Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-16
Hunting on the NneceS.

From Campaign Sketches of the War
with Mexico, now in the press ofthe Har.
pers, the Literary World makes some in.
teresting extracts. We quote the follow
ing: ~ a
A party of five officers left the camp for
three days hunt on the Nueces. The
second day we had all returned for some
some grub, except D., when we saw him
coming on horseback with Gas we suppos-
ed) "a deer behind him. To our Joy, in
stead of a deer, he threw down an enor-
nous panther. Z ,-..-s...r -.....,
"Well done, OPP was the involuntary
exclamation. ''Where did you kill him?-
under what circumstances 2" "Easy, my
boys-just hold your horses; Ill tell you;
but just tip me some grog; for am rather
used up. Well, shot busting big buck,
and saw it fall about hundred yards from
me, in mot Knowing when old King
Death (name of his rihe) sends ball that
tbs all up with anything it hits, gave
myself no uneasiness about the buck, and
was crawling upon another, when heard
the greatest fuss and growing where the
oONh lCIIS oIIu SOuCIuuCu luC WOItGS
have got it. ran up and got within six
feet before saw the cause of all this con.
fusion ; when, simultaneously with my
sight, with sharp cat-growl and desper-
ate leap, panther sprang at me. | had
barely time to fall back few feet, when
he brushed past me 10 full leap, just mis-
sing my person, lighting OH the ground
about twenty feet from me. He instantly
turned towards me, and prepared, with
teeth shown, tail on his back, and death
in his eve, to make another spring at me.
l drew up king Deatt,' saying, Itis you
or |, old fellow cracked away, and shot
him through the centre of the forehead, a
little lower than the eyes. He fen, and,
with some desperate struggles, died, re-
lieving me from rather an unpleasant pre-.
dicament." "Good, old fellow bring
out that bottle of Cozzen's old brandy !:
none but the best to drink to the panther
killer" fa - 1888 q a5
1t certainly was dangerous, most fear.
fully dangerous situation. DIS GOODNESS,
caring land ready command ofnerve saved
his life. The animal weighed one hum
dred and sixty pounds. was seven feet
eight inches from tip to tip. and four feet
high. The spotted tigers are terrible
animals, and the fercest hunting dogs
cover at their approach. Colonel c., of
Texas, told me that, on the Bernard river,
while hunting coons with a friend, the
dogs freed, in an immense live-oak, some.
thing over which they made an unusual
commotion. Being the youngest, it was
his fate to climb the tree, and get, as they
thought the coon down. The tree was
directly on the river bank, and its hori.
zontal branches reached nearly across
The trees are no saplings in that section
of the country, the live oaks especially !;
for they do say that under the shade of
some, five hundred persons could dine
lfthey could have had these trees ia the
sylvan times of merry England, what
dances the good people could have had
under them! But, to return. He climb.
ed the tree, md, crawling out on one OF
these horizontal limbs, expecting every
moment to see the coon, what should pre-.
sent ITSELF upon rising up to look around,
but an immense spotted tiger, with eyes
| sslike balls of fire." What to do was the
question. He could not back out he
dared not drop into the river, for il was
! full of aIligators. He fell upon this plan;
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