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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 703, 20 September 1876, Page 2

Cattle and horsea wandering at large in the streets of the suburbs, are becoming a perfect nuisance not only to owners of property, but also to the municipalties. Every Saturday night, for instance, it is the custom with a great number of people who have horses at work during the week, to turn these animals to graze upon the public highway. The consequences are that mobs of these horses gallon about on the footpaths, break down the side channels, and often endanger the life or limbs of children. As to cattle, it is the recognised thing, especially on the South Town Belt for certain people to keep their cows entirely on grass not their own, but principally growing on the road, and to drive them backwards

and forwards on the footpaths, as being more convenient and cleanly for the animal’s feet. This nuisance is rapidly growing into a serious evil. Well might people exclaim “ Where are the police !” The belts and the streets of the suburbs, which may be said as a matter of fact to belong to the city, are greatly in want of police protection. The “ mounted man,” of which so much has been made, patrols now and then outside the limits of the city proper. But his weary rounds appear to be few and far between. A glimpse of that trooper’s stalwart form is seen now and then through the dusky mist. But, like that of the “ Flying Dutch- “ man,” it is only at rare intervals. As to cattle trespassing, some of our country friends have a practical and effectual way of stamping out the evil. In a Road Board District not a hundred miles distant from Lincoln, there is a pound kept by an old cavalry man who has seen a deal of service. Under some arrangements made by the local Road Board, and an association which owns large yards and parklocks near the pound, the warrior in question, assisted by his boys and the police, sweep the roads and bylanes every morning at early dawn, of every living thing that a stock-whip can convince. The result is highly satisfactory. The roads and ditches are kept in good order, the ratepayers’ money is made the most of, and the pound fees, which are partially applied to public purposes, prove a welcome addition to the rates.