Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — A Battle with a Wildcat. [ARTICLE]

A Battle with a Wildcat.

[Philadelphia Dispatch.] Levi Labar, of Furdytown, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, fought a “catch-as catcb-can” battle with an enormous wild-cat-in bis bedroom last night. About midnight Labar heard a strange noise in the room. He jumped from the bed to make an investigation, when the animal sprung upon his shoulders, but Labar shook It off and delivered a stunning blow with a club. For flfteeu mlniXes the conflict raged, the brute leaping from wall to wall, clinging to the paper with Its sharp claws, and then bounding upon Its opponent, screed ing with £ury and with eyes shining like ocnls of Are. At last Labar dealt the cat a death blow. It measured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. Labar was severely lacerated about the face and arms. The Cincinnati Enquirer claims to bars canvas'ed tho political sentiments of eleven Southern' States, casting a total of 10S electoral votes, a little more than one-fourth the entire vote of the country. It reports that “ every where in tho South there lean overwhelming sentiment in favor of the r» nomination of Mr. Tilden.” Clark R. Robinson has brought suit at New York against Commodore Garrison for $2,395,960, the proceeds of the sale of bonds of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. The answer is a general denial. Estimates place the cattle drive of Texas the oomlng season in excess of 800,090 bead.