The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-25
AND THEIR MORAL
EFFECT ION THE CITIZENS.

On York street, and about one hun
drcd and fifty feet due east from the
Observation-Disclosures whose
delight to stick posters exhibiting ku-
Klux caricatures, girafes, woolly ele-
plants, antipodal fowls, white-faced
monkeys. intelligent pigs, living skele-
tons, bearded ladies, and antediluvian
crocodiles, is a spot rendered forever
sacred and forever historic by the rip
and tear of an extraordinary dog fight.
Last Saturday at noon was sunny day.
The dust drifted from the south along
the high grades of our wooden city. A
vernal gush possessed the blood of the
people and spattered their vitals with
spreeish notions ''What glorious day
for dog fght" muttered game indi-
vidual with both hands showed deep into
his pockets. Then from the sky dropped
supernatural voice with precision and
velocity sufficient to delight Calico,
"Yea, verify, let dogs be merry!''
Hush gods, be still The two bully
dogs accompanied by their illustrious
keepers. appeared. / say, the two bully
dogs which had many times shown their
spirit by stealing sausages and biting
their keepers, appeared. The tawny dog
had been prepared by eating hunk of
beef; abe black dog had been pre-
pared by taking glass of whisky. Now,
gentlemen, be quiet; for the glory of the
two bully dogs of the city and the happi-
ness of their most worthy keepers were
at stake. They approached. they set to,
they piled their ponderous jaws, they
''chawed '-ah ugh! how they ''chaw-
ed -
Then gathered a great concourse of
the trowsers-wearing animal every kind,
[ say, of the trowsers-w wearing animal
from the diapered boy up to the sick old
man. Lawyers were there, honey combed
with criminal fancies. Doctors were there
with their bottles of strychnine and vac
cine matter. Clergymen were there With
their bosoms heavily weighted by the
memory Of old hymns. Teachers were
there with their great sad eyes, seeking
knowledge for their pupils. Ship-carpen-
tors were there with their broad-axes
Merchants were there with their pockets
| full OF shirt buttons. Bakers were there
| filed with their own s'riz'' bread. Butch
ers were there holding unstuffed sausages
in their red right hands.
Then was heard an ominous sound like
that of a tornado Threatening one from
| hollow distance. 1t was the movement of
an innumerable multitude of smaller dogs
whose bowels quaked with sympathy
| The innumerable multitude of smalcrdogs
approached and blockaded all the streets
of the City. But the sacred centre where
the two oracular dogs were contesting for
life and death, was securely guarded by
the game individuals who kept back the
multitude of smaller ogs by pelting
them with stones, sticks and plugs of
tobacco. Then it was these smaller dogs
showed the same uneasiness of classic
memory that ghostly sinners showed
when fitting Gu the banks of Styx. Yea,
verify, they showed their sugary teeth
and whined pathetica1ly.
Meanwhile, the bully pups upon the
sacred centre, preserving a grim silence
at once decent and worthy of their sires,
'schawed" with ensanguined pleasure
And. meanwhile, each of the illustrious
keepers patted the shaggy back Of his
own dog, stuck pieces of candy between
the bloody teeth of his own dog and told
him to ''go in" After long "chawing"
there was an apparent subsistence of wind
on the part of the black dog, while the
tawny dog held his lungs quiet and fresh.
Here [ might digress into beautiful
moral, and show how it is always better
to eat than to drink; for my readers re-
member, l suppose, how the two dogs
were prepared. Yea, verify, what an
argument for temperance-man. While
all were betting how the thing would end,
four honest men upon side took hold
of the valorous tails of the bully dogs
and ripped them asunder, thus busting
the blessed charm.
Then each of the bully dogs with bis
head in a crimson glow, sought refuge on
the bosom of his keeper The apothe-
carries of the city are astonished at the
demand for Vinegar Bitters which are
used in tub-fuls to cure the pulpy heads
of those two heroic fighting pups.
L have searched in vain through the
bloody Statutes of the State of Wisconsin
for an enactment comforting a premium
upon the owners the best fighting dogs.
On this culpable neglect of the State
Authorities, tho County Authorities
should see that such owners do not 60
unrewarded. In the case of the crimi-
nal neglect of the County Authorities, the
City Authorities should see that such
owners do not go unrewarded In the
case of the sGper- piratical neglect of the
City Authorities, such owners should
urge their inalienable rights by mob law.
Dog fights are excellent spectacles to Gull
tlvate heroism in youths, and such fights
also retouch the courage of old men.
Such fights tend to extinguish effemina:e
sentiments. Such fights belong to that
genus of sublime spectacles which nurses
an admirable GOODNESS such as was shown
by the Spaniards when they buried alive
the pretty woman OF the Netherlands,
such as was shown by the Portuguese in
sticking pins into the Jews, and such as
Is shown by the younger inhabitants
of Terra del Fuego. who, when pressed
by hunger ca. their old parents instead