Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-13
A Bear Fight.

And Lizzyanny Quirl.
A Bear Fight.
The Portland Argus.contains the following account
of bear fight, which transpred in Andover North
Surplus, Oxford counsy, Maine, Thursday last:
AS Erastus Beam young man of twenty years,
was hayng in the field, accompanied by boy of IL,
named Dunn, he looked up and saw near him large
black bear of the white faced breed (the most
age of the black varety,) Having taken his gun
with him to shoot partridges, he caught it up and
fired at the brute, but with little effect as the bear
Immediately began to close upon him. Bean fell
back slowly, loading his gun the mean time; when,
just he had got his charge in, his heel caught d.
gainst twig and he fell backwards and bruin leaped
upon him. His situation was frightful one.
but his GOODNESS did not fOrsake him, and he mme-
diately fired again, but with visible effect. The
bear at once went to work, seZing his left arm, bit
ing through it and laceratngi severely While thus
amusing himself: he was tearing with his fore paws
the clothes and scratching the flesh on the young
mans breast. Having dropped his he opened
his huge mouth to make pounce at his face. Then
1T was that the young man made the dash that saved
his life As the bear opened his jaws, Bean thrust
his lacerated arm down the brutes throat far as
desperation would enable him. There he had him.
The bear could neither retreat nor advance, though
the position of the besieged anythne h"t osree
able on so wafn day as Thursday last
Bean now called upon the lad to come and take
from his pocket jack knife and open it. The boy
was fitting companion for this brave young man.
He marched up to the work boldly. But before he
could get at the pocket he had to crowd the bears
head little to get at 1.-THE beast meanwhile
not being at all easy with such a huge mouthful in
his throat. Having got the knife Bean with his
untrammelled hand cut the bears throat from
to ear, killing him stone dead while he lay on his
body!
He then threw the beast off, notified his friends,
had his wounds dressed, and is now comfortable.--
1t Judged the bear weighed nearly four hundred
pounds One Of his paws, which our urinformant saw,
weighed two pounds eleven
What A CoCKNEY SAW AT THE AUSTRALIA DIG
GINs.-I saw things which, as gentleman of Eng
land, living at home at ease, should have deemed
myself perhaps eectro-b biologised to dream Of
| saw husbands buttoness but uncomp planning
] saw bachelors of misogynic aspect seduously
rocking the cradle.
saw several members of the Meddler fomily d-
lgently mindng their own business instead of every
body's else's.
saw a social bore-boring literally, to some pur.
pose here
| saw lots of London Lounger enjoying the utter
| reverse of ' otium dig"
saw that gourmand Cutler pitching contentedly
into kangaroo chop.
| saw that ex-fox, Swellington dressed in cordu-
roys and highlows, and most complacenty intent up
on washing out his last weeks shirt
saw many an emi grated pauper picking up de-
cent living for hinsel here, merely with his pick
axe.
saw many an expatriated Mawworm, who. deem
ing gold to be . the root of all evil certainly pro-
we'd himself the most Jealous in assisting eradicate
And finally saw on all sides abundant evidence
to show that of the richest fields for enterprise
the Gold Field.
Origin of the Caudlc Lectures.
Douglass Jerrold in The preface to the new edition
of the Caudle Lectures, gives the following singular
account of their original conception
1t was, says Mr.. Jerrold, black thick, wintry
afternoon when the writer stopped in front of tho
playground of suburban school. The ground
swarmed with boys full of the Saturdays holiday
The earth seemed rooted with the Oldest lead and
the wind sharp Shylock's knife. from the
| Minores But these happy boys ran and jumped
and hoped and shouted, and-unconscious men in
miniature I'm their own world of froiic, had no
thought of the full length men they would
day become drawn out into grave citizenship;
formal, respectable responsible. To them the sky
was of any or all colors: and for that keen east
wind-cutting The shoulder blades of old old men
of forty-they in their Immortality of boyhoOd had
the redder faces, and the nmbler blood for It. And
the writer, looking deamngly into that play ground
still unused the robust jollity Of those little fell
lows, to whom the tax gatherer yet
animal than baby hppopotamus. Heroic boyhood
30 ignorant of the future in the knowing enjoyment
of present
And the writer still dreaming and mtsing, and
still following no distinct line of thought, there
struck upon him, like notes of Sudden household
music, these words-Curtain Lectures. One mo-
1iS'I' O'JI"'
shouting boys; and the next, as though a white
dove had alighted on the pen hand of the writer,
there was-Nlrs. Caudle. Ladies of the jury arc
there not then, objects of letters that mystic
riously assert an effect without any discoyerable
cause? Otherwise, wherefore should the thought
of curtain lectures grow from school ground
wherefore, among crowd of holiday schoolboys
should appear Mrs. Caude!
For the lectures themselves, it is feared they must
be given up as a farcical desecratioh of solemn
time-h -honored privilege. 1t may be exercised once
in lifetime and chat having the effect of a
hundred repetitons, as Job lectured his wife and
Jobs wife certain Mohammedan writer delivers,
having committed fault in her love for her bus.
band he swore that on his recovery he would deal
her HUNDRED stripes. Job got we'll and his heart
was touched and taught by the tenderness to keep
his vow and still to chastise his helpmate for he
smote her once with palm branch having hum
dred leaves
A SHARP WIr.-Dr. Soloss and R. Armstrong, of
Lawrenceport, Indiana, had fencontre last week
about canoe, when The Doctor his antagonist in
several places with knife. During their trial a
young lad was called witness. and was asked if he
knew what was the obligation of an oath. and trhetc
he would 60, if he told lie! He said he supposed
" he would go achere all the iawpers gor'