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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IRELAND-OLD-NEWS] !! Connaught Journal; Sep 25, 1823 #5
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:09:25 -0600


Connaught Journal
Galway, Thursday, September 25, 1823


PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

CORK, SEPT 19- Yesterday a Court of Special Sessions was opened at Mallow,
pursuant to adjournment. Mr. Blacker and the Assistant Barrister were on the
Bench at an early hour. The attendance of the Magistrates was highly
respectable.
Two men named Curtin and Gesman were tried for being absent from their
dwellings, and after a long and patient investigation, they were acquitted,
but were again remanded to prison. The trial excited considerable interest,
as the parties accused were opulent farmers.

On Wednesday night an attempt was made to set on fire White Church- a place
of Protestant worship, situate on the old Mallow road, within four miles of
this city.

A Gentleman who has a large farm near Mallow, made a compromise for his
tithe with the Rector of the Parish, agreeing to make him an annual payment
in lieu of it. His Steward intending to make the hay of the farm into a
rick, made arrangements for that purpose. On Sunday night a party of
Whiteboys came to the house of the Steward, and, on his opening the door,
they desired him to keep inside, and they threw stones to prevent his coming
out, lest he should have any opportunity of observing their persons. They
then told him that no compromise relative to tithes would be allowed; that
the Rector must be made to draw his tithes, as otherwise they would set fire
to the house and haggard. The Steward was allowed a few days to communicate
with his employer on the subject, and the party went off.-- Cork Morning
Paper



Cathy Joynt Labath
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