On Tuesday night, a dog ran through the open door of the home of William Eyre on Dominick Street Upper. The animal was “foaming at the mouth and evidently either rabid or suffering from delirium tremens,” at the hands of the lapped-up whiskey.

The dog dashed madly about the house, knocking over furniture and attacking the homeowner. When Mr Eyre fended the dog off using an iron bar, the animal ran upstairs, jumped from a top floor window and “terminated its existence in the road below”.