Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-09-07
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N. o. WALLACE,
Fighting the Tiger.
How Forepaugh TUNED O. Royal
Bengal-Red Hot Irons VS.. Claws
and Teeth. .-.~

and Teeth.
From the Detroit Free Press. ~
/ The agent Of Warner & Com
lpany's Great Pacific Menagerie,
Museum, and Circus, who is wait.
ing in Detroit for the arrival Of
the institution, was put in posses
sion Of some interesting facts in re.
gard to the successful attempt of
A. J. Forepaugh TO break in the
royal tiger "Satin," at fremont,
Ohio, a few days ago. Satan,
as the animal is rightly named, il
asserted to be one of the largest
tigers in this country, weighing
about six hundred pounds, al.
though he is bnt sixteen months
old. He was landed in New York
about year since, being brought
from Bombay with q number of
other animals intended for exhi-
bition. He was captured when
! three months old, a dozen or more
natives assisting in the operation,
and, although ''youngster, be
showed such pluck that three OF
the captors were badly scratched
and clawed. The brother of @Sa-
tam made his escape into D Jun
-
gle, carrying spear in bis side,
and the mother was killed the day
previous by hunters mounted up
on the backs Of elephants, a dozen
elephants, andrthirty or forty men
turning out for her sole benefit,
the beast having haunted the
district for a year or more and
eaten up several natives. .sSa-
tin" was n passenger on tue yes
sci called the Fair Trade. Acage
was constructed for his especial
benefit, as he was untsmably fierce
from the day of his capture, TAX
ing only sufficient food to keep him
alive. During the passage, he
managed one night to eat off two
of the wooden bars of his cage
and made his appearance on deck
to terrify the watch into an I'M
mediate retreat up the shrouds.
Seeing nothing else to attack,
Satan" tore the hen-coop to pie
ces and killed a score of fowls
The captain dare not come up
from the cabin, the watch in. the
forecastle was in the same predic-
ament, and the tiger had the deck
TO himself, the ship being left
without q sherman. At length
one of the men aloft managed to
lasso the beast with a halyard,
and he was SO nearly choked to
death in Incorporation that he vas
flung into his cage like a bag of
sand. The rest, of the voyage
passed without event, \SSstan"
gradually gettinga better appetite,
although losing not bit of.elis
revengefuladisposition and his de-
sire to dissect the body of some
human being. . 's
Landing in New York, be was
placed with the other arrivals 20
temporary quarters, and here be
had his first taste Of Yankee flesh
and blood. A man named Ma
hony was employed to assist in
cleaning the cages and feeding the
beasts, and was one afternoon LETT
in sole charge of the building fer
several hours. Having taking a
glass too much, he imagined he
could tame tiger as we'll as ''any
other man." and invited a friend
or two to see him enter "Satan's .
quarters. The animal was con-
fined in a cage about fifteen feet
long, with door at one end the
height of a man, and Mahoney,
after arming himself with a club,
boldly threw open the door and en-
tered, calculating that the power
of his eye would subdue the anil
NAL. 1t didn't happen to be "a
good day for cycling tigers or else
the man did not fully understand
the eye business, for the tiger at
tackled him the moment the door
was opened, and had him down in
an instant. Mahoney had sense
enough to lie still, and "Satan,"
after clawing and biting him, laid
down across his body, and allowed
the outsiders to close the door
Help was then summoned, and by
the liberal Use of spears and red
hot iron-rods. the tiger was driven
to the further end of the cage, and
Mahoney hauled out. He was
badly wounded, and remained in
the hospital two weeks before he
was able to resume work. t'sf
Last winter "Satan" came to
Warmers institution by purchase,
and was turned over to the care
of Forepaugh as subject bound
to give him much trouble. Eve
rp effort to tame or conciliate the
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