The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-07-31

OF commerce. FREE Trade has been on
its trial in this country for period of
fifty years, and, as / have said, Free
Trade at this must be pronounced more
or less failure.
From the Cincinnati Dispatch
A fight to the death between two
blooded stations was the thrilling spec
tacle Witnessed on Captain B. F. Trester's
farm at Aurora, Ind. Two three-year. old
stations, spirited and valuable thorough
breds, were turned into adjoining pas
lures to feed. A wooden fence divided
the fields, and although as colts the pair
pIayfully bit and kicked at each other
across it. the fence was supposed to be
strong enough to keep them separate
aud prevent trouble.
The colts began their fight over the
fence and kicked and mawed at each
other until the fence was demolished.
Then they came together in struggle,
which for fierceness and length exceed
ed anything which the spectators ever
witnessed.
They stood Oh their hind legs, fierce
ly paving and striking at each othe r
with their iron -shod forefeet, and tear
ing each others neck and shoulders
with their teeth. Their neighing and
screams of rage and the sound of their
kicks and snorts were heard fully half
a mile away. A half dozen or more per-
sons were attracted to the scene of the
conflict, but go vicious were the enraged
animals that for nearly an hour no one
dared to go near them. Covered with
blood and foam, with flaming eyes and
open mouths. they seemed the very in
carnation of fury AS they bit and savage
ly tore each other While the lockers
on were devising some means to separate
them the furious animals grew more
frantic, and repeatedly rolled over each
other on the ground, biting and kicking
desperately. At length the smaller OF
onist by the throat with his teeth and
dragged him to the ground The larger
horse kick Il md rolled IN an effort to
avoid choking to death. but the smaller
nuimal clung to his hold
The battle. lately so noisy, went on
fiercely in dead silence. except for tn Q
thud of the feet OF the two equine gladi-
aiors. The larger horse became more
and more feeble, until finally it ceased
to move Still with bulldog tenucity
the victor held bis grasp upon his op-
ponent's throat pulling and shaking
savagely, although his own strength was
fast declining. He was at last beaten
away by the more courageous of the
spectators. BE ran few yards and
dropped from sheer exhaustion. His
adversary was dead
Although badly cut and bruised from
tn. teeth and hoofs of his foe, the living
animal survived the terrible conflict.
A wedding and a christening were
broken up in a row in West Hoboken
Friday night. A German silk weaver
named Julius Goft resides in the sec-
ond floor Of tenament house on Patter-
son avenue, opposite the silk mill. On
the floor above Michael Shanahan, a
laborer. resides. Colt was married and
invited some friends to his house to
celebrate the event. Shanahan invited
some fellow countrymen to assist in the
christening of his youngest child. The
growler made frequent trips from the
apartments OF both families to neigh
boring saloon and towards midnight the
Germans were endeavoring to burst
their lungs with singing. Overhead
some of the ShanaLan's guests became
involved in dispute aud there was
every prospect of ruction until a
guest volunteered to go and get bottle
of whiskey. At the same time guest
of Colts went out to obtain more beer.
The two men bumped against each
other in the dark hallway, and battle
royal was soon in progress. The rum.
pus brought Shanahan and Colts guests
to the rescue, and the fight developed
into an all around shindy until the
arrival of the police. Colt and Shana.
han and two o.her men were looked up.
and Go spent his night in cell in
stead Of with his bride.
In primary school. not long ago. the
teacher undertook to convey to her
pupils an idea to the use of the hyphen
She wrote on the blackboard: :''birds =
nest, "and. pointing to the hyphen,
asked the school. "What is that for?'
After short pause young son of the
EN- erald Isle piped out:-"Plaze, ma'am,
for the birds TO roosht on!''