The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19
A TENNEssEE SNAKE Srony. nenro

IL TENNESSEE SNAKE SToRY.--A negro
boy, fourteen or fifteen years old, had an
unpleasant encounter, last Monday after
noon, with snake of the species known
as ''coachwhip." The boy says he
went out in the neighborhood OF the
Worley Fields, about mile from town,
gathering up some mich COWS which fire.
quently Craze in that direction. When
hrst discovered, the snake was reposing
at iull length across the road. 1t didn't
seem disposed to move out of the way,
ana tho boy picked mp little stick and
shrew Mt 1t, hitting it two or three inches
oe!ow tho head. Immediately, and as
9o,ck rs lightning, the snake grabbed it's
,:, Gt'l III It's mouth and rolled toward him
IKE hoop, aud before ho could wheel TO
run IL stra'shtened itself and commenced
lhsblng him around the legs. He broke
at once for town ut the ton of his snepd
the snake, which seemed to be inspired
by the spirit Of an old STAKEHOLDER. fol.
lowing and every twenty or thirty Yards
unhooping itself and popping him" ay
the boy termed it, hard and fast. The
last time tho coachwhip hit him, he
THINKS ho was Just at the turn of the hill.
above .Ir. Fishers residence, where lie
met gentleman going out on horseback.
VINO saw tho snuke roll itself over the
fenco into Cleage's field and disappear
among the grass and weeds. The poor
negro Gays he thought it was tho Original
sarplnt, and when ho got in sight of
town ana struck the home stretch, he
making i"ster time than any locomotive
ever dlu over the East Tennessee road
no showed the welts on his legs, and
says, Next time white folks wants them
COWS from the Worlcy Fields, they can
just fotch EN- derselves.''
Some years ago there was II family of
the coachwhip species near the field, but
1T WAS supposed, until this occurrences
that they had migrated or became ex.
tlnct. Tho boy says he thinks the snake
was about eleven feet long, body not
much thicker than his thumb. with n
white ring circllng the neck, aud that
every time 1t struck him, it's tail cracked
like cart whip.-AMens Post.
Postmaster Jones, of New York, tells
a good campaign story for Horace Gree.
ley. Some time ago one Norton. cashier
of tho post office, turned out as de-
fnultcr, and the United States Govern
mcnt came down on his securities.
ainong whom wus Horace Greeley. re-.
sponsiblo to the extent of about $50. 600
Greeley was very restive under this obli-
CATION. and he is so much in fear of debt
that he actually wanted to give his
CHI elk for tho whole sum and get it off his
mind. Finally q meeting of the en-
dorsers WAS held. and Mr. Greeley put
on his spectucles. took up his bond and
doletully read over the conditions
"Ihey say [ write on Internally bad
hand, said Greeley, ''but they can read
it plain enough when it gets on one of
these things"
In the Rocky Mountain Necs, printed
at Denver, Colorado, we find a Croll ac-
count OF the vaccination of $50 Plan
Indians by DR.. H. X. Steele. The Plans
have great adherence of smallpox.
and cheerfnlly submit to any measures
which may promise them safety from its
ravnges. One thing, however, they did
arowl ut. They objected to washing
their arms before the operation. They
don't like smnll-po but neither do they
relish any kind of ablution. Soap, if it
is good quality. they eat with great
rclish-they consider the use of it as
detergent simply wasteful. That they
submitted finally to wash their arms was
considered strong proof of their invinci-
ole dread of something worse.
Il II.