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Show Pave) CRi'tsiNQS. We notice that i Supervisor Groo has returned from the cast, and are pleased to see him looking to well after bis trip, though Mther sorry that his boots were muddy. Purposing he had been stirring in matters affecting tho conditiou of the street?, ou inquiry wo learned that mi'h was tho case. And here we would offer a suggestion, if wo be not considered "too cousarucd suggestive," nd that is ; As gravel crossings only make n ore mud, and do it very quickly :dcr being put dowu, that pavings be adopted for tho principal crossings, made with good sized, round boulders, and raised slightly above tho street. They will be a vast improve-lueut improve-lueut on the present arrangement. Wo arc- satisfied the Supervisor will give the matter early thought. It might Vo remarked here, that thcro bio certain mud-holes in some of the ide-walks in the wutve of the city, which private citizens should keep iu order ; and if the owners of the property do not feel disposed to till and grado them, would they kiudly fiin. a few flat stones dowu hero and (hero in them, so that ladies passing along, after having traveled half a doicu or so of blocks quite dry, can get over them without going nkl dwp in |