Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-06-20

M. Editor The question has often been |
AK asGed n Of aie where y the Boa,1 9f Meal
question to the people at large, and recommend,
that in case they have MS much trouble in answer
ing the inquiry as we have had, his Honor, the |
Mayor, to offer reward Tor their discovery
What has become Of thcms Did the spasmod- |
ic effort they made last year to keep The cholera
away kill them? Was the reaction SO great from
the stnpendous efforts to life so terrible in
its success that they poor souls(s) have not re-
covered their equilibrium yet and do they sup
pose that they gave disease and death such a
show Of resistance that il will last all time to
Gomez
But seriously, we suppose our city was never in
such filthy condition. Stencil runs riot every
where, even within stones toss of our City
Hall, and was so great that during the late warm
| spell, men could scarcely pass that corner with
| out exceeding " Onpleasantness, as Nasty says.
A few rods further down Market street it is al
| most intoerable refuse Of oyster cellars thrown
| out in the public highway to tester and produce
disease and death, and yet our excellent Board of
Health(S) doing nothing to prevent this outraged
We would most respectfully ask the attention
of the Board to Fifth street, from Shiplcy to
West. Let them take walk along there on
warm day at noon, and they will find that we do
not complain without cause. But why particu-
larze, it is all over the city, and before we are
aware OF it pcstilence will be among us. VIII
the City Council and Board of Health act, or will
resident Judges of our Court have to initiate the
Judges OF our sister city, Philadelphia, and ap-
peal to the Governor for aid What can be done?
We pray you, Mcssrs; Editors, open your rife
cannon upon them and wake them up.
One thing more Beware Of Dogs Isl. Paul,
| PhHAppidRS-M chap, I'd
"ohl for lodge in some vast Wilderness,
Some boundoss contiguity of shade,
Where sounds Of bowling ours the long, long night
Might never reach us more"
Dogs! dogs! dogs! Have We a dog law p
Docs not our Statute-book co.tain law COM
pelling all owners OF dogs to have them securely
nuzzled during the summer months? Does not
the Mayor rememberf We do not wish to find
, fault with our excellent Mayor, but would ii not
he blessing to have some of the dogs removed
or are we to have the same effect from dogs as
q they are having in Baltimore a rabid dog shot
4 almost every day, and thus far. sir human beings
a deaa from lint most agtM Of all diseases, hydro
: phoJia2
Does our City Council know. that, from somt
| cause this year more than heretofore the dog
: all over the country are attacked with madness
e Can we expect to escape when every other town
| is visited, raising such panic in some of thu
Western States as to close the public schools, as
s the parents are afraid TO let the little ones out o
V doors In one of our Western cities childrel
RI have been smothered by direction of THEN owl
parents as n kindness in their awful suifcrings
% Is not this terrible! and how the same mia.
6 be written Of this city none can tell II the sam
IL amount Of useless dogs arc still to be allowed T.
run our Streets Is it not high time that the lttl
+ law we have should be put in force? And doe
l. not the times press upon us the necessity of eve
III making the law stronger Would it not be bel
:" ter to muzzle many of them with tile muzzle {
gun, and the balance have muZzlrd all the yea
" round or is a dogs comfort of more value c
i Importance than mans life! Let lis take pal
~ tern from Philadelphia and have such law.
nc celebrated traveller says that "you may we
IL measure the civilization of country by til
number of dogs, the more dogs the less civiliz'
IL ton and vice versa aud we would add that,
10 this be fair criterion, the civilization of tn
a. city cannot yet have reached very high grad
If our sportsmen wish to keep dogs they ha,
IN the privilege; but claim that they should pr
i'm for il enough 10 make them feel the cost of sue
~ sport, and give us more guarantee against u
=" dangers OF canine madness.
TIA Messrs. Editors, we believe the time has con
nd when this matter should be agitated, and we
-, hope you may so place il before the communi
'u' that il may be seen in its true light knowing th
les you will receive tho support of hundreds OF CT
M zens
49, Anticipating the charge of "Dog on the Brain
we take occasion here 10 deny the charge, Meth
mas on our brain, nor in our arms, nor ut our hee
en- and while we have no malice for dogs as such,'
; IL have charity for humanity, and in conclusi
would Just say that our estimation of the val
sa of dogs in general is such, that, referring to
to fact that some children have been put TO dea
ba- by direction of their own parents 70 prevent
tolerable suffering occasoned by being bitten
: labd dogs, we believe that none but a brit
'or- would for a moment question the propriety
itch the extinction of the whole race of dogs, ratl
than that one child should thus suffer.
We pray our City Council for relief. Shall {
wv prayer 90 unheeded9 We pray for exempt
W. from Cholera. Will our Board of Health az
mas They did well last year. Can they not try
nm again? And while we escape death on the {
hand, LET us on the other approach more peri
civilization. CITIZEN