Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 27, 29 October 1886, Page 19

Irish News.

(Prom the National Papers). Antrim.— Carrickfergus Old North Gate is to be removed. Sir Charles Lanyon, The Abbey, Whiteabbey, has been appointed a Deputy Lieutenant, and the following made Resident Magistrates for this County :— Lieut.-Col., P. B. Bowlby, Col. Millar, Lieut.-Col. Conolly, V. C; Col. Btewart, Capt. Stokes, Capt. Welch, Messrs. A. G. Meldon, Henry Keogh, Henry Thynne, G. D. Mercer, and Veaey Fitzgerald. J A petition v? as lodged on August 4, against the return of Thomas Sexton as M.P. for West Belfast. The grounds on which Mr. Haslett, the candidate whom Mr. Sexton defeated at the poll, claims that the election should be declared null and void are bribery, undue influence, personation, illegal hiring, and other illegal practices. The petition w further grounded upon the fact that at the time of his election for West Belfast Mr. Sexton was duly elected for South Sligo. At the Antrim Assizes on July 31, Richard Bell, farmer, Moira, appealed against a decision of the Court below dismissing an action brought by him against the Great Northern Railway Company for ii d , ama S e(} . the valu e of a quantity of hay which the plaintiff alleged was set on fire by a spark emitted from an engine of tbe defendants on the 15th April. The decision of the inferior court was reversed and the plaintiff awarded tbe amount claimed, £10. ABMAOH. — The number of claims lodged by the Conservatives for Mid-Armagh is 712. The Nationalists say they have lodged 600. It is expected the business of the Revision Sessions for this division will occupy a considerably length of time, as bothparties intend to leave nothing undone to improve their position. The Conservatives have also lodged a large number of claims for South Armagh. A fraudulent bankruptcy case was dealt with at the last Armagh Assizes, the defendant, J. J. McCorkell, having been brought back to Armagh from Queensland, and having on the jonrney, devoted himself with the greatest assiduity to the nursing of the detective who had arrested him, and who was attacked with a dangerous fever on the return journey. McCorkell pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him, though he bad extenuating circumstances to urge. Justice O'Brien simply ordered him to be detained until tbe rising of the Court on the day of the trial. In passing this light sentence tbe Judge, while pointing out the gravity of the offence to which the prisoner had pleaded guilty, took into consideration the facts that McUorkell had been brought from the other end of the world to Armagh to answer the charge ; that he had left his wife and children behind him in Queensland and must, if he return at all, return at his own expense, and that he had been stripped of all his goods. " Considering all the circumstances." said the Judge, <( and considering that all the property has been recovered and no actual loss has financially accrued to tbe creditors, and considering your own state of health at present, and that you have been already in custody for a period of no less than nine months, and have been enduring a great amount of misery and suffering during that period of time. I have come to tbe conclusion that what you have suffered satisfies the ends of justice and is an example to deter others from committing a similar offence."

Cablow.— On July 27 Denis Bambrick was evicted from his holding at Aries by his landlord, Mr. Kilkelly, Solicitor, Dublin. It has been decided to erect in Kinneigh four laborers' dwellings at a cost of £360 ; in Rahill five. £460 ; Rathvilly eight, £720 ; and Williamßtown ten, £900. Cavan.— Bailieborough Fair, on August 2, exhibited the smallest business and lowest prices for many years. The priests and people of Kingscourt have sent a second subscription of 28dols. to the Parliamentary Fund. Clare. — The League of the Cross held a great temperance excursion to Kilrush on August 2. A feature of the proceedings was the athletic sports under the rules of the Gaelic Athletic Association. So bad is the condition of things in the Kildysart district that four barony cess collectors have tendered their resignations to the Grand Jury, owing to the impossibility of collecting the County cess. At a specially convened sessions held at Mountshannon on Aagust 3, nine persons were returned for trial to the next assizes on charge of riotous conduct and assaulting a process-server named Conlan, while engaged in the service of writs. On August 6, at Lisdoonvarna one of the most extensive tenants on the Gore property was evicted for non-payment of rent. The tenant and his predecessor, his uncle, had, it was shown, paid between them seventy thousaud pounds in rent, a sum which would more than seven times cover the fee-simple of the holdings. Sheer impossibility to pay the present rent faced the tenant, and now he has been evicted after all his energy, labour, and enterprise in the farm. At the meeting of the Ennts Guardians on August 3, a demonstration of Nationalists from the districts of Tubber, Inagh, and Crueheen was made in favour of Patrick Meer, brother of Michael Meer, recently unaccountably shot in the vicinity of Spancil Hill. An appointment as Relieving Officer for the electoral divisions was to be made, and Meer being the favourite candidate of the Nationalists in the quarter popular feeling in his favour ran high. The Crusheen Band with flags of two local branches of the National League accompanied him into town and onwards to the workhouse, where the election took place. Meers was elected with but one dissentient voice. On August 4, Mr. Dunsterville, R.M., West Clare, and Mr. Wynne, District Inspector, K. I. C, with a posse of the Constabulary, attended at Leaheens to remove the widow M'lnerney from her house. She has been already evicted, and her daughter Miss M'lnerney, had Jbeen arreßted for trespassing in going back with her mother into

their home. The widow's son Samuel M'lnerney, was also arrested as a trespasser. At Leaheens the scene was heartrendering, Father Qninlivan, P. P., who was present, being moved to tears. Dr. Hickey, who risited the widow, who is orer 88 years of age, certified that any attempt to remove her would be attended with fatal results. Mr. Dunsterville, R. M., refused to remove the dying woman, who appeared to be in her last moments. A short distance from the scene of these precedings, in the same town and on the same estate, there was held a splendid demonstration, being the occasion of building a hut for the Widow Murrihy, her four orphans, and her aged parent, who had been evicted but a few days before under harrowing circumstances. The site for the hut was selected at Tarmon East: The attendance was very large. Contingents were present from Cross, Cawigabolt, Doonaha, Kilkee, Eilrusb, Killard, Doonbeg, and Miltown. The peasantry brought all the materials necessary for erecting the house, and in a short space ot time a substantial and comfortable borne had been erected for the widow and orphans, who since their eviction had to seek shelter both by day and night from old cars, tables, and boards piled together to afford them shelter. A notable feature in the demonstration was the part taken in the scene by over 200 women of the neighbouring districts. Potato blight is spreading around Skibbereen. The Cork Commercial travellers have contributed £50 to the Irish Parliamentary Fund. At the meeting of the Cork Guardians on August 5, attention was called to the number of eviction notices served on the Relieving Officer, and it was stated that in most cases they were at the instance of John Warren Payne. Some Guardians remarked that Mr Payne's connection with the Munster and Leinster Bank would not serve that institution. An execution sale at the suit of Richard Creed, Cloyne House, the immediate lessor, against Michael Murphy, tenant, on the Demesne lands, took place at Cloyne on July 31. Twelve o'clock was the hour appointed, but before that time a large crowd of people had assembled in the streets. The effigy of the landlord was displayed on the back of a horse that was seized by the Sheriff. The borse was led through the streets, followed by two fife and drum bands, and the strange spectacle created great merriment and laughter, mingled with shouts of derision. Fifty of the B. I. 0. and Mr. Creagh, D. 1., under the command of W. R. Starkie R.M., were in attendance. There was also present an emissary of the I. L. P. U. Thirty- two heads of cattle and one horse formed the eutire seizure, and these were placed in the Cloyne pound preparatory to being sold. A large crowd assembled at the pound to witness the procaedings. The different branches of the National League sent representatives from their districts. The cattle were eventually knocked down to the tenant after several exciting scenes. On August 6, in the Chancery Court, judgment was delivered in the case of Midleton v. Power, which was an action of Lord Midleton, an English landlord, who owns property in the neighborhood of Midleton, against Mr. Power, who lad been Secretary of the Midleton branch of the National League, and other members of the branch, to restrain them from holding fairs in opposition to the plaintiff's fairs. It appeared that under an old patent Lord Midleton claimed the right to hold two fairs in the year at Midleton, but some years ago at the request, as he alleged, of the inhabitants, he proceeded to hold twelve fairs in the year on a fair green specially prepared and fenced in by himself. Owing to the eviction by the plaintiff of some of his tenantry the defendants started " Land League fairs." The plaintiff's fairs were boycotted, and he had suffered pecuniarily by the defendants' action. Tbe defendants alleged that the opposition fairs were started to convenience the inhabitants, as the plaintiff's fairs were a nuisance, being held in too confined a place and as the plaintiff charged illegal and unfair tolls, and they also contested the plaintiff's right to hold any fairs at all. The Vice-Chancellor held that the plaintiff had established complete rights to the holding of fairs, and found that the defendants and others, members of the Midleton branch of tbe Land League, had conspired t j defeat those rights. He granted a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants from doing the acts complained of, and decreed that they should pay the plaintiff's costs. The eviction of two farmers took place on July 30, atKillobraber, a short distance from Charleville. The landlord is a Mr. Orpin, and the agent — one who has attained a very unenviable notoriety as an evictor— Thomas Saunders. Tbe families evicted were those of Richard Harding and Andrew O'Shaughnessy. A force of police from Charleville, Liscarrol, and Churchtown were drafted to the scene of operations. Those from Ckarleville having been refused the use of cars by all the car owners in tbe town, were obliged to " tramp it." The agent and his three sons superintended the operations. Two families were also evicted at Gibbon's Grove on the following day. The landlord is the Rev. Mr. Gibbon, who resides in England, and the famous evictor is agent. The first house visited was that of Thomas White, the doors of whose premises were barricaded, and after considerable exertions on the part of the crowbar brigade an entrance was effected through the windows. John O'Donnel was next visited. The Sheriff's officer and his assistant got considerable annoyaace, and were put to great inconvenience by someone having appropriated their implements of war, a hammer and hatchet. They spent a long time in useless searching for the doors of the houses, which were removed before they came. Ab jut thirty police were present, and all with the exception of those from Charleville, which is the farthest, place that supplied fchem, were able to procure cars. When leaving, one of the tenants asked permission of Mr. Sanders to dig his supper, a request he refused. Desby. — Coleraine quarterly fair on Angust 3 was largely attended, but the prices offered were so low that but little business was done in cattle aDd scarcely any at all in horses. Deiry monthly fair on August 3 was both poorly attended and badly supplied. The " big Lammas fair" on August 6 was the largest held for many years, but, "although there was a brisk demand, prices here too fell below the average. On August 2 in the Dublin Common Law Divisions in the matter of the election petition for the city of Derry — McCarthy, petitioner ;

Lewis, respondent — an application was made on behalf of the petitioner for inspection of ballot papers. There was a cross-motion for particulars. Justice Munroe made an order giving liberty to inspect both the counted and rejected ballot-papers, and also directed that particulars should be furnished within ten days. Donegal. — Between 9 p.m. and midnight on July 27 there was a show of auroric lights, at times very brilliant. At about half-past 9 there were continuous pencils of yellowish and reddish lights from tbe East to the West, with from West to East occasional ones shooting up, with clonds and columns of red lights ; these at times formed a corona, at others a rude cross at the zenith. The clouds and columns of reddish light were succeeded by flashes and sheets of silver light, the display, especially at the N. N. W., being very brilliant between 10.30 and 10.45, after which ail the lights disappeared. There was, however, a second display between 11.15 and midnight, of silver lights forming arches to the northward, sometimes two, but more generally one, with their accompaning horns, pencils, and flashes of light of similar character to those of the silver auroras seen from the North Atlantic and Candian lakes. Dublin. — A. serious collision, though unattended by loss of life, occurred on August 5, near Kingstown, between the city of Dublin Steampacket Company's mail boat Munster and the London and North-western cattle boat Alexandra. Both vessels were badly damaged. A page and a half of the Freeman's Journal of August 4 is filled by a list of subscriptions towards Peter's Pence in the archdiocese of Dublin which were received at the various church collections on Sunday, July 4. The subscription is said to be the largest since the memorable collection twenty-three years ago, when Cardinal Cullen appealed to his flock to sustain by their voluntary gifts the independence of the Pope, who had been despoiled of the patrimony guaranteed to him and his successors. At last examination of the Kensington (London) School of Science and Art and the City and Guilds of London Institute, nine pass certificates were secured by artisan employees of Maguireand Son, Dawson street, in plumbing, metal plate work, carpentry, and joinery, brickwork and masonry, and also in freehand drawing, many of the employees having attended the Drawing School at Leinster House. The competition was open to the United Kingdom. The fourth place, with a special prize in plumbing, was also secured. DOWN.— At the Maghera monthly Sessions on July 31, Constable Moses Gilespie, of Maghera, charged James Doherty, of Maghera, with having on July 12th last, endeavoured to create a disturbance' on the public street, while the Orange procession was passing up the town, by attempting to pull down one of the flags. Tbe Magistrates ordered the accused to find bail for his good behaviour for twelve months — himself in £10 and two sureties in £5 each. At Newry Petty Sessions on August 4, a countryman named Robert Dinsmore, residing in the townland of Ballymacrattymore, was charged with having an illicit still on his premises tor the manufacture of '• potheen." Evidence was given as to the finding of 10^ pints of the liquor in defendaut'a bedroom, and no evidence having been produced on behalf of the latter, the Magistrates imposed a fine of £6, with an alternative of six month's imprisonment. On July 31, whilst the schooner Bredalbane (George McDonald, master), from Cardiff to Newry with coal, was coming through Carlingford Lough, the wind being light and a flood tide running she became unmanageable, and ultimately was swept out of the channel against the New England Hock, close to Greencastle shore. A large hole was knocked in her bottom sheeting, and she commenced to fill rapidly. Seeing that the vessel muht sink, the captain ran her ashore at tte Blockhouse Point. The captain and crew were safely landed. J The Nationalists in South Down and Newry Borough have been working very energetically in view of tbe forthcoming revision courts, and nothing is being left undone to secure the insertion in the lists of every man possessing the legal qualifications. August 5 being the last day for lodging claims for the borough of Newry aud South Divison of Down, tbe following were lodged by the respective agents : Borough of Newry— Conservative new claims, 134 ; Nationalist claims, 330. The present lists as issued by the Town Clerk contain 2,531 names altogether. The Conservative agent has issued 544 claims for tbe Sjuth Divison of Down, and also intends to is&ue a large number of objections to Nationalists who are at present on tbe list. Fermanagh.— Owing to the recent significant defeats of tbe Conservative candidates for the representation of the " loyal " County of Fermanagh, their friends have boasted that at the coming revision the tables will be so completely turned as to leave it impossible for the return of the Nationalist nominee again to be repeated. Tbe Nationalists, however, are not only determined on retaining the two seats at present held by Messrs. VVm. Redmond and Henry Campbell, but are striving unremittingly to increase their political strength. The number of claims to vote lodged on August 3 with the Clerk of the Peace for Fermanagh amount, d to 2,800, or about twice as many as last year. Of these about 780 Conservative claims have been lodged tor Norn Fermanagh, and over 600 Nationalists ; for South Fermanagh, 680 Conservatives and 550 Nationalists. J. F. Wray, LL.B., soliciter, who has charge of the registration for North Fermanagh. Thomas Brannan, and other Nationalists have worked most assiduously at filling in the National claims. Galway.— At the Loughnew Petty Sessions on August o Michael Finerty, ot Killimoxdaly (an evicted tenant of Lord Dunsaodle'si, was seuteuced to one month's imprisonment oy Major Rodgers, on the prosecution of Lord Dunßandle for trespassing ou the prosecutor's bog. Michael Finerty is 80 years of age, and is dohcate and feeble Widow Byan was hauled up by the same prosecutor for the same offence, and she and her son were arrested at the order of the bench and sent to prison. There were four children at home after the widow and her eldest son, who were evicted on the same night. The

nirniture, etc., was thrown out, and the children slept under the bushes that night. On July 27, in Tuam Town Hall, Dr. Todd, L.G.1., held an in» quiry respecting the over-crowded state of Tuam's old burial ground. There was intense excitement, as it was said that this inquiry was merely preliminary to the closing of the graveyard. Dr. Turner was of opinion that for public decency and for the benefit of the public health a general order for closing tbe graveyard should be issued . Dr. Dowling, officer of health for the dispensary district, was of the same opinion. After his evidence a stirring scene ensued J. Cullinan shouted :— " We are of the old stock of Tuam. That graveyard is the burial place of the generations before us for hundreds of years and we are not going to be shut out from it now." Evidence wa9 then given that only three or four interments had taken place in the ground for 30 years, and that the last barial was nine or ten years ago. Rev. Joseph Canton CO., said that in consequence of the overcrowding His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam has interdicted the clergy from officiating at funerals in the old graveyard except in cases wherein the Public Health Act provides exception. John Connolly here declared with vehemence :— ''l'd take good care that nobody will clnse the place against me where all my forefathers are buried." Stephen Gannon here interrupted, saying he would suffer death on the gallows sooner than let anybody shut him out from where his forefathers were interred. Pat Smyth — " So would I. Let no one think that we will allow it." Gaanoa— " It will not be closed, and if any person attempts it there will be bad work. The country won't let it be closed ; they would pitch down the gate, wall, and all. So the less gentlemen Bay about closing it the better. The graveyard will not be closed. The country will not allow it. The dead would start from their graves to prevent it. There will be bad work — there will be murder if ye try to close it. If this busU ness was known outside there would be thousands here to-day — and there will be thousands to fling down walls and all if ye attempt to close the graveyard — the place where our first bishop built his chapel and where all the old stock of Tuam, for hundreds of years, are buried. Yes, indeed, and send us to another place where our coffins may float. What Guardians we have I Vagabond Guardians that want poor people to pay them the money they spent in getting up their new cemetery ! " Pat Smyth, Martin Tighe, Stephen Gannon, John McHugh, and others gave evidence to the effect that the graveyard was not overcrowded, that there was room enough for all, and plenty of clay to cover the coffins. The inquiry then closed amid a bcene of great excitement. Kebhy. — At Listowel ou August 3, eight men named Matthew Dillane, David Connell, Timothy Leahy, Maurice Leahy, John Keane, James Dore, Thomas O'Sullivan, and William Dillane, were brought before the magistrate charged with having on the 11th July s<one to the house of a man named John Ratthury, at Kilmeany, and taken away firearms. The evidence of identification was incomplete, and the prisoners were discnar^ed. At the meeting of the Ktllarney Union on August 4 notices of several evictions were laid before the Guardians. An evicted tenant of the Kenmare estate applied for relief. He was granted 15s. a week for one monm. The chairman drew attention to the matter of evic. tions, and expressed his belief that some stop should be put to them. Legal proceedings are being taken against numbers of tenants on the Drummond estate, near Castleisland, to recover rents which they are quite uuaole to pay. Several cattle seizures were made on July 21 by Brown, the bailiff, at the instance of the Earl of Kenmare for rent.^ 'ihey seized eight head of cattle belonging to James Casey, of Knifjger, and 15 belonging to Timothy Sullivan, ot Bowliclane. Kerry bub-Land Commission eat at Listowel ou August 2 and made reductions varying from 20 to 51 per cent. Despite these reductions the tenants complain that the judicial rents are still far above the valuation made when stock and produce brought far higher prices than they do now. At Killarney Petty Sessions on August 3, J. P. Leahy summoned a caretaker named O'Gorman for au alleged breach of contract in having surrendered the caretaking of an evicted farm at Ardfert without giving sufficient notice. Complainant sought to recover £3 compensation. It was proved th it the defendant gave up the pobition iv consequence of being wholly unable to procure food. The magistrates at ouoe dismissed the case. Tbe caretaker deposed that he had not left the farm till he found he had to quit, lie could not get anything in tlie village ; tbe people who served him told him in a polite way that they would not serve him ; three of his days were not spent in it ; he had to leave it with the hunger ; he wrote to Mr. Leahy on two occasions stating he could not get food ; the police sergeant at Ardfert told him to go to the woman at the barracks and that she would piocure it in the town; she was afraid and discontinued supplying him ; he was seven dayß without f od or light ; the police reported tbe matter to their superiors, and the police brought him to the police barracks, and gave him a charity dinner there ; it was in consequence of his not being able to procure food he left. Kildabe.— At the weekly meeting of the Athy Guardians on August 5 the clerk read a letter from the Local Government Board, stating that they dad received from their inspector his report on his local inquiry into the petitions of the Guardians for the confirmation of tchetnes under the Labourers' Dwellings Act. The schemes pro- [ posed the erection ot 220 cottages, the purchase of one, and the 1 iepair of three cottages, and the acquisition of 34 acres of land, to ba paiceled out on allotment to agricultural labourers. The Inspector reported that he was able to recommend tbe erect on of 128 cottages, and the purchase and repair of two houses, the remainder being uiibuitab.e and unnecessary. He is unable to iecoiumend sanction to the proposal to acquire the plot of 34 acres, as power is not given by th.G Act to take laud for such a purpose compulson'v. Kilkenny.— The police were hoaxed badly by a landlord at Hugginstown on July 26. They had been informed that an eviction was to take place at which the landlord, Mr. Swainson, would need

Whn S2! \^ ff fflltß ' tbe cvi ctions were not carried out. ion JSp n g> Bfuslhenff8 f u sl henff - accompanied by bailiffs, and escorted by to tadtori^.u'lSTf" Jo."'«?J o ."'«? •"* «°B«gem™t to that effect, £ sspsss £ d£i Mm* aba ° k •* th l 8 "W-^ and again c^led on TeShS^ unfi he rßrS ßßl^^ the hOUBe « Thi9 the Sheriff w«i«d to do until he (Brown) would point out the bounds of the farm After were then marked f ?h Ct & settlument - T^ brigade and police Se crowd, respective stations admidst groans from I^nifllSS 1 ra^ohr*?- 8 i emo ° Btr^ ion wa « held at Cartron, near Sgly Jounced 17 2°2 °- Pour ba^« attended. Land-grabbing was •itJm a G ssSt B ssf'. a meet ; ng on Jaly 25 - resoi - d s^ssas s Ksjfi STooT? champioDs of extermin - Sjufed! }> a 8 m command of the bailiffs, was severely Pi f v?f n Ul u 3 i' before Johnston and a special iury of the outage whS took n- P2eSl t d C ° UdUCed t0 tbe emission of an his speech at X PrP r Bubs^ u « nt to th « meeting, and fuitber that mStJfeg The iurv S? ° h^ 8 . d !f by b&Be and dishonourable wichTsb damage?. "" bb ° Ur S dehberatlon toind for the plaintiff 28 M l r° I v!^ RD .'r; At the meetin g of th e Longford Guardians on July evicSon on 3 f i ag i^ 06 '"' lep ° rted tbe followi °g notices of eviction on the estate of Lord Aunally :— Luke FarrelJ Corron sS ;; ™ atnC JJ £ 1 FarrdI ' Li^ a^anu, ; Pat. Farrell Lehery Pe^er c£bdb£ 2tJ ; Ca S Crine Smytb ' B1 ™ db^ John 7 Kenny oaantJOeg , and Ihomas Murlagh, Tureen. hr Q n^h O «f r^""^ be ,: young men of Colloa have for med a promising branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association. uuiwiug On July 25 a magnificent demonstration was held in Carlinzford for the purpose of protesting against the heartless evictions of nlarly sixty tenaut-farmers, in respect of whom the landlords Messrs Murphy and Kyan, ot Kewry, and others, have obtained ejectment

decrees. Upwards of 6 000 people attended, large contingents with ss^jrsaSffi preßeut from Ne Jy « OmeaS^ Mey " ST^f^ 6 /^^ withaQ y BQ g lish official, *r they would do heir duty to the Government, no matter how they pcr B ecST?eland° therefore he moved as an amendment that they express Z^vmoathv with any Government official in Ireland. He wish d the72e aU SnPd Dd THT H r c R / e °^ Cialß iQ tbeir P Uce ' At the mSng of the 225 eda ff Inde P endeat Branch, on July 26, a similar resolution wis FSn a i 6r Btro^ g °P positioa fr °m John Smitk, who said thatTe w=jt arffljKs "° m ™° k the wte « s - 5 --

S2 ?UrChtOWQ? UrChtOWQ ?"J oannißtown . the caretakers cut thf gSfnot JZZ * a y ßenß *°£ dut y- bQ t sordid motives of utilising the grass. Ardmulchan was the only graveyard I found locked The caretaker at Canistown never had a key/nor did he ever applr for one. In Retain the grass was cut only around the graveyard while the rest of the graveyard was one unsightly mass of decayed boughs, ri an g T* ,, J belieVe there 1S no P e «P le in the ™v who have greater respect and reverence for the dead than our own, and yet we of ,» a rrtf° me ° f , fch + °- 8e t0 miß confiddd the almost ' sacred tru?t of guarding protecting, and keeping in proper order the last resting places of our departed friends, are Vandals who neglect and desecrate them. I have known many to have planted flowers over the graves of their departed friends, but very soon they disappear, either choked with weeds and grass or trodden down by animals. No wonder i? S !SrT - ime3 e -ll leß9 dißpUte and liti S^oa about grave, when it is morally impossible to distinguish them or their boundaries, owing to accumulation of weeds and luxuriant grass. frn J?° N T IAW ;~r? he . neW h ™ nch of the Great Northern Railway from Inniskeen to Camcmacross, which was opened on July 31 has been boycotted at the instance of the local branch of the National League, owing to the appointment of a notorious land-thief symn*. thwer as Htationmaster. The boycott ;is most rigorous. Even the passengers travelling; by the trains, it is said, havi been boycotted ..nd commercial travellers arriving in Camcmacross by rKnnot procure cars to carry them to the surrounding towns and vi liases Tb,y are forced, therefore, either to travel ai / mI ,« Tb y roaJ lS Inniskeen or have special car 3 from Castleblnney or Dundalk awaithS iA^h loflbetrf V"- Ma^ merchants, under pressure fZmZ League have refused to give orders to the travellers if they use the line, and several linesmen have left the company 8 employment Queen's OouNTY.-An agreement has been formally entered into between Earl Stanhope and the tenantry on h? . BafhoakUl 0? "hU h e old^n rd s A9bb ° U T\ Land Purcbase Act. tor the purchase *Ln Z Anf" The ü ßale to tenants, 187 i a number, is thus aßsTa BsT g «™ '""A l enaQ n 8 having paicl tbeir renlS U P to Ist of No™ Mat'aSil^ J^r cd ° n tO Pay Up ,- tbe fa alf -year's rent due last May, until the Land Commissioner applies for the first instalment of the interest on the loan, which will not be piyable until May 1887 and probably not till November, 1887. From the Ist of May' 1885 OOcX?nlrLordfiWO O cX?nlrLordfi W^ hCaQQO I POeßibly be «^ted earlier than ««i ? i ' i St: . in J h °P c 1S Dot to charge the tenants any rent. and for the broken period that follows from the completion of the purchase until the tir.t collection of the interest by the Land Com* mismoner, the rent will be charged on tbe purchase money at the rate of H per cent per annum. During tbe whole period of 49 years as sated in the Ac., 4 per cent will be charged by the Land Commit mon, to whom the auau.l instalments will be paid in lieu of the present rents. Lord «tanhope sells hi S agricultural hold ngs at 18 years purchase of present rental, and to tenants holding 20 afresand under he allow* 10 per cent of a reduction where judicial rents had not been fixed. The house property in the town of Ba hnakilli^o be sold at 15 years' purchase on present rents, and the mod c who live partly by business and parti/ by farming'are to getS houso property at lo years' and the land at 18 years' purchase Sse owning arrears on the property-not an inconsiderable number-are nVh?cJd° r ?n Yen a L afrearS 6XCept ° ne year ' 8 reDt - whi «b is to be included in purchase money. The reductions, taking agricultural and town tenants zn globo, will average something like one-th rd of the former rental ; m other words, £40 will pay now what it took £60 to pay before. Lord Stanhope pays all expenses incidental to the transfer of the property, clears off all charges or incumbrances of Sr^^wSlSS^eS g6t thCir deCdß ° £ — yance^th'action of the Earl of Kingston and his agent for t£^wholesale evictions of the Arigna, K.lronan, and Loughallen tenlnti for impossible rente, and we deeply sympathise with them in their persecution, and in a special manner with that sterling patriot and uncompromising Nationalist, Thomas Lynch, Jlon. Sec. Kilrona Branch, who was the first victim in tbe last batch selected for per

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