Litchfield enquirer., 1876-02-03
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 VEN AIMS HOUSE. ..-'
NEW HAVEN, Jan 2e, 1876.

NEW HAVEN, Jan 26, 1876.
 EE1roR ENoUrRER;-On recent after noon-the weather being agreeable ana my companion and myself ditto-we con cluded to meandef, our objective poin being the subject of our sketch. "Througf the courteous treatment of Superintend ent Charles w. Bradley, we were showr through the establishment, which enables us to tender the following description O. the unfortunates and Headquarters:
 The building, which is of brick. is foul stories high, each of it's two wings having three stories In the office Mir. Bradley presented large book for our inspection containing records of admissions, births and deaths of the incomers, as we'll as al essential details of their history. At the present time there are about one hundred and sixty five inmates. but as they are sent, for the most part, by the town agent and city board for short periods of time. changes are of::frequent occurrence.
 The work house has been abolished un- til spring, consequently prisoners are in the minority; they usually form about one-quarter of the encaged population. According to late report the sojourners were classed as follows: LaA 9a !
 Eight cripples; illone deaf and anmb; fourteen sick; thirty insane, including idiots and imbeciles, of which eighteen were female; two blind; ffty-two male and fifty-six female paupers, and six un- bleached Americans. Thirteen towns furnished pau .,ers during the last year. In this class are three generations, father, mother, son, daughter, and grandchild. The institution has it's regular physicians, and keep on hand stock of medicine for immediate use. sE.. .s.4 At the present time there are about for ty demented ones, the majority of which are of the gentler sex. The worst case is that of darkey, who, on account of his unruly disposition, has to be kept closely imprisoned. Some years ago they had a patient of African descent. who made it unsafe for any one to approach him, but MT. B. overpowered his cunning by ad- ministering chloroform through holes in the roof of his cell. ...-.
 There is one man-if he can be termed man-on the shady side of life, who, clad in a-loose garment, spends most of his time prone upon heap of straw; his mind gone -a burden to himself and everybody else. Amongst other specimens in the way of crazy people, is woman, mono miae on the subject of ghosts; consider ing her three sons as such and not paying them any attention when they visit her. Hard times are said to be the cause of her troubles. One pitiful sight was that of g woman who sits all the time with her head inclined forward. leaving the care of a young babe to others. Our attention was next called to woman, of an ambitious turn of mind, who insists that she is Brig ham Young. One portly daughter of Erin was very loquacious and indignant. and wished our conductor to send for her clothes at once-she didn't want to stay with |" 'em Irish wimmen". any longer.
 On wall of one of the hospital rooms were these common sense words: "Good nursing consists of kind words and care- ful attention" In the chapel Roman Catholic and Protestant services are held Sunday, as we'll as occasional meetings during the week. -..
 A special branch of work is the picking of hair and moss. V hich is ordered in large quantities by carriage manufacturers. The amount of road work done for the city amounts to about twenty-five dollars per day.
 The subject of purchasing new. town farm and erecting thereon building bet ter adapted for the poor of this city and surroundings has of late been agitated. Doubtless in the not far distant future we may be able to chronicle the completion of new Aims House.
 THREE PEAS.
 While the perversion of the public school moneys to the support of sectarian schools Is still matter in agitation, and and constitutional amendments are pro- posed to prevent it, it IS hardly realized 1 that the most advanced: Catholic idea has been quietly put in practice in yeveral l places in New York State. One of these places is Poughkeepsie, where the com. promise of allowing Catholic instruction to be given after the dismissal of the school met the hardly qualified assent of the Christian Union. Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, an extremely intelligent and moderate languaged prelate, as the quota. tions from his utterances that have been made in these columns testify, says; ''Our object is to gather in the children, in large cities, whose parents are, many of them, too ignorant, or lack tune to give them proper instruction. The state cannot reach all these chilnren, but we can, and we do not ask the state to pay for the re- ligious influences we throw around these children. but simply for the secular teach Ing they recieve. We erect the buildings, provide the teachers, who shall, how. ever, be subject to the examinations required by the state, and then, for nom inal rental, we allow the state full control of these schools during the ordinary school hours. in which time only secular instruc- tion shall be given. Before and aftel such hours we propose to give the pupils such religious teaching as we deem essen tial in the education of youth. The plan is already in practical operation at Corn ing, Elmira and Lima. and by the coop eration of republicans, : and still more markedly in the schools of the children's | ~s1 n