Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — A Battle with a Wildcat. [ARTICLE]

A Battle with a Wildcat.

[Philadelphia Dispatch.] Levi Labar, of Purdytown, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, fought a "catch-as catch-cftn” battle with an enormous wild cat In his bedroom lost night. About midnight Labar heard a strange noiße 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 fifteen minutes the conflict raged, the brute leaping from wall tc wall, clinging to the paper with its sharp claws, anil then bounding upon its opponent, screething with fury and with eyes shining liko coals of fire. At last Labar dealt the cal a death blow. It measured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end of Us tail. Labai was severely lacerated about the face anc arms. The Cincinnati Evqulrrr claims to hav« canvassed the political sentiments of elevet Southern States, casting a total of lOt electoral votes, a little more than one-fourtl the entire vote of the c-ouniry. It reportt that “everywhere In the South there is at overwhelming' sentiment in favor of the *e nomination of Mr. Tilden.” Clark R. Robinson has brought suit at New York against Commodore Garrison foi 82,895,950. toe proceeds of the sale of bondi of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Ttx answer is a general denial. Estimates place the cattle diive of Texa the coming season iu excess es 300,060 bead