Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-13
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MT. Eli Whitney continues to improve.
 Dr. Doherty started for Syracuse yesterday morning to attend an old schoolmate, Dr. Chiffon, who Is quite ill.,
 Mrs. s. W. Hurlbut, residing on Howe street, who is seriously i'll, was 8 little easier yesterday.
 Mir. and Mrs. John H. Leeds leave on the 23d for Europe. They will also visit Turkey and Asia Minor.
 Mrs. Joseph Schappa died on Monday at her late residence on James. street, Fair Haven. She was well known and had many friends in the city.
 Albert F. Lewis, of Stamford, was on Mon. day sentenced in New York to the Elmira reformatory for the theft of $75 from an employe of the teamer Grecian Monarch
 l.. M. Sessions, of Willimantic, after long and severe attack of typhoid pneu- monia, died Sunday morning at 2 o'clock. He leaves wife and one child. Mrs Ses- sions became blind about three years ago and she has the sympathy of the entire village. Mir. Sessions was born in the town of Chap lin and went to Willimantic about 10 years ago, and has been very popular and useful citizen.
 The Two Hundred and Sixty-four Prison
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 The report of the State prison directors for the past year shows an average of 235 prisoners there during the year. The health has been decidedly better, owing likely to a new sewer that drains the buildings Fur ther accommodations are much needed and careful estimates show that the necessary new building can be put up between the present prison and the highway for $500, 900 probably typographical error for $3O, ,O0O, as the report puts the value of the present prison and it's nineteen acres of land at $171,- 900. Last year the prison showed deficit of $3, 403. .o5, against one of over $7,O00 year ago.
 Of the 264 prisoners who were there dur ing the year there were only II who could neither read nor write. There were 2O9 in temperate and 55 temperate; 25 had been in the Reform school and 2S9 had not been. Of the prisoners whose sentences have expired one has become a successful revivalist and writes back to the chaplain, ''Surely the Lord has led me ever since left you, praise his holy name" Another writes, ''I find it good to trust in and work for Christ" The conduct of the prisoners has never been bet +sr in any other year than in 1883. Two sets of Sunday schools are at work there-one guided by the Young Mems Christian association, the other by the Roman Catholics. The Rev. Father Charles Me- Elroy, of this city, gives brief account of the work of the church there and thinks that about sixty of the prisoners profess the Roman Catholic faith
 There are 31 prisoners under life sentence and sad and significant feature of it is that they average only two years old-sad in the evidence of early crime, significant in show ing that the life prisoner generally gets a release before death comes. Nine of these prisoners are under 25. Not one is over 62 Of the 31 there were 16 born in Connecticut This is just about the same ratio that exists among all the prisoners of the 264 enumer- ated 1O3 are from this State. Fifty nine nearly one-fourth are foreign born; 38 are colored.-Hartford Courant.