1236 The Copperhead. 
reside in the lower end of the Third ward, in what is kn 
once. He told that a snake had bitten him, and then 
over his head. The lad showed a small red spot on hisa 
where he said the bite was. The mother thought it was onlya 
bee sting, and paid no attention to it until the wound began to 
swell. Then the doctor was sent for, who pronounced it a snake 
jut 
and was quickly despatched with an axe. The boy was do 
quite well last night, and there are hopes of his recovery. 
From the New York Sun (Aug. 29, 1880).— While picking 
blackberries on the Mine Hill mountains, Mary O’Brien, of Black 
From the Philadelphia Times (Reading, Aug. 21, 1879)—At 
the camp meeting of the Evangelical Association near Sinking 
Springs, this county, Mrs. Mary Deitzel, aged sixty-five, 2 5 
of the presiding elder, Rev. J. M. Saylor, was so badly bitten d 
a copperhead snake this morning, that she was brought to ; 
ing in an unconscious condition. * . eo a + 
Deitzel desired to prepare an early breakfast. She reach ae 
under the stove to get some kindling wood that had map 
there to dry. When her left hand had been withdrawn I i. 
der the stove, Mrs. Deitzel felt a slight pain. She saw a Mibe 
blood on the knuckle of the first finger of the left rare 
thought that probably a splinter had pricked her, or nd sei ae 
mosquito or a spider had stung her. As her hand ana A search 
menced swelling and getting stiff, she became alarmed. 4% 
From the New York Sun (Oct. 24, 1880)—A copperheads 
bit Mrs. Henry Overart, of Concord, N. C., on the pyr: 
her left hand, and she died before medical aid reached ht i a 
I have been informed by another physician, that Bari 
a surveyor employed by the West Shore Railroad, w ee 
near Highland, Ulster county, N. Y., was bitten in thera 
