Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

Snake Story.

About two weeks ago Mr. Joins Elder, of Fredericksburg, Va., bad an undersack for a bed filled with straw by a negro man. It was brought home and placed under a feather bed, which was slept on by a daughter of Mr. E.— The young lady complained on a number of occasions of having her slumbers disturbed by distinct thumps from underneath, but examinations revealed nothing. On Thursday morning, while Miss E. was sitting down stairs, facing the steps which led up to her room, she was startled by a curious noise, and looking up discovered a moccasin snake descending, blowing and hissing in a style peculiar to the reptile. An examination of the upstairs premises Was made at once, when a small hole was discovered in tbo under sacking, and on ripping open the bed the full length skin of a snake was found at the hole, which his snakeship had shed. Hut,, Mike, 1 toll you they do not!” -'indude, I tell you they do, ma’am!” ‘ Mike,” replied the mistress, somewhat nettled at his contradiction, “you had belter toll me I lie!” “liidade, I don’t tel! you you lie ma’am; but I know you’re not spallin'the truth

Xlte Caplain Sold. The San Francisco Era tells the following story as the truth: A short time since, a tall, sanctified person, dressed in a good suit of black, with a wjiite cravat, and gold spectacles upon his •nose, boarded one of the steamers on her departure from this city, and became immediately engaged in a scene of enthusiastic hand-shaking with a friend whom he had apparently come to “see off.” He held in his grasp a parcel of papers, tied with red tape and had evidently just torn himself away from his business to exchange the last adieu with liis acquaintance. They soon repaired to the state-room of the latter, where they were seen hob-nobbing over the parting glass.. In the meanwhile the bell had rung, and the steamer was under way. Tire gentleman with the paper was indignant—he insisted upon being set ashore, but not even the consideration of the vast interests involved in the case of Knox vs. Rocks, would induce the pilot to turn back, or in any other way accomodate the supposed luminary of the law. The officers of the boat enjoyed a brisk laugh over the perplexities of the traveler perforce, when their merriment was silenced by the following note, handed to the captain by the cabin boy, at the close of the trip, when the last passenger had left the boat: “Dear Cap.:— Tiie compliments of the day to and the noble vessel over which you have the distinguished honor to hold the chief command'. With the recollections of your mirth-provoking anecdotes still in my mind, and the smack of your old Bourbon still upon my lips, I should be ungrateful did I leave here without thanking you for tiie kind and disinterested manner in vviiich you suppiied-not only my physical wants during the past week or so, but actually conveyed ms to my place of destination free of chart*-— act pi generosity which, as a stranger, 1 could not have reasonably expected of you. My warmest regards to your beauliiul lady. Yours, affectionately, “John Stokes.”