The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03

Some old gentleman left his steel specta-
cles In the Post Office a week or two ago.
Iney have the name of the silversmith
j. H. James, on the case.
-Weithink there is a serious nuisance
which needs abatement in our city. We al
Jude TO the crunching of watermelons on
me pubic square, and throwing of rinds
into the cutters. These rinds lie there and
decay, poison the atmosphere and SOW the
seeds of disease and death, Saturday and
Monday lastwe noticed around the court
mouse mass OF mud and watermelon rindS,
which sends up an odor not near so pleasant
70 the olfactories of passersby as would a
6oquet OF choice roses. The stencil arising
from such heaps produces typhoid, typhus,
intermittent, remittent, bilious and 9th
or fevers.
Every person throwing watermelon
cantalOupe or muskmelon rinds into the
street, and especially the sidewalk around
the courthouse, should be fined. That pc
riod of the year when sickness is appre-
hended, is approaching, and IL behOoveS
our City Marshal to see that our streets are
kept clear from putrefying substances. 1he
Marshal should threaten every one with ar
rest who persists in heaping rinds on the
streets to rot and generate disease.
For eight years the HERALD has advoca-
Public attention was thus directed to the
subject, and the corporate authorities
bought the Knob. Several years ago steps
Knob, and plans were maturing as rapidly
as possible under the circumstances when
new Board was elected, and hard times pre-
vented any further steps in the matteT-it
was impossible to get through such an en-
terprise when leading business men were
laboring for very existence. The Mayor
has made us an excellent officer-as he al
ways does-and the Board has done welI;but
times promise to be good now, and our
town should be improved. We advocate
measures and not men-we propose to adj
Vocate no particular mans electiOn-but
we can at least, without being at all incon-
sistent with this determination, commend
this bold way of taking the bull by the
horns. The candidate nominated for May
OF tuesday night, Capt. John p. Brown, is
one OF the largest taxpayers in town, and
VIII take no salary.
Elsewhere we publish the proceedings
OF the meeting held in the Courthouse last
tuesday night. The resolutions passed are
ergetic, public-spiriIed young business men.
There may be some doubt as to the propri-
ETY. of undertaking to do more than one
thing a: a time, but all the public improve
ments proposed are OF grave importance, |
and must be accomplished at no far-off |
DAY, II the town ever grows or prOspers |
w hat is a town without pavements? What |
Is q city without water? What is a city
without gas7 You might as well try to |
have city in these modern days without |
railroad or water transportation. Our pave |
ments are burning shame to us; many of |
our most frequented thorOughfares are |
nothing more than big fiat rocks thrown |
Into mud-holes in an irregular way by the |
early settlers of the town. The town is 1
poorly supplied with water, and a reservoir |
on the Knob would reduce insurance, and
would render destructive fires, such as all /
uuwatered towns have sooner or later, al |
most impossible. II the old Board is run, it /
will no doubt adopt substantially the plat |
form adopted Tuesday night. Their record |
on the improvement question is no doubt |
The town has felt severely |
the effects of bad CROPS and the people have
that the earth has been blessed with two
good crops, the people will respond liber-
ally to calls for improvement, and the old |
Board, If 1t expects reelection, will meet /
the demand of the people.