Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-11
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TOUGH sTORIEs.
Some Yarns From Southern Newspapers.
Cochran, Ga, has roofing COW. Par
ties have seen her insert her nose nearly to
her eyes in the hills and lift the potatoes,
which she would eat.
A sweet potato weighing thirteen and
three-quarter pounds was raised this year
by Mr.. William L. Smith, and is the boast
of Roane county, Tenn.
Owensburg (Ky.) Messenger: Mr..
George Birk has blackberry bush with
green leaves, green berries, and ripe ber-
ries upon it, which, for the season, is quite
remarkable.
Maysville (Ky.) Bulletin: A valuable
COW belonging to Mr.. R. F. Means died
suddenly Sunday. Her stomach was found
to contain twenty-five nails, several pieces
of lead and iron, and nickel coin.
Warsaw (Ky.) Independent: ''Uncle"
Joe Wilcher raised the largest cabbage in
this section. 1t is not fully matured vet
and measures seventy five inches in cir
conference and is three feet, seven inches
high.
Owenton (Ky.) Ne,cs: Frank Duncan
left at this Office last Monday the largest
beet we ever saw. 1t weighed nineteen and
a half pounds and beats all the beets we
ever saw; it is almost as large as the aver
age ''dead-beat."
Breckenridge (Ky.) NeaUs: DR.. Pulliam,
of Mt. Zion, had pumpkin vine on which
there were twelve pumpkins, the largest of
which weighed seventy pounds and the
smallest twenty five, the whole filling a
two-horse wagon-bed.
Henderson (Ky.) Ne,cs: Peter Klien pur-
chased some time since from a country
man live rooster with four fully devel
oped feet and legs. An Evansville man
heard of this chicken and came down last
week and gave Mr.. Klien $3.50 for the Gu
riosity.
arkansas NeaU Benzoniun: A sweet DO
tato is on exhibition in the show window
of Laughlin's drug store that weighed
twelve pounds when first dug and cleaned
There were five others in the hill. and the
half dozen weighed twenty seven pounds.
They were grown in the garden of Mr..
Amos Cloe, west of town.
Frankfort, (Ky.) Yeomoa:: r. G. Cru
gin, of this county, has brought to the Yeo-
man Office the champion beet of the sea-
son. It is sixteen inches in length, TWEEN
ty-twO and half inches in circumference,
and weighs fourteen and a half pounds.
1t was raised on his place, six miles north
west of Frankfort, between Flat creek and
Stony creek.
Covington (Ky.) Commonwealth: An
apple from Gen. John W. Finnell's orchard
at Sunny Side is the great curiosity of the
season. One-half of it, next the stem, is
distinctly marked in size and color (red)
as Milan, while the other half has the
distinctive marks of Golden Russell The
apple grew on a Milan tree, not far from
a Golden Russet tree. 1t is clear case of
miscegenation.
Coffee County (Ga.) Gazette: A young
man in the upper part of this county killed
fiftythree leather-winged bats at one shot
with rifle last week. A piece of bark was
ripped up on standing tree, and the bats
were hiding there by thousands in the day
time, and in passing our friend was at
tracted by the noise they made, and, polk
ing his gun up the crevice, fired, killing
the number named, wounding wagon
load. 1t was poor day for killing bats
anyhow.
Marlin (Tex.) Indee:: Under the tree we
witnessed a sight-a contrast-to us no
less novel than remarkable. There lay a
''copperhead" snake about two and one
half feet in length, perfectly motionless.
On the other side of the reptile,
about one or two inches from
its head, there was large green
worm fastened to the body of the
snake. Its powerful Eandibles were fast
ened to the neck of the snake, and its legs,
which we're pointed with sharp, strong
fangs, were firmly planted in the reptiles
body. Evidently, so far as the worm was
concerned, it was an assault with intent to
| murder. Mr.. Cakes seized stick and dis
patched both snake and worm. Mr.. Cakes
Informed us that he had noticed of late on
his farm several ''copperhead" snakes all
disemboweled and could not account for
it, as the dead snakes bore no evidence of
having been killed by human beings. The
circumstance above related convinced him
that they had been killed and disemboweled
by these worms. 1t may be stated that
the worm was not a centiped, but its body
resembled that of a very large tobacco
worm, its mandibles and fangs on the
other end of the body being different.