Boyar

Boiar, or Boyard, a name first used by the Bulgarians, Serbs and Ru ians, subsequently adopted by the Mold avians and Wall a chi ans, and synonymous with bojarin, used by the Bohemians, Poles, and other Slavic tribes, to qualify the highest social condition; corresponding in certain respects to that of an English peer, Boycotting, 2 practice which owes its name to 1897), of Lough Mask House, in Mayo, Ireland, and agent, in 1880, of Lord Erne, an Irish nobleman. The former gentleman having given offense about agrarian matters to the people among whom he lived, during the land agitation of 1880-1881, no one would gather in his crops. The case being reported in the “ Pre ,” about 60 Orange men, belonging to the North of Ireland, each man carrying a revolver, organized themselves into a “Boycett relief expedition.” The Government gave them a strong escort of cavalry, besides foot soldiers and constabulary, artillery also being added on the return journey. The crops were gathered in and sent away, and the = himself brought off to a region of greater security. The object of a boycott is to put a person outside the pale of the society, amid which he lives, and on which he depends; socially to outlaw him, to refuse to sell to, and decline to buy from, him; to refuse to work for or to employ him. In the United States and in England the boycott is made use of by_trade unionists as a strike measure. It has in some instances been enjoined by the courts, and in some States laws have been pa ed against it.