The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-06-08
RNGLAND,s LAND OWNERS.

Concerning England's land owners
and land holders, we clip the following
from Maemidan's Magazine:
More than half the soil Of the United
Kingdom is nominsily owned by some
1900 persons. According TO valuable
analysis Of the very ill-srranged and in-
complete parliamentary return of the
land owners of the United Kingdom.
published in the "Financia! Reform Re.
cord" for 1873, 421 persons are the own.
err Of 20, $50, 755 acres, or nearly S.
OOO, 900 acres more than one. fourth OF
the total area Of the United Kingdom.
The mind is unable 10 grasp what such
a monopoly costs the country, but Ger.
tain features Of it stand forth with a
prominence sufficiently notable. In Q
most absolute sense, the we'll being Of
the entire population Of some 80 900.
600 souls Ia placed in the power of q
few thousands. For these Thousands
the multitude tolls. and it may be on
occasions starves. Hence il is thst all
through rural England We have contin-
uslly before Us that most saddening Of
oil srectacles, two or three families liv-
ing in great splendor, and hard by
their gates misersbly poor. the AFFECT
slaves Of the coil, whose sole hope in
life u too often the work house-that
famous device against revolution, paid
for by the middle clssses-snd the
psupeH's grave. Our land owners have
not merely burdened the land with
their game preserves; they have tied it
up and actively conspired TO prevent
it, due cultivation. Instead Of rising
to the true necessities of the case, they
cling to their game. make penal enact
ments abouts it. and struggle to aug
neut the intensity OF the evil which it
is to the people, ss il the very existence
of the country depended on hares and
rabbits. In his absolute supremacy the
land owner overrides oil justice, takes
precedence of all ordinary creditors on
his helpless tenants estates, and con-
trolls the system Of cultivation, often in
utter disregard Of private rights or pri-
vate judgment, and, in addition secures
to himself theabsolute reversion Of every
improvement which the tenant may
make on the land.
. NEAR tho village Of Frstel, ON the
frontier Of Spain and Portugal. Theresa
Maria, who was carrying her husband q
dinner TO him In the fields, was told by
little shepherd boy that q wolf was
prowling about the place. Wishing to
80 one for the first time in her life, she
put down her basket and climbed
mp to . high place to which the boy
directed her. There she saw the wolf
in the act Of devouring q lamb. The
shepherd boy began shouting and
throwing stones. to soc whether it would
let 60 its prey; and the wolf in its fury
then attacked tho poor little fellow,
jumping up at his face. tearing the flesh
from his jaws, and throwing him upon
the ground. Tho woman. seeing tho
boys imminent danger, in an impulse
Of heroic self devotion, ran on the wolf
wholly unarmsd. seized tight hold OF
Of him. and then, after . struggle, con-
trived to blind him with stone. and
event aally killed him. Meanwhile the
boy whom she had rescued ran, wound.
ed % he was. to seek help in the vii
lage. While several villagers were
coming up, armed with guns. stones.
and sticks. TO kill the beast and save
the woman from its fangs. she was re-
turning to the village covered with
blood. and with her arms. hands, and
face terribly wounded. She said that
at times she was on the point of being
overcome, but contrived to keep the
animals throat in the close hold of hor
left arm, while hitting him hard Oh the
head with stone which she was able
to pick up. She was taken to the Mia
hospital. A month afterward she died
there OF her wounds, and the shepherd
boy has since died Of hydrophobia.