The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-05-20
Daniel Shrrefh Up the
animals in the
Lions Den.
TEE SWITCH coMTTH INTO PLAY,
And the Inmates Smuggle Sen
tin.l Into the Infirmary and
Take a Look at the Silver
and Golding Side of
the Cloud.
Bring on Your Bear Traps.

inmate of the Infirmarv, calie
at the office of Squire Davey i
this city, and asked for law tha
Dan. Nixon, the Superintendent
might be prosecuted for whip
ping Maria Johnston. a blin
woman and one of the inmates @
that institution.
Owing to the skillful manipu
lations of Legislatures, the pres
ent laws are such that The poo
can get no hearing unless the
carry plenty of cash or a corpor
alton backs them, which Nan
cy did hot have, and her appea
to the Observation-Disclosures
ed to nothing. She afterward
visited the Auditors office, bu
unluckily missed the Commiss.
toner's, who were i'm session
all morning. Had they been pres
ent she would have had a hear
ing.
She next called at the Mavor'
Office and tried to prevail OH hin
to send out a marshal to arres
Nixon. which he of course had M
authority to do.
Along in the afternoon, wher
she found there was. no hearing
for her in the Courts, she made
her way to the Sentinel office
We give her statement as it, wa.
given 10 US and if It Is not true
should be disapproved at once
and if it is true. tie augean sta
bles should be flooded and puri
fed.
MY name is Nancy Logston.
Last::winter my health was bad
and l vas taken to to the Poor
House."
"What are you doing here, Nan
cyT
swell. just couldn't stand it,
SO I left.''
"Couldn't stand what ?"
"Whv the way Nixon whipped
poor. old, blind Maria Johnston
this morning"
add he whip her hard ?"
well, he didn't exactly cut
The blood out of her, but it look
cd jus: like the blood would seap
out of the welts that raised up
where he struck her. l feel just
like CRYING every time l think
about it, and would rather a
thousand times have got it my
SELF"
"What kiEd of a whip was US
ed I"
He had stick as broad as my
two:fingers."
"What was the occasion of tie
trouble 2"
HE said she talked about him.
That when sine was up to the
Children's Home yesterday, that
she said he was gelng TO marry
Minnie Sehall or her mother, and
that was nottreating the memo
ry of his dead wife very WELL"
"WelI, does Daniel DO his
work up in good shape?'
you'd a thought so if you had
seen him whip Maria Johnston,
and looked at her back when he
got through. He whipped
- at the same time, but l
didn't blame him so much for
that. When he got through
wit h the blind woman left. l
stand it any longer. and
just made up my mind if there
was any law for such things, I'd
find it. But l guess there aint,
SO. / wont go back for fear / will
be horse-whipped myself. Ihave
got strong enough to work now."
"How did you get away, Nancy?"
''This morning l took a basket
and knife and started out to gather
greens. When l was ou. of sight
of the house l left. That's the on
ly way / could get to town. Whip
ping amt nothing 70 what they use
to have down there. They say they'd
buck and gag them. That would
be hard On women, wouldn't It ?'
well, yes! You see Miss Log
ston. we have never had any ex-
perienee in that line. We Judge it
would be very hard on women. es-
pecially in a County Infrmary as it
Is really a child Of christianity, and
christianity embraces all that is hu-
man." q
"Oh, don't say that, they buck
and gag now, because they don't.
They only whip. But say, mister,
hey have ball and chain there.
They used to use that"
Got a Jail too, havn't they?'
"Yes indeed"
Sand all the appliances for pun.
shment usually used in a penal in
?''
81 guess so, if that means whip
pings, buck and gag and ball and
,hain'"
"How 10 they feed yoa down
here ?"
Pretty we'll. We only get meat
'nce a day. Goldlng says in bus
etter that we get It three times a
lay. That is not true. We havn't
lad any butter since Easter Sunday.
Until the other day a tramp come
long and then some was put on
he table to make it appear that it
vas that way all the tlme."
''If they don't use their produce
lown there, what do they do with
t?'
=. why they bring it to town and
ell it,"
This man Golding that writes
etters is blind they say"
"He can see all the same. He
ont do anything, but Lord it
round there. Once in awhile he
eads Mr.. Nixon's sheep around"
allow many sheep have they
OF ?"
"Ouly one and We had a
ig time last week over the Sentinel.
;ome one got hold of Mr.. Shaw's
aper, and We just made one of the
iris read ever word in it. That
'as mighty good about the Silver
ide and Goldlng side of the cloud
We are Door, but we have sense