The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-08-23
MAD DOGS.
DESTRUCTION OF BITTEN OURS.
Successful Cure for the Dreaded Disease.

DESTRUCTION OF BITTEN OURS.
Successful Cure for the Dreaded disease.
! From time 10 time VIC haze called The at
tention OF our readers through the columns
OF Ihr Wig to the enormous quantities of
dogs that infeSt This county, and more par
ticuiarly this town. We have shown from
the return Of the tax collector that the num-
Der of gyrS in Eikton exceed the who.e
number assessed in the Third district by
upwards oI twenty. Some weeks ago, :,
rabid dog visited our town and bit Il large
number of valuable settlers, all of which
/ Went mad and have since died.
Last Saturday morning, in the early
dawn, Il vicious hound that had been bitten
by the rahid eur before mentioned, was
seized with Il fit of hydr"lhoLia, and started
upon Il raid on ;hc other CANNES III the
/ town, upwards OF twenty of which he bit
! While ra,ing around the town seeking vie
/ Tins upon which to vent his wrath he met
I our - Devil" ho WAS delivering the last
/ issue of The Wing, near Ike Catholic Church.
! Having no weapon with him (not even 4
! supply of brimSton",) and being warned by
/ the hue and cry HAT WIS raised, the young
man very pru,lcntly climbed over Il fence
! and succeeded i'll ending the vigilance Of
the Infatuated dog which went on down
Bridge street and up Main street, biting all
! the dogs that it met. Anon. the number
were several valuable settlers that were
| highly priced by their owners, which they
were ubli@ct. 10 kill. We understand that
! the owner of the dog that did the mischief
had been informed that it had been bitten
and that some persons had threatened to
shoot it and that he threat encd to prosecute
them if they did so.
On Monday last, cur belonging to Mrs.
- Boyer, a coiorcd woman, who re-
sides near the gas works, was known to be
mad, and Bailh Shockley, accompanied by
the Sheriff and 4 legal gentleman, who fear
ed the animal might bite his children, went
to her house with the intention of shooting
it. Mrs. Boyer resisted them i'll a mild way
for some time and tried her best to screen
her favorite from the impending danger,
but, after much rarleyin., the dog WAS
| found nicely housed in the back room of her
dwelling, with its mouth wide open and
evidently almost dead from hydrophobia.
Mrs. s., after much persuasion and some
threatening, was induced to consent To its
death: so she gathered it up in her arms as
gently As if it had been y lamb, and carried
il ont and laid it i'll the yard, when, true to
its instincts it went for the Hailitf as fast
us its deblitated condition allowed, where
upon that officer put y couple of loads Of
shot into its body, and thus WAS another
dead dog added to the long list Of dcfunct
CANNES that have been sent to the happy
hunting grounds since last Saturday.
1t is high time that steps were taken to
ascertain whether others than the owners of
these worthless ours have not some rights
as well as they. Many Of them pay no tax
upon the half-starvcd ours they harJor
about their premises, whose only Use seems
to be to make night hdeauS with their howl
ing. But if any one threatens to suppress
the unmitisated nuisance, by means of Il
shot gun, they raise a worse howl than that
of he Internal ours and threaten the would
pe-penefactor OF the human race Win the
terrors of the law. If this matter is too
birh to he rcmedicd bv the legislature Of the
l.. .. ,ra,, r;..; .,,- :.
''"''' i'' '"' i'"n - ','N' ~
i'll hand and muzzle the dogs, and, II need
be, their owners. y healthy public senti
,,o,t vii, sust,;, tbrm in do;pr 81 Sbould
inns tne'hoa De iounu 10 DC lnlPractic''ple,
let Il vigilance committee be organized for
tbc nrotection of societv before valuable
a.,
i'N'' '''' SUI nv ' W '''o '"is Va ''e''
worthless animals
rr-pr ,,oI. ,rynrnruouI.
A recent writer III the '"a'N'y Le''ts"a"
gives 1he loiiowlnS cure ior hEuroPnopia
when we pophSh lor our reaoetS pchen''-
lie 'ithe between me pil'h. OF 'h animal
oy d iiiau oos ''Hu siio"iiiS SiShs VI hS"io
Phoo'a Is hot less .l"'i i!,lc Gay p';t l',H!
DO nine ,ii0HlhS: [N''c' tnI "iIi.t,'. ms We
CONC l'.pit, d ol.e VI .n NC .eo'
upon peisoi' VI sloo"T. coming ~ .oiit,.'I
wl'n u SOLE vi Ia" p,N.', "ou,u pio" ',
ns"roPhop'' !tH' 10 no1'i do nc ii'.''
oeeh p''teh os u h'"i W. op'ioo't
can pe PleNth'e", "ii,t wiz ?No "h,''
hho" 10 nc an ihlai'ipie lI'ne"!i - uosr