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JAMES ALDRICH, Attorney at Law, mm Amur, «. c. VnoUoe* in OUbe CoorU of Aiken, Bern well end Edgefield OonaMee end ft the United States Courts. Special ettentSMi given to Collections. TWO GREAT VOLCANOES. D. S. HENDERSON, (Snrritor of Finley k Henderson), Attorney at Law, A1WUSN, a. c. moth Sonth ** r ’ Will continne to United states Courts for tioe in the i Carolina. State and METRIUS F. MYERS, Attorney at Law, . AAKEX, S. C. ■WT.l practice in all the Courts of South Caroline end O-orgta. Special attention paid to Collection*. CEO. W. CROFT, Attorney at Law, AIKEX, a. c. Will practice in all the Courts of^tKe” state. Special nttention given to OollecticSe. SALLES .RANDALL. Jr., ACmrney at Law, A IKEA, 8. C. Will practice in the Oourte of Aiken, Barnwell and Edgefield Counties. Special attention given to Col. lections. O. C. JORDAN, Attorney at Law, AIKEX, a. c. Will practice in the Courts of Aiken, Barnwell and Edgefield Counties. Special attention given to Collections. J. ST. JIILIEN YATES, AIKEX, a. c. Will practice in all of the State Oourta and in the Counties Aiken, Barnwell and Edgefield. MAHER A PORTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AIKEX,’a. c. JOHN J. MAHER, Barnwell, 8. C. JA8. GRAY PORTER, Aiken, 8. C. Practice in all the Oourta. AIKEN livery Stable, E. WIMBERLY, Proprietor. Keep constantly on hand, at reasonable rates, fine Ptuetons, Top Baggies, Gentle Horses, Saddle Horses, with experienced and*careful drivers. S. P. T. FIELD & CO., GROCERS, BAKERS, — AND— . CONFECTIONERS. In addition to the Bakery, we-stomow offering a full line of FAMILY GROCERIES, and would say te our many Bread customers that we only aak a fair comparison to prices and quality before pur chasing elsewhere. Highest Prices paid for Country Produce. Fresh CRACKERS always on hand. Call and see for yourself. 8. P. T. FIELD A CO. T. MARKWALTER’S Marble Works, BROAD STREET, TIEiAJEt I^OWEIl MARKET, AUGUSTA. WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION NEATLY AND CHEAPLY EXECUTED. TO ALE Manufacturing Company DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Molding, Brackets, Etc, FLOORING, CEILING, WEATHER BOARDS, TURNEO WORK, ETC. DEALERS IN MS’ HiEDWUE, FAINTS, OILS. BROSHES, Lime, Lath, Plaster, Cement, HAIR, SLATE MANTELS, Etc. OFFICE AND HALE-SROOMi 90 and 99 Hayne and S3 and 3S Pinckney Street*. FACTORY AND YARD 1 BROAD AND LYNCH STREETS, CHARLESTON, S. C. P. P. Toalk, P. T. Morey, L. Wxtbebhobh. Senator | Wither*’ Daughter*. A Washingtou correspondent says: Last week Miss Eilie, ninth daughter of Senator Withers, of Virginia, in her nineteenth year, was married to Mr. Putney, a wealthy Boston widower, of of fifty or more summers. The bride is nearly six feet tall, of remarkable beauty intelligence, able to talk politics, }. John Stuart Mill, and ride an led horse. The marriage of a of jSbnator Withers has long annual occurance, but it up much longer ; there 1 unmarried : Miss Willie and Miss Virginia Seoessia, the latter bora on the day that Virginia seceded. A Deacrtpclwa mi ItfwuBt Yeuuviaa la Italy, aad af the Crater of Kllaaea, la the Saadwleh lelaade. The most remarkable instance of what may be supposed to be an extinct ▼oloaao, is afforded by Mount Vesuvius. In ancient times, the shape and appear ance of this mountain were very different from what they are at present. It was clothed with verdure to its summit, and at its base were situated the populous cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The gentle undulation on the top was snffloiently large to afford to Spartacus ample room for the en campment of 10,000 men. No one looked upon this mountain as concealing any dan ger and all around it were favorite villas and gardens of wealthy Romans. Sudden ly, the sleeping monster woke from his lethargy of untold ages, and in the year 79, A. D., occurred the eruption which buried up large cities and utterly changed the features of the surrounding country. The destrnction'of the towns of Her cnlanenm, Pompeii and Stabise is generally accounted for by a long-con tinued fall of ashes from the depth of the eartli and the debris of a great por tion of the old cone of Vesuvius ; but the transport of beds of such thickness is difficult to imagine, by reason of the distance which separates them from the crater, and the idea propounded on this subject by M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville appeai-s much more probable. This learned explorer of volcanoes shows that at the moment when Vesuvius again became active, the crest split, following transverse fissures, which he has shown to be connected with the volcanic system of the Gampagua, and that two amongst them passed exactly by the destroyed towns, which, according to this theory, would have been buried with ashes, mud and lava ejected from these orifices. It is known that, until the middle of the last century, the real sites of these towns were not discovered. By a series of ex cavations since that period, the people of modem times have been transported, as if by magic, into the middle of ancient life, and have been enabled to trace most precious revelations, both to science and history, in the ruins pre served for eighteen centuries by the volcanic strata. Since the fatal eruption of eighteen hundred years ago, Mount Vesuvius has remained a more or less active volcano. There exist indications of eruptions since 79 in the years 204, 472, 512,685, 993, 1036, 1136. That of 1136 was very violent, but the volcano after that remained long inactive. Toward the close of the fourteenth century it sank into a slumber which lasted 300 years, and from which it awoke in 1631, with a violence scarcely less destructive than the one we have just described. Since the year 1631 there have been several instances of activity at Vesuvius, but no eruption to compare with the two earlier ones. Vesuvius is one of the best known volcanoes of modern times. Situated as it is on the loveliest bay of the world, and near the city of Naples, it has be come a place of resort to thousands of travelers, many of whom ascend it to its summit to look down into the crater, from which st all times gases and explo sions emanate, or to enjoy the magnifi cent prospect to be obtained from the top. The ascent is made from the town which now occupies the site of the an cient city of Herculaneum; and it is customary, when making the excursion, to pay a visit to Pompeii, which is near at hand. The crater of Kilanea in the Sandwich islands is one of the most astonishing in the world. It opens at an elevation of more than 3,900 feet on the side of the great mountain of Mauna-Lona, which is itself crowned by a magnificent funnel-shaped crater 2,735 yards across from one brink to the other. The iiliptical crater of Kilauea is no less than three miles in length and seven in circumference. The hollow of this abyss is filled by a lake of lava, the level of which varies from year to year, some times rising and sometimes falling, like water in a well. The surface of the molten mass generally lies about 600 to 900 feet below the outer edge, and in order to study it it is necessary to get on to a ledge of block lava, which, like the ice about a frozen pond, extends around the outer rim, and affords a secure foot hold. The surface of the sea of fire is generally covered by a thick crust over its whole extent ; here and there red lava waves dash up like the water of a lake through the broken ice. Jets of vapor whistle and hiss as they escape, throwing out showers of burning scorise and forming cones of ashes on the crust j to one hundred' feet in height, ^ volcanoes in minia- NEWS SUMMARY. sixty one which are so many ture. Intense heat radiates from the immense crater, ami a kind of hot blast makes its way through all the chinks in the vertical walls of the sides. The level of the fire-lake of Kilauea is incessantly changing. In proportion as fresh lava issues forth from the subter ranean furnace, the broken crust affords an outlet to other sheets of molten mat ter and fresh heaps of scoriae, and gradually the boiling mass rises from ledge to ledge, and ultimately reaches the upper edge of the basin. Sooner or later, however, the level rapidly sinks. The fact is, that the burning mass con tained in the depths of the abyss gradu ally melts the lower walls of solid lava ; these walls ultimately give way at some weak point, a crevice is produced, and the liquid matter drawn off like wine from a vat. The flow increases the orifice by the action of its weight on the sill of the opening and by melting the rocks wnich oppose its passage, and then running down over the slopes, flows into the sea. In 1840 the crater was full to the brink, when a crack suddenly opened in the side of the mountain which extended to a distance of one hundred and thirty- one feet from its starting point, and gave out a stream of lava thirty-seven miles long and sixteen miles wide, which en tirely altered the outline of the sea-coast and destroyed all the fish in the adjacent waters. Professor Dana estimated the total mass of this enormous flow as equal to 7,200,000 cubic yards—that is, to a solid body fifty times as great as the quantity of earth dug out in cutting through the Isthmus of Suez. The enormous basin of Kilauea, 1,467 feet deep, remained empty for a considerable time, but it has been several times filled and emptied since 1840, Mark Twain thing to have pi Eastern and Middle States. Nine railroad employes who took part in the labor troubles of last summer were tried at Morristown, N. J., and found guilty, receiving sentences ranging from ten days at hard labor in the oounty jail and a fine of 930 to ten days’ imprisenment without hard labor or a fine. The L. Candee A Co. Robber Company at New Haven, Conn.—an immense establishment occupying an entire block—caught fire in the arctic shoe department, and in two hoars the building was a mass of smoking ruins. Six hundred hands were employed in the mantifac- toty, many of them women. The loss is over $600,000 and the insurance about $350,000. A number of workmen were injured by jumping from windows. The official election returns in New Jersey show the following vote for governor: Mc Clellan, Dem., 97.830 ; Newellj Rep., 85,120 ; Hoxey, Greenback, 4,588 ; Bingham, Tem perance, 1,385. The Fort Edwa- d Educational Institute at Fort Edvard, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Over two hundred students of both sexes were in the building at the time of the fire and "v'si of them lost all their clothing and vrtn&blcs. Loss, $125,000 ; insurance, $90,000. A temperance revi’-al in Trenton, N. J., resulted in the closing of every saloon in the place except one. The mayor of Philadelphia was attacked on ] the street by a young man, who felt aggrieved at the passage of an ordinance compelling him to remove his newspaper stand. The mayor’s assailant was taken in charge by the police. Colonel Sibley, a well-known resident of Boston, was found gnilty of forgery and sen tenced to imprisonment at hard labor for four years. Fom- men belonging to the schooner Grace Choate, of Poitsmoutn, N. H., were drowned while attending to some fishing tackle. Mrs. Jane Vosberg died in New Bedford, Mass., the other day, aged 101 years. The great matrimonial event of the season in New York was the marriage of Miss Florence Adole Vanderbilt, daughter of William H. Van derbilt, to Mr. Hamilton McK. Twombley, of Boston. Over fifteen hundred invited guests witnessed the ceremony. Sir. Vanderbilt’s wed ding present to his daughter was a necklace costing $50,000. Dr. Benoni Carpenter died at Pawtucket, R. I., on the morning appointed for his wife's funeral. Fire broke ont in the handsome white marble building corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, and did damage to the extent of $120,000 ; partially insured. The West Jersey Game Society have pro cured 100,000 salmon eggs from the Pacific coast with which the streams of a portion of New Jersey will be stocked. Mayor Schroeder, as chairman of the Brooklyn Theater fire relief fund, reports that $47,454.62 have been received for the aid of the sufferers, and $34,296.92 have been paid out to them, leaving on hand $13,137.70. Eighty-seven families are receiving relief weekly. Louis F. Therossen, a prominent New York lawyer, was arrested and lodged in jail on the charge of misappropriating $130,000 belonging to an estate in his hands. The work on three elevated railroads in New York is being rapidly poshed. The late president and cashier of the Miners' Trust Company, of Pottsville, Pa., have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud a depositor out of $24,000, after a trial lasting fifteen weeks. John H. Keyser, the plumber connected with the Tweed ring, was examined before the alder- manic investigating committee in New York regarding his share in the nefarious transao- tions of his partners in crime, and stated that he had assigned his property to another party for the benefit of the city; that $60,000 was realized in the assignment, and that the assignee had paid him back that amount, so that the city obtained nothing. “ Bnckey ” Donnelly, a Molly Magnire, was tried at Pottsville, Pa., as an accessory to the murder of two men and found guilty of murder in the first degree. Western and Southern States. A number of soldiers from Fortress Monroe, Va., tried to gain admission to the saloon of a man named Congo, who belonged to the mili tary band at the fortress, when Congo seized a heavy oaken bar and struck one of the soldiers, Edward 8. Langton, over the head, inflicting injuries from which he died after being brought to the hospital. Congo fled, but was captured by a sheriff. The commissiouers of the Lee Monument Association at Richmond, Va., have postponed for one year the award of an equestrian statue to General Lee. Wy a fire in Columbia, S. C., a building used as a post hospital was burned, and a large quantity of medical stores was destroyed. Loss. $10,000 ; insurance, $2,700. Poor hundred persons—among them Mrs. Hayes and General Hherman—attended a sale of antiqne furniture belonging to the Calvert mansion in Rivcrsdale, Md. Among the articles sold were a pair of shoes once worn by George Washington, which brought $1, and a pair once the property of Henry Clay, which sold for $2. The Third National Bank of Chicago has suspended. George Staples, living near Versailles, Mo , came home drunk on a Sunday night, quar reled with his danghter-in-law, and finally knocked her down and killed her. The wo man’s husband, George Staples, Jr., interfered, and his father attempted to shoot him, when the son wrenched the pistol away and shot his father three times, instantly killing the old man. The National Grange met in Cincinnati, dele gates from every State being present. Phillips & Co., bankers of Georgetown, Ohio, have faded ; liabilities, about $85,000. George Ambrnster, a wealthy real estate owner, returned to his home in Fnltonville, 111., after an absence of several days, and fonnd his wife in the company of a prominent citizen named John T. Richards. Whereupon he shot them both, killing Richards instantly, while his wife died two hours afterward. The Central National Bank of Chicago has collapsed. The deposits amount to $537,000, every cent of which, the officers say, will be paid. President Diaz, of Mexico, has commanded General Deleon, at the head of the Mexican troops, to repel invasion by United States forces, and has ordered General Trevind to the frontier with 25,000 additional soldiers. At Pottstown, W. Va., John Potts, a young drunkard, was censared by his father—after whom the town was named—for his dissipated habits, when he attempted to drown the old man. Failing in this effort he killed him with a hatchet James R. Hawkins, a young colored man, was hanged at Towsontown, Ind., for an assault on a young school girl last April. He made a fall confession of his crime. The United States man-of-war steamer Huron went ashore on the Nonh Carolina coast, near the mouth of Ablemarle sound, during a heavy storm, and out of 138 persons on board only about thirty-four were rescued or escaped, the rest going down with the vessel. Tho Huron had left Fortress Monroe on the morning of the disaster, and was on her way to the West Indies. None of the saved escaped by boats, but had to swim two miles through a tre mendous surf. A boat of the wrecking steamer Baker that went to the assistance of the Huron was swampdd and five of the crew were drown ed. The captain and all the principal officers of tho man-of-war were lost. A heavy rain storm lasting forty-eight hours caused a great rise in the rivers of Virginia and adjacent States. At Lynchburg, Va., two bridges were swept away by the rise in the James river, and dwellings and business houses along the river front were iuundated. Mer chants were compelled to move their property to high ground, and the gas works were partially submerged, leaving the city without its usual supply of gas. Danville, "Va., also suffered greatly from tho flood, the city gas works, machine shops, founderies, lumber and coal yards having been submerged. At Char lottesville, Va., the railroad track was swept away by tho rise in the Rivanua river, and heavy damage was inflicted upon the corn in the surrounding country. In several counties of North Carolina all the streams overflowed, and fences, tobacco barns and outhouses were swept away, causing almost incalculable dam age to the farms bordering on the rivers. A irtion of Richmond, Va., was inundated, layo’s bridge across the James river was swept away, and tho destruction of property was great. Five spans of the Cumberland Valley railroad bridge over the Potomac river, near Williamsport, Md., were swept away and six heavily laden coal cars on the bridge at tho time went down with it, causing a loss of about 930,000. From Washington. The treasurer of the United States, in his annual report of the operation of the treasury during the last fiscal year, makes the following exhibit regarding receipts and expenditures: As compared with the fiscal year which ended ou June 30, 1876, that ending on June 30, 1877. shows a decrease in net revenues amounting to $18,481,452.54, and a decrease in net expendi tures amounting to $19,799,788.40. The net revenues of the fiscal year were $269,000,586.62, and the net expenditures $238,660,008.93, mak ing an increase of funds amounting to $30,- 340,577.69. Colonel Robert S. Ingersoll called ou the secretary of State and stated that hajJuLnot want the position of United States f Berlin, which, it was understood, was i offered General De Luo, the commissioner of agri culture at Washington, has planned a display of American farm and plantation produce at the Paris Exposition. The Senate committee on appropriations agree to report favorably the Pans Exposition bill, with amendments, increasing the appro priations to $175,030, and making the salaries 1 of the twenty commissioners $1,200 instead of $1,000. The United States consul at Leipzig, Ger many, writes to the state department that a great interest in American manufactures has sprung up there ever since the CentenniaL The Senate committee on privileges and elec tions decided to report that William P. Kellogg is entitled to a seat in the United States Senate, and that Henry M. Spqfford is not entitled to a seat therein. The minority of the committee will submit a report declaring Mr. Spofford to be entitled to a seat. The Senate committee on foreign relations agreed to report unfavorably on the Domination of H. S. Sanford for United States minister to Brussels. Foreisn Newa. Fifteen hundr*>-* weavers at Oldham, Eng land, have struck against a reduction of wages. Further advices from Kars state that the fortress, with 300 cannon, cash, and a vast quantity of military stores, has fallen into Russian hands. The Turks lost 5,000 in killed and wounded, 10,000 prisoners and many flags, while the Russian loss is about 2,700. The resignation of the members of the French cabinet has been officially announced. In Constantinople the fall of Erzeroum is expected to follow the capture of Kars. Mrs. Mackey, wife of the California million aire, gave a dinner and ball to General Grant in Paris. Thursday, November 22, was observed in Canada as Thanksgiving day, business being entirely snspended. The United States consul at Bermuda reports the loss of the bark Montezuma, of New York, while on a voyage from that port to Barbadoes, The crew were rescued. The new French ministry has been definitely constituted as follows : President of the Council and Minister of War—General Grimaudet de Rochebonet. Minister of Foreign Affairs—The Marquis de Bonneville. Minister of the In terior—M. De Welche. Minister of Justice— M. Lepelletier. Minister of Finance—M. Du- tilleul. Minister of Commerce— M. Ozenne. Minister of Public Works—M. Graeff. Minister of Public Instruction.—M. Faye. Minister of Marine—Admiral Ronssin. The fishery commission at Halifax, N. S., have awarded Great Britain $5,600,000 for fishing privileges given to the United States. The award was a majority one, President Del- fosse and Sir G. A. Galt agreeing, and Jndge Kellogg, United States commissioner, dissent ing. CONGRESS—EXTRA SESSION. poi Ms Senate. The Vice-President was anthorized to ap point a committee of five to investigate al leged discrepancies in the treasury department as charged in a resolution of Mr. Davis. The Senate receded from its amendments to the army appropriation bill which were non- concurred in by the House; the bill was pass ed and went to the President for his signa ture. The bill to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States was taken up and disenss- ed without action. Mr. Thurman argued against the bill to en able Indians to become citizens of the United States. He said there was nothing in our laws now to exclude an Indian from becoming nat uralized. the word “ white ” having been striken from the constitution. Messrs. Conk- ling, Maxey, Christiancy, Heck and Coke were also opposed to some of the provisions of the bill and suggested that more time be given for its consideration. Messrs. Davis, Beck. Allison, Ingalls and Cameron were appointed a special committee to examine the books and accounts of the treasury department in regard to alleged discrepancies. The Honse joint resolution in regard to the Paris exposition was referred to the committee on appropriations. Mr. Thurman’s resolution to discharge the committee on privileges and elections from further consiedration of the credentials of Mr. C. Butler, claiming to be a Senator from South Carolina, was taken up and discussed. Mr. Soar moved to lay the resolution on the table, but before a vote could be taken Mr. Thurman moved that the Senate go into executive ses sion, which was carried by a vote of 30 to 29. Mr. Hoar’s motion to lay on the table the resolution to discharge the committee on privi leges and elections from the further considera tion of the Butler credentials was defeated' by a vote of 30 to 32, Mr. Davis (Independent) and Messrs. Conover and Patterson (Republi cans) voting with the Democrats in the nega tive. The question then being on the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Edmunds moved to so amend it as to discharge the committee from the further consideration of the credentials of W. P. Kellogg, of Louisiana, instead of Mr. C. Butler, of South Carolina ; and this amendment was also lost by a vote of 30 to 31, Mr. Conover not voting and Mr. Patterson voting with the Democrats. Mr. Conkling then moved that the committee on privileges and elections be directed to report in the Kellogg and Spofford case and that the Sonth Carolina case be post poned, which was lost by yeas, 30 ; nays, 32. Mr. Edmunds’ amendment to discharge the committee from further consideration of the credentials of Messrs. Kellogg, Spofford, Bntr ler and Corbin was rejected by the same vote. A motion by Mr. Edmunds that the Senate adjourn resulted in a tie vote, Sir. Conover vot ing with the Republicans in the affirmative ; the Vice-President also voting that way, the motion was carried by a vote of 32 to 31.* Honse of Representatives. The Paris exposition bill was discussed in committee of the whole. Mr. Mills moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill, (which would be equivalent to its rejection), but the motion was defeated by a vote of 86 to 133. Mr. Cox, of New York, opposed the bill, and Mr. Hewitt spoke in its favor. A motion of Mr. Steele, requiring four of the commissioners to be practical agriculturalists, was adopted. The Paris exposition bill was passed after further debate by a vote of 139 to 124. The bill appropriates $150,000 for expenses, and the President is authorized to appoint a com missioner general to renresent the United States and twenty additional commissioners— no two of whom shall bo appointed from one State—that three of such commissioners shall be practical artizans, three shall be skilled rep resentatives of commerce and manufactures four shall be practical agriculturalists and nine shall be scientific experts. Tho deficiency appropriation bill was taken up, and on motion of Mr. Yeates an amendment was agreed to, appropriating $17,500 for con tinuing the work of propagating and distribut ing sha<l and other food fishes. The deficiency bill was passed by the Honse after which Mr. Ewing made a speech in favor of the bill to repeal tho resumption act. A vote was taken on the fourteen different amendments to the auti-resumntion bill. Mr. Fort’s amendment repealing all that part of the resumption act which authorized the secre tary of the treasury to disjiose of United States bonds and to redeem and cancel the greenback currency was agreed to All the other amend ments were defeated by large majorities ex cepting Mr. Ward’s amendment to add a new section to the bill providing that debts for wages shall bo payable only in coin or in legal tender notes, which was lost by yeas, 127 ; nays, 129. The speaker then announced that the next vote would bo on the bill amended, that is, Mr. Fort's substitute for it. The vote re sulted in yeas, 133 ; nays, 120. The following is the text of the bill as passed : A bill to repeal all that part of the act ap proved Jan 14. 1875. known as the resumption act, which anthorized the secretary of the treas ury to dispose of United States bonds and redeem and cancel the greenback cnrreucy. That all that portion of the act approved Jan. 14, 1875, entitled “an act to provide for tho resumption of specie payments,” which reads as follows, to wit: “ And whenever and so often as circulating notes shall be issued to such banking association, so increasing its cap ital or circulating notes, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the secre tary of the treasury to redeem the legal tender United States notes in excess only of $300,000,- 000, to the amount of 80 per centnm of the sum of national bank notes so issued to any such banking association as aforesaid, and to con tinue such redemption as such circulating notes are issued nntil there shall be outstand ing the sum of $300,000,000 of such legal tcuder United States notes, and no more ; and, on and after the 1st day of January, A. D. 1879, the secretary of the treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legal tender notes then out standing on their presentation for redemption at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York, in stuns of not less than $50; and, to enable the secre tary of the treasury to prepare and provide for tho redemption in this act anthorized or re quired, he is anthorized to use any surplus revenues from time to time in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than par, in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of Congress, ap proved July 14, 1870, entitled 1 an act to | authorize the refunding of the national debt,’ with like qualities, privileges, and exemptions, to the extent necessary to carry this act into full effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid,” be and the same is hereby repealed. A Monster Serpent. A California paper has this snake story: While one of our sportsmen was out hunting lately in the Tree Pinos country he killed a fawn, and left it on the gronnd to go in pursuit of other game. Returning a short time after, he fonnd, to his amazement and horror, that a hugfe serpent was coiled around its body. Judging from the mischievous look in the reptile’s eyes, the nervous curving of its neck and the threatening poise of its elongated head that it would not sur render the prize without a fight, the hunter concluded to retreat and take aim at the glittering thief at long range. After seating himself behind a rock 100 feet distant, and getting his nerves somewhat steadied for work, he blazed away, and spent about twenty charges of treble B shot without any visible effect. Feeling his pulse, he concluded from its rapid run he must be nervous. The snake by this time had uncoiled itself from the carcass, and had twisted itself into the form of a corkscrew, ready for a spring. With a manly effort onr hero controlled himself, and gave a firm and steady pull at the trigger. The ser pent’s head was nearly severed from its body by the shot, and its form was at once stretched out prone and powerless upon the ground. When the hunter considered it safe he advanced to get a closer view of his victim, and in step ping over the gronnd found it meas ured twenty feet in length. The body was as large around as a child’s waist. While looking on and wondering to what genus of large serpent it belonged, he was horrified to see about 120 small snakes twisting, hissing and emerging from a nest close by. Each particular hair of his head stood on end, and his legs were suddenly electrified with won - derful motion as he skedaddled like a race-horse from the scene. There is a non-venomous serpent of the boa family in California, but it attains full growth only in warm climates. 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