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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 358, 20 May 1884, Page 5

— , ' ' : . i The San Francisco style of advertising is always sensational. Here is a specimen from one of the journals of that city : " Away from the land of her birth and the loved of her youth she met the relentless conqueror, and bowed her , lovely head to his stroke. Other hands smoothed the long brown tresses ; ; other fingers closed. the blue eyes, and folded the gentle hands upon the peaceful, sinless [ bosom. Pure pork sausages— six pounds for , one dollar— at William and ' Cook's.' Another San Francisco advertiser wants "an industrious man, as boss hand ' over 5,000 head of sheep that can speak Spanish fluently." A horrible occurence recently happened at a village near Sora, in the province of Caserta. The village lies among the spu<-s of the Appenines,where the scenery is very wild, and wolves are still known to exist. ■ Some women belonging to the village h id gone out to get wood, when they were surprised by three or f>>ur large* wolves, whom famine had driven down from the irountains. Two of the women were attacked and thrown down by the savage animals. The others fled, ci-y---for help, but were followed by one of the wolves, which had just seized a young girl by her dress, when a wood-cutter appeared ' who had heard the cries. There ensued a i a terrible struggle between the man and the wolf. The arm of the wood-cutter was torn , and although he wounded the animal witli his axe, it world have gone ill with him had not another wood-cutter arrived on the spot. The latter with a well-aimed blow des- j patched the beast, and several companions having now assembled, tlie party went in search of the missing women. They • were found dead, terribly mangled and half eaten by the famished wolves, who took to flight I on tlie approach of the searchers. One of the j women was the mother of lour children, the other a girl of 16,