Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — A Remarkable Dog Story. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Dog Story.

Some years ago, while Mr. Hamilton was fishing near the lower rapids of the Mississippi, just above the Keokuk, he observed below him a man bailing a canoe, preparatory to taking himself, wife and baby across the river. At the same time mr. H. saw that his Newfoundland dog was w-atching the proceeding of the party. Seeming to comprehend their intention the dog uttered a peculiar howl and, passing rapidly up the river for some distance, plunged into the water and swam diagonally down and landed on a large rock standing out of the water about midway of the stream. After shaking the water from his shaggy chat he again watched the party, who in the meantime had embarked in the canoe. Just as the boat passed the rock it was caught in the rapidly-descending current capsized. The woman in falling into the water loosed her hold on. the child, which floated down the stream. The man caught his wife and waded with her to the rock. The instant the child fell into the water the dog leaped in and in a short time was seen in the still water below swimming with the child in his mouth, which he carried in safety to the shore.— Franklin (Ky.) Patriot. ■ - -■ 1 " ■ —Another man to be hanged in Pennsylvania. State can stand this drain on its population.