Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-03
a Mad Bull i'm ST, Iouss

iesIerday, at noon, bull. small
pdt vigorous one, appeared in the neioI,-
Dorhood of Eighteenth and Pail.
streets. Whether the earth had oneno5
ner ponderous jaws to cast him forfb -
II, ne had been launched, thunderbolt -
niue ana horns, from some eprial ATo,,,,t
Iarius. no one could saw -"'ih'
a. !list the bull trotted along. mildly
/ mqulsltlve. toward Seventeenth, -;
! Til ne arrived at No. 1.722. when ,,i,b
| siaSmodIc twitch Of Install. he CHARGED
/ INTO the house-yard, upsetting two baR,.-
wagons and lmpaling a little Girl. Ne1a
hecher. daughter Of police officer on
MS norm. 1t passed through her shoul-
ger Ike a bayonet. and in his mad career
ne pore her some thirty feet ere he shoolr
her IRON him. Leaving behind fbiz
inangled little victim. he continued 10
mad career. snorting ike an aIIigator
out INTO the alley between Carr and Rid
die. and seventeenth and EIGHTEENTH
streets. Here was plaving the Iiftla nov
of.Mr. William Huffman. child ~
four years of age. I'm a moment the
bull was upon him. and thrust his sbarn
norm mo the poor child's head. pene-
trallh@ through the eve into the rTauiaI
cavity. \ block further down Mrs
Starkey, residing at No. 1910. saw him
approach. and, with amother's devotion
sprang INTO the roadway To save her two
children She seized them. and. with
the strength of desperation. pushed them
out OF danger just rs she felt the hot
breath and saw the red and fiery eve Of
the approaching brute She was knocked
down. and her ankle WAS spraine5 buf
the little ones Were saved.
y policeman fired three shots AT him
but what was a Colt to a bulls Iea,,ino
lightly over the fence. he dashed dawn
Fifteenth street, followed by a tail Of
boys and butchers bigger than that of
Plantamours comet BY the way of
Gay street and Morgan. he went to
Christy AYeEue, and thence to Pine.
scattering the pedestrians left and right.
At $50 Pine street is a shOemaker'e
shop. IN which were the proprietor and
two friends. As the bull passed he sud
denly wheeled at right angles. and. with
charge like that Of the light brigade AT
Balaklaya, dashed the door from its
hinges and sprang into the shop. Two
of the inmates were near the window.
one OF them with his crUtches on his
knees, for he was lame. and almost un-
able to walk. \ bounding bull. appear
ing without any Of the social amenities
being observed, proved a better cure
than all the rheumatic ointments which
all the applicants for quarantine offices
could have devised Out through the
window he sprang. forgetting his
crutches, and ran up the street. distanc-
ing the fieetcst. Meanwhile. the bull
sprang nimbly into the street. and con-
tinued his winding way.
On Seventh street. a man endeavOred
to measure his speed with that of the
excited bull. 1t was for a while nip
and tuck, the bulls horns being in close
proximity 10 the pedestrians cOat-tails,
but in front Of the engine house the man
fell, and, when everybody looked to see
him disemboweled, the bull leaped over
him lightly, and passed on. The man
who fell was of very dark complexion,
but, when he picked himself up and
looked around, his face was paleas chalk.
At the Crow Block, with a curiosity
which would have qualified him for the
meeting on Change the othermorning. he
stopped and tried TO get into several
houses. Being fooled howeverin this, he
turned around again and made his way to
the drug store of Mr.. A. Dimmitt, at the
corner of Olive and Seventh, into which
he chased a woman. Like the righteous.
she hardly escaped" Mr.. Dimmitt
having jusU time TO thrust her into a side
door when the ball came dashing in at
the front. So close together were the
two marble counters through which he
made his way, that he left hair and
blood on each one. There was a large
lOoking-glass at the extremity of the
store, in which he saw reflected a bull as
strong aud vigorous as himself At him
he dashed with a yigOr which did credit
to his courage if not TO his knowledge of
optics. Fortunately. his horns struck
the moulding. and slipped up 50 that the
mirror escaped any fracture. Mr.. Dim
mitt, who was standing at the corner.
fired twice at the bull, wounding him,
but not fatally. Taking this as a hint
that they had nothing in his line, the
bull, with one sarcastic wave Of his tail,
knocked down a lot of perfumery on the
show case valued at twenty-five dollars,
and bolted out of the door. His reap
pearance was greeted with applause.
Eastward, on Ohio street, he pursued
his path, his progress being in every re-
spect triumphal. First came a thin spray
of flying newsbOys; then an advanced
guard of fugacious children Of larger
growth: then the hero of the day, toss
ing his eXuberant tail. believing defiance
to the whole city. his TANKS heaving.
his nose red. his ewes flashing like Goals
of fire. every hair on his spine rigid as a
pOrcupine's quilts. In his rear came a
body of bull-wheokers and police, max
ing the air bl; "a with shouts Of " XIII
him - Stop him, - d" Iii. there :" and
- stop thief, The procession was
closed by Il motley mass Of people-men,
women and CHILDREN surging eXcitedly
TO and fro tripping each other up and
tramping each other down with the
impartiality of all crowds
Thus he came to the Missouri Lottery
Office. on Olive street. between Sixth
and Seventh.
BY this time the bull. alarmed by his
rapid change of sin and the novel situa-
ton in which he found himself. was as
frantic with fear rs any one Of his Gus
toners. 4 gambler himself at pitch
he took no interest in the State
Lottery. but bent his whole energies to
secure a retreat 4 transom in the rear
Of the Office, about seven feet from the
loor. presented itself TO his distorted
lisordered Imagination as the most de-
,irable avenue Of escape. Accordingly
he reared himself on his hind legs. and
lranticallv endeaYored 10 climb through
he window, believing Justify all the
line, and tearing away paper, plaster,
md lath, with his horns, making the
place perfect pandemonium. The po-
ice, through the front door, were firing
yolleys into his broad flanks.
But though his hide was riddled 50 As
o be fit for nothing but coal-sifter, the
were not fatal. but only excited
him to fresh parOXysms Of terror and
rage. One policeman, jealous and more
excited than the rest, fired through the
'front.' transOm. about eight feet over the
pulls head Others went round and
hot through the back-WindoW, the
bullets flying into the street with cheer
nj promiscuity.
. At last Captain George G. Balm secur-