Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1875 — Canine Sagacity. [ARTICLE]

Canine Sagacity.

Michael Conley, the sewer contractoi, is the' possessor of four greyhounds, which wrire the other mornjng the means of saving a man's life, displaying a remarkable degree of sagacity in the operation. Felix Prior and James Carroll were at work in ah excavation about seven feet deep; but about 9 :S0 o’clock Carroll went away for something, leaving Prior m the excavation alone, and while the latter was at work the banks caved in, completely covering him up. The dogs happened to he near by, and all four of them, taking in the unfortunate jnan’a situation, at once began to scratch away the dirt from over his head vigorously, at the same time yelping to attract the attention of the neighbors. Mr. Conley, who was the first to arrive upon the scene, drove his dogs away, but they returned and began to dig and yelp again, tie then began to dig also, as didsome of the neighbors who had been attracted to the spot by the cries of the hounds, and it was not long before the head of the buried man, who was > standing up, was reached, and he was permitted once more to breathe the air, which, had he been deprived of it a few moments longer, he never would have breathed again. He wtts taken from the sewer unharmed:, rescued from the horrible fate through the sagacity of a quartet of dogs.—.Bo* Greenwich (R. J.J Letter, ;