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Deer, bear, wolves.

A Tough Old Hunter. The Exploits of Phin Teeple-Slaying Thousands of Deer and Hundreds of Bears-How His Boys Killed a Bear. Susquehanna Depot, Pa. [Dec,2], Correspondence of the New York San. Old Phin Teeple, of Preston, Wayne County, has been absent some weeks in the forests of Potter County hunting. Phin is 70 years old, […]

Five Killed by Wild Dogs.

     Reports from Labrador state that five persons were killed and eaten by savage dogs of that coast during the last winter. These dogs, which have largely interbred with wolves, have frequently killed people heretofore. One of the victims last winter was a man, aged thirty-five, and the others were an elderly man and his […]

Miscellaneous, Wolves.

       Wolves are plentiful in the back townships of Lanark, Canada. The Perth Courier says they are increasing, and even frequently dispute the passage of horsemen on the highways. The deer have nearly all disappeared from a district where once they browsed in great numbers.

A Man-Wolf.

       Rev. Dr. Butler, the Methodist missionary who established the mission of that church in India in 1856, recently returned to this country. He makes the following statement of a remarkable case:      In 1859 a British soldier, while bearing a despatch from one magistrate to another in the kingdom of Onde, passed an […]

A Conflick With a Wolf.

  From the Princeton, Illinois Republican, May 6.      A large grey wolf has frequently been seen in the northern part of the county. It has killed seversl sheep from the farmers and a cow has come up missing. While in Dixon a few days ago we heard the following account:      A man named […]

A Railroad Attacked by Wolves.

  [Paris Correspondence of the New York Evening Post]      In Paris we have only had the cold, but, as you already know, the south of France has been visited by an almost unparalleled fall of snow. A singular accident is reported to have happened to a train on the Luxembourg Railroad on the night […]

Are Children Ever Nursed by Wolves?

       The Rev. Dr. Ellinwood, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in a letter from Cawnpore, India, to the New York Evangelist, has the following paragraphs:      Our interest was greatly excited at the Secundra Orphanage by one inmate, known as the”Wolf Boy.” Within ten years two boys, said to have been […]

The Northwest, Buffalo

       Kansas      One hundred and twenty Englishmen will go to Kansas on a buffalo hunt next month. Buffalo Bill will have them in his charge.      Wisconsin      It is estimated that at least 1,000 sheep have been killed in Northwestern Wisconsin this season by wolves.

Two East-Indian Wonders.

  The Tomb of King Akbar, and the “Wolf Boy.” Arra [India] Correspondence Frey Times.      Here we saw among the inmates [Arra, India] a person known as “the wolf boy.” He is now about 20 years old. “The wolf boy” was taken away from a wolf-captured in a wolf’s den at Bulandshabar, about 80 […]

Wolves In France.

       Some parts of France are still infested by wolves. An exchange says: “Every now and then in Franch journals there are paragraphs inserted telling of wolves not only killing stock, but attacking people, and French sporting prints abounds with such wolfish items. A recent report on wolves issued by the French authorities estimates […]