Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-01-11
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AN INTERESTING QUESTION
SETTLED
HARPER's FERRY, January 4, 1878.

lIARPERS FERRY, January 4, 1910.
For many years the great goose
question" has occupied loquacious casu-
lists and sophists, but as far as we know,
it is yet sub j"icr and as far from solu-
ton as that of the source of the Nile or
the identity of the man who struck
Billy Patterson. An almost equally in
tricate and vexatious problem has occu-
pied the people of this place for the last
six months but happily, twas yesterday
decided if not unanimously, certainly by
handsome majority, of the court be-
fore which It was tried-that of public
opinion. We refer TO the "Hogs-in or
Hogs-out" dispute, the history of which
is as follows. Our Town Council last
summer passed an Ordinance abridglng
the time honored privileges of vagrant
porkers and compelling their owners to
pen them up by certain time. ms
was the birth OF the 'Hog-in party and
in the above ordinance was contained
the only plank of their narrow and sim
pie platform. 1t was composed OF those
of our citizens who do not raise their
own pork. with a few whose olfactories
were sensitive and rebelled against the
odors which permeated the town in
summer, and which it must be confessed
were not calculated to remind one OF
"Araby the Blest." Forthwith another
party arose in the State that OF the
"Hors-out," composed of those who
owned swine and disliked the expense
of feeding them with corn as long as
there was grass on the commons ana
unhappily on TIE streets, ard they lnge-
niously argued that as the Coancil ne
elected the principal of their duties
that of cleaning the streets, it was tor
tunatv that nature had provided us with
scavengers to remove our surplus gar
bace. 1t was retorted by the "Hogs-in
that according to the universal economy
of animal life all the filth consumed III
this way was sure TO re-appear in still
more offensive shape, to which the
''Hogs-out" very sensibly replied that
the operations of nature were as sure to
take place in hog pen as any where
else, and that the trouble would be ag-
grayated by the concentration OF the
obnoxious odors, whereas If freedom
were allowed, the cause OF the offense
would be, if not fewer, a great deal fur
Their between and consequently less OBJ
vious to the senses. Never since the
days of Montague and Capulet was any
state more embroiled than ours has been
for the last six months on this subject,
and Yesterday the rival factions encoun-
tered one another at the Corporation
election. Daniel Ames, our Mayor OF
last wear. was candidate for reelection
and the champion of the HIGGINS" and
George Koonce carried the banner o.
the "Hog-outs." After contest Of I'M
precedented spirit Mr.. Ames and the
old Council were sustained by the hand
some majority of SO, and the Hogs Sin"
remain in an the "Hogs-out remain
out. For the comfort of the defeated
party we will say that as 1t was not so
much a matter of TASTE as of SMELL they
should not take their defeat too much to
heart, but wait till the next time when
they may have the WIND OF their oppo-
Dents.
With very great pleasure we day or
two ago learned that by ajudicious ar
rarcemen, the B. & o. Railroad Com
pany had appointed our neighbor, W;
+. Saunders, to the charge of new and
important Depot lately formed at Sandy
Hook. Powerfully shrewd and far see
ing as that Company is, they have new
er displayed more sagacity than in this
appointment, for there is no man whose
facilities of head and heart are better
calculated to insure success in the ardu-
Gus duties of this office and gain popu-
larity for the Road, than MIR. Saunders
Two men it is said became rich and at
tanned eminenc he who attended o
his own business and he who LETT other
peoples alone land as Mr.. Saunders does
both, We confidently look for his future
success in life
CURRENS CALAMUS.