RECENT OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 696, 5 July 1870, Page 4

RECENT OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.

[EUROPEAN MAIL.] Ih the Crown Court of the couuty Antrim Assizes on March 25, Judge Lawson was engaged hearing a case in which a farmer, named DanieMtt'llhatty, was charged with sending a threatening letter to a neighboring farmer,' named James Watt. The letter threatened Watt ' with death, had a coffin sketched upon it, and concluded with the words, " William the Third and> no : surrender^" The jury acquitted the prisoner. Great interest was taken in the case, which was the' first of the kind that has taken place in the county Antrim.— A man named Crawford, a care-taker on lands at Killallen, near Clonmellan, in the county of Westmeath, was shot on March 27 while sitting at the fire with his family. Several slugs entered his right eye and nosej and others lodged in his shoulder. Some slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. He was taking care of lands which a tenant had given up, and which no one else would be allowed to occupy.— ln Longford, on March 29, evidence was given respecting sums of money spent in hiring mobs and treating, and also as to the violent language used by the priests from the altars against the Martinites. One prayed that their tears might not be dried saye by the flames of hell. —The telegraph wires were cut, on April 3, near Clare Castle, in the. neighborhood of Ennis.— -Miss Gardiner, if Ballybeg, in the county Mayo— who was fired at and wounded a few months j ago, in consequence, It was said, of her having caused notices to quit to be served on her tenauba — has gzre« effecb bo theae notices, arid evicted twenty-five persons. These, the Freeimn's ''Jojinwl says, gave. «P possession "without compulsion, but with the lamentations of old and young." ft adds that they paid their rents punc- _ tually, were industrious, peaceable, and sober, and never appeared at either quarter or petty sessions. Their rents were "smart," amounting in some instauces to double the poor-law valuation. Miss Gardiner, it appears, was in the habit of serving notices to quit every year, but did not act on them until the present year.— The bailiff on the Kildare estates of the Duke Leinster, has published a denial of a statement made by the Rev. John Nolan, P.P., to the effect that he had used any threat of eviction when he asked the tenants whether they would be willing to remove elsewhere on receiving compensation.— There has been a serious faction fight at Kilmarty, county Clare. One man had his skull fractured by the stroke of a spade, and is pronounced beyond hopeof recovery. Several others were severely injured. The fight was put an end to by the arrival of a party of constabulary, who, arrested some of the ringleaders. -^-Some threatening notices have made their appearance in the northern part of the county of Louth within the last few weeks. Piedmont, on Lord Clermont's property, has been the scene of Rory's visitations.— ln Londonderry, on .'April 13, ■ a butcher named Campbell was shot by a revolver by a nephew of his who a fortnight since returned from America. It has not yet been ascertained whether the man's wounds are : of a fatal nature. A dispute about property which the nephew thought he should hare inherited, is the cause alleged for his

attempt qn his, uncle'a life.TT-It is istated that the unfortunate man Kirwan, murdered on, April 11 in;Tipperary,' had' been . placed' }h a .house from; which a ifloan named 'Gleeson had been evicted. Detailed reports state ; that ' the : '■ accused 1 Gleesons were evicted, from, their farms by Mr: Qlarke, D.L. } - : and ■' possession was taken on April 10. Kirwan, the deceased, was employed as bailiff in taking possession ; and he remained in charge of the premises on April 11 < He was Jaslsfeen alive attsorie o'clock^ on that ofay ;■ at six he was discovered in one of the outhouses, his brains dashed out with a large stonewhich lay near. He appears^ to, haye bee^-struck from behina;while|p|cingtiiehoylsd GfeM sbnnascorifessed his guilt. Hesaidheasked Kirwan to open the gate to let him take away some things which he had left in the house, and that helref&sed. ' Theiprlson^r then struck him with a pitchfork; and m his frenzy mutilated him. After he fell, Gleeson raised two huge stones and flung on his skull, smashing hia head to* pieces} \ He states that a young lad who was collecting sticks saw. him commit the oSence ; but the police have, iip to the present, been unable to discover who the young lad is. The prisoner has been committed for trial. — The brother of Michael Kerrigan, murdered last February at ! Johnstown, was fired at on April 15, at ' his residence, at Slanemojre, Westmeath^ where he is postmaster, by two men, whom he has identified.— There was an affray between soldiers and civilians in Kenturk . the same night. I» originated in a quarrel between some soldiers. Civilians interfered, and the soldiers turned on them, using their belts. The civilians resisted with stones, and the police came up, when the soldiers attacked them, but a picket came up and removed the soldiers. Some injuries were inflicted bit both sides, and for some time there was considerable excitement in the town.