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The Hog and Cow Law.

but that there was some one who q. ulC
find fault or defect in it. ThiSgood
law, enacted by our City Fathers, com
handing every townsman who owns
stock to keep it from running at large
over the town; this law, which fol
years we have been in need of, in order
that our town may have that appear,
ance, and be kept as u town should, has
already been objected to by ore man.
This man has spoken harshly Of the
law. He has denounced it in no meas
ured terms, and declares it to be the
offspring of radicaism. How is itthat
he has got radicalism mixed up with
this law, | am unable to tell. neither
can any man-nOt even "Cross tie'
himself: Look at it: BY whom was the
law enacted? Was it by Radicals !!
No. l have never known the Radicals
to make law half 80 good. By whom
then was the law made? By as good
Conservative men as ever walked the
streets of Winchester. And does
"Cross tie presume 50 much as to say
that these highly. intellectual gentlemen
would send forth an edict ntermin9led
with mdcalism? Such thing is pre-
postcrous! Then the law is not Rad,
ical one, but Conservative; and it is II
good law-the very law that we want,
the law that we shall have. Talk
about making hog or COW pen ont Of
our town! What does he mean? Is
he insane? His parents ought to have
called him "Cross-tied," instead Of
"Cross-tie," methnks. Surely he has
not the shadow of an idea how trou-
bles ONE stock are. Did he ever have
any about him? Go to the merchants,
and they will tell you whether or not
the law is good one. How frequent
ly is it the case that they are troubled
with hogs right around and about their
store doors! Why l haze even known
the!n to 60 Though the stores--in at
one door and out at the other. But he
would have merchants, hogs, and Gus
toners, all together Is that so
Now, he had better 60 back to the
place that he came from, so that he can
have the full benefit Of his way Of
doing.
Anal the cows, they are troublesome
at night. 1t is frequently the case
that they are found up in the porch
that stands before the store of Mr..
Ransom, licking his salt barrels. Should
this be allowed? Why, Gross tic" you
old COW. But he says, "why not inter
diet the tomus cats and goirr rats from
lording over tue streets, cabbage patch
rs, etc" Now, is that not bright rcas
oning? | would like to know very
much what kind Of reasoning he calls
it. | suppose, however, he calls ii
reasoning from analogy. Well. he
ought to get out a Logic. He has
logical brain. | will bet five dollars
that if he will get Phrenologist to
examine his head, he will say tina, he is
good in logic. Now, laying all jokes
aside, the fact Of the business is, there
is no sense in it. 1t is absurd We
have not the same cootrol over rats
that we have over hogs and COWS, no
way-lon't want it. People can keep
their stock up, and it is nothing more
than their duty to do it. Towns were
made for the benefit ofpeople, and not
for hogs and COWS, rs he would have
them, Ifyou keep stock about you, it
must be done in Il manner that they
can do no damage to other people.
And one more point: As to country
hogs and COWS coming into the town
and eating up the watermelon rinds, APP
pie peels, ete.,--that's all stuff again.
Put truck OF that kind in your slop.
tubs. like white man. and carry it to
your hog pen, Git will do them more
good there, and don't be throwing ev-
around your doors to draw
country stock in.
STRAIGHT TIE.