The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-02-17 00:00:00

RETURN, of the QUEEN to WINDSOR.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and
attended by the Royal suite, left Osborne on Tuesday
morning for Windsor Castle. The Royal party
having driven from Osborne-house to Cowes, em-
barked on board the Royal yacht Alberta and crossed
the Solent to Gosport, where the Queen was received
by the chief naval and military officers of the port.
A special train was provided for her Majesty's accom-
modation, in which her Majesty left Gosport about
ten o'clock, travelling over the South-Western Rail-
way to Basingstoke. During this part of the journey the
train was under the charge of the chief officials of that
company, but at Basingstoke it was transferred to the
charge of the Great Western Railway Company, over
whose line the Royal train travelled, yid Reading
and Slough, to Windsor, where the train arrived at
half-past one. The usual precautions were taken to
insure the safety of the Royal train, which was pre-
ceded throughout by a pilot engine. At Windsor the
public were rigidly excluded. from the arrival platform
and the precincts of the station, and the booking-office
doors were locked so as to prevent all access to the
route from the station-yard to the main street. In
addition tc an extra staff of officials, a large body
of inetropolitim police were. on duty about the
station premises. In the public street a lErge number
of the inhabitants congregated to witness Her Majesty's
arrival, the route from the entrance to the station to
the Castle entrance being lined by a numerous crowd
of spectators. and some hundreds of Eton boys as-
sembled on • the Castle-hill. Her Majesty, who
appeared in excellent health, acknowledged the saluta-
tions of the inhabitants. The equerries accompanied
the Royal carriage on horseback.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH A LIONESS.
A despatch from Philadelphia appearing in a New
York paper states :
Peter Marvine, an animal trainer, was severely
Injured by a lioness belonging to J. B. Doris's inter-
ocean circus, in the winter quarters of the show at
Frankford, a suburb of this city, last night.
The animals of the show occupy several buildings in
Harrison street. The tropical animals are kept in a
room by themselves. The room is 50ft. Pquare, and
along three of the walls are heavy oak and iron cages,
in three tiers, one above the other. The lions, tigers,
leopards, panthers, and hyenas, are imprisoned in the
lower dens. Juno is the largest lioness of the collec-
tion, and is five years old. Until a few months ago she
was regarded as one of the best disposed brutes of
her species. Last summer she assumed a protect°.
rate of two motherless cubs in the show, and since then
has shown the greatest rage whenever her proteges
were approached.

Just before dark last evening Mr. Marvine gave the
cubs their share of liver, and paused a moment to
fondle them. This angered Juno, and as he advanced
towards her cage to pacify her he stumbled and fell
against the bars. In an instant Juno seized his right
arm above the elbow. Marvine grasped the bottom of
the cage with his left hand. Juno held his right arm
with one paw, and struck through the bars at his
head with the other. A lad named Donohue seized an
Iron bar and tried to make Juno drop Marvine, but
only increased her rage. All the animals became
wildly excited, and their roars and cries could be
heard blocks away. Donohue ran out shrieking for
help, and a number of men started to go to Marvine's
assistance.

In the meantime Juno had torn the flesh from Mar.
vine's wrist, struck him several terrible blows on the
shoulder, and then allowed him to drop to the ground
and crawl away. Just as the rescuers reached the
doors they heard the sound of crashing timber, accom-
panied by the angry beast's roars. Juno had
thrown herself against the bars and broken
through. The interior of the building was dark,
and no one dared to venture in. They beard
Juno charging about the place, and hesitated. They
supposed Marvine was dead, He had reached the
rack in which the heavy iron bars used to clean the
cages were kept, and, seizing one, boldly advanceil on
Juno, who was crouching in a corner. The men out-
side, reassured by hearing above the din the animals
were making the voice of IVlervine ordering the lioness
back to her cage, entered, and the beast was subdued.
After Juno was caged it was noticed that one of a
pair of blauw bolo, for which Doris paid 1,000 dols.,
was trembling like a leaf, and tears ran down the
frightened animal's face. Two minutes later it was
dead.

Marvine, though seriously injured, will recover, and
may regain the use of his arm.