Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-16
Dogs.


ried 1t for the benefit of the canine race.
We recently listened to an able sermon
In which the preacher quoted an Eng
lish writer as saying that there were
some people so sensitive, lrascible and
snappish that they ought to be labelled
with the scriptural injunction, "Beware
of dogs" This probably does not neces-
sarily imply total condemnation of al
dogs, although we canaot now recollect
many places in the good book In which
any very favorable mention is made of
the "canine race" We are pretty GER
tain there are some dogs that we should
beware of, among which may be men,
toned class of swapping, snarling,
quarrelsome ours, ne.
1t seems to be popularity Of this
dogs nature that he will not be pleased
or pacihed with anything. Sometimes
he acts as If he thought he must eXer-
else general censorship-as if all the
industrial, prudential and municipal az
fairs of the town and country rested on
his canine shoulders. You cannot make
a fattr pas by daylight or candle light, or
do so trivial thing as fiaunt a piece of
red bunting, but the cur aforesaid will
see it, or hear it, or smelit, and straight
way set up such u bowling and yelping
as If he would break his eXecrable
throat.
1t seems almost impossible to train
this cur to any good purpose. He is an
incorrigible cur. If you undertake to
notice him it only adds fuel to the sput-
teriug fame. If you catch him and
whip him, he will not stay whipped-in
fact he does not seem to know when he
is whipped. We have known few in
stances, however, in which individuals
Of this apparently useless species OF the
animal kingdom have been etiectually
,~nrrected; but in every case it has been
done ~ other dogs, and not nv men.
In one case big dog took hold OF
little one that attacked him, shook him
apparently till all his strength and feel
ings had departed, and then dropped
him. That cur was cured. In another
instance, large Newfoundlander, when
assailed by a contemplate cur, barely
stopped long enough to launch upon him
a sort of semi Parthian shot, such as
only dog knows how to give, and trot-
ted on. This contemptuous mode Of
treatment the cur had not expected. He
suddenly became lotoer by several inches
in his own estimation, and sneaked away
into his kennel, wiser, if not o better
dog, ..- .
This dogmatical dissertation has ex-
tended somewhat beyond our expecta-
ton; but as some contemplative per-
sons are said to find sermons in stones"
and others, like Esop and Fontaine,
impart instruction by means of the i'm
aginary language wb3ch they attribute
to all sorts OF animals, SO we perhaps
NAV receive and communicate useful
lessons of encouragement or warning
from the known habits of particular
individual or species of the "canine
race" -...
THE JAMAICA INsURRECT1oN.-Lette
from Morant Bay, Jamaica, dated Oct.
H. speak of the instruction there as
follows: 1881
Refugees from all parts of the par
ish come in from morning TO night
overseers and bookkeepers, white and
colored inhabitants, who reside in the
mountains. 1t is heartrending to see
among these women and children who
have been in the woods, and amid man
| groves STEPPED in boys, having slept in
swamps for nights, passing barelooted
| and bareheaded into town, some of whom
are on their way to Kingston. Infants
in arms, saved by few faithful black
servants, are among these. All the noun.
| tain residences have been entered and
| pillaged, and some Of them more or less
| demolished, and there yet remain in the
woods hundreds of human beings who
have not, up to now, been fortunate
enough to make their escape.
Inc GNlUtlSt lOulNt upCil GOhiS Va 1h'
prisoners shows that it was the inten
ton of the insurrectionists, as hereto
fore stated, to spare none of the whites
or colered people, out to slaughter al
unfortunately. Thanks to the ener
getic and summary measures adopted BY
the authorities, they have been baulke(
in their designs. OF the number of per
sons murdered in cold blood no est
mate is made, but it is large. The ne
groes were shot down in all direction
by the military, or tried by court-mar
tial and hung.
A correspondent of the Standard
writing from Morant Bay, October 18th
says that thirty rebels had been hung a
that place on the previous day, and tn
rebels all over the country are beini
killed right and left by the military.
The capture of the leaders has dispir
tied the rebels, and the latest reports sa
many were giving themselves up. TIL
marOOns have acted very bravely, an