Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-15
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Report OF THE GRAND JURY on THE CoyprrroY
OF THE JAIL.-The grand jury have made report to
Judge Bond Of the condition Of the Jail which states
that the buildings found to be ia good order
clean and well ventilated. Careful inquiries were
made by them a to the general reatmento of prisoners
| but no complaints made against the officers
The grand jury recommend that persons confined as
witnesses shall be allowed all possible privileges con-
siscnt with secure detention including the daily use
Of the yard for recreation; and that all communica
ton between such persons and those confined on GRIM
lnal charges be prevented. 1t is also recommended
that provision shall be made to supply the inmates
under proper regulations, with the stationery requi
site to communicate with their friends and counsel
fatal accident which occurred at the Jail on the
10Th Of December, brings particularly to notice the
necessity Of covering the baustrade along the corri-
dorS with wire netting, or to treble tho number of
ron-supporting rods.
The report also calls the attention of the court to
the fact that they have found confined in the jail
quito number of young negroes of both sexes be-
tween the ages OF ten and fifteen years. Most of
them are committed by magistrates upon trivial
charges. and after Imprisonment of ten or thirty
days, are discharged. Others are held upon charges
which require the investigation of this body Of
this class many are discharged, not from want of
legal evidence, but from belief in the minds of the
Jurors that from their youth, and ignorance of right
from wrong, they are not morally accountable to the
law Tor their actions. But the effect of imprison-
ment upon them, where time is spent in dleness,
and the unavoidable contact with older prisoners is
to harden them in guilt, and to give them new les
so IN the school OF crime Besides these there are
also, as is well known, many other cases which do
not fall Immediately under their cognZance from the
unWIIlngness of parties to prosecute Nine-tenths
of all parallel cases occurring with white children
would cause them to be sent to the House Of Refuge
and they respectfully represent that justice and
right to the negro, and economy to the taxpayer,
alike concur to demand that provision similar to that
which now exists with such marked benefit for the
white should also be extended to the black race and
the Jury recommend to the proper authorities that
such provision ought to be made at once.
OF the general management Of the Jail the grand
jury express their unqualified appreciation, and add
their testimony TO the efficiency and ability Of the
present Harden, Thomas e. James, and his deputies
SALES OF PRoPERTY.-S. II. Cover, auctioneer, yes
terday made the following sales at public auction
lot Of ground and improvements on Camden street
near the depot, and between Sharp and Howard
Streets fronting 50 feet and having depth oflSi feet
tosDOver street. The improvements, No. 49, consist
Of two-story and attic brick dwelling with brick
back building, and twostory brick stable on Dover
street, sold subject to annual ground rent $l2O
1t was purchasedby Louis r. Volkmar for 900: aso
a lot of ground in fec, Mulliken street between
Broadway and Ann, having front of II feet and
a depth Of 81 feet. improved by a two-Story brick
dwelling, &c. Purchased by VIM. Schauchin for S7O0.
Also, the following property Schroeder and Lom-
bard streets: lot of ground No rs Schroeder street.
about II feet front, and improved by store and
dwelling. Purchased by John G. Donahuo for 81 ,73G
lot Of ground No. q Schroeder street, Il feet front
improved by three-stOTy brick dwelling. Purchased
by Frederick Shumyer for 81 00; also, lot Of ground
No so Schroeder street. y feet front with same i'm
provements. Purchased by Thomas Murich for 81 OPS;
also, lot of ground No. 30 Schroeder street. about
the same dimensions, and with same improvements.
Purchased by John Donnelly for $1,000.
Also, lot of ground No. 81 Schroeder street. with II
feet front and like improvements purchased by Peter
Miller for $l,35-each Of these lots have front Of
421 feet and sold in fee. Also, lot of ground
and Improvements on the corner Of Schroeder and
Lom bard streets fronting about IS feet on the latter
street. and running back the former street So feet
The improvements consist of brick store and dwell
ing. with double back building, &c. Purchased by
Harman T. Brown for Sl700 Also, two adjoining
lots Nos 460 and 462 Lombard street. the former be-
ing about 12a feet 'front.' and the latter about IA feet
each improved by two story dwelling, &c. Lot No
AGO was purchased by Benjamin Franklin for Sl630
and lot No. 462 by Philip Wagner for $780, These
lots were also sold in fee.
HEALTH OF THE CIIY.-Dr. Morgan, Health Com
missioner reports 90 deaths in this city for the week
ending yesterday morning, IS of which was caused
by consumption, b each by Group and measles, by
convusions by cholera infantum, 3 each by collie
dropsy and Inflammation of the BRAIN 2each by child
bed, debility. drowned, dpthera, catarrhal fever,
inflammation of the lungs and old age, and each by
asthma, burn, cancer, casualty. dropsy in the head
dyspepsia, intermittent fever scarlet fever typhoid
fever. gunshot wounds, mania -potu, thrush ulcer
violence and whooping cough. Unknown adult, 8;
unknown intantile, H. and still births :. Ofthe de-
ceased 81 were males and 40 females Il of the whole
number being colored persons; 20 died under year
OF age, L between and years; 10 between and
years; between and 10 years: between 10 and /
Is years; between Is and 20 years: between 90 and
80 years; 10 between 80 and 40 years; 10 between /
40 and 50 years. between 50 and 90 years. between
60 and 10 years; and between ~ and ~ years.
There was an increase of 10 the past week over the
number of the corresponding week of last year.
though the advance is not considered beyond the /
comparative increase in the population of the city.
AcorpEyr.-On Sunday afternoon, about1 o'clock /
Henry EIenberry while passing along the lower
end of Broadway, accidentally fell and fractured the
bone of his right leg the knee. The bone was
fractured short time ago and had not as yet entirely
reunited. By direction of Captain Lynch he was |
conveyed to his residence, No. $50 West Baltimore
street, where the services of physician were
availed Of
fINED-Oficer Cox arrested Peter Lusan yester- |
day for violating the ordinance prohibiting night
carts from entering the city before II o'clock. He
was fined $50 and costs by Justice Whalen Samuel /
Coleman was arrested by policeman Sabes for al |
lowing goats to run at large He was fined 81 and |
costs by the same magistrate,