Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — A Georgia Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

A Georgia Snake Story.

On Tuesday morning Mr. Jesse New was looking for his turkeys and found them in a ditch. He started to drive them home and discovered an enormous rattlesnake in the ditch with them. He immediately got his gun and shot the snake twice and then had to call Mingo Glaze, a colored man, for assistance in killing it. He cut the snake open afterward and found inside of it three turkeys and a chicken. He says the snake was eight or niLo feet long and about two feet in circumference. It had twelve rattles, which we liave in the office. It was an ugly customer, and Jesse says that he now intends leaving Georgia, for when he finds such snakes two hundred yards of his house he does not believe it healthy for himself.—[Amerieus (Ga.) Republican.