The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08

WITH n hAIlLhSNAhEs
IJacksboro Teras Cor. st. Louis Globe Democrat.l
Miss Walker, aged Is, living with her
father, s. @. Walker, eight miles from
here, retired to bed and slept all night
with a tremendous rattlesnake, seven
feet long, which crept into the bed.
About daylight Miss Walker turned
upon her pillow, when the snake struck
her in the forehead with his fangs and
instantaneously coiled around her
throat. She screamed and tainted.
The snake was finally killed, but it is
believed Miss Walker cannot live.
HORNED SNAKE.
from the Hamilton Ga) Journal.l
A gentleman in this county gives us
the following account of horned
snake: He states that, while hoeing in
a field of corn, he saw O large snake
crawling along with his head and tail
raised about eighteen inches from the
ground. He decided to kill the snake,
and, raising his hoe, started in pursuit.
The snake, seeing him, turned back to
meet his foe, when the gentleman, con-
sidering prudence the better part of
valor, turned to his heels and fed, the
snake in pursuit A large white-oak
tree was standing not far off, and to
this he made his way. Just as he
jumped behind the tree the snake
truck at him, and the horn, about two
Inches long, was buried i'll the tree.
The snake, unable to get his horn out
of the tree, was killed. The strangest
part of the affair is that in six hours the
leaves of the tree, which had been per-
fectly green and fourishing, began to
wither, and in less than twelve hours
were perfectly dead. The gentleman
who relates the above is a reliable
armer.
SNAKE HUGGING LITTLE GIRL.
From the Lynchburg virginian.l
Flora Agnew, IL years old, living in
New York city, has been visiting at the
home of her uncle, Henry Burns, two
and half miles north of Hunters
Range, Pa. She has frequently gone
with her cousin, little girl about the
same age as herself, to drive the COWS
to the pasture. Last Sunday morning
her cousin WIS sick, and Flora went
alone with the cows. When she had
driven them to pasture she started for
the house, but, becoming tired, she sat
down on mound to rest. She
hardly seated herself before she saw
huge black snake cooled on a cluster of
laurel bushes. She screamed and start
ed to run, but the snake darted at her
and circled itself about her body. She
cried at the top of her voice and ran,
with the snake drawing its folds tighter
and tighter around her, till she fell
down with fright and exhaustion. Her
cries brought her uncle, who cut the
snake in two with his knife, and re-
leased her. 1t was some time before
the little girl could speak. The i'm
print of the snakes folds was left on her
body. The snake measured six feet six
inches in length.
MUSHROOM AND RATTLEsNAKE PROOF.
From the Lawrence (Kan.) Tribune.l
We published an account of the poi
soning of Mr.. Van Kuren and family,
by eating toadstools, a week ago last
Saturday, and now, as if, because he
escaped death by toadstools, he thinks
nothing will kill him he has to go and
get snake bit. This morning, while in
the field pitching wheat, he discovered
a rattlesnake, and, supposing he had
killed him, he undertook to take off his
rattles, when the snake bit hum on the
foretinger of the right hand. Although
badly bitten he went on working and
pitched another load of wheat, until his
arm and hand were swollen SO badly
that he could not work In fact, the
arm swelled as full as the skin would
hold. He went to the house and Mr..
IL oh o1poi nfcfa
large doses of whisky until he was
drunk, and poultice of onions and
coal oil was laid on the wound. We
should have said when first bitten he
sucked the poison out of the wound as
much as he could and then finished
killing the RATHER and threw it in
to the furnace of the steam threshing
machine.
THE KISS OF SERPENT.
from the New Orleans Democrat
A correspondent in Lafourche parish
guarantees the truth of the following
details
Near the Cutoff" M. Lambasse and
his son both fell victims to snake-bite
under the following circumstances
Lambasse and his son Bib were SER
pent-charmers, who cared as little for
rattlesnakes as they would for turtle
doves. They were constantly surround
ed by their venomols pets, serpents of
the most deadly species, with which
they played fearlessly. Last Sunday,
Bib, who had magnificent rattle
snake, tried to sell it TO one of his
friends. For this purpose, he took it
out of barrel where it was kept, and,
in order to show his skill, tried to make
the reptile kiss him." The serpent,
unwilling to grant the caress desired,
ended by becoming so enraged that he
bit his charmer's tongue and also his
left arm. Immediately afterward, Bibis
father took the serpent in his hands and
tried to show those present that his son
had acted clumsily, or was charmer of
a much inferior character to himself.
So saying. he put the head of the hid
cons creature In his mouth. The SER