Connecticut western news., 1878-06-13

nuddled together in. room of foul stenohes warmed by stove, and the only food served out to them is pound of black bread in the morning and mess of rancid soup at midday. The sexes are separated at night. ',5 .aa=
 By day the prisoners busy themselves as they can. Some are driven out in gangs to repair the roads or clear the snow from the streets others make shoes or sculpture wooden toys and others do nothing but snooze in corners, sleeping off the effects of the vodki, which they had bribed the warders to buy. Acts of insubordination are pun ished by whipping, and the women get as much of this punishment as the men. 1t IS no longer customary for judges to sentence prisoners to be logged, but gaol governors are empowered to maln- tain discipline by stripes and thus g servant girl, who is committed for. trial on charge of thieving, often get smart aageIation or two at the hands of a stout-armed wardress by private arrange msnt between the Governor and her mistress. In these gaoIs it is only we'll to-do prisoners who are placed in solitary confinement. 8..-..,s;t # s:.aa5s:ssh'I t Herr Dicker being well-to-do, was thrust into cell furnished with bun dle of straw and floored with damp flags. Water dripped from the walls and rats poked their noses out of holes, staring at him in the twilight. He had 8 piece of black bread for supper; but remained from dusk to dawn without lights, for no candles were allowed. All this did not tame him, but made him gnash h1s teeth and swear to be even with the Archiman- drite's servant In the morning hun gry looking gaoler hinted that he could have decent room and good food by paying for them. Herr Dicker shouted that he would pay nothing. ~, r :.
 Shortly afterwards he was called into an upper chamber to see an examining mag istrate in 8 black uniform, with pewter buttons, who significantly told him that justice was resolved to make an example of those who uttered forged notes. Herr Dicker looked as if he were going to have fit he was indeed so blinded by wrath as not to notice that he was alone with the magistrate, and could conse- quently prove his innocence by the promise of a small cash payment. The dignitary gave him every chance by throwing out some feeling allusions to the discomforts of being sent to work in the silver mines of Siberia ; but the dull German would take no hints, and it was too late when the magistrates clerk was summoned in to copy down the prisoners dispositions. Then the magistrate be- gan browbeating as if he had got con- frmed rogue in his clutches. He abused Herr Dicker, and asked him if he would confess. Confess what ? asked the German. Oh, we'll bring you to your senses, cried the tightly buttoned little gentleman and as the hotel keeper would do nothing but protest his inno- cence, he was taken back to spend an- other day with the rats. .s zr--
 Meanwhile Frau Dicker, sagacious woman, bethought her that when man fall into pit or Russian prison, the first thing to do is to pull him out with out caring how he got there. Her hus- bands hotel was much frequented by officers who came tnither to drink and among others the lieutenant colonel, chief inspector of forage. owed a bill of 300 silver roubles for bottles of Rhenish wine. It grieved the German housewife to receipt this account unpaid, but she bravely did so and moreover put into a basket six bottles of Liebfraumilch (which the inspector of forage loved); then having donned her best catskin cloak, she set out to see the colonel along with her daughter Lisa, a person. able. .damsel, who cried as she went. r.
 [ The honest colonel was touched by the tears, the w1ne, and the receipted bill, and promised that the mistake which had led to Herr Dicker's arres should be explained to the proper quar- ters. But it turned out that the hotel keeper was in perilous plight for tn, Archimandrite was much shocked tha his servant should have been accused O uttering forged notes, while as to thu servant himself, he declared that nothins would atone for the injury he had suf fered.
 However, plaster for the servant wounded feelings was found in the shap
 of hundred rouble note after whicI nothing remained but to plaster the ex amining magistrate, the inspector of DO lice (whose plaster1ng in the first in stance would have saved all this trouble and the prison governor, who else nigh have made a hubbub. This done, Her Dicker was released from jail, after
 confinement of three days. But sad i IS to say that he behaved wrong headed ly as soon as he got home, for thinkin
 his liberation was due to his own blame lessness, he flew into the worst of rage with Frau Dicker for having behaved a if he had been guilty. The wives of ir nocent men have often much to put u 1 with. ~4y -.-'.
 One of the results of this little adve1
 ture was that Herr Dicker looked yer
 sharply at his bank notes in future. H
 nearly got mto trouble 8 second time b
 refusing true note which he alleged
 be false. Then he had a d1sturbanc
 with his wife's friend, the forage colone
 for paying him false note which we
 traced up to the military paymaster, wh
 had got it from the Bank, whose mar
 ager took long time to convince hin
 self that it was sham, and only exchange
 it for good one after much grumblins