Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-07-05
SNAKES m IRELAND.
Coed -. Pstrick's work undons by
ripsy American Snowman.

America With q show OF living wild AMI.
mals. tie landed bis show At Queens.
town, and gave exhibitions up through
ireland with more or less success. But
one night at the little town OF Amraugh.
in Tipporary, Mr. Wilson got very ;
drunk and attempted 10 clean cut his
own show. The constabulary force
sought 70 interfere, and whether as q
means OF self-defense or in a spirit Of
humor. | know notl Mr.. Wilson turned
all the Wild animals loose. OF course
this created terrible uproar, and for
week the nesghhorhood was in n state OF
wild excitement The wild beasts were
duly either captured or killed, but for
three years no trace OF the dan OF snakes
let loose on that memorable nightc could
be found Meanwhile Mr.. Wilson went
to prison for two years.
Two years ago the people In the neigh.
borhood OF Amraugh began 20 miss
poultry and pigs. Several vagabonds
fell under suspicion. were apprehended.
and were locked up But tho depreda-
tions continued, and finally farmers
lad testified that upon returning late
one night from a merry-making he had
seen the evil one in the guise OF a ser
pent making way with pig across
field. The village priest took the lad
in hand and questioned him closely,
but nothing could shake the fellows
testimony About this time other peo-
Pile detected similar fiends in the act Of
like depredations, and at once arose q
hue and cry that the spot was damned
one, and had been given over TO the
Hayn fnr IA. RaA Aa11aal
cisl prayers were said and the devil was
publicly denounced. but the depreds-
tions continued, and presently from
Castelraine, town twelve miles dis.
tant came word that his satanic majesty
had begun operations in that locality,
his victims in this instance and in this
place being sheep. not poultry and pigs.
In this dismal emergency the Bishop
was most properly appealed 70, for the
parish priests were at their wits end
and their parishioners were ell-nigh
crazed through fear. The Bishop prom
ised 70 investigate the affair. but In
stead OF resorting TO conventional eccle-
siastical methods, that holy and saga
cious man enlisted the services OF two
shrewd detectives from Dublin, the In
tellectual center OF Erin. The Bishop
fancied that the devil was doing his un.
holy work by proxy-not In the guise OF
dragons and serpents, but in the person
OF certain lawless characters too lazy tc
! work and Just knavish enough to steal
: The detectives, laboring under thi,
heresy, made their Investigations quiet
, ly. and in the course of fortnight re
$ ported 20 their employer that the dep
: relations AT Castelraine and Amraugl
r had indeed been committed by serpents
Q the detectives themselves having seei
e and watched the same upon three dis
n tinet occasions seize. kill and carry oi
q their prey. The serpents were de
scribed as dark ofcolor and fully fiftee
z feet in length. They killed their vic
d tins by coiling about their bodies.
5 The story was diserelited by tn,
= clergy and laity until, as good Inc
would have IL, correspondent OF tn
Freenans journal lat Dublin reealle
e the significant. not TO say portentoui
e Circumstance that the numerous an
e divers species Of snakes which had q
y capped from the Wilson show about thre
- years previous had never been capturec
Then OF sudden the mystery vi
"a cleared up and bands for the extermini
10 OF the monsters was speedily organize
d among the senscful peasantry. Thrt
N o. the snakes were shortly thereaft.
70 seen, pnrs led and killed in the bog ca
= OF Amraugh; the largest OF the snak,
10 measured four feet in the nav OF eaC
ie was found pullet. About a mont
ii thereafter fourth snake was kille
~ near Castclraine; this snake upon bein
In cut open Mas found 10 contain vel
l. many little snakes which immediate
y glided into the grass and escaped befo
the astonished rustics could appreheT
le them. Subsequently, stimulated
In the advertised reward of half q crow
20 and a special dispensation for eyei
~ snake, alive or dead. the country pc
-; pie caught eleven OF the smaller snak
:. none measuring more than sey'
rs inches In length. Then the snaki
p' seemed 70 disappear, and, no furth'
ek deprcdatioas being noted, the excit
ah ment gradually died out
But it Is nov reported, after lapse
two tranquil years, that snakes ha'
le- suddenly appeared at and around Ba
Mt lingal, an agricultural region thirf
~ miles north of Castelraine. tho count
so seat OF the Earl OF Densloe. The
Ier snakes arr OF strange species; thoul
ig- none have been captured, they ara sa
m TO be- of enormous length, breadth, thie
nd ness. voraeity and feroeity, aud TO mal
-th o noise when moving like the clatter
,ly dice in a box, they kill by biting, Al
ed they have created great havoc amoi
Ter the fio,ks ef his Grace tbe Duke. as VI
on as in the eoops and sites of the peasantr
is Sinultane oasly serpents similar 70 q
he Amraugh aul Castelraine varmints ha
I'd appeared still further 20 the eastwar
ses and have caused such panic that {
ct country folks are afraid TO venture o
est OF doors after nightfall.
on The theory is that in Ave years {
reptiles let loose by the wretched Wills
during his ribald drunken frenzy ha
multiplied 50 nnmcrousiy that mi
:. tant union OF Church and State will
~ neee essary 10 restore the island 70
m virgin condition in which the good
rge Patrick left London Cor. Chica
~ News
re- ------=z------
ing Tho annual report of the Peabo
oll. Trust for the maintenance OF go
In. homes Tor the working classes in L,
the don shows the birth rate in the houi
len kept by the trnst TO bs s.T2 per l.
th above the res, of London, and the dea
for rate nearls por 100 below the av
his age, white the infant mortality
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