The Dickinson press., 1897-08-28
GRIEVANCES OF t744.

60el0y, VINO IVeQ II 600 O1U uOI
flourish 100 years ago and came
into conflict with the city authori-
ties. The recital of her grievance
BY. the lady herself is certainly
quaint and interesting 4f7o
II am a poor widow" wrote Deb
orah to the publisher Of The. Post
boy in 1744 ..and have often set
forth the deplorable state Of my case
to the alderman d. the ward, but he
turns a deaf ear to all .Isay, and !.
must therefore beg you to give a
place in your paper to an appeal to
the public for the justice of my call.
My husband died about three years
ago. leaving me with three small
children and a large score to pay of
at tipping houses for beer, punch
and cordials, occasioned!b by his too
great attention to politics and neg
lect of his oordwainer's occupation.
After his death I followed washing,
making soap, candles and some
other small matters which brought
me in now and then a ready penny,
enabling me to pay my husbands
debts and live in a frugal manner,
which did, having for come years
raised my own pork in my yard.
"But I am debarred by a law of
the corporation, lately passed, ban
ishing. all hogs ont Of Sthe city, to the
great damage Of the widow and or
phan, which law, I have been in
formed, was obtained at the earnest
request Of a certain city magistrate
whose name I refrain from giving.
Had that gentleman considered the
benefit accruing to the public by the
hogs, the injustice Of depriving the
inhabitants of their company, I am
apt to think that he would not have
been go precipitate in an affair of
such consequence.
"For reducing a cancer nothing
like hogs fat, eugar cookies and
strong beer, made into a poultice,
applied warm to the part affected,
win serve, and hogs fat steepedin
rum with MULLEN is good for a
scolio.a"
Mrs. seeley appears to have been
something of a rhetorician, as she
adds, with a touch of true feminine
logic:
ST must further observe that, if
they are to Danish all nuisances,
why don't they Danish the dogs,
cats, drunken husbands, and substi-
tute order for disordera Consider
ing the hog, his bristles serve the
shoemaker and brushmaker, his fat
fries fish, boils olicooks, bakes pan
cakes, greases: wool, makes soap and
is good for pomatum. Canon and
cheek of bacon with spinach, a leg
of pork and tdrnips+ is a fine dish.
This none Of the community can
deny. If what Isay"will not prevail
upon the .magistratesAt to repeal the
law banishing hogs, nothing will, !
fear. : But I,would propose one ex-
ception, to be added to the. law. and
that j that every person that will
fat hogs in their bedrooms, parlors
or garrets shall not be deemed OF
esteemed to be within the meaning
of the hw,sanythingto the contrary
Notwithstanding"
In the same year and almost on
the same day that Deborah Seeley
complained of the hog ordinance
Sylvanus Seaman had a word to say
concerning the actions of some req
rehensible Tenderloin dudes Of THU
day whose place of nocturnal 1eeoBl
was Beaver street. He wrote sa@s :
"Those young gentlemen rakes
who broke SO many windows al
midnight in this city, who show
theirsusas Christian way ofrejoicing
maybe assured i they don't maxi
satisfaction for the wooden shutter
they broke in Beaver street thei
names will be put in this paper. A
this most scandalous, base and per
nicious practice of breaking shutter
after nightfan is but too ,commp1
and notorious in these parts. it w'er
humbly to befwishedt that hellegis
lature would take into their consid
Grafton the subject, as they only ar
in the capacity to provide a remed,
suitable for the acts Of such male
factors. New York Sun. II