The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-06-25
Abatement Of a Nuisance.

Abatement of a Nuisance.
Hon. BEN. EdGLEsroN aud a number Of
other soap-boilers in Cincinnati, having
been indicted "Jor permitting a nuisance, y the
Prosecuting Attorney, last week, brought
one ofthe parties, JoHs HArEKE, 10 trial be-
fore Judge MURDOCH and jury. They are
charged with carrying on, not only within
the city limits, but in the midst of populous
neighborhoods, the disgusting business of
rendering into fat and oils-out Of which
soap is the gsthered-up dead carcass
es wherever they may be found, of all spe-
cies of animals--dcad horses and hogs, dead
cows and eats, dead pigs aud puppies--car-
rion of every hue aud stage and smell.
To establish the charge, that such enter
prises were injurious TO public health and
10 the value Of adjoining property. numer-
ous intelligent and scientific witnesses were
xamined-citizens who, as committee,
appointed by Council, had entered these
pcst-holes, in some instances by the argu-
ment of axes and sledgehammers, and
were, therefore, prepared TO give direct aud
positive testimony. And such disclosure
The detail went on, of the character of
these rendering establishments their con
struction, the process. how the carcasses
were gathered, the cOncentiat ated, intolcra-
BILE and far-reaching stenchcs, that chal-
lenged the strongest physical endurance to
encounter until Judge MuRpoCK--not a
weak-newed gentleman. cither-was con-
strained TO eNclaim:
"COlTt-Can you not so ON with these
Investigations without going into these dis
gusting detailsY 10 makes me sick!'
Suffice it, the testimony of one more wit
ness, a prominent citizen. JAS. DALTON,
Esq, was heard, which finished up the de-
lectable job. lie testified
Was one of the party who visited sew
eral OF these establishments-saw all kinds
OF decomposed animal matter there.
Queshon.-Did you find any odor there?
1tts0er.- OiOr would be too mild a word.
QuestioH.-Well, say smell then.
AnS'oer-Well, | couldn't describe it by
the term smell. 1t was n stink, tie most
outrageous stink eyer came in contact with.
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The jury deliberated but briefly. and
brought in verdict of guilty. A fine of
$500, and costs OF prosecution, was assessed,
in default of which, the county jail. The
Sheriff took possession of the sinking
prisoner.
The next case win probably be that of
our old friend, the Hon. BENJAMIN EGGLEs-
TON, the Radical Member of Congress from
the First District--as he, by the Indictment,
is included in this notable party of stink
mOngeTS.
BENJAMIN, so long as we have known
him-now many years-always was in the
stink business. 1t is his talent. his forte.
He was--as contra-distinguished from the
eminent, the dignified and the principled
of that party-a stinktng Wing. lie was
the stinkingest of sinking Know-nothings.
AS Radical he is as sinking as pulling
SUMNER or virulent old THAD. They are
all of like perfume.
BENJAMIN, however, of late, has enlarged
his Washington and Congress
being his main branch of the Cincinnati
RinderpeSt In his political labors there.
he has lost nothing. by transplanting. of,
his natural propensity to engender foul
odors. He has been a jealous aud obedient
tool of old THAD. in stirring up the stinks
OF the worst passions of disunion malevo-
lence, and, in partizanship to accomplish
the internal ends of the leading INTERVALS
of that body, has been no less unscrupu-
lous oraudacious than he was, under this
Indictment, in stirring up and creating
stnks to poison the physical health of his
people and constituents at home. Both as
soap-boiler and Black Republican Con-
gresham, BENJAMIN is a clear case of Rim
derpestl-an eminent subject for one of his
own odorous vats