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Dunstan Times, Issue 1002, 1 July 1881, Page 3

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Dempsey, a farmer, who took land from which a tenant had been evicted, in Galwav, was killed from behind a hedge. The London Daily News (Radical) says the condition of Ireland gives cause for greater anxiety from day to day. “We seem,” it say's, “ to be coming nearer and nearer ‘insurrectionary outbreaks and serious collisions between the soldiers and the people. The Conservative hatred of Ireland is so great that they openly express a wish for war, so that the Irish may be bayonetted into submission.”

All the cattle by the steamer Phmnician which recent'y arrived at Glasgow from Boston, were found to be diseased. They were slaughtered and the carcases boiled down.

The American actor Booth has dined with the Prince of Wales.

The Lord Cnancellor expresses the opinion that the revised Testament cannot he read in the English church until it has been recommended or authorised by some sufficient public authority. Thirty houses and some schools have been burned in the East end of London. Some well-known Scotch farmers are making a tour of the United States to obtain information regarding agricultural matters and immigration. A young lady named Ida Foster, of San Francisco, on quarrelling with her Iov« took strychnine, and died in his presence. Railways are being built in every direction in Mexico. It is not improbable that within two years the City of Mexico will he connected by rail with all parts of the United States, and a new trans-continental will he opened to traffic. The entire revised New Testament was published in the New York Times and Tribune of May 22nd. The work meets with general favor among the clergy. A few condemn it.

Earl Shrewsbury, it is said will marry Mrs Monday, with whom he eloped recently.

Emmett, the actor, was unable to fulfil his engagements in London owing to drink. He was looked up in a lunatic ward of a workhouse.

Trickett, the oarsman, has left England for Saratoga. The survivors of the sloop-of-war Dot terel disaster have arrived in England. No explanation is given of the cause of the explosion. > k IRELAND. The following are the details of the County Clare riot on June 3rd :—A party of 86 policemen proceeded to Bodyke to assist in the eviction of tenants. Bodyke is' a small village between Soariff and Tulla where some troops are at present garrrisoned. While proceeding to the place of assembly in small parties the police were attacked by the people. Under the command of the county inspector, the police were conveyed from Ennis by ambulance. On the way a hive of bees was let loose, and the bees attacking the horses were maddened, and became unmanageable. One of them dashed himself against the waggon and was killed. Mounted orderlies were despatched for military assistance to Tulla. Meanwhile the united police force proceeded to the house whence the tenant was to be evicted. It was situated on a hill, and as they ascended to it they were attacked by armed men, who from the cover of fences on both sides of the road poured a galling fire into the ranks of the f’onstabulary. The latter deployed in skirmishing order and returned the fire, killing one and wounding several others. The police reached the house and broke in the front door. The rioters rushed through the back door, but several were arrested. Possession was taken of the house and its occupants cleared out. While returning with their prisoners, the police were again fired upon, and one of the horses was killed. The mounted men despatched for the military had to run the gauntlet, a determined effort being made to prevent them reaching Tulla. However, they rode into the town despite the obstacles.