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News Tidbits, Sept. 2, 1873

National Conference Charities and Correction, June 4-10, 1896
LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, SEPT. 2, 1873
Contributed by Frances Cooley
--General Dockery has effected a consolidation of his road with the road from the Louisiana line to the Sabine Pass.  This is a very advantageous arrangement and will hasten the completion of the Arkansas portion of the road.  
--Fishing in the Saline is reported good.
--Cotton picking will commence about the 10th of this month.
--The caterpillar and boll-worm have made their appearance in various sections of the state, and are doing considerable damage.


PROCEEDINGS NATIONAL CONFERENCE CHARITIES AND CORRECTION

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SESSION HELD IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 

JUNE 4-10, 1896

BY GEORGE THORNBURGH, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Contributed by Candi Horton

The State conducts a school for the blind and deaf-mutes, an asylum for the insane, a home for ex-Confederate soldiers, and a penitentiary,
all located at Little Rock, the State capital. These institutions are carefully looked after by proper boards and committees.
The insane asylum has a capacity of over 600. There are now in it about 500. The proportion of males is smaller than of females.
The Deaf-mute Institute contains 200 pupils, and has room for 50 more. They teach several useful trades here. They do a good part
of the State printing. The School for the Blind enrolls about 150. The capacity is 250. In all these institutions the colored people
are provided for in similar manner to the whites, though they are separated.
The penitentiary contains 277 whites and 624 blacks and 2 Indians.
The majority of the convicts work on farms, tilling the ground, clearing off l and, etc.
The incoming legislature will probably enact a law for the establishment of a reformatory school for youthful offenders.
We have nothing of the kind in the State. We have some good hospitals under city and church control. The Children's Home Society is at
work in the State with good results. The organization is independent of any other society, having no connection outside the State.  

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