Daily National Intelligencer

PENDLETON, S. C. JUNE 20.

A successful Wolf hunt.—The farmers in the vicinity of this place have for several years past been very much troubled by wolves, destroying their sheep, which have been seen several times, but could never be taken. On the night of Monday, the 2d inst. they killed three sheep, belonging to James C. Griffin, Esq. The next day he collected five or six of his neighbors, and after dinner they surrounded the thicket where the wolves had been heard howling before daylight, near where the sheep were killed—they soon started a very large he wolf, which after running round the thicket several times, attempted to pass where Mr. Griffin was standing, who shot him. He ran a little distance back into the thicket, and after a short resistance was killed by the dogs. The party then returned to the village, but having observed there were tracks of different sizes, concluded they would search the same woods again; in a short time they attacked a large she-wolf, who ran round the thicket similar to the former, and was killed by Mr. John Miller, jun. within 150 yards of the same place—both within a mile of the court-house. To those acquainted with the nature of the wolf, the circumstances attending this affair were very singular, and a similar occurrence is not remembered by the oldest hunters.—Messenger.