The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06

places and his arm broken. The flesh was
torn from his thigh, besides receiving inter-
nal injuries. He will probably die. Several
other men were slightly hurt, though not
seriously. DR.. Stewart, of Winona, was
summoned at once and dressed the wounds.
Inmates of Spanish Convict Establishment.
A short time since visited one of
the largest presidios in Spain; it con-
tanned within it's walls close upon a
thousand inmates, convicts, nearly all
of the poorer classes, with sentences
varying from one to one hundred and
thirty years not that in the Peninsu-
la men live to the age of Methuselah,
but that accumulated sentences are
general. Thus man will have COM
mitted three murders, and be sen.
fenced to thirty years of chain for
each crime, in all ninety years-the
one sentence to commence at the ex-
piration of the other. Of the con.
victs, 204 were sentenced for offences
against property, and sol for offenses
against the person. All were men,
the women found guilty of grave Of
lenses being confined in separate and
special presidio. Three hundred and
forty-eight were agricultural laborers,
two hundred and forty-six of the
mining class. One clergyman and
about twenty men of various learned
professions were among the prisoners,
the rest all being journeymen of va
rious trades. with small admixture
of master tradesmen. Six hundred of
them could read, the remaining knew
not even letter. This proportion
shows the great strides at present be-
ing made by education ; fifty years
ago not one in three hundred of the
Spanish poor could read or write
AS you near the huge, rambling
building, which perhaps has served in
it's turn for convent, barrack, or mon
astery, the prison atmosphere begins
to make itself felt; little troops of
men, in rusty brown Jackets, broom in
hand, are being marched by wardens
home to the prison, another band SAL
lying forth to take place; these are
the detachments who may be seen dali
ly sweeping and cleaning the streets,
repairing roads and the like; they are.
chained but have sometimes an iron
ring round the ankle; here are two or
three with numbers on their caps
smoking their cigaretts with the SOL
diers outside the prison door; They
are goOd-cOnduct men, and are permit.
ted a little more freedom than the 9TH
ers. The code of honor among such
men is decidedly high; they would
not when on parole, escape, even sup.
posing escape were possible. Accom-
panied by the comandante and one at.
tendant, who carefully always takes
care to be just behind his chief, but
who carries no arm save the sword
stick, which most private gentlemen
carry in this land, we pass into the
large quadrangle. Here, smoking,
sleeping, very few chatting, knitting
stockings, lie stretched upon their rugs
some four hundred of the prisoners !;
most of them wear their ordinary dress
some few having the brown prison
jacket and trousers, which is supplied
to prisoners once in two years.
They press round you. 800, sir,
for the love of Christ, buy a pair of
stockings, and God reward you with
long life forever 'Ah, see by your
face that you have children por amor
de Dois, buy cap for your last born
baby stake this basket, only dol
lar, as a present to the Senorita.:'
Meanwhile the kindly Governor looks
on with a smile, half amused, vet
forced to look little stern the while.
Look we'll at these vacant faces some,
it is true, are bad, decidedly bad, of
the low, abandoned prison type !; but
the majority certainly not. They
have the vacant look Of the Spanish
poor in the rural districts; the heavy,
wooden, mahogany-colored face, the
fnely-built, somewhat fleshy, frame of
the agricultural and mining population
faces that can light up at joke, and
would be light, we're the men edu-
dated, but these, who lie about here,
are the least educated body of prison
ers, men who do the coarse work of
the prison, the arsenal, the roads and
the streets who do not care to learn
a trade, or to learn to read and write
during their captivity. They are some.
what detected looking but utter in.
difference and apathy is the feature of
character stamped upon most of their
faces; vacant, hopeless is their gaze.
Yet some, nay many, have kindly, hon.
est faces; nay, they even pass you a
word of kindly greeting, or do some
little service as you pass along. Only
a few are sullen, and turn away mo-
rosely from your proffered salute.
Sunken Lake.
Sunkan Lake, in Florida, is a most
remarkable body of water. 1t is stu.
ated in the Cascade Mountains, about