Connaught Journal Galway, Thursday, September 25, 1823 MAYO- CASTLEBAR, SEPT. 18- Several Clergymen of the County, we understand, have applied, or intend immediately to do so, to have the provisions of the New Tithe Act extended to their respective Parishes. Amongst others, the Rev. G.V. Hart, Rector of this Union. The proposals of the Rev. J. O'Rorke, and Walter James Burke, Esq to the Parishioners of Foxford, and of the latter Gentleman to those of Kilgarven, Attymas, &c. on the subject of their Tithes, have not, we learn, been acceded to, at the meeting which took place at Swineford, for the purpose of entering into a permanent agreement. An instance of extraordinary expedition in putting flax through its various stages of dressing, spinning, and preparing it for the loom, has been communicated to us. A Widow Johnson, who lives near Rathfriland, pulled a certain quantity of Flax in the morning- took it home, and spread it in a large tub, in two layer, reversing the second one from the first. This done, she poured on it a potful of warm water, covered it up and allowed it to remain so for several hours, until properly fermented- she then lifted the flax out of the tub, squeezed the water from it, and spread it out in the sun until dried; and afterwards she beetled and skutched the flax, carded it, and spun a hank of good yarn from it, all in the course of one day! Nor did her industry end here, for in the evening of the same day, she actually sold the hank of yarn to a shopkeeper in Rathfriland--Newry Paper. The five men who were convicted and received sentence of death at the last Assizes of Mullingar, for attacking the house of J. Fitzpatrick, assaulting him and cutting off his ear, and were to be executed on the 22d inst., have received a respite until further orders. Major Washington will shortly leave Dublin to form Constabulary forces in several of the Northern Counties. On Friday last, David Donovan, a boy 10 year old, of Six-mile-bridge, has his leg, thigh, and arm broken by a threshing machine. Cathy Joynt Labath Abstracts from Irish Newspapers http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/