The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-26
Albaag geeister.
LOCAL MATTERS.

JAIL DELIyERy.-0ur splendid new
brick and iron ten thousand dollar
county jail has received a terrible
backset! Our Democratic County
Administration Ins received terri
bly, humiliating bsekset! Our trust
worthy and gentlennnly Sheriff Is
deeply chagriised! Our affable jail
contractor is the only one In the whole
lot that looks on undlsuayed at the
hayock, the disaster, the awfnl caianl-
ity that has befallen our beautiful, our
magnificent, our costly new brick and
iron ten thousand dollar County jail !
And here's the how OF u; Our DEM
ocratic county administration deemed
it necessary that a Jail shOtiad be erect
cd, both for the purpose Of keeping
the taxes hl Linn eouuty M good shape,
and for the. better security Of all
prisoners that it might be necessary to
put under lock aud key. After MA
turc delibeation they decided 10 build
a neat, tasty iistle twestory brick Jail,
and to make ii secure and safe for the
prisoners, the cells were to be con-
structed of iron, the whole to cost the
neat, but not guady, little sum OF
something over ten thousand dollars
Ia American gold coin. The contract
for building this neat little Democratic
affair was given toa worthy bedrocker,
who finished the job IN betsOsk style
-not exactly in accordance with the
coutrlct, it may be, but in - good
style as his profit-margin would allow.
The contractor passes the keys to the
powers that be and receives the reward
Of The faithflIl-his cash. BHt few
weeks elapses ere q forty-dolar steal
I, committed at Harrisburg, and the
thief is caught and brought to this city
and lodged in the new jail. From
some unexplained cause the prisoner
although placed in the beautiful ten
thousand dollar jail, and lie the only
occupant, and furnished with food,
fire and good bed, does not take kindly
to tie situation, and makes up his
mind to levant from this iron-celled, I
patent-locked, artisticlny finished ten
thousand dollar Jail. This being his
mind, he waits until the Sheriff kindly
waits upon him Tuesday morning
with his breakfast, after deVourlng
which, and upon the departure Of the |
Sheriff, he also departs! And thus i
Is oar County Administration have re-
ceived hnniliatiBg backset-the nl-
grateful thief left without even send
ing A card of thanks to said Aasninls-
tration for erecting this beautiful
structure, at spSrh a trifing cost, 90
that lie and others like him, might
take advantage Of lis strength and
security, and leave when they felt 50
Inclined! Rough on the County Ad-
miaistrasion. amt 1t? Humiliating
is 10 name tor it; they are knss-fred
mad! Then our Sheriff: just TO-
think, after he had taken so much
pains to make the 'tlarn fool" COM
f)tabie, for him 10 act h this out
rageous flshion--.'its enongh to make
a preacher kuss!" Chagrined Is
what tile Sheriff IS! We have lost all
confidence in the gratitude Of forty
dollar tllieyes-so has the Democratic
CoIlty Administrations has the
Sheriff! Its q case Of serious dls-
satisfaction to all concerned! As this
bealfied, artistic, iron-clad, ten tho'l-
sald dollar county Jail, Is thoroughly,
completely and decidedly, outside and
IN and throughout, a Democrats i'-
atltutioa, originated by Democrats,
ordered by Democrats, aAid built by
Democrats, the REsiSTER, being o
Republican jonrisl, don't propose to
say anything about H. for fear 1t
may injure the prospects Of the
Democratic party in the coming elec-
tioa! If the Jail had been built under
2Repnblican administration, we would
have sail-still less!