SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 38, 22 October 1869, Page 3

SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.^ Sir, grapple with the great questions affecting the interests of this town, the Improvement Committee are unable to fulfil their self-imposed duties—should they not seek, outside their own narrow circle, for assistance ? On every night of the week there are assembled in the blacksmith's shop several who have contributed vastly to the improvements which have of late been made in the art of mining. For, be it understood, the advancement of the Hogburn depends wholly and solely on the improved appliances, and systematic methods of working, which are continually being introduced; these are its vital sparks ; and, for this purpose, may be seen in the smithy Fardovvn Bill of Paradise* Gully, .Tack the Lamb of Bulltown, Tom the Killer of Queen-street, and several others, discussing questions involving the prosperity of this place. Now there is a suggestion hazarded, the pros and cons canvassed, and out of the labyrinth of difficulties that stray suggestion may be resolved into a very useful improvement. Hence we see storekeepers doing a good trade, publicans increasing the number of their female charmers, and, in this our day, Naseby shining bright as the sun, grand as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners. If, sir, our overpaid and self-satisfied storekeepers, and some few publicans, would hob-nob with us hob-nailed gentlemen they would be nothing the worse of the contact. Well it would be for them had they heard the forcible arguments which Fardown Bill used when he urged the necessity of the Improvement Committee to form themselves into a company of sweepers;:and- scavengers (properly officered) to remove the unsightly accumulations of "broken bottles and filth at the rear of their houses. Tom the Killer had no objection to the front | appearance (his sympathies are on the | side he can see a pretty woman). We I hailed with delight the. proposal of the | enterprising company to lay on pipes i to give a plentiful supply of water ; • and if, as Jack the Lamb said in the smithy, we can all hang our billies over the fire, and turn the water on, it will be a great boon. Besides, knowing that when we take a glass of grog in town it will be diluted with pure instead of putrid water. Should the Committee take those ! few suggestions into consideration, and appoint a delegate to attend the seat of learning, they will receive every assistance. Hoping these few remarks are not out of place, I am, &c, Tobias Tearem. Happy Valley, Oct. 21.