The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

no less Intrepid than ALcIDEs' self to lay
hands on this dainty work.
New York is astonished, Indignant, but
submits. The Broadway Concert Saloons,
with their nightly music, fashy Transparent
cies, and pretty waiter girls, are to be con-
signed to the halls of Topheth, whore of right
they belong. None but tho most respectable
SALOONS" are to bo allowed to vend ardent
spirits; and thus We might go on to enume-
rate wholesome and wholesale reforms, pro-
posed ("nd even now in process of being orr-
ricd out by this Consornn Board. Whom
they shall have finished their work, tho great
Western metropolis will be SO fine and nice,
clean and proper that tho Common Council
will have to luy straw mating Oh the Mnn-
haitian banks of the Hudson and East Rivers,
to keep strangers from soiling the fair han
diwork of the Board of Health. If the city
will keep so long lin such n sublimated state
of perfection), it would not DO bad idea to
send it to the great Exposition ut Paris next
year. What sensation tho "American quar-
ter" then would make But what has been
done with tho Five Points, and Mulberry
street, and q score of other such hotbeds of
vice and filth, we used to see and hear of {?
Have they all been taken to Fifth md Madi-
son Avenues? Or have they been hermeti-
cally sealed and consigned to outor darkness
over on the Jersey shore?
Many Of the reforms instituted by this
Board are doubtless wholesome and much
needed yet do we seriously doubt, whether
such powers can bo constitutionally bestowed
upon body of this character and as we have
already remarked, at no other period in our
national existence could such measures have
been carried with 30 littlo resistance.
One of the most recent exploits of this ON
nipotent Board is the Indictment of "KRAN-
Gill" as nuisance. This individual, it ap-
pears, "is a squatter on three lots on the south
erly side of Fifty-ffth street, between Sixth
and Seventh avenues:
sThe squatter's namo is John Kranchi His
ab.de ID barrel, around which he spreads several
filthy old carpets on the bare rock. On these he
sleeps, and during the ipclement weather he
thrusts his head and shoulders into the barrel.
Adjacent to his abode is pile of old lumber, suf-
clentiy elevated to allow his dogs to crawl under
meath for rest and protection. All this is sur
rounded by baskets; barrels, pans and boxes con-
tainng accompanying bones, lobster shells, fish
heads and tails, dead cats and dogs, grease, and
every conceivable Kitchen refuse swilf and garb-
age hshed out OF cutters and so-calcd ash and
garbage boxes, ali of which MIXTURE or part
thereon, Is stewcd or cooked in mixed state by
said Kranchi in tho open air, amid shanty popu-
latlon, and when stewed or cooked, is eaten by
hranchi and his numerous dogs. Evidence is not
wanting to prove that lie has eaten the dead rats
snd cats fund on the public highways, and that
he kiils his own dogs for their meat as food when
no other nourishment is at hand.
:, The Inspector recitcs other of Krauchi's pocu-
larltles, and formally presents him az a nuisance,
and dangerous to the life and health OF every per-
sou who comes in contact with him."