The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-23
Communicated ]
The Most Marvellous Event of Modern
Nlmps.

To the EDITOR OF the herald.
Dallas is not the only town in the state that
is reckless about her sanitary condition.
Some time ago the city fathers of that moss
back village on the Colorado, called Austin,
refused to suffer the government of the
United States to put down an underground
earthen pipe, to lead from the new postollice
and United States court building to the
Colorado. The city fathers, instructed by u
pair of venerable Texan doctors, insisted
that the water of the river would be polluted
and that fish would be poison d. The Col
orado is a rapidly RAINING stream, coming
down through the mountains and purifying
itself by processes of nature, however filthy
at any given point, within few miles. But
whether underground pipes be used to drain
the fifth Of the city into the river or not, the
whole of this pollution, except that inhaled
and drunk by the unhappy people, goes at
last into the Colorado. 1t percolates the
soil, poisons and befouls it, and finally enters
the noses and lungs of typhoidal people.
Fish were created to destroy the eXcreta of
cities along rivers. The hsppiest and fattest
catfish and butfsloes on the globe are those
that now disport themselves about the base
Of the bluffs AT Memphis, discharging into
the river, through twenty-five miles ofearthen
pipes. all the founess of thirty-five thousand
people. Memphis is no happier than its pleth-
oric catfish, and the Mississippi is neither
more nor less impure than before the city
was freed from insutferable odors and rri-
BILE fevers, of which yellow jack was only one
OF the destroyers of tilth's victims
When the government architects and COM
missioners of public buildings at Washing
ton received official notification of the refusal
Of the learned city dads, of Austin, and from
the exceedingly intelligent doctors of that
town, remote as it is deemed from the
centre of the worlds intelligence aud
civilization, they supposed the papers
were forgeries and we're ouly convinced at
last by Mayor DeGress' officiaI. signature, that
the people of Austin pi efer horrible odors and
foulest impurities of atmosphere to cleanli-
ness and decency. There was much laughter
about it, and Texas bsrbarism was illustrated
by city government ms by the conduct of
the Jury that acquitted whisky's demon Vt
murder at Marshall.
Though Boss Shepherd bankrupted many
people, he perfected the drainage of WASH
ington, and the masses of the people who
owe him protracted lives and perfect health,
and bills of mortality lessened nearly one
half, now talk of rearing monument to
the illustrious Boss. He made Washington
the most clearly, healthful and attractive
city on the globe, hardly surpassed by Paris
in its gardens, parks and boulevarls.
A horrible life the miserable people of
Austin are compelled TO lead and fearful
death they must die-living, half asphyxi-
ated; and, dying, because God made us
rather like angels than buzzsrds. But the
evil slowly aggravstes its horrors, heightened
each year as filth is slowed away in sinks and
pits. The wretched people and doctors both
are finally destroyed and new race comes
upon the stage as aldermen, and as doctors,
to alleviate the woes of life and invest exis-
tence with its choicest charms. 1t is great
pity that city for which nature did every
thing should be destroyed by mossbackism,
stupidity, want of enterprise and BY lszaroni
lounging about the capital of Texas. They
have made themselves immortal by refusing
to be clean even at the cost of the govern
ment of the United States, and the govern
ment architect is digging deep pit to store
away for the use of diseases and doctors the
filth from the federal courthouse and post
office at Austin.