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fiver their person and spread-it upon the walls within their cells. x -£ There are many among the sane who are complete outlaws, who cannot be brought.to a proper sense of their podiiuu and duties Xnbout resorting to some more rigid course of disci (dine than has ever yet been put into practice, and if resorted to would give rise to mure ctm--lliioii than we have already seen. For the purpose of ascertaining more fully the state of affairs at tho county farm than wbat 1 had derived from observation, I have carefully questioned all, and separately, the inmates capable (if giving me any satisfaction as to tketr gen lt;irat treatment, particularly as to food and cleanliness, notea of which 1 herewith auburn to the Board, as taken down at the time. Thev all, even those who are always cumptaiuing ibout something, agreed that f«r dinner they liad good food and plenty of it. Some com-plain that the coffee is not strong or sweet efcough, whilst others say it is strong enough for them. They all agree that their rooms are ecrubBed twice a week, and of tenor when necvs sary, their beds changed aud bedding and cjothca washed every week, and ofiener if they choose, 6oapa]ways*funit»hecl them, aud some dpoa whom I can most rely, say that it is those iulers who will tiot do anything except when forced, that make all the cumjiiai tus, and throw cry obstacle they can in (be way of the overseer in the discharge of his duiies. i have %g since been convinced of those facts, from iuv own observation.i*Xn regard to the alms bouse, I have thought rat the superintendents had b en fortunate in iheir selection of its keeper, and up to tin- time of ibis invettigntion rxtrat/rdinary, I had Vet to (earn that any material fault had been found of liia management, but this majority hupptutd l|ere in the absence of tho overseer, who wua lien in the city attending to his every-day du-iiis, when no opporiunily was offered him (and perhaps none desired ou their part; to make itjy explanation, proceeJvd to make up their majority prestulment sui'able to them selves, and fthey had been disposed to put themselves in a little additional trouble they might hare as-ceriatned some facts which might have, at least wfth home, brought to different conclusions, but whether that course suited their purpose or not lifts not for me here to conjecture. '1'Iu-v could i ifot have enquired, about the amount of labor j
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Milwaukee Daily News
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1855
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