Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-04
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be mad, but we do not often receive
communications more sensible or more
worthy of attention
S1R.-The recent revelations of the
bad management and unjust detention
of patients in private lunatic asylum
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
I been ON "alleged lunatic, and in the
prime of my life am still buried alive,
an exile in misery, and ever; and anon
q 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, a
chance of being burned in buildings
doutly hazardous ard void of prison
regulations, Walled of 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 pronounced my doom.
Two years they give me, and i'll mean
while acquire the attributes of Solomon
and Job combined, then they have
promised liberty. Liberty; forsootb,
to prospects ruined, to name and re-
putation blighted, -
And this is England, the home of
liberty, with its boasted jurisprudence,
where the greatest criminal in the land
has benefit of counsel, judge and jury,
and consultations from the prison chap
lain.' was born and bred an English
man, a loyal and peaceful subject, but
now. I am prisoner in a private asy-
lum for ]unatics and clipplesj and here
I strive and post this melancholy letter,
and here I may pen thousand more
before I gain my Liberty unless, in:,
deed, some statesman asks again the
Lords OF England that former pu1&ling
question, How long these nuisaaces
are to continue" or public Eopinion
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 hnddled 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 il broken, and SELF
respect is lost in carelessnessji
A Little Girl Drops a Match IN = Can Of
?. Coal Oil TO See it ExplOde.''
From the Louisville Courier Journal 4
Miss Sites, girl about twelve years
old, met with an accident yesterday
evening which will MAIN and disfigure
her for life, if it does not terminate in
a very early DEATH Unfortunately her
parents have separated, and she has
besn~keeping~ house for her father on
Market between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets. She was kindling . fire
and, child like, concluded to drop .
burning match into a can of kerosene
oil, that she might hear the explosion
and see the fame The explosion,
however, was very great, and blew the
burning 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, we're
terribly burned the hair on the back
part Of her head was also burned, bnt
the face renamed comparatively un.
touched. Miss Sites was still con-
scious, and when taken back to her
room conversci in a low tone with her
friends aud relatives. The attending
physician is doing ail he can to pre-
serve her life, but the probability is
that his efforts will prove fruitless.
The lively little English sparrows
imported into New York, have done
good service in their adopted home.
The measuring worm has succumbed ia
their watchful eyes and sharp beaks.
Since this triumph they have selected
flies and mosquitoes as the dainties
with which to regale themselves.
1T is estimated TINT the Columbus,
Ga., manufactures will consume this
season 5000 bales Of cotton, worth 2U
cents Der DOund. or 800 per bale,