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TheLatest Snake stories.
A MONSTER OVER SIXTY FEET LONG
90 AND A DOUBLE-HEADER

| A Collection of 493 Rattles-A Rattle
snake Seren Feet Long Killed By a Ten
aYear-Old Whisky and its use i,
i Snake Bites. ..- of
/ PoRT JERv1s, Aug. 2O.-Harrison
! Van Deuzer and Dan Tompkins haul
cordwood over the Monticello turnpike,
between that place md Wurtsboro. ~
On Saturday, as they were jogging
along by McMunn's, three miles from
Wurtsboro, three big rattlesnakes lay
coiled up in the middle of the road,
and set up a chorus that made the
teamsters stop. A stone thrown at
the rattlers drove them into the woods.
It's bad luck to let rattlesnake get
away from yau. A Sullivan county
mountaineer would sooner miss clr-
Gus than 60 home and say that he had
seen rattlesnake and then couldn't
putt its ratt1es OUT of his pocket to
proveit. So Tompkins and Van Deu-
ger left their teams and followed the
snakes. The rattlers led them chase
Of two miles, but the excitement that
followed paid for it. The men had
been taken plumb to Matt. Talmage's
famous den. The snakes lay abont in
scores, takisg in the merry sunshine,
and regrett:ng that the huckleberry
piekers had all left the woods. This
was a picnic Van Deuzer and Temp
kins had not hoped for They got
clubs and went at the snakes. The
fight lasted about ten minutes. More
than half the best ones got away and
hid in the assures of the rocks. But
the men gathered the rattles off Of ff.
ty~six very fair specimens. Some of
the snakes they killed were three feet
long. They took home 493 rattles,
and expect to get out at least four
gallons of oil fo1 liniment.
This den was a favorite one of the
celebrated snake catcher, Matt. Tai
mage, He used to take hundreds out
Of it, alive. He lived in Wurtsboro,
and a rattlesnake bite never had any
effect on him. He followed snake
breeding, and he had some of the most
curious and rare specimens of the
snake family ever collected. In 1873
he captured large pilot or coppery
head. He made a great pet of il, but
finally it bit him on the thumb. He
paid no attention to it, although pi-
lots bite is especially dreaded, being
very deadly. Talmage's thumb began
to swell after some days. His arm
then commenced getting larger, and
by ana by he got blind, and suffered
untold agony. He lived several veeks
continuing to swell all over, and at
last he died His den has, probably
not been visited before since his death
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From the Louisiana .Ior,7,ol

Mrs DR.. W. c Craven of Ashburs,
IL t1.s this county, and a female compan
bitten by a huge rattIeSsnake last
Sunday night, during the doctors alb
sence on professional visit. The la
dies were sitting on the edge of the
bed, when thoy heard the dread alarm
of rattlesuake. They screamed and
sprang to the door, but as they could
see nothing in the room one of them
ventured to peep under the bed, when
she was Mortified to see coiled up there
huge rattlesnake. Clothing them
selves hastily, tor they were partly
addressed, the ladies raised an alarm,
which brought to their ssistanee Mr..
George Tompkins. who lives within a
few hundred yards of DR.. Craven
house. Mr.. I. armed himself with a
pole, got lamp, and entered the room
by the door furthest from the bed.
He found the serpent near the center
of the room, coiled up ready for his
antagonist. As soon asMr. Tompk-
ms got IN reach of the snake, the rep
tile made fierce dart for him, leap
ing his full length. Twice he thus
sprang for Mr.. 7. before he was slain.
The snake measured two inches less
than four feet, and was very large III
circumference.
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Miscellaneous Cards

GREENS MANSION HOUSE.
~ -ALEXAND-IA, VA
JAMES GREEN, .PHoarrron'
Isa irst-class hotel in every respect The cit
zens Of The valley having bushes in Alexandra or
Washington, and travellers going North or Soutn,
will find this an agreeable resting place on the
route as it does not require the early start D!
cars and Steamboats, leave Alexandria for VASE
ington and return every hour from N. ~
2. NJ. Jan III
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has been in the habit of gong to fish,
often remaining over night. On re-
cent occasion Mr.. G. had repaired to
his favorite fishing hole.in the river,
below steep embankment. which was
overlaid. with big rock. Having
swung himself down to the waters
edge by means Of a grape vine, he dis
covered near the middle of the river a
very large snake heading toward HIM
with great speed and determination
Mr.. G. threw heavy stick at the
monster as he neared the bank, strik-
ing it about the head but, nothing
daunted, the serpent continued its
course. bearing his head Is to "a
inches above the water. Feeling un-
safe in that situation, Mr. G. scram>
bled up the grape vine to the top of
the cliff, where dismay was added to
his terror by the sight of the snake
few feet from him, which had in a
measure, by a c;rcuitous route, cut off
his retreat. How Mr.. c. got away, or
what became of his terror, the snake,
are questions that will ever remain
mystery. for, becoming lost in uncon-
seriousness, our terror-stricken friend
remembered, as the first return Of con
seriousness, vending his way home,
looking back now and then for his
pursuer. Mr. G. thinks the snake was
fully fifteen feet long and six to eigh-
inches in diameter in the middle. His
track over the sand bar on the oppot
site side Of the river, appeared, in tn
short time he had to look at it, like
the track of a log. Since this occure
renee it is related that large snake
was seen by other parties few years
back about the same locality.
From the Kennebeck Journal.
We have snake story from Vassal-
boro'. Della, Vesta, and Armina,
slaughter Of the late Jethro Gardiner of |
Vassalgoro', who live at the old home
stead, have been in the habit of keep
ing their canary birds in the attic. of the
house, away from the naughty cats, land,
as was supposed, away from all other
enemies Of the pet bird race. There
the little one have been Matched and
nursed, and there they have learned to
sing their baby songs to the
delight Of the ANXIOUS mother birds and
The household ofsisters. The other day,
to her great CONSERVATION, one of the
ladies' discovered, while entering the at
tic, a huge spotted adder reclining in
coils on chair, with fierce eyes glanng
ntently at a group of birds, expecting
nomentarly to secure one for a good.
square meal. The big bIother of the
Of the family was hastily summoned to
he scene. andlthe serpent's meditations,
we're disturbed by death. The reptile
measured three feet in length. How it
yer found its way into the attic, and
What actuated it to make the excursion.
re unsolved mysteries in the Gardiner
amily and neighborhood. The house !
OF two stories, and the attic is above
hem all. :
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and was ready to commence
pie SSt quarter.
next Monday morning the
;. g toni into the meat store to
piece of beeffor dinner.
much will you haye?' the
but lsked.
50 three or four"
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SURVEYOR.

William Tisinger, Mt. Jackson.
sUPERINTENDENT OF POOR.
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COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS.
?. W. Magruder Woodstock, Va
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
THE EASTERN WAR.


All the fighting between the Russians
and TURKS thus far reported has been at
Batoun, fortified Turkish post In Asia,
on the eastern shore of the Black Se..,
before which, it is alleged, the Russia =.
have been twice repulsed with loss. II
appears to be probable that a part of the
Turkish fleet in the Black Sea assisted in
the defense of Batoun, as we hear of it a
little later bombarding Poti, Russian
military post also ON the Black Sea, north
OF Batoun and near the mouth of the
river Phasis. But these short, sharp
conflicts on both sides of the Asiatic bor-
der line between Turkey and Rrssia have
merely a secondary significance. The
resl seat of war is destined to be on the
Danube. There no fighting has occurred
up to the last: advices, nor is there likely
to be until the Russian amy moving
thro lgh Rouwania by several routes gels
into position. 1t has been reported thar
Russian force has reached Giurgeyo,
opposite Rutschuck, on the south side Of
the Danube, where the Turks are strong
ly entrenched and fortified, and have
recently mounted quite a number of
krupp guns brought by rail from Varna,
These movements are simply preparatory
to the series of sIeges and battles that
must take place before the Russians reach
Adria1ople.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

Under the desert land law passed by
Congress last session few capitalists and
and. political managers in'u Califor~
mia have gobbled up about fifty thousand
acres in Kern county, in the southern
part of the State, much of it valuable bot
tom land, and on the line ofthe projected
irrigation canal ofthe Kern County Land
and Canal Company. 1t is alleged that
the greater portion of the land is not des-
ert land in the intention of the law, but
that the act was loosely drawn in the in
interest of the parties who secured its
passage. t .-- .- .-
Grand Duke Alexis has received from
his royal mother gold bracelet set with
three very large diamonds of the purest
water, and proposes to wear it on his left
wrist, under his coat sleeve, until the end
of the war. His mother accompanied
the gift with her blessing and prayers
for his preservation, and the Injunction
to behave like true Russian, Alexis ap-
pears to be favorite son, but his mother
did not tremblo for his safety. The
glances from fair women's eyes some
times wounds but rarely kill, and Alexis
is in no other danger at present.
The death of ex-senator and Rev. Viii
liam G. Brownlow, of Tennessee, takes
from the present one of the few links
which connect it with the events of the
last generation. He was a man single
from the general herd-a social, political
and religious law unto himself, and the
tempest of violent disputation was his ia
verite element.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
THE LATEST FROM THE EAST.
CONVENTION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND
ROUMANIA,,

ROUMANIA..
| BUCHAREST April 29.-The niiniste,
OF foreign affairs has communicated to
the Chamber of Deputies a convention
with Russia, dated April 16, 1877, in
which the Prince of Roumania assures to
tfe Russians free passage and the treat
me1t due friendly army, and the Gear
binds himself to. protect. the rights OF
Kolmsnla. The minister said the con-
vention YVES 10 secure respect for Rouma-
MAS position as an individual State in
accordance with the treaty of Paris. 1t
imposed neither change in Roumania's
International relations nor their duty of
lending the cooperation of her army.
Roumanla, adhering to the policy.of at
lacking no one, but defending her frontier
as far as possible, similar convention
has not been concluded with the Porte
because it had transferred the seat of war
to Roumanian Territory, and had also
persistently refused to recognize Roums
r'a or settle the questions which have
been pending for years.
According to an additional convention
the Russians are allowed to use Rouma-
nlan roads, railways, s,rivers and telegraphs.
The resources of the country are placed
at their disposal for the supply of the
army. The Roumanian authorities are
to assist in erecting camps and forwarding
baggage. Russian military trains and
kilograms are to have the precedence of
ordinary traffic. The Russians are en-
powered to complete unfinished railroads
and the necesss y ground for the purpose
is ceded to them. The chief of the Rus
sian military traffic department is empow-
cred, subject to the approval of the Rou-
manian minister of works, to dismiss
Roumapian railway officials. The Rus
slams are allowed to establish military
stations and hospitals anywhere, except
In Bucharest. Roumania will, if required,
provide material for the construction of
boats, ships and bridges. Articles inten-
ded for the Russian army will be admit
ted into Roumania duty free. The Rou-
manian authorities will assist in cap. ur
ing Russian deserters. lt.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

The agony of the Louisiana reput
licans is over. King, supreme-court-
judge. was set up on a stolen bench by
the Kellogg-Packard gang. Governor
Nichols ousted King, and the Presi-
dent gives him the collectorship as
balm for his hurts. We have not
heard what Mr.. Returning-Board a n
derson has to say about this breach of
Iectorship in part pay for his services
in giving the electoral vote of Louisi-
ana to Hayes. This ought to teach re-
-turning-board williams that even a
fraudulent President may be vngrate-
full. We think the president might
have done better than to give the best
federal office in the state to man WHO
held bogus judgeship. 70
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

WAR MAPS AND THE WAR.-The New
York World is very severe ON war maps,
regarding them as deluslons and snares
for the unwary, and very sensibly says:
"Any respectable geography with a
decent atlas will erable any ordinarily
intelligent person to get good generally
ideaof the extent of the invaded empire
and of the relations of its different por-
tions to each other and to the invading
empire. Aftor acquiring that he may
read up on the subject rs much as his
leisure will allow or bis inclination
prompts, and then,- by following the
march of events from day to day, he will
probably be able to understand what is
going on quite as we'll as it is likely to be
necessary that he should. He certainly
will not better himself by trying to follow
the armies of the Grand Dukes Nicholas
and Michael with the time of fork on
the breakfast table over maps which
make the Danube run up hill, put Erze
roum on the top of Mt Ararat, and, in
general way, resemble the typographical
engineer of a blind spider escaped out,of
an inkstand."
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
CASEY,S SUCCESSOR
Hayes Appo .nting an Otd-Line Wing a
Collector at Mem OyIenne.

Collector at New Orleans.
WAsHINGToN, April 29.-Yesterday
evening Hayes ended the squabble over
the New Orlea1s Collectolsbip by decid-
ing to appoint John E. King, and direct
ing his decision to be given to the press.
Three names were submitted 10 the Pres
ident BY ex-Gov. Kellogg: t. G. Ander-
son, John E. King and Gen. McKillan.
1t is generally understood that KELLOGG
favored Anderson and Packard King.
Kellogg, however, made King Justice of
the Republican Supreme Court, and is on
good relations with him. Hayes. in talk
ing with different Louisiona Republicans
explained that he proposed to appoint
Republican, and should appoint none but
Republicans, bat he wished to get an old
resident, man of property and repula-
tion, and, if possible, that political dodo,
an Old Line Wing. King was speaker of
the Wing Legislature of 1852, Wing
member Of the Constitutional Conven-
ton before the war, and King according
ly got the place. After the war King was
elected at special election in 1865 to
Congress as a Union man, has served
seven or eight terms in the State Legisla-
ture. and through Kellogg's appointment
was member Of the Packard Supreme
Court. Numerous conferences with
Hayes leave the impression on Louisiana
politicians that, except Casey, whom
King will succeed, no officeholders in
New Orleans will be removed before
Congress meets. a 1Nt tif
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE sPEAKERsHIP AND THE DEMOCRATIC
POLICY.
THE sPEAKERsB. .P.

THE SPEAKERsBiP.
WASHINGTON, April 29.--Republicans
who enjoy the Presidents friendship, and
who have ready access to him at all
,mes, say that he has at lest arrived at
the conclusion that it Is not possibIe TO
elect an administration man Speaker of
tne next House. There is no doubt but
some of the radicals believed a few weeks
ago, when the new Southern policy was
JrSt being 1naugurated, that few demo-
crafs would barter their principles in
order to crafty the Ptesident and in re-
turn for snndry favors which would be
bestowed upon them. The democratic
nne IS now found to be unbroken, and
the same mistaken politicians who con-
stantly told the PRECEDENT that dozen or
more de nocratic members would sup
port his policy to the extent of voting for
a republican for Speaker now profess to
be alarmed for fear that the democrats
may stand together and demand the re
peal OF certain obnoxious political leeis,
Iatlon before the passage OF the army ap-
preparation bill.
AyRUsH FOR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
The applications for positions in the
diplomatic service continue to increase
IN number, and it is said that there are
Co,ar on me IN the State Department paper re-
commencing more than fly ex Senators
ana ex-Representatives for appoint,
ments to foreign missions, or to consul1
ships with big salaries attached. It
is said authortatively that the President
hes decided to make no diplomatic APP
continents, except to fill vacancies until
Congress meets.
THE NEW ORLEANS coLLEcToRsEIp.
/, The contest for the New Orleans col
lectership has terminated in the appoint,
ment to that office of Judge John E.
King. Judge King was Judge of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana under the
heliogg-Packard regime, and gave place
to ex-Congressman Spencer, who resign
ed his seat in the House under an ap-
pointment from Gov. Nichols to the
same position. Anderson and McMillan
have been urged for the collectorshin.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

1t is reported in Chicago that Senator
David Davies will join Mr.. Thos. Ewing
and Judge Kelley on the currency ques-
tion-incontrovertible double-back-action
bonds aud all. While this would please
beyond measure the statesmen of the
Cincinnati Enquirer school, it would not
meet the country expectations of Senator
Davis. The more-money fallacy has not
the hold it once had, and it is rather late
in the day for man of Senator Davis
brains to jump into that boat.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

Gen. Stewart l.. Woolford a promi-
ent New York republican politician
has accepted an Invitation TO address
the literary societies of the University
of Mississippi at Oxford, at the COM
mencement, tho last Wednesday. in
June. His subject will be "The Com
mon Needs and Common Duties of the
Young Men of the Republic" Gen.
Woolford says he will speak bis
''honest views from a loving heart,
loyal to the best interests of tn e
South.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
HINTS FOR WINDOW PLANTS

Those who are fortunate enough tc
own conservatories and employ gard.
eners do rot need the hints in this par
.agraph. People, whose amusement il
is to train few window plants, or to
beaut'fy small space near the doc :,
Will find themselves greatly helped
by procuring from the nearest green
house Ia peck or two of earth sifted
fertilized and prepared for plant in
pots. A small Investment in this di-
rection may save many failures and
disappointments with pet flowers. A
lew drops of ammonia to quart of
water will turn the spray from tie
watering pot Into Summer rain i'm
parting to the water something of the
condition which rain derives from the
atmosphere. Plants in hard "cakey"
earth cannot thrive, but very little
care in loosening the earth and keep
ing 1t mellow obviates this trouble
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

1t ought to be source of qualification
transatlantic steamship line which flies
the American flag is an established sue
cess. In spite of obstacles the American
steamship company has established line
of substantial, elegant and well manned
ships between Philadelphia and Liver
pool These vessels are commanded by
the best men in the merchant service and
for safety and speed they have remark
able record,
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
Won MOLTKE AND BISMARCK IN
ACCORD.

LONDON, April 27.-The Coz respondent
of the Times at Berlin telegraphs as fol.
lows: 81 may mention that when Count
Won Moltke some time ago directed the
attention of the German Government to
Prince Bismarck strongly supported his
representation, but the German Cou- did
not, however, approve any measures
likely to cause dispAeasure in France"
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

TEMPERANCE SERsroN.-Last evening
Rev. ]. B. Mann, pastor of Union NJ. E.
church, preached another powerful SER
mon on temperance. The Moral Suasion
Club met at the City Hall and headed by
n. j. Lee, marched out to the church in
a body.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
'aA MISS HoUsToNs'
! Dil and Boarding School,
'''''' AT 800 DELAWARE Avrsr,.
\, SEPTEMBER 1876

/ ||Sese't nm IefSedi k;e are thorough educators
y 'aPs aiRa be 9 R4sSIs,4 RSd names
t1oteaeh thu rupils vnpps lntrusted to their
T3ssoslg mind Uung snd TO think. to draw
|SSSe mind intn ana to pour instruc ton
rsrs way that is S usetni another with facility
|Nass. and this Is Useiui III and delightful is a
|hSsse Young lsd;H. .5H method and charac-
sitssg be encourau uu,es. a; Their prospects
aSI SI'SsRe Of tbeir Up; Those who wish
h al. tae location ;,sptruction u should an
i,oSc on the hI s,s ~ healthy and conve-
astE" IVY ne heart stfFeet of car route. The
,Ssad # itsp ;a' S Si,y III /. !, sny aa
and healtbvw vweather the walk Is in.
augl6-tf
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
Fashionable Furniture !
]. & j. N. HARTMAN,
No 41O King street,;
WILMINGTON, DEL.

WILMINGTON, DEL.
~aBzvzw We respectfully inform the citis
6@WW zens of Wilmington, and the sur.
rounding country that we continue
wS41B to manufacture and keep on hand
at our large and long established ware
rooms, Furniture of every variety and
style, consisting of Mahogany, Rosewood
and Walnut Furniture suitable for parlor,
and chamber uses.
Our assortment of Furniture is larger and
more varied than can be found in Delaware,
and all articles sold at our establishment
are warranted as represented.
Venitian Blinds of the most fashionable
designs made to order and kept constantly
on hand. We also manufacture and con-
stantly keep large assortment of Spring
Hair, Moss and Husk Mattresses.
j. g. j. N. HARMAN,
410 King street, Wilmington.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30
IGa3i I q days, Mondays and Thursdays,
EARIlzANs SAVINGS RANK.

AKIlzANS SAVINGS BANK.
@ MARKET STREET,
'''kPORATED JANUARY 23D, 1861.
n.y. nj, , receive e deposits daily from 9 A
5ysyaI,nM' a II, NJ, and on Tuesday and Sat
,enlhgs sr' from I to 8 o'clock.
'LNl'ANNUAL DIVIDEND,
N, H. sit vent, mas been regularly paid on
I'M ,bn l,i,ce the organization of the Bank,
M, ,n, sie expectation of the Managers,
fen iiS,e3l i;neg33l dividends will be continued.
tNosu1,.lqlends are not withdrawn, they
|slS |r,eu coel as deposits. Thus permanent
sssr rVohpound their interest twice in
h., D @ MANAGERS.
EV u oSMmyth, George w. Bush,
t1q RIi0ppland, George s. Capelle,
mi H. hr1e benson, NJ. L. Lichenstein,
Slonsantt, Edward Darlington,
|an |anWlseisGeTg, N FieTg, Job II. Jackson,
"' ileId, VIM. H. swift, O.
An'hony Higgins.
.GbEEQq. W. BUSH, President.
Elv' v'AFELLE, Vice President.
. =" l. TAYLOR. Treasurer.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

With this brief address to you, you are
now directed to retire to your chamber
and prepare for the consideration of
such business as may be submitted to
you; and we remind you, respectfully, of
your oath: that the counsel OF the State,
YOUR own and your fellows you keep
Keep secret. By this is meant-that you
are, under no circumstances, to reveal
anything which passes in your delibera-
tions, or relates to the performance of
your duties.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

aispla and New York Exchange fur
aoiegalar Depositors without charge.
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~ IDgFaTISEMFNES.

-oo, in your own town. Terms
IA a OS Tes * outfit free. IL. HALLETT d
n Portland Maine.
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MAXI BETTS, PRESIDENT.
Capital,

1' Ri1oiDhN IL
VEO b, ARMSTRONG, CASHIER.
up Capital. $500. 600.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-30

nrr7 a Week to Agents. SO our
hhs XII FREE. p. y. VICkEHY.
Re.o Maine,