Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

[From the Kingston [U. Canada] Chronicle,]
A very affecting account of the effects of this terrific disease has been communicated to us, which occurred in the family of Mr. Moss, a respectable farmer, residing near the village of the river Trent. While Mr. M. and family were sitting at home, a dog belonging to the house, suddenly flew at his master, and bit him very slightly in the hand. He then attacked a daughter about twelve years old, and bit her in several places. A son, a young man of 18 or 20, endeavoring to beat off the mad animal, received a wound upon the lip, and how it was inflicted in the confusion and terror of the moment, whether by himself with the cudgel he was using, or by the dog he cannot tell. The daughter [an interesting young woman] lingered along for several days in the horrors of insanity, and died. The father is now in such a state of frenzy, that he is obliged to be chained; and the young man, laboring under the agonizing apprehensions that he is also infected with madness, his mind haunted with the death of his sister, and the terrifying situation of his father, is in a condition scarcely less pitiful than that of the unhappy maniac.