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Show ROAMING CATTLE. A correspondent calls our attention to the daily breaks of a bovine on Third Street. It appears that this animal is possessed of sufficient intelligence to lift and unfasten gates, and then obtain free lunches off the crops of the writer and others, who strongly object to feeding their neighbor's stock. It is the duty of the owner to prevent this continued annoyance to his neighbors, which could be done by proper escort to take charge of the animal on its return from the pasture. The attention of all owners of horses, cattle and swine who allow the same to roam the streets at night, is called to the ordinance of the city forbidding the practice. A lady was greatly frightened a short [time] since on one of our principal streets, by running against a horse on the sidewalk on a dark night. If an accident had been the result of such carelessness on the part of the horse's owner doubtless none would have more deplored it than the owner of the beast. We think it poor economy on the part of any person to allow stock to roam the streets nightly to gather their own provender, and we urge its discontinuance. If those who inconsistently try the patience of another, could have the circumstances reversed, we should doubtless have more items to chronicle where "bear and forbear" have not been the leading characteristics of the case. |