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Show Clean Streets. Messieurs of the j City Council and the gentlemanly Su-1 pervisor of Streets, hear the wail and j cry from the great public, uttered un-, der a thousand offended nostrils. Green, 6tagnant water should be drained off; accumulated filth should be removed. First South St., between East Temple St. and the theatre becomes daily worse and hourly more dangerous to the public health. Surveyor General Pox says the grade is eastward. Open a passage and let the water be carried off; and to that end request politely of course the huge pile of gravelly earth midway on the street to be removed. re-moved. Have the accumulated filth which makes the water poisonous, tcraped together and carted off. Pay a vicit to the wood and coal yard, and prompt measures with regard to it will present themselves forcibly. And carry the work of public purification on until we have clean streets and a sweet, wholesome atmosphere, untainted with fetid and sickly exhalations. "And your petitioners will ever pay," &c. |