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Our County Poor House.We have beep: requested by some ot the most influential citizens of the county to make mention of the county poor house. In doing so, we do not attach the blame to anyone, not^to the County Commissioners or to the keeper; the Commissioners feel a delicacy in speaking in regard to it, believing it to be the business of the peoptT The blame is attributable td some 'cause.and wc merely mention the fact in/ * # *order that it may be remedied. The people should attend to the matter at once, and it is perhaps a thing that many of them have never considered, but itorinnilinsr in this age of civilization and right, in this county that an.individual who is incurably insane, should be chained as a beast for months at a iimb. ’ Yetsueli, is.th ip.case’ There surely should be somd arrange-^ ments made to secure the comfort of • these poor unfortunates, who are con- ! fined in the county poor house, without any of the ameliorating influences of modern civilization: Wc hope-that this deplorable state of affairs will be attended to, and we appeal tothgsympathies of the people and hope t.heywill give it their worthy consideration,and thus lessen, to a certain extent^ the sufferingspf the unfortunatpapd thp insane of purfeouutyj / § f Vw
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Leavenworth Crawford County Democrat
Leavenworth, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 21, 1871
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