Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1873 — The Battle of the Bullfrogs. [ARTICLE]

The Battle of the Bullfrogs.

Many of the citizens of Vermont will remember to have seen on one-dollar bills of the Windham County State Bank a vignette representing bullfrogs fighting. This was engraved to commemorate the ; Battle of the Bullfrogs. The facts were as - follows: “Many years ago, when the , town of Windham was newly-settled, there ( came a very dry season. There were two 1 large p nds in Windham, separated By an intervening strip of land of considerable extent. Each of these ponds was inhabited by a large community of reptiles above-named. The smaller pond dried ! up and its inhabitants started in a body fur the lower and larger pond. They were met in tlie intervening space by the community from?ihe liyger pond, and a fierce and long-continued battle ensued between the rival communities. Such was the hideous bellowjng of the frogs during their fierce encounter that it alarmed tlie inhabitants, who at first supposed it to be tlie whoop of the hostile savages. But curiosity getting the better of their fears, they cautiously proceeded to the ppot whence the iiidebns sound' issued, and there beheld the strange spectacle of two immense armies -of bullfrogs, covering many acres of ground, ejigaged in a fierce amiMJadly battle. Thia battle continued more than twenty-four hours, and when it was over the ground was literally covered with the slain, and it became necessary, to avoid the noxious effluvia, to gather and bury them.— Bo»ton Trantcript. A WofcTESTER (Mass.) paper savs that On a recent Saturday, a workman in one of the shops in Miloury was attracted by the painful end long-continued bellowing of a cow, and at length started out to ascertain the cause. lie followed the sound to a pasture, where he found a cow whuff had fallen, in attempting to get over a wall, in such a manner as not. to be able to get up, and a huge bundle dog was engaged in gnawing her living body. Not daring to approach the ravenous beast alone, the man went for help, and when he returned the dog was gone. .The cow waS horribly torn about the flanks, and both her eyes were dug out. Don’t let the flies locate in ypur. nose. A man at Castleton, Vt., blew a worm •half an inch long from his nose a few days since, which was preserved, and, after four days, entered the chrysalis state, and, six days after, hatched fnto a large ggreen fly.* Inquiry 7 developed the fact that a fly had suddenly entered the per son’s nose, some time previous, and con] Bidefable difficulty was experienced un I dislodging it. The ova was doubtless de- * posited at tbatiime. V --