Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-07-29
CLOSE OF TuE TIRII,lIye SCENE.

| CLOSE Of THE SCEEE.
A number of the birds which we're Gagged
in he upper part of the building were set
free by some ,charitably inclined person al
The first alarm Of fire. AT intervals they
flew out. There were many vanable iropi.
| cal birds-parrots of all se!Zes and mani,
fold colors, parroquets. cockatoos, mocking
birds, bumming BIRDS, etc las well as some
vutures aud eagles, and one condor
Great excitement existed among the sway
ing crowds in The streets below as they took
wing. Thele were confined in the SAND
room few serpcnts, which also obtained
heir liberty; and soon after the rising aud
devouriug flames began 10 enwrop The
entire building, splendid and em5ltmatic
sight was presented TO the wonde ing aud
up.gszng hrongs. Bursting through the
central easement, with Gap Of wing alf
lashing COILS appeared an eagle and a sers
pent wreathed in fight For moment
they hung poised in mid. air. presenting o
novel aud terrible coua;ct. 1t was the
Earth aud Air Cor their respective re
preseDtatives,) at war for the mas.
terry. The base and the lofty, the
| groveler and the soarer, were engaged in
deadly battle. At length the fat head
of the serpent sank, his wr'hng, sinuoas
form gew still, and, waited upward by the
chees of the gezing multitude, The eagle,
with scream Of iriumpb, and bearing his
pray 10 his iron ,alons, scared toward the
| sun. ..# -r-a sfI
Several monkeys escaped from the bur-
ming building 10 The neighboring roofs and
streets; a considerable excitement was
caused by the attempts TO secure therc.
One OF the amusing incidents in this re-
spect was in connec ion with Mr.. Gordon
.Bennet. The veteran editor of The Herald
was Si ting 10 his private Office, with bis
buck to the window, calmly discussing with
friend the chances that The Herald estab.
-shment would escape the coLfagration,
which at that time was lhereatenngly advun.
eng up Ann-st, ioward Nassau, In the
course of his conversation, Mr., Bennett
observed: However, though !. have usually
Lad good luck in cases of fire. they say
that the devil is ever at ones shoulder,
anf--- Here an exclamation from his
fr!tn interrupted him, and turning quickly,
be was considerably taken back OF seeiUg
he devi him elf something vefv ike him
at BIS very shoulder as he spoke
Recovering his equuauiWity, with the ease
and suaviiy which is usual with him in oil
company, Mr.. b. WAS about to address
be Ihrruder when perceived that that
be had taken for rhe gen'lemBn in black
was nothing more than righr ened ourang-
ouIaug The poor creature, but recently
released from captivity, and doubtless
thinking that he IN ght fill some vacancy
in he editorial corps OF the paper in ques.
t or, bad descended by the @ater-pipe and
ins iuctively taken refuge in the ipDer sane
tum Of the establishment of lhe7oiee. i
/ Although the edii or perhaps from the
fact that he saw no. hiug peculiarly strange
III the visitaloD--Soon regained his com
posure, it was far otherwise with his friend,
who Immediately gave the alarm Mr.
IIadson rushed in, aud boldly attacked The
monkey, grasping bin by he throat. The
book editor next came in, obtaining o
clutch upon the brute by The ears; the
musical critic followed, and seized the tail
with both hands, and number of repor-
ters, ann ed with ink stands and sharpened
pencils came next, followed by dozen
policemen with braudiShed club; at the
slme time, the engineer in the basement
received the precoDcertod sigTa and got
ready his hose, where with 10 pour boiling
hot water upon the heads Of those in the
street, in case it should prove q regular,
systematized attack 10y goriillas, Braziliun
apes aud chimpaoz e'. '."l
Numerous other incidens of simulur
kind occurted; bu, some OF the most anu
sing incidents were in connection with.
THE WAX FIGURES.
Upon the same impulse which prompts
men in lime of fire to fling valuable loot iny
glasses out of three story windows and at
The same time lendery lower down feal her
beds, after the Museum took &c, a number
Of sturdy fremen rushed into the building
to carry out the wax figures. There were
thousands of valuable articles which might
have been saved, if there had been less
of solciude displayed for the miserable
effges which are usually exhibited under
the appellution of Wax Figgers. .....
As it was, a doz"n Gremen rushed into
the apartment wbe they were kept, am d
multitude of crawling snakes, chatterpg
monkeys and escaped parcqaes. Dying
Brigaud" was uncerempuiouSy throltled
aud dragg d toward the door; liberties
were taken with the fearful 'Senorita,' ~
who has so long knelt and so constantly
wugged her doll's head at her side; the
mules of the other bandits were upset aId
they Themselves roughly Sc zed.
The full length statue OF Z. I. Barnum
THE Prince of HumbugS, fell down Of it'
own accord, as if dsgusted with the whole
affair. A red-shirted fireman seiz d. with
either hand Franklin Pierce AID james
Buchanan by the coat.collars. tucked the
Prince Imperial of France under one arm
and The Yelled Mur deress under The other,
and coolly departed for the street Two
ragged boys quarreled over Tom Thumb,
bul al length settled the controversy by one
of them taking The head, The other satisfy
ing himself with the legs below the knees
They evidently had Tom under their thumbs
and intended to keep hun down. While a
curiosity seeking policeman was garrotlng
Beniamiu Franklin. with the idea of ab
duetiug him. small monkey, flung from
the window. ill by the strong hand OF an
impatient fireman, made a straight dive,
hitting poor Richard just below ibe waist
I coat. and passing through his stomach as
- i, tho Harleanin in The Green