Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
SUBURBAN TURMOIL.
A Council Torn Up Over an Effort to
Make a Member Obey a Local Law.
CORAOPOLIS COMES TO TIE FRONT.
Some Citizens Think They Now Pay Too
Much for Their Whistle.
BOARD WALKS,FENCESAED TIE DRAINS.

CoraopolIs isn't over the measles vet. At
the meeting Of its Council night before last
there was according to the statement Of q
resident Of the village, who is too modest to
be quoted, but perfectly reliable, neverthe-
less) time that verged on the monkey and
parrot order. 1t seems that it was started
by Councilman j. Z. Jolly, who insisted
that brother Councilman be made make
a boardwalk and take down q barb wire
fence that frOnted on the highway in con-
traventlon Of an ordinance "made and pro-
vided" to govern municipal fencing. There
were no blows struck, but there was warm
talk-mueh of it-and there wasn't much
that was suave about it.
The row has stirred up all the bad blood
In the borough, set people to talk about the
inequalities in assessments, and various
other matters whose rufled plumsge was
beginning to lie down. A gentleman
named Wilson, who is a civil engineer, has
been taking notes Of the street engineering
by which water is occasionally made to run
uphill; and it Is said he has come to the con-
clusien that a Street Commissioner would
lose none of his dignity were he to use tools
himself; that the bossing of one small man
and a boy isn't exercise sufficient to keep q
man warm in this inclement season of the
year.
PLENTY OF GRIEVANCES.
The complaint mill having begnn to
grind, there is no telling when it will stop.
Another grievance is that a ditch, said to
be 10 feet in depth in some places, dug to
drain Phil Haas turtle ponds, very meri-
torious aim, by the way, is being left with
banks unprotected, and that if allowed to
remain so until spring, some of the McFad-
den property will soon be in the Gulf of
Mexico, and the borough will be called on
to pay for it and no one will be benefited,
unless it be the inhabitants of a future con-
tinent to be built in the Gulf-a contingency
top remote to interest the present taxpayers
oi Corsopolis, and the deposit may possibly
be injurious to the Eaos jetties and the COM
merce OF the Crescent City, and refexively
tc that of the entire nation.
1t is cold comfort for Cosmopolitan tax
payer to tell him that Pope said all partial
evil is universal good, for be fears that uni
Versal good may not declare dividend
during the life of the present generation;
that when it is declared CoraopoIis' share
may be so small as to be inappreciable, but
all things come to those who wait, and the
time will come when that borough can wipe
its weeping eyes, smile at Satan's rage and
lace q IIOWulng WorlO Win eQuanlm1ty ana
the approval OF good conscience.
A LESSON FROM THE BIBLE.
They can also, in the language of st.
Paul, lay the hattering JUNCTION TO their
souls that though our outward man
perish, yet the inward man is renewed dav
by day. For our light afiiction which is
but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory;" while the wars and contentious
among them may arise, yet they are EVIL
dences of life, and desire to put off the old
man put on the new, which is an indica-
tion of progress, and an evidence
also that the town is not done
growing. If this contentious spirit
be iostered SewickIey, across the river from
Coraopolis, must look to her laurels, for she
is notoriously opposed to modern progress,
and takes ''conniption" fit every time any
one proposes to establish a factory in her
midst, and is now in convulsions lest pc
troleum be discovered within her borders,
which dire discovery would be sure to invite |
an influx of greasy mechanics.