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Year: 1873

Az ELEPHANT Human elephant hunt
in this city may certainly be set down as
something Of a novelty, yet we had such
Il hunt, and quite spirited one, here last
Sunday night 1t seems that before the
performance was over in the circus por-
ton of the big show, the tent containing
the cages of animals was taken down.
This left the little elephant-he is not
bigger thanan old-fashioned bake-oven-
standing in the open ground, and only
secured by his having one leg chained to
stake. Seeing the coast clear, the little
fellow pulled up the stake and walked off
without any one noticing his departure.
When it Was discovered that he was gone,
the show people had high old hunt for
him. They secured the suburbs Of the
town in every direction, and there was "A
grand commotion among them. Where
they did finally find him, OF whether they
found him at all w did not learn, but the
presumption is that he was captured, or
he would have been heard from ere this.
Had it been the tiger that was lost he
would have been found in very short
time as we have in this city host of
tiger hunters, who knowall his hiding
places and his ways Virginia Enterprise.


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Year: 1873

THE RoBBERY AND MATRIMoNY.-
Among the passengers on the stage be-
tween Colfax and Grass Valley, which
was recently robbed, was a young lady
of Gilroy. She went to Grass Valley to
meet her lover, and the wedding arranged
for took place. Both We're happy and so
continued until the next morning, when
the bride claimed that she was crazy,
and knew nothing whatever of the mar
riage that all was oblivion to her after
the robbery, except that she dreamed in
the night that she was carried off by
the robbers. Her manner was excited
one minute she was in tears and another
in smiles. Preacher and neighbors were
called in, and all thought she must be
crazy but in her more lucid moments
she intimated that the miner was mot
so well fixed as she expected to find
him" All agreed that under the cir
cumstanees it would be well if the mar
riage could be annulled but how to do
this was the question. Pending the dis
enssion, the young lady packed up her
Saratoga and left for hoIae The I'M
portant question is yet unsolyed.---Ae-
eada Transcript.
Year: 1873

A committee of politicians recently


waited upon Judge W. s. Groesbeck Of


Ohio, with proposition that he should


go before the State Convention of Ohio,


as candidate for Governor. This gave


that distinguished gentleman an oppor.


tunity to express his ideas of the political


condition Of the country, and the policy


of parties for the future.
lie declined to become a candidate. but


expressed a warm sympathy with the OBJ


jects of the Columbus Convention. hon


ing that the time is near'when present


Democrats, and former Democrats, and


all dissatisfied Republicans shall be cor


daily united under single organiza-


ton" As the better expression of his


opinions he enclosed a copy of letter


written by him in May last to friend in


New York.


In this letter Groesbeck expresses the


beliefthat the historical Democratic party
has been spoiled by constant blunderine
during the past ten years. 1t surrendered
finally at the last Presidential election.


He thinks it cannot recall that surrender
nor take back its confessions, and that it
Is doubtful whetherit has longer strength
for victory. Therefore it would be wise
to lay aside the old organization and per-
feet new one; one accepting the results
Of the war one which would be the
Joint work of Democrats and Republi-
cans, both equally at home in it, neither
the guest OF the other. He suggests the
name of Liberal Democracy for the new
party. Negro suffrage is regarded as
dead issue. The war settled that. In
his opinion, negro suffrage will endure as
long as general suffrage. In his opinion
1t was granted too soon, but having been
granted 1t cannot be recalled. He does
not think it wise in such a Government
as this, TO keep so large a population as
the negro element, in an inferior condi-
ton. The new organization should be
sound ON the monopoly question should
oppose Capitalization, and advocate home
government in all local affairs, and to the
uttermost extent possible. He believes
that free trade should become one of its
cardinal doctrines, and that its position
on this question should be expressed be-
yond an equivocation. \ strict construc-
ton OF the Constitution he deems essen
tial to the well being of the Government
and the due administration of the laws.
This alone would correct almost every
evil now complained of. While this
would fetter the Government occasionally,
1t never would fetter the citizen He
would remain uppermost and the master
lie claims now, AS heretofore, to be a
Democrat, but would be glad TO see the
Democracy move out of its old org.niza-
ton and into n. new one. They cannot
succeed, in his opinion, without it. He
concludes by saying


May be they will refuse, and prefer to
tarry where they are for the balance of
the century, and until they can fix the
meaning of the resolution of '9S. If so,
| suppose l shall tarry with them. After
all, ! like them, and like the old politi-
cal homestead. confess ii is somewhat
There are no banners upon
the walls, and victorious shoutings are no
longer heard within but it is a home
still, and / shall not leave it until it is
pulled down"
Year: 1873

THE wild man who has been seen so
often in the mountains east of here for
the last few days, says the Tulare (Gal.)
Times, and who has incorrectly been
stated to be species of gorilla, was seen
again recently by William Downing near
Squaw Valley. He was engaged.n pick
ing thimbleberrles, and perfectly naked.
He was covered all over with long black
hair and had long gray whiskers. He
is a white man. He is large and power
full and at least six feet high. His fin
ger nails have grown out several inches
in length Downing was within twenty
feet of him when he raised up from pick
ing berries. He stood perfectly still and
looked at Downing some time and then
turned and ran away.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER BET.--While the subject of
the extraordinary pressure in the piping
of the Virginia and Gold Hill Water
Works was being canvassed it gave rise
to considerable discussion in town. Col.
Curry aud Mr. Coffin, Acting State Lii
brarian, were the parties to wager on
the subject and the bet was fifty dollars
aside. The latter gentleman held that
the pressure of volume of water in a
tube of twenty-five inches diameter
would not exceed that of n tube of eleven
inehes The former that it would. The
question was settled by reference to Mr..
Anderson, Civil Engineer of the V. a.
I. Railroad, who decided in favor of Col


Curry. Coffin paid up without "seour-
ing but thinks he was rather caught
ON teehnicality and that he supposed
the pressure referred to was that upon
the square inch. and not of the mass of
water from within against the sides of
the tube. The Colonel says he never
was a school ''marm," but he knows
himself in hydraulics. Carson 41ppeai.
Year: 1873

Oh ! she was q maid of laughing eye.
And she lived in garnet cold and high
And he was n threadbare whiskered beau,
And he lived in cellar damp and low.
Put the rosy boy of the cherlIb wing
Has many shaft in his slender string,
And the youth below and the maiden above
We're touched with the flashing darts Of love.
And she would wake from her troubled sleep,
Der her tender billet-doux To weep,
Or stand like a statue bright and fair
And gaze ON a lock Of his bright red hair.
And he who was 30 tall and proud,


With his step 80 firm and his langh so loud,
His beard grew long and his face grew thin,
And he pined In solitude over his gin.
But one soft night In the month of June,
As she lay in the Light Of a rloudless moon,
voice came floating soft and clear
To the startled malden's listening ear.
Oh then, from her creaking couch she sprung
And her tangled tresses back she flung;
She looked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath, her whiskered beau.
She did not start with foolish frown,
But packed her trunk aud scampered down;
And there was her lover, tall and true,
In his threadbare coat of the brightest blue.
The star that rose at the evening shade
Looked softly down on the weeping maid
The sun that came In his morning pride
Shed golden light Ger n laughing bride.
Year: 1873

balances along another year, and 80 IL migh'
be a long time before there would be an op-
portunity for the officers Of the Treasury 10
cover in any of the undrawn back pay


ALI this, of course, will be good news 10 the
gentlemen who are "waiting for ii To Dlo"
over,r and who are giving their little prom
issory notes and getting them extended In tho
hone that the people will forget all about IL
shortly. II helps, too, the gentlemen who nave
not yet made up their minds whether TO take
it or leave it, or found a library or an asylum
with it. There are people in the world, ana
Congress is not entirely clear of them, VINO
delight in being tempted; who enjoy turning
over a temptation between thumb and hngcr'
and contemplating its roundness and tullness
and attractiyeness, so that if they ever should
decide to stand up against it they may pat
themselves on tho back and say that they
have done a very self-denying and creditabie
thing. II somehow happens though, IN nlne
cases out Of ten, that when men lOol
with temptation that way for any con-
siderable length Of time, they pass from en-
durance to pity, and finally into the embrace
of the "bright beautiful sim" 1t is now so
wei unutISJoOu Iidt Iho 'O"'"b VI VIZ" ~
pay plunder to be called for hereafter IS only
a postponement of the event, that no Con-
grcssman can lay any claim to the credit OF
sacrifice whose answer is simply that ho has
not drawn it." Every man who leaves it in
that position must be reckoned participant
in the swinde-and swindle is the proper
name for it, Notwithstanding the arguments
of the able and distinguished gentlemen who
say it is entirely right because it has been
done before. The only proper and honest
course is to have the whole amount formally
and legally covered into the Treasury, where 1t
belongs. The list of those who have done it
is small "but respectable" "And yet there
- ia ronu y
Year: 1873

Lynching is O beastly, and we may even
say wild-beastly business. Apart from the
shame and crime of its gross ilegality those
who engage in the administration of this wild
Justice, rs it has been grossly misnOmered,
seem usually to have parted with all the in
stincts of pity and humanity; to have forgot
ten the fairness which even barbaIians love;
and to have surrendered themselves to brutal
rage and sort of ferOciOus insanity. Some
thing of this inevitably taints even those
extra-judicial executions which we might 9TH
erwise look upon with a touch of equanimty.
We forget the crime Of the wretch who
has been set upon by horde of exasperated
men, who from the beginning has not that
chance of his life which regular trial would
give him, and whose dying moments are dis
turbed by the yels and curses of his self-con-
stituted judges. jurors, and executoners. A
sCkening story of o man thus murdered,
reacbesus from Salem, Ind. One DelOs Hef-
feren had been committed to Jail at that place,
charged with murder. Whether he was guilty
or not guilty we do not know, and the fact
now can never be judcially determined. IEe
was in custody and there was no danger of his
escaping. But the outraged virtue of that re-
giOn could not wait for the slow process of
the law.


On Sunday morning, June 90, body of
masked men enters the town of Salem. They
demand the keys of the Jail. These being re-
fused, the Sheriff is seized and confined; the
mob batter down all distractions and the cell
of the helpless victim is reached. Hefferen,
who had been watching the progress of the
besiegers, prepares himself as well as he can
for resistance, as he has a right, felOn though
he may be, to do. Even with such odds upon
their side, the rioters are towards, and do not
dare to approach this desperate man. They
therefore procure balls Of twine, saturate them
with coal oil and benzine, and send them
blazing into the cell. Having thus lighted up
the apartment, they begin to fire at Hefferen.
One bullet enters his breast-another breaks
his arm. A rock is cast at him which knocks
him down, and before he can recover himself
he is seized and taken to q railroad bridge
He earnestly asks moment for prayer but it
is denied him. A rope is put about his neck,
and then thrown over the rafter of the bridge.
He is pushed off. He is dead. Justice in
Salem (sweet name y has asserted herself.


Cases like this are interesting. They show
the bad side of human nature in lively cOlOrs,
and prove how possible it is for men to eman-
cipate themselves from the restraints of civil
ization, and within hearing of the church
going bell to do deeds worthy of the jungle
and its tigers. We know nothing Of the vic
tim save that he was man. Bad as he may
have been, he has our sympathy, and will have
that of thousands. SO much these mistaken
lynchers of Salem have done for him. Mean
while they are all as much murderers as no
was, and if detected may be tried and hanged
also. Tho pity of it is that they will not be
detected, will not be tried and will not be
hanged.
Year: 1873

Possibly some member of the last Congress,
whose back pay awaits his order, and who
himself waits for the blowing over of the storm
of public indignation on the subject before
drawing it, may have taken alarm at the state
ment made within few days, on tho authority
of the Hon. Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, that
the back pay lapsed into the Treasury with all
unexpended balances at the close of the fiscal
year, on June 30. We beg leave to reassure
him. 1t has not lapsed. 1t is still subject to
his order. lie can draw it any timo within
the next two years certainly. The law upon
the subject is in the fifth and sixth sections
of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation act, approved July IL, 1870.
The fifth section, under which members of
Congress have claimed that if they did not
draw their back pay it would be covered
into the Treasury at the close of the fiscal
year-that is on Monday, the Goth Of June
reads as follows:


tions contained in the annual appropriation bills and


made specifically for the service OF any fiscal year. and
remaining unexpended at the expiration OF such fiscal
year. shall only pe applied TO the payment OF expenses
properly incurred during that year. the unlment OF
contracts properly made within that year. nd such bal
not needed Tor the sad purposes sha Do carried 10
the surplus fund"


Under this section il is held, at the Treasury
Department, that all balances undrawn on ac-
count of compensation and mileage for mem
bers Of Congress remain to meet any demands
any one Of them may see fit to make, and no
portion of the balance Will be carried to the
surplus fund. The sixth section of the act re-
ferred TO provides that all unexpended bal
ances which shall have remained on the books
of the Treasury Department for two years
without being drawn against in the settlement
of accounts shall be carried,into the general
Treasury Some of the prominent accounting
officers hold however. that if, during the
second year, such balance had been on The
books without being drawn against, any one
member of Congress should conclude to draw
his back pay. as he would have u perfect legal
night " Do. such action would caEy au the
Year: 1873

We print to-day the first of series of
letters from Northern California, by Mr.
Charles NordhOf. The readers of THE
TRIBUNE recollect with satisfaction former
correspondence by the same hand during a
tour through the Southern portion of the
State. There is sharp contrast between the
semi-tropical, spanish-settled portion Of Cali.
fornia lying south of the Bay OF San Fran
cisco and the Northern part; and we may be
sure that our correspondent will do ample
Justice to the breezy and picturesque region
which be is visiting. ..
Year: 1873

The most remarkable visit Of ceremony ever made
between two nations was the mission 10 Russia in
1868 Of the Hon. @. " Fox. Assistant Secretary of
the Navy who bore 30 the Car the congratulations
of Congress upon his escape from the pistol of Ka-
rakosoh 1t was noteworthy in its occasion, in the
fact that the Envoy went over in an iron-clad of
class that never before had crossed the ocean and
more than all, in the singular unanimity of welcome
Which the ol,bassy RECEIVED lrom all tho soyersgaa
Year: 1873

A gentleman has been writing TO one Of our state
newspapers for the purpose Of recounting one on
those charming incidents peculiar to great men
When this person was a small boy and Travelled to
Albany with his father-by the canal, it may be
and in his best jacket, he happened to enter orc
day the wrong room at the hotel at which they
STAYED At q table sat writing man PLAINLY
dressed and with thin white hair and very b'aek
eyes. ApoloQizing in au extremely proper manner
for his mistake in entering the small boy was about
to depart, when tho black-eyed gentleman signlfed
his ability to pardon him. and proceeded TO make
these excellent but not very original IemarAS'
"Your appearance shows that your friends have
given you the right start in life. Do not depart
from their instructions. Though the road before
vol, nav be troublesome and thOrny, it will be easer
and more pleasant if you always remember and heed
the instructions of good father and mother" ms
solemn philosopher was Aaron Burr. A curious PIC
ture it is-tho brilliant, broken man OF no princi


pie thus lectqEing IN gohp39qian p.atIsud0' eood
little country boy in his best jacket
Year: 1873

People who dwell in comfortable and decent
houses can hardly understand how human
beings can exist in the foul deDs that were
yesterday cleared out by the Sanitary Police.
In the vile purlieus Of the city which COM
prise part of Baxter. Cherry and contiguous
streets, aro underground cells, less than six
feet high which are used as sleeping places
for crowds of wretched creatures, who thought
themselves very hardly used when they were
swept out of their dark burrows. 1t is mar
veious that pestilence has not been bred In
these foul abOdes before this; and the work
of eviction and disinfection has not been
begun one day too soon. There are more OF
these filthy places which ought to be cleansed
forthwith. The reports of an approaching
epidemic need not be specially alarming; but
the continuance of these plague-spots would
be cause enough for general alarm.
Year: 1873

"The Lost Cause az a phrase applicable TO the
Southern Rebellion, has been in the mouths of men,
we need not say how long. We find it again in tho
columns of Western newspaper, which does not
hesitate to say that if the Southern States could
tomorrow have the moSL auspcious opportunity
conceivable offered them of yindicating it, not
single muskct would be fired in its name" If this
be so, does it not follow that Northern fears are un-
manly aud untimely-that it is tho Free States
which are in fact perpetuating the Rebellion, or
much of it as consists in passion and hatred Aud
what shall be said of Northern politicians fOmeDt
ing this feeling for their selfish puTposesf
Year: 1873

This Ia a very melancholy paragraph TO print
during the Commencement season. Wo find 1t in 8
Bath, Me, newspaper: ave have before US letter
from young gentleman of one of the graduating
classes Of our Maine colleges, who does not deign TO
spell common English wOrds after tho method in
sisted on by Webster and Worcester Some ono
should see to it that liberaly educated young man
should not spell the imperfect tense Of the verb
make, maid. even if his thoughts run 70 that in
teresting subject"
Year: 1873

If "tme is money" then everything that tends
TO facilitate labor is positive pecuniary benefit
to mankind. The best sewing machine or churD
is not a "good strong woman" as experience
proves. So Sapolio, in enabling one woman to
easily do as much cleaning Of every kind in one
day as two women can do in two days with the
serubbing brush and SOAP is positive blessing to
the human race. No woman who has once used
it will ever use anything else as a substitute
Sold by all dealers. The cheapest &c we'll as
best cleansing substance in the world.


ocf7-9weodEw
Year: 1873

LARCENY OF A CoAT AND KEYs.-Ye Yesterday
afternoon, VIM. McSorley, while at work repair
street, Ninth Ward, took off his coat, and hung 1t
upon the wall. Afterwards he went out into the
yard, and worked about for some time. When
he returned he found that his coat in the pockets
of which were all the keys belonging to the house
had been stolen. He has no idea who committed
the theft
Year: 1873

There is living in Detroit, says an


exchange, a venerable and respected


lady, who, to those who know her,


is the heroine of strange story.


She may be seen almost any day on


the streets, hurrying from her tour


of shopping back to her pleasant


little home where. over her needle


and thread, her fancies have full


play, and memory is supreme. She


is a woman of rare intellect and


great cultivation a charming conver-


sationalist and an exemplary Chris


tian. She has been twice married


and twice a widow, and now, as
time is drawing his silver tracings


through her hair, she moves alone.
The loved ones of the past are gone.
Her interests and her affections draw
her toward the world of spirits
She, was in her young days, the


betrothed Of Jefferson Davis. Why
they were never married is not
known. She treasures too dearly
the credit of the past to open it to
other eyes. It may be that to her
near and dear ones she tells the
story. 1 am not among them, and
II 7NF FA L
ever, whatever may have prevented
the consumation of their early plans,
she and the rebel President have
never lost their regard for each
other. They still exchange letters,
and watch over each others welfare.
Two such lives, running in such diff
ferent channels. and yet having the
sympathy of heart and interest,
must have much to attract each other.
His has been a life of splendid
and ignoble failures
full of excitement and thrilling
episodes. Hers, having its own
borne like woman,
has been quiet and inobtrusive, but,
prehaps, as wonderful as his. When
pass her on the street, or see her
at church, felt like running to her
and asking for her story. l know
it would be interesting. The sweet
heart of Jefferson Davis Who
would not like to go back TO his plot
-ings for power, and his struggle in
behalf of treason, and learn some
thing more of his boyhood, and how
he acted when in love?