The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-03-09
Vol. 4----No. %.
DOG FIGHT IN FRoGroWN
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GRAPHIC ESCRIPTI0N. /
The most remarkable dog-fght on record
came of at Frogtown, on the frontier of
Maine, some years ago. It engrossed the
entire community in one general melee, in.
terminable lawsuits, or suits of lawsuits,
distraction of the town, its downfall and
ruin
A faDciful genius. named Joe Tucker
a man about town, lounger, without visi-
BILE means of support, do-nothing, liquor
loving, cigar smoking, good natured fellow |
owned a dog, an intelligent 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 dog were passing Bunion's grocery
when a great piebald, ugly-looking dog,
standing alongside of wood wagon, bound
ed on to Joe fuckers dog, knocked him
theels over head, and so frightened Bob Car
ter's wife, who was then passing toward her
! husbands blacksmith shop with his dinner,
that she stumbled backward, and her old sun
bonnet Topping off scared the horse attached
| TO the wagon. He started bit Latherem's
barber-pole, upset the load of wood, half of
which, falling down Gumbo's refreshment
cellar, struck one of his children on the
head, killing it for time stone dead, aud
| SO alarmed Mrs. Gumbo that she dropped
stew pot of boiling hot oysters into the lap
! of customer, who sat waiting for the sa-
worry connection, by table in the corner.
/ Mrs. Gumbo screamed-the child screamed
and the customer yelled
4 ''Oh, oh, oh, my poor child y cried Mrs
I Gumbo.
..Eh,. eh, zee! '' screamed the child.
ooh, mufder-r-ri Oh, my everlasting
sin-I'm scalded to all eternity Muir
/ der-r-r !" roared the customer.
The horse, and part of the 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 demoish the savage dog,
and not waiting to see Joe let drive, gave
him such punch in the back that poor Joe
fell forty rods up the street, and striking
the foot of a long ladder upon which Jim
Elderberry was perched, paintpot in hand,
some thirty feet from the ground, brought
ladder, Jim and paintpot to the earth, Grip
, pling poor Jim for life, and sprinkling blue
paint copiously over the broadcloths, satin
cts and calicoes of Abraham Miller. for
, NAL and even tempered Quaker, who ran out
to the door just as the two dogs had got
fairly at it, hip and thigh, nip and catch
A glance at matters seemed to convince
g. Abraham of the true state of the case, anc
in an unusually elevated voice he called on
Is to Joe Tucker, who had righted up:
. ''Joseph Tucker. thy dogs lighting ~
: LET 'em fight il out p yelled the pugna
cious owner of the strange dog /; "let ZEN
) fight it out-Ill bet load of wood my dog
can eat any dog in town, and l can eat tht
owner -
We have said Abraham Miller was a milo
man Quakers are proverbially SO. But th'
= gauntlet thrown by the stranger from The
country stirred the gall of Abraham, and HI
rushed into the store, from the back yard
Having slipped his collar. Abraham brough
forth brndle cur, strong, large and pow
). erful.
? Friend said the excited Quaker, 9Th.
: dog shall be well beaten. promise thee
Hike, seize upon him Tuck, here boy y
And the dogs went at it.
Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in tim
Ia to hear the strangers defiance to the town
= and bent on a fight with somebody, for tn
insult and damage to his wife, clamped til
collar of the stranger, and by a series of ten
pounds-ten upon the face, back and sides c
his burly antagonist, Bob stirred up tn
at strength and ire of the bully stranger to th
top of his compass, and they made the spark
= fly most dreadfully.
Joe fuckers, dog, reinforced by that {
Abraham Miller, took a fresh start, and b
tween the :wo the strange deg was bein
:" cruelty put TO his trumps. Deacon Pugt
one OF the most pious and substantial ne
- in Frogtown. came up; and, indeed u
whole town was assembling; and Deaco
Pugh. armed with his heavy walking -sticl
and shocked at the spectacle before hin
/ nod II he
an So:
+. ''Fie, fe. fe for shame disgracefuI
die You men, citizens of Frogtown, will yo
stand by and
= Don't thee don't thee strike my do:
Cd. Deacon Pugh p cried Abraham Miller, a;
vancing 20 the Deacon, who was about Gu
!. ting right and left among the dogs with h
cir cane:
er evident fervor. -.
Not my dogs, Deacon Pugh,' echo
: the Quaker.
= ..What did you say SO for then % shou
ed the Deacon.
r Il never said dogs, Deacon Pugh.''
.'You did II responded the Deacon, WI
COR excitement.
est deacon. Pugt, thee speaks groun
. less u
You tell falsehood, Abraham NJ
Ter y
..Thes utters a mendacious assertion
reiterated Abraham.
ef "You-you lie - bawled the Deacon.
.,Thee has provoked my evil passion
on Deacon Pugh!' shouted the stalwart Quak'
i Il will chastise thee J.
And into the Deacon's wool went t
Quaker. The Deacon, nothing 10th, enter
IG into the spirit of the thing and we lea
them thus, nip and tuck, to look after
stranger and Bob Carter.
/ in These two worthless fit and fought, a
'uld fought and fit, until Squire Catchem and
.op; town constable came up, and in their
therl tempt to preserve the peace and arrest
offenders, the Squire was thrust through
la8 window of neighboring matchmaker,
- ing heap of damage; while lawyer Hook
in attempting to aid the constable, was
or, through mistake by the furious blacksmi
in the short ribs. and went reeling do
Gumbo's cellar with frightful velocity