The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-11-09

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srnfl under ths seals. Hss.
s.ti iram .he apfef hatrhss.
HoEsfs shrskrd ga .hsrarsi
fwu fHe rofts s1uuf's tisa.f
ta' tI'si WITH ftns ks'aes.
PARROTS ssgI,s. owls. and other
l.rts. while aatrI.lIss framsd CO. uill
bsI1w aud beard shovea.I tii.ur
roar wfrr tts tl'iNl fII. from 'ho
srvenfssn men who hong for dear
lilo % tta center pole, which uns
new snA slippery and dinicult 90
cling to. TIE only animal that re-
isIued i's Proscucs ~ mind was
mAESurus 1pniLLA.
IIis cage bad escaped being upset.
and he stoul inside. heating lis
breast. sud roaring iu that half dog
bark sul halt lconiuc roar that bu
Chai'I1 d,.iibss ~ "curd.iug the
very haire ON your head when heard
in an Airicgn Forest By this time,
however, voices were heard outside.
the entire ncighborhood having b.
como aroused by the pandcmonium,
and the moment the gorille heard
these voices he changed his tactics
and ,hrekcd; "For the love Of the
holy st. Patrick clip me out OF THE
bloody scrape, and III never hire
out for o gorilla again, as long az /
live We will leave this unhappy
animal 10 bis fate, and return 10 the
AWFUL SCENES GoINd on
around us, aud among the other
wild beasts who had now made their
way to that portion Of the tent used
BY the proprietors smuseum. Ex-
cited by rage aud hunger, EenguI
tiger was the iirat TO attack the con
tents Of the museum, and he cons
menced by killing the "Temperance
Man and biz Family after which
he sprang upon the Sleeping Beau
ty' and began to devour her. The
hyenas, who are not 80 particular ID
regard to their diet, sprang upontEc
"Drunkarl and his Wife, and were
soon fcasting on them. The lions
royeled in blood in the cage con.
taining the "Bcl Ringers" while
the elephant amused himself by
knocking the stuiling out OF the
Egyptian Mummics,' and also de-
stroying several prominent generals
Of tie war. But while these horri.
bic scenes were being enacted here,
others still moro alarming were 90
ing on in the main portion Of tho
tent, where nearly every animal who
had not succeeded in getting n taste
Of the "wax fggers,"
STOOD wITH DrsTENDED JAWS
around the center pole, awaiting the
moment when the hold of some Of
the untortunates above should be.
come loosened and the victims come
tumbling down. The frat man to
drop was the ringmaster, who was
the lowest on the pole. lie struck
in the open jaws Of an ALI.
gator that swallowed him whole and
without choking. This sight 80
frightened u "canyas" man that he
too fell, and the alligator enapped at
Inn, but too quickly, and the victim
bounded from tho tip OF the croco.
dies mouth into the arms OF bear,
who huggcd him fondly and carried
him of under the seats to cat at hls
leisure. The elephant now reached
out with bis trunk and shook the
centre pole na boy shakes en apple
tree for fruit. aud this caused
sEyEs MORE VICTIMS,
including two very plump and Juicy
acrobats, to drop off. The man on
top, however, had by this time sue
cceded in guawing hole through
the roof Of the tent, through which
be crawled and slid down the canvas
to The ground, the remainder of the
frightened men quickly following
bis example. A hook and ladder
company and two hose compapies
had arrived, and holes being cut in
the canvas, several streams of chlo-
roiorm were thrown upon the
squirming nass Of animal life with
in, and IN ten minutes the employees
Of the show had entered and began
securing their charges. 1t took sew
oral hours to repair all the cages and
get the occupants back in their old
quarter, but it WINS at last accom-
plished, and preparations for the
burial Of the dead began. But we
might add that, by the next morn
ing, tie killed were all doing well,
most OF them having died regularly
every season over since they entered
into the show business. One man 10
particular, who was swallowed by
the alligator, recovered more rapidly
than any Of the Others. His name
il John Smith, and our readers will
remember him as one Of the band
that was deyoured BY lions down in
Mississippi in 1871. lie was killed
previously at Chicago by the mad
elephant Romeo, and also had his
head crushed into shspeless mass
by a lion which he was rawhidlpg,
while doing the tanning scene at
Joliet, Illinois, in 1870. lie was de-
stroyed again at Philadelphia, in the
spring Of 1872, when Forepaugh's
animals broke loose, and his last
death (previous to the one just re-
lated occurred when a fhinoceros
stepped on him at Red Bud, Illinois,
in August, 1872. Mr. Smith il still
on deck with Blarneyum's grea.