The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-20
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) News, June 20.
WONDERFUL EVENT.
a Young Girl Carries IL snake in
her Stomach -Four Years.

For many months past it has been re-
ported that young LADY living near Chris
tian, in this county, was afflicted in a very
singular manner, and 4 great many said
was possessed either of devil or a reptile
of some character which was located in
her stomach. Many had been the remarks
thereabout, some affirming its possibility,
while others fhooted" at the bare mention
of such thing. The interest had con-
tinued to increase in regard TO it until at
different times most all the physicians in
that end Of the country had visited the at
fiicted young lady and we might say with
out exaggeration two-thrds of the people
of the same section. The grand culmina-
ton, however, was reached on Friday night
last, 10Th of June, by its extraction from
the stomach of the girl by DR. J NJ Burger
of the heretofore mooted ''thing," which
was nothing more or less than live snake
twenty three inches long and two thirds of
an inch in diameter. The girls name is
Thankful Taylor Her father is dead, and
her mother has since married her present
husband, William Carroll Her age is
twenty-five years, and since her infancy
she has been more or less delicate at times
She first was troubled with the snake about
four years ago, and since that time it has
continued to grow worse, until for the past
two years her life has been almost contin-
ually one of pain and trouble. When she
felt the motions of the snake in her stomach
they were frequently preceptible across the
room, with an ordinary bed quilt over her,
and were generally upon one or the other
side of her stomach. She would suffer
great pain, and frequently so severe it would
produce commissions; she would lose her
mind, and remain sometimes in death
like state for twenty-four or thirty-six
hours. At times her suffering was so great
her skin would split open, and the flesh
upon her head split so much it became
necessary to cut her hair off very short, IN
which condition it Is now, and the scars are
perceptible to all, She frequently remarked
on the 10Th it was coming up soon, and
just after dark on that evening as the fam
lily were seated about the door and some of
them on the outside, she arose from her
pallet on the floor rushed out of the west
door of the cabin, and in a stranglng man
ner ran some fifteen or twenty steps and
fell upon her knees. The family suppos-
ing her in a spasm, ran after her, and her
little brother reaching her first, called back
to his mother that 'that thing was in siss
mouth" Her stepbrother caught and held
her from behind, she all the while making
desperate efforts to get loose, and appeared
strangling to death. Her mother finding
''the thing in her mouth, as though it had
come up head foremost, and in going back
the same way had doubled itself, making a
loop, in which she put her finger and held
it until the doctor came, wAo had been sent
for instantly, ami arrived in a few minutes
from his home, some four hundred yards
of the way he had to come. The mother,
remembering the doctors injunctions, held
fast, and as it tried to worm itself back into
the stomach she called upon her daughter
to close her teeth upon it, which her daugh-
ter says she did, and there is certainly up.
on the snake. just where she would have
taken hold, unmistakable signs of marks
tnat might have been made by teeth. So
soon as the doctor arrived he took hold of
it and drew it out it making efforts to get
down, but coming up with the use of but
little strength.