Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-17
GBe 9aip spg a0rornsr, oOag Htoning sunr Il, 1872

forbiddiug them the green fields and Gods sky
on the seventh. They strain at the gnat of a
working mans stroll on Sunday, and swallow
such cames as marquises and dukes, who
break all the days of the week, Sundays in
cluded, by their scandalous cruelty toward their
serfs. And clersymen, too, are some of the
cames which observation brings me back TO NV
main track of thought.
The steward of one of them had threatened to
turn widow out Of his land herl cottage il one
other sons who bettered hmSelfby taking work
in factory did not return TO the place allotted
him by providence, as tiller Of his reverence 5
soil.
livery Of heaven, at Whitwick, LeiceSfershire
refused to bury a workingmans child because il
had not been baptized. No other burial ground
was available, and the cemetery being too eNpen-
siye, funeral service was improvised without
benefit of clergy" in the public street of 4 vii
lage. Whether the little one was buried on the
queens highway we are not informed. but il is
to be hoped it was, and that At the head OF us
grave a board was erected, inscribed With the
words: "lnasmuch as We did it unto one o, the
least of these, We did IL unto me, with picture
of a milestone for an illustration.
4 lahorer az ra3assrtOn was whipped 10 eN
haustiou by a farmer landlord by the name Oi
Charles Garrett. The mans crime was irving
70 iudbce his fellow SerlS 20 JOIN yhe Uniou. Tie
went for redress 10 the superintendent 81 the
county police, who referred him to the nSolS-
trate's clerk, who seat him With a note 20 dis.
taut magistrate, who resd the note and asked
tho man ID he wanted s summons, snd he sad
he did The magistrate replied that before he
could grant the summons he (the magisNstel
must see Mr.. Garrett, and hoped Che working
man womb he willing 70 settle the mattor. ID
he pressed the matter. Summons must 'e
granted hut he would not hsve one penny
recompeuse, and only get the law expenses
The magistrate Norris then showed bis anxiety
to settle the ease hy offering the man IS 20 drop
IT, The mau refused when the magistrate Offer
cd e more. The woTkingman objected TO the
mode OF settlement, ana then The magistrate at
mitted that it was Illegal for him to make The
Offer This is the last have heard OF lhis Specl'
men OF English justice as Administered g IN
clish seris DON'T let Judge Barnard read this.
The strike of the Rcrc ultHrSl lshoTelS has
uncovered 3 scene at feRaalism, misery, cruelty
and Injustice which should divert The attention
al oar mother country from the scandals oi
Amcica FOR sn haur and 8 hSlf 81 50, One
man has five children to suport and ten Sh'I.
lipCS $ week 20 do ID with, Another had
eleven SbillincS 8 week tOr the support OF wife
snd >iX children. VERY oiten De had to keep
has hale ones on I'd, 8 DAY, Another, whose
story was todd BY ms Wifo, had eight children,
bat three were Of her hands Formerly be
had earned IS. q week, "hut since he had been
mixer and worked Sundays (himsell, not the
OK. being in the ditch he had got twelve shI
liyo< /" The woman said she felt as II the poor
man was screwed down too hand. They had
three pounds a year to paw for house rent, aud
il had often gone 10 her heart when she had
only bit OF bread with nothing on il 10 part
out among the children A bit of bread with
nothing on it-hear that oh spirit of the duke
OF Beiiordi
In Hereiopishire the property of the late licen-
iioGS Marquis Of Hereford, who died the other
iAy in Paris, the average wages OF the farm la
boTeTs are ten shilliDgs (a6out $500 week,
and their average rent eighteen pence a week
That would average about one and siXpence
each person in the family, while the prisoners in
the county Jail are allowed two Sbillings and
fourpeuce and three farthings per week. The
prison is to be preferred TO the employment OF
lord or clergyman. One laborer said: my
master offered me one shilling a day, and
axed him did he want TO make a rogue of me,
fur couldn't live honest on the money; or did
he want me to be idle 'alfmy time, fur lcouldn't
put enough in my inwards fur lhe money to do
a fair days work. But | had to take the Shil-
ling all the same, and make the poor best on it.
Fur another master once Wippered 100 bags 0
barley at Is, ID. a day. 1t was very dusty work,
and | axed for a drop of beer Buy beer fur
yourself said he. 4 pays you Is I'd. day,
and You can surely find yourself in beer for
that | minds when had three young chill
dren, and my wife in child-bed with the fourth.
My wages was lis, week and -four Is
stone. | worked for eighte EN- weeks on lump
of dry bread and an on ion for dinner. My
breakfast was morsel of bread sprinkled with
salt, and 'ot water poured on it. | axed master
for more money, and he said, More money;
why, thought you were savin,'"