Would-be Dudes, Lawyers and Baby Tigers

The Cortland News, Friday, May 14, 1886.

BABY TIGERS.

An Unusual Uproar Among the Wild Beasts at Forepaugh’s Menagerie.

   The oldest people in the animal business state that there has never been an instance where young tigers have been born in this climate, but the record is broken. In Forepaugh's Menagerie, now in winter quarters, there are six as lithe and brightly marked Bengal tigers as anybody ever saw. Last Thursday morning at daylight, the keepers were surprised by an unusual commotion among the cat animals. The men got out strong ropes, lassoes and nets, believing that some of the more formidable of the wild beasts were out of their dens.

   They approached the wide stairs with caution and entered the room. The tiger den was a scene of wild confusion, and the other animals shared the excitement. The men advanced to the front of the den and were met with demonstrations of anger. Lying close to the wall in one corner was a huge female Bengal tiger, and at her side a pair of beautifully marked cubs, with eyes closed, like young kittens. With cries of wonder the men gazed at the treasures which had been born during the night. Still they could not understand why all the wild beasts should seem so restless. One of the keepers, following the eye of a huge panther, shouted.

   "Boys, look! One has got out and is on the floor!"

   One cub had crept through the bars of the cage and tumbled out and wandered around until it had tired out and gone to sleep. When one of the men carefully picked it up it uttered a feeble cry. The scene that followed made those men, used to danger as they are, white with fear. The tigers bent the bars of their cages, the lions roared in unison with the shrieks of the other animals. It was a little pandemonium.

   To attempt to put the cub through the bars into the cage from which it had fallen was certain death to whoever undertook it, for with their long forearms and curved claws the tigers would have torn to shreds whatever had been in reach. Finally, one of the cooler headed of the keepers took the little speckled, sightless beast and climbed up the end of the den, opened a small hole left tor ventilation and dropped the cause of all trouble at the feet of its mother. She tenderly placed it by the side of her other offspring, lay down herself, and in two minutes the cunning-looking kittens, were taking their nourishment and everything soon quieted down.

   The baby tigers are doing well and will open their eyes at the end of 9 days. Adam Forepaugh is proud of his acquisition and says if they live they are worth $10,000 to him and that they will be placed on exhibition with the Forepaugh Show for the coming season —Philadelphia News, April 11, 1886.

   The tigers are all living and growing finely. They will be on exhibition here [Cortland] Saturday, May 15, and are a most important addition to an entertainment already colossal beyond precedent.

Licenses Granted.

   The excise commissioners met last week and granted licenses to the following

persons:

HOTEL.

W. F. Chadbourne.

B. Doud.

John Doud.

Amos E. Perry.

Sam Hammond.

D. Bauder.

J.R. Arnold.

SALOON—ALE AND BEER.

E. H. Fuller.

Holton & Corcoran.

A. J. Newton.

Anna Stevens.

John Johnston.

Wm. Riley.

John G. Slingerland.

Quinn & Morris.

DRUG STORE.

Brown & Maybury.

Sager & Jennings,

C. M. Ingraham.

G. W. Bradford.

C.B.Warren.

C. A. Jones.

An Unwarranted Attack.

   For several weeks past the Democrat has seen fit to publish several articles reflecting on Judge Frothingham Fish's position while presiding at a Special Term of the Supreme Court in this village. A large number of the members of the bar of this county, thinking these attacks unwarranted, have addressed the following communication to Mr. Fish:

   Hon. Frothingham Fish:

   Dear Sir—

   One paper in this village, the Cortland Democrat, having seen fit to publish certain unfit articles concerning your course as judge at "our circuit," alleging that the lawyers of our county disapprove your acts, the undersigned, members of the Cortland county bar, regardless of party affinities, take pleasure in assuring you that your conduct as judge meets our most cordial approval, and we look with disapprobation upon said articles and the animus which prompted them.

[Signed] Very Respectfully Yours,

R. H. DUELL,

JOHN S. BARBER,

B. T. WRIGHT,

B. A. BENEDICT,

JAMES A. NIXON,

W. C. CROMBIE,

W. H. CLARK,

H. A. DICKINSON,

W. D. TUTTLE,

J. E. EGGLESTON,

T. E. COURTNEY,

A. P. SMITH,

H. L. BRONSON,

D. E. SMITH,

JOHN COURTNEY,

DORR C. SMITH,

O. U. KELLOGG,

E. D. CROSLEY.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   The effect of the strike in the coal regions is being felt in this village. Ten of the employees in the E. C. & N. car shops have been laid off for two weeks on account of there being no coal to handle.

   Ralph Beaumont will discuss the labor question under the auspices of the Knights of Labor, at the Mammoth Rink, Thursday evening, May 20.

   The business of the United States Express company will on Saturday and thereafter be transacted by the D. L. & W. R. R., instead of by the Erie as heretofore. The D. L. & W. express company will be dissolved.

   The E. C. & N. R. R. will run an excursion train from Cazenovia to Cortland to-morrow to accommodate those wishing to attend the Forepaugh circus. Train will leave Cazenovia at 7:15 a. m., and returning leave Cortland at 4:48 p. m.

   Since January 1st three persons have been taken to the Utica insane asylum and one to Middletown. Four have been returned to the asylum connected with our alms house and one returned to her friends, leaving four in Utica and three at Middletown.—Homer Republican.

   A game of base ball will be played on the fairgrounds, Saturday, May 15, 1886, at 2 p. m., between the Normal nine and one picked from the employees of the Hitchcock Mf'g Co. Admission 10 cents. Ladies and [their] carriages free.

   A good joke is told of one of Cortland's would-be dudes. A short time ago he made an evening visit to McGrawville. There was a fifteen cent show there that night and he concluded to take a couple of ladies to witness it. His chagrin can be imagined when arriving at the ticket office his assets amounted to one battered quarter and a nickel. Nothing daunted, the young man purchased two tickets and saw the girls to the door, but excused himself, saying that he would join them in a short time, after seeing a friend. In a few minutes he re-appeared at the door and told the ticket taker that he wanted to speak to those ladies who went in a moment before. The obliging doorman let him go in, but as he did not come out for some time an usher went in search of him and found him enjoying the play as much as if he had paid the legal fee. A few words were spoken and the young man waited outside until after the play to see the girls home.

   Will Corcoran received official notice on Monday of his appointment as a regular umpire in the International Base Ball League, and on Tuesday acted for the first time in his official capacity in the game at Syracuse between the Stars and Torontos.

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Adam Forepaugh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Forepaugh