Litchfield enquirer., 1874-12-17
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 On Wednesday of last week, Hon. Mir. Stark, of New London, a member of the State Board of Charities, met the County Commissioners, and a number of other gentlemen from various parts of the coun- ty at the Mansion House, and laid before them plans for new jail which he con- siders public necessity.
 Mir. Stark argued with great force that the present jail does not meet the necessi- ties of the county for various reasons: It is much too small, he claims, to accommo- date the number usually confined in it. There are no separate cells fit for the inn prisonment of women. There is no pro- vision for ventilation and he does not con- sider the building & secure prison. It cannot be used pro6tably as g work-house and consequently the prisoners are herd cd together in a common room for many hours in the day, making the jail school of crime instead of 0 school of reforma ton. In this connection, too, Mir. Stark spoke strongly against the practice of working the prisoners that has prevailed in this county. Formerly the jailer, and of late years the sheriff, has received from the state the weekly allowance of 8 each for board of prisoners, has put them to agricultural and other labor outside the prison walls, and has himself received the avails of their labor and of their board money in payment for his servives in talk ing charge of them and for providing and cooking their food. Such an ar engagement might seem proper, Mir. Stark remarked. to the people of Litchfeld county where it had so long prevailed, but it did not seem so to him.
 The plan of jail explained by Mir. Stark, was for a plain but convenient stone prison which would accommodate fifty male and ten female prisoners, with a jailer's house of brick or wood attached. The cost he estimated at from S32, ,O00 to $96, ,000. The best location for iail he considered to be, not within the village, but upon some outside tract of land of suf- 6clent size to allow tho employment of the prisoners in work upon it. The present site and buildings he supposed might be sold for about s1O, 1000, leaving the net cost of the new jail about $30, 900.
 We cannot undertake to describe the plans of buildings proposed by Mir. Stark, except to say that they provided for all the reasonable requirements of a good modern jail without yielding to any of the extreme humanitarian notions that are sometimes advanced. MT. Stark explain cd his views of the necessity of the case. and the various features of the proposed plan in an extremely clear and convincing manuer, that produced marked effect on all who heard hlm.
 The necessity of building new jail for this county has been long urged by our sheriffs; it has been long under considera- ton by our county commissioners; and it Wn4 uOW OC OLVuSut OCAOE0 d ucctIuR LII the representatives of the county which has been called at this place on the sixth day of January next. We are glad to hear that Mir. Stark will be present, and we hope the question will receive the care- ful and candid consideration it deserves.
 Fuller reports show that the bloody col Gsion between the whites and blacks at Vicksburgh arose, as usual, from the cor ruption of Republican officials and the violence of the old planter element. It appears that peculations from the county treasury had been discovered duplicating several officials. No sooner were prose cutions begun than the county records showing there peculations were stolen, evidently by collision with the republican sheriff. That officer was endeavoring to collect large tax. yet he was not pecunl- arily responsibly himself, and he had giv. en 6 worthless official bond which the tax. payers found it impossible to make him replace with sufficient one. Whereupor they ''rose" and compelled him to resign. He appealed to the governor and to the negroes throughout adjoining country fol help. The governor issued a proclama ton, and the negroes armed and under took to take possession of the city. The whites resisted, and easily repulsed the attack, shooting some fifty of the assail ants, and losing but three themselves This disparity of loss. and the number o negroes shot, show pretty conclusively that unnecessary violence was used; bu we can hardly blame the citizens of Vicks burgh from defending themselves agains an invasion which was so evidently un lawful and dangerous. M
 At SHARON. recently, some one stole { fine heifer from the stables of Mir. Jame' H. Landon, near the Salisbury line.