Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-12-14
LIONS In INDIANA.

A correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean writing from Attica. Ind, under
date of November 20. says: For radi-
us Of over score of miles and period
of upwards of three months. Beuton
county Ind residents have been not a
little exercised by the appearance and
predatory incursions, of what are now
christened pair of lions. This county
is largely the property of a few men
among whom are Mr.. Templeton and Mr..
Fowler, who have had towns built to per-
petuate their names. The settlements in
some sections are neither very large nor
very numerous. About a year ago pc
culiar animal was observed lurking in
the corn6elds and skulking in the woods
in the central part of Benton county.
1t disappeard as misteriously as it had
come into view, and there were not
few who heard of the nameless creature
ready to pronounce its existence myth
and the occurrence an outgrowth Of
| frightened wits As far as can be learn
ed, there is no one who saw it from that
date until within period that can be
measured by weeks. The presence of
the peculiar party was noticed and no
ted perhaps a month before the intruder
itself came into the field of vision. The
trail of an unknown animal, measuring
four or five inches In breadth. and un-
like that ever before discovered here
abouts, was traced in September, and at
first excited the curiosity of the farmers );
then, when mutilated calf, sheep or
hog was now and then found, this feel
ing merged speedily into anxiety. The
footprints. easily distinguished on the
yielding ground, daily became more nu-
merous, the circle that limited them con-
stantly widened, and there was CORES
ponding increase in the number and
frequency of the ravages. 1t seemed
from comparing notes and following up
the track that its stamping ground was
between Sugar and Parish groves, which
are about dozen miles apart. Early
in September grand hunt was organ.
Al DnY Y
dream, came to naught. The explora
tions of that month showed that there
were two instead of one of these ferociou:
!, animals. By that time they had beer
covered simultaneously by severa
different persons at a distance of eigh
to ten miles from each other Anothe
effort to hunt down the depredators wa
undertaken which also proved abortive
The latest performance with whicI
they are credited is the killing of flu
steer belonging to one of the wealth
landowners. The loss will reach severa
! hundred dollars, for the breed was val
ued. As was the case with all the cat
tie they attacked. only the choicest slice
of the flank were taken, and the poo
beast, half killed by its assailant an
left to die. The hide of this victim wa
secured as trophy by a relic hunte
and bourne off to Lafayette, where it
at present on exhibition.
One man, who resides about mi
from here, over in the north side of tn
Wabash River, sends in his share
l. swell the list. He says that one Sc
q tember Sunday evening, about dusk. Il
II then nondescript crossed his path. /
'0 was going along the wood on his wa
u home when it suddenly issued out of tt
o. brush on one side, and, without any e
Ill deavor to harm, bounded over the hig
"a way few yards off, and, leaping fen
nc on the other side, disappeared he hard
knows where or how, for he didn't wa
ILL., to interview the four.footed alien. Th
would bring it miles beyond its previo
~ circuits, and Into strip well adapt
to protect it, 1t is affirmed that one
- the creatures, though alone, has 4
nc hesitated to pounce upon colt sever
0s years old. the opinion first entertain
:, that they we're nothing but large lyn
or. at the farthest, American lions,
came less as each new encounter cal
to the public ear. There now remains
doubt as to their species. the most see
= tical being ready to accept any theol
The most recent word | have brings
~ down to within day. A short til
before dark Tuesday evening, a pal
:. of men who were about two miles sol
:. of Earl Park saw the lion and his m;
a short distance from them, A party
four bear-eaters from the "Star Cit
have gone to the scene, and declare tt
will not return without the pelts of
plunderers.
The infant son of the Duke of Ed
huro horn inst FIVE months after