, 1869-05-04

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The streets, wrote, as / understand, to the Po-
licemasters stating that he thought the evil
could be removed by making it more expensive
to keep dogs, and he prescribed that all owners
Of dogs shall procure signs, for which So p. a.
shall be paid. But when the Police goes out at
night putting Pills, the destruction meets dogs
with signs as we'll as those without. And If a
dog be poisoned the very day the sign was
taken out, and the owner were to ask for a re-
payment of the amount, he would be told
"Bordet fanger,"
The Apothecary is forbidden to sell poison to
any one without a prescription from a medical
man. I don't know if the Policemen's pre-
scripticns are received for the Strychnine used
for those Pills; but the dangerous consequences
that were to be avoided by that prohibition, are
in no way avoided in the use of those Pills. /
know an instance where a little girl. ignorant
of the danger, was about kissing the mouth of
her poisoned pet-dog and in another instance
a whole yard of poultry was poisoned.
The Prisoners are sentenced by Judgment to
undergo certain terms of penal servitude as a
correction and punishment for themselves, as q
preventive against further violations of the
a and as a warning to others. There are
those who hold that a culprit from the moment
he comes in penal servitude has lost all civil
rights. 1t must be this principle a~ctuating the
Administration of the department here.
the Police Or else why do we see those pri-
soners dragged about from place to place to do
all sorts of work in order to compensate in
some measure for the public expense for keep
ing them prisoners !" Or else why do we see
them always beaten and thumped by the Driv-
ers or why do we see them being employed in
all sorts of mental work fl" each and every
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doing those little 'jobs," the payment for which
falls to the "Drivers - or why are they used
(oh shameN for secretly poisoning mems beasts2
No wonder that SO many escape when sent to
cut grass etc. etc, for the Driver and the
"Ihrn Key" and then commit fresh transgres-
sions
And why is it that the Police gets affected at
Full-Moon with that peculiar a~ntipathy to the
canine race? Because, perhaps, some few of our
nervous Matadores fancy themselves disturbed
in their hours Of repose; but believe a troubled
conscience chases sleep more than dogs do.
Because, perhaps, some few night-wanderers are
bayed by the dogs but I ask .sHvad ski6tter
Danuemand, at Humid ad hannem gjoer?"-And
does the Police really mean to e~xtirpate the
dogs | should hope not,-for the sake of the
Police itself, remembering the geese in the Ca
pitol.
But are not all good peaceable persons fire.
quently disturbed by the almost daily ~quarrels
and tumults round about the town On such
occasion a Policeman is never in place! And
are not persons nose being offended by the OBJ
noxious sea-water that has been standing, as.
directed by the Police, for upwards of three
weeks in barrels on our streets
Ny dog has been poisoned I regret its loss
very much; it afforded me that which the Police
can not give security on my premises.I once
heard one of those very Matadores whose sleep