Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-08
WASHINGTON, June 6,

WASHINGTON, June 6.
Ihe following despaIci, dated Whipple
Barracks, Arizona, June 2. has been rec-ived
| from Gen. Pope: Captain Smith reports
from Giia river, SapiIo, May 20, that the In
dlans are in very rough mountains north of
him, and Chatto. chief of the scouts, with 10
Of his men, struck their rear guard and was
after them. In another despatch from the
same place he says the main body of the In
dian women and children are scattering
through the mountains east of Buck Creek
north of the Gila; that Chatto and his scouts
are hunting them, and he remains in the
vicinity until he hears from Chatto. and that
party Is raiding east of him. A despatch
from Gen Crook at Bsyard yesterday, says
they have no definite news from the scouting
parties or Indians"
Commissioner Eaton says there is no foun-
dation whatever for the rumors published
that there have been collisions between the
civil service commission and the heads of
departments, and that an unfriendlv spirit
has been manifested on the part of the latter,
especially on the part of the secretary of the
| interior.
WASHINGTON, June Z.
Secretary Whitney has issued an official
| order practically prohibiting naval bands
| from entering into competition with local
bands in the matter of furnishing music for
entertainments and other purposes 1t is
argued that government bands can afford to
make lower rates than private organizations,
and that therefore for them to compete as
| organizations would be uAfsir. No objection
is made TO individual members of marine
bands obtaining outside employment, As then
| they must depend on their individual merits
| as musicians.
D.:-
member of the State board of charities of
| OHIO, and while so engaged visited all the
| asylums, prisons and reformatories of the
North and West, has just returned from the
South, where he has been making tour of
| inspection of similar institutions in Geoga,
Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. He
found everywhere except in Georgia that the
VIC Gus system of leasing cOpvicrs was rapid
| ly falling into distavor. He visited many
jails and found them no worse than those of
the North, which for these "schools of vice"
was the best he could conscientiously sav.
He visited several industrial schools, both
charitable and reformatory, and found them
admirably managed. The several insane
asylums were under the control of humane,
intelligent and cultured officials, and that at
PuscalOosa, Ala, was worthy of unbOunded
praise. This institution, Gen. Brinkerhofi
e"''S "ouAu S'o ~ III lutly dUredSt
of the half dozen leading institutions of the
| North. Its head was a close student of all
the problems of the management of the in
sane. and had brought his institution up to
the highest point of efficiency. Not straight
jacket. crib, muff, strap or like instrument
for restraint, or more properly, perhaps, for
torture Of the insane, was to be found. The
doors were wipe open, and no inmate was
Connections Of any restraint though always
under the eye of experienced keepers. The
secret of success in the management of tie
insane BY this method was in finding congen.
ial employment for each patient. Many in
stitutions in the North had entered upon this
course of practice, but not more than half u
dozen of the largest ones had made greater
progress than the Alabama asylum, while in
great majority the resort was still had to an
cient instruments of restraint for violent
cases. In the matter of finding congenial
and sometimes profitable employment for IN
sane females, the Alabama institution has
distanced all the others. Among novelties
he saw there were half dozen old spinning
wheels in full operation, this employment
having been found the best suited to the men
tai condition of some of the patients.