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Otm Cvnas.—The curio of this community is thedo-lewneMof itaj E people. Nearly a month ago the fa 1! approach to a very important• I bridge, in the middle of tho town.• broke through with a drove of cat r. tie and killed them. Among live e; people four or firo days would have Bj been sufficient to repair the bridge ; j entirely; itn not yot done and mayi not be for eome lime. The author-. ilea waited until tho bridge grad-, Ufllly rotted, fell in, and a big dam*. age bill wai handed in befor£ they 1 commenced to look around and ficc .‘if something hadn't belter be dune. It takes an earthquake to . j bring anything to the attention of our people. Ever since Cornstalk wqb murdered hero we have used about a quarter of an aero in the middle of town foraburying ground, until the disturbed bones of the doparted rubied together in such a way that we havo at last gotten a suitable cemetery. We have got a school hou.-lt;e that is over crowded, illy constructed and pestilential in its luck of ventilation, one that has planted tho Bcetld of dfocnec and death in many a littlo frame, but like the cattle on tho rotten bridge, they must go down in greater numbers before a new one will be built. Wo have got a juil whose walls are absolutely cracked and crumbling on all sides and ha? been pronounced by muny committees as duugerouH, the very im ml nonce of whose full strikes such tenor to incarcoraltxl or iuiinuU that they uro in hasto to slip away through its cracks. Yot our peo pie don't think we need a now jail yet. One fine morning we wakened up and found tlrnt two railroads bad buuu chucked right through town, and ono of them with re* markable engineering ability, hud located n depot on the side uf a steop hill, where baggage and freight could bo chucked down liko an avalunche upon the town below, but a.- for hauling anything up to this depot, iia out of the question, for the ascent is perpendicular and ut its base there is an Impassible gulf of mud; and yet we don’t think wo need a better street. If others pass us by for livelier places that are reaching out for them, we can't complain, for wo are passing ourselveB and our live/ by waiting for something to — break down.
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Point Pleasant Weekly Register
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 24, 1886
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