A Perilous Adventure

A lumbemuin noined Öftggers, in tho employ ol a firm al Tobyhaiina, in the upper part of this (Moprde) County, h-n thrilltng adventure in tbe wooda, foiir or live miles from that village, on Thursday last, with a bear thal he had idcd; tliat hoeseapedaüveiscoriydomcl 'ir. miraciiloira, even amone; theold huntersof tlval wüdregion. Bears are -;i!i plenty in the woods of the o M mntains, the sceno of Daggerg' adventure. (n Wednesday, lumbermeo returning from (he wooids saw & one near a swarnp at the footof Bufat Che&tnut Ridge. Daggen, being et'gsful hunter, started out in gearch 01' it. on Thursday. His dos: tooi; (!:'■ track about noon and chasod tíiií beu' out of the sw.irap and up the ri'!.cí. Ii took ti a devp crevice in the rx't, tïoy-i whioh Dagwers sought to ■:■'! ii lv reeorting to the nsualmode ut s'i"Vi?'T il'o ici; bj' building a lire at the entrafli'e. Anuiher opening that led to tho rtr.t cltosen b}r tlie bear v.'H-i net eccn hy tho hunter, and wiicn th? Bmoke B1IJ tho care ii lelt bj' thal openios, and was not by H-as some distance up ri . He iirvl al it and liit it, bul the wouini only aocelcrtrted the spoed r aitiüial. The dog folI . . . :uh! foiwtl it to eliinb le tre oa tiu; top of iiio hill. It crooch!t in t!ie CTotch of two larffe thirty r forty fcet from tlie groi.Dd. Dagffew iii-ed it it, and thr effect jí the sbot wsw to csiti?o ihc bear to loosen ]i hold on the tree and come tumbliug heavily tothe grouud, butnot to inftict a fiu: vMind. This placed the hunter in giroat peril, for t!'; bar was furious fronj its is. and attackcd Daggers at once, givingbíin no opportunity to rekad his giin. Tlie dog spniog fearjessly at the bear, bat waa naiight in tbe powerfu] fore ]ws of the lsuter tind cmhed to oN -it t ï i in au iustant, without retardlng in the !o:tst the advance of the bear on he hunter. It rushed at Daagerswith [istended jaws. He struck it with .11 hia strenjjth over the heml with the utt of hi gun, which was shivercd to )ieces, and apparently had nio effect on he bear. Dagers bept tlie barrel of lis gun in his hand ai'-d drew his huntng-knife. As the bear rushed npon ïim, !ie shoved the gon-barrel in its nouth and plunged his knifc into its ritáis. That fortunnte stab was what saved the h unter' s life, for in the terrijle struggle that ensued he was unable toinflict any other wound on the .animal. Th' bear wrenehod the gun-barrol from Daggen' hand, and with a blow of Lis fore paw kuoeked tbe hunter to the {rround. ín the fall Daggers dropped his knife. The blow stunned him for an instant, and his face was much lacerated by the elaws of the bear. He arose barely in time to escape the clnteh of thu bear, and could not recover hia knife; líe saw that the bear wan bloeding po faat from the knife-wouDd that lts tóagfiy hide wis red from its breast to its !eet. Daggers bnckcd uvay from the jcav, witb the iutcntioB oí dodging beïiiul a tree and then escaping to a safe listance, knowiiiglhat bruin would succumb to his wounds in a comparatirely short time. In retreating, however, iis footeame in contact witli something ,hat tripped bim up, and lio feil on liis ack among 1hc sernb oaks. The bcar umpcd opon him before he could get ip, and sank ita elaws into both nis ■houlderg. The fall hurt the hunter, and the weight of the bear alraost eruslied the bronth from his body. Dagers sys he thought his time had come, Mid in (iesperation lu; thrust out with a smsll stick lie had broken off by catching hold of a scrul oak'as hc feil. The stick entcral the bear's left eyeand put it out, causingtho animal to jump upon ite huinches wiih a howl of rage and pain. Daggers sprang to his feet, bnt bcfore He could take a stej) the bear ted him bv the shoiilders. A deslrnle strujrgie eïisued, the b-ar enleavoring to ;'.t the hiinterin i:.s hng, nd Daggers putting forth every effort topreveutit. Finally, by the tearing l.-Ki-e of hi-i elothing uuder the sharp claws of the bear, he escaped once more. Tiie Üesh on his shoulders was badly torn, .ndDaggerggrowfaintfrom tho pin. Tba bear folio wed him up so clogely that tiiey were again in hand-tohwid conflict. The lear was visibly rrowing weaker, and the hunter's Btreugth was also gradually lexving him. He tried to run but could not, :iiid the rcsult now depended on whether the hunter or the ben.r frave out first. For several minuten ihey etraggled together among the scrub-oaks uutil Daggers feit that he coiild hold cut no loiiger, although the le: r steggered aud feü, and rose with dil iculty. The hunter tok two or three ;uiek steps to one side and feil to the gröund unoonscious. He does nol know how long h lay insensible, bul when he revived In tried to get up an could not. Hc dragged himself to the foot oí a lienilock i :-ee and rosted his back against the trnnk. Aimost within his reacb the great bear lay clead. Bul a few minutes' after üaggers regainec couscionsnesa he heard the voices o: some men who were passing along the brow ef the ridge. He shouted to tïiem They proved to be two wood-choppers from tiu Tobyhanna Mills. They rendered all the aid in their power. He was suffering more from exhaustion than any Injury he had received. In nn hour he was able to start home. The wood-choppers ontried the careass o the bear in, hanging on a pole between tlicm. It was the largest beur that hac been killed in the Pocono región foi yoars. - SlroiuUburg (Pa.) Cor. N. Y 'Times. A VEitY pretty and romantic littl stoiy comes from Clinton, Texas. A gentleman of that town was out hunt mg a few (iays ago, and, while wander ing along the bayon which drains tha portion of Texas, bad the good fortun to shoot a duck. About the net-k of tb bird was a leathèr locket. Ile openei the locket and discorered a rerj neatl; written note. The writer stated tha ast spring, while walking along th shore of Senioiith Lake, Washington Territoiy, she saw a duck in dis;. On wading into the water to learn th cause, she disoovered that a mud-turtle held the duck by ita foot. She rescüed the duck, and theu eonceived the ro-, mantie notion of writing a note, fastenmg it about tho duck'g neck and setting it free. Site further, stated that she was sweet sixteeu, thai the young men of her acquaintanoe did not suit her fancy, and she would wed the fortúnate man who got her note. Now, it happens that the man 'who captured (he note has a wit'e, and, consequently, can not respond to the cali of the sweet damrel in Washington Territory. It would have been much more romantic, of coursu, if the discoverer of tho note had beea unfettered by matrimonial and had hnrried to meet the maiden whose message of love reaehed him in Buoh a inysteiious way, but the truth must be told, even at the risk of spoiiing a romanee. - -V. O. Times. -- - The íooll uurmanee of Capt. James Swan, "the man crocodilo," at the Theatre Comique in Proyidenee, R. I., carne ne&r resulting fatally tho other evenin. Ile was in a large platc-glass tank pf water with an alligator six feet long, and, ai'tcr stirring up the reptile Uil it was furious he toro open ils jaws and placed his head between them. Uniek as a flasl ed, and Swan death scemec eertain. With almost guperhuman ex ertion he freed himslf, uowever, am sprang out of the tank, his cheeks be ing dceply gaahed ly tho alligator' teeth. In a moment l.e. retumed to the water, forced the repnle into submission and vnsat oa witL his exlübition.