Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-04
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Ihe man, says the Fell Mall Gazette,
who sends us the following letter may
be mad, but we do not often receive
more sensible or more
worthy of attention
S1R.-The recent revelations of the
bad management and unjust detention
of patients in a private lunatic asvlumn
at Belgium may have made some of your
readers anxious to be informed If We
manage things better in this country.
For more than four dreary months have
1 been an "alleged lunatlc, and in the
prime of my life am still buried alive,
an exile in misery, and ever and anon
a martyr to delusive hopes of freedom.
Condemned to exist in dull monotony,
amidst foul and pestilent exudations
and noisy bursts Of discord, with in
suits, taunts, and impudence, have
no lucid internal. Imprisoned with, q
chance of being burned iu buildings
douhly hazardous ard void of prison
regulations. Walled off from Boards
of Health and sanitary legislation, with
no public quest on comrades subtlety,
on food and water, or on lifeless corpse.
why am l thus condemned What
crime have committed2 Two sapient
doctors have declared my sentiments
insane, and have pronouncedm my doom.
Two years they give me, and if I mean
while acquire the attributes of Solomon
and Job combined, then they have
promised liberty. Liberty, forsooth,
to prospects ruined, to name and re-
putation blighted,
And this is England, the home of
liberty, with it's boosted Jurisprudence,
where the greatest criminal in the land
has benefit of counsel, Judge and jury,
and consultations from the prison chap
lain. was born aud bred an English
man, loyal and peaceful subject, but
now 1 am prisoner in private asy-
lum for ]unatics and c'ipples, and here
1 strive and post this melancholy letter.
and here I may pen a thousand more
before gain my Liberty -unless, in
deed, some statesman asks again the
Lords OF England that former puzzling
question, "How long these nuisances
are to continue" or public opinion
wakens up to fuller sense of duty, com.
missioners and magistrates the stools
to which alternately we cling but sadly
fall between. Mr.. Editor, how long are
we to be huddled together without
classification, and subject to the cap
rices of our companions, of our atten-
dants, and of those who rashly under.
take our custody--in places where the
health and spirit is broken, and self
respect is lost in carelessness,j
A Little (.irl Drops Match in a Can Of
Coal Oil ''Eo See it Explode"
From the Louisville Courier-Journal. i
Miss Sites, girl about twelve years
old, met with an accident yesterday
evening which will MAIN and dls6gure
her for life, if it does not terminate In
a very early death. Unfortunately her
parents have separated, and she has
been keeping house for her father on
Market between Thirteenth and Four.
teenth streets. She was kindling a fire
and, child like, concluded to drop q
burning match into a can of kerosene
oil, that she might hear the explosion
and see the flame. The explosion,
however, was very great, and blew the
Enrning oil into every portion
OF the room, setting fire to her clothes,
the bedding, floor and furniture. The
flames spread rapidly, and almost in
stantly enveloped the unfortunate girl
from head to foot. Screaming and
writhlng in agony, she ran down the
steps from the third story of the
house, but before any one could assist
her she ran up another fight of stairs
and disappeared in some portion of
the house. She turned almost in,
stantly, still burning, and, in her fright
and pain, seized hold of an aged lady,
and holding her firmly, allowed the
flames to communicate to her
dress. The old lady got loose,
however. but not until after
she was severely burned. Two
policemen came rushing to the house,
cut the clothes from the unfortunate
girl, and thus stopped the progress of
the fire in its fierce hunger devouring
her flesh. But the flames had about
done their work. The whole body,
from the shoulders to the feet, were
terribly burned; the hair on the back
part of her head was also burned, but
the face renamed comparatively I'M.
touched. Miss Sites was still con.
scious, and when taken back to he,
room ccnversci in Il low tone with hel
friends aud relatives. The attending
physician is doing nil he can to pre-
serve her life, but the probability i.
that his efforts will prove fruitlcss.
THE lively little English sparrow
imported into New York, have don,
good service in their adopted home
The measuring worm has succumbed t,
their watchful eyes and sharp beaks
Since this triumph they have selected
! flies and mosquitoes as the daintie
with which to regale themselves.
Ir is estimated that the Columbus
Ga., manufacturers will consume this
season 5000 bales of cotton, worth p
cents per pound, or 800 per bale
5000, 600 in the raw and more thar
Il, 200, 600 in the manufactured state.