The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-05-17
SWALLOWED A SNAKE,
A Snake Lives a Year in u Woman's
Stomach

Snake Lives a Year in Woman!
Stomach.
The heroine of this renlnrkabl,
occurrence is u Mrs. Sarah Linder
ner, who lives on Reserve street
Vancouver. She Came there in Sep
tembcr last from Camp Bidwcll
Modoc County, California. whcr,
she hid previously resided with he,
husband on ranch. She rc!ntcs
the story substantially AZ follows
One day i'll the month of March. Il
year "go, she had been w ,shing dur.
ing the day. and when night came
was tired and thirsty. Not having,
amy water in the house she took n
cup and repaired ton spring, or hole
III the ground, where her husban, 1
had sunk II small barrel near II small
creek. The dusk Of evening la,l
faded into darkness, rendering it
impossible for her to see what might
bo i'll the cup when she drank. She
drank deep dr;,usht from the cup
and felt something weighing down
her throat, seemingly about the size
i OF horse hair, and two ur three
inches long. She uttem; I'D t. raise
1T, but could not, and thinking it
would, if an animal, be unable to live
III her stomach. for the time being
dismissed the subject from her mind
Three or four months thereafter she
began to manifest symptoms similar
to aggravated dyspepsia, terrible
Dun nlngs AMI pressure in the
stomach, anl constant cravings for
food and yet never satisfied. like one
afflicted with tapc-worm. She was
Treated from time to time for her
troubles. but for II lonS time would
not think she had snake in her
stom:c':. She came to Vancouvey
with her husband lust fall. in the
meantime her troubles increasing,
and for the past three months as
Stunning tho most frightful symp-
toms. She could feel the animal
moving about in her stom >ch, clearly
manifcstinG its presence by nnn,is
taxable evidences, such ns hitting her
stomach severely and rendering her
almost beside herself with pain AMI
horror. The animal would seize
hold of the lining Of her stomach
and bite until some sort of warm
food or drink was administered to
the patient, when it would subsi;lc
and bo qniet. The p3or woman WAS
kopt almost con tantly eating and
dosing for the benefit of his snakc
ship md it may e.:s ly hc imagine
that her life was ono round of un.
mitigatel horror. Dcsp.,iring of II
cure she wrote to DIR. Juync&, of
, Californie, who sent her nrcscrip
ton. which was sim .ly to st,rvc
herself and drink nothing but bran
dy. Frid ~ moln:n; of last week.
Alnrch II, after having 1ull' red fear.
fully the day previous, she began the
new regimen. Building up hot
fire she dosod ho .vily with the liquor
and reclincd on the floor, with her
face close to the fire Along in the
forenoon she became deadly sick at
the stomach and vomited Violently.
After several severe retchings she
felt the snake coming up; it,, head
was SO near her mouth ns to impede
her breathing, when rising to her feet
III agony, md leaning her head against
the mantlc-piccc, directly over the
, fire, she thrust her fin so,s down her
throat, stretching it to it's widest
tension, and the snake & idcl fl IN her
mouth and fell into the hot Goals of
, the fire below and WAS burned ur.
At this moment there was no one
present but girl twelve years old,
and she did not darc to take the
animal from the fire, and the WON IN
tainted away. The snake is de-
scribcd as closely resembling n com
mon garter snake and was about
sixteen inchos in length. 1t thrust
its tongue from its mouth ns it
came forth anl sql,ilmel in lively
! manner when it fell into the fire.
One or two Of the ncighbors were
called in and they say the coil of the
snake WAS plainly visible in It's en-
tie shape upon the Goals Of fire. The
W oman, who h Us pincl away from
$50 pounds to living skeleton,
! ie'SlS ~ "oflSttllitl StIlSt tl IcIicl Ill
getting rid of the loathsomc reptile.
. - pu"c"""er (O/ryo,O I.dr1,cnd
ent.
, There need be no apprehension Of
scarcity Of silver coin, M there has
been issued but S1,5OO,O00 under
the substitution provision of tho
statute, while the Trc,snry Depart
mcnt has on hand about SD, 900. 600.
and the mint coinage will supply
! from s1,50J,O00 to $4,000 900 Il
month. The Treasury Department.
| officers ut Washington believe that
one fourth Of the outstanding frac-
! tional currency has been destroyed
and never will be presented for re
dcmption.
The business men Of Toledo, Ohio