The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-22
STRANGE STORIES T..
WONDERFUL DOG WATCH

A aoG stor-.i told ny the G9zetts.
nsner published in EbertoD, Ga. In
las. August Chas. Norman moved his
family from the town of Flowery Branch
To Elberton, more than one hundred
miles distant But in the hurry OF NOV
inc. Mr.. Norman forgot TO let his dog
Watch out OF the kennel or dog house,
aud did not think of it until be and all
his family were in the cars bound Tor
Elberton. Little Willie Norman was
yery sorry, for he and Watch were par
ticular friends, and, though the Gazette
doesn't say 30, it is likely that Willie
cried over leaving Watch. One week
went BY and the Normans had nearly
forgotten Watch, when the dog suddenly
appeared while the family Were at dinner
in Elberton, Watch entered the room
with an air of injured Innocence and was
soon welcomed by sill hands. The strange
thing about it is, how in the world Watch
could have found the family. He prob.
abiy followed the trail to the depot and
into the same car. and rode in the car
under the same seats that had been oc-
cupied by the family until the train
stopped at Eberton.
AHEN MATCHES YOUNG ALL1GAToRs.
There is no doubt that the newspapers
,el! of some queer things, but then it
mast bs RENE INBRED haw many queer
things happen. Here is a story told by
,hs Abbevllle (La.) Meridional of last
week: A lady residing at Cow Island, in
this parish, wishing to set" q hen, went
into the field adjoining her residence
where some of her chickens had been
laying" and produced some seventeen
eggs, and placed them under the hen.
When in the course OF human events the
chickens wers hatched. 10! and behold,
there came forth tour small-sized ALI.
gators. II is supposed that slligators
from the adjoining marsh had deposited
tAe,r eggs in tho field, and she not know.
ing the difference, placed them under the
men. And what is mors strange, the
young alligators follow the mother hen
around ths premises as happy as Col
orado beetle in potatoe patch.
DANCING ROOSTER.
Not very far behind the story of the
hen that hatched tha alligators
Is the story OF dancing rooster
told by the Albanian of Wetumpka,
Ala: 1--WE learn from DR.. I. B Whit.
ney that Mr.. Samuel Spigener, living
near Buyckville. entertained him recent.
iy with dancing rooster. Mr.. Spigener
called up his Grower and offers him some
dough, provided he will cut double
shuttle, which the fowl proceeds at once
to do to the merriinent of the crowd. We
have seen dog churn butter, but we
take off our hat to the Buyckvile CHECKER
that dances"
AN OWL ATTACKS DOG.
The Port Jervis On Y Gazette telli
how an owl attacked dog: Charles Fl
Westbrook is blacksmith at Carpenter
Point. Sometimes he goes hunting
Early this morning he hunted coons
His dog espled an owl, aud the ow
espied the dog. The owl pitched int;
the dog fierceIy. and had not the coon
hunter discharged two barrels OF sbo
into his owiship there would probabl,
have been dead dog. II is not Otter
that owls act 80 unbecomDgly.
TABBY OPENS THE DOOR.
In the Alexandria jVs.) Gazette is
story OF cat owned by James ?. Machen
who lives near Centervlle. Mr.. Matchel
has heen troubled for some time by tn
mysterious opening of the door OF hi
house. He watched the other night
and saw that it was the cat. Tabby wa
in the habit of climbing up the door
holding to the knob with one paw an
turning it with the other until the doc