The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-05-07
TENNESSEE PICTURE THAT
WILL ANSWER FOR GEORGIA
( From a Chattanooga letter in Tia" Cincinnati
COMMERCIAL
TIE DOG LAW.

The best act put on the books by
the legislature is the dog-iaw. Dogs
are taxed one dollar each, and the
feminine branch of the dog family
five dollars. Such a law has been
long needed, but no previous legisla
ture has had the spunk to put it on
the books. The poverty OF the state
to day is due no small degree to the
multitude Of worthless ours, which
consume as much az the hog, cost as
much as the schools and produce
nothing,
In the rural districts there are near
) as many dogs as people, showing
of itself Il state Of civilization not the
highest. Not long ago plaintive
appeal was sent to Nashville from one
hundred and forty-three colored peo-
pie of Rutherford county, saying that
the last y ears dry weather had cut off
the crop, and that they were In a
starving condition. Some one went
through the poverty stricken dis
tricts Of the country, and his bust
ness being to enumerate the popnla-
ton he enumerated the dogs also,
and found more dogs than people.
What was fed to the dogs would have
fat,ened enough hogs to have fur
nished the population with q reason
able amount of meat Bat instead of
raising enough meat for home con-
sumption they scrape up what few
remaining dollars remain in the
country from last years cotton crop
and send it north tor bacon.
Curse the worthless dogs! Wher
ever you find them in the greatest
numbers you find the people cores
pondngly poor and the country
wretched. wish the tax was TWEEN
ty five dollars and the proceeds Civ
en- to encourage the raising of sheep.
Here is a great central state, adapt
ed by nature to the production OF
wool, and wool, too, of such superior
quality that it has taken the premI-
am more than once at the world 3
fair, yet en- account of the myrIads OF
worthless ours which prey upon the
sheep, there is not one quarter
: enough wool produced for home con
sumption, aud the country is drained
of money to send TO more civilized
and prosperous communities to pnr-
: chase wool and wooden clothing
And the people complain OF beng
poor. Yes, they are poor, and how
can they expect to be otherwise in
state where the dogs cost six times
as much as the schools, and where
there is nothing to sell and every
thing to buy.
In twenty seven counties of this
s'ate-.average counties the dogs
last year killed ll,4G9 sheep. In
he one county Of Giles they got away
with ,759,
A northern farmer who settled in
Coffee county WAS telling me te"
DAYS AGO of the fine location he had
for sheep raising as compared with
the north. 1t cost orl J one quarter
at much to winter sheep here as II
does in the north. The cold wealth
or never kill lambs, no matter what
month of the year they were born
But there was one drawback that
> sroiIed all that vas promising and
fine. The worthless dogs killed his
sheep and destroyed all the profits OF
wool growing He was powerIess to
! remedy the matter. The country
was fairly alive with dogs, every.
family having from t"o to dozen,
the poorer and more wretched and
ignorant and worthless the family the
more dogs they kept. The other
, day | was reading a card from Asa
Faulkner, one of the most useful citl
zens of Tennessee. Hin life has been
spent in warfare against ignorance,
idleuess and dogs obey all 60 to-
gether), and in building up the man
; ufacturing interests Of the State. lie
has family worthy OF the man
i They take hold with their hands
e and county full of such would, in
!, few years, become worth whole
: congressional district OF the average
e population. He said that TWO Of his
$ sons had established wooden factory
in Warren county. They utilized
C the water> power, with which nature
" has so abundantly provided every
section of the state, and gave work
to fifteen handS-no small item
p where a very large per cent. OF the
l population are without enployment
e his Huls woollcn mill saved the
= country SIS, 900 annually &; that Is
kept that amount of money at home.
which would have been otherwise
: sent cut Of the country for woollen
clothing. But the mill had to stop,
f and why Because the worthless
a dogs-and there seems to be about
= million in Warren couniy-killed
! the sheep, and thus the supply OF
< wool was cut off.
~ in t~enty~one counties of Geor>
s. gia, as shown by the late census,
, the negroes own aud feed 4.2ll dogs
t and bu, POO sheep, or about fifteen
dogs to one sheep. Healthy condi-
ton Of things Vigorous commun-
ity Great inducements to emigra-