Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — A “BATTLER.” [ARTICLE]

A “BATTLER.”

A Snake Ten feet Long and Carrying Around Twenty-five or Thirty Battles. [Jonesboro (Ga.) special.) The people on the -line of Fayette and Clayton Counties are in terrible excitement to-day over the appearance of a monster rattlesnake in that section. A little off the McDonough road there lives a man named McJunkin. Last night he was called upon by a friend, who sat up late with him, while Mrs. McJunkin retired. The two men drank quite freely. When the husband retired his companion was mystified by peculiar noises inside. Striking a light, he went in and found coiled up between the couple a huge rattler. The appearance of the light broke its charm, and, gliding across the body of the sleeping woman, it crawled under the bed and through an opening in- the floor and out. The reptile.was not less than ten feet in length, rusty and scaly, and having between twenty-rive and thirty rattles. The settlement turned out this morning with shotguns in pursuit of the reptile, and at last succeeded in running it into a hu e hollow log. where its’ body was perforated with a hundred bullets. Wonderful stories are being told of other reptiles by the excited people. A DEMONSTRATION is being arranged to be held in Genoa in 1892 in honor of Christopher of the features of which will ba an exhibition of Amer.can relics and produce. p. A Philadelphia chemist says that the American style of kissing is what plays hob with the teeth. The Brazilian production of diamonds amounts in yearly value from $l,C00,00(bto $1,500,000. . . ’ _ - Wisconsin dairymen have foinetFa cheese pool to increase prices.