Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1882 — A Catfish That Swallowed a Calf. [ARTICLE]

A Catfish That Swallowed a Calf.

About two weeks ago Mr. Smith, living a few miles from Calhoun,Georgia, on the Oostanaula river, lost a heifer about three years old, and as it was fine stock made diligent search, but could not find it. A few days ago a party of young men fishing on the river were attracted by the smell of a dead carcass, and upon examining the cause, lo and behold, they found a monster catfish, which had swallowed the calf, and the horns of the calf becoming entangled in the fish's gills had drowned the fish. The fish measured exactly twentythree feet and seven inches in length and was five feet eight and one-quar-ter inches across the head, and irom the length of its whiskers supposed to be one hundred and seventeen yejtra old.

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