The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-01-01 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A SALE.  An extraordinary scene occurred at a shrifts sale, near Portmarnock, county Dublin, when a Dublin auctioneer arrived upon the laud of a large tenant farmer named Daly, to enforce a civil bill decree for non-payment of rent, by selling hay, &c., the property of Daly. A force of constabulary was present. Previous tc the sale, Mr. Hogan, son of the agent over the property, without having (as is alleged) received- the slightest molestation, presented a revolver at the head of (me of the tenantry, but was Unmediately disarmed by a constabulary officer. At the sale there were no bidders, and it was consequently adjourned. Subsequently, Mr. Kettle, of the Land League, addressing the people, said he felt proud of the powerful assistance that had now been given in dealing a death blow to landlordism. The present was a significant case, the first of its kind in Ireland. .Mr. Parnell was facing the minions of England, and thinking of the struggle that day between the landlords and the people, and he would rejoice at the result. It only useded this lesson to teach the landlords their place ; and through the instrumentality, loyalty, and determination of the people, they were triumphing over the landlords. This was the first of a series of such cases in county Dublin, aml they should organise and be ready at twelve hours notice. At a meeting on Wednesday night, the Laml League unannnonsly resolved to prosecute Mr. Hogan for presenting his revolver at this meeting at the farmer above referred to.  Three men, named Michael and William Burke and John Banbury, were arrested on Wednesday at Clonbur for alleged complicity in the murder of Lard Mountmorres. 'I he police also proceeded to the house of a butcher named Hannelly, made a minute search, and took away with them a letter belonging to liannelly's son, who is absent from home. The two &tykes are tenants of Mr. Richard Lynch, of Peterbury, and Banbury is a tenant of Lord Ardilaun.  A tenant right meeting was held on Wednesday at Kilrea, county Londonderry, the Rev. Mr. Stewart presiding. At Claremorris on Wednesday a farmer who had given offence WRS " Boycotted. The pigs which he had brought to the fair were thrown out of his cart and allowed to run through the streets. A process-server named Durkin was attacked on Wednesday and again On Thursday while serving processes near Foxford. In the course of the proceedings he drew a revolver. A sale of timber , was prevented on Thursday at Kilfinane on account of the unpopularity of the agent on the estate.  On Thursday, at Weduesbury, a young Irishman, named Patrick Hannelley, son of a butcher living at Clonbur, was apprehended, charged with the murder of Lord Ifountmorres, his arrest being due to the discovery of a letter from him at his father's house on the previous day. His appearance is said to correspond in every particular, excepting that he has recently shaved off his beard and whiskers, with the murderer of Gateley, at Solihull recently, and he has been seen by one of the persons called as a witness at the inquest, but the identification is incomplete.