August 14, 1879 SEWER LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Tvccdlcdaai fa. Twetdledee. Mb. Edho : A few weeks ago, onr City Fathers appointed a trusty agent to inspect the private premises of every resident of the City, to see that no lurking germs of fever were thereon concealed. The inspector did his work faithfully, so far as I know, and no doubt reported to tbe Marshal, as in duty bound to do.

From tbe prompt and stringent action of the Fathers I supposed our City waa one of the cleanest and purest in the South. Imagine my surprise, then, on finding the main sewer of the City in such filthy and choked up condition as to be a stench in the nostrils of citizens. My attention was first attracted by observing stagnant water in the lefm ditch m the old iail lot. Pasnlos no Southward, I found tbe sewer near Little Zion Chnrch chokexl np bad. Going on to the Southern rent-gin of the City, I fonnd the marsh between the property of Prof. Wyman and Mrs. Rodes "full up" with weeds and wa ter, bnt no motion was vtsiiue m tne aroin Ieadina down by Stephen Miller's property. At several street crossings I saw stagnation at crime mints, and slight motien at others. Now, after such strenuous efforts to make private premises cleanly and healthy, is it not singu lar to see sucn gross negieoi 01 puouc umj .u the same direction ? In the elegant language of Mark Twain, "Why this thusnessr And now arises a serious question. Viz : Whether to have that Sewer promptly and thorongly cleaned out at once, thereby creating an awful bad smell tor a few days, with Derhaps a few cases of "Fernioioua" or "Malarial" fever, and possibly a 'Sporadic' or two, or, let the water stand and stagnate and smell bad till frost comes, thus insuring full crop of chills and fever, and a rich bar- vest tor tne doctors ana druggists i nni is the question which requires earnest attention of tbe Hoard of HetUth at the earnest possible moment.

CmzES.

WHY COW LAW SHOULD NOT BE PASSED. 1. For on luckless bovin that teals a oabbage or an apple from a careleaa grocer, or opens th latehless gate of so improvident oilizen, there ar butidrada of respectable eows that anietly brows on onr back streats without molesting anyone. 2. A aow that bahavaa badly eaa be abated like any other nuisance.

When there is such a plain rtaort, would it b wis to punish th inno cent in ordar to suppress the guilty? Thi is ai ti-republioan. 8. Th complaint against marauding; stock comes from those who bavt no Interest in them. The weilare of a whole city is not to be sacrificed for a oabbage. If the driven of country wagons go off and leave their teams and wagons exposrd contrary 10 an xpreas law ol the city can they justly invoke the creation of another law to protect tham in their lawlessness ; Or if a grocer persist in blocking th idewalk with oratea of cabbages where loud scent attracts a foraging animal, is it not just one of the risks which he take in putting it there T 4 The back streets covered with Ber muda grass is th only valnahl free bold of th city.

This is open to any family that keeps a cow. To cut off thi 'reshold which bas exiattd front time immemorial would be equiva lent to levying a heavy tax upon a portion of our citizens least able to bear it. Many a poor widow, strug gling to support a family of fatherleaa children, fnda iu thi her greatest source of support. 5. Hundreds of dollars annually were lost to the city by the passage of th hog law.

There are heaps ol garbage in our back streets which those scavengers removtd, and which the town cart dot not reach. The children yet pine for these delightful spare-rib and tenderloin which their mother prepared, and now it is proposed to take the milk away from the babte and sucklings. The law means less of milk to tht poor, and to the rich it means that diseased milk which comes from confining stock in pens and feeding them on artificial food. 6. Apart from any sanitary or local consideration, however, it ia impolitic and unslatearuaiilike to destroy values, Ia town without pay-rolls, without industries and struggling for bare x istence, it is not best to sacrifice too much to style.

We have had too mue.h nf that. ,.