Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-24

Local.
CITY CoUNCIL.-The City Council held
it's regular meeting on Tuesday evening
Present President B1cEle and Messrs.
Abby, Bagby, Burke, Evans. German,
Hoge, Ker, and Nelson.
THE HEALTH OF THE CITY.
Mr.. German, of the Board of Health re-
norted the soap mandatory OF T. Nielsen
as creating nuisance by the lntolerable
stencil proceeding therefrom. Messrs
Raeby. Hoge, and Burke all said the odor
was very bad. DR.. Fauntleroy, OF the
Board of Health, said he thought the smell
from the factory vitiated the air OF two
thirds of the city, and measures ought to
be taken for abating it. The subject OF
nuisances being up, he would also state
that the sewer running from Main street
to Lewis Creek, through the block or
which Col. NJ. G.. Hartman lives, and OF
which Col. H. had complained, was dam
age to the health of the city and should De
70, oedied. The drainage was imperfect
,a the foul matter cast into the sewer re-
,,,.i,,o,7 there and, he believed. caused
1aroa no vtion of the sickness in the city
n ooi1od attention to the fact that In the
allow, fov, II epidemic in the Southwest the
fever had a, roided large cities which were
lrant clean. al nd fallen with fatal violence
mon smaller towns that were IN Ioul
condition While it was true Staunton
WIGHT never haye an epidemic OF yellow te-
vor wet if might have ZONE OF typhoid
fo,1o,. which was a more tedious and hardly
less fatal disease. These nulsances lower
ed the vitality of the population and pre-
pared it for disease.
nember.-How about the lanyard ?
Tr Fauntleroy.- same objection ap-
niles 10 the lanyard, and l have only re-
Trained from calling attention tolt because
from it's proximity to my house 1t might
he thought that [ did SO from motives OF
7,orsonal interest The odor from the tan
merry ought also to be abated.
a member. Nielsen says the smell
from his factory is the healthiest thing a
CITY could have. Laughter
A conversational debate followed in
which it came out that the mouth OF the
sewer on Main st. was the receptacle night4
" of filth, poured in by the barrel, which
,eboked it up to an extent that the heaviest
rain could not overcome.
ME-. Beckett is the business OF the Po-
lice to watch that matter and report the
perpetrators of the nuisance il they catch
them. They are paid for that work and
should attend to it.
Col. Harman-I would like to know If
the Police is paid to perform a duty and
don't do-it, if they can be fined for it ?
Mr.. Ker.-No, they can be suspended.
Some more conversation and overhauling
of old ordinances took place, in which 1t
appeared that there was an ordinance to
remedy all the things complained OF but
it was not enforced. A member propo-
sed a resolution instructing some commit
tee to report new ordinance on the sub
ject.
Mr.. Bickle.-I don't see what you want
with a new ordinance when you don't car
ry out the old one.
MI. Hoge.-It will freshen them up
little.
The whole matter was disposed OF by
resolution directing the reporting OF an Or
,dinance for regulating sewers, tan-yards
and SOAP factories, it being understood
that the Health Committee was at once to
abate the soap factory smell, and that
crate was to be made for the Main street
sewer.
PROMPT ACTION ON BEHALF OF THE
POOR.
The committee call being proceeded Wlth'
The President read out COMMITTEE on
Poor"
Mr.. Bickle.-Really something ought to
he done in the matter of the poor; the cold
weather is coming on.
Mr.. Burke, chairman of the committee
Where lies the report made, still on the ta-
H. where the council put it.
49,, Evans. Wasn't it referred back to
o. II about the number Of paupers or
son,otb, 'ug OF Other
NJ, D., vke.-N othing Of the kind 1t IS
met where Y was the night we reported it,
and no action of any kind has been had
on it. 4 o,,,,,+
The matter was then with great prompt
ness laid over till The next met%Vlhs, the
council not being hungry, and there oelilg
plenty of wood in the stove, and the pr>'ol
being SO slow in freezing to death and get
ting out of the way that even the kindest
hearts lose patience with them.
THE STREETS AND THE CoNTRACTs.-A
LIVELY TIME.
An account Of MI A. NJ. Bruce for $500
on his contract for curbing, &C., came up.
Mr.. Nelson wanted to know if the curling
in front Of the Presbyterian Church was
included, for it fell short of the contract in
many respects
Mr. Evans said Mr.. Bruce was ready to
make all his work conform with his con-
tract. There had been no work returned
to him as not good.
MI. Lilly, the city engineer inspected
the curling on Church ST., and condemned
81 feet of it in one square.
Mr.. Alby.--It is just throwing money
away to put down the guttering that is put
down on New st. !; the first rain that comes
will wash it up.
Mr.. Nelson.-The street committee is to
blame in this matter Here the engineer
condemns curling and they go on and keep
it. down instead Of having it taken up,
though it is stated here that the contractor
iswilling to put down the right curbing
when required.
reference was made to some bad paving
put down by MI. Bagby.