The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-02
THE DOG WAR.
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE MNocENTs AT THE
noe POUND.

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I DOG POUND.
The foot of Twenty fifth street. ON the East
river. NAV be called the Place de Greive of
CANNES during the summer season. Thither
every moInlng scores of urchins wend their
way, bringing in their unwilling four footed
prisoners and delivering them up to the ten
der mercies of the grim guardians of the
pound 1t is an unpretending building, not
very creditable to the architect who desig-
mated it, and it would be hard TO tell which
style of architecture it represents. Outside
are numerous spectators or dog brokers,
who induce the Juvenile captors to deliver
up their spoils to them at the rate of thirty
cents in cash each, thereby saving them the
trouble of taking the fifty cent checks :hey
would receive at the pound down to the
City Hall. The quotations on the dog ex-
change in open board yesterday were some
what lower than last week and business was
| looking downward AS no less than fourteen
hundred CANNES were brought in last week,
some of the spectators were in buoyant
spirits On Sunday night. The interior ar
engagements of this dog penitentiary are prin-
cipally characterized by extreme simplicity
and general want of cleanliness, and silence
is not one of the attributes of its inmates
| Over the G loomy entrance should be placed
| the inscription, d" Let all does that enter here
| leaVe nope Denlnu, loI Tic quality vi nieicy
does not belong to its keepers. Within are
the unhappy prisoners, tied fast and await
ing their turn in the BATH Spaniels New
foundlands, terriers pointers, settlers, mastiffs,
bulldogs, ours, poodles and other varieties
of the canine tribe are crowded together,
each with that peculiar "pity the sorrows of
| poor lost dog kind of expression ON his
or her countenance. The dogs are brought
in in the morning, and kept over twenty-four
hours, awaiting ransom. At four o'clock P.
NJ is the hour of execution. The scenes that
take place during the day, when parties in
search of lost favorites visit the establish
ment are sometimes very amusing. A Ger
man lady from the East side was in search
of a lost animal that, unhappily for it, was
seduced from home by the wiles of bare
footed and bareheadcd urchln. He is Won
beautiful toy, NIT white and yellow spots all
around him, and but one eye, and his name
is Katarina,' she pleaded in sad accents
She found the beautiful dog" in the midst
of crowd of the ugliest pootlles that ever
lady patronized, and she apostrophized the
delighted animal in German in the most
touching manner. The poOdles ceased their
yelping and looked up to her with signs of
bewilderment 1T the strange sounds. 1t was
evident their education in the German lam
guage was sadly neglected. After paying
the necessary So fee, she marched off with
her one-eyed prodigal, the poodes vainly en-
deavoring to persuade her to take them also.
At four the signal was given for execution,
and number of youthful Jack Ketches toss
ed the dogs one by one into the large wood
en- receptacle prepared for them. When
about one hundred were crowded inside this
deadly prison the water was let on and pan
dcmonium Immediately inaugurated. No
symphony by List or Wagner cauld equal
the horrible discard that rose from that fatal
bathing box and there was not chance for
any of the unfortunates to improvisc a
Noah's ark amid the deluge that poured on
them. The scene is distressing one and
should be warning to all CANNES to keep
indoors. and not listen to the wiles of small
boys.-N y Herald.
1t seems they are as hard upon the dogs
in New York as they are in Raleigh But
this is Yankee practice, this killing of
dogs. Is it possible our City fathers, who
are so true to Southern traditions, will con-
tinue this imitation of g the Yankee9'' It
might be well if they do, to send that amia-
BILE gentleman, Mr.. Wondell, the dog killer,
to New York City, for instruction in the
Dog Pound. We have no doubt he would
graduate in the course of week or so with
distinguished honors.