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Darien Timber Gazette. VOL. 6.--NO. 48. Darien Timber Gazette, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. JtT GEORGIA, CORNER BROAD AND .NORTHWAY STREETS. RICHARD W. GRUBB, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : For one year (in advance) $2.50 For six months “ 1.50 CLUB RATES: Five copies, each one year $2.00 Ten copies, each one year 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES : Per square, ten lines space, first insertion—sl.so Per square, each subsequent insertion 1.00 Special Bates to Yearly and Larue Advertisers Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not specified on the copy, and payment exacted ac cordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding four lines solicited for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. Bills for advertisements duo upon presentation after the first insertion, but a spirit of commercial liberality will be practiced toward regular patrons. To avoid any misunderstanding the above rules will be adhered to without deviation. All letters and communications should be ad dressed to tho undersigned, RICHARD W. GRUBB, Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia. City Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. County Com missioned— James Walker, Chairman; Adam Strain, John M. Fisher, J. A. Atwood, T. H. Gignilliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton. Clerk Board of County Commissioners —Spalding Kenan. Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis. Ordinary—C. H. Hopkins, Sr. Sheriff— T. Butler Blount. Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young. Tax Collector— O. C. Hopkins. County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil. County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel. Coroner— Philip Maxwell. The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on the first Wednesday in each month. CITY OFFICERS. Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker. Ex-Officio Aldermen -Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood, Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat, John M. Fisher. STANDING COMMITTEES. Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood and Hilton. Committee on Accounts'— Messrs. Holmes, Gignil liat and Fisher. Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Holmes and Strain. ~ , Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. 1' isner, Atwood and Holmes. Committer on Faupers— Messrs. Atwood, Holmes and tagnilliat.' Committee on Jail— Messrs. Fisher, Hilton and Atwood. ~ TT , Committee on Streets and Lanes —Messrs. Holmes. Strain and Fisher. ... ~ , Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood, Gignißiat and Hilton. . ... Committee on Public Buildings —Messrs. Grignil liat, Fisher and Strain, Committee on iWice-Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and Strain. _ , Committee on Ordinances— Messrs. Atwood, Strain and Holmes. Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan. City Marshal— Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Deputy Marshal— Alonzo Guyton. Harbor Master— George Crane. Port Physician —Dr. James Holmes. Inspector General of Timber— George W. Fanes. Purl tVardens— lsaac M. Aiken, Johu H. Burrell, and James G. Young. Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Hoard Pilot Commissioners— I>r. K. B. Harris, Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai ley, W. L. Fulton, James Laehlison. Mitchell. Lewis. Livingston. Secretary. MASONIC. Live Oak Lodge. No. 137, meets first Wednesday night in each month at their hall near the Magno lia? House: James Walker,Worshiptul Master; M. C. O’Neil, Secretary UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T. . Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick. Deputy Collector of Customs for tort of Darien— Charles H. Townsend. Inspector —Edwin C. Davis. Jhjst master —D. Webster Davis. Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond. SUPERIOR COURT —EASTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge. Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General. Bulloch Conn ty—Monday sin April and October Effingham County—First Mondays in May and N Bryan bounty— Second Mondays in May and CtniTtiam County—First Mondays in December M Jfc/ntofA l County Fourth Mondays in May and County-Tuesday after third Mondays in May and November. UNITED STATES MAILS. The mails arrive from Starting, No. 1, Mawm & Brunswick Railroad, every morning <S“““ay ex ceptfed) at 10 o’clock a. m„ departing every alley noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at If p. m. mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Orult Kaiiroaa departs SH o’clock every Tuesday mornrng and arrives at 8 p. m. every b Riceboro and South Newport both ways. RELIGIOUS. Religious services at the Methodist cl.un h every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and at if o'clock ' School at the Ridge every Sunday afternoon at 3o’clock. Rev. H. E. Hannan, pas- Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a m. and ap. m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev. L, il, - UTO sf>,ooo A YEAR, or $5 to S2O i day in your own locality. So risk. Women do as well as men. Many make more than the amount stated above. No one , can fan to make money fast. Anv’oneeando the work. You can make from so fts, to *2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business 11 costs nothing to trv the business. Nothing like it ever offered before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable^ Reader if vnu want to know all about tne Dost paying business before the P^’.^nlOT^d asatasrslcr'Sgf June 20 __ . - Garden Seed. WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH Garden Seed, just received, consisting m part of BEETS, CABBAGE, CARROTS, CUCUMBERS, CELERY, EGGPLANT, LETTUCE, OKRA, ENGLISH PEAS, BEANS, TOMATOES. SQUASH,OYSTER PLANT. EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc. W. H. COTTER k CO., Druggists and Apstliecarie*. Professional Cards. ALTER A. WAY, Attorney-at-Law and Real Estate Agent, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Courts of the Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par ticular attention given to the collection of claims and the examination of land titles. april2s "yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT, Attorney-at-Gaw, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all legal business in the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia. apri!2s-ly LE. B. DeLORME, Am Attorney & Counselor-at-Gaw, and Notary Public. DARIEN, GEORGIA. Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange. July 2 jjlt SPALDING KENAN, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours day and night, at his office on Screven street, next door to Mr. Wilcox's dwelling house. augß-ly |yt R. B. HARRIS Offers his professional services to the citizens of Darien and surrouuding country. All calls prompt ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House building. J J. ABRAMS, All or n e y-a t- La W, Commercial Building, _june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMABK. rjTOMPKINS & DENMARK, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 105 Ray Street, SAVANNAH, GA. Practice in the United States Courts, and in the Superior Courts of tho Eastern Circuit. je6-tf WM. GARRARD. P. W. MKLDRIM. W. W. FRASER. Q>IiRARD, MELD RIM & FRASER, Attorneys at Law, DARIEN ------ GEORGIA. Office at the Magnolia House. Marl9-Iy. CABEY W. STYLES. | W J. WILLIAMS. | J. L. VINCENT. TILES. WILLIAMS & VINCENT, Attorneys & Counselors At Law, BRUNSWICK, - - - - GEORGIA. Will practice in all the Courts of the Brunswick Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in the U. S. District and Circuit Oourts for the South ern district of Georgia, hr id cases a specialty. Office in Littlefield & 2isov' mew building, on the Bay. apri-tf. Miscellaneous. LOOK OUT. HOYT’S COLOGNE, COUNING’S COLOGNE, LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES, HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER, LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES, ROUGE, TOILET SETS, And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and medicated. Give us a call. W. H. COTTER & CO., feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries. W *IY T A limited number of fj I I active, energetic canvassers to ill I J engage in a pleasant, and profi '■ f,u ,uo-.-. Good men will find this a rare chance TO niKK *IOM'W. Sn"h will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp lor reply, stating what business they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business apply. Address je2o-ty. Finley, Harvey \ Cos., Atlanta, Ga. A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day it home made by the industrious. Capital no require 1: we will start you. Men, women, boys and girls make money taster a 1 work for ns than anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and udi a tnvone can go righ* at. Those who are wise who this notice will send us their iddresses a: one,- and sector th nselves. Costly outfit and terms tree. Now is tlie time. Those already at work ire laying up large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO., Augusta, Me. jnne2o-ly Collat Brothers. Per or in romi e w Inducements to the Purchasing Public! Hr Ives in Ev ry n irons nt ! Hr tes u in th tob’oers ! 1 Special Hrtve- u m mf Buyers! ! ! Solid Fact! 8014,1 Fact Savannah Prices in Darien. In Groceries, Hardware, Wood & Willow Ware- Crockery, Stoves, Glassware, Sadlery. OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents FURNISHING GOODS, Clothing, Hats, Trunks, Valices, which we carry in endless variety and constantiy receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking you for past favor* and saliciting a continuance of the same, we arc yours, n2 s.tf. COLLAT BROTHERS. DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1880. JUST OUT. Hood’s Great Book OF THE WAR. Advance and Retreat, Personal Experiences in the United Stales and Confed erate Slates Armies. By General J. B. Hood, Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army, puplished for The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. —BY— General G. T. Beauregard. New Orleans, 1880. The entire proceeds arising from the sale of this work are devoted to the Hood Orphan Me morial Fund, which is invested in United States Registed Bouds for the nurture, care, support and education of the ten infants deprived of their parents lasi summer at New Orleans, (the melan choly incidents of which sad bereavement are still fresh in the public minds. The book is an elegant octavo, containing 300 pages, with a tine photograph likeness and a line steel engraving, made e cpressly ior this work, four large maps of battle fields, bound iu handsome gray English cloth ihree dollars, or in a fine sheep binding with marble eage, three dollars and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library style, four dollars, or iu best levout Turkey Mo rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars. On the receipt from any person remitting by mail or express, oi the amount in a registered letter or by a postal order, bank draft or check, a copy will be immediately sent free oi postage, registered as second-class matter. The volume is published in the, best style of typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations, executed at highest specimens of art. The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike render it worthy a place in every library,—on every desk —or upon the book shelf of eyery house in the country. Agents wanted in every town and county in the United States, and a preference will be given to honorably discharged veterans from the army To the ladies, who feel a desire to express their sympathy with Tite llood Orphan Memorial Fund the sale of this book among their circle of friends, will afford an excellent way of contributing sub stantial aid to so deserving a c*use. For Terms, Hates to Itcents, Etc., Ad dress with full Particulars, Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher, On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund. j3O-tf. New Orleans, La. Davis’ Brothers,corner of Bull and York streets Savannah. Agents for Savannah aud Darien. GEORGIA & FLORIDA INLAND STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The Darien Line! Savannah. St. Catharine’s,Dohoy,Darien, Union Island, St. Simon’s Brnsnwiek, St. Mary’s and Fernandina. Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers. i^mmGhk Captain P. H. WARD. WILL leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 4 p. m., for above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail roads for all points on the line of those roads, at Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville. Cedar Keys, aud all points on Florida Central Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola aud Mobile Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe Smith, lor all poiuts on St. Miry’s river. Through rates of freight to aud from Northern and Western ports. Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up ward and downward traiiiß of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf. Darien, Georgia. NPEMAI, XOTK E. CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien. W. F. BARKY, General '-gent. J. N. HAURIMAV. Manager, sep22-tf Savannah, Ga. Singer Sowing Machine JULIA CLARKE HAVING FUEL the agency or iue genuine and old reli and lin ger Sewing M clun*, now prepared to *■ v< *ll tho.se who are iu need of the best machine th?„i -n *de, and at very reasonable price*. Mrs. * iarke is also aclirg iu Darien for Messrs. Ludden B itec mush* sc re, S ' innah, and will be plead ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Giv her a •■all opposite M . Reuben Walker’s offices. Darien. Ga., December ‘h, iS7D. A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER. THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPERov the SOUTH. 48 Columns. Do you Tali rpilE SUNNY SOUTH HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY 1 improved till it has now nearly attained to perfection. The last issue came to us enlarged to 4s columns, is really a grand number iu every re spect, aud everybody should send for it without delay. In future it will combine all of the best features of all of the papers of theday, and justly be called the national f airily paper of the South , tor it will soon reach almost every family. It will con tain everv possible variety of reading matter,with splendid illustrations,and everything to entertain, amuse and instruct a family. Make up clubs in every community and send right along for it. Clubs of five can get it tor $2 each, a year. A sin ale copy $2 50. Don't wait for agents. Address J- H. A .B. SEALS, d2fi-tr. Atlanta, Ga. ANNOUNCEMENT. lITK FEEL GBATEFUL TO OUR MANY ? \ friends and customers for their liberal pat ronage during the past year, and we have entered anew year with the determination to deserve a lareer share of their trade. We do not keep cheap drugs but sell a GOOD AND PUKE ARTICLE OF MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember that we have constantly in stock a full assortment 01 PURE MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, P ATENT MEDICINES of all kinds, HAIR DYES, HAIR OILS, HAIR BRUSHES, TOOTH BRUSHES. And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at lowest prices. . , , Prescriptions carefully compounded night or a n d W. H. COTTER & CO., feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries?. THE SUN FOR 1880. The Sun will deal with the events of tho yoar 1880 in its own fashion, now pretty well under stood by everybody. From January 1 until Decem ber 31, will be conducted as a newspaper, written in the English language, and printed for the people. Asa newspaper, The Sun believes in getting all the news of the world promptly, and presenting it in the most inteiligable shape—the shape that will enable its readers to keep well abreast of the age with the least unproductive expenditure of time. The greatest interest to the greatest num ber—that is, the law controlling its daily make-up. It now has a circulation much larger than any other American newspaper, aud enjoys an income which is at all times prepared to spend liberally for the benefit oi its readers. 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It will con tinue throughout the year 1880 to chastise the first cl iss, instruct the second, and discountenance the third. All honest men with honest convic tions, whether sound or mistaken are its friends. And The Sun makes no bones of telling the truth to its friends and about iis triends whenever occa sion arises for plain speaking. These are the principles upon which The Sun will be conducted during the year to come. The year 1880 will be one in which no patriotic American can afford to close his eyes to public af fairs. It is impossible to exaggerate the impor tance of the political events which it has in store, or the necessity of resolute vfgilenee on the part of every citizen who desires to preserve the Gov ernment that the founders gave us. The debates and acts of Congress, the utterances of the press, the exciting contest of the Republican and Demo cratic parties, now nearly equal in strength throughout the country, directly and effectively upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to be held in November. Four years ago next Nov ember the will of the nation, as expressed at the polls, was thwarted by an abominable conspir acy, and promoters and beneficiaries of which still hold the officers they hold. Will the crime of 187(> be repeated in 1880 ? The past decade of years opened with a corrupt, extravagant, and insolent Administration intrenched at Washington. The Sun did something townrd dislodging the gang and breaking its power. The same men are now intriguing to restore their leader and themselves to places from whence they wore driven by the indignation of the people. Will they succeed ? The coming year will bring the answer to these mo mentous questions: The Sun will be on hand to chronicle the facts as they are developed, and to exhibit them clearly aud fearlessly in their rela tions to expediency and right. Thus, with a habit of philosophical good humor in looking at the minor affairs of life, and in great things a steadfast purpose to maintain the rights of the people and the principles of the Constitu tion against all aggressors, The Sun is prepared to wnte a truthful, instructive, and at the same time entertaining history of 1880. Our rates of subscritions remained unchanged. For the Daily Sun, a four-paged sheet ot twenty eight columns, the price by mail, post-paid, iH 55 cents a month, or 8(1 SO a year: or, including the Sunday paper, an eight-paged sheet of fifty-six columns,the price is (15 cents a month, or SI ?o j a year, postage paid. The Sunday edition of The Sun is also furnish ed seperately at $1 20 a year, postage paid. The price of the Weekly Nun, eight page*, fifty six columns, is SI a year, postage paid. For clubs of ten sending $lO we will send an extra cop} free. Address I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher of The Sun, New York City. EMIL a. SCHWAB/.. NICHOLAS SCHWARZ Emil A. Schwarz & Bro., DEALERS IN CARPETS & FURNITURE, 125 Sc 127 BronghtoniSt. SAVANNAH, GA., Carpets, Oil Cloths, Matting, Crum Cloths , Rugs , Jftats. FUXINTITUH IE, In Variety and Style. Curtains, Cornices, WINDOW SHADES. UPHOLSTERY SHADES. AND TRIMMINGS. Wall Paper & Decorations CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC B UILDINGS FUENISHED. EMIL A. SCHWARZ & BRO., AN ORDINANCE. As Ordinance to require the owners f unoccu pied lots to keep the same i lean, an f rbid the planting of rice or the sobb ug or o\ l .wing of lauds within the corporate limits oi the city of Darien. Sec. 2. Be it ordained, that from and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be the duty ot the owner or owners of each unoccupied lot in the City of Darien, at his or their own expense re spectively to keep the same clean and free from all garbage,rubbish, filth,weeds and undergrowth ami an\ owner ot such unoccupied lot or lots who shall fail or refuse after 10 days notice from the city marshall, to comply with the terms of this ordinance; upon conviction thereof before the i>o liee court ofsaid city, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding dollars or imprisonment not exceed ing days. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that no person shall plant rice or wet culture or prosecute any other business within the corporate limits of said city by which the soil shall be overflowed, or wa ter soaked, or the drainage ot said city obstructed audio the event of the violation of any one or m re of the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities of the rity to abate and stop the said rice planting or other injurious oc cupation as a nuisance in the same manner as is now prescribed by law. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that,all ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be .and the same are hereby repealed. Darien, Georgia. April lGth, 1830. J. J. SUTTON, BUILDER and CONTRACTOR DARIEN, GA. Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished. I guarantee to my friends and the public to give entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me gf,- No Wood Butchers employed. june27-ti J J. SUTTON. Romance of a Poor Young; Man. The sensation caused by the trial of Mile. Biere for attemping to shoot her lover has barely begun to subside before another case, equally extraordinary, but far more painful, is on the point of com ing belore the Paris assizes. The origin of the story dates as far as the summer of 1869. In that year named Alfred Gilbert fell in love with a young girl of the name of Gabrielle Coran. They both belonged to poor families, and both lived in the neighborhood of the Palasis royal. After courting in secret for some months, the young man demanded the hand of his sweetheart, but her father, who was an ar dent Bonapartist, and occupied a stall in one of the public offices, refused his consent on the ground of the republican opinions held by Gilbert. The young couple then resolved to run away togoth er, and one night the girl disappeared from home. After a week’s search the lather foung them living together in a su burban retreat. On the promise of for giveness and to their marriage tho girl returned home to her parents, but the fa their declined to keep his word, and be gun to look out for another son-m-law. Driven to despair, Gabrielle Coran again eloped with her lover, and the two decid ed to commit suicide. For this purpose hired a room in a small inn at Pressis Pi quet. The young man bought a revolver and the young woman a packet of lueifer matches. Gabrielle Coran first of all tri ed to poi Son herself with a decoction of the matches. This failing, she told her lover to fire a bullet into her heart. Al bert Gilbert fired, and without waiting to see the eflect of the shot discharged a sec ond shot into his own head. Neither wound was, however, fatal. Both were taken to the hospital, where they remain ed two mouths. The bullet in tho girl’s was extracted, but the othir bullet still remained in the skull of the young man, where it has ever since been. Gih bert was about to be tried for attending to shoot his mistress, when the war broke out and put a stop to the sitting of the asizes. As the Germans marched into Paris and the seige became imminent, the authorities, wanting all the ablebodied men possible to defend the city, consented to let him out of prison for the moment, on the condition of bis enrolling himself in some active crops, and promising not to seek Gabrielle Caron. He joined the sharp shooters of the Terners Quartier, and dis tinguished himself so much in the Bu zenval sortie that he was mentioned on the military order of tho day. The war over and peace proclaimed, he returnd to the hands of justice to undergo his trial, but once more fate stepped in and postponed it. The commune arose, and, all tho pub lic powers having withdrawn to Versailles, the city was left iu the hands of the insur rectionists, who opened the prison doors and enrolled the inmates, among them Allred Gilbert. The young man does not appear to have a conspicuous part in the in surrection. However, he was tried by court-martial in 1871, and sentenced to transporation to New Cidedonia, where he remained till a few months ago, when he was amnestied. He has just arrived in Paris and given himself up to the legal authorities to go through his trial for the deed he committed ut Plessis Piquet ten years ago. But the painful part of the story remains to be told. Gabrielle Caron is now the wife of a well-to-do merchant, with several children, highly respected, and irreproachable character. Forgetting the lolly of her tender years, and believ ing Gilbert dead und buried, she married, but the tragic love-drama of 1979 a secret kept from tier husband. The sad conse quences of this unexpected tessurrection of the young man can be more eeftily con ceived than described. Rattlesnake Bite Remedy. -A corre spondent of the Forest and Stream says: While iu Arizona a few years ago I learned that aqua ammonia was a sure cure lor the bite of a snake, and since then I have cured three cases of rattlenuke bites without any difficulty or injurious effects whatever. First apply a few drops ol ammonia and in a few seconds wipe off aud with a sharp knife cut through the skin just deep enough to bleed, about a quarter of an inch in length and directly through the wounds und immediately ap ply ammonia, and occasionally udtl a drop or two more as it becomes absorbed or evaporated, and in a couple ol hours the swelling will be nearly gone. Apply a drop of carbolic acid to cauterize the wound and prevent a local sore. Give ten or fifteen drops of ammonia in about half a pint of whisky, taking about a wine glassful every five minutes; but cease giv ing the whisky as soon as the patient be giUrt to feel its effects. Water will do if whisky is not at hand. The ammonia taken internally destroys the poison in tne system. When lam hunting or trav eling where there are many rattlesnakes I carry a small vial of ammonia und car bolic acid. Over The Palisades—A Fatal Fall. Hosing his way in tile darkness during the heavy rainfall of last Tuesday night, John Blanche, a young man, who lived in the village of Closter, Bergen county, N. J., fell from the brink of a precipitious clifi’oi the palisades and was killed. The ne. v t tlay the body of Blanche was found lying U 75 feet below the cliff, amid a mass of boulders and sharp rocks. His skull was fractured over his left eye, and his left leg and right arm were broken. He was undoubtedly instantly killed. The team which he was driving was founil standing entangled among trees about fif teen feet from the edge of the palisades, which is there 475 feet above the Hudson by actual measurement. Tnis is the great est height of the palisades. The horses had evidently stood there some time, as they had, by continued stamping with tore feet, dug great holes iu the ground. They had also eaten the bark from all the trees and bushes in their road. The wheels of the wagon were held fast in a cluster ot trees. A patent medicine friend —otherwise, fiend —kindly sends us his pamphlet offer ing his “Liver Invigorator” at club rates a bottle. What an imposition, when I liver is only six cents a pound. At tb S price no person should be without one—we mean the liver. What is the difference between an ntn -1 brella and a woman? One you can shut • up, and the other you can, aot- $2.50 A YEAR. How He Won Her. Monday a nove l wedding was celeW ted at Pollockvi lie, N. 0. It seems that Moses John Miller and Alexander Bibb two well-to-do young farmers, were in love with the same girl, Leonora Lloyd, bhe was not able to decide which she loved best. On Sunday morning Bibb walked home from churchh wit her, and left un der the impression that she said she would marry him. Sunday night Miller went o her, and understood her to say that she would marrj him. Both men on Monday morning went to the court house to get out the license. Each procured the nec essary documents, and stared off with a license to marry Miss Lloyd. They met at the court house door, and after some talk agreed that the first man who reached the lady s house should.marry her. The resi dence of Colonel Lloyd was one mile dis tant, and both men started on a race toi the bride. Bibb soon quit the mam road and dashed into the woods ex* pecting to make a short cut reach the house first but Miller kept the road, and got in homestretch eight minutes before his ar rival. Tho men were in sight of each oth er going up the lane to the house. Bibb’s effort to overtake his rival was almost su perliuman. Wlien they reached the house. Bibb,from sheer exhaustion, hut at the feet of nis lady love. Whi n siuation was ex plained to her, she said she had come to tho conclusion she liked Mr. Bibb the best, and therefore she would marry him: Her sympathies were won over bv seeing him faint. She said she believed both loved her, but that he who faints at the danger of losing a bride must love her more than he who is cool and unconcern ed in the midst of it all. Tho Hev. Aaron Jasper, tho well known Baptist minister, murried Mr. Bibb and Miss Lloyd. Alex. Stephens’ Boyhood. Hon. A. 11. Stephens, in an address de* livered in 1849, at a meeting in Alexan dria, for the benefit of the orphan asylum and free school of that city, relateu the following anecdote: A poor littly boy, in a cold night, in January with no home or roof to shelter his head, no paternal guar dian or guide to protect and direct him on his way, reached at nightfall the house of a rich planter, wdio took him in, fed, lodged and sent him on his way with his bles sing. Those kind attentions cheered his heart, and inspired him with fresh courage to battle with the obstacles of life. Years rolled round; Providence led him on; he had reached the legal profession; his host had died; the cormonants that prey on the substunce of man bad formed a con spiracy to get from the widow her estates. She sent for the nearest counsel to com mit her cause to him, and that counsel proved to bo the orphan boy years before wolcomed and entertained by her and her deceased husband. The stimulous of a warm and tenacious gratitude was now added to the ordinary motivos connected' with the profession. He undertook her cause with a will not easily to be resisted; he gained it; the widow’s estates were se cured to her in perpetuity; and, Mr. Ste-i plienH added, with an emphasis of emo tion that sent its electric thrill throughout the house—“that orphan boy now stands before you.” Supper in now ready in the smoking car, shouted the brakeman, and a young man from Hartiord who was on his way to San i raneisco got up and went forward to see what the brakeman mea-t. He went into the smoking car, and found a narty of Bavarian emigrants cooking two kinds cheese and three denominations of sau sages on the stove, lie eauie out very pale and gave the brakeman half a dollar to burn matches under his nose. ‘‘Was it very bad?” an old gentleman asked him when he returned to the coach. “Sir,” said the young man of Hartford, “you'll never smell anything like it until you have been dead about six months.” He was a plain old granger, and when his son infored him that he had determin-- to go to college and learn something, the old gentleman looked straight at him and suid: “Now, look-a-iiere, John, you may learn readin’, ntin’, spellin’, 'rithmetio and a little jography, but if you grapple any o’ them there dead langwidges, I’ll kill you when you come home, bo’s they’ll do you some good.” Whisky is good in its own place. There is nothing in the world like whiskey for preserving a man when he is dead. But it is one of the worst things in the world for preserving a man when he is living. If you want to keeps dead man, put him into whiskey. If you want to kill a liv ing man, put whiskey into niin. A small boy whose pants and jacket —one and inseperable—were buttoned up behind, asked his mother, a certain worthy lady ol this city, if God punished every body that told a lie. “Certaiuly he does,” was the reply, “You had better lookout then, mother, for I havn’t had that piece of raspberry pie you promised me two days ago.” All the spelling reiorms of all the me* in all the world will not succeed in lessen ing the intensity of the school-boy’s affec tion, who scrawls on his slate with a brok en pencil: “i luv yu,” and hands it across the aisle, with a big apple, to a pretty lit tle blue-eyed girl who reads in the Seeond K ,-ader. When a New Hampshire chap wanted to break off the engagement of the girl hs loved to another fellow, he didn’t try to persuade either that the other was false. He just contrived to get them both to join the same church choir, and in less than a week they didn’t speak. An English tourist at a New Zeland res taurant, having finished his meal, thinks he will try some dessert. “Waiter, apolo getically: “Hain’t got not no mince pie, sir; missionaries is so thin this season we only biles ’em for soup,” ‘ A member of a School Board not a thou sand miles from Boston visited a school under his jurisdiction. When asked to make some remarks, he said: “Well, chil dren, you spells well and reads well, but you hain’t sot still.” A young la ly of New York, who is part ly deaf, is in the habit of answering ‘y to everything when a gentleman is t ing to her for fear he might propo her and she not hoar it.