Boycotting Mrs O'Connell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1509, 18 November 1885, Page 2

Boycotting Mrs O'Connell.

.. (Per Mail Steamer.) * The V wid6W oi 1 Morgan O'donriJll, Daniel OlCormelirs '^epljey, ; reaid ing at Kildvsarfc, has be^n-interviowed m r»gard W; the <; attitude of. ; her .-neighbors and 'the peasantry toward her.'^Stf« said :-^-'* I have 70 tenants, and ( ,8« of them hold ; leases, 1 rente/., are' abVuriaiy moderate,' 'and many of them are iin j||rears'^ Maurice Walsh, ; President! of the -'Le lag«e,1 ag«e, iß'-a 'yearly tenant oa /my *hn/J, and now owes two and a > half /years' rent. The' tenants demands a/ lednptfon of 25 pier 'cent. I am Willing itoireduee *My duty", As gHaraian A oimy \mtpT>oy John, my^givufe,&ore, if I were: inclined. ./Fprmerly ,I X bought everything" at local shops, bat th» tyrannyio^thejliefigue^ n.Q^jCgmpelg me to,. go qv aend.to Limerick, twenty miles awayVfor eveVyMmg I'ieed^^^eJfecal tradesmen refuse td'Sefi anything,, even bread, to myselifj- my servants anil mj ! 'depehdents". Bveh priests^hftv* joined the t)*ranfs. , It is' untrue 1 that the polica arfe proteictin'g .TOeME 'protect myself . Some of my labYrers' have been coerced into defertion^ burpttier remain, and are now savirnr my.^rbpsl^'Thej'h^Vd ridt boen molested."" A Diiolin despatch of day before at. .Mrs f (JponneD r l gmg; ordering the ijienrbers of tne 1 League US shun herat masgfj'/and ,nolj,*it !( ;in the same gallery with her. Mrs O'Cbnnsll attended mass and was the sole occupant of great intellectual attainments, ana she herself attended toTfie education of her son. "Shi jis^ also ra authojerojluaving written a p^pufar memonrbrhef -father. She is known far and^wide for humanity and generosity. SYie faces her dancers j»jbrai^h^aTii|#iveß todAvJilkrinX Kildy*sart aricrtne s vicinity\vithout"guSrds^ add apparently without -fear. The agitation isexpandipff^u^iftpeaeefj^y^conducted m comparison with previous movements in-; that- neighbochood. ,A.- r( New, , York HwaXd Jbiiblin. spemrof^he^th 1 , lioVever, sayi"tlia / 6' J a point 'is iiow reached whe^re, maids and 'women of boycotted f aHiihes ''are* beaten > iand'- are ; insulted, their hairctft offi-and the lU^e.^ A later despatch of October. ,8 says that Mrs .O!Cpnnell ;; h(id: beaten her enemieSf and emerged from, ihe, boy cottine: victfon* ously. Several of tn^ron^hts gave way m face.of the t sl\en2'sT' i BC^leß and heavy cos^-'Vnd'pkmy^lp^^'^^^' Walsh, Jeader^jof the opposition, amone: that number, "Be" n6 f ~mor% boycotting of resolute Mjrs Oi'Connell. .