"Dr. Leland say he had no idea what war was by all
his reading about it until he saw its effects he say it is beyond
description awful. He thinks so many went
back to tell the History of it that the rest will not be so willing to
go to war after this. some of the heads and feet of those who were
buried were uncovered. He himself would have given One dollar for a
drink of water when he was there and he could not get it he said they
had to drink from water worse than our hogs drink in the street. I think
it is awful to die in a battle. O preserve us from such horrible ends
is my prayer. O for the reign of Righteousness and peace may it soon
cover this earth and first reign in each of our
hearts. O to be kept from the evil of this world while we are in it." Tuscaloosa's Barbara Little in 1861 writing about the first Battle of Bull Run.
" Fifty-six years in business in Tuscaloosa, Victor Friedman represented the Tuscaloosa Merchants' Bureau on last night's program. He told how, when he first came to this city, his first purchase here was a lantern to assist him in walking the streets of Tuscaloosa after dark and to guard him against bumping into cows and hogs and beautiful oak trees on Tuscaloosa's streets."
from the February 14, 1926 TUSCALOOSA NEWS
"Correspondence of the Gazette.
Of the rights of the people, Mr. Editor, inalienable and inherent, is to complain at the office-holders. They are a privileged class. Now, I propose to give them one of their privileges that of being abused.
I shall complain, first, that they promise more than they perform. Let us take up our City authorities What are they doing ?
As I was walking down town this morning, I was almost lost in the weeds that hedged my path. It is true there was no hog hiding in the rank tangle to frighten me by his ugh ! ugh ! but The scent of the swill Hangs 'round it still. Crossing one of the bridges, one foot caught against a nail that caused me to stumble and catch the other in an opening in the planks. This happens frequently. A buggy, the other day, got its wheel lodged between two planks of the flooring of the Street Railway crossing and was nearly wrecked, striking against the ends of the cross-ties.
They will cover there up in due time, of course. Tho City Fathers owe it to their constituency to give us safe ways for foot and vehicles. Did yon ever, Mr. Editor, stop and look at that enclosure of trees on Greensboro St.? It is a picture of real loveliness. Let our colored folk come into town and hitch their lean cattle to the failing and fallen planks that environ those lovely oaks, and you have a picture that Harper would envy.
Sunday is here now. What do you see on this sacred day, Mr. Editor? You don't see it? There are those who do, and they have the power to arrest it . While here goes an orderly procession of cheerful and happy faces to the house of God, there goes a line of almost equal length, finding its way, by the aid of hired ushers, to the den of the Rum-seller and the doom of the drunkard. We have men in our midst doing more mischief than the worst plague that ever visited a people, I complain that there is no resistance to this worse than small-pox scourge. The City Fathers can do something and the whole city intelligence will support them.
from the July 20, 1882 TUSKALOOSA GAZETTE
Since the passage of the hog law the following from an exchange is no longer applicable to Tuskaloosa: "Oh, the hog, the beautiful hog curling his tail as he watches the dog, defying the law or his bread and meal ; roaming at large in every street, hunting, grunting, nosing around, 'till the open gateway is sure to be found, with hinges broken and ruined quite, by the lovers that hung there Sunday night ; it won't be shut, it won't hang level ; in walks the hog and raises the very mischief."
from the March 22, 1888 TUSCALOOSA GAZETTE
"Times:
I would suggest that your East End correspondent in his conspiracy against hogs, remember the fact, that no scavenger cart ever visits this blessed annex, and our main reliance to get rid of dead carcasses on our neglected streets and side paths are buzzards and hogs."
from the January 30, 1895 TUSCALOOSA WEEKLY TIMES
"As it now is with hog gaps on every fence line to catch the floating debris the level of the ditch is constantly changing, causing stagnant pools to form ; a breeding place for mosquitoes and malarial fever. The poor condition of our streets furnishes a constant subject for unfavorable comment.I look upon the improvement of our streets as of paramount importance, We have all the other public utilities, such as sewerage system, water works, dummy line, electric light and ice plant, but our streets are rougher than country roads. With out any great expenditure of money our streets could be rendered level, firm and hard, both in the rainy and dry season.
from the September 9, 1900 TUSKALOOSA GAZETTE
An ordinance amending the hog law, by reducing the charges for taking up hogs on the streets, from one dollar to fifty cents per head, was introduced by Mayor Foster and adopted. On motion of Alderman McCormick the salaries of the policemen were increased from $45 to $50 per month..
WHY COW LAW SHOULD NOT BE PASSED. 1. For on luckless bovin that teals a oabbage or an apple from a careleaa grocer, or opens th latehless gate of so improvident oilizen, there ar butidrada of respectable eows that anietly brows on onr back streats without molesting anyone. 2. A aow that bahavaa badly eaa be abated like any other nuisance.
When there is such a plain rtaort, would it b wis to punish th inno cent in ordar to suppress the guilty? Thi is ai ti-republioan. 8. Th complaint against marauding; stock comes from those who bavt no Interest in them. The weilare of a whole city is not to be sacrificed for a oabbage. If the driven of country wagons go off and leave their teams and wagons exposrd contrary 10 an xpreas law ol the city can they justly invoke the creation of another law to protect tham in their lawlessness ; Or if a grocer persist in blocking th idewalk with oratea of cabbages where loud scent attracts a foraging animal, is it not just one of the risks which he take in putting it there T 4 The back streets covered with Ber muda grass is th only valnahl free bold of th city.
This is open to any family that keeps a cow. To cut off thi 'reshold which bas exiattd front time immemorial would be equiva lent to levying a heavy tax upon a portion of our citizens least able to bear it. Many a poor widow, strug gling to support a family of fatherleaa children, fnda iu thi her greatest source of support. 5. Hundreds of dollars annually were lost to the city by the passage of th hog law.
There are heaps ol garbage in our back streets which those scavengers removtd, and which the town cart dot not reach. The children yet pine for these delightful spare-rib and tenderloin which their mother prepared, and now it is proposed to take the milk away from the babte and sucklings. The law means less of milk to tht poor, and to the rich it means that diseased milk which comes from confining stock in pens and feeding them on artificial food. 6. Apart from any sanitary or local consideration, however, it ia impolitic and unslatearuaiilike to destroy values, Ia town without pay-rolls, without industries and struggling for bare x istence, it is not best to sacrifice too much to style.
We have had too mue.h nf that. ,.
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