KILLING AND WOUNDING.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 620, 8 January 1870, Page 2

KILLING AND WOUNDING.

While the Rev, James Dunne,, parish priest, Belturbit, was returning from the Cavan tenant-right meeting on November X, in compauy with a number of hia parishionera, near Drumnallee, shots were tired from a party in ambush. A man named Edward Morton was. shot dead. Several others were wounded. The horsa in the car, in which the priest and curate were seated, was shot dead. Bight arrests have been made on suspicion. —Another murder is reported from Ireland. A farmer, named Hunt, was way* laid at a place called Goolaney, in Sligo, and so brutally beaten that he died in a. few hours. Some arrests have been made. The cause of the outrage is not known. — ■ The excitement caused by the murder of Mr Freyne ontinues. Notices have been posted up near Ballymahoh and at Moydow and Carrickedmond, threatening to shoot Mr Cusack, agent over the property^ j whom they call " Pederene Cusack, "''and 1 announcing that if he does; not give up the land to a certain man, they will treat him as they treated the late Alexander Freyne. — A ploughman in the employment of Mr Cusack has also been threatened. A man unknown to the ploughman entered his place of abode, the other night, and asked him to look at him welh, so that he could identify him again,, and, I pulling a revolver out of his pocket, stated i that unless he would leave " JessopV* ! employment within seven days, he would soon take his measure. Much alarm has been caused in the locality, and the public mind is greatly disturbed. A large body of police were sent from the depot, Phoenix Park.— Oh October 25 we heard that a landlord, named O'Brien, residing nearMohill, in the County Leitrim, had been brutally murdered. His body was discovered in a field close to his own house. The face and head were greatly mangled, A wound behind the ear showed that hs had also been shot.— Mr Wm, O'Brien was an inoffensive and retiringgentleinan" and it is supposed that he in some way eauned the hostility of tenants. The property for which he acted a* agent is at p distance from his own residence, and from the place where he was assassinated, beir> in the County of Sligo. He was beatef to death in the moat brutal manner, within a few perches of his own house, and n; a quarter of a mile from the police bar racks. A man named Gargan, the stewar .;. oi Mr Farrell, of Moyanalty, was fired at on October 26. A similar attempt was made on the same man in June last. A correspondent of the Jfyeeman say 3it is believed that the shot was only intended to frighten Gargan, because it was tired long before the car on which he was sitt.ag came up to the place where the mar. was concealed. Owen Smith has been arrested by the constabulary on suspicion. - A double-barrelled gun and a five-chamber revolver were found concealed beneath the fire-place. — Mr Brett, cwinty surveyor of Limerick, was fired at on October 27, through the window of his parlor, at his residence, Rathkeale, and dangerouslywounded. One arrest has been made. The attempt on Mr Brett's life was not agrarian. He had a dispute with a road cor tractor named Bourke* who met him on his return from an inspection. After some • angry words with him in his house he wenout. In a few minutes a pistol-shot was fired through the parlor window. Half-a-dozen pellets lodged in his. side, onebrok;. his watch chain, another- grazed his watck and lodged in the chair. He is not dangerously wounded. It is the second attempt on his life.