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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
LETTING GO OF HANDS.
Ry MARGARET J. PRESTON.

BY MARGARET }. PRESTON.
q THE chill, clinging crush of the fingers,
Each pressure more faint than the last;
sT,he slow-loos ming hold that still fingers
Though the wrench Of the spirit be past!
What heart in its hopelessness breaking
To feel them can stifle the cry
The human within us is making,
''God help, or we diet
We wiring with passion of sorrow,
We cover with kisses of pain
The palm that some fairer tomorrow
Wen fold in old fondness again
We drop the pale fingers, whose colding
Impressiveness startles our own,
Forever-we know-from our holding;
Yet weep not nor groan.
How car WEI The spirit Is deadened
To numbness because of the blow.
We know that the sunshine has leadened
To ackness; it's all that we know.
So shrouded we marvel that, letting
Hands go thus. we keep, as we may
As we must. life within us, forgetting
That grief does not slay.
All! did it, how oft in our lonely
Despairs would we hail it instead
OF friends the most friendly, if only
1t let US lie down by our dead.
But with deeper refinement of anguish,
Through rackings and fortunes and tears,
1t nerves us TO bear as we langul5h
Along the gray years.
And kind ones, in soothingest fashion
(Not always ev'n love understandsl,
Speak low in their tender compassion
OF the beautiful folding of hands
Vouchsafed-0ur Beloveds-of grasping
For which the long parted so pine;
What comfort to me the keen clasplngs
When the clasp Is not msHe!
o hands that lie crossing so sanity
The bosoms on which l have leant;
Gould press them, though ever so faint
just once. | would wait with content
For the time that SO lOiters, so fingers,
When with rapture undreamed of before
catch to my lips the dear fingers,
And osethem no more!
". 7. Independent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
Wackup's Washing.

Mr.. Wackup, married man of
Bridgeport, quit work early the other
afternoon, and went home to fix up for
the purpose of spending the evening-or
rather half the night-with a number OF
his friends. He found his wife lying
upon the lounge enjoying a sick head
ache, but he couldn't find clean shirt.
Mrs Wackup said his shirts were washed,
but not ironed and she was to i'll to do it,
and it was the girls afternoon out. 4
shade of disappointment clouded his
brow, and, rushing into the kitchen, he
slammed the door with much earnest
ness, and fortunately found an iron on
the range nice and hot Then he dived
into the basket Of dampened clothes,
and found one of his shirts at the bottom,
just as he expected.
He spread the garment out on table
without first removing the oilcloth cover
Then he couldn't find the irOn-holder,
and, after burning four of his fingers anC
breaking one of the commandments, he
landed the hot iron on his shirt BOSOM
look, but supposed it would assume it
Showed the iron up and down like jack
plane. The labor seemed so easy that he
mentally said he had mind to follow the
to turn his shirt, and just because it ad
violent Jerk, adding at least six inches
more to the split in the back
Then he noticed for the first time that
L lo hot bo foil Of the
garment and scorched hole in it as large
the smoothing machine he neglected to
on his choice toe; and when Mrs. Wack-
up, who was startled by the intensity of
his language, entered the kitchen, hold
ing her head with both hands, she
discovered her husband hopping about
the room on one foot and
clasping the other with both
his hands. The sympathy that Mrs.
Wackup rendered was not of nature
that her blistered husband yearned for
just at that particular moment. She
placed her arm akimbo and Indignantly
observed:
"Ain't you ashamed of yourself, you
old fool! dancing the can-can around
here and your poor wife nearly dead, too!
And'-here her eyes rested upon the
wreck on the table-"and if the old idiot
hasn't gone and ruined my best chemise
0 the-the-" Wackup didn't tarry to
hear his infatuated better half finish the
sentence, but adroitly lodged the broom,
handle and limped out of the room and
upstairs to bed, without his supper
The next morning he told his friends
that the reason he failed to keep his
engagement was, he was suddenly attack
ed with cholera-morbus at the supper
table, and liked to have died during the
night-Norr5sto1n Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
EXTRACT from Virginian's will:

EXTRACT from Virginian's will: Il
will to my nephew, James Madison NJ
everything l may have after my just debts
are paid, with condition that after | am
buried he is to have marble head and
foot stone put to my grave, to be seven
feet long and four inches thick. l want
the following inscription cut upon both
ends of each slab: Henry M, born
Dec Is, 1906; died -. He was great
turkey hunter and tolerably good fiddler
He desired the above to be placed on TINS
slab. Peace be to his ashes | want
the foot and head stone or slab of marble
five feet in the ground and two out II
must be eighteen inches wide. My name
is to be put on the end in the ground aS
we'll as the end that is out"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have reduced the number Of hours lol
laborers and roadmen in New jersey l, 10
eight hours per day, and the pay-r RON
will be reduced accordingly. The LABOR
ers strike against it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

So SUCCESSFUL has DIR. Pierce's u .?nral
Medical Discovery proven, as conslltu ;tb the
treatment for Catarrh when coupled Will anlied
use of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, n apPrhbf
locally by the use of Dr. Pierce's Nasal NV and
(the only method of reaching the up.ppnrietor
back cavities of the head that the Pitppnding
reward of $500 for case of Catarrh Wiile
can not cure. The two medicines Win i IL
ment for 81, by all druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

Ebony weighs s3tbs to the cubic - l9 o.
Ziqnum rite the same; hickory o2!ns
birch, 55tbs; beech, 4Ofbs; yellow pine
3SBs; white pine, 25tbs; cork, Jobs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

To BE well dressed you should oo Mar
either the Elmwood or Warwick oo .han
They are better limitations OF linen '-'
any other made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

ts Business DE-, i ''''a11
protect prot! tle55,asf,F rs IN
be e consi5a and hit,,s, oaJ
insure nisu ,s his GOOD d ss,n5 y III
many fail n lpssallga n.y.!
certain certain Insured t y iae ds@I
iiaSSSo5sr'iisy t5 fss ,s;ttls d D.. \
II, ma case of d iel5 ssq:H.orts]
means hut by which !. s Il
good COM " p0!irr IN
5 i Penn sDnER1 a;g::.. @9...:$$]
lP,h9iladelpIiiaa,' G a liz 1. IL
c (1besd BY app6 e s1.,t ]
'endent Of w.. Fi9IS|
street cincina'' i K III
ol the United IS s,a s.lsld
Cooke & V C@ 1o.!49
cages and G., .i.ss&
thai than its total iii iaS:275.
The Com i m ''Ias d
North Sort1ern Pac,te. =. /
| posts post with 'J5. jazz rs.%e.&'
holders need e tp. Se.t. !
stability. TtS f,,.' q !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
O. M
sCHElGE's Ny

These PHI. q. # SCI. s.:
use use Of m mere aSt 5rss,
fse +: rttl n5;d s. n, j. :: :ss..,
from from q n di:STefD' ts-s...,s.
plant, Bi alSd ot5s,, ~,
Il e #: ;s' = $ ! j. ~,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
n pietce's GeIi'

Dr.. Pierce, G;,sa5t]
INN, Mr,t Ineeessa!r1y. XIV
other medlle,s,se9
ssSlt =. = bit se5gs,,r.|
1a5,. ., Of vIoie;,';gs,
Chronic GIRO nj OF III
viii be found y os-d
ever belOl 70, Caej
cures tn: ssn,nTIr,iifIe :
TEN and n,..;ls: /
G-rat blood IN
aiss FIJI Ss5iie g n
c0I En,,1 10 81, boE
salt Rh hf.. o III
O. eies, ssorre es
among the hail. har: Rin.l
ran,sd ted. It, e, i R;.,unnnpk{
,,5Iaalrayipi..ss,, IN
ComPl;a1llnI'AD ne.;
$i sea- :. Di'ii,:a'pIs's1
" WWes. Seneca 81
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

DR.. A, 1
AAIGN[II|
FOR TEL /
INFlAN.....1
DIR. Trask IN 2.s1
q course Of eyls-aal q
critics and pOrs d "
combined. A,@A1l
ceeded in presel--! II
of his EXPERIENCES
extracts. the p0F5'1
eases is uneql-A Il
His discover! N
ton of these poEea
Electricity or Nsla |
ment.
Certain, 1t kD
unprecedentsd So
application N ID.
once as the rresi-:
calls for a ira. ILL
properties, -.
Ii never falh
fcient life 10 Ee,,Jf
ton to the capilE
euuaIize the Cir.1I
means a CONTROLS
most malignan, i'd
be obtained from
Suchis the p"n
ton. that j: P'-S
the human frame
nerve and lg aisb .
sensible Of lis Pl'-
Hence it cope J.
ternal disease In,
u Numerous ,I ils
where this renet- ,
tiants 50 near The :;
internal remail',
Such s. has freqlsl.l :
ZION of the Bogt's =,
No patient s e.
disease where tla W.
tanned. ,m,u'
this Ointmeli I a, " |,
prepared. For D.
tits unrivaled. ain,
In ninetry'.sa,rD,s 4
hundred, Il VII. l r,ss,
ca For r. Nervous "I
Of immense va.l. II ,bl
Affection, . d I s
I.ameness, UIc''s;l ", i
P FI Group nE,,,, sss
the Face or BI rs.;:- i
Salt Sal Rheun' }. ETH,
Sores, Sores. e. slf, 1i.'.,,
'' D. D. RANSOM, ST.
m pierce's 69nI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23

THE Nick OF TIME-Panic(k).
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
Suchisthe peF

tion, thai II -
the human frame; 9 i
nerve and llg aisB 4
sensible Of ii' Pl.
Hence it cope 3
.o-,ol di.aqsp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
NuuprOUs Nv

AnectIun ~
Lameness. ulc''Ssl,,s, j
Pleurisy, Crop rE,.., 81
the Face or bI -
Salt Sal Rheun' ;. III
Sores, Sores, e. sni 1l-.,1
n ~ RANSOM, s@e
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
BEERSHERA.

To the Union and American;
am amused to bear that good manv
of the softer sex of Middle Tennessee re-
frain from resOrtiDg to this delightful re-
Ruge, from the sultriness of the low lands
and the pent up impurities of Nashville and
the smaller towns, because they think that
Beersheba is a fashionable place, where
much attention mus be given to dress in
order to be presentable in the dining room,
parlor aud ballroom. | wish to Gisabuse
their minds Of this misconception. l have
been here from the very beginning
ofthe season, and know whereof | speak,
and then my impressions correspond with
those Of everybody else here, and it is
utterly impossible that l can be mistaken
upon the subject; and l affirm that Beer.
sheoS is unjustly aspersed when it is called
fashionable. The guess here are mainly
families from Nashville, whose chief aim is
TO be comfortable. OF course the young
up pretiily, but both thew
and the married ladies dress for the most
part as ttey would do In Nashville
for walk down town, except
that they dress here, perhaps,
more plainly. ANY one dressing elaborate
ly would be conspicuous here. Go into
the parlor in the evening, and your impress
sion would be that every one was doing
pretty much as If at home. The truth is
that the spirit of the people is a good deal
IS If we were one enormous fam
lily living in great many apartments; 30
free from display or restraint is every one.
One very beautiful and accomplished lady
remarked, upon her arrival here, that the
lSdies seemed to think they were dressed
when they had brushed thei- hair and
got piece of ribbon around their
top knots-thIs appearing to be
the principal difference between their
get up in the evening and at other times.
We. are here like home folks to each other.
don't mean to say that there is absolute
ly no fine dressing here for some ladies
come with the miscoDception of the pl ce
in their minds which am now seeking TO
do away with, and come prepared accord.
ingly; and having brought the dresses, it
was MOI in the nature of
But the atmosphere Of the place is
SO little favorable to display that elaborate
tolletes, finding themselves to be eXcep-
tlonal, bright, particular stars, soon con-
cinde that the thing doesn't pay. Let none
OF my fair country women stay away from
here from any such notion as that in order
to come they ought to get up any extra
hxings beyond what they find necessary to
look bewitching in at home. Let them come
ACQUIRED as they are. That will so. We |
are all doing splendidly. We need about a |
dozen more fine looking young men 10 pay
TO the coneregsted loneliness here the at |
tention it deserves. Let those who in their |
own judgments answer the requisition vol |
unteer. The service is delightful one.
PATERFAAIILIAS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
CHOLERA IN RUTHEDFORD.

rIom lne " urIreeSDoro News July ~.
Since our last issue there has peen but
one death from cholera in our clty-Msry
Murfree, co,ored, on the 18th inst. There
were 10 new cases dming the week until
Wednesday, when Mr.. Raymond and two
negroes were attacked. Mr.. Raymond is
very low at the time we go to press. DR..
Henry Williams, who resides near Locke's
church, in this county, has been down with
a severe attack of cholera, but is now con-
valescent. On Stewards creek, on the place
OF Daniel McClsran, two negroes died
last week of the prevailing" On Capt.
John Lytle's plantation, on the Franklin
road, there have teen about twenty cases
OF The same disease, and six or seven
deaths. Two of the Captains daughters
were lying quite low with the disease on
Wednesday. We heard of two cases of
cholera at j. B. Miles, two miles west of
Lytle's, and rumor also said it had broken
out on the jeff Overall place.
On the NOleusville pike, north of Triune,
in Williamson county, John Page, ESQ, an
old and highly respectable citizen, died of
cholera last Saturday, and bis son Robert
died at II O'Clock that Dight, though not of
the prevailing disease. Another son, Wal
ter, was not expected to live.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
Stock on hand,

We are indebted to McAlister & Wheless,
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York snd Liverpool
during the day.
LIVERPOOL, July 80, 12:15.-Cotton firm
and tending up. Sales u, 900 bales.
LIVERPOOL, July %, 1:00.-Cotton I'M
changed. Aiddling uplands SD; middling
Orleans Sd. Sales to-day 1900 bales; sales
for the week $1,000 bales, of which 1000
bales were for export, and - bales for
spectators. Total stock $4,000 bales, of
which $4,000 bales are American. Total
stock afoat $4,000 bales, of which -
bales are American. Receipts of the week
1900 bales, of which $4,000 bales are
American. Actual exports 1000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, July %, 5:0O.-Cotton
UNCHANGED. Middling uplsnds SD;
middling Orleans Cd; August ard Septem-
Der, not below low middling, SD; Septem-
Der and October 1850. Sales to-day IL
600 bales, OF which 1900 bales are for ex-
ports and speculation.
New YORK, July %, 1O:25.-Cotton-
Nothing doing and prices nOminally IN
changed. Ordinary 14fc; good ordinary
1Sc; strict ordinary 19c; low middling zoe;
middling 21c; Alabama 21c; Orleans 21c;
Texas 21ac. Futures-JulY delivery 2036
20 9-16c; August 1SS0IS 11.16c; September
1S!61S 5-16c; October II 13-166IS5c; No
vember l7s017 11-16c; December 17S017
11-1Gc.
NEW YORK, July %, 11:0O.-Cotton-
Futures steady. July delivery 203620 g.
16c; August 10 9-16c; September ISIc; Oc-
tober II 13-16617Ec; November 17s617
11-16c; December 17sc. Sales 1000 bales.
NEW YORK, July %, 12:l0.-Cotton-
Market quiet. Ordinary 144c; good ordinary
1Sc; strict good ordinary 19c; low middling
20c; middIing 21c; Alabama 21c; Orleans
PIC; Texas 2l5c. Sales for consumption
206 bales. Futures quiet. July delivery
20!c; August 10 Z 16n19Ic; September
1Stc; October II 13-166175e. Sales $500
bales.
NEW YORK, July %, 1:05.-Cotton-
Futures quiet; jriy delivery 2O5620 7-l6c;
August 10 9 16d19ac; September 1910; Oc-
tober II 13-16c. Sales II 900 bales.
NEW YORK, July %, 2:J0.-Cotton-
Market quiet. Ordinary 14ttc; good ordinary
1Sc; strict good ordinary 19c; low middling
zoe; middling 21c; Alabama 21c; Orleans
21c; Texas 2l2c. Sales on spot 1000 bales,
NEW YORK, July %, 2:4O.-Cotton-
Futures steady. July delivery 20 9-16c;
August 10 !-166l9sc; September 1916;
October II 1890. Sales IL, 400.
NEW YORK, July 25, S:0O.-Cotton-
Market quiet. Ordinary 14!!c; good ordinary
1sc; strict good ordinary l9c; low middling
zoe; middling 21c; Alabama 21c; Orleans
BIC; Texas 21ac. Sales for exports 40
bales; for consumption 100 bales; for specu.
lation bales.
NEW YORK, July 25, S:25.-Cotton-
Futures dull. July delivery 20a62Osc; 4u-
gust 19S619 11-16c; September 16!c; Dc
tober II 13-16617sc; November II 1l-166 |
27ac; December 17sc. Sales $500 bales. !
New YORK, July 25.-Net receipts |
1852 bales; exports to Great Britain 12,- |
AS bales; to the continent 2, AL bales; stock |
1928 bales.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
SundFtoB.


SREDs-We quote as follows: Clover
$500; timothy $4.2564.50; orchard grass
S2.25n2.50; blue grass S1.50; herds grass
$3.50; German millet $3.50; Missouri linn
let $500; Tennessee millet $3.50; Hum
garian 1925.
COTTON YARNs-We quote ct lac, l43c,
16.c and 1910 for 100, 900, 500 and 400.
SHUCKs-ln demand at $3.50 per 100 lbs
for hacked, and S1.50 for roagh.
WRAPPING PAPER.-We quote small at
&c; medium Toe; double crown 81.
IBoN.-We quote as follows: Tennessee
bar 64c ~ ID; Kentucky do SC; Tennessee
band 669c; Kentucky do. 54664c; Ten
nessee boiler plate Sc; boiler heads 94c;
fire box Zoe, sheet, common 6G7c; do
Kentucky 7!G8!c; do Tennessee SG9ic.
BARREI.s--We quote at 45c.
GLAsswARE--We change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: 8 by 10
$6.75; 10 By IL S7.25; Toby ID $500; 10by
6$S.T5; u by Il $S.75; IL by 16 1915; II
by Is 1925; II by 20 1925. Discount
401.
FLAsKs-The quotations net are as fol-
lows: Half pint 1915; pint 1915; quart
S4.75.
CAEDIEs-We quote stick candy 49,;
common fancy TIC.
721 to 72s. Northwest 70s6123 with ex-
RAIsINs-We quote as follows: box
95c; box $1.75; whole box 1925.
CoRDAGE-Jute 15c; grass &c; cotton
32c.
PEPPER-We quote at 2Tc.
SPICE-We quote at 16c.
GINGER We quote at lie.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
Nashville Grocery Market.

SUGARs-New Orleans, In hogsheads 9
Ole for fair TO choice: Demerara 113A
l2c; standard hards I24c; New Orleans
clarified white 12!MI2ac; do. yellow lac;
A coffee lie; B do. 11sc; @ do. lie;
Porto Rico 11m12c; yellow G lie.
MoLAssEs AND SIRUPsLNew Orleans
70675c; sirups $4,000; golden strip 60
G65c.
CoFFEE-Market steady as follows /:
Bio, common to choice, 23N24.c; LaguaYra
23624c; Java 27@29c.
NAILs-We quote at S5.25 for 1Ods, and
26c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote Z bushel barrels at
$500 per barrel in depot.
CANDLEs-We quote star 19ac ~ d.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $500, 81 .25 and $500;
In hts, Nos. /, 2 and 8, $3.50, $500 and
Sl.75.
RIcE-We quote at &c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial $1.00n1.50;
Young Hyson s1.15N1.50; Black 75c6
S1.25; Gunpowder $lm1.60.
POwDER-Market steady IS ollows: Du-
pont $7.25; Sycamore Mills SIPS; Hazards
SIPS; blasting $5.25; fuse per 100 feet 76c.
SEoT-We quote patent $2.S5; Buck
$40.
LrQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky % gallon 81; Robertson County
$1.T56$3; Bourbon $1.25N5.50; Lincoln
County $1.7502.25; Highwines 81.
COTTON TIEs-We quote at 9a610c.
BRooss-We quote at $2.5003.E0 -
dox.
soAP-We quote st 6a8c y ., or $50
$50 y box.
BAeerNa-We quote st 14@14ac for
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26

at this season the heat Of the sun liberate
from the soil, the water and the filth of cities
immense quantities of unwholesome gases which
the strongest can scarcely inhale with impunity,
and which develop the most distressing diseases
IN the weak and feeble. It's, therefore, of para
mount Importance to invigorate the body in hot
weather. Vitalize and strengthen the stomach
and the nervous system with at least two doses
per day of HoStetter's Stomach Bitters, and YOU
will be sure to escape the fits of Indigestion at
tacks of bilious collie, sick headache, diarrheas
and dysenteries which are so common at this
season. Be prudent. A little care and forecast
exercised now may prevent your being pros
trated by remittent or intermittent fever, or by
chronic bowel or liver complaint throughout the
fall When yigor is oozing out of every pore I'M
der the rays of an almost vertical SUM- this genial
vegetable tonic supplies to the nervous system
an aliment which enables it to withstand the
drain. jy22 deod1w&w1t3dp
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
A WONDERFUL SNAKE.

FROM the Knoxville Chronicle.
Several weeks ago while Sylvester Bow
man, of Claiborne county, was cutting the
sprouts off his oats, be saw what he took to
be large black snake, md struck at it with
his scythe, when, to his establishment, the
snake struck at him with its tail, lif ing its
tail several feet from the earth. Bowman,
wherein on, again struck at the snake, but
the vicious reptile, not at all intimidated,
returned the blow and pressed Bowman SO
closely that it was with difficulty be got
away. Returning TO the attack, Bowman,
by means of large rocks, at last succeeded
in Gripping the make and fastening it to
the earth. With the assistance of
Jordan F. LOngmire, it was now
examined, and to their establishment was
found to be over six feet long nd to have
q horn at the end of its tail = little over en-
inch snd a quarter long, shaped like roos.
ter's spur. But what was still more aston
ing, ithad two eyes it its tail, which, ex-
cepting the horn, wss shaped exactly Ike
the head, but was not so large. Indeed, to
see the tail, one would have thought tina. it
was the head, and that the horn was its
tongue. The horn was very sharp. The
snake seemed very fierce at its tail-end, and
underworld to strike everything that came
uedT ILS TALL dIiCuo 6A pei lm6DtS were
made to ascertain whether it could see with
the eyes in bis tai and it was demoDstrat-
ed beyond doubt that it could see with its
tail eyes. These eyes had lids, which
opened and shut and cleaned with anger.
Indeed, the tail head seemed far more fierce
than the other head. Although the snake
tapered somewhat from its main head, still
the tsil-head was as thick as a large thumb
and just as blunt.
Mr.. Bowman carried the snake home
while disabled, but it continued to strike at
every intruder with its horn, and, the fam
lily becoming alarmed, Mr.. Bowman shot it
dead.
Messrs. Bowman and Longmire vouch
for the truthfuiness of these statements,
and so will many other citizens Of the
neighborhood. The writer of this knows
Mr.. Longmire to be tru .hful man, man
of wealth and intelligence and an old mem.
Der of the Methodist Church.
Joresboro', Tenn, July q, 1872.