Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — A Boa and a Bulldog. [ARTICLE]

A Boa and a Bulldog.

A correspondent in Sunghie Ujoug, gives the following account of a remarkable encounter between a boa fifteen feet long and a bulldog. The boa had been confined in a cage for some days, but having been disposed of to a Chinese doctor for its gall, to be used as a medicine, he was hauled out of toe cage to be taken away. “The boa was immediately attacked by the dog, who had formerly had a passage of arms with him. For some time the boa was quiet, and only now and then made a spap. The dog got hold at last, and seized the snake by toe head, but the tables were soon turned. In an instant the boa caught toe dog by the upper lip and held firmly on, the dog backing vainly and trying to get away. In less than halt a minute the whole of the snake’s body had enfolded the dog in so close an embrace that the head only could be seen. Before choppers could be procured, blood was gushing from the dog’s mouth, and I heard his bones give one crack, and it was only by chopping the boa to piec< s that we saved the dog. I found, on examination, that the boa has very strong, sharp, recurved teeth, not only in the jaws, but also in the palate bones, which accounts for toe dog being unable to extricate himself in the first instance, for the teeth being like the Vacant beeche of South Africa, the more he struggled backward toe tighter he was held by the boa. I may add for the information of toe friends of the dog that he is none toe worse for his squeeze.” —Ann Eliza, who recently advertised herself as “nineteenth wife" of Brigham Young, proposes hereafter to conform to toe decision of the Court and advertise herself as “late menial servant of a prophet." —lt is said that Wade Hampton is to mtrry the widow of toe late Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina. —-