The Portland daily press., 1869-07-26

NUMBER THREE.

"fn several diseases, such as dyspepsia and
those bowel complaints of children which carrv
of so many annually (and we might add
cholera the cure is retarded by the daily use
of bad water. In New York, before the intro
duction of Croton water, gravel was alarming
" prevalent caused by use Of hard water. Now
it Is of rare occurrence"
"It is within the knowledge of the Commit
tee that the use of pnre water alone In case OF
the above named diseases. has produced an al
most immediate and beneficial change"
q ''The old inhabitant of an increasing city
does not reflect that the water of his well,
which might have been pure originally in the
village precints, becomes contaminated after
dense population has settled around it-when
continuous deposits Of excrementitious matter
in vaults, sinks, sewers aud stables are daily
taking place within few yards thereof. The
laws of gravitation determine the descent of
all these communicating fuids hy filtration
beneath the earth's surface to the lower levels
of the bottoms of wells. with the same unerr.
ing certainty as the same laws determine the
rain drops from the clouds above the earth's
surface. The vicinity sfstables is known to
render the water unfit for drinking. In cur
own city of Portland, some instances have oc-
CURED within few weeks, where wells which
have from time immemorial afforded good
water, have become SO offensive as to be en-
tirely unfit for use for any purpose"
In the report of the Croton water Committee
it is stated: I'VE must naturally anticipate
deterioration Of our waters, proceeding at an
equal pace with the increase of the city and
may accordingly find this to be the case. Un-
til within the last few years, the water on the
elevated ground in Broadway was considered
to be the best in the city. In the progress of
the city improvements, this water is hard and
unpalatable. Into the sand. underlying the
city, are daily deposited quantities of excre-
mentitious matter, which were it not suscepti-
BILE Of demonstration would appear almost in
credible. With our present population there 10
deposited ON this sand about 100 tons of ex-
crementitious matter every "a hours In these
deposits, we may find all the foreign ing.edi-
ents detected by analysis which destroy the
purity Of our waters. But in this estimate We
do not include an equal amount of urine for
the following reasons: This liquid when stale
or putrid, has the remarkable property of pre-
cipitating the earthly salts from their solutions
OF in other words, makes hard water soft. Al
though the fastidious may revolt from the use
ofwater thus sweetened to the palate, il Ia
perhaps fortunate this mixture is daily taking
place; for otherwise the water of New York
would become unfit for domestic purposes in a
much less space of time, than it actually does.
Po1IcE on Saturday Deputies Perry and
Bolton made seizure of small quantity Of
liquor at the residence of John Carney, on
Green street. i sssss si,A s-isl- asa siiil
Saturday night the police made descent
upon house Of ill-fams and arrested Eve girls
one Of whom is colored, the inmates Of the es-
| tablishment.
Saturday night officers Wyman and Libby
proceededto vessel lying in the roads and
arrested the mate of the craft for an alleged
assault upon the cook, The story is that the
cook made some bread which was so heavy the
mate refused to eat IT, and the cook got pro
voked and told the mate 1t was good enough
for him to eat IA scufile snsued, in which, the
mate says, dog that was on board bit piecs
ont of the cooks arm, while the cook insists Il
was the mate that bit his arm. i.a .75s.s.
A dog walked into the STATIC. yesterday
morning and died in about three minutes
People are advised to keep their canine pet
away from such resorts. g sasasa .5.. :