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her mistress (who it appears had a house built expressly to secure her) and "had to be" pursued and caught with dogs. Once escaping from the jail even, she entered the lands of a colored man and attempted to kill him. Of course she has no fire in the room with her (and in fact there is none at all in the whole jail) and last winter she was badly frozen. The Sheriff of the County some time ago spoke of sending her to the Poor House; but if even that were not an unfit open place on account of the children and others there to whom she might possibly do serious harm in the event of her becoming liberated I cannot see how she would be benefited by the change; not only from the fact that that establishment is in too neglected and deplorable a condition to afford the slightest comfort to any one, but of course there neither could could the requisite means of helping a lunatic warm be found, and she cannot be induced to keep a bed under cover. Still no more even in that direction has been made as yet, and I cannot see how it is possible for her to survive the bitter cold of this season especially with nothing but filthy but scanty rags on her and when the sores on her person principally superinduced by