Daily National Democrat

The Northern Pennsylvanian says that a resident of Susquehanna Depot, named John England, died from the bite of a rattlesnake. The day before, he had the snake in a barrel with one head out, for the purpose of exhibiting it. To give the curious a view of his prisoner, he "stirred him up" with a stick about a foot long, when the snake retaliated by biting him on the left hand. A physician was called, and prescribed whisky to be taken internally and the application of lobelia to the wound. In the course of an hour, the bitten man drank eleven tumblers of whisky. The first six did not appear to produce any effect on him, but after the seventh he began to show signs of stupor — a stupor from which he never recovered. He was taken home and died next day.

A certain quantity of rum may be a good antidote to the bite of a snake. But twelve tumblers full of such whisky as they sell in Pennsylvania is enough to kill a regiment of men and the shakes too.