Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Communication.

EDITOR OF THE REPUBLICAN:
l netlce IL you.G last issue a paragraph
informing your readers that l said sit
ought to be penitentiary offence for any
man to own dog" This is one of sew
eral jokes perretrated at my expense. l
like good joke and enjoy good one
even when am the victim; but a sense
less jest, or one where the point" is so
fine that ii cannot be seen, is a waste of
time. This paragraph is one of that char
acter, and. with people who do not know
me is certain to create the impression
that am fool, or would be a cut throat
with half chance. L am not xely par
ticular as to what people say of or think
about me; but on account of others on
whom 1t might reflect, l would prefer
that wholesale lies of this kind should
not be published when they possess Meth
CT the merit of jest or the fling of sar-
casm Your informant was very much
Histaksn when he gave you the item.
Permit me to say that never entertained
nor gave utterance to language conveying
any such idea as the one published in
your last issue. ! think it is entirely use
ful and proper for one who is rightly sit
uated to keep dog or dogs. ! have said
however, and now repeat, shat a man
niIo a0M Keep hogs, dogs and chscksns in a.
tO,c'a or city, and insist on raising them on
the premises Of has neighbours and at their
erpense, and to their constant injury and
annoyance ought to be seat to the penitea-
tiary.' Hogs, dogs and chickens run
ming at large in town are an insufferable
nuisance. There is no peace, comfort
safety ,or decency. in the neighborhood
where they roam. At evening in warm
weather the atmosphere is sickning from
the odors created, and the night is made
hideous by the yelpings; while walks,
shade trees, gates, gardens and fences are
utterly useless as things for use, ornament
or protection. Farms and out lots are
tie proper places for stock; but the
weary person, or the sick one, who wants
Test, and suffers night after night to graf
lily the groveling pleasures of the man
housekeeping like the hog he is in dis.
position-keeps a yelping cur to howl
all night, will agree with me, that bull.
let for the dog and the penitentiary fol-
his owner would be poor compensation
tor their sutferings, but better than none
The man whose gates are torn off the
hinges, whose garden, grass plats and
flower beds are rooted up, whose side
walks are made filthy and whose nostrils
are offended by the man who keeps q
beastly old SOW with a litter of Digs
trailing after her and making peoples
premises like barn yard, must be more
than saint if he utters no oath or curse
Take town like Plymouth, with its
three hundred worthless dogs and its FIVE
hundred filthy hogs, and its one hundred
sinking stys, and the people must have
rare patience or gross lack of refinement
who are pleased with it, or do not think
and say some emphatic things in con
demnation of those who keep them.
the city will extend its raid to the dogs
as well as hogs, then to the chickens, and
lastly, to the COW bells, found running a
large, it will do good and benefcia
thing. While | admire the thrift and
industry that prompts people to rea
chickens and hogs, and recognize thu
usefulness of good dog and the right o
any family to keep them, l deny thei
right to tarn town plat, owned by many
persons, into a stock farm or dog ken
Eel, themselves owning only one resi-
denee spot among several hundred; ant
the ambition that prompts such thrift a
the expense of others, breeds law suits
assaults, trespass and murder, but neve
yet created progress or good order; ant
both are essential to individual or genera
benefit. G. II. REEyE.