Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-08-02

unquestionably the tallest elephant eve
seen in this country or Europe, an
would have been considered an unusuall
large one in India. He has visited i
the course of his wanderings nearl
every town of note in the United State
and Canada, and will be remembered b,
hundreds of thousands in every part o
the country.
Hannibal was celebrated not only fol
his vast size, but also for his occasional
outbreaks of fury, when It became i'm.
possible to restrain him except by resort
to the most severe measures, and during
which he sometimes obtained temporary
mastery over his keepers. One of the
most celebrated of these freaks occurred
at Pittsburg in 1913, and, altOugh the
story has frequently been told, this sketch
would be incomplete without brief
allusion to 1t, It was brought on BY
disappointment in an affair Of the heart;
indeed, fretfulness at having no one to
love- was the primary cause of all the
escapades which have rendered him so
notorious. At the time referred to. he
had been spending the winter in the So
ciety of Queen Anna, female elephant,
to whom he became warmly attached.
and when spring came his companion
was separated from him. to be placed
with another show. Hannibal's grief
and rage at this sundoriug of two Faithful
hearts were terrific. For days he refused
all food, manifesting an obstinate deter
mjnatiou to commit suicide by starvation.
He endeavOred to kin his keeper, and
struck viciously at every one who ap-
preached him. 1t was endeavored to
soothe his sorrows with whisky; but, al /
though he drank eagerly Of that consol
ing beverage when it was given him, his /
moroseness and fury only increased, and .
at last he broke loose from his fastenincs
and took possession Of the building in
which he stood, TO the unboauded con
sternation Of his fellow-beasts. who man
itested their terror by fearful sLrieks
and howlings. He was finally over
powered and beaten into submission, and
for long time thereafter conducted
himself in an exemplary manner. /,
In the year 1854, HannibaI made his
celebrated raid on the road between Paw .
tuckot, Rhode Island, and Fall River
He had shown signs of insubordination
for some days, and being tied up to a
wild cherry-tree during Sunday, was
good deal annoyed by the crowd who
gethered around him. On Monday
morning he displayed great irritability
when started for his days tramp, and
struck at several wagons as he passed f
them on going off the lot. Oyertaking +
wagon on the road, he smashed it with q
out ceremony, and on his keeper dis h
mounting for the purpose of getting a a
better control over him, he turned upon b
hat individual with ferocity, and forced a
him to take refuge in a house. After 81
the house for few minutes II
le started off in the direction of Fall tc
River, running muck for several miles. st
nd destroying everything that came in o,
lis way, until, blown by the pace he had ii
aiken, he ran into the woods, exhausted, D,
7herc his keeper found him. Upon be- CT
ng overtaken, he laid down at the word b.
f command, when the tusk-chains were III
lade fast to his legs. Extra chains tb
-ere then procured, and he was so heav- ci
y fettorod as to be incapable of doing de
Irther mischief, after which he was G,
riveu on to Fall River without much nm
ifieulty. On this raid be killed four de
orsos, besides committing gothordamages. in
ut fortunately no person was iniured.-lk Ike
the horses he jammed against wall. lot
inning his tusks through and through tn.
is body. lie soon took the carcass Nm
rriod it some distance and threw it in ma
ditch. In thrusting his tusks through sta
lothor horse and into the Macadamized II.
ad, he broke piece three feet long an,
T one Of them, and they we're subse- inf
lontly both sawn OF SO as to match pb
1t in 1862 they had grown out again by
It'll they crossed each other at the oy,
ds. They we're then all of seven feet ba,
length. Hannibal remained very hin
oss for two Or three weeks after this An
plot, but his ilI-temper finally wore Jaw
by degrees; and he regainod his Of
uaI equanimity mn
In 1853 Hannibal created quite an ez- def
oment in Williamsburg. He broke yea
t in one Of his ungovornable fits within aba
e exhibition tent, during the absence 7
MS keeper, and made an attack upon con
horse which was attached to wagon VIII,
sawdust that lad was engaged in un- bui
ding. The horse lodged the blow aIo,
ich Hannibal aimed at him with his vbe
nix, and made his escape into the the
eet, smashing the vehicle against one had
the center-pOles in his progress. The hav