The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-05 00:00:00

" A. NORIUBLE TALE."

We wonder if the following account is what is °ailed,
, in to a:Attg lauguage of the otrect " pattered," "
I *irk! It conies to us front ci, Ausericen paper, the
CiMCi47kLii Eviitirer (Ohio). of August 9; and, if not
• recur ut • true ineident, it is a narrative that would
Ii ire done honour to the gouiiii of a Eugene tine who
, 0,u1.1 scared, havoc intrivcd a tiara horrible expedient
for getting rid of the villain of Lis story. This is the
;stoma! : —"ln tho the lanyard of nest 'florae's,
thirteeu dogs, eorne grown and 11.1111 J half grown, have
bern harboured for some thine past. Fed upon the offal,
which Is plentiful and foul in such • plats; these
animal. had bemuses fiercer even than their breed—acne.
between the powerfel Nowfountilaud and the brutal
"bull "—would have made them. Hod-mouthed, gaunt.
and horrible, it is a wonder that ouch • pack eould
have etlitet In the ruldot of a drill:od community so
loag al they did; and not have boon sooner heard. Last
evening Willie litorsah, • bright soven.year-old son of
the well•to•do owner of the tanyard, and criminally
careless master of the lionnds, left his grandfather's,
awl started homeward, intending to trill for his father
€4 Ironic lie entered tete tanyard, unmindful or
unaware that the employe' had left It to the care of
its night guardian., thirteen doz•hirpits Ile hal
nearly recoiled the centre of the plsoe, and had called
for his father, when long keen fang., were thrust into
him from behind, &el lie was dragged by s large dog
literally into the lots of one of th 3 shots, other dogs
cowing to the aeaistaarie of their fellow. At the taste
of liked the hero mesa of the huge mongrels caught
dry. The boy was dragged ;again dowa the steps. and
rolled in the filth of the yard autil all Jumble/me of
humanity had left has, lit sob, bleeding, and dying,
he still clung, with his face downward, to the earth
with the energy of despair. It eas at this moment
that the oeighbours because aware of wttat was trans-
Piring. A bol I wan sprang over the twee to the
mien ,e but WU immediately driven out by the now
maddened and terrible dog.. Thu don wont in with
piteLforks, and peaple drivio4 on the avenue stopped
ant went to the resew) with bores and pistols. It was
brief and bloody work. rho dogs were slain to the
last puppy, hat not befero is mats had carried what WS/
loft of Willie to his grasilfathcr's. Here he 7,u.
rmeived by his grandluothcr, who wadaad him to me
lih.le,"e a hey. rie II i.h hail been Omen from his
there were ge.at ugly gas Lot in foreheed,
c▪
hecks, and lip., Orovt pieties of skin and flesh hung
Iran the b,ut of hi, had. Ghastly holes, their edges
I lacerated with tooth-marks, were wider his arm. ; lop
I and other tocilir patty oilit, ha ly bare wounds beyond
description. .tud yet ha lived. No vital bad been
retched. Ile eaull evet tell b:ok July bow the attack
, had begun.

AMRICAN DRUNK ARDS. —Here's another telegram
from OM' the 4.111:—.' Dalrymple,tnember of Parliament
for Dab. goes to Auteriat to stody the treatment of
drunkards" Me need not come; we eta toll hint all
about it. The treatment of drunkards in this country
Is infamous ; they lieve to hold all the offline and do
moth of the hard stealing. Many of them are oondenthed
to the pulpit for long turas ; and newspaper editing—
in America the most ilithouourthle vocation lcsown—is
done by them oseltuively. At lout one of them is
compelled to write two °alumni a weok for the NOM
Lotter, and another one has to pay bun for it. There
is no limit to the impositions practised upon that In-
teresting class. the I;raokards at America ; they are
Jul trodden under foot by everybody who is sober
enough to tread. If Dalrymple, M.P. for 8.. OM do
anything for them he will And himself very popalar.ead
will be ezpeeled be lake a drink with everymaalte mere.
—asps Prencisco Ness LOW'.