Fish In The Streets

In the phenomenal freshet that visited Hartford just reeently, with a yellöv? flood roaring and curling about some of the principal streets of the town, mauy oitizens enjoyad the raro and novel sport of taking iish in their kitchen gardeus, ia city lots md soruetiines in the public highways. The handsoinest catch probably was taken by W. E. Sniith of Wethersfield avenue, who bágged i splendid seven ponnd river pike in his back yard near a line of currant bushes. Although the place is a mile and a half from the river ordinarily, still ivater enough there even for of the pike's draft, since it was two feot deep. Unquestionably it was the sevi traordinary ono of Hundreds oí dwellings were half filled with dirty water, and for more thau a week it waa impossible to reach them except by og or in b It was certainly decidedly novel to see a fleet of small boats plying tlu'migh popnlous avenues, fenying people hither and thither, as if with góndolas, to and froin their homes. And in what i terribly fllthy condition the housea are left by the receding waters ! With a cellar and every room of the first story of dwellings saturatcd with river mud the premises cannot be cleaned except with great toil and expense, while the probability is that these drenched rooms wTill retain an unwholesome dampness f ar into the latter part of the snmmer. It is likely there will be many deaths directly on account of the