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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 308, 28 December 1881, Page 4

X vier 9ommelmaon, a Bavarian dray* man, now living in the town of Irlbacb, near Strnubing. Among the latest recorded schievemeDtß of this formidable athlete, who claims to be the champion wcieht-lifter of Germany, the following deeprve special mention, as having completely thrown into the shade »he jutt'y celebrated feats of Haas Sfeyner himaplf hitherto reputed to be the strongest Lstter-Day Teoton. A few days ago, at Hogeldorf, a uafefcrb of Rot'enhurff, Smmelmann raised a blacksmith's anvil, weighing four honrtrea 1 and eighty.ci.ht pounds, twelre inches from the groaod with one finger, snd sobs^qiieLtly a load of bricks, five hondrei a <if i fo; ty poundi in weight, to the height of his phoulders, L"»8t year yi?l^ing *° tJie srlici'atiouß of his family, who ergei him to turn his extraordicary strength to account by pxhibih'ng it in public Somnoelmann comm<>Dß»<l a atarrine perfoftnunee et logf>l«tßdt b'J* 8 ' me fJpxteroug thieves gocce^ded in robbing: him of all bis perscail nropprty »»d this untoward mishap go disp«flt°d bim wi»h travelling that he resolved ne^e'" Q? r io to quit his native district. NotbiDg, however, sffordg grenter delight than to show off his power* before those who will tske the trouble ro seek him out in the plnce of bis birth. One of the most singular incident? of the B'itiah defeat at Maiwm^, in Afpfm"' a »fln. n^corrling (0 the New Yck Times h»s just transnir**^ bb ( ] if Mia fipfais of it w-re only known it mi(?bt be phnwa tf at s tragedy h^.s been enn^ted fnll the. deepest touehea cf n°t i 'no. Somft Rpp-rp, w bo wprp »ar»'nred arv? tokpn to Herit ?>ftpr the h-t'lo in w'lioh Avonb Ktnn defected G p nT^l Bnrroiyg with heavy plaughter. Hr.v«» by p-m- mfHD3 mannced f> esc^p 1 fr om Avo-b'g ci'n^p) nnd renrh fbe Britifh frontier. H^w theycouhi h&V" tr«VFll?d nlongr the '?'■■« of ferritorv thnt strptohe» h«f.wppp H>r4t aa* Qtf it*. fhc penit«l of (hfl Khen rf KheUt'rt "?nr?>inionß, wi^ou"; beioof mordfired >o> oao'ored by the hostile trih r « vhswercn in the country, is diffi^lt to imßein": hut in all "prob bility they wprs Musfla'rnane. anJ in thnt en" they toodlcl bo a^'e to claim Bcnr' hngpifality from the Afshnns, wo are mn^h more liable to be fifTerfad by tbe H<Mmß of Mohsmroo^ani'm than they •re by the distinctions of nationality. The story tf c? t^llJ the B'it'ib BDtborities at Qaetta ia to the -eff-c* that four British soldiers who wer* "aptored «t Maiw?nd have been sold into plavfry by thpir cftDtore. Whn« 'be ««ffsrine of these slaves are cannot be even imagined, bccanFe tbe Afghans *re brutal to a degree with respect to a'i»n3 whom they have taken in battle. If th-y aave a life, it ig only from a whim thai they may pot it to prolonged torture, nnd tbe«e four men probably are now unrtercoing mispries to; which deitb Hs"lf wouH be a cojnpnrjitivp relief. When Dr Bpllow entered 4fi»har ; isfan twenty yenrs a?o, in connexion with an Embasfy «o tbe Ameer, he met b rr>Rnwbo wea pointed out to biro as 11 B'itish csptive «ho had bepn taken in the war of 1839 42. The roan resembled b bPßst more than b Cbrut'ao human being. Ho ha<! almost forgotten his own loDguaee an^ the Httk be bud left of it he dared not speak, so terrified was he of his Afghan maetere, Reliow gays the o?ge wa? S'ngnlarly pathetio, and in it alone tbe world may gain eo-ne id^a o' the fate of the four white dave.s who are now sported to be alive in tbe capital of Western Afghanistan.

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