Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-30
NUMBER 80.
Mark J'waim's L.,test..-The Treatment
If Criminals ~ Newgate Prison.

Mark Ywaim's Latest...1he Treatment
81 Criminals III Newgate Prison.
London Correspondent Cincinnati Commercial.
An American lady who was being
shown through one of the shows of Lon
don, Newgate, the other day, expressed
himself rather forcibly to the warden
concerning several features of the pris-
on which hardly appeared to her hu-
name. She was grieved to see the
elaborate and new machinery for hold
ing the prisoners tight while being
logged with tho cat, stocks for hold
ing their feet, and similar arrange
ments for the body and hands. The
lady asked whtre the tlumb-screw was.
The warden innocently replied that
they hadn't any. However, he must
afterward have pondered more
profoundly over the sarcasm of
the inquiry, for more recently another
American lady, upon giving oppression
to similar feeling about the resusci-
tate,i stocks, was sharply told by the
warden that they had managed to get
along there without fogging for many
years until some American came over
and began to garrote the citizens, and
this was found to be the only way of
dealing with them. The lady replied
that it must have been because the
English came over and took away their
business, since American prisons were
full of Engllshmen.
However" she added, 1--WE don't
torture them"
On coming to the small alley in
which executed criminals are buried,
this lady--who is a good Quaker
shuddered at that, and the warden said:
You will notice here that ours is a
great improvement over the American
plan. In America. they give the bodies
of executed criminals to their friends,
who, as likely as not, make q hero of
him, and bury him with pomp. But
these scoundrels dread being buried
away in this alley almost as much as
they dread the gallows. This is chief
part of their punishment.
The lady having suggested that exc
cution was quite enough, the warden
replied: "Not a bit Of it. I was
showing our place the other day to
remarkably intelligent American, who
admired our arrangements exceedingly.
only he thought we were too lenient
That gentleman said that the great
mistake in America was leniency.
would you believe its' said he, we
caught q rascal in America the other
day, whom We ought Immediately to
have burned, and We only hung him.
But We are coming to our senses, and
are now making arrangements to burn
certain men for whom the gallows is so
good.'"
"Will thee be good enough to tell
me the name of the American gentle
man who made that remark to thee 2"
said the Quakeress.
"Ah, yes," said the warden reflect
lively, ''let me sect was Mr.. Mark
Twain"
Appropriations for the Next Fiscal Year.
An examination having been made
by an experienced official of the Gov
eminent, the belief is expressed that,
including all actual or probable de-
fciencies and the regular expenses of
the Government, the appropriations
that will have to he made by
Congress for the next fiscal year
will not exceed those made for the cur
rent fiscal year by more than per
cent. It will be observed from this,
however, that the admission is male
that the expenses of the Government
during the next fiscal year will be much
greater than even IN the current year,
and the Secretary of the Treasury has
repeatedly stated that the drafts upon
the Treasury resulting from Congress
sional appropriations were excessive.
The appropriations for the support
of the government of the United
States on account of the service of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1874, and
of Deficiencies for previous years made
by the third session of the Forty-sec
onl Congress, and on account Of per
manent and indefinite appropriations
made by that and previous Congresses,
amounted to $172, 29O. 700.82. For the
preceding y ear the appropriations were
$8,O75, 949. so less than the above.
The Treasury departments summary
of the items Of appropriation, when
classified, shows for what branches of
the government the appropriations
for the current fiscal year exceed
those of the fiscal year of 1873.
For the current year, the appro-
priations for the legislative
branch exceeded those of 1873 to the
extent Of 81, 500, 013 AZ; for the execu-
tive branch, 1927, 1888 for minis
and assay offices, 81, 1884, 831 ; for Ter
ritorial Governments, 81, 231, 665; for
the military establishment, $4,247,-
258 So; for the naval establishment,
~, zoo, 422. So; for pablo works, g.
500 515.34; for rivers and harbors,
$214,9OO; for public lands, $14, 1885,
459 for the postal service, SO, 632.
On the other hand, the apprcpria-
lions 10: 1873 exceeded those of 1874 to
the extent Of $845, 53l. 10 for judicisl
expenses; $70,78 for foreign inter-
course; 77,S66 for independent treas
ury; $164, 92O.O7 for Indian affairs;
$38, 600 for forts and Notifications;
S12A $50 for miscellaneous expenses.
The appropriations for invalid and
other persons were the same in both
fiscal years, being $50, 4s0, 900. Accord.
ing to the estimates of the Pension
Commissioner, the appropriations Tor
pensions will be about 800, 600 less for
the next fiscal year.