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REPTILIAN COMBAT. Story of a Desperate Battle in a Florida Orange Grove. A Huge Black Snake Attacks and Whips a Rattler. A thrilling fight between a black snake and a rattlesnake was witnessed on tho Cunnings orange grovo by a party of gentlemen from Daytona, Fla. For several weeks pust a black snake about ten feet long has made its headquarters under an old crib on the grove, appearing occasionally but never allowing himself to be killed. He was ns large around as ono’s wrist, and as fierce a looking fellow as one would want to encounter. The gen tlemen were seated under a large palmetto tree enjoying the pleasant afternoon, when they noticed a rattle •nake creep slowly and cautiously from the brush heap and coil himself with head in the air and eyes turned toward the party, as if to say, “Here I am.” One gentleman seized a club, but the others persuaded him to delay his attack and watch the reptile for awhile aud see what it would do. They had a chance to size up the stranger, which was about six feet long and of a grayish striped color. Iu a few minutes tho black snake was seen to appear from under the crib, fifty feet distant, and move slowly towards the rattlesnake. “Now for a fight,” said Mr. Bert Walker, and the party drew back to give the reptiles a full show. Noise lessly came the big black fellow, carrying his head high in the air and and occasionally dropping it, appar ently studying the ground around which he was to make the attack. It was plainly evident that tlie black snake wanted to fight, When within twenty feet of the other creature he stopped, raised his head and the rat tlesnake saw him for the first time. The ground between them was clear, not a stick or a stone being noticed for many yards. The rattlesnake raised his head aud threw out his tongue and seemed to be prepared for an encounter. They really reminded one of a couple of desperate men just enteriug the arena for a fight to the death. Presently the black champion started on a circle around His prey, getting nearer to the rattler every minute, The rattler never took his eye from his approach" ing enemy and his head going around reminded tho looker on of the move ments of a corkscrew. When within six feet of the rattler, the black fellow flew around so fast that you could hardly tell what it was. It was like taking a string tied to a stick aud twirling it with all one’s might. Sud denly, the two came together and im mediately became entwined about each other, rolling over and over in the dust. This lasted fully five minutes. Then there was a lull and the black snake was seen to have his adversary by the throat with his mouth. Ilia body was twisted about the rattler’s body, and every few seconds he would give a squeeze that sent the rattler so much further toward his end. In ten minutes tlie black hero drop ped tho body of his victim, blew him self up, took one last look and then slowly wound offinto the brush. It was a rare and remarkable scene thoroughly enjoyed by all the party. One of the gentleman raised up the dead rattler on a stick and found that he was terribly gashed and mangled. Like the boa constrictor,tho black snake does not bile, but crushes out the life of its victim. — [Atlanta Constitution. Animal Trials 1>y Jury. Among the beavers it is undoubted that courts were held, and judicial functions exercised, and ilie sentences carried out with the most exact disci pline. This is proved by the fact that near to every beaver settlement there exists a class of what are called “bach elor beavers.” This is composed of two sections, old males who had lost their mates and were held to be no longer of true use to the community, and younger “bachelors” who had been expelled from the settlement for misconduct, idleness and laziness, more generally theft, and by a jury awarded a sentence of perpetual ex elusion, a kind of penal servitude, which all the community of beavers were bound to join in order to see thoroughly carried out. Tlieso “bach elors” live alone, not in warm houses protected by dams, ns iu community, but in holes of the banks of tho rivers —prison cells, in fact— where they just manage to live, ami where they can at a pinch succeed in storing suffi cient winter food. Sometimes their privations must he great, but there is no escape for them. If they endeav or to build a proper beaver house— at all events, within ken of any of their old associates—it is reported,and it becomes tho boundon duty of the members of tho community to tut u out and destroy what has been done. Penal servitude among heavers really existed, as it does among us. Tlio heaver thief is compelled to work hard, in isolation from his family,and yet cannot secure the most primary personal comforts — cannot exercise himself in that craft of construction in which alone lie can find true pleas ure. lie must atone to society for his fault, just as our convicted pris oners do. Any one who lias seen tho heavers at the Zoological Gardens ceaselessly comforting themselves and passing their time in constructing houses that they do not need, will re" alize what a punishment a jury of heavers mete out to one of their owu kind who is idle or lazy, or has been guilty of theft, or violated any of the essential laws of the heaver commu nity, when they make him a “bach elor” beaver and will not let him erect a house near to them.— [Cassoll’s Magazine. Cause and Effect. “Cynthia,” said Col. Calliper to his wife as they sat at dinner, “whom do you think I met today?” “I don’t believe I could guess, Ja son,” said Mrs. Calliper. “I dou’t believe you could,Cynthia,” the Colonel said. “It was Silas Gid by, who used to live in Starkville Centre, Vt. lie went South about fifteen years ago, and he has made a fortune. Ilis going was brought about iu a singular manner. Silas used to have the reputation in Slark ville Centre, you know, of being very close; some folks called him mean; lie hated to spend a dollar, and he never did if he could help it. One fall when he got out his winter overcoat, which had been packed up during the summer, he found that the moths had got into it and pretty nearly destroyed it; it wasn’t fit to wear. Silas hated dreadfully to spend the money for an other one, and he made up his mind tliat he wouldn’t. lie had been think ing some of going South; the overcoat settled it; he went. Ho located iu onc of those towns that have grew n so, and he lias made a lot of money. Curious, isn’t it, how things come about? You see, the moths getting iu the overcoat practically made him rich.” “Jason,” said Mrs. Calliper, “do you know what I am going to do with your winter overcoat when you take it off this spring?’’ “I think I could guess, Cynthia. Put it where tho moths will eat it clean up,” the Colonel said. “Right, Jason,” said Mrs. Calliper. — [New York Sun. The Coyote Business. A California paper snccringly re marks that the proposed repealing of the California coyote boumy law is a blow aimed at an Arizona industry. California coyote hunters resort to expedients equally as questionable as the shipping in of scalps from Ari zona. The California hunter uuvses the business, in fact, farms it. He docs not kill the beast; he simply takes tho scalp and turns him loose. In about sixty days a new scalp grows on and the animal is again put through the process. This is recognized as legitimate in California; in fact, restoratives are being openly adver tised as being capable of hairing over a coyote’s head in forty days. Cali fornia scalpers say that after a coyote gets used to it he doesn’t seem to mind it a bit. The idea was borrowed from goose-picking as it exists in the east. Under the present law the snout-liide also is sent in, but the California tax payers claim that more skin is being taken off their own noses than off'those of the coyotes.—[Yuma (Arizona) Times. Of the two great English univeri ties, Oxford has now 3212 names en rolled and Cambridge 2909. SCHLEY C NEWS WHITE HOUSE WIVES. The Domestic Relations of the Various Presidents. Some Presidential Love Affairs and Romances. It is a notable fact, declares the New York World, that most of the Presidents were or had been very hap py in their domestic relations, But, then, the ladies of the White House, from Martha Washington to Frances Cleveland, have been admirable and lovable representatives of their 6ex. Buchanan was tho only confirmed bachelor among the Presidents, yet lie, too, had had his romance. lie had loved a Miss Coleman, who jilted him without a word ot explanation. When she died shortly afterwards, he wrote to her father, saying “that he had loved her more infinitely thau any other human being could love, and though he might sustain the shock of her death,happiness had tied from him forever.” Van Bureu, Jefferson and Arthur were widowers when they en tered tho White House. All of them cherished a most touchiug devotion to the memory of their wives. Arthur had met his wife at Saratoga and af ter her death he could never bear to go to that place. Jeffersou tended his sick wife four months, and on her death-bed solemnly promised,his hand in hers, that he would uever marry agaiu. When the end came lie stag gered into his library and fainted. When he revived he was almost out of his senses and for weeks was confined to the library, pacing up and down the room all day and all night until exhausted nature could stand no more. One of the queerest couples that ever inhabited the White House, and one of the most devoted, were Andrew Jack son and bis wife. She was as demo cratic as himself, smoked a pipe and used strange country idioms and con fined her reading to the Bible. Yet she was intensely sensitive to public opinion. There had been some mis understanding about her divorce from her first husband, which, through a confusion of State laws, had not really taken legal effect until after her mar riage with Old Hickory. The scandal was revived when she entered the White House, and it was the object of Jackson’s tendcrest solicitude to keep from her all knowledge of tlie Giair. e ful attacks that abounded in the news papers. Site died in the White House and her bereaved husband ever aflor wards bore around his neck and hidden in his bosom a miniatuie, which every night he placed on a little table by his bedside, so that her face might be the first tiling to greet him in the morning. On her toinbs;one he had caused to be engraved tho words, “ A being so gentle and yet so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor.’’ General Gi ant during the whole of liis married life wore a ring which his wife had given him during ids en gagement and at Ins request it was buried with him. General Tyler and Millard Fillmore were the only Presidents who were twice married. The former was President at the time of his second marriage, hut for some reason he con sidered it indelicate to be married in the White House, a precedent which Cleveland rightly honored iu the breach rather than in the observance. Fillmore’s first wife was taken sick on the very day His term of office expired, and died a few weeks afterwards at Willard’s Hotel, iu Washington, whither she had been removed from the White House. Lincoln’s romance was connected with his first love rather than with tho lady whom he afterwards married. The former was a golden-haired little blonde named Anne Rutledge, to whom he was engaged at the age of 24. She died before they could bo married, aud Lincoln almost went out of his mind. His friends thought in deed that he was crazy. Ho was es pecially violent in gloomy or stormy weather, when he would rave and cry that lie could never be reconciled to have the snow, rain or storms to boat upon her grave, It was not until nearly ten years afterwards that lie becamo engaged to Miss Alary Todd, who refused Stephen A. Douglas in order to accept him. But ho had a presentiment that t ic marriage would Hot bo a happy one. On the day first sot tor tlie wedding ho becamo sud denly ill aud was unable to make his appearance, though bride, clergymen and guests were all waiting for him. More than a year afterwards tiic mar riage was finally consummated. Plenty of Dcqr Left. ,T. L. Dobbins, tho former trapper ami deer hunter of Reynolds County, Mo., Is spending a week at the Laclede. Mr. Dobbins lias probably killed more deer and black bear be tween the east fork of Black River aud Marble Creek than any hunter iu Southwest, Missouri. While his long, silvery locks indicate his extreme age, his eyesight is yet good and not less than twenty deer have fallen before his Winchester since November. “It’s no trouble to kill them, hoys, but they are rather hard for a stranger to find,” remarked the old trapper to a group of listeners at the St. James. “1 have tramped all over the famous Bush Mountains, Cuford’s Range, tho Shutin, the twin Ililis, the hanks of the Big Black, Current River, Marble Creek and other places in the south east for thirty years, and I know nearly every hill and rock in the country. Of course, gamo is uot as plentiful now as it was then, but it is all a mistaken idea about the deer being exterminated; there arc plenty of them right now in the canebrakes aud mountains of Southern Mis souri, hut no hunting party from the city cau find them; it takes us old managers to do that, and, as hunting is our living, we are not very fast in informing hunting parties where to find them, hut on the other hand we sleer them just as far away from the game as possible. While I don’t pre sume one man out of ten from tho city could kill a deer, they succeed in frightening them out of tho country. These are the parties that are respon sible for the statement that there are no deer in the state. They are iu structed by the hunters to go to this place and that place until they become disgusted, shoot a few squirrels and pull out. for home with the impression lliat there was not a deer within 500 mile, of where .l.ey wore hauling. - [St . Louis Post-Dispatch. Story of tlie Jonah Mine. Charles F. Danforth of Boise City, Idaho, is at the Sherman House. ‘•1 used to bo a miner away down in the southwest corner of Idaho, >* said Mr. Danforth. “We had a big mining camp down there, between Topaz and Squaw Creek. And it was as tough a camp as you’d wish to meet in a day’s walk. There were two great partners in the camp, known simply as Bill and Joe. You never saw two such close friends—they ate, drank, slept, shot and worked to gether. Joe and Bill had a claim about a mile from camp. Of all the fellows iu the camp they had the worst luck. Their mine scarcely paid their whiskey bill, to say nothing of their losses at poker. The poor boys were notorious for their bad luck. i 4 Finally they concluded our camp was a ‘Jonah’ for them and that they would sell out and leave. Of course, they couldn’t sell such a dead mine in our region, so they decided that Bill should travel to parts where it had never been heard of and endeavor to ‘unload’ the mine, while Joe should stay and continue work. Before Bill departed they between them lixed up a lot of the most monstrous and seduc tive lies ever dreamed of. “Bill sallied forth, armed to the teeth, as it were, to snare the un wary, and his glowing description of their mine very nearly landed a pur chaser a time or two. Joe worked away patiently at the mine. Finally one day, about a week after Bill had left, lie struck it rich. He rushed to the telegraph office ami seat the fol lowing message to Bill: “Don’t sell the mine. Our lies are all true.”—[Chicago News. Tastes Differ. Dealer—“Here, madam, is a horse I can recommend, sound, kind--” Old Lady—“Oh, I don’t want that sort of a horse. IIo holds his head high.” Dealer—“Eh?” Old Lady—“I like ahorse that holds his nose close to the ground so he can see where he’s goin’.”—[New York Weekly. Free Trip in Chirnuo. Separate W-o-h-l-ij-s F-A-i-n and use the letters to spell as many words as you can by using the letters as many times as you wisn. either hack wards or forwards, but not use th« same letter in making any one word more timet than It appears in “ World's Fair.” It it said seventy-film small English wo-'. contained ran " be spoiled In‘‘World’s correctly from the ten letters Fair.’’ Example: Wa.l waif, soar, idol, etc. If you are good at word making you can secure a free trip to ttie World’s Fair and return, as the Scott Seed Company fare, hotel will hills, pay admissions all expenses, including K.R Existsitfon, ami $.'i0 to the Columbian 1u cash for incidental ex penses, to the first person able to make seventy words from the letters contained in “ World's Fair,” as a'atve. They will also give a free trip to the World’s Fair and return with $25 for incidental expenses, to the first person sending stfty wonts as above. They will also give a free trip to the World’s Fair and return (without caali for incidental expenses; to the first To person the first sending Jl'ty-flve sending words. be. siven 160 tn person cast towards paying fitly words will to the World’s Fair to the first sending expenses words will he given ; $25 in cash towards forty ing expenses to the World’s Fair.toe.ic 1 pay- the ) ot first .fine persons sending and Ihnty-fi'm words will be given $10 in words cash, to encli of the first ten Bending thirtii prize will will be given $. r > In rash. Only one Write lie awarde 1 to the same person. your name on list of words (numbered) and U. enclose the same postpaid with fifteen S. t.wo-eent stamps for a large nackune of our Choice English Cott age Carden Flower .Seeds. This combination includes the latest arid ties most popular will English be contained flowers of in endless theelahorate varie (same as English flowers the World’s exhibit ot at Fair). This “World’s Fair” Contest will be care fully and conscientiously conducted solely for • he purpose of introducing our business in the U. 8. You will receive the hingest value in flower seeds ever offered, and if you are able to make a good list of words an i answer promptly you will have a first-class opportun ity to secure a free trip from y> ur home to Chicaa > and return. We are spending trade a large U. amount of money to start our in the >S. and want your trial order. You will be more than gratified with the result. Send to-day, and address tho 8cott Seed Company, Toronto, Canada. Graham Bread. To one part risen white bread sponge add tw r o parts of Graham flour, a little Indian meal, salt. Wet tip, mix, add a half teacup of molasses to a loaf. Have the dough very soft. Knead well, set to rise. 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