Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-07-27
Pos the waicho,nn aad State Journal.
Dog Killing. Look out for your
Dogs!

The inhabitants of certain community
not twenty miles from Montpelier. have re-
Gently been thrown into great excliemen
by the sudden death of quite number o
dogs. One after another has fallen, beer
convulsed, aad in agony expired, causing
great lamentation in the household. Poo
dogs. no wonder that children should weet
over their dying struggles
From poSt-mortem examination of som,
of the poor creatures, il has been ascertain
ed that they had been poisoned with StJych
ntHe. The Indignation OF the communlt,
has become greatly aroused, aud the dog
killing has become general topic of con
versailon IN the streets aud IN places of pub,
lie resort. Several persons have been pros
ecuted on suspicion courts have been held
and stu the perpetrators OF this mean and
dastardly business are not fully discovered.
They have cruelty killed many favorte
dog, and should they be found on, they may
expect TO feel the strong arm Of the law in It's
utmost rgor.
And yet this dor bGHe is not the worst
thing that has heen introduced into that com
munlly. While some unknown hand has
been poisoning the dogs, others are bringing
INTO the pace slyly human bdRe, which is
poisoning man. Both, Il may be, come from
the Capital of the state, as evil can be found
there, by those who seek after II, as well as
good. AZ any rate suspicious kegs and bot.
ties have been seen comiug from that diroc>
ton, and their effects have proved very dele
FERROUS. Men have been poisoned aud they
have shown 1t IN open day light They
have become giddy, foolish, negligent ofbn.
siness rendered morose and unkInd IN their
families; made wicked driven from the
house Of God held on the verge of RUM
The dog bane may be the most rapid IN II.
effects, but the human bdne is no less sur,
and fatal And then, one only kills the bod,
Of soulless beast, while the other preys no
on the interests Of both the body aud soul o
an immortal beng. The infections of Thu
last are eternal
And now shall that whole community b
thrown INTO ievcr of excitement by tn
lesser eyh, aud sleep in quletness over IN
greater'
, Shall the convulsed and dying dogs ca
forth many tears, and the craled, slaggerin,
and dying human beings excite no compa,
sionf
Shall great efforts be made to find out II
unseen hand that has saturated the bit
4 flesh with poison thrown To the dogs, and l
effort be made to find out and check Il
hand that is poisoning our fellow men?
3 Shall men offer boldly the human-bane
2 men and boys who are laborng upon ii
/ highway, or dash II secretly into a Who'll
some and delicious drink, that is presente
: 10 unsuspecting children upon hot summer
d day, and no tongue be moved, and no har
n be uplllled against the neiarous work?
Shall process of law be Instituted again
the dog -poisoneTs, while the human poiso
ers remain unmolestedi
: DYE magistrates, aud men of virtue al
o good order, awake FROM your stupor, and COZ
a, up to your duty. Speak out every where a
At at all times, and il you cannot persuade m
Is to put away this last evil from the Peep
&c lift up the mighty arm Of law, and crush
u before II further spread. OnIcRoS.
July 9Th, 1855.