The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-15 00:00:00

A VILLAGE TO AVOIDED.

At a late meeting of the Lincoln Board of Guardians,
Mr. Mantle gave a description of a visit he paid, with
other gentlemen, to the village of Scotherne. I% hat they
saw, he said, he should never fo:get. The village was
full of fever cases, and no wonder. The beck was
dried up and the wells were filled with
sewage matter. They went to one pump, And
found the water emitted an unbearable stench.
He (Mr. Mantle) asked a woman if she drank the water
from the well, and she replied that she did, but that it
stank a bit ; and there could be no doubt about that, for
the well was full of " pure " sewage matter. They went
to another house, occupied by a widow with five children,
the head of the family having died of fever last year.
This family were now on the books of the union. The house
was built on a declivity ; the pigsty, privy, vault, and
cesspool were quite full, and after a shower of rain the
contents were washed up to and past the door. The
family was in an emaciated state, and one of the children
was suffering from fever. After inspecting that part
of the village they proceeded to the house of a
man named Harrison, who, with his wife, was laid up
with fever ; bah man and wife were buried in one
grave a few days ago, leaving five children to be sup-
ported by the union. When visited the unfortunate
couple were in the last stage of fever, and the vil-
lagers had such a dread of the disease that
none of them would enter the house, and the
clergyman and relieving officer bad to administer the
medicine themselves. Harrison was the Lest workman in
the parish. The cost to the union has already been £l2,
and at the lowest computation a cost of £6OO would fall
upon the union for maintaining the children, and pro-
bably they might remain paupers for life. This amount
would have been sufficient to drain the parish. There
were many other cases of fever iu the village.
Mr. Mantle concluded by moving that the guardians
put in full force the power vested in them by the Nui-
sances Removal Act, and that a committee he appointed
to take action in all sanitary matters outside the city.
Ultimately sevezal guardians were appointed to visit
Scotherne and do what was necessary ; but (as a contem-
porary asks) would it not have been possible and advi-
sable to have done " what was necessary" before all these
lives had been sacrificed and all these paupers thrown on
he rates?

The inquest on Watson, at Portadown, has ter-
minated in a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Sub•
Inspector Nenan, who has been bailed.

SOMETHING LIRE A FAIL URE.—Th e Auckland
Herald of 25th June, says :—" It is rumoured in Sydney
that a Melbourne squatter has failed for a million."
TnE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.— Mr.
Weld is the first colonial statesman that has been ap.
pointed as a Governor to any of Her Majesty's colonies.
At the end of August the Central Committee
had received subscriptions to the amount of 74,000 thalers
in round numbers, in aid of the families of the miners
who were killed by the late explosion at the Burgh
collieries.

A man attending one of the Dissenting
churches in Stirling was lately offered an eldership in the
congregation of which he is a member, and declined on
the ground that being the keeper of a public-house, he,
could not " in conscience " be also an elder.

Some severe rainstorms have visited Central
lowa. A man and a woman were struck by lightning and
killed near the town of Newton recently, and a railroad
train ran into the river where the bridge had given way,
and two men were killed.

A California paper reports that there were
50,000 tons of wheat lying in sacks along the banks of the
Sacramento River in Tehama, Butte, Sutter, Colula and
Yolo countries, on the Ist 'of August, and that 00,000
more were to follow, making 110,000 tons as the yield a
five counties.

It was stated in the Dublin Police-court on
Saturday during the • heariug of a charge for receiving
diseased meat for the purposes of sale, which was dismissed
for an informality in the summons, that no less than
31,0001 b. weight of raw meat has been seized in the city by
the officers of the Public Health Committee within the
past three months as unfit for human food.

The cattle disease is dying out fast in Prussia.
In the province of Brandenburg special precautions have
been abandoned in the districts of Lebus, Landsberg, and
Sternberg, with the exception of two or three small
localities. In the province of Prussia proper, as no new
cases have appeared for weeks, the Vistula.4,has bees
reopenesl.,f9ri)le transport of cattle which 4fitgotti)
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