Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-01-23

his and theirs if he. knew them, and : i
asked what about them. He said (caL
ing n of them by name) that he was
| the greatest drunkard he ever sayrin his
life. He was then asked what aDou tne
| otherone. He said, after hesitating, no
| can beat the ethe.-aA-noller. Yes, he
can beat him so bad there is no use talk
ing about it at all. So you think the
cellar and space in rear of Park Row is
as bad as they can be, but the space be-
tween the shops beat them so badly there
is no use talking about it.
We did not examine the livery stable,
but there is no use to so back now, for
l am satisfied it is more clearly and in
better order than it was when it was
owned by men folks. And those houses
we have passed are all open underneath,
and hogs sleep under tEem; and, perhaps,
there is where the fees generate which.
as well as your mosquitoes, annoyed
everybody so much last summer. 1
wonder whose fiees they were?
But here we are at the County Treasu-
rer's Office, and you see that litter there
is accommodating very rapidly, and if it
continues it will be in the way after
awhile.
You need not look under Norris &
Folks office, if you do you may see
something similar to that under your
own office, but not heal so bad, and just
below that garden is the butcher pen,
which is in a cleanly condition, owing to
there not being any butchering going on
there now, butin former times the stencil
arising from i. would penetrate the olfac-
tories of the adjacent neighbors, and
now, MeSsrs. Editors, as we started out
from your Office, by way of the West,
that we return by way Of the East, if we
can get through the hog sly, which has
at times so much annoyed those who live
or sleep near by. But I am not so much
opposed to hogs as I am to having their
pens so near by for all animals and dumb
brutes, 1 believe the hog is the most
filthy. But they are mighty good in
their place. Some persons are opposed
to their running at large in the streets,
hut il,ay are the best scevengers we have,
but what wuuru u0 tue cuuu1uIuu vi viro
streets now if no hogs were allowed 10 20
at largo in them to c~lenn=thena Rnt
they ought not to be allowed to sleep
under houses, for by so doing tlecs gene
rate in the same places, and they are q
v6fygreat annoyance, as well as musqui-
toes.
Now, would itnot be we'll for the town
council to press an ordinance creating q
committee of inspection or hygiene,
whose duty it shall be to inspect as often
as necessary, al! the private. as we'll as
the public lots, within the incorporation,
and report 10 council their condition,
and letthe council employ regular scav-
enger Ito help the hogs) to clean up and
carry away, once a week, or oftener il
necessary, all accumulation of filth.
And let the council OF scavenger sell the
same for to whoever will give
the most for it, and let the proceeds go
to pay in part, if not all the wages of
the scavenger. But say you the scaven-
ger will have no right to intrude on pri-
vate premises-admitted, but let ushope
and believe no citizen has any need for
the scavenger On his private premises,
but that all will look well to their own
health and interest in that particular.
But in the event that any one should
have a nuisance on his or her premises,
and will not remove it afler due and
timely notice, let it so be reported
council and then let them act ay ..eir
judgment may dictate f ,od OF all
concerned.
Now, Messrs. Editors, nothing has
been said about any of the cellars but
the n under your Office, the n under
the post Office and Norris q Folks,
While some others may be in as bad
condition as those, for some of them
have boxes, barrels, wood, straw, hay
&c, in them, and may be in a wretched
condition, for where wood is thrown
/ from year to year, there will be more OF
less filth accumulated, so the Committee
ofInspection should be empowered to in
spect all the cellars, also, and repor
their condition. and if any nuisance
is found in them it should be remedied
Several of them are so constituted tina
water can get into them, and l have
never yet known one of them to bt
cleaned out, and they may be fit dwell
ling places for the bats and owls; and
perhaps, for venomous reptiles if not for
foxes. I remember, several years ago
when Talbert's fox escaped from hi:
yard, he took refugein n of the cellars
and it was a hard matter to get him out
Ought not Edgefield Village be as healthy
as Aiken? Yet where is there p more
unhealthy village in all the State at thi:
time than this village, and during Sc
much of this winter as is past?
And now, if some sanitary precautior
is not instituted before the hot summer
days and fall on, may we not ex
pect to be visited with some similar
plaques + those sent on the Egyptian,
in Pharaoh's time, for we shall certainly
have flies, fees and mosquitoes in grea
abundance, and maybe sickness ant
death. May be the sickness which nov
is has originated, in agreat measure, foI
want or lack of sanitary or hygiene
measures. And now, January the 18th
1879, is the time to begin to institute
those measures, for it will not do 10 defel
it until the hot summer days set in, fol
to commence it then would be to stir VI
the filth, mould and decomposed matter
thereby, creating a floating stencil al
over the village; better by far to let i
remain as it is than to stir it up in th'
SUMMER.
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