Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — Stories From the Sunny South. [ARTICLE]

Stories From the Sunny South.

Alex. Alabama, the “Fike county giant,” will be 14 years of age on the 25(h of January next, and weighs 355 pounds. Mr. X Hirt, of Thomas county, Ga., will send a grape-vine, to tbte exposition from his vineyard which * has grown 20 feet this year . Near Griffin, Ga.. a rattlesnake eight feet long, with 15 rattles. chased a horse a quarter of a mile, striking at him all the The horse ran at the top of his speed’ dragging a wagon with a little boy in it. The snake finally g4ve up the chase and was shot. The Wilmington (N. C.) Review tells o a rattlesnake killed in Peudar county that had 40 rattles’ and Wa- IS feet 5 inches in leng’h. The Rahigti Observer adds: ‘‘We once saw a moccasin in Pender tnat we thought was abnit 18 eet long; but ten feet even is an awful Lngth icr a rattlesnake* ouiy 40 years old. In view of the opposition of the Land League to the proposed Irish ludushial Exposition at Duh’in an attempt will be made to uo.d it id Belfast iuateud.