Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-01-09

The increase Is about thirty per cent.
over last year, and six thousand more
than in any year of the past ten.
The amounts of money loaned upon
The mortgage records in the State are
evidence both of the numbers of trans
fers Of capital and real estate, and of
confidence in the stability of business.
After the beginning of the war and the
depreciation of the currency, the num-
ber of mortgages was very much di-
minished, but the great increase since
the peace will be seen by the coDpari-
son of three years taken as specimens:
Amount recited in mortgages of 1859
$3O.T G53 ; in 1862 %, ,759, ,253; in 1866
30 O00,O00.
The records of the State Departments
show also a great increase in certificates
issued for the incorporation of manu-
featuring companies, such as rolling
mills, IRON furnaces, factories, &c.
All our internal affairs show marks
Of real and rapid progress, and the re-
viyal and increase of business enterprise
whilst the financial reports warrant
the Auditor IN declaring that 'the f.
nanees of the State were never in as
favorable a condition as at the present
time, and her credit il the market is
not surpassed by that of any other
State or Government in the world"
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
The reports of the trustees of the
several Asylums which are submitted
to you, show all these institutions to
be in good condition, and, to the ex-
tent of their capacity, doing thorough
ly tho good work committed to them
by the State.
The Medical Superintendents of our
Insane Asylums generally agree that
the present system in use in this State
is all that is necessary, if the scale of
be so increased as to
receive the additional numbers, and
that the classification of patients can
De more satisfactorily made under it,
than by an erection of seperate asy
lums for iRcurables.
The new Asylum for Idiotic children,
has so far progressed, that the general
features of the design may be seen.
PENITESrIARY.
The expenses of this instution have
been a little less than in the preceding
year, but they still exceed the receipts
from the labor of the convicts by the
sum of SIC. 1886. This is owing to
The fact that the existing contracts for
the labor of the prisoners were, under
the law, nearly all made when the value
Of labor was much lower than it row
IS. and, therefore, while the Peniten-
.iary has the increased cost of food |
and clothing to meet, it has not the /
advantage Of the increased |
price of labor.
More than three fourths of the con-
7icts are under thirty years old, and,
IA fact, a large majority of them are
oung men VINO have very recently |
come Of age. The number of youthful 1
first offense" convicts is unusually /
arge, and strongly suggests theinquiry
Shether a separation of those who have
rot become hardened in crime may not
De possible Doubtless many such
Ioung men might be reclaimed by
proper system of prison discipline
,ut have as little doubt that associa-
ion with old and hardened offenders
n the same prison-shop. fixes the habit
If crime and the hate of legal restraint,
md they are discharged at the end Of
heir term only - commit fresh wick
,dness.
REFORM sCHooL.
The State Reform Farm was organ
sed eleven years ago upon the family
ystem" adopted in some Reformato
les for voufh in Continental Enrona I