Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — Snaix! Bushels of Snaix! [ARTICLE]

Snaix! Bushels of Snaix!

.Last Thors'diiy morning '(tea Marion, unitei of Df. Lptigtlnuges farm, in Barkley to unship, found liis-dog berk: -a siAka_ueur,-a bigjioie in ilu lie dag down ii sinui; dnu,ami, touke Lis dwit oxpnessiun, soon totir.fi himselfterm t<Hj - M ttakra. Tlfe serpe'iils- welq >•;'»! with tlm ,vold and nwtVf-n hwhv, and 'were fciifcd wit mart tirueul: v. When nil •«••.•••; kfßednud chussifred It was* sordid thndeee v.-er: ! 10 in all; ]ld oil which vrre blue-racers and 2f ttei'U bull E'• No c; liev kinds-of serpm'.ts v.-ere found in Hie. dvn. Tint h;.bi: of many snakes ;■ lii/ig together iu-a<lea to ivinter L ono tijat in ; long been'* known, but we have never heard of quite so, large a number being found together in tid county before. J here ;■ n > question about the truth ui the si-.sty, for the pile of defm;.cc sen nts lias been seen by many renal 14 ’ p rsdi ■;. ►So big a tiutl of snakes as the above would as. :n to argue that that genus of reptiles wag ahnndant in this part of the country; but as e-Jittpar.-i ..ii lithe numbers which oxkbdJieca 'id or TO. years ago, they are really very scarce. And there was plenty besides the harmless biim-rms rs nan bull-" snakes in those days. The venonious'rattlers abounded in count--1; ss nutubers, and it is mi record that as many as or:a hundred large rattle-snakes have been killed in the., vicinity- gkdteßatedmte,- in -one field, in afferngl: day. This was iij the Spring, and' they were found iii the furrows; in breaking the sod. Of course a great .many .people were, bitten, and < ccasionaliy with' fatal results. In addition to the ratth-rK tho-rnoro silent, dangerous and deadly moccasins were oceasHVedly fmp 1, bn n>t often. At present venom nip snakes are very rare in Jasper county, though a few rattlers are killed every ; year. -a Since the. above was in type-we' learn that another find ' f. G 7 snakes has been made in the same plkce and that a new deposit was about t o..be oprmed a .short clis tauc.e aw:iy. Mining of Jfyberoatiiig serpents promises to become one ot the leading industries 'of Northern Jaspeiy C urd Fr<au die Musoami Fco •pie. We, the Musufai People, aeifrra-.l to by the Mess tgfi. are sorry that we have ouiy mt.v- (! :: mi i:in •; tS H leuce' the comet soloist and thy dog ir, the wood-shed; lias we have hur-a-ed faithfully since we have been in yonr city, to effectually drown 'the torrents of naths-tfflin tig front the yomkfnl off springs of the Consul to 1 aikt.- Island, .and the’r sounds ts lighting and cursing "winch Sake day a bedlam and night a hideous mghf maite, in the vicinity of fSe post oik tv: Wrrhanrnat ired « tof--ty, high headed gent pas-lag, with his chin elevated and a young lamp-post in his hand, to secure the freedom of the pres?; hut we did not know- Mm to be the c*-Consul to Turks Island, and the editor of the Menage, and had we been so informed, we certainly should have sent so prominent (?) a citizen a com plimentary ticket. O. L. Flsck,