The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-03-11 00:00:00

ESCAPE OP ELEPHANTS.

! Considerable am:Boman; area nimasion.d on Sunday
afternoon at timtials 'town and UD9II. Holloway. by the
breaking looM of two .I.phonts from tts. parlor the Mid-
land Railway Station, Rentals Town, 'where four elephant
talonting to Meson Sang r and Cl. wdre secured, prepare.
tory to being moved to Goepd o.k. for a circa.. Between
two or three solo it two of the animals broke the gate of
the enclosure an I mad* their way treacle the Archiver
T and 'mewls div (*.And themselves In •
known ea France. t Junctlim road, Upper Hollo-
way. At the hot t •ns of Frani-es t,rtecis they Woke down
a woolen sate, which thui 'gave It to +colas to a arrow
p image betwesn two ham).. Riming through
the opening. the foremost animal dipped upon
a coal cellar, the cro .n of which gave way
bsneatts iti weight, and it was pvkipitated to the
bottom, the second animal falling 'Too it,
Here the unfortunate animal. remained imorisocied for
about an hour and • half 11l a number of k.pers .4-zivdd
with the two eleph•ots whiols had aim iined ç 'Mt at the
Midland Railway E:atlou. t,rain. wdre attached to the
intndilloted ka:usal& sod their o impsnioos woo Comm to
timir relief hauled theta out of the cellar, and the four
elephants, chained together, m.re than condutsl to
Hovel Oak A child was knocked down by on. of lb.
animals In Kentish Town soon after its escape. and •
keeper received • blow which fracturid hie collar bone.
The sabot.:, of Jimotion.road Hanmegstionil Sunday !
School were detained in the shout anti! ail danger warn !
pot, the schoolroom brim d reedy oppalte francs/-
terrace.

TUE highest awards at the Calcutta Exhibition for
pianoe—nuniely, two diploma/ of horiour and two gold
medals—have been awarded to Merit Jong Baficsisnau
acid SONO. of London.
II WOl7ll • TRIAL —" fai troubled for in an,
year. with kidney complaint, gravel, •lay blood become
thin. I wan dull and Inactive, cool I madly crawl shout,
and was an old worn- dot man all ,Jwir, and could gat
nothing to hilp in. WWI I got Hop Bitter., sod sow lay
bloid and kidneys as. all right. end I sin la add,. al a
taan of thirty although I ant itemisty-two, and I bane no
doubt It will do as well for others el my ago. II la worth
the trial." (Yatkier.)—Bwed /advt.

EXTRAORDINARY' =CAP: OP Till
BERICSLNY HOUNDS.

On Satu-day Lor I Fdsh \Mk te'.. isitlsodi I p Ick of
bound., which ha I tit ir inset at Ills Borkelii k innelt.
our ...14y aircapird what wriolt hare h en sni o,tta.
trophe. After filing • fti, Rayner.' ,ale If lathe
direction of the railway. •od b•ing follow. I by the
the whole pack wise in full cry In a deep cutting,
whoa, to the horror of the huntsman and three eng tged
I. the chase, the pound watt heard of a rapi fly rip.
Preaching good. trate. S .me id the party got on to •
bridge which envies tits line. and endeavoured to
sigma the enginwslriver • at to Induct him to arrest
the progress id the train. Owing t the course of tits
rail at the point, however, the signals coal not be
sevn in time to apply the brook, al I the tr Is sped
onward on its coarse. E•erybody expecttd to witness
a terrible slaughter of the bout Ir. The 01•11
srgacity. liiiweiver, raved them from such • calamity.
Toe peek, hearing the engine bdtind them, opened
out right and led t, sod so cleared the rail that the train
rushed through them without injuring • dog. It was
regarded by those who witnessed it am sicnoet miracu-
lous, and everybody is full of rejoicing at the escape
of the pack, am t, so true a sportsman art the noble
occupant of Berkeley Irlaetle any calamity of the cat
would be a •ouros of extreme distress.