The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-13
Selling Out a Circus.
Operations I'm Ring-taiiod Monkeys and
Miniature Horses.

Miniature Horses.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
For week or two past display ad-
vertisements in the newspapers und
posters upon the dead-walls have fam
ing!y informed tho public that at 12
O'Clock noon, on Monday, February Is,
tho animals and properties of Chiarini' s
Royal italian Circus would be sold ut
auction. The place selected was the
street in front of Wilson's Palace Am
phltheater, corner of New Montgomery
and Missions streets. Accordingly a
great crowd gathered yesterday.
80 numerous were the curious and
cov.etous, indeed, that the street was
quite impassable for fully half an hour
before the time for commencing the
sale. AS was to be expected, the as
semblage had O very horsey cast. There
we're great many gentlemen in sulkies
sporting diamond pins and purple
black tufts ut their chins. Raw, red
faces and variegated trowsers, belong
ing to gentlemen with hoarse voices,
were to be seen in profusion. But the
majority were mere
SLAVES OF CURIOSITY.
1t isn't every day that one gets
chance to see circus sold ut action.
By IL o'clock the crowd had grown so
nnmanageably large that John @. Bell,
the auctioneer, fatty refused to mount
the hogshead prepared for him. With
onearm around the neck Of the guanaco,
and monkey sitting on the other, Mr..
Bell said that with all due respect for
Mr.. Chiarini he'd see him hanged be-
fore he wonld bawl for several hours to
such an unruiy and probably hard-up
multitude. at this critical juncture
john Wilson mounted the brench and
offered the use of his amphitheater.
In few moments that commodious
building was crammed and the auction
Ger upon table at the side of the ring
was airing his powerful voice on the
astonishing merits of the Batavia pony,
"Tom Thumb" black little beast the
size of 81 stunted Newfoundland. In o
toneof almost fearful reproach. Mr.. Bell
knocked him down to James Robinson,
the circus rider, for 800. ssManda-
rim" Chinese piebald pony, next
fcampered out and kicked up the saw
dust at II tremendous rate
How much am I offered for this
charming little fellow2" cried Mr..
Bell.
Fifty dolIarsl"
What You don't know much
about ponies, sir, whoever you are.
Why. look Mt i'm. He amt got spot
nor blemish, and. on my word as gon-
tteman, is the finest animal on four
feet upon the globe to-day; $75 {?
Thank you. sir. Come. raise it, gen
tlemen. He's as gentle as dog Cat
this moment the Mandarin, imagining
THAT it was q regular performance, laid
down and rolled over). A fine riding
nony for children, gentlemon. $50?
Thanks for small favors. No wonder
MIX. CHIARINI SHEDS TEARS.
a For heavens sake, Mr.. Badger,
whore are you to-dayP Mr.. Totlow, in
I Gods namo don't sit there and see this
slaughter. I was offered So, 900 for this
beautiful animal at private sale, gentle
men. Did you say hundred, Mr..
Robinson? Thank you. Mars and
lightning, this will ne,se, do Why Why
e you don TT Her ten cents on the dollar
gentlemen. Look at him He's got q
breast like the side of house, smooth
as smelt, and coat like setin." Man.
DARN was finally sold M $17O, and
seven other miniature horfes went fol
smaller amounts. The horses, a, mum
eor OF them pdGs FsHllz beasBBtsHl aBaskadep aai@ag
pure Arabian stallion, hardly needed
the eloquence of the auctioneer, and as
the handsome fellow went waltzinp
pacing and trotting round the ring un.
der the erroneous impression that O
regular performance was in progress
the house broke into o hearty applause.
-" Look at him, gentlemen Mr..
Montgomery Queen. good morning ]
made you present of them two ponies.
now help me out. Going at $50! Oh.
heavens, gentlemen Why look at the
tears streaming down the aged checks
of Mr.. Chiarini. Young, gentle, sound
and kind. His skin is worth $50. Col.
0nei THOMPSON, can you stand this ?
Mr.. Daniels Jack Wilson Amt Won
ashamed of yourselves to be sitting
there and seeing horse like this going
up 30 at lick, Mr.. Austin, Mr.. Don.
ahue, don't sit there like dumb images"
Abdel-Ka Kader was bought by Mr.. Wilson
Tor $3.50, General Grant was knocked
down to O. A. Hickox for $500. the
highest price paid for any of the nine
teen horses sold.
THE MARKET PRICE OF MONKEYS.
People in want of trained MONKEYS
will p5S5be pleased to learn that hide
Gus little monster named jimmie fetched
$l3O. Another dissipated looking
wretch of the same genus permitted
himself to be sacrificed ut sci. Guiana
cos are costly beasts, too. Mr.. Robin
son paid $11O for one, but then tho
beast, which 10 compound of camel
and deer, can jump ten feet high, and
has large, tender black eyes.
A great quantity of harness, saddles,
etc., was sold at rather poor prices for
such gorgeous trumpery The bidders
for this sort of pronarty were oil oirn,,a