{"id":1158,"date":"2013-05-02T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/blount\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:59:25","slug":"wallace-landon-sheep-attacked-by-dogs-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wallace-landon-sheep-attacked-by-dogs-1879\/","title":{"rendered":"WALLACE, Landon &#8211; Sheep Attacked by Dogs (1879)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At &#8220;Soapstone,&#8221; a few miles southwest of town, on Saturday last, a pack of dogs attacked the sheep of Mr. <strong>Landon WALLACE,<\/strong> who came upon the dogs when they had killed one sheep and partly eaten it. \u00a0Mr. WALLACE was accompanied by another man, and the dogs making the attack, the men were compelled to fight manfully for awhile, and after being reinforced, with the aid of guns, axes, shovels, fire-tongs, rocks and clubs, finally succeeded in rescuing the lambs and killing two of the kussed kurs.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<i>Blount County democrat.<\/i>\u00a0(Maryville, Tenn.), 31 July 1879.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn96091617\/1879-07-31\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn96091617\/1879-07-31\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At &#8220;Soapstone,&#8221; a few miles southwest of town, on Saturday last, a pack of dogs attacked the sheep of Mr. Landon WALLACE, who came upon the dogs when they had killed one sheep and partly eaten it. \u00a0Mr. WALLACE was accompanied by another man, and the dogs making the attack,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsextracts","tag-wallace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}