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No one will envy Mr. Jacob Figley, of Hopewell Township, near New Sheffield, his discovery of a big nest of copperhead snakes, and it is doubtful whether anyone would have met the issue as cleverly as did Mr. Figley.
Mr. Figley's attention was called to a snake not fifty yards from his kitchen, by a granddaughter who was visiting his home. On investigation he found it to be a deadly copperhead, the most dangerous and nastiest snake found in this state. He quickly made away with this one and knew at once that there must be a nest somewhere near, and soon located it Before he had finished 26 copperheads were dead, eight of these being old ones and the other eighteen about half grown or slightly over a foot long. A few escaped, but it is remarkable that Mr. Figley managed to get anything like as many as he did.