patrol from Bailieboro, co. Cavan, on Saturday night arrested two young men, one a commercial traveller, the other a son of a well-known merchant in county Armagh, in the act of searching a hoise for arms. They had visited several houses in the neighbourhood, threatening the inmates and firing shots, and then taking away with them any arms they could find.