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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A rhinoceros at large. (search)
, having on board Dan Rice's circus troupe, trained animals, &c. The cage containing the trained rhinoceros, weighing over four thousand pounds, which was on the barge alongside, was knocked into the river. The door of the cage was open, the animal-being tied to the front end of it by a chain which was fastened to a ring in the monster's nose. When morning came no signs of him could be seen. The La Crosse Democrat, however, of the 27th, says: Sunday afternoon, Charles Wrightston, F. W. Brown and Robt. Eggleston, while reasting green corn, on the bank of the slough, five miles below here, were half scared to death by hearing a heavy tramp, and in a few moments the rhinoceros, as he appeared here on the occasion of his first visit, in July, minus the blanket and chain in his nose, rushed upon them with a terrible bellow, catching Eggleston on his shout, and throwing him as he says at least fifty feet over and back of him, breaking one arm and two ribs in the fail. The monster
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The sick in Charlottesville — the Supplies. (search)
The sick in Charlottesville — the Supplies. Hospital Charlottesville, Sept. 8. To the Editors of the Dispatch: --The Delavan House will in future be the principal Hospital of this place. Preparations are now making for the accommodation of a large number of patients. This, as all must testify who have visited it, is a model Hospital. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the Matron and her assistants, and, indeed, all connected with it. Surgeons Allen, Brown and Curtis, rank among the first of their profession, and, with their assistants, are deservedly popular with the soldiers, as they are enticing in their attentions to their patients. They not only prescribe for, but nurse them like brothers. Private contributions have been limited, save from Lexington and Rockbridge county, which have and continue to contribute most liberally. There are truly a noble people, and have not only opened their hands, but their hearts, as indicated by sending us our most efficient Matter