Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-19
An Old Settler to Walk from San Fran.
cIaaO tO New York.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, April %.
We are informed that Mr.. Francis Crosby,
an old gentleman 70 years of age, intends
to make an overland trip from San Fran
cisco to New York on foot, starting from
the Plaza on the 18th of May next. To
most men of such an age walk of 5000
miles would seem an impossibility. But
TO one like him, who came to this state as q
hunter and trapper as early as 1880, and
has spent more than q quarter of CEN
tury among the Indian tribes of California
and Arizona, such feat is but an ordinary
occupation. Though having lived beyond
the "three score and ten" years allotted as
the life of man, Old Crosby is younger,
physically, than most men of 40, and is q
splendid specimen of the old stock
Of American frontiers-men whose ex-
ploits furnish the material for song
and story. Tall, and straight as hickory
sapling, standing FIVE feet eleven inches in
his moccasins; every limb perfect in sym.
metry; handsome full face, bronzed by
exposure; with bright clear, blue eve,
which speaks of benevolence and deter
mination; his hair and beard rs white as
| the SHOWS that crest the Sierra Neyadas,
full and flowing over his breasts and shoul-
ders, he forms a picture such as an artist
would be pleased to study. Such is the
man who intends to make the trip overland
without using railroads or steamboats, -
Speaking the language of most of the In,
dams that dwell on the plains, lie says he
needs no stores to supply his wants as the
Indians never modest those who treat them
fairly
Mr.. Crosby informs us that in the spring
OF 1880 he trapped for beaver on the Yuba,
near the site of the present city of Marys-
vile. AT that time the whole country was
full Of Indians and game of all descriptions,
and California was the finest country in
the world for the hunter and trapper. The
old gentleman, who has arrived within n
few days from Arizona where he has lived
for nearly twenty years thinks California
has changed since he last saw it. lie will
find, before he reaches the end of his
journey, that the whole world has changed
since he left New York, his native CITY.
nearly half century ago-before steam
boats, railroads, or telegraphs were known.
He will be living Rip Van Winkle among
the New Workers, it he makes the trip sue.
cessfully.
A DENTIsT's REVENGE, A dentist in
Vienna recently supplied Madame de b., n
lady well known in fashionable circles, with
n splendid set Of false teeth, worth abont
$500, and waited with exceeding patience
Prepayment. Finding that the lady ''made
no sign, he applied, after three months
had elapsed from the date of delivery, by
letter. for the discharge Of his claim. No
answer. A fortnight Inter he wrote again,
in somewhat stronger language, but re.
ceived as little notice'of his second as of
his first application. Determined 10 have
his money, and to be even with Madame
de B., for herdiscourtesy, he inserted in n
small suburban paper The following adyer-
tisement IA magnificent set Of selfad-
justing enameled teeth to be sold dirt
cheap. They are daily on view in The
mouth Of Madame de b., full namo) Sladt.
So and So street, No. -" Then he crt
out the slip, and enclosed IL TO the fair do
faulter in an envelope Two hours after
the bill was paid, and Madame de B., hoped
as the paper In which the Advertisement
appeared wasan insignifcant one, that she
had heard the last OF her bargain; but the
leading journals of Vienna have Qot hold
Of the story, and no teeth have made such
q sensation since Cadmus's famous crop.