Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-04-01

premature decay.
would call your attention to the streets,
lanes, and alleys. There are a number OF
places along Market, Main, and Wayne streets,
which need repair. Care should be observed
that the convex form be maintained in repair
ing or paving the streets. Mill street is now
Travelled as much as any in town, and should
be put In proper order, as nearly all our
means of subsistence comes in that street
The pavements aleng the above mentioned
streets are also in bad condition. In many
places along Market street they are torn up,
so that it is dangerous for pedestrians to
make their way oyer them The pavement
at Logan school house is rooted up, and along
Third street, and McNeal's row, there are
dangerous places almost amounting to dead
falls. The alley from the foot of the Odd
Fellows Hall lot, running eastward to the
foot of Mrs. Randolph's lot, is in very bad
condition There is considerable travel on
that alley now, and it ought to be stoned, and
that on the concave plan, so as to carry the
water IN Its proper direction more etectually.
There are, doubtless, many other repairs
needed throughout the town that have not
come Immediately under my observation,
| and many necessary improvements which
ought and can be made within our means, if
| jjudiciously and economically managed, which
will add much to the comfort and convenience
of our citizens.
All the improvements undertaken by the
| Council should be we'll done. 1t is poor
| economy to do things half, as in the end they
| cost the Borough more, and are no credit to
their projectors. The doctrine of penny
wise and pound foolish" is too far behind the
age to rule the ceunsels of the present day.
The running at large of hogs within the
borough limits has been heretofore q most
intolerable nuisance. 1t will be the duty of
the High Constable to carry out the prnvis-
ions of the ordinances on that subject now in
force, to their full extent. Those who are
determined to raise their own swine flesh
within the confines and crowded limits Of the
borough, ought to be taught that the hogs
must be kept from running at large and the
pens kept in such good order as not to offend
the olfactory organs of all the neighborhood,
with the very disagreeable and pestilential
efiuyia which generally arises from neglected
pig sites. The money already expended in
filling up the Frog Pond and other health
ful improvements, will be of little avail, if
these, and overrunning cess pools, are per-
mitted to exist in every portion of the town, |
spreading sickness, death, and sorrow ali
around
AS great friend as | am to the canine
race, l would not omit to suggest that too
many of them are permitted to run at large
in the hot season, subjecting our citizens to
the danger of being bitten and becoming i'm
pregnated with that fatal ri57is which always
ends in hydrophobia. 1t will be the duty of |
the High Constable to see tl.at they are muz
zled during the hot months.
There is great amount of rowdyism in |
our town which should be suppressed by all
means. 1t is we'll enough for Americans to |
ru lint IJeLn L. -
not to begin before their time The police |
are either not vigilant enough, or are too |
weak and inefficient to maintain good order !
in the town. | would recommend that the |
police force be recognized, and u new and |
semi secret plan, something after the model |
OF the French system, adopted. If that plan |
were put in execution, the rowdyism which |
has so much disgraced US would soen dsap |
pear from our midst.
There has been considerable disorder crea-
ted in cur midst by drunkenness; and as to |
the best means Of applying proper remedy |
to that alarming evil, some of our citizens |
have differed with others who were probably |
too extreme and over Jealous. 1t is not for |
me to say which side had the right. NV |
opinion is that extremes in anything are dan |
gerous. middle course, so as not to com |
promise with truth and right, is always safe, |
and seldom leads to fanaticism While give !
our sincere temperance friends credit for their |
laudable efforts to reclaim drunkards and to |
persuade those who sell liquor to discontinue
the traffic, | must commend nv predecessor
and the members of the Town Council for the |
courageous manner they pursued that course !
they thought to be right, regardless of slang
from any quarter. Should similar case oc- |
cur during my administration, | will be gov
erned In my action by the circumstances sur |
rounding 1t, and pursue that course which |
Will be most likely to produce the greatest
amount of good to the greatest number
Will endeavor to make the best out of the |
town property, discriminating as we'll as /
can between the different objects for which
the Town Hall may be wanted from time to
time, and my hope is that may succeed in
pleasing all and at the same time have an eye
to the revenue for the borough treasury
| cannot close my address without congrat-
ulating the people of the borough on the sound
state of our financial affairs. We are out of
debt and have still small amount in the
treasury. The councils for the last several
years, deserve great credit for the ability with
which they have managed the affairs of the
borough. They have made many valuable
improvements, paid large amounts Of old |
debts, and have lately introduced gas for the
pubic use, and put up iron lamp posts
throughout the town. They also saved the
people fifteen hundred dollars in not LAYING a |
tax two years ago And am also inclined !
to think that, notwithstanding much seems to
be against us in a moral point of view, we |
have still made some progress in morality and
religion.
In conclusion, | would say to the present
council, take up the good work so nobly be- |
gun by your predecessors, and carry it on. |
Inc same effort to get into debt will keep US
out ei IL II reversed, and our borough treasury
will be kept par, and all our orders promptly |
paid, which, after all, forms the crowning
glory of any people who desire to be free and |
happy, whether it be in individual, municipal
county or State affairs.