THE STATE OF IRELAND.

Evening Star, Issue 5588, 4 February 1881, Page 2

THE STATE OF IRELAND.

[From the ‘ Eoeopeak Mail ’] The accounts from Ireland c mtinue to be of the gravest character. A party of thirty men visited the house of Miss Switaer, County Limerick, the other night, and searched for arms. Miss 'Switzrr and her brother fired upon the party, but with what result is not known, The men fired several ehots and broke some things in the house, and before leaving they beat Miss and her brother. The Clare Land Leagw

“ Boycotted ” the hunters which Mr Staokpoolo, J.P., master of the Clare hounds, 'attempted to sell at Limerick. Mr Staokpoole had announced that the sale was rendered necessary by the action of the Land League in refusing to allow him to hunt with the hounds. This announcement gave offence, and a bollmtn went round the town declaring that the hunters were not to be bought. Thirty policemen guarded the auction mart, but there was no sale. A grave has been dug on the property of Mr Owen, a Queen's County magistrate, near Rathlowney, as a warning, he having served his tenants with writs for their rent. His family have left the county, and bis house is guaided by the police. The district is much disturbed. The agent of Mr Peacock attended at Ballinger the other day to collect rents, but he was mobbed by the villagers, and had to take refuge in the house of the parish priest, from which he afterwards escaped secretly. The Rev, Mr Hodger, a clergyman of the Irish Churaji, while driving home a few nights ago to Killlnohy, County Down, being mistaken for an unpopular clergyman in the neighborhood, was set upon by four men in masks, and his horse and vehicle tumbled into the ditch. One of the most notable instances of “ Boycotting ” yet chronicled occurred in Ballina the other night. A lady who has been for years at variance with her tenants, and who was shot at and woirtided in her own kitohgn some years ago, was accosted by a h ux t er woman while passing through the streets of Ballina, who called her some vile name and struck her across the face with a tin teapot, The lady then went into a large hardware shop, and was in the act of buying some goods when the proprietor came in and ordered her out. declining her custom and commanding his assistants not to attend her on peril of dismissal. She then proceeded down the street, and was followed by an excited crow yelling and hooting. She drew a large sixchambered revolver, and, turning round, presented it at the crowd, telling them that she would and could use it if necessary. She was escorted to her hotel by a party of police, and finally was accompanied to her county residence on her own car by two constables, A bailiff, named Mulhollaud, has been shot dead ai Ballinagilly, a few miles from Cookstown, County Tyrone, while attempting to execute a decree. His body has been taken into Cookstown, and great excitement prevails in the surrounding district. A man named Ncdleyn was met the other night, near Castle Island, by a party of men, armed and disguised, who bound him hand and foot, and, fastening the rope to the battlements of a bridge, left him suspended from it over the water, From this perilous condition ho was rescued. These are simply a faw of the outrages which are daily being perpetrated in Ireland. Every morning’s papers bring a long list, and it hj noteworthy that the number increases, Baron Dcwse, at Galway Assizes on December 14, read n threatening letter ho had received. It was written In a disguised hand, evidently with the left hand, and was the work of a person of moi e than ordinary education, It was couched in the following terms t— u Iriahtown, Limerick,— Dowse, you infernal Protifltant.’take warnh g of Lord for you will surely meet his fate, even on the bench, if you convict any Land Leaguer, We all at last know our power, as you now sse. We frightened in Cork, so we will you, or any other tyrant like you.— A COUNT? Limerick Man.—* To hell with Victoria la Heine! ’ ‘ Vive Parnell, noire Hoi! ’ ” .There was a coffin with the name “Baron Dowse ” on it, and two words he could not make out. It was hardly necessary to say that nothing of the kind would deter him or any of hii brethren on the Bench from doing their duty,