Year: 1877

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Mr., EDITOR IL read in the GAZETTE


a letter from Brother Samuel Townsend,


OF Townsed, a place ofgreat note inDela-


ware. The letter refers to a bill now be-


lore the Legislature, taxing dogs. intro


quced in the Senate by Senator Ray Of
| newark: Brother Samuel says, "I sup
pose some woolen manufacturer is at the
bottom Oft" Now it is well understood
| throughout the State that when Brother


Samuel Townsend refers to wooden


manufacturer in the locality of Newark


he has reference to your humble servant.
Here let me say for the information of
Brother Samuel that that supposition Of
his in regard to the woolen manufacturer,
Is entirely in error as 1 never saw OF
! knew nor wasI consulted in rega I'd to that
particular bill, and the first knew of II
| like Brother Samnel l received CODY of
it, sent to me by Senator Ray. I might
| with equal force accuse Brother Samuel
OF being its author but knowing Brother
| SamuePs kindness of heart toward the
| much abused, and libeled, poor dog,
| could not for a moment entertain such
| thought. Brother Samuel goes on to say
| ''last summer the wool buyers at Middle
town for some of those wooden manufac-
turers paid the large and liberal sum Of
twenty cents per pound for thin wool"
Now If the wool growers in and around
Middletown, who make that place their
wool market sold thin wool at the above
price they were badly swindled and NV
| advice as wool grower and wooden
manufacturer is to be on the look out for
| that individual the next time he under
takes to get their wool for three fOurths
its value; tell him you will try to find q
market where you can get the value of
your wool the same as other people do.
certainly have been mistaken in the peo-
| pie of Middletown and have heretofore
given them greater credit for shrewdness
and good business habits than to allow
such an advantage to be taken of them.
The persons in the vicinity OF Newark
who were engaged in sheep husbandry
among them myself sent our wool to
Philadelphia and realized about twenty
seven cents on an average for our woolin
the unwashed state.


Brother Samuel had better advise his
friends and neighbors to cooperate with
these contemporary wool growers of
Newark before they sell their wool at
such ruionous prices as he states they did
at Middletown. Brother Samuel says
"dogs are the countryman's police, watch
his owners life and property while he is
asleep, bite any of his stock when order
ed to do" 1t may be that some farmer
may have good dogs that will act like
good policemen and take good care of
property put under their care, but bad
dogs like bad policemen sometimes 20 on
a "bust" and neglect their duty and allow
the property put under their care to be
stolen, sometime within the last two
years it was my misfortune to be grand
jury man land If recolleet Alright Brother
Samuel had an indictment before that
body requiring them to find true bill
"against a d uigger for stealing his
yellow cock" Now 1 think Brother
Samueps policeman or dog as he will
call it, must have been either good
for nothing or on bust to have allowed
so valuable bird as Brother Samuels
yellow cock to be stolen.


Such dog as that of Brother SamuePs
will admit is not worth his keeping let
alone that his master should be required
to pay tax for such worthless cur, land
| might be allowed to suggest that Sena-
tor Ray hurry up that dog bill for the
benefit of owners of Just such worthless
ours as the one which Brother Samuel
left in charge of his yellow cock which
he allowed TO be stolen it is for Just such
animals as this that the law is being en-
acted knowing the kind feeling that exists
between the dog and his master it is to
relieve the latter of the disagreeable ne
cessity of killing the former that the con-
stable is required in Senator Rays bill to
kill all such worthless ours as Brother
Samuel must have owned and left in
charge of his beautiful and valuable
yellow bird. Brother Samuel certainly
could not have known that L was very
weak and feeble just recovering from a
long and severe spell of sickness or he
would not have gone for me so roughly
ut time when from the effects of my
long sickness 1 am unable to reply to
him in such a manner as L should have
done under other circumstances. l am
and expect soon to make
reply worthy of my adversary.


Respectfully,


WIN. DEAN.