Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Horrible Cruelty. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Cruelty.

Among the unpleasant facts observed by Sir Samuel Baker in his wanderings on the shores of the White Nile was one similar to that recorded by the African traveler Bruce, who declared to an unbelieving public that the Abyssinians cut beefsteaks from living cattle. He found that it is the practice in a certain district to remove the humps of the native buffaloes while the animals are alive, and that the meat thus obtained being much valued this horrible, operation is repeated several times during the lives of the miserable creatures. This is disgusting enough and the people guilty of such methods of increasing the meat supply are no doubt steeped in cruelty and bloodshed; but a traveler from Unyoro might, had he been in Glasgow the other day, nare turned the tables on white critics and pointed to an ugly sight in Christian and civilized England. Here a charge was lately proved against an engineer gs having cruelly tortured a dog by putting it into a pot over the fire, filled or partly filled with boiling water, and allowing the animal to remain there howling and barking until the hair, skin and flesh were about to separate from its bones, when it died. It was also stated by witnesses that they found the defendant standing looking'at the poor brute struggling in the pot and askingit to give an Recount of itself now. We could wish in the case of its trial that the venue has been changed to Africa, where, if the law had taken cognizance of the ofiense at all, its majesty would have been vindicated with a hippopotamus whip instead of a fine of twenty-one shillings or fourteen days* imprisonment —Pall MM Gazette. —The weather-wise say that the first three days of December forecast the succeeding winter season. If that be the case we are to have a very moderate winter.