The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-15

Death of Barmum at the feet of his oaca
Elephant. ......

ONlDUETOnA, A>OS. ~.
1t will be recollccted that at the sale of
his wild animals, few days since, Mr.. PIT
BIN bid in one of the elephants, with
the intention of working the animal upon
his farm The intention he partially car
ried out, and the passers by of Iranstan"
his castle, or castor, have been much a.
unused during the past few days at witness
sing the unwieldy animal engaged in vari-
GUS domestic duties, such as bringing water,
hanging out clothes, pulling celery, picking
up chips, etc. In these employments the
creature has cvinced no indsposition to la
boring for its human employer but, on the
contrary, has frequently, when relieved at
noon, been noticed to take up a bucket or a
rake and 60 through the exercise Of draw
ing imaginary water, and gathering suppo-
sitions chips. Indeed, SO entirely tractable
had the elephant become, that he was suf-
fered to roam about the pastures in compa-
ny with the other cattle, until the death of
a fine short-horned steer from fright, and
the loss of Morgan colt, which ran itself
entirely blind, and continued running until
it dropped down maribund made it necessa-
ry to confne the elephant to stable. The
day before Yesterday an old debtor of BIS
failed, and B. was obliged to take some of
his property on his claim. Among the lot
was machine for the manufacture of acOo-
den oats, intended to be of service when the
Reciprocity Treaty should come into ef-
feet. This machine was in perfect working
order, and was tried the day it came home
tho yield of imitation oats amounting to
40 bushels, and which were stored in the
barn. .,, "f ..it
On taking the elephant out on Saturday
it was discovered that he was not as good
natured as usual, throwing his trunk about
and uttering cries of anger The mahOut
or driver attempted to force him to his work,
when he turned upon him, seized him by his
ample oriental trousers, and quietly dropped
him in well, whence he was with difficulty
extricated. The elephant then started OFT
for the pasture, when he encountered a
drove of cattle, which he tossed in all d.
rections. In his mad career he overthrow
a smoke house, demolishing a threshing
machine, turned over stage coach full OF
passengers, and finally ran into the river,
where he remained nearly all day, attempt
ing to pull down the bridge. Not succeed
ing in this, he seemed to be chagrined, and
returned sulkily to his stable at evening.
In the course of the evening, MIR. B.went
to the stable, accompanied by the mahout
who had received no injury beyond duck
ing, and the two attempted to lead the ele-
plant out Seeing Mr.. B., the creature
made at him, pinned him to the floor, and
with terrible cries trampled him until there
was no life left in his system. The cause of
the animals anger has been explained
Mr.. B., whose success in humbuging the
public has been so great, presumed too far
upon the gul!ibii;ty of the elephant. He
had fed him the imitation oats. Tie ami
NAL in his rage at icing thus deceived,
sought his revenge. ..
The elephant has fed, and the whole town
is in CONSERVATION. The funeral of MIR. g.
will be attended tomorrow. His manu-
script biography will be buried with him.