News: Nenagh Guardian News items. 1860's

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NENAGH GUARDIAN NEWS ITEMS. 1860'S
  
  22/4/1864
  
  So great is the demand for passages to America from this 
neighbourhood that the local emigration agents have been 
compelled to decline booking any more passengers for the 
present, all the berths in the outgoing vessels have been 
already engaged up to the middle of next month.
    
  21/8/1863.
  
  Another murder in Tipperary-On Sunday night about 10 
O'Clock, a servant boy named Michael Nowlan was stabbed in 
the thigh at the upper end of Pound Street, Nenagh. he died 
the next morning at 6 O'Clock. Had he been attended to an 
hour earlier than he was by a medical gentleman, it is 
considered he would have survived the injury, for he had 
almost bled to death when found lying in the street. The 
doctor being immediately send for, did all that medical 
skill could devise. When Nowlan found there was no hope of 
his recovery, he declared that he had been stabbed with a 
knife by a baker named Michael Flannery, who lived in the 
house next to where he was discovered. There was a quantity 
of blood outside the door of the accused. Flannery has been 
remanded to the County prison for further examination by Mr. 
Fleming. R.M. Flannery bears an excellent character as an 
inoffensive and industrious man. It is surmised if it was he 
dealt the fatal blow that he must have got great 
provocation.
    
  17/1/1861 A rich Pauper;-At the last meeting of the Cashel 
Board of Guardians, it was stated that a woman named Mary 
Shanahan, who was seeking admission that day, had a bank 
receipt in her possession for about £20. Mary was searched, 
when a sum of £3 odd was found on her person, and seeing 
that there was little likelihood of her getting free 
quarters at the expense of the public, she fled, and was not 
heard of afterwards that day by the board.
  
  20/1/1862
  
  Daring Outrage-On the night of the 14th inst. two ,men 
armed, with their faces blackened, entered the house of 
Glengoole, on the estate of Robert L. Hunt, Esq. ordered his 
caretaker, John Kearny, on his knees telling him they would 
shoot him if he did not leave the place the following 
morning, which he did, and that they would treat any other 
man his employer would send there in the same way. They then 
left the place, firing shots as they departed. The son of 
one of the tenants on the estate, named Patrick Kelly, was 
discharged by Mr. Hunt a few days previous to this 
occurrence, for carrying arms without a licence, and having 
made use of them in the discharge of his duty as caretaker 
on Mr. Hunts land, whereupon Mr. Hunt employed Mr. Kearney. 
This outrage has occurred within a quarter of a mile of the 
village of Newbirmingham, and a half mile of the Ballynonty 
Police station, where there are a large party of police and 
their Sub-Inspectors. This is not the first threat Mr. Hunt 
has received from the ill-disposed persons of this district.
 
 27/1/1862
  
  The Late floods-The recent inundations have done a great 
deal of damage to the corn fields and other grounds under 
tillage along the banks of the Suir, and the roads adjacent 
to it. Kilganey, Two-Mile-Bridge, and other environs, are at 
present impassable, being all under water. The overflowing 
of the Nore and the Anner has also been productive of great 
loss to the farming classes, vast quantities of hay, turf, 
and in some instances even cattle and sheep-having swept 
away by the rapid mountain torrents. The houses along the 
quays have been submerged, and all traffic on the river Suir 
has been suspended, in consequence of the late inundations.
   
  21-7-1863
  
  Attack of a horse on his groom-The celebrated race horse 
Mont Blanc, the property of J.H.Moore, Esq. attacked his 
groom on Friday morning, and but for the timely 
interferances of some people who were haymaking in the 
adjoining field would certainly have killed him. The groom 
whose name is John Kennedy, was "ringing" the animal, when 
it ran in on him, threw him down, breaking one of his arms, 
and tearing the skin of the other with his teeth. The mans 
cries brought the people abovementioned to his assistance.