25-7-1836 Times Newspaper Payment of Tithes-Writs of rebellion. Messrs. Hogan of Urra, who was committed to the Bridewell of Nenagh, by P. Ryan, officer of rebellion, have obtained their liberty by paying Mr. Ryan the full amount of their Tithe, and 12s. costs. On Thursday Ryan arrested Mr. James O'Meagher, of Toomevara, under a writ of Rebellion, and in the Bridewell, he requested the officer to permit him to sleep at the hotel that night. Mr. Ryan at once acceded to the request and as soon as the National Bank opened next morning, Mr. Meagher discharged the amount of his tithe and costs in full. Summary of Assize Intelligence. Tipperary. The assizes for this county commenced at Clonmel on Monday, before Chief Justice Doherty. After the swearing in of the Grand Jury, a considerable number of burning petitions were send before them. Mr. Hugh Baker, Lismacue, being sworn to a burning petition, that in Dec. last a large rick of hay (His property) was set fire to and consumed. His Lordship asked Mr. Baker what reasons he had to suppose it was a malicious act?. Mr. Baker said he had many reasons and then produced several threatening letters and Rockite notices with which he had been served previously to the burning. Mrs Hill, the widow of the unfortunate Mr. Matthew Hill, who was murdered some time since in the Glen of Aherlow, presented a petition for several ditches of hers which had beem maliciously levelled. Mr. Hill brother of the late Mr. M. Hill, presented a petition. Being sworn, he deposed that his stable and out-houses were burned; on being asked " Had he any reason to know why the malicious act was committed"? he replied, "Yes, because I had assisted in re-building the ditches of the Widow Hill, which had been previously levelled. Many of the Petitioners deposed on oath, that they had reasons to believe that the cause of the burnings, and other malicious injuries done them, was having taken farms contrary to the wishes of those agrarian legislators, so numerous in the County of Tipperary. His Lordship more than once begged the serious investigation of the grand jury into these burning petitions. Mr. William Wright, Killahy Castle, petitioned for malicious injury done to a wood, the property of the late Mr. John Despard, of whom Mr. Wright is administrator and representative. Mr. John Roe, of Rockwell, presented petitions for the malicious burnings of an ash plantation and two houses. The tenants also presented for the furniture and potatoes that were destroyed in the houses. Chief Justice Doherty told the grand jury that they should compensate Mr. Roe for the injury done; but that they should take care not to put the County to an unnecessary expense by paying both the landlord and the tenant. Mr. Rolleston presented a petition from Matthew Ryan, for a robbery committed to the amount of 300s. in cash, together with fire-arms, etc. Chief Justice Doherty said to a few members of the Grand Jury who were in the gallery-"Gentlemen, I have again to entreat your sincere attention to the petitions of every description, in order that the poor people of the country may not be taxed with unnecessary expense, as well as those unfortunate people who really have sustained injuries may be compensated accordingly. It appears to me rather strange, if the County of Tipperary is in that quiet state which it is represented to be, and I sincerely hope it is, that within the short space of four months there should be such a number as sixty-one burning petitions to come before me. A gentleman in the grand jury-box-Where are the members of the Peace Preservation Society? Mr. William Baker presented a petition for some sheep of his that were killed. There were other sheep in the field, but none were killed or injured but his. Witness was a prosecutor at the last assizes, and it was subsequent to the assizes the injury was done. His Lordship did not decide on the case. On Tuesday Patrick Divine and John Leahy were convicted of stealing fire-arms, the property of Christopher Lewis, of Clash, and putting him in bodily fear, at his house in June last. C.J. Doherty, addressing the prisoners, said, "You have committed an offence that endangers your life, but as you did not commit any act of violence, I shall but record sentence of death against you, and recommend you to the Lord-Lieutenant for a milder punishment. " Thomas Heffernan and James Kingilty were indicted for appearing armed by night. Constable M'Carthy and O'Connell deposed that they arrested the prisoners on the night of the 25th of May with a blunderbuss and a pistol. The country was much disturbed at the time. There were several burnings a few night after some armed men came to the Police Barrack and fired some shots. The Jury found the prisoners guilty. C.J.Doherty said, that even taking into consideration that the prisoners could produce characters for industry previous to this act, he felt it his duty, in order to put an end to these acts, which keep the country in a state of disturbance, to sentence them to two years imprisonment and hard labour every alternate week. James (Bradley)Brady, David Luddy, James Hogan, and John Buckley were indicted for breaking into the habitation of James O'Donnell on the 17th of Sept, and committing an assault on him. James O'Donnell deposed, that between 12 and 1 O'Clock at night, a party of men came to his house and broke in the door, and demanded his fire-arms. Witness was in bed. Witness's mother was there also.They asked where the man of the house was. She said he was not in the house that night. They then went to witness's bed and felt him there, and called in some more men. They dragged witness to the floor, and beat him, then brought him into the yard, and beat him with stones, and buried the cock of the pistol in his shoulder. (Identifies the four prisoners.) Would not swear falsely about them no more than the Parish Priest. (Laughter). Witness was a process-server. O'Donnells mother corroborated his evidence. Several witnesses swore to alibis on the part of the prisoners. The Parish Priest, Father Tobin, gave two of the prisoners Buckley and Bradley(Brady) a good character and the prosecuter O'Donnell a bad one. He said he would not believe him on oath. He had to denounce him from the altar. He could not charge him with being convicted of any crime, but he knew him to caluminate many respectable persons in the Parish. Mr. Cusack of Caher, and another witness spoke unfavourable of O'Donnell's character. The Jury acquitted the prisoners. Martin Keherney was charged with aiding in the manslaughter of Thomas Murray at Grange. Edmund and Judy Murray brother and sister of the deceased, deposed that prisoner and their brother had a quarrel in a Public-House,where they fought. Their brother was thrown into a ditch, and the prisoner struck him with a stone. Dr. Bradshaw deposed that Murray's death was caused by an abscess on the brain, caused by a blow of a stone or blunt instrument. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. C.J.Doherty said the prisoner had been mercifully indicted, for he had followed the unfortunate deceased from the house where the quarrel originated, nearly two miles on the road, and there resorted to that deadly and abominable weapon, so much used in this country and killed the unfortunate Murray with a stone. He sentenced him to be transported for life. Richard Tobin and Edward Tobin were indicted for the murder of Richard Fennelly, at Mullinahone, on the 20th of May last. The learned Judge charged the jury at great length, stating that they should not find the prisoners guilty of murder, but there was very strong evidence for their consideration for the crime of manslaughter. The Jury acquitted the prisoners. Mary

I appreciate these newspaper extracts, even when I don't find my people. Does anyone know if there is a project underway to scan old newspapers and make them available online? An existing site? There is such a site available for Northern New York, USA where my Tipperary ancestors emigrated to: http://news.nnyln.net. It has been very helpful to me with obits, birth and wedding announcements and the like, as well as the following classic find: an account of a talk given to a local business club given by my father's Uncle Francis Callanan in 1934 that accounts for my Tipperary ancestor Cornelius Callanan, his Grandfather; my Great Great Grandfather. Adirondack Record - Elizabethtown Post April 26, 1934 AU SABLE FORKS N. Y. Francis Callanan of Keeseville, the guest speaker at last Thursday's lunch- eon meeting of the Au Sable Forks Rotary Club, gave that organization and its guests an all too short talk on the history of Keeseville, as it per- tains to the Callanan family, which arrived in Keeseville from Quebec in 1850. In tracing the family history, the speaker said that his grandparents arrived in Quebec as emigrants in 1850, and that about the time of their arrival Peter Comstock of Black Brook went to Quebec in search of laborers to work in the woods in this section of the Adirondacks. The Callanans and a number of other emigrants were hired by Comstock, and they made the trip from Quebec to Keeseville by land and water. When they arrived in Keeseville one of the party was ill, and they found it difficult to secure a place to stay, the people of that community fearing the man was ill with ship fever or some other communi- cable disease. A physician was called to care for the sick man and he promptly informed the people that there was nothing to fear from the illness; that his trouble was nothing serious. At that time the old stone arch bridge, one of the landmarks of Keeseville was in course of construction, and his grandfather was offered a job getting out stone from the nearby quarry for the structure. The pay was to be 75 cents a day, and with prospects of this "enormous" pay and visions of future untold wealth, he went to work in the quarry, abandoning the thought of going into the woods to cut lumber. Michael J. Callanan, father of the speaker, was born in Keeseville in 1856, and went to school in Keeseville for a few years, but finally forced to abandon school in order to help support the family, getting a job in the horse nail works in that village at $1.25 a week. A little later he went to work for a man by the name of Matthews, learning the tinsmith trade at Matthews' shop, then located where the present Keeseville postoffice stands. At the completion of his apprenticeship he formed a co-partnership with Michael Quinn under the firm name of Quinn & Callanan, Mr. Callanan finally purchasing the interest of his partner in in the business, then located in the stone building adjoining the present office of the Callanan business. Michael Callanan eventually branched out into the contracting business, and from this engaged in several other enterprises, including the laying of the road-bed for the track of the D. & H. from Rogers station through Au Sable Forks and to the plant of the J. &. J. Rogers Company. Among the construction enterprises in which Mr. Callanan was interested was the building of the sulphite and paper mills of the Rogers Company, Hotel Cham- plain at Bluff Point and extensive re- pairs to the state capitol at Albany. Mr. Callanan was one of the principal stockholders of the Keeseville, Ausable Chasm and Lake Champrain railroad, operated between Keeseville and Port Kent. The speaker told of the many vicissitudes of this which finally lead up to its abandonment. He was also a member of the Starks & Callanan Hardware Company, which started in a small way at Saranac Lake and has grown until its whole- sale business covers five counties in this section. The speaker told of many other interesting incidents in the life and business career of his father, who was for many years a famil- lar figure throughout the North Country, and whose word was "as good as his bond" wherever he was known. At the close of his talk the speaker was warmly applauded by the assembled Rotarians, in whose name President V. K. Moore thanked the speaker for his interesting address and expressed the hope that he would again at some future time return to this village as the guest of the club. Thanks for the clippings and keep them coming, Mike McDonald