This feat caused the most intense excitement in Louisville and vicinity.

He then went to Europe and commenced his exhibition season at Amsterdam, Holland, in May, for by this time he was well launched in the show business.

He exhibited with much success all through Holland and Germany.

August 3d, 1876, he found himself in the town of Linz, Austria.

Here he met with an accident from which he almost lost his right eye, by the premature explosion of a torpedo.