Year: 1879


nent and he Is told what the CON-


munity thinks OF him.
For the Republican.


MEssRs. EDITORS The communica-
ton of VIM. Dean in your issue Of
Wednesday, Oct. Is, shows him to have
a strangely unbalanced mind. His
habit of thought, his style of writing,
and the loose way in which he tries tol
gull the readers of your paper show the
vague heroics of his writings. But it'll
is quite another thing when tagrant,
and palpable Misrepresentation are
put forth in support of his contention
against my family, then he has a dis
honorable motive in view.


Mr.. Dean says "he never fights, that
he lives in community that is full ofl
the fighting element, and Mr.. G.. GER
tain]y must have been one of them and
educated mis- son while young in the
way he wanted him to go so that when
he arrived at manhood if such time
would ever arrive, and allow me to
give you an example of the teaching OF
myself and Mr.. Gregg"


My son did send a challenge to Mr..
Deans son on the day my dog was shot;
but Mr.. Dean in his example must have
forgotten that at the last school election
his son did with clenched fist and COM
batiye attitude defy the senator to come
on, but as the scalp of the ex-senator
would be trophy in the Dean family
it ought to be excluded from the ex-
ample. What the ex-senator has to do
with the dog shooting | am at a loss
to know. lie haunts VIM. Dean in his
night dreams and scares him worse
than the dog does the sheep. There
has not been an election nor y public
meeting in the town of Newark for a
many year past without there being
row to the disgust of the whole COM
munity. In this case Mr.. Dean has
always been the aggressor. | have only
introduced this to prove his combative
qualities.


Mr.. Dean has another grievance
"Mr. G. and his co-operators in their
nightly prowls under the pretext of
fox hunting break down fences, kill
the sheep, make public park of my
land, and leave their dogs to do what
damage they please" Now if Mr..
Dean or any farmer within 10 miles of
the town of Newark, will come for
ward and prove any property that we
have destroyed we will pay the dali
ages. We have hunted all over the
country and been invited bv farmers
to come on their grounds and the farm
ers often accompany us in the pur-
suit.


Another remarkable statement is
that "this identical dog of Gregg's q
neighbor of mine told me was among
his sheep one moonlight night when
he got up out of his bed and shot at
it," Now Mr.. Dean as You are always
blamed for proving too much | will try
and keep you within bounds. This oc-
currence happened about p. m. and
his neighbor went ont and spent the
evening afterwards. The dog was in
full pursuit of fox at the time. The
neighbor acknowledged he was wrong.


The insinuation therefore "that
something was wrong with his sheep
during last winter and several large
fat, healthy looking ones died very sud
denly without any apparent cause. -
"a friend said to me you had better
give some attention to your sheep as
over heard some persons talking about
poisoned corn and sheep" 1t was such
rare occurrence to see tat sheep
amongst Mr.. D. IS flock and very nat
uraI for friend to think it was so for
the reason there is not field on his
estate that is not filled with poison.
Persons living in the locality would not
eat their chickens being afraid ofthem
eating the poisoned meat. MI Dean is not
the gentleman to let any doubts rest
Oh his mind; if lie had any suspicion it
would have soon been tested; ne gets
all the phosphate analayzed why did
he rot try it with his sheep; has he
not canvassed and secured the country
getting farmers to join with him putting
up notices prohibiting us from entering
their fields.


A great many of the night prowlers
he alludes to are his own employees,
who work ten hours y day ct his own
mill. What time have they for enjoy
ment, hut evening. Could he de-
prive them of their Sunday rest, he
would snatch it from them too. When
said there We're not over twenty sheep
killed in the Hundred in which he lives
did not include New Castle county.
The case he refers too was in Mill Creek
Hundred. The owner of tn sheep own
ed four or five dogs, and it is ques
ton in my mind whether Mr.. Dean
does NOT know TO whom the dog belong
ed.


IL is not AL uncommon thing for far
mer that owns sheep to keep two or
three dogs, and no owner OF dog that
hunts will allow his dog to prowl about.
He values it too highly to let it go near
his medicine. He also says ''in the
improvement of the town he has render
ed more aid to public improvements
than the whole gang of operators, if|
it is in the shape of a fifteen cent tax"
| know of no other money he spends.
1t will do DO harm for him to vapor
now against the night providers. We
consider ourselves law abiding citizens.
It's the only privilege he can deprive US
of, and we are determined to put an
end to rifle shooting either by him or
his, near the public road. We give
the same warning as he gave President
Purnel about his dog. Respectfully.


ROBERT GREGG.