The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-07-18
Remarkable Doe.

ihe toNowing very remarks e0le dog etory
was communicated TO Che Suniay Setoof
Vi'itor. a few years ago. by tho learned
and pious A. L. p. Greene, ID. d., OF Ten
nessee We may have published IL before.
1t will do TO read again: - Eyn e.
"Did you ever notice what very small
amount of education the dogs receive p
We learn them their Nance which they
obtain knowledge ofyuy soon--we learn
them get OUT begops, herel hersi
hereP and sicki sickf sick 4 md then
their education stops but / would judge
that us the length Of time Il takes them to
learn this much is so very short, we eould!
teach them great deal more, IL we were
TO try. E ~. ~
"l viii here give sou the account Of q
dog that / was well acquainted with. He
lived fer several Years in the town of Clarke
vile, Tenn, and almost every citizenof ths
place was acquainted with him. =,
: "Ife made his appearance on entering
the town at the hotel, the place where other
strangers were generally first seen. He
did not register his name and call for 0
room, but he went into the back yard and
laid himself down to rest, but soon render
ed himself useful by keeping all dogs out
OF the back yard, by which service he earni
ed his supper. .s.- =. 4'r.'. .I,,.. A..
1.-The next place where he,mGas his apI
peararce was at the Presbyterian Church.
which he ATTENDED for q while with great
regularity and pronptn not merely going
when the bell rang for preaching, but went
to the prayer meeting. which was not an.
nounced by the bell From the fact thsth6
attended the Presbyterian Church altogeth-
er, the boys called him Calvin. He never
went to Church with any person, or kept
the company OF any other dog. He had
two other places Of visiting; one was tho
Democratic meetings whenever they came
off, and he won't TO market every morning.
Aad without any election or appointment
in any way, he became town constable, In
so far as keeping order at the market house.,
not suffering a hog or any other dog TO-
trouble any article that might be in the
market house. In this service he was per-
fectly impartial. He took as much inte-
rest in minding the property of one person
as another, never touching any thing him
self But he was always rewarded by the
persons attending the market, for at the
end OF the marketing hour they handed
over to him enough provisions to last him
during the day, which he in the most or
derly manner carried home in his mouth.
$50 things went on for some time, tilf
at last DR.. Bascom had an appointment at
the Methodist Church. Some one snid that
Calvin would be at the Methodist Church
next Sunday he would 60 10 hear Bascom.
certain. Sure enough, when Sunday came.
he made his appearance at the Methodist
Church, and seemed to listen to the Doctor
with great interest; and after tfisr WINS
never again known to attend the Presbyte-
rian Church. but attended the Methodist
Church ever after. He also changed HE
politics, and went ever after TO the Whig
mo tinss. ''ris1
81 have preached 20 this DOG frequently.
He had his regular place in the aisle e1oss
to the head Of n certain pew. Here he
would lay himself down, with his head to
the preacher, looking him IN the eye and
listening attentively. I never knew him to
go to sleep in Church, or to get up and go
out in time Of service, or leave the Church
before the congr CATION was dismissed. He
was the wonder of all who know him. He
came to his end by taking up some poisoned
halt that had been set for some other dog
A lengthy notice was published of him at
the time in the papers. So lived and Died
this singular dog"