Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-21
The. Tigers DestructsYeness.

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saI The. Tigers DestructsYeness, fuos
The repeTts of officers engaged in the
revenue Typographical survey, il India go.
o prove that an extraordinary number OF
deaths occur in that country through wild
beasts, The raportssa of the season of;
1867 s.: 10 small obstruction ;was oeca-
stoned to the progress OF. the operations by
the depredations OF the tigers which intest
the district A tiger, reported to have
killed. one hundred and twent5seven
people, stopped the traffic for many
weeks OF. the road between I gMeoi,
and Chandah, till it was shot by iieuten-
ant. In Chindwerrah one tigress caused
the desertion of thirteen villages, and
threw two hundred and: ifty square miles
out Of cultivation. Another old .lgresSs IN
Kurnool killed sixty-four people, stopping
the. post-runners and police patrols, ana
driving off the laborers on the pubhe
works. The statistical tables which ae-
company the. papers show that the matter.
is one Of very high Importance .. indeed
In the Rhaugulpose district Rlone-Rhau-
gulpose is large civil railway station. on
the Gange, within. o nights run from Cal
by wild beasts; while in the whole pro-
Bengall no fewer than 13, 400 eases Of
deaths were officially reported dar
ing the same period, about 7,C00 being
caused by tigers and leepart}s, .and<4, coo
by-welves.. When to this is added the
anany hundreds killed yearly IL Dude, the.
Punjaub, the Central Provinces Madras
land elsewhere, a sufficiently ghastly idea
is obtained 1.-THE fearful scourge. The
published papers take noaecount OF ratages
of wild beasts in the native states; but III
in the com paratiyely green wood OF Bengal
praper, With the system of head and hide
money for wolves and tigers; the results as
are represented officially, what must they
Be in the dry wood OF Rejpootana, and the
Deccan, where countenanee' is. given to
preservation rather than eztirpation2
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.y, The War Trophies in Berlin. ..-
tThe first cannon captured from the
French was brought to Berlin on. The 9Th
uitiIno. says n war correspondent, guarded
by a stronger force than thatshieh thought
five hundred prisoners .thither, on ,thelr
way.to Graudenz. It is q tormidable-look-
ing piece, light md yet sonaewhat old
fashioned, with the Tipped mazzle III
strong contrast to the modern shape Oh the
Armstrong and Whitworth, and made Of
gun metal, with a golden sheen upon Il.
It has been deposited at the arsenal, has
been formally named 1.-The iD6tiay," 1t is
mounted on a blue, painted carriage
dabbled with dried and q Black
| ened. sa blood. he The nn Eighth aBat-
/ talion," is scratched q upon r. ia S
ktuophv. OF late, French arhlerists have
strongly Effected a material composed
tehiedy OF bHenae. ia. preferen Esss iron 'er
steel. for Itheir guns and. hel @ vsa haze a9i
/ txanaple of the latest form o. frepcn Gan
| non. The calibre approaches to-ttf;st Of q
| twenty.tour potindea. OF theioih school; nor
lis there very much difeTenee II he Y fall4ape, al4 2
except for a certain modern. avoidance OF
superiuous veigIft They have been look
ing for mitraslleuse or two on the iIfn-
| den. There IS great iinelinaaen atot ses-
pise these long range cross breeds OF tie
| blunderbuss and the internal machine.
| s.Thev say III France that we, too, have
/ mitrailleuses IN our army" / heard 8
Prussian Colonel say. so we have, but
| we had them not until We took them from
the French; and low We do not care tol
them except rs trophies. N 7. Hera!d.