New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-13

May all thine aimless wishes be forgiven 7H
May all thy sghs be registered in Heaven M. L .4.-
And God his mercy and his love impart
To what thou shouldst have what thou art,
Dog Fight in Frogtown. ~
There is an excellent moral in the following
story, which is told with great skill 1t shows
us how whole village or a whole church is some
times torn to pieces by a fight between two dogs
The most remarkable dog fight on record
came off at Frogtown, on the frontier of Maine,
some years ago. 1t engrossed the entire COM
munity in one general melee, interminable law
suits, or suits of law suits, distraction Of the
town, its downfall and ruin
fanciful genius named Joe Tucker man
! about town, q lounger without visible means of
support, do nothing, loving, cigar smoking,
good -natured fellow-owned q dog, q sleek, in
telligent, and rather pretty beast, always at
Joe's heels, and known as well as his master,
and liked far more by the Frogtowners One
day Joe and his dog were passing Bunion's
grocery store, when great piebald, ugly look
ing dog, standing along side of a wood wagon,
| bounced on Joe fuckers dog, knocked him heels
over head, and SO frightened Bob Carter's wife,
who was then passing towards her husbands
blacksmith shop with his dinner, that she Stun
bled backwards and her old sunbonnet Topping
off scared the horse attached to the wagon
He started, hit Latherem's barber pole, upset
the load of wood, half of which falling down
Gumbo's refreshment cellar, struck one of
Gumbo's children on the head, killing it for a
time stone dead. and so alarmed Mrs. Gumbo
| that she dropped a stew-pan of boiling hot oys-
tiers into the lap of customer, who sat waiting
for the saYory concoction by table in the COR
| ner. Mrs. Gumbo rushed for the child-the
customer for the door; Mrs Gumbo screamed
the child screamed-and the customer yelled !
| "Oh, Oh, oh, my poor child - cried Mrs.
Gumbo
| ssEh, eh, e-e.e-e-e!" screamed the child
'sOh, murder-r-r-rt o, my everlasting sin
Pm called to all eternity! Murder-r-r-r!' ~
roared the customer. ..q5r s#t
i The horse, and part of wagon, and some of
the wood, were on their mad career. The owner
Of the strange dog came out of the store just in
time to see Joe Tucker seize a rock to demolish
| the savage dog; and not waiting to see Joe let
drive, gave him such a pop on the back that
poor Joe fell forty rods up the street and,
striking the foot of long ladder, upon which
Jim Elderberry was perched, paint pot in hand,
some thirty feet from terra frma, brought lad
der, Jim and paint-pot sprawling on the earth,
crippling poor Jim for life, and sprinkling blue
paint copiously over the broadeloths, satinets
and calicoes of Abraham Miller, a formal and
even tempered Quaker, who ran out to the door
just as the two dogs had gone fairly at it, hip
and thigh, nip and catch. glance at matters
seemed to convince Abraham Of the true state OF
the case; and in an unusually elevated voice
he called out to Joe Tucker, who had righted
up .,,.zz,5z..t .t5== +
| Joseph Tucker, thy dogs lighting s'
| "Let 'tam fight it out. yelled the pugnacious
owner of the strange dog s' Let 'em fight il
out-fll bet q load Of wood my dog can eat
up any dog in town, and can eat the owner -
We have said Abraham Miller was o mild
man; Quakers are proverbially so. But the
gauntlet thrown down by the stranger from the
country, stirred the gall of Abraham, and he
rushed into the store; from the back yard
having slipped his collar, Abraham brought
| forth brindle cur, strong. long and powerful.
"Friend,'' said the excited Quaker, $. thy
| dog shall be we'll beaten, promise thee. Hike
seize upon him! Tuck, here boy" and the dog
went at it.
Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in time t.
hear the strangers defiance to the town, ane
bent on fight with somebody, for the insult
and damage to his wife, clamped the collar 0
| the stranger, and by series of ten pounds ter
upon the face, back and sides of his burly an
| tagonist, with his natural sledge hammers
Bob stirred up the strength and ire Of the bully
stranger to the top of his compass, and they
made the sparks fly dreadfully.
| Joe fuckers dog, reinforced by that o
Abraham Miller, took a fresh start, and between
the two the strange dog was being cruelty pu
to his trumps. Deacon Pugh, one of the mos
pious and substantial men in Frogtown, CANT
up, and indeed the whole town was assem-
bling; and Deacon Pugh, armed with his heavy
walking stick, and shocked at the spectacle be
fore him, marched up to the dogs, exclaiming al
he did So 5-A-.yz -n s
Fie, fe, fe, for shame! disgraceful yot
men, citizens of Frogtown, will you stand by
and"
"Don't thee, don't thee strike my dog, Dea
con Push!" cried Abraham Miller, advancing
to the Deacon, who was about to cut right ant
left among the dogs with his cane.
Your dogs!" shouted the Deacon, with eyi
dent fervor. zz.zz.
! "Not my dogs, Deacon Pugh!" echoed tn
Quaker.
What did you say so for, then'" shoute
the Deacon.
81 never said dogs, Deacon Pugh!''
"You did," responded the Deacon, with ex
eitement
Deacon Pugh, thee speaks groundless'
"You tell a falsehood, Abraham Miller!"
"Thee utters mendacious assertion" reit
, Grated Abraham. =
"You-you ieis bawled the Deacon.
!. "Thee hast provoked my evil passions, Dea
con Pugh!" shouted the stalwart Quaker, 8"
will chastise thee!"
And into the Deaoon's wool went the Quaker
> The deacon, nothing 10TH entered into the spiri
of the thing, and we leave them thus 6 nip an
tuck to look after the stranger and Bob Car
ter, who fit and fought, fought and fit, unit
Squire Catchem and the town constable cam
: up, and in their attempt to preserve the peac
d and arrest the offender, the Squire was thrus
through the window of neighboring watch
: maker, doing a heap of damage, while lawye
o Hooker, in attempting to aid the consta BILE, wa
hit in mistake by the furious blacksmith in tn
: short ribs, and went reeling down Gumbos Gel
lar with frightful velocity The friends an
fellow churchmen of Deacon Pugh took side
h against the Quaker antagonist, and the she
boys of Abraham, seeing their employer thu