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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 821, 28 June 1879, Page 2

YANKEE ADVERTISING.

. A San Francisco journal, published the following in its "agony ooluran" a short time ago :— " Cooper and Bailey's menagerie, which will open in this city shortly, was the scene of a terrifyidg occurrence while exhibiting at Marysville recently. It seems that some miscine voua youngster in the audienoe inserted a piece of tobacco in a peanut giving by him to the largest of the sixteen elephants attached to the show. The enraged creature uttered the singular half-human cry peculiar to its species when aroused, and hurled the boy with great force through the roof of. -the tent) breaking every bone in his body, and an almost new humming-top in his pocket. Bursting the 10-inch chain that secured its foot like a bit of twine, the furious mammoth seized the clown and in a second had crushed him into a shapeless pulp and old conundrums. The elephant's companions now became excited, and charged upon the audience, which was wildly applauding the clown's just fate, little thinking what was in store fer itself. In a twinkling, the 1 ring-master had been disposed of, and the first four rows of spectators had become a mass of writhing victims. The ring ran with gore, and the wild shrieks and roars of tha other animals lent additional horror to the terrible scene. Presently, several cages were upset in the melee, and the lions and tigers took part in the awful fray. The-hippo-potamus bit off the sheriff s head. A frightful contest occured between the grizzil bear and one of the largest elephants. The latter was underneath, and in his struggles rolled over and smashed flat a whole half-price Sunday-school. The rhinoceros paid exclusive attention to the dead head seats, and at one time was 'noticed with two editors and a politician on tho same horn. The performing elephant, " Jim," got under a bench occupied by six Sisters of Charity, and managed to keep one of the Sisters in the air all the time. The camels and zebras tore round the ring, uttering terrific cries, . above which could be faintly heard the agonizing cries of the Country Recorder, who was being skinned alive by a couple of gorillas on top of the centre poll. Heaven knows how the terrible scene would have ended, had not the Mavysville Light Battery arrived just then, and began to fire 10-inch cannon loaded with red-hot railroad spikes, into the mass af infuriated beasts. In course of time the carnage was quelled, and the animls and curiosities secured, with the exception of a cormorant, that will go practising law^ in the spring, if not detected in time. The scene after the conflict was never to be forgotten. Six hundred and forty-one .persons, and a book-agent had bitten the saw-dust. The remains of the Mayor and six Councilmen were sent home in the golden chariot (cost4o,ooodols. to build), preceded by the band (74 first-class soloists). The unrecognized dead were buried in a trench 200ft. long. The animals are now secured by chains weighing 4lbs to the link, and ironbars 2ft. thick. Owing to the colossal expense attendant upon this mammoth exhibition of the century, *the price of admission has been reduced to 50 cents., children under ten, half-price."