Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — QUEER CASE. [ARTICLE]

QUEER CASE.

Effects of a Rattlesnake Bite. [Jasper (Ga.) telegram.] The condition of Mr. Sylvester Sams, a well-known citizen of this county, excites considerable interest. Two years ago Mr. Sams, while walking cm his farm, was bitten by a rattlesnake. He immediately resorted to the native remedy in such cases, whisky, of which he took copious draughts. Nothing more was thought of the matter until six months ago, when Sams betrayed symptoms of St. Vitus dance. He is never still, not even in his sleep, twitching his muscles and moving incessantly. Later he has developed violent symptoms, so much so that he beat his wife and family and whoever comes within reach: He now acts like a man with a well-defined case of rabies, only instead of barking he makes a rattling sound. He has been taken to tha Canton jail, where a strong guard can be kept over him until the result of his case can be reached. • The copy of the first book on arithmetic, of which only another copy is known, fetched S2OO at a sale in London the other day. , United States officials in Wayne County, New York, have discovered a band of moonshiners, and made several arrests. A California nurseryman is writing to Orange County, Florida, for young orange trees. The stenographer’s fees in a prolonged contest over a will in a New York court were nearly SB,OOO.