The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-05-11

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cannot wholly perish. We shall meet again.
Clemanthe."
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Il IS no pleasure to dog TO 60 mad. Quite
The reverse. Dreadful as hydropobia NAV be to
human beings, rabies is worse to The dog. It
makes its approach more gradually. 1t lasts lon
ger, and ii is more intense while it endnres--
Fhe dog that is going mad feels unwel for a
: long time prior to the full development of the
disease. He is very III but he does not know
what ails him. He feels dissatisfied with every
thing vexed without reason; and. greatly
against hIs better nature, Very snapplsh. Feel
ing thus, he longs 10 avoid all annovaEce by be-
ing alone. This makes him seem strange to
those who are most accustomed to him. The
sensation induces him to seek solitude. But
there is another reason which decides his choice
OF resting place. The light inilicts upon him
Intense agony. The sun is to him an instru-
ment OF torture, which he therefore studies
to avold-for his brain aches, and feels a If II
were trembling Jelly. This induces the poor
brute to find out the holes and corners, where
he is rast likely TO be noticed, and into which
the light is unable 10 enter. In solitude and
darkness he passes the day. If his retreat be
I discovered, and the masters voice bid him come
forth, the alipctonate creatures conntenance
bFlghtrns, his tail beats the ground and b. leaves
hs hiding place, anxious 10 obey the loved au-
thorlty but before be has gone halfthp distance,
a kind OF sensation comes over him which pro-
dnces an instantaneous change IN bis whole APP
Pearance. lie srefns TO say TO himself: '.Why
cannot yon let ne alone Go away Do 90
away You troable-pain me- . And there
npon he suddenly turns tail and darts back into
hlS dark corner.
il let alone, there he will remain perhaps
frotbinS little at the mouth, and drinking
great ceal Of water, but not issuing from his
hiding place 10 seek alter food. HIS appetites
are altered: bair, straw, dirt, 9Th, pxcrpment,
rags, TN Siavings, stones, the most nosone and
unnatural substances are then the delicaces for
which the poor dog, changed by disease, longs
and swallows, in hope to ease burning stomach. |
He IS most anxious for liquids. He is now al
together changed. Still he does not desire to
bite mankind, be rather endeavors 10 avoid soci-
rtyi he takes long journeys of thirty forty
srslessss-aVtsst a4ldaleasstenad by all kinds nf
accidents, to vent his restless desire for motion.
When on thesp lourneys'he does not walk.
lhls would be- too formal and measured pace
Tor an animal whose frame quiverS with excite
ment. He does not run. That would be too
grea! an eXertOn for an animal whose body is /
the abode OF a deadly sickness. He proceeds in t
SloGchlng manner, in kind ct :rot-a move /
ment neither run nor Wak-and his aspect is +
detected. His eyes do not glare and stare but +
they are dull and retracted. His appearance is +
very characteristic. and, ii once seen, can never
afterwards be mistaken. In this state he will +
travel the most dusty roads, bis tongue hanging /
dry from his open mouth, from which, however,
there drops no foam. His course is not straight.
How conld it 5p-Since it IS doubtful whether
at this period hr sees at all. His desire is TO
journey unnotced. If no one notices him, he
gladly passes by them. He is very i'll: be can
not stay TO bite. II, nevertheless, anything op-
poses his progress, BE- will, as if by impulse,
snap as man IN a similar state might strike
and tell the person ''to get ont of the way"
he may take his road across field in which
there ar@ flock ofSheep. Could these crea-
lures only make room for bin, and stand notion
l1ss. the dog would pass on and leave them be-
hind uniniuIed. But they begin TO run, and at
;he sound the dog pricks up his ears. His en-
tire aspect changes. Rage takes possession of
him. What makes that noise9 He pursues it
with all The energy of madness. He flies at one,
then at another. He does not mangle, nor is
his bite SIMPLY considered, terrible. He cannot
pause to tear the creature he has caught. He
snaps and then rushes onward, till fairly ex-
bausted and unable longer to follow, he sinks
down, and the sheep pass forward, to be no more
molested. He may have bitten twenty or thirty
in his mad onslaught: and would have worried
more, had his strength lasted-for the furore of
madness then had possession of him. He mas
be slain while on these excursions; but if he
escapes be returns home and seeks the darkness
and quiet of his former abode. His thirst in
creasrs, but with it comes the swelling throat.
He will plunge his head into water, so ravenous
IS his desire; but not drop of the liquid can
he swallow, though its surface is covered with
bubbles in consequence Of the efforts he makes
to gulp the smallest quantity. The throat is en-
iarged TO that extent which will permit moth
ing TO pass. He is the victim Of the most horri-
BILE inflammation of the stomach, and the most
intense inflammation of the bowels. His state
of suffering is most pitiful. He has lost Itself
reliance; even feeling is gone. He flies at and
pulls TO pieces anything that is within his reach.
One animal in this condition being confined near
a fire, flew at the burning mass, pulled out the
live Goals, and in bis fury scrunched them. He
pmits the most hideous cries. The noise he
makes is incessant and peculiar. II begins as a
bark, which sound being loo torturng to BE- con-
Iinued, is quickly changed 10 howl, which is
suddenly cut short in the middle and so the
poor wretch at last falls, fairly worn out by
terrible disease. --.Hayhew's Dogs.
WONDERFUL PHENOMENA AND NARROW Es-
-APE.-The Oswego Palladium Of Friday re-
ates the following incident ofthe recent thun- /, !
LEI storm in that vicinity: i
The family Of Mr. Ira Slillings, residing near /