The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-20
Some Good Dog SfofIes

in some strange Way, broken, both his,
hind legs. He, fingered in agony, slough
kindly cared for bymanywho pited him.
At length one day, dragging, his mu-
tilated legs behind him, Indifferent to
suffering, he sought the nearest pond
and deliberately went into deep water
until the water engulfed him. Unable
to endure his misery, the poor brute had,
deliberately committed suicide. ~ sEi' Z
A T, triever dog, whose owner was
working in the, garden of the Bath in
stitution, lately killed favorite cat, a
frequenter of the same grounds. -HaE-
| ing committed this unproyoked murder.
| the dog deliberately took the cat in his
mouth, carried it some distance, dug a
deep. hole behind some bushes andSaf-
ter depositing the cat therein carefully
replaced the earth, and had he not been
| observed there would have been no evil
ldencez of the crime. ..r l.tft-,1 s4s-ga.t
Philip Gilbert Hamerton never told a
more beautiful story thanthe following
IA dog was bereaved of his masterand
became old and blind, passing The dark
evenings of his existence sadly in some
corner, which he hardly ever quilted.
One day came step like that, of his
lost master and he suddenly left his
place The man who had Just entered
wore ribbed stockings the old dog had
! lost his scent and referred at once to. the
stockings that he remembered rubbing
his face against. Believing his master
had returned after those weary years of
absence he gave way to the most ,eX-
travagant delight. The man spoke. The
momeptary illusion was dispelled 1.-THE
dog went sadly back to his place, lay
down YEARLY and died" ...,
"A Radnorshire lady, who was mar
ried in March, and came to reside in
Yorkshire, England, recently paid a vis7
it to her father, who, before she was
married, had kept two or three sheep
dogs, of which she was very fond.
Since then he has retired from business
and disposed of all but one dog. This
one met the lady with demonstrations
of great delight upon her arrival at her
fathers house, and that night the dog
| went a distance of seven miles to a farm
house, where one of the other dogs had
been sent (the latter was blind, but kept
as being an old favorite) - In the morn
|
not only saw the dog which had given
her such a glad. reception the day previ-
ously, but also the old blind one, which
had evidently been. brought by; the 9TH
er dog to welcome her. When the Sec
| ond night came the old blind one was
taken back to its home by the same dog,
which afterward returned, having trav-
eled distance of twenty-eight miles to
give pleasure to the old blind one. si i=
If being in possession of the "signs''
known only to the brotherhood of Good
Templars, and observing the essential
qualification of total abstention from all
intoxicating liquors constitute a "broth-
en-" Mr.. j. Leake's Newfoundland
| (assumingof course that he does not in
dulge in other than the usual canine
beverages), according to the Newcastle
Daily Journal, would seem to have a
right to the full benefits of membership
| of that brotherhood. This dog, it is
stated by the above journal. having for
some time past attended with his mas
! ter ut the 90 Pride of the yne''Lodge
Of Good Templars, at Haltwhistle, APP
pears to have found out their mysterious
their meetings.. On the last lodge night
he seems to have fingered by. the way,
and his master entered the lodge with
out him and closed the door. ga short
time after the inner guard and part of
the members heard the well known
knock at the inner door, when the guard
arose and opened it, and the black
brute walked majeStically in, greatly to
the surprise of the vigilant guard, caus-
ing no small amusement to the whole
company" a.fT .-r.....l- ..
Who carries the mail from Os-tra-
gOu-nosh, away up on the Minnesota
Dakota? Why, Boss, q mongrel kind
of dog, an apparent ultimate result of
the mingling of every Kind of dog found
in the Territory. Boss master. a year
ago was a drunken half-breed who was
paid SO a trip in summer and IS in win
ter for taking the mails a distance of
some sixty miles. Boss master was
honest, and never purloined a letter,
but he had a way drinking on the road,
and the mails were often. deferred. Last
January the mail-carrier never reached
his destination, but was found frozen
stiff in q snow-bank, three miles beyond
Jobley's Run, Boss was keeping guard
over his master and the mail. Now
Boss runs che machine in bad weather.
All that has to be done is to take Boss
and secure the letters round his neck in
an oilSkin wrap, and away goes Boss to
the end of the mail route on the biggest
Kind of a lope. There is no use of starv-
ing Boss, ike people do pigeons, TO get
him to work, though he does expeeta
feed at the conclusion of his journey.
No one as yet is intriguing for Boss
place. SiXty-two miles as the crow flies,
carrying the mail through the snow, is
not position most oflice-seekers care
for l-as-
Some time ago in Cannon Street, City
of London, was witness to an extra
ordinary scene. Going along the street
was an empty coal wagon, with tall,
stout WAGNER, long whip in hand,
walking by its side. A heavy, power
full bulldog happening to pass, he made
a cut at it with his whip, and struck it
smartly. The dog turned round in
stantly and rushed at the man, as every
one thought, but he never offered tOlay
hold of him, and kept jumping at the
whip, which the man held high out of
reach. The man then began to beat it
with the whip, till the animal snatched
it from his hand andaworried at it fu-
riously. Having regained hold of the
whip, he swung the dog round and
round, humping it heavily against the
pavement, till the crowd lcried
4" Shamei' The dog was then choked
off, and the whip returned to its owner.
The dog, however, as soon as loose, inn
mediately returned to the charge, when
the driver, evidently not DESTROYS. of
continuing the contest, threw the Of
Tending weapon into the wagon. The
dog now tried two or, three Intellectual
Jumps to follow it,. but finding himself
baflled, trotted of crestfallen, amid The
ieers of the crowd ..'Doneiat last, old !
fellow The most wonderful thing
was that the animal could only see the
,proximate cause, and not the real Of
fender. 1.T7Em I'd u4 ;mil II SD 5,5I
NJ. Dumont has a dog, Pompier by
name, and his master is devoted. to
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