Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-11-08


title thought her claims to could not be dis
puted. She only insisted, and properly, that
names and places should still be suppressed.
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- County. Ill. Aug. %, 1888.
*l'hey have been received.-(Editor.
CONFLICT WITH AN ELEPHANT.
am just returned from singular adven-
ture. My hand tremblcs as write. had
laid down my pen and gone forth upon my
Arab, accompanied by Milo, to refresh and
invigorate my frame after our late carousaI
shall term it! at the palace. took my
way, as often do, to the long Portico. that l
might again look upon its faultfess beauty and
watch the changing crowds. Turning from
that, then amused my vacant mind by pos
ting myself where could overlook, as it
were indeed the builder or superintendent, OF
the laborers upon the column of Aurelia.--
became at length particularly interested in
the efforts of huge Elephant, who was en-
ployed in dragging upt to the foundations OF
the column, so that they might be fastened to
machines to be then hoisted to their place.
enormous blocks of marble. He was noble
animal, and, as it seemed to me, of far more
than common size and strength. Yet did not
his utmost efforts appear to satisfy the de-
mands Of those who drove him, and who
piled without mercy the barbed scourges
which they bore. His temper at length gave
way. He was chained to mass OF rock.
which it was evidently beyond his power to
move. It required the united strength of two
at least. But this was nothing to his inhu-
man masters. They ceased not to urge him
with cries and blows. One ofthem, at length,
transported by the insane fury which seizes
the vulgar, when their will is not done by the
brute creation, laid hold upon a long lance,
terminated with a sharp iron goad, long as
my sword, and rushing upon the beast, drove
it into his hinder part. At that very moment
the chariot Of the Queen, containing Zenobia
herself Julia, and the other princesses, came
suddenly against the column, on its way to
the palace. Imade every possible sign to the
late. The Infatuated monster snapped the
chains that held to the stone at a single
bound, as the iron entered him, and tramp
ling to death one of his drivers, dashed for.
ward to wreak his vengeance upon the first
object that should come in his way. That,
10 the universal terror and distraction of the
gathered but now scattered and flying crowds,
was the chariot ofthe Queen. Her mounted
guards, at the first onset of the maddened an
mal, put spurs to their horses, and by quick
caps escaped. The horses attached to the
:hariot springing forward to do the same,
Urged by the lash of the charioteer, were met
BY the Elephant with Strengthened trunk and
all, who, in the twinkling of an eye, wreath
ID his proboscis around the neck of the first
le encountered, and wrenching from him
his harness, ,whirled him aloft and dashed
him to the ground. This saw was the mo-
nent to save the life of the Queen, if il was
indeed to be saved. Snatching from flying
= H. III Al.
emper of INV horse. / put him to his speed.
ind running upon the monster as he olsen
ragged his trunk from the crushed and: diving
Arabian for a new assault, drove it with un-
,rring dim into his eve, and through that
opening ON into the brain. He fell as if
bolt from heaven had struck him. The terri.
led and struggling horses of the chariot
we're secured by the now returning crowd.
and the Queen, with the Processes, relieved
from the peril which was so imminent, and
had blanched with terror every cheek but
Zenobia's. She had stood the while was
lold-there being no exertion which she
could make-watching with eager and in.
tense gaze my movements, upon which she
felt that their safety, perhaps their lives, de-
pended. It all passed in a moment. Soon
as drew out my spear from the dying uni.
NAL, the air was rent with the shouts Of the
populace. Surely at that mo-
ment was the greatest-at least tho most
man in Palmyra. These approx.
ing shouts, but still more, the few words ut.
tered by Zenobia and Julia, were more than
enough for the small service
had performed especially. however. The in.
vitation of the Queen. -Letters from Polmra.
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