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Show A WHOPPER. 1 THREE THOUSAND SNAKES AT ONK KIL LINO, AND NOT A GOOD DA V FOR SNAKES EITHER. On Saturday laM wo were asked by Mr. Jonathan KtiUord ir we hail ' ' heard about the snakes." We had not, and he proceeded to tell us a story that we at first thought incredi-i ble, but which we wero at last fain to beliuve, and which wo know now to' be true, having seen the horrid Bight, and cau vouch with sworn afi'idavit if necessary, aa can others who may' have visited the scene within the past two weeks, as to the truth of what we have lo relate. On tho 2d instant, toward evening,' a young son of Mr. A. Thompson, 1 who lives about eight miles from town sou tli ward, was passing over a bill on ! the frtrm of Mr. Uibbs Myers, a neigh-1 bor, in quest of his lather's cattle, 1 when he accidentally ttupped into a j small hole, and drawing his leg out! quickly, drew with il several serpents, i The sight frightened Hie lad, and hoi ran home witli all speed and reported ; his experience, lie soon returned, however, with another lad, and found that the hill-top wj the home of a community of era wfmg reptiles, and before they left the spot they had dispatched forty six. Tho matter was now reported among the neighbors, and on the following day Messrs. J. Fulford, T. R. Graves and B. Besseo went to the place indicated indi-cated and began a war upon Iho serpents, ser-pents, finding that the hole iuto which the boy bad stopped was tho resort of hundreds of the snakes, and that the hill tup was literally "alive" , with lliem. They dug down to a crevice between two upright stonrB , about two feet below the surface, and ihen fought for hours, killing hundreds, hun-dreds, and f-till apparently making , not the least diminution in. thtdr , numbers. Day alter day this work went on, , until last Sunday tho dead snHkes , were nirked un and rvmninrl ..d placed in a pile near tho mouth of the ilen. The number of 1,776 was counted, and euli the work of killing goes on from day to day. We went to the place on Monday, accompanied by L. H. Smyth, and the astonishing sight of near 2.000 snakes in one pile met our gaz, with live ones still in apparently undiminished numbers upon the bill. We killed fifteen in us many minutes and had enough, while two little lads were all Ihe time at work. And the work of killing has been going on ever since, until now we henr that about 3,000 have been dispatched, and there arc hundredf, perhaps thousands left. Tiie snakes are of the species called tho blue racer, with a sprinkling of aJders, and vary in size from the thickne.s of a man's wrisd, and in length from a foot to fuur or five fi l. They run with remarkable seed, and at tint wi.ro cowardly endeavoring endeavor-ing to make th.ir escape, and not mnchEdWposed lo show light. They are now, however, becoming vicious, and show Lynl, and at limes get startingly agn -mvp. A reasonable theory is that the liolu buds to it tavern somewhere in tiie depths ol tie hill, when; there m; ma 1. y thousands, p. is-ibly , of nn thing serpent-; and that they have gathered here lrom all directions direc-tions lor a winter remdenre. Sjme think thoy arc poisonous; other thai tmy are harmless, except the "hissing "hiss-ing udd'.-rs," winch are, douhili-m, venomous. At all tvtul, Mr. Orare informs us that three horse tht had grjz;d on the Inii during Iho "raid" iiuve had severe sp-ii Is ol sickness. Tne ahoTc tutfmcnl is absolutely true, and the fight is worth n pilgrimage pilgrim-age Uj sef Omcordi-i (K-.) i'Taurr. '1 Jt V . ill barn, 14 ' Imp-ailal ..1 hara., XAei mr ,0 J1,; US4 II A N .. M har,., '; Alidia ,.v ,,, ( i.j II A II. ..(.:. iliarei, , 4;: r.l,, 1 |