Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-20


yesterday paid visit to the House of tn
Sisters of the Good Shepherd, in Frank
linton, and must confess to an afternoo
most delightfully."- passed. Many OF ou
citizens are aware of the great good bein
done by these self-denying Sisters for tn
madalens of this region, as we'll as for or
phan girls, but many more are hardl
aware of the existence of such reforma
tory institution in our midst.
The order was founded by Mother Mar
de Saint Euphraise Pelletier, who died il
France, on the oath day of April, 1868, a
the advanced age of ~ years, for the pur
pose OF reclaiming women who had beel
led from the paths of virtue and to care 10
orphan girls, teaching them, by precep
and example, the dignity of labor and hov
honestly to earn their bread. e-7
| During the lite of the pious foundress
lie houses for penitents have been erected
as follows: 80 in France, 10 in Belgium
and Holland, IA in Italy, 8 in Rome, 10 il
Germany, 10 in England, Ireland and Scot
land, in Asia, in Africa, 20 In Americ,
and|1 In 0ceanica. These have about 120t
females of various ages under their care
and support congregation of 1000 Sisters
All this has been accomplished in the brie
period of thirty-nine years, by self-deny.
ing women who seek no other reward thai
the smile of Heaven and the approval OF
their consciences.
The House in Franklinton is in the old
Sullivant mansion. The congregation IL
composed OF ten sisters. They own about
ten acres of land, which is cultivated and
kept in splendid order. On this property
there Is debt of about $4,000. This
should be paid by our charitable citizens
They need every encouragement in the
great work they have on hand.
They have thirteen orphan girls under
their care and thirty Penitents, making a
total of forty three "children," as the
Mother Superior calls them, ranging from
eight to eighteen years of age. These are
all taught to work. Some of the neatest
sewing, embroidery and the like executed
in Columbus is from this refuge. By this
labor the institution is kept up, and as the
Superior said to US yesterday, "When we
along finely" Last winter they were with
out work for three months and then mat
ters looked pretty serious for the good sis
ters. Debts accumulated, and the girls
began to show signs of insubordination.
The portion of the building fronting the
east is reserved for the little girls, and
these are never allowed to communicate
with The older ones, some of whom have
taken high degrees in the ways of sin. The
penitents occupy the west portion of the
building and are as comfortable as the con-
tracted space will allow-some of them far
more comfortable than ever before in their
lives. The history of some of these women
would surpass anything that novelist ever
penned. One girl there had served in the
army for three years. But we only pro-
posed to speak of the necessities OF the sis
ters, and not OF the histories of the in
mates.
The building is too small for the number
of occupants, and many applicants are de-
MED admission daily because there is not
room enough for more. Fifty-three per-
sons are too many for eighteen rooms. 1t
Is desirable that building to be used ex-
by the penitent, should be erec-
ted, at a cost of about $1,000. Cannot this
sum be raised by subscription, it would
only be about fifteen cents each for every
man, woman and child in Columbus.
We cannot close this article without COM
the Sisters on the admirable
with which everything is conduct
ed. The " children all are neat and clean,
and every apartment is so scrupulously
tidy, that one might suppose the goddess of
neatness had taken up her permanent
CRIMINAL CARELEssNEss.-We learned
yesterday of case of driving in front of
an approaching locomotive, in which we
the man to be as guilty of murder
as IL he had cut his wife's throat. AS the
east bound train which left here on the P.
G. & st. L. railroad at IL o'clock on
Wednesday, was near Lafayette, Coshoc-
ton county, the engineer ran over wagon
In which were seated man, his wife and
child. The woman was killed Instantly,
the child was thrown up on to the cow
catcher, and will probably die, the man is
injured, and one of the horses
was killed. There is deep cut in the road
Just west of where the wagon track crosses
the railroad, and it is impossible for the
to see an obstruction there until
he is on to it. The wagon track is cut
down through the hill, still further hiding
it. But while the. engineer could not see
the wagon, the man driving the wagon
could certainly hear the approaching train,
and, in order to save four or five seconds
time, he recklessly drove on to the track in
front of the coming train. This careless
ness is altogether too common. If this man
RECEIVERS from the injuries he received, he
should be tried for murder. Instead, how
ever, we suppose the railroad men will be
soundly rated for an accident they could
not possibly help.
TRANSFERRED YEsTERDAY-The follow
ing transfers of real estate were lett at the
Recorders Office on yesterday:
Benjamin Sells to Thompson Finch, inlot
No. 9 in town OF Hiliiard, June 8, 1858, for
$3.50.
Jesse Baughman to John Kitsmiller, lot
No. 13, in the town of Bridgeport, July 81,
1866, for 500.
w. j. Kuhns, guardian of Alice and
Sarah Barker, undivided one-third of "a
acres of land in Sharon township, June Is,
1858, for $lss6s7.
BILLS ALLowED.-The County Commits
sioners yesterday allowed the following
bills (Justice and Constable fees) in the
cases of the State against the parties
named: To Samuel Gulick in the case OF
the State VS.. Thomas Morris, $43.55; Chas.
Davis, $ls.S5; Thomas Hart and John
Hayden, $36.45; George Chambers, S1415
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