The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20

A sstrange and truly wonderful
freak occurred last Tuesday at Oloc-
ulche, . little village four and a half
miles northeast of Grenada. A young
man named Simon Gregory, who
has lived there all his life, and been
in very bad health since he was eight
years of age. concluded that he
would so fish @ while in 2 lake near
by and was engaged in fastening
some small hooks on lines, and as he
would fastcn on a hook would put ii
into his mouth to hold ii and keep it
from the children who were playing
around his knee. He had fixed n
hook, had 1t In his mouth and was
buifiiy engaged in the fastening Of
another when forgetting the one in
Ills mouth swallowed it. At once
every ones in the little town WAS
wild with excitement and q per-
feet pandamonium eusued. One
young fellow being of a less excita-
bic nsture than his associates I'M
mediately mounted a mule and start
ad at full speed i'll quest Of 8 Physi.
elan md luckily, when about two
miles from home, riding As fast as
mule can travel, overlook DR.. Jas. B.
Gage, Jr. ofthis city, who al once re-
turned to alleviate the sufferings of
the unfortunate man.
Arriving at the scene, he succeed
ed in getting enough Of the crowd
away TO allow an examination ,taud
begun work, He YVES considerably
astonislled to discover, on gently
pnlling the liue that ~ acute pam
ensued and much more 20 when the
line had been pulled out two OF three
inches end yet no groaus Of anguish
from his patient. Twas evident from
the amount of weight attached to the
line that the hook was caught on
something, bat thinking that hs had
discovered some''physical wonder in
sensible to pain, he continued to
draw the cord little BY little, when
horror Of h0rrOrs-~twould take viz.
id imagination indeed to picture his
CONSERVATION AM surprise on seeing
that he had pulled a live and with
ing snake from the throat Of his pa
tiept. The snake was Il inches long
and nothing Of its kind has ever
been secu in this vicinity before.
It was thought at first to be per-
lectIy white but closer observation
revealed email %yeilowish spots q lit
tlo larger than Il pin head all over It's
back and sides, Ihs slippery ger
sSflt "saa little larger tian ~ com.
mon lad pincil at the Iarg-
ct Of ite body, and was per.
iertty hliudt,nO eyes being visible
i, any part Of It's hea1. 4 great
rn9nF thought chat the 1nsEe va.
swallowed when every stnH!I aud it,
eye ]ids mad grown together but Il
riUae examination under D powerful
glass fatia'! to d~i 3c0ytrauy Indication
that The reptile had eve been the
the possessor of a pair 0ioptics and
like the fish in The Muulmuth cave |
had always existed minus sight. |
strange aud wonderful thing is
the principal topic Of our city and
groups Of men stand ou the streets
discussing it. N~umberless are the |
the theories advanced a. to the
Of The strange snake but the
preyuiilnrjd idea Is that il originated
in tie stomach Of the young man
when q Child, and yet Of all those
holding TO this belief, aud they are in
majority not oDe can give a substan-
LtAl reason for believing ~ he does.
DIR. J. i. Gage Jr. has the snake in
his office, which IL co~nstautly crowd
I'd By curious sight-seers anxious 10
get q look al natures wonderful
The young man from whom the
was taken is steadily improv-
and bids fair to recover from
What was thought to he u hopeless