Broome county . glarand murder, Edward II. Unlloff has been among pris:)ners who to themselves and to society. Removed from temptation, andsubjected to appropriate treatment; there is every reason tohope that many, at least, will be restored from the drunkardscareer and the drunkards grave. At any rate humanity andreligion alike demands the experiment. Brief mention was made privously of a few among the manystatesmen, philanthropists and orators who honored Bingham-ton with their presence on the occasion of laying the cornerston. In his address. Rev. Henry Bellows, said: I rejoice,then, to be
Broome county . glarand murder, Edward II. Unlloff has been among pris:)ners who to themselves and to society. Removed from temptation, andsubjected to appropriate treatment; there is every reason tohope that many, at least, will be restored from the drunkardscareer and the drunkards grave. At any rate humanity andreligion alike demands the experiment. Brief mention was made privously of a few among the manystatesmen, philanthropists and orators who honored Bingham-ton with their presence on the occasion of laying the cornerston. In his address. Rev. Henry Bellows, said: I rejoice,then, to be able to lift to the pedestal of this majestic occasion,and to place before the eyes of the friends of the unfortunate,of the inebriate, and his wretched victims only less miserablethan himself, the name of the first man who proposed,advocated, and successfully carried into effect, the project ofan Inbriate Asylum—Dr. .1. Edward Turner. May^<TodJrewardhis faith and his words. The citizens of Binghamtonj^were. FRONT OR EAST ENTRANCE TO BENNETT PARK. occupied a cell in the south alley. The first county clerks ottice was an insignifipent buiklingerected on the first site of tlie court house, and in 1830 it wnschanged to a location near the present site of the court which quarters it remained till the erection of the presentfire-proof building in which many valuable documents are keptand recorded. Mention has already been made to the .New York StateInebriate .Vssylum which was not only the first, but also one ofthe finest structures of the kind in the world. The venerableDr. Paddock in IKtU say of it: As a remedial as well as acharitable institution, it has no fellow. There is nothing like itin any part of the world. Looking upon inebriety as a diseaseas well as a crime, the projectors of this assylum propose totreat it in that character. It is believed that quite a largeproportion of the intemperate as of the insane can be restored justly proud of such an institution,
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