Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-18


HUFNAGLE's ELEpHANr.-M uufoagIe
purchased gu elephant in India, and brought
him home under the care OF 4 native keeper.
The design was to teach him to DO farm work.
When tue animal arrived it was ascertalned
that he could not, or would not, 10 such labor,
and so he was put in the stable Of country
hotel near New Hope, where he consumed
enough su:tenancc to bankrupt O man OF or
binary wealth.
One day his keeper died suddenly, and, as
nobody else knew how to manage the elephant
it was found 10 be impossible to get him out OF
the stable, The landlord ravcd aud s|orc, and
tore his hair ABOUT it, but there that elephant
stuck, with tho manifest intention OF staying
till the day cf judgment, and Of battoring
down The stable unless he was led.
At last the landlord said that the elephant
must be got rid oil somehow or other, ii lie lad
to he blown through the roof with gunpowder
So aa effort was made to sell him, and men
agclie man was induced to buy him for two
thousand dollars. This man determined to
bring that elephant right along with strategy.
lie got car on the railroad track near by,
an alter fixing bridge to it, he lined the
floor with u bushel or two OF apples, ginger
bread, oranges, etc. Then be mado regular
pathway OF apples and cakes all the way from
the stable to the car 1t cost him two hundred
dollars for bait, The elephant followed the
trail slowly, eating it up clean as he won't,
lie marched up on tho platform over the
bridge, and got bis iorciect in ,ho car, with his
hind legs still On The bridge and lie gorglog
himself all the time, The menagerle man
stood there, expecting every minute he would
go clear into the car and finish the thing up ;
but instead OF this the miserable beast dcbcr-
atcIy stood still, and with his trunk reached
all over the car and ate every solitary thing In
it. Then he turned around and swoopcd down
the road at the rate OF twelve miles an hour
The landlord. meanwhile. was so glad to get
rid CT the beast that he had asked all hands IN
to take something in honor of the event. The
party were jast putting their glasses to their
lips, when suIash was heard at the barn
yard gate, and a laundering crash indicated
that the stable door was knocked into dlmlD-
utiyc flinders. The crowd rushed out, and
there was that very same elephant in the
very same old place.
The landlord was so mad that he couldn't
swear with sufficient vigor to satisfy his feel
ings; SO lie got the crowd to listen to him
while he read sixteen chapters Of Horace
GreeIeys liable Talk out loud. This re
lie7ed him Tor the moment, but the next
morning Hufnaglc's elephant was found dead
aud there was thought to be some connec.
ton between this circumstance and the fact
that the landlord was seen rolling barrel Of
bedUug poison up an adj acent hill on the pre-
7ious evening. American Union.
MONUMENT. j. A. Early, President
OF the Lee Monument Association, has issued
Oh address to the survivors of tho Army and
Navy Of the former Confederate States and to
all the admirers OF the late Gen. 4. E. Lee,
wherever they mag reside asking their aid and
cooperation liz rasing funds to erect the propos-
cd monument to the memory OF the deceased.
He suggests that suitable agents be appointed
in every county in each State, aud also in the
District of Columbia, to call upon all Confeii-
crate officers, soldiers and sailors, receive their
contributions, and enrol their names, and also
to receive contributions from other persons
vino may be disposed 70 make them, ard list
their names also, for the purpose Of preserving
the record of all who may contribute to the
erection of the monument. It is also suggest.
ed that the funds collected in each State be
deposited in some State or local bank, or with
some responsible agent, until required for the
execution of the general purpose. Con,ribu-
tons which may be made outside Of the limits
specified can be forwarded 10 Mr. W. w. Cor
c5rsn, OF Washington City, or to the treasurer
of the association, Col. W. H. Palmer, OF
Richmond, Va.