The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-16

THEDeas ONCE AEoRE..-Atla last We have
found anindiyidual whose sentiments
on the dog question coincide with ours.
AS the burden of his complaint exists
here TO an extent much greater than in
his pleasant old borough, all our read:
ers will have to do to make 1t apply In
this, latitude is to increase the figures
and change the phraseology in an in
stance or two where particular locali-
ties are referred to-, We copy the fol-
lowing from the Washington Reporter
of the 14th inst: t7-.. J4-#H. :
Will somebody become public bene-
factor2 There Is an elegant chance just
at the present time. The man who VIII
kill two thousand OF the NANCY ours
that infest this town, Will become 2
benefactor OF his race, Will be elected
to the Legislature during life, and have
a monument erected to, his memory
after he has passed away. OF all the
nuisances that could be inflicted upon
a quiet community, dogs certainly bear
the palm. Talk about the plaques Of
son. We would rather endure Iocugtss
frogs, flies; yes even lice, than the pests
OF brutes ID This place which disturb
and harass both our slumberfng and
wakefuI hours. 0ufslife has almost
become q burden under their ms
ACTIONS, and "to be or not to re.
the Junior. 3Dogs4 Why you can
see nothing else, you can hear nothing
else. you can feel nothing else. Go
where you will they 'rethere. You tum4
Bile over them In the street and can't
help II. They surround your house
and bark: into your very doors and
parlor windows, and DIT night hold high
carnival in your garden and destroy
the vegetables and flowers which your
own hands have. planted and tended,
GSoEEtMdeI You cant get it, You may
hide yourself from men but It is imL
possible to shake loose from the dogs.
Juan Fernandez was a fool. he ought
to have considered himself the happi-
est man in the world, sole possessor OF
his island. Would that we could in
herit It'll Would that we could get
away from this never ceasing bark and
whine, from morn till night from night
till morn. We feel almost inclined to
adopt the suggestion of the famous
song Of the New Workers and'go
'Upin a balloon boys. up in a balloon. T.
a., Y the moon" D.a1 sH.E' laGEi ,t1 .
,2Ohl for some, canine "Wilderness,' 81
HChancellorVille,o or "Chickamauga,' %
How, the boom, Of the guns and the
yellsi of the dying mastitfs and mon.
grels and terriers would fall upon
our delighted ears like music sweeter
far than that which set the Hub" and
all the rest OF mankind wild at tne
"Great Peace Jubileel" "Let US have
peace /" What's the use OF saying that!
It Is nothing but miserable mockery,
How can there be peace while the world
and especially this particular part OF it,
is cursed with the discordant squabbles
of these 6endish Whelps2 Oh for such
u piper as iBrowning's famous one OF
Hamburg town who carried off all the
rats after his music If such an one
would come here and pipe off all the
dogs we would vote to lavish rewards
upon him, and present him with the free.
dom OF the city In gold box. We would
have his picture taken by Young and
painted by RothWelI, and hang it up in
the most sacred place of our home Sane.
tuaryI. Will the millennium ever CONT?
the millennium of freedom from The
"sights and sounds" OF dog life? II
such is in store for US in the future then
"Oh? hasten the dayw II some relief
does not arrive soon, life Will indeed
become q weary burden. What with
the Plank Road, Women's rights, and
the dogs, existence is thing scarcely
worth having. Let the dogs, however,
be exterminated and VIC can endure the
rest. 1Let Us have peace" saith Grant,
but peace we,cannot have until the ex-
piring yelps of the last cur die out in
Washington and float away in faint
echoes over "Catfish." II the Admin
istration wants to carry Washington at
the next election, let Gen. Grant send a
hundred armed men here for week to
kill ours. $50 mote II be-"