Wilmington journal., 1876-01-28

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LONDON, December 27, 1875 In
the last number of the National IA
r-icultural LabOrers' Chronicle and
Industrial Pioneer is an article
enumerating and describing the land
I'd possessions of the Prince of Wales.
The Prince, it seems il one of the
largest landowners in England. The
laborers on his estates, we are told,
are ''coufiL ed to miserable wages
thirteen shiIlings a week. The above
named paper thinks it inexpedient
''ths6 the land revenues of the Prince
should just now be examined into" It
gives a little history of what it calls
The origin of the Prince of Wales"
and then 1t gives an enumeration of
the landed possessions of the Prince
of Wales in Cornwall. in Devonshlre,
III Oxford, Hertford, Buckingham.
Northampton, Surrey, Wiltshire. York.
Middlesex, Norfolk and Chester. The
list is a very fornid able one, and at
the close comes tho following some
what heated paragraph:
1.-The long list of manors, parks,
castles, rents, privileges, dignities,
Donors have enumerated, are surely
enough for one man; ay, ten! All
things are by comparison. If not SO
much land as one manor can be afford
ed in this England of ours to the
whole of our peasantry, who raise all
the food that is raised in all England
and Who have hitherto fought the bat
lies of England, carried her flag of
supremacy over Europe and Asia and
in every sea and ocean, then hun
dred manors are ten times too many
for any prince. A prince whose
achievements are killing wild cattle
from a ,rt. or ip India sticking one
pig or torturiug a few elephants, is
surely endowed enough out of the soil
of England, without raid out on the
tax chest, to pay him for items not
convenient to collect in his Duchy of
Cornwall, for military duties never
performed, or for augmentation of in
come, much less for the income of 500
peasants for whole year to be spent
in four months pleasure trip"
The Charlotte Observer thus COM
denses: Some time last year in Will
mington a colored man was found
dead in the streets, anc VIM. T. Jack
son, white, was arrested and confined
in jail on suspi zion by a black trial
justice, Moore. Subsequently Moore
demanded Jackson of the deputy
sheriff, ard taking him in the presence
of the dead body compelled him to lay
his hand upon it in order to see
whether it wouid BILE d, thus deciding
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner.
He justified bis action by producing a
newspaper which contained a picture
of a murderer laying his hands on a
dead body which is bleeding profusely.
Moore was tried for this conduct and
found guilty of..assaalt This is re-
vival of the old methods of trial by
ordeal, and speaks well for the en-
lightenment Of the nineteenth century.
The same paper says: That noble
old Roman, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,
arrived in this city yesterday morning.
and spent the greater part of the day,
leaving in the afternoon for States
Vile He will return in few days.
Down in the lower part of the county
the darkies tell it that Sheriff Alexan-
der washed one of the parties ARE tsted
recently in this city, for highway
robbery, and he proved TO be wi =
man. The Sheriff however repea.- me
gentle insinuatior, protesting that he
never washed a nigger, under any cirs
cumstauces.