Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-13

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DaeAsDoG FIsHT.-A young friend up
town sends us description Of dog fight
lately..witnessed by himself, which, judging
from the interest taken by large number
OF orr citizens in cpltivattug the dog crop,
will be read with pleasure:
There is mold browndog
Thatroams about our streets,
And no one knows from whence he came
Or where he sleeps or eats.
His name, his race. his business here,
Are hidden in fog; sag
There seems to be some mystery
About that old brown dog.
From time immemorail, an old brown
dog, perhaps not the one the bard has re-.
tered to, but one withal strikinelylike unto
him, has been wont to peregrinate in front
of our door, and bask Familiarity in the sun
on our front steps. We often watched him
as he pursued the even tenor of his wav,
with the same abject countenauce and the
same measured step, until finally we began
to take vast interest in all his doings.-
de stood alone, an isolated dorg; no dog
ever stopped to play with him, intimidated
no doubt by his ever grim and solemn look,
and few ever stopped to fight, and that few
were sorry afterwards that they hadn't
gone on, for the old brown dog was prac-
tised bruiser. We often wished that that
old brown dog could speak that we might
learn the story of his always looking SO
detected; we knew he could and did a
"tail unfold, /" but it was short and termin-
ated very abruptly, and not being like the
New York Ledger, inasmuch as it never
was continued, of course it proved very
unsatisfactory. Well, one fine morning as
we were watching our old brown friend
going his usual rounds, we saw him come
to halt and gaze at Something very in
tently; we looked too, and saw, a t7pie5s of
meat, which some unsteady market
man on his way home had dropped. After
having satisfied himself.tRat the meat con-
tanned no strychnine or other poisonous
ingredient, the old brown dog fell to, and
commenced jerking beef after the most APP
proved style. Just as he had got fairly
interested, we heard low rumbling sound,
and presently round the corner came fat
horse, dragging behind him fat butcher
and wagon laden with fatted calves, and
behind this obese trio his sleek hide glis-
I teningin the morning sun, came the butch
er's gray dog, fat and comely as butchers
dogs are usually supposed to be, and seem
ing perfectly satisfied within himself as to
the way the war was being conducted,
and all other subjects about which we
poor mortals disagree. The trio passed on
| but the dog did not: he spied our old brown
friend and seemed to have a very great de-
sire to know what he was doing, which
desire be proceeded to crafty, so he an
preached very cautiously until growl
from the old brown dog iutimRted that
partner was not considered necessary to
the success of the little business then be-
ing transacted; in other words, that that
piece of meat was private property. The
gray dog needed not the warning, but GO
ing close enough to see that it was only a
piece of meat, he turned up his nose very
scOrnfully and trotted after the obese trio,
but the old brown dog was watching him,
and With yell that said as plainly as dog
can speak, 'tyer don't turn up yer nose at
me" he left the little business to transact
itself and sprang after the grey dog; the
butchers dog met him CALAMITY, and
now
The combat deepens, on ye brave
Who rush to glory or the grave.
Aud the brave came
From dirty'iane and bywaya
With all attendant noise,
Thick as the flies in summer time,
Game thrice a hundred boys.
Yes magnificent specimens OF the great,
uuwashed; the gleamiugs of hill and dale
for miles around were speedily gathered
on the spot.
We soon had the satisfaction of know
ing that our old brown friend was 1.-THE dog
on top" and also that he was making very
great Roadway towards closing out the
stock in the grey dog. which he did most
etfectually, for before any one could inter-
fere-
The vital spa rk had fed,
And the butchers dog was dead,
"Yes dead defuuct without any doubt
The lamp of his being decidedly out"
And thus terminated the dog fight. The
brown dog received the congratulations of
his friends, aud then went calmly back to
renewal of the little business as if moth
ing had happened. The crowd thenssepa-
rated, aud we were left alone with the
mangled remains of the once gay and COR
geous butchers dog; we were speedily
aroused from a reyerie into which we had
fallen, while contemplating the uncertain.
ty of life, by the return of the obese trio.
The fat butcher placed the lifeless form of
the grey dog carefully among the fatted
calves, and then
We said not word, for fear we'd get
thrashed,
Though we smothered deal of sorrow
AS we gazed on the corpse of that butch.
er's purp,
Aud thought of the sausage tomorrow.
In this connection we again take COCA
sion to allude to the alarming increase
of the canine population of this city. We
are not opposed to dogs on general priuci-
pies. The melancholy chap in the play
says.they ''are honest creatures and meier
pets of their masters" We are willing to
admit this and to acknowledge that good
dog is good thing but there is such a