Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-02-06
Columbus Correspondence.

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Columns, Feb. 3, 1869.
DEAR TELEeRAPH-On Friday last your
correspondent went with Some fifteen or six.
teen Others on the ycarl; tour OF inspection to
the Ohio Reform Far.i School at Lancaster.
The new route-evdf the Hooking Valley
Hailroad=takes us Il, fbugh rich and produc-
tive eoat4try, IN thret hours to Lancaster, where
we were met by the worthy Superintendent,
Mr. Howe, and escorted in carriages TO the
Farm, SOME si'x miles distant over the hills.
IL consists OF l,17O acres, romantically situated
upon TIC 'Iigh table land, among the pine
covere b. Ills of Fairfield county. H D..
Tn; Iildings arc located among the ever
gree is and fruit trees. and consist of main
bui .di ng, six family buildings, and many out.
b'iilG ings, all of which cost the State S65 ,OOO
and give shelter and home to BOG Of the un-
ru.y boys of Ohio. The main building con-
tIins dining groom, &c. Each family building
contains on the first floor domitory, capable
OF sleeping so boys. In this sleeping rooms are
ranged In rows 20 beds, which are taken care
Of by the boys; and neater sleeping rooms, or
whittier floors, have seldom seen.
In tho several school-rooms are taught
graded schools with about 80 In each school.
Here are gathered together thieves, burglars,
and young rogues of all kinds-even to mur.
dorers-all quietly pursuing course of intel
lectual and moral instruction similar to that
taught in our bost schools One-half of each
day is thus occupied, and the other half is
filed up with labor on the Fa-m, &C.. ..
The frat VIM haj NJ Al, .a,. h~..z a,
dinner table, WHERE with dtvout men and
anited voices, they asked the Good Father to
bless them; and thon felt that they had found
n home. and were among friends who cared for
all their interests. In the evening they gath
cred IN the chapel where they were addressed
by each one Of the 10 Committee and the two
Commissioners present, and sang several Sab
bath school and other songs with the greatest
vim. There are $4,000 peach trees on the
Farm, all budded and taken care of by the
boys; also, eight acres Of vineyard, and many
acres Of berries and small fruit trees In 1867
the peach crop sold for $4,000, but last year il
was ruined by tbs hail, II Is supposed that
the fruit crop will in few years make tho in.
stitution self-suprorting, and possibly source
OF profit to the State. There are 600 acres of
the Farm now cleared up, and most OF it will
s','.',''- ' =. sone A'nu'
,'' n,"nu'"o'u''S VIII soon DC ln'ro-
"o'us' ", ""' '"'o DVys wiz no ""sh' some OF
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.''. ns ."o 'n'''o"on n,shy prosper
!, :. ~ o .,,'I'" 'senOn' ~ MI. no"e, ana
m .,' ,n. y Sp''i"n, On, " '"o mos use'ai Of
s,.,,.,.,r r -, ,''"'u"on' ~ rea'y re,
49,. ,'.'.. - 'sm W." %e 'ao's 'h"' nearly all
s.,. 49,, ., r,m - ~ wv, Ano 'ha' ou.
s"Hy 10 run a"ay, athough under no special
'eS.a'"'' n,' Ape"1 'oiu'n's IN nS "vor.
ins ques''on " '"o ,"'a'lon o, INC Lunauc
Asylum was setusu' so iar as 'he House Is con-
oerheu py passing : resolution authorizing tho
trustees 70 proceed al once under tho laws on
inc construction oi puoi'c buildings to erect
o" "a" ga SIC . new asylum Inc resolution
psssc- ny more .h@h "o-'hird majority,
no'w,'hs.Ana"g II was IN opposi'ion 70 the
sP'i' VI oS". 'u' VI "" VI "' S""hinI''oe on
'no auoleol looked upon a. decided
''y.oiy 'or .ns "'ehos u fe'lenchment
'rH"ons io' Wn per ceh' h'eres' INV sun
W DOuI ~ Lncy nave Ill tic session,