KILLED BY WOLVES.
On a cold night, in November, a negro returning from a
hog-killing, four to five miles out from the town, with a supply of fresh
meat in his possession, was trailed by the wolves in large numbers, and
attacked early in the night. He defended himself with all the power at his
command, but before assistance reached him, was killed and literally torn
to pieces by the hungered wild animals. His body was discovered the next
day, a few paces from the pathway, horribly mutilated and torn.
It was also in this year, that John Standley, father of
Senator Standley, who departed this life a few years ago, had a brief but
exciting experience with a large and finely proportioned bruin, on the
banks of Canoe Creek, somewhere between the bridged on the Owensboro and
Knoblick Roads. Fortunately for Mr. Standley, (it will be observed, that
in early times, a 'd' was used in his name), he was accompanied by old Tom
Nigger, a colored man, who subsequently became guite noted in the county.
Mr. Standley and the bear embarced one another, and in the hugging frolick
the bear was so badly worsted that he retreated in haste to his den in the
woods.
In the summer of this year, the two-story brick
occupied by Mr. Thomas J. Johnson, which stood on the corner of Main and
First Streets, was built. The timbers used in this building were sawed by
McCormick's Mill, above the mouth of Green River, and rafted from that
point by Mr. Payne Dixon. Thomas Anderson was the contractor who built the
house, and at that time, and for at least four decades thereafter, this
building was by far the most imposing to be found anywhere in the town. It
was a large, two-story brick, and considered a good building since the
late war.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
p. 142
published in 1887
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