Iowa
Old Press
COUNCIL BLUFFS NONPAREIL.
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
November 20, 1858.
Texas Cattle
The wilderness of the Texas cattle that have passed through our
city this fall in droves and by car loads, has been the subject
of remark. Three hundred of these cattle, fresh from the Southern
plains, were recently
slaughtered in Muscatine, Iowa. Many of them had to be shot, as
it was found impossible to approach sufficiently close to knock
them in the head.--The Journal says, "One was
struck a heavy blow in the head with a bar of iron, which put out
his eye, but seemed to have no other effect. He made a ferocious
dash at
his assaillant; who saved himself by clambering over the fence,
while the horns of the infuriated heast pierced the plank as if
it had been paste-board. Another, when lassoed, leaped a distance
of twenty feet, and a third clamered upon a pile of cord-wood and
ran it full length as nimbly as a dog".--Davenport,
Iowa, GAZETTE.
[submitted by W.F., August 2006]