The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-02
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.
CHICAGO, April 27, 1867.

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CHICAGO, April 27, 1867. !.
EDS Enthusiastically was warm,
oppressiveiy so. To-day when Chicago
sleepily opened its off eye, the ground
was white with snow. In an. hour after
sunrise. all the feecy remnant of winter
| had departed and again the air is warm.
Such rapid changes in our temperature
are what renders Chicago so Injurious a
locality for persons affected with lung or
bronchial Weakness Catarrh seems to
be the inevitable conconitant of life in
this place and affords never failing har-
vest for the doctors. Fortunally we have
here at least one Physician, DIR. S. J..
Carpenter, of No. Is and IA Crosby S
Opera House, who possesses sufficient
skill to cure, this annoying and hitherto
deemed almost incurable disease. He
treats it mainly by inhalation and has
been remarkably successful inhis practice.
The grand ceremonial of the Odd Eel
low fraternity yesterday, laying the cor
ner stone OF their monument in Rose
Hill Cemetery, was one of the most i'm.
posing and beautiful ever witnessed in
this vicinity. Nine Lodges belonging to
this city, great number of brethren from
other points and grand officers together
with their friends, were assembled on the
occasion Past Grand Master D. J.. Shory
deiiverey an Grafton and the present
Grand Master Edward A. yRucker con
Quoted the ceremonials. The ground on
which the monument is located is 7 500
nv IL s,,i'
which circular space of - square feet
has been set apart for the magnificent
shaft which win here mark the last rest
ing place of the brethren of the order in
this vicinity The design for the lnonu-
ment is very beautiful, although there is
some reason for fear that so great mass
ing of emblema as it will bear. may de-
tract from It's general appearance This
however is question of taste which can
hardly be decided until the work is com
pleted
HTMEN GONE TRAVELLING.
A novel. and rather unusual incident
transpired yesterday at Rev. DR.. Ryders
(universalist) church being nothing less
than grand disappointment of a wedding
party BY the failure Of the bridegroom, a.
rather necessary party to put IL an ,ap-
pearance. A very estima ble9young lady.
was engaged to go into life partnership
with a chap named Tomlinson who it.
seems ''Tued bargain at the eleventh
hour and tifty-nineth minute, and who,
instead of going to the church to be Of
fered up as a sacrifice on the altar of
Hymen, was last seen making the best
possible time in the direction Of depot
for the east. 1t is supposed by those who
knew the fellow that he will strike for
Canada, 60 far a. a railroad viii take
him, then take stage, and finally walk
until he breaks down to get fully out of
reach. Canada is a favorite resort for
gentlemen anxious TO get out of the
draft - Meanwhile the lady. AM her
friends console themselves with the re-
Election better nov t,lan after marriage
cII'Y ESTIMATES. B..
AT least an approximate idea of what
itcosts Chicago to keep up her Fire and
Police Departments, may be gained
the estimates made by The - IA OF Fire
and Police 'c@r''l.e ..s.l.ers fol the ensuing
yes. I,nc tigu. es set down as necessary
for the support Of thc Fire Department,
are no less than 529i 490 80, and of the
Police 1892, 90G These are supposed to
cover the entire necessary expenses and
probable contingencies OF the Departments
named, but will doubtless fall rather
under than over the mark.
ab TIE PUBLIC HEALTH.
About which so much has always been
said and SO little has been done in this
city, seems now about to receive more
real attention from the new Board than
has ever before been accorded to it. The
thorough sy-tem OF reports OF nuisa noes
etc, from every section OF the city devel-
ons a necessity forsuch action which even
the oldest inhabitants dreamed not of
and which Is already exciting the most
vivid apprehenslons of cholera, yellow -fe-
yer, small poZ. spotted fever and who
knows what else, ii nob IN due time at
tended to, before the hot weather sets in.
As sample Of what the new Board of
Health finds to exercise itself upon, /
may cite little bit of report made to
them yesterday concerning the conditions
of place on Wells street not more than
halfdozen blocks from the Court House,
the business centre Of the city, and own
ed by Chancellor jerks, one of the rich
est property owners IN the city for
a. AWFUL FILTH. e
This place en- Wells '.holds trumps'
even over the most parts of New York.
There are three Wooden houses, dens of
prostitution of the vilest kind, side by
side Ia their rear is large yard which
Is absolutely one huge cess pool and which
would be quite impossible but for the
presence of some pieces of boards from
one to another of which an agile and ad-
venturous explorer may skip. There are
nine old privies which never have been
cleaned Heaps of garbage, offal and
dead animals float on the surface of this
eess-pool, the general contents of which
are kept in a sort Of semi-fuid state by a
constant stream from a broken hytlrant.
Two shanties occupied by negroes stand
in the back of the yard one built over
manure heap, the other over pond OF
green stagnant water. smelling, beyond
all description foully The thick rank
etfiuvia from such pest-holes as this is
what We breathe and as for what we eat,
well, the Board of Health gives US
some cheerful information on that too.
They tell us that in the Fifth Ward alone
there are twelve hundred hogs, per an
umn raised slaughtered and sold as coun-
try pork 'corn-ted pork and ali that
sort of swindle What of that? do you
ask; Oh! nothing except that those
hogs are fattened on deeayed vegetables
and puiveresceat -entralls, run at large
and eat rotten rats, cats and dogs. Pretty
diet that for beast a fellow expects to
eat.
| TRANSPLANTING.
The work of transferring from the
REBELS patch in the Old City Gene
terry to the new location out at Rose Hill,
the bodies of the rebels who died here
while Camp Douglas was prison for
those parties, has now been completed
Three thousand three hundred and eighty