Sunbury American

Correspondence of the Sunbury American

FEARFUL LEAP BY A HORSE!!

THURSDAY

Yesterday as a stranger was passing through our town in a buggy. his horse became frightened somewhere near the new Foundry and ran off. His first care seemed to be the preservation of his master, for him he safely deposited in a heap of sand, then dashed the buggy to atoms! and went off at locomotive speed along the line of railroad The harness and part of the shaft was dangling at his heels. He had not gone over six hundred yards when he encountered an abutment for a bridge. So great was his speed that he could not recover himself, and there was no alternative but certain death on the rocks below or a jump of some thirty or forty feet! The noble animal seemed to take in at a glance the danger of his position, and when about six feet from the edge of the abutment gathered himself for the desperate effort. There was no hesitation--on he came--life or death was before him! He planted himself firmly, drew back on his haunches and sprang off! He cleared the space and landed four feet from the edge on the opposite side! The variation of a hand's breadth would have brought him against the side of the abutment and consequently would have been thrown on the rocks below. So close did he come that his side and legs rubbed and were badly bruised; but he is now doing well and does not seem to have suffered much from his adventure.

One of the Engineers on the railroad who was engaged near by, immediately took a measurement of the distance, and found it to be exactly thirty-two feet! This may seem incredible, but you may rely on its correctness.

SPECTATOR.