The Portland daily press., 1867-10-16

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.--The following mar
rative is from the Bowling Green Ky Demo-
crat The circumstances are enthusiastically hor-
rible enough to satisfy the taste of tho most
exacting, but the heroic style of the reporter
adds little OF the ludicroas to the descrip-
ton: cost Ht .til 49, iH7 tr4n u % VA
A sad affair that left widowed mother
childess and for the time being almost bereft
of reason, happened about the 18th lilt, inthe
adjoining county OF Allen a short distance
from the Warren county line, and IN the vicini-
ty of Anthonys Mill. On the 10th ult., the
mother, Mrs. Blankenship, for the purpose of
washing clothes, repaired TO the spring branch
near the house, in the locality referred to- tax
ing her three children with her, the house dog
following behind. She had been engaged in
washing but a short stime when the dog was
heard barking necessarily onthe hill near by
Thinking that the dog had possibly freed a
recon or had a rabbit at bay, the two little
boys proposed going at once to secure the
game. With the mothers consent the little
fellows started off in high glee. Alas! better
had they never been born. On reaching the
spot where the do. was barking they saw q
short distance from the dog a large black OBJ
ject eoied at the foot Of stump, in hostile
attitude, keeping the dog at bay. They looked
but moment Eageronly to capture suppos-
ed game, and not thinking of DANGER nor
knowing the nature of the prey, they approach
ed the hideous monster that in fatality of at
tack 'outyenoms all the worms of Nile" The
Oldest of the two boys approached first with
his little hands outstretcled and his face ag low
at the prospect of his prize, he said, "I'll get
him, brother" One step more and he rushed
to a death more terrible and speedy than were
the tortures of tabled LAGOON. With one dart
of his fOrked tongue, with one death rattle of
his tail, the huge rattlesnake-for it was moth
ing less-drew back his scaly folds, and with
one dart forward planted his envenomed fangs
in the flesh of the boy, and left the deadly Doi-
son coursing hot through his young veins
Again and again was the boy bitten by the IA
tai reptile till he fell exhausted in the coils OF
the monster. '' 't.- ''f7' o. '' i't'-
The other little fellow rushed forward to the
relief of his little brother, and he also received
the deadly fangs of the serpent in several pa-
ces. The screams OF the boys alarmed the
mother, who was still washing at the branch,
aud leaving her baby girl she ran frantcally
to the spot. What q sight there met her gaze!
Pntrld with poison, swollen and black, and
bitten in many places, one of her boys was all
ready dead and the other dying from the same
cause. The snake had crawled away, and the
living boy lived just long enough to tell the
circumstances OF their death. Overwhelmed
with an intensity of agony which mothers
alone can feel, she remained at the fatal spot
short time, when she bethought OF her little
girl at the branch and hurried back. ..yb g.
On reaching the spot, horrible as it may
seem, she found that the little girl had walked
TO the washtub, into which she had fallen head
foremost and was drowned, "and it too was
gene" The mothers cup Of misery was full
not another drop could be added. Bereft of
children, and almost of reason, she sank under
the accumulated horrors of the hour. Assist
ance was procured, the heart crushed woman
and the remains OF her nestlipgs We're taken
charge OF and cared for. A short time after a
large rattlesnake with thirteen rattles was kill
ed near the spot where the boys We're bitten.