Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — An Indiana Snake. [ARTICLE]

An Indiana Snake.

The Decatur Republican says that a htije snake, reported by some to lie twenty feet lon<r. and covered with bright spots, has a hiding-place in that region, somewhere on the banks <j>( Clitty Creek, and has destroyed a good deal of stock of different kinds, lie was seen the other day, and tracked to a hidintr-pkice under the bridge. The bridge was torn up by a crowd brousrht together by the news of the discover}’, blit the snake Was gone. His track on the ground is said to look as if a log had been dragged along, and a man who saw him coiled up one day says he made a heap as large as a molasses barrel. A prettyi considerable, “snaik” story, and pity it is that we jtan't believe it.