Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1875 — Equine Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Equine Suicide.

The San Francisco Alta of the 9th inst. prints this story: “The latest sensation reported to the.mil ice is the death of a horse under cirdSnstances which indicate that the magnificent animal willfully or with malice aforethought made away with his own life. Some weeks ago a Mr. Edwards, a local druggist, gave a valuable young horse to a trainer to break. The animal appeared as tractable as the majority of colts of his age, and his education progressed rapidly until Saturday afternoon, when the trainer drove him out to the ocean ‘beach. As soon as the colt caught sight of the boundless deep he was seized with a fit of emotional insanity, and taking the bit in his teeth he-dashed off toward the breakers. Thinking that a dash of water would cool his ardor, the trainer made no extraordinary efforts to check his colt, but when he found himself in three fathoms of water, with the infatuated animal still heading for the sea, he concluded it was time to change his tactics, and, resigning his ribbons, he plunged into the water and swam ashore. The colt, however, continued on his course till, exhausted by battling with the waves, •and incumbered with the wagon, he ceased to swim and turned over on his side limp and inanimate. The carcass of the misfuided animal was washed ashore yesteray, and was viewed with curiosity by a number of persons who heard the story of the animal’s death.” Old Mrs. Boulay, of Dallas, Tex., found SI,BOO in gold under her floor the other day. It had been placed there by her husband, who had neglected to tell her about it before he died. Boulay for the old man. < The valuation of New York city for purposes of taxation has fallen off just about 5 per cent inthe past year, and now stands at $1,100,943,000-a reduction of $54,000,000.