Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-07
SNAKES!
Summer Stories From All SectiOns-Rattle
sa.kes. whip Snakes, Black snakes
and Wator SnakesLThe New

sumner Stories From All Sections-RattIs
sa.kes. whip Snakes, Black snakes
and Water sn.kes-The New
York Times " Collection.
Archie Reed, of Villanow, Ca. killed
two rattle snakes. one of which was trying
to swallow rabbit,
Hundreds of rattle snakes have beep
killed in blasting away the rocks for the
railroad extension beyond Redding, Cal.
Nrs. 8. A. Robinson, of Newman, Ga :,
killed q coach whip snake in her front
door yard that was four and one half feet
in length. 1t was chasing rat.
A snake six feet in length attacked a
BOopton, N. j., boy and chased him a
hundred yards. Then the boy mustered
up courage, and turning about killed the
suake.
A black snake entered the house of F..
NJ. Van Dyke, of West Kalamo, Mich, to
get canary that hung in a cage in the
open window. The snake was killed when
its head was within six inches of the cage.
As Henry Strunz was climbing the
mountain just below CompOunce, Conn.,,
he reached up to grasp the edge of ledge
aud put his hand upon q rattlesnake. lie
succeeded in killing the reptile. 1t was
three feet eight inches long.
The attention of farm hand on Belle
Reaches ranch, near Redwood City, was
attracted by the strange noise of a bird
circlng in tue air. He saw it suddenly
fall, and, running to the place, found it in
the jaws of a rattesnake, which he killed.
The snake had sixteen rattles and Was six
feet in length.
AS Michael Mccarthy aud Henry Wood
were cutting brush in the mountains near
Broadway, N. j., they were attacked by a
large black snake. They killed it. 1t
was eight feet seven inches long. They
then started fire in hole in the rock,
and snakes of various kinds aud sizes
darted out, and soon sc we're killed.
The two little daughters of Ezra Lswis,
of Shelby, KY, discovered blacksnakc
on the lawn aud rau for something to
throw at it. Finding piece of
broken stove lid, one of them
threw it at the reptile, aud, singularly
enough. struck it OF the back Of the head,
killing it. 1t was tritle over six feet in
length
The 10 year old son of G. 3. Hanney, of
North Aunsville, N. Y, went into the hay
loft to gather eggs, and found a large
spotted milk snake upon hens nest,
coiled SO as to completely cover it. The
snake chased him out of the loft and then
went back to the nest. 1t was finally
killed. Two other snakes of the same
kind were found in a field close by.
w. D. Livingston, Of Sylvania, Ga,
says that as he was crossing the Little
Oseechee creek about two weeks since he
saw about two dozen snakes all twisted
and plated together, there being rattle
snakes, black snakes, mOccasins, garter
snakes. rat snakes, coach whips, adders,
gopher snakes, king snakes and pilot
snakes in the twist, and all seemingly in
good humor.
Hugh Levy, painter, of Memphis,
while fishing stopped over to seize a craw.
fish, he saw under log, when a snake
fastened it's flngs in the third and fourth
fingers of his left hand. He sucked the
poison from the wound, aud then drank a
quart of whisky, which, hs says, had moi
the least effect upon him, bound a string
tightly about his wrist, and started fol
homo. During the evening he drank two
gallons Of whisky. He finally recovered