The Portland daily press., 1872-04-15

YORK COUNTY JAIL AND HOUSE OF Cor
RECTIoN.-Messrs. F. H. Fassett & Son, have
completed plans for the proposed County Jail
and House of Correction at Alfred, and the
work of construction is offered to the COM
petition OF contractors this week. These plans,
which it is hoped can be carried out within the
appropriation of $30, 900, provide for building
about 50 by "A feet on the ground, the front ele-
walton being that if a modest dwelling two
stories high, with hip roof and basement, and
reached by a long fight of steps. About one
third of the building is appropriated to the
keepers residence, and is separated from the
Jail by wall of heavy masonry. The basement
which is entered ON a level from the ground,
contains the laundry, store-room, kitchen and
pantry, with wide hall running through the
center. On the main floor are parlor and din
ing-room on the left of the hall, with sitting
room on the right and Jail Office in the rear
The second story contains two large chambers
In front, with deputy's room on the right, over
the Jail Office. The attic story is unfinished
The Jail is arranged on the system so generally
adopted now-a-days-that of a Jail within a
jail There are four tiers of eight strong cells in
each, in all thirty-two, seven by eight feet; and
eight debtors cells, eight by nineteen feet, in
the rear, lighted by windows in the outer wall.
The usual balconies and stair cases of iron, for
the confinement cells are provided for. Out
side of these cells is an area on three sides, of
eight feet wide or more. The Jail is lighted by
three large windows ON each side. The lower
cells are of granite, the upper tiers of brick
The building is of brick, with granite base and
water table, stone caps and sills and ornamen-
tai coping. The plans are quite handsome and
the building will be quite an addition to the ar
chitecture of the village. The foundation is al
ready laid, and when the contracts are made,
the superstructure can be pushed forward
rapidly.
THEY have new way of treating the broken
legs of horses which ought to be generally
known. A valuable horse in Hartford had its
leg broken short time since. The leg was
carefully set by an experienced surgeon and
was covered thickly with plaster. When the
plaster ''set" or hardened, it kept the limb as
immovable as if it had been made of iron'
Thus treated, broken leg will knit together in
brief time and become as good as ever. Only
day or two since we read of horse bev g
hIicu Ill tulS City lIoLu udNlIS Hdu leg DIOk-
en-, and occurrences of the kind are very nu-
merous. -.-
HAS Sheriff Perry notified the proprietor of
the Falmouth House that he will be prosecuted
under the law unless he closes up the bar in
that genteel rendezvous for fashionable and re-
spectacle characterization Gazette. a.
Yes, Sir,-he has; and neither you nor any
other person can obtain drink there. Sheriff
Perry in his execution of the law is no respecter
of persons or situations.
THERE will be Washingtonian Temperance
MEETING at the Allen Mission Chapel this even
ing. Addresses by Lieut.. Howe, Francis Muir
ply, Mr.. Barker and others. The public are
cordially invited. ot b.. ~. rrs.
THE FRATERNITY.-Last Saturday nights
entertainment by this association was an agree
able melange of literature and music-a we'll
arranged programme nicely carried out, de-
1iuhtinC a large audenca E.I