In the famous Luggacurren evictions the poor dispossessed dupes lost their all at the bidding of the Campaigners, on the plea of inability to pay rents voluntarily offered by Lord Lansdowne to be reduced 20 per cent.  After these evictions the lands were let to the “Land Corporation,” which had some short time ago four hundred head of cattle over and above the full rent paid honestly down; but the former holders are living on charity doled out to them by the Campaigners, and in huts built for them by the Campaigners on the edge of the rich and kindly land which once gave them home and sustenance.  How bitterly they curse the evil counsels which led to their destruction only they and the few they dare trust know.  Take, too, these two authoritative stories.  They are of the things one blindly believes and rages against—­with what justice the denouement of the sorry farce, best shows:—­

“The correspondents of the Freeman’s Journal, in response to the circular some time ago addressed to them continue to supply fictitious and exaggerated statements of events alleged to have happened ’in the country,’ nearly every day some example is afforded.  One of the latest is a pathetic tale of the ‘suicide of a tenant.’  It represents that Andrew Kelly, of Cloonlaugh, ’one of the three tenants against whom A.W.  Sampey, J.P., landlord, obtained ejectments,’ became demented from the fear of eviction, and drowned himself in a bog hole in consequence.  The account is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.  Andrew Kelly was not a tenant of Mr. Sampey’s, nor had he been for the last five years.  His son, it is true, is one of the tenants against whom a decree was obtained, but this did not apparently trouble the father much, as he had been living away from his son for a long time, although he had come to see him a few days before he was drowned.  There was no suspicion either of foul play or suicide, and the coroner’s jury returned no such verdict as that given in the Freeman.  The veracious correspondent of that journal stated that the jury found that ’Andrew Kelly came by his death through drowning on the 22nd October while suffering under temporary insanity brought about by fear of eviction.’  The following is the verdict which the coroner’s jury actually arrived at:—­’We find that Andrew Kelly’s death was caused by suffocation; that he was found dead in the townland of Clooncriur, on the 24th day of October, 1889.’  This is the way in which sensational news is manufactured for the purpose of promoting an anti-landlord crusade and prejudicing the owners of property in the eyes of the country.”