Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-02
Anmuruns department.
GREAT DOG FIGHT.

There is an excellent moral to the fol
lowing story, which is told with great skill
It shows us how q whole village is some
times torn to pieces by fight between tw
puppies:
The most remarkable fight on recor'
came off at Frogtown, on the frontier o
Maine, some years ago. 1t engrossed tn
entire community in one indiscriminate me
lee-interminable lawsuit or suits at law
distraction of the town and its downfall o.
ruin.
A fanciful genius, named Joe Tucker
man about town, a lounger without visible
means of support, a do-nothing, loafng
cigar-smoking, good-natured fellow, owne'
pretty beast, always at Joe's heels, ant
known as well as his master, and liked fa
better by the Frogtowners. One day, Jo
and his dog were passing Bunion's grocer.
store, when piebald, ugly-looking dog
standing alongside wood wagon, BOUNDED
onto Joe fuckers dog, knocked him heel
over head, and so frightened Bob Carter
wife, who was passing towards her husband
blacksmith shop with his dinner, that sh'
stumbled, and her old sun bonnet Topped
of, and scared the horse attached to tn
wagon. He started, hit Latherum's barbe
pole, upset the load Of wood, all of whicl
falling down Gumbo's refreshment cellar
struck one of Gumbo's children on the head
killing it for short time, stone dead, ant
and so alarmed Mrs. Gumbo, that she lie
fall stew pan of boiling hot oysters int
her customers lap, who sat waiting for tn
sayory concoction by table in corner
instead of the dish. Mrs. Gumbo rushe'
for the child, and the customer for the door
Mrs. Gumbo screamed, the customer yelle'
out.
"Oh! oh! oh-oh-oh, my poor child,
cried Mrs. Gumbo.
"Eh, e-h-e-e-e," screamed the poor child
ooh, murder-r-r Oh, my everlastin!
sir, I'm scalded to all eternity"
''Murder murder !" roared the poor Gus
toner.
The horse, part of the wagon, and som
wood. were on their mad career. The owne
of the strange dog came out of the stor
just in timesto see Joe Tucker seize rocl
to demolish the savage dog, and not wait
ing to see Joe let drive, gave him such
pop on the back, that poor Joe fell fort
feetup the street, and striking a long lad
der upon which Jim Ederby was perched
paint pot in hand, forty feet above terri
frma, brought ladder, Jim and paint po
sprawling to the earth, crippling poor jim
for life, and sprinkling blue paint over tn
broad. cloths, satinets and calicoes of Abra
ham Miller, a formal and even-tempere'
Quaker, who ran out of the door, just a
the two dogs had got fairly at it, hip an
thigh, nip and catch. A glance at thing
seems to convince Abraham of the true stat
of the case, and, in an unusually elevate
tone of voice, Abraham called out to 10
Tucker, who had righted up:
"Joseph Tucker, thy dogs fighting =
ssLet 'em fight it out, - yelled the pugna
cious owner of the strange dog. "Let 'en
fight it out. I'll bet log of wood my do
can beat any dog in town, and I can bea
the owner
We have said Abraham Miller was qui
ct man; Quakers are.proverbially so. Blu
the gauntlet thrown down by the strange
from the country, stirred the gall of Abra
ham; he rushed into the store, and fror
the back yard, having slipped his collar
Abraham brought forth a brindle cu1
strong, low and powerful.
"Friend," said the excited Quaker, eth
dog shall be well beaten, I promise thee
Hyke, seize him p
"Turk, here boy"
And the dogs went att.
Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in tim
to hear the strangers defiance to the towr
and bent on a fight with somebody for tn
damages to his wife, clamped the collar 6
the stranger, and by series of ten-pount
ers upon the face, back and sides of his bul
ly antagonist, with his natural sledge ham
mers, Bob stirred up the strength and ir
of the bully stranger to the top of his CON
pass, and they made sparks fly dreadfully
Joe fuckers dog, reinforced by Abrt
ham Miller's took a fresh start, and betwee
the two, the strange dog was being cruell
put to his stumps. Deacon Pugh, one
the most pious and substantial men in Frog
town, came up, and indeed the whole tow
was assembling, and Deacon Pugh, arme