A USE FOR DOGS

[Barrycdog]

Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Aug. 8, 1862 -- page 2

A USE FOR DOGS

The city authorities of Petersburg , Virginia, have dog catchers employed in the killing of all stray dogs about that city. Their corpses are converted into saltpetre in the nitre beds in the neighborhood, and then into gunpowder. Soldiers are using this powder are said to make a peculiarly dogged resistance.

 

[Bob Owen]

 

[Bob Owen]

 

[Bob Owen]

 

[Bob Owen]

 

[JerseyBart]

This video is hilarious and adorable!!!

 

[Shadow9216]

Seems a prosecutor in the UK couldn't understand that a police dog had bitten the crook instead of a human officer, and kept demanding a statement. The police dog happily obliged.

 

[James B White]

Soldiers are using this powder are said to make a peculiarly dogged resistance.

Don't make me post what they said about how the soldiers reacted to the powder from the Selma Alabama nitre works.

Last verse of the last poem: http://genforum.genealogy.com/haralson/messages/272.html

 

[Barrycdog]

 

[Dave Wilma]

Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Aug. 8, 1862 -- page 2

A USE FOR DOGS

The city authorities of Petersburg , Virginia, have dog catchers employed in the killing of all stray dogs about that city. Their corpses are converted into saltpetre in the nitre beds in the neighborhood, and then into gunpowder. Soldiers are using this powder are said to make a peculiarly dogged resistance.

I wonder if this is the sports writer for the Weekly Telegraph.