Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — QUEER CASE. [ARTICLE]

QUEER CASE.

. Remarkable Effects of a Rattlesnake Bite. [Jasper (Oa.) telegram.] The condition of Mr* Sylvester Sams, a well-known citizen of this county, excites considerable interest. Two years ago Mr. Sams, while walking on his faring was bitten by a 'rattlesnake. He immediately resorted to the native remedy in each cases, whisky, of which he took copious draughts. Nothing more was thought of the matter until six months ago, when Sams betrayed symptoms of St. Vitus dance. He is never still, not even in his sleep, twitching his muscles and moving incessantly. Later he has developed violent symptoms, so much so that he beat his wife and family and whoever comes within reach: He now acts like a man with a well-defined case of rabies, only instead of barking he makes a rattling sound. He has been taken to the Canton jail, where a strong guard can be kept Over him until the result of his case can be reached. - - , The copy of the first book on arithmetic, of which only another copy is known, fetched S2OO at a sale in London the other day. ■ 1 United States officials in Wayne County, New York, have discovered a band of moonshiners, and made several arrests. A California nurseryman is writing to Orange County, Florida, for young orange ’ trees. The stenographer’s fees in a prolonged contest over a will in a New York court were nearly SB,OOO. R. M. Pttlsifer. editor of the Boston Herald, has been elected President of the Marietta and Georgia Railroad. A Boston minister objects to having his sermons printed on the same page with advertisements of Old Bourbon. Bismarck’s doctor, SHiwentiinger, has been invited to go to St. Petersburg to'treat the Czar for obesity. ■ . * i . —. c : Two Arizona papers, one known as the Dam, and the other as the FoOl, have consolidated, using their names m one title.