Show LORDS vs COMMONS au ail amusing practical conflict between lords and po peo gle sla E I 1 cooki place recently in the town of england earl brown lov lot low Iov chose to enclose the town common two miles long ind and a mile broad but mr augustus smith as the owner of an adjacent estate and therefore as a commoner acted in concert with his neighbors determined to test his right athis coarse course in in a very practical way the whole of the iron railing consisted of stout uprights five feet high and with broad metal bands at intervals was thrown down before daylight Mr ermith mith and the tha they commoners taking all ill i responsibility chartering a railroad train tion a and nd engaging one hundred and twenty tw enty men to do the work the men we were retold told onn off in detachments a dozen strong the joints of the railings failings rai lings were first loosened by hammers and chisels and crowbars did the rest before six in the morning the whole enclosure cire was leveled to the ground each having the metal bands binds its tributaries tributa ries rles first folded around it and then laid upon the turf the people came name in by thousands strolling over the common and cutting and taking away morsels of gorseth gor seto prove as althey they sntos sald said 1 the place placa ewas was their own again |