The daily gazette., 1877-02-01
Our Dover. Letter.
LEGISLATIVE BUsINEss-rHE MOST IA
Mous DoG CASE on REcoRn-AcciDKNT
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Special Correspondencoo OF tic Gazette Z
W DOVER, Del Feb, Hist.

Both houses, yesterday held busy ses
sions, though the items of business con
sisted mainly of pushing forward the bill,
already on hand. The most important
items consisted of the disagreement oi
the two houses over the bill in relation
to advertising Sheriff sales, and the sec
ond reading in the, Senate, of the ''Act
Concerning the Sale of Railroads" 25(
copies OF which were ordered to be print
ed. This act relates mainly to railroad
consultations, and proscribes the duties,
powers, rights ana privileges of con soil
dated companies; and provides for the
due incorporation of the same after such
consolidation.
Dover, yesterday, was greatly excited
over famous dog case, which came off
before referees in the Office of Esquire
Dickson. 1t is thus reported:
A dog belonging to Z. & j. Ennis was
shot by young man named Seward,
whose ieason for doing so was that the
dog "1ooked fierce. 1.-THE suit was brought
under section o. of the dog law, and
damages for SO claimed. f. S. Reed,
Esq, appeared for the plaintiff, Messrs.
Edw. Rfdgely and Richard Harrington
for Seward.
Now this "dog" was truly valuable
animal, so much as on one occasion
to bring to the boat. in which was p
Ennis, q fishing hawk that had been
shot while rising from the water with an
distracted member of the finny tribe; not
content with securing the hawk only, the
dog took a submarine voyage aud sue
ceeded in bringing back the identical fish
that the deceased hawk had captured, for
as the witness of this occurrence states,
che knew it was the same fish cause it
show'd the points of the hawks claws. :"
MnranUar xpn n rali ifrin a of
one time a preacher visited the house and
patted him kindly on the head, to show
his gratitude that dog went out into the
poultry yard and brought back and de-
posted at the preachers feet fine plump
pullet, SO says another witness. That
beasts instinct was stronly marked as ap-
pears from the following evidence:
Witness. ''Yes sir, that dog was tame
to honest folks but let him see a suspi-
cious person prowlin' around, that's
all.''
Harrington. You mean to say, then.
that the dog could tell the difference be-
tween honest and dishonest persons, well,
now how did he show it?"
Witness. "Why he could smell law
yer half mile and then a cable rope
couldn't hold him."
Another witness, (colored) testified
"Well gemmen dat dog was de cussedest
beast l eber see, talk bout desc here
'bull-doZers,' why 'dey couldn't hold a
candle to him, but dat aint no name for
him. l knowed feller dat visited Mr..
Ennis hen coop, one night, and dat dog
he grabbed him by de leg, and jerked him
clar pack to de coop, an put him IN;
watched him dare all night till Mr.. En-
mis- come down and cotched him. dat dog
did dat to make eberything sure"
Reed. NWhaf waQ fha Iuaiuht nf tba
dog?"
Harrington. "What point has the
learned counsel in view, does he wish to
prove the market value?'
Reed. "Narket value?"
Harrington. eyes, / thought nerhaps
the basis of the question was to snow
how much he would be worth for sau-
sage" Laughter
Justice Di 'kson with all the dignity of
Chief Justice) "Nr. Constable eject all
noisy persons; maintain order at the Deril
of your life"
Squire Dickson makes = capital ius.
tice. His form of administering oaths
has deep solemnity attached that goes
direct to the conscience of the witness
for instance
"John Ennis, you solemnly swear (why
don't You keep your hand on the book,
by the Holy Evangels Of Almighty God
that the evldence-(no, your right hand)
you shall give-(keep quiet out there,
Will you) ITO noisy person in the
crowd)-shall be the truth, the whole
truth-t''w what's next, Clate?'') Ito the
constable back of HIM, (ah yes nothing
but truth; SO help you God. Kiss the
book, now proceed:h
So on Went the case until Ridgely made
a motion for non suit. A consultation
Tor OF ten minutes was held and the mo
tion dismissed, after which the case wa,
| adjourned until 10 o'clock to-day.
Yesterday afternoon, as DIR. Jump wa.
drlving along King street, the body-bol
of his carriage broke land the front Wheel
separated from the carriage. The car
riage Immediately tilted forward, throw
ing the Doctor out and inflicting sever,
but not dangerous cash on his forehead
The horse became frightened and RAJ
away, but was soon captured.
John West, prominent and wealth,
citizen of Kent County, died at his resi-
dence in Frederica, on Tuesday after
noon.