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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 2 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Interesting Chapter on circus elephants. (search)
Sultan was another famous elephant of those days. He was an animal of fine appearance, and very well trained, and well known throughout the country. He was at the building of the old Zoological Institute in the Bowery during the winters of '36 and '37, whence he went to the West Indies. While there, he went into a pond for a bath one day, and, refusing to leave it, several balls were fired into him by way of persuasion, from the effects of which he died. Mad'lle D'jek, the heroine of Charles Reade's "lack-of-all-Trades," was here about 1834, and played at both the Park and Bowery Theatres, after which she went to Philadelphia. She was in charge of an East Indian native keeper. While in this city, she got loose one night and went through the Bowery and Chatham streets, pumping water from the pumps which then stood in those localities, and wrenching on the handles after she had satisfied her thirst. She also made sad havoc with the awning posts, and raised the mischief generally.
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s, where he battled them for a time. The next morning he was discovered in a mill-pond, where he afforded a fair target for his pursuers, and where they soon put a quietus upon his movements. He died, perforated with innumerable bullets. Mr. Reade upon the elephant. I think that Charles Reade has done the elephant injustice in calling him "treacherous. " He does not conceal his hatred for mankind. He professes no affection for his keeper — he is an unwilling slave. When he is whippCharles Reade has done the elephant injustice in calling him "treacherous. " He does not conceal his hatred for mankind. He professes no affection for his keeper — he is an unwilling slave. When he is whipped in a fair (or unfair) fight, and says enough, he never goes back on his word without some fresh cause of offence makes a new quarrel. When his fits of frenzy are on him. I do not consider him a free moral agent. I look upon him as a dignified, honorable, high-minded giant in slavery