Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-09-30 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATE OF IRELAND.  A farmer named resale Nugent and eight others have beet, irought intone Major 1 rail!, N.M., in Armag charged with treuton-felony. All the p.t. oners are front. Crossmaglen. wilt:), Ime been for a lengthened period in a distta bed coon tion. It was one of the fast tarts of the comity Armagh proclaimed. Nogentanel our others had been in gaol some months an suspects, and on their release they were rearrested on warrants for treason. felony. The three not previously in custody were also arrested at the same time. The prisoners were remanded for eight days. The arrests have caused a good deal of excite:Dent. A meeting of representatives of the Tenant Fat mere' Association from various parts of the mention of . Londonderry and Antrim haa been held in Colerain, to take into consideration nhegeneraloperatiosof the Land Act, especially as affected by the recent changes which have taken place in the constitution of the Courts of Sub-Commissioners. It was agreed tu hold a conference of representatives front the Tenant-Right Association of Ulster on the question at an early drf e A committee was appointed to draw up resolutions and make other preparations for the conference. A numerously-atlended meeting of shepherds, labourers, and artisans has taken place at Rathcroagh, ounty Roscommon, at which resolutions were adopted voting £4O to any person who would hand over the perpetrator of an agrarian outrage to justice, resolving to strike if a saLstantial increase in tlie'r wages were not granted, and cautioning their employers that they would not be acconnt Ne for anything which might happen to their charge from sunset to sunrise, owing to several members having been arrested under the Crimes Act for being out during those hours. Five suspects have been transferred from Kilmainham Gaol to Armagh previous to their release in the neighbourhood where they were arrested. The fund for the widow and children of Dolt:nighty, for whose murder Hynes WAS executed, exceeds £l2O. An application will also be made ander the Crimes Act for compensation. Mr. G. Fitzgerald, sub-Sheriff of ' the county Tipperary, recently offered at the Court - house, Clonmel, the interest in twenty-seven farms, for non-payment of rent by the tenant. In every instance the representative of the Property Defence Leagne purchased on behalf of the landlord. A desperate attack has been made at Drimoleague, by a man named John Hurley, on a yonng man, Patrick O'Neill, who had recently evicted his assailant's father, a dairyman. Hurley beat the young man with a farming implement and so severely injured him about the head that his life is in danger. The inquiry respecting the murder of the two bailiffs Duddy has been rmutned at Galway. The two sons of the des ceased traced their father as far as Kerrigan's cottage, but could not find that he event any further. They searched Kerr:glut's house with the police, and found blood stains on the walls and clothes, and bullet marks in the wall. Sere. rat women stated that they saw the Huddys going towards Kerrigan's house. James Burke stated that he heard several shots from the house. Mr. Goode, Lord Ardilaun's bailiff, stated that he issml a writ of ejectment again d Kerrigan, which the Huddys had in thef• possession at the time of their murder. The inquiry was adjourned. At the Newport petty sessions Captain Dickenson was charged with firing a revolver, loaded with ball cartridge, at a farmer named Ryan. On the night of the alleged offence the defendant, whilst proceeding from Limerick races to Newport, where he is on detachment duty, met a number of men, who, on seeing him. raised a shout and dourished their arms. Thereupon Captain Dickenson, taking them to be Moonlighters, fired his revolver over their heads. A few nights previously the sentry on duty at Newport Barracks was fired at three times, and, owing to the disturbed state of, the country, it was assent d that it was necessary to carry loaded revolvers. The solicitor for the prosecution urged that the magistrat. had no option but to send the case for trial before a jury. The Bench, however, dismissed the case on us ground of the present fearful condition of Ireland