Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-12-17
Dog Laws.

provisions OF such law should be,
England IL cited as An example, where
they impose a tax of three dollars "A
head upon dogs, and raise revenue
Of $4,000 600 by the means, from
which we infer that the Agrtcuturist
would have heavy national tax inn
posed upon dogs in this country.
If the object is to raise revenue, it
might accomplish something in that
direction, II the object is to discour>
age the keeping OF dogs, as we sup
pose it is from its being urged for
the benefit OF the wool growing in
terest, We doubt the utility of any
such law. Eng and, it seems, has a
million of dogs still. There is no
doubt that dogs destroy great many
sheep, and, ON an average, do ten
times more harm than good the world
over. The dog is the most domestic
Q; allanlmals, not excepting bed bugs,
IT we call them animals. They will
leave their own species to associate
with man, and when once established
IN the affections of a family, it is diff
tlcult to GUST them with tax. The
tax will be evadcd, or.if it comes to
the pinch, it will be paid sooner than
part with one of the family, if they
have means from which tax can be
collected If they have not, as is the
case with most dog owners, what are
you going to do about it 2 Will you
kill the dog, not for any harm he
has done, but just because the owner
is too poor to pay the tax? The tax
gatherer who should undertake it
would have his brains beaten out by
the Judys and Biddys before he could
get through the first row Of shantics,
all in huddle.
The best dog law we can think of
would be an out law for the whole
species. A well trained dog Is some>
times useful on farm, especially d
stock farm, but the chief use of farm
dogs Is to chase pigs about, the garden
and caused them to do more mischief
in two minutes than they would in
all day if left alone. In Incorporated
towns and cities, they are an unmiti-
gated nuisance. They are in every>
body's yard, and their noses in every
bOdy's dish. And then "O1t in the
Silly night, one banks at the moon,
and another banks at him, and ten
more bark at the first two, till sleep
is banished from a whole neighbour
hood. Men who should make half
the disturbance which dogs make
every night, would be arrested and
put in jail. But dogs have paid their
tax and have q right to keep people
awake the live long night,
For our own part we enforce the
out law upon dogs. When they put
sleep absolutely opt of the question,
we sally fourth in the small hours re-
gardless of the ordinance against the
discharge Of firearms within certain
limits, aud when a cur bites our heels,
we seize him by his heels Gf we cam
and wallop the nearest lamp post as
Deacon Pogram' would walIop
niger. Just out law the dogs-af-
ford them no protection as property,
and leave public sentiment to regu>
ate the rest, and it will afford better
protection tosleep than any tax that
could DC imposed 10 addition 10 out
lawry, as penalty tor keeping dog,
but for the objection that the tax
operates as q sort OF license to his
mischief aud shield aga INST sum-
mary rene les. What satisfaction
- il when y farmer loses fine buck
or eve, 10 know that the owner of the
dog that killed it has probably paid
tax OF one, Two, or three dollars in
to somebody else's pocket for the
privilege ? The only safety Of the
wool grower is to pop over every
strange dog ne sees around alone,
and this be should do, law or no law.
Taxing dog will not abate his APP
petite Tor mutton - JViS Farmer.
sss~ Three thousand acres of grapes
are under cultivation in Erie and OF
tawa counties, Ohio, including the
islands Of Lake Erie, from which it
is estimated that two hundred thous.
and gallons OF wine were produced
the past year Growers have estab>
lished a standard of price at one mill
per pound for each degree of specific
gravity of must. The average pro-
ducti0n OF grapes on the islands this
year has been about one and Il half
tons per acre. The Kelley Island
Wine Company purchased the grapes
from about 225 acres, and have man
utactured about $4,000 gallons of
wine. Other parties have made at
least 40, 600 gallons, being total Of
100000 gallons that is now stored on
that island. Bass Island, it is estima
ted, bad also in store $4,000 gallons
OF wine. Bass Island has sold more
fruit for table purposes, in proportion
TO the ground in cultivation, than
helley's Island. Additional atten-
ton is being paid to the culture OF new
varieties Of grapes. This is occasion
cd by u slight want Of confidence in
thc Catawbas. Among those being
planted are Coucords, Delawares,
Harttords, Rogers, Ives, Norton's
Nirnia, &c.
rsa-' John Browns body lies moul-
deTing in the grave, but his soul is
marching on Mobiles great picture
ofJohn Brown on the way to execu-
ton, which is pronounced by compe,
tent judges to be the finest work of
art ever produced in this country, has
received the last touches and has
gone to Boston to be exhibited. The
scene Is from Whittier's we'll remom-
bered poem, where the old man puts
his hand on the head Of a slave child
held up to him by its mother, as he
moves toward he galows The be
"I-nlty II Browns c0untena CO IS
said TO loo something sublime. There
aro fifteen o. twenty figures on the
cahraS-sll of them wonderfully ex-
pressive VIII is perhaps, most sin
gular about H. Is the fact hat such
picture should have been painted by
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