The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-08-29
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STREET IMPROVEMENTS, ASSESSMENT, &c.--
Our city council have never been engaged
in better work than passing ordinances,
making assessments, and providing general
~ for the building of good sewers and max
ing permanent improvements in our streets.
Our city has heretofore expended from five
to ten thousand dollars annually in labor
upon the streets, yet from the temporary and
careless manner in which this labor was ex-
pended, no permanent improvements were
ever made, and at this day our streets are
in very little better condition than they were
/ ten years ago. The present city council
have changed the old plan, and have COM
menced the work of concentrating their
means on making improvements that are
solid and permanent. Such eminently are
the Superior and Paul street sewer, now in
process of construction, and the Jefferson
street sewer, just ordered, and the curbing
and Macadamizing of Main and La Sale
streets. Doubtless such improvements are
more expensive, but no sensible man doubts
but they are cheapest and least oppressive to
tax payers in the end.
While all admit this, however, we learn
that when the work of collecting the local
assessments commences, many who in the
outset we're eager for the Improvement, sud-
denly discover that the assessment upon
their own particular lots is unequal and OPP
pressive, and begin to talk about injunc-
tons and all sorts Of projects to cast OBJ
structions in the way of the prosecution of
the work. 1t would be we'll for such per-
sons to bear in mind, that the assessments
in each case arc made, approved by the
council, and then placed on file in the city
clerks office, where they remain open for
ten days (due notice being given of the fact
by ADVERTISEMENT for correction, abatement,
&c. Surely if. persons interested neglect to
attend to the matter during these ten days,
they have no right to complain # they are
obliged to pay little more in proportion
than their neighbors, seeing they owe it en-
tirely to their own negligence. Persons in
tcrested in the Main street improvement and
Jefferson street sewer have now this oppor-
tunity to have their assessments revised and
corrected, and We suggest to them that If
they wish attachments made, now is exactly
the time to see to it.
HEALTH.-We notice in Springfield, Al
ton, and several other cities in this state,
the physicians, for want of other employ
ment, are engaged in holding meetings to
revise and increase their tariff of charges,
adopt measures to facilitate tho collection of
their fees, &c. The fact is, the poor fellows
are having an awful dull time Of it; the
country everywhere is :" distressingly heal
thy and those who are so unfortunate as
not to have spacious vegetable garden or
comfortable rent roll to fall back upon, are
threatened with starvation. Not in dozen !
Of years have we at this season heard the |
druggists and physicians complain Of such |
general state state of excessive good /.
health" We can hear of no aguc or bilious |
whatever, and even the usual I
complaints that nave been so wont I
at this season of green fruit 10 afilict the .
children seem to be very rare.
LAYTON BLACKBERRr-We are debtor to .
Mr.. Chalmers, of the Buena Vista Gardens |
near the residence Of Mr.. Cushman, in East .
Ottawa, for a small basket of these incom-
parable black berries. Mr.. C. has proved
that this berry, which has obtained such =
high reputation at the east, is perfectly
adapted to our soil and climate, that it is as
prolific, and yields as splendid fruit here, as
anywhere in New York or New England.
Mr.. c., as his advertisement in another CO.
lumn informs US, has plants for sale, and
such as want any may rest assured they
call on him too soon.
To show the estimate in which this berry
is held at the east, We cut the following.
from long article on the berry trade in New
York in q late number Of Lite Nlustrated:
Two of our editors, in company with some
twenty ladies and gentlemen, recently visit
ed the grounds of Messrs. George Seymour
& Co, Of South Norwalk, Conn. They
learned that these gentlemen have been ten
years engaged the nursery business, and
now have several acres Of the New Rochelle
or Lawton Blackberry in fruit They are
now sending to this market the largest and
best backberries ever seen here. Single
stalks or canes produce from six hundred to
= thousand perfect berries.
To keep the New Rochelle, Lawton, or
Secor Berry in bearing from four to six
weeks, it is only necessary to cultivate them
thoroughly, keep the ground clear Of weeds,
and cut away the suckers. They require a
rich. warm soil-if gravelly and under
drained all the better, and if well treated are
as sure to produce bOuntiful crop as any
plant that grows.
CHINESE SUGAR CANE.-Our article on this
subject last week, in which we spoke rather
Of the prospect in this region
Judging from our own experience, has elicit
cd several communications, from more sue.