Snakes!

Tliis is a Tonderful jcar. It is nol two months okl, yct it has given a list of catastrophes which niany a vvliole ycar cannot equal. 'Diere have been siiipyvrecks, appalling lires, unprecedented íloods, spots 011 ihesun, and Wiggins. Now comes the discovery oí a rúan full ofsnakes. He livos in Salisbury, N. Y., he is a colorad person, and his name is Hugh Leonard. líe has been sick fpr several weeks, and his sufferings liave cuhninated in a series of deliveranees whieh havo set the colored portion of the comnwnity nearl.y wild. Hisnarrative of his suflerings and Uieir origiu is succinct and thrilling He went to a bsill, where he met an old sweetheart whom Jieiiad "ilropped fora haudsomer girl." She came to him with a sniilo on her lips, witli cake iii her hand, but death in her heart. Sho asked liim to eat, somo ctiKe, ami nu wuii sume misgiving, took a piece. It had a peculiar taste, and he only ate a little, feeliug all the time that he was being "conjured." When violent paius attacked liim iu the stomach soon afterward, he knew his suspicions were correct, and he sent for "his Únele Colman," a high authorily on co nj uring. Uncle Cotman went to work on the suflerer with the avowed intention of "gettin de debbil out ob him" assoon as possible. Af ter two weeks of obstínate stil1 gling on both sides, the "debbil" begaA to sürrender by sections. Ou Wednesday last Leonard was taker with a iit of coughing, and "threw pp a snake twelve Loches long, spotted white and black, and apparently oï the water-snake variety." Uncle Cotman grabbed him and clapped him still wriggling into a bottle of rum, Tvltii-Oi t-i11iil liíin irit uní 1 v. 'Pilis fiv.;!.!. feat cnablcd Únele Cotnian to demónstrate tke important truth that the waj' to kill tlic "debbil" is to get hini out of tlie stomach and then put him into the rum, not leave him in the stomach and pour the rum in upon him. Bat this mny be npset by siibsequent deyelopments, for only part of the "dcbbil" has been removed, and ouly onc instalment of him has been eaptured. The old netTo vomen who were watohing with Leonard sav tliat just bofore the snake was ejected they savv a "füur-ltígged BOOrpioa" jump out of Leonaid'smoulli and run under the bed. They oiurht bo have been ab!e to capture him, for a SCOïpïon rigged witli only half tho usual quota of legs could not havo been very flr'i'i. Hero are two Bections 61 the "debbil" accounted for, and there aro more to eome. Leonard, at last accounts, was lying on his back on the lioiir, saying that he was slill ful'i of thi'in; that they erawled up into his ilii-n.ll ml fliiiLrwl Ilim nliiinsi) tfi ili:l,lh. bul slipped back beíorc ho oould et huid oí' tliem. Unck1 Colman is at nis post, and if his strcngth holds out !i' is oertain toget a lot moro of theta. . .