The Rhode Island Republican

Major Satterlee Clark, for many years paymaster in the U. S. Army, had been unwell for two or three years; and there was but very little time during this period when he did not feel pain in his stomach. In the winter and spring of 1835 his disorder became very alarming and he was unable to procure any relief from the prescriptions of his physicians. During the ensuing summer he visited the medicinal springs at Richfield, about 25 miles distant from Utica. After spending several weeks there, and partaking regularly of the water, he brought away a black snake two feet three inches in length, which he supposed had remained in his stomach for a period of nearly three years and there grown to the size it had attained—he having, at that time previous, drank from a spring at Greenbush, near Albany. The snake showed some signs of life when it came from him, but died soon after.—N. Y. Sun.