A NICE ANIMAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 187, 6 September 1878, Page 4

A NICE ANIMAL.

The New York popore announce the death of a horao with a very disagreeable tempar. At Mildlotown, the famous Hamblrttoniun stallion Rfajngham was killed by its owner. Dr. J. A. Schuliz. This boree was twenty-one years old, r.nd an offar of 7000 dole, was once refuseu for him. He was 8 most valuable animal, but was unfortunately possessed of such a vile temper that he at lost became unmanageable, and wnfl generally known a 9 the " maii-eater," He l\ad killed three men, and wounded, cripplnd, aud disfigured twenty other?. For fourteen years no one dared put him in harness antil a short lima ago, when Dr Schuhz, who had lately bought him with the aid of several men, got him into the shaft of a waggon, which he immediately shattered to atoms, besides nearly killing the doctor. Mauy of the leading horse-trainers of the United States had tried (heir skill at subduing him, but he them all, ana one narrowly escapsd with bis life. One of his latest exploits was the seizing of a npgro groom, who had undertaken to keep him, tearing off the man's right cheek, destroying his eye, and Btripping the flesh from the right arm. The groom became blind and paralysed. The three men who preceded the negro as grooms all narrowly escaped with their lives. One lost an ear; another bad three fingers and a thumb taken off; the third left his arm from the elbow in the jaws of the horse. Under theee circumstances Dr Schultz found great difficulty in finding anyone who would take the place to groom Risinghacn, and at least made up his mind that he was chronically insane, and decided on destroying him before he claimed another victim. As Risingham stood in his stall glaring over the manger at the spectators, who had entered the stable to see the man-aater die, five large pistol balls were shot into his head directly between the eyes. They failed to bring him down, and with a fierce scream he made frantic efforts to get over the manager amongst the bystanders. Dr Scbultz at this moment, by a skilful thrust of a long knife, cut the jugular vein, and Riaingham at last, after tottering under the flow of blood, fell in his stall to rise no more, "The ruling passion" was "strong in death," for his laat movement was an attempt to seize Dr SctiuHz with his tosth when that gentleman imprudently entered the stall