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Year: 1873

The vampire superstition has
once more revived in Europe, and
seems to be spreading. This super
stition-one of the strangest that
ever afflicted the human raee-is
that a buried man or woman, with
its life still conscious, rises from its
grave by night and sucks the life
blood of its nearest relatives; and,
what is worse than this, every person
bitten by the vampire also becomes
q vampire, and is forever doomed to
fellow this dreadful vocation. 1t is
now many years since anything has
been heard of the superstition, but
two or three lawsuits recently decid-
ed in Prussia, shows that it is not
dead. One of these has just come
to q close, after two years Of wrang-
ling. On the fifth Of February, 1870,
Polish nobleman of the name of
Pobloki, died in Western Prussia
A short time after the eldest son
died also. Immediately after four
members Of the family we're taken
sick, and, upon consultation together,
they decided that their father was
the vampire engaged in drinking
their blood. One Of them deter
mined to apply a remedy which was,
to behead the corpse, and place it
head downward. This he succeeded
in doing by bribing the undertaken.
Subsequently, however, the latter
told the village clergyman, and the
son of Pollok was arrested for des-
ecrating his fathers grave. On the
trial it was clearly shown that the
blood had been removed from the
body, and that various members Of
the family drank it. After two years
Wrangling the case was dismissed
upon the ground that no harm had
been done, and that the accused
thought they were acting in self de-
tfense. Since that time, three or
four more cases of a similar nature
have been tried, ending in acquittal
also. To crush out this horrible su-
perstition, it will yet become neees-
sary for Germany to pass a law
against cannibalism-Which in itself
is q striking comment on nineteenth
century civilization.
Year: 1873




They were fellow cadets at West
Point in 1851, Rosser in the first and
Custer in the second class; but ow-
ing to the necessities Of the war both
classes were gradusted at the same
time. RosseF, however, having been
ordered home two or three weeks be-
fore the close Of the academic year,
never received his diploma. Beinga
Virginian, he took service in the Con-
federate army, and before the close
of the war he, as well as Custer rose
to the brevet rank Of major general.
Both were cavalry officers, andsthey
we're pitted against each other on
many hard fought field with vary
ing fortunes. They were fOemen at
Five Forks, the Wilderness, Gettys-
burg, and nearly all the battletields
of the Old Dominion.


In physique as well as in the gen.
ersl type Of their characters these
two noted cavalry men are as differ
ent as could be conceived. General
Custer is ofmedium statue,with body
slightly inclined forward in walking,
face spare, nose rather large and
pointed, and hair hanging in slight
curls to the shoulders. His manner
is quick and nervous and somewhat
eccentric. As a soldier he is bold,
dashing, and energetic. Were he
religionist, you would expect him to
be a first-elSss fanatic, for it is i'm
possible for such a man to do any
thing by halves. He is good sold
ier, but has the reputation OF being
rather reckless in his style of life.
Rosser is 8 man about six feet two
inches in height, broad and erect,
with a Yell-knit frame, and weighing
about 220 pounds. His face is round
and full his hair black, his complex
ion fair, and with a ruddy tinge. He
impresses you in his physical pres
enee as a man Of great strength and
endurance. In conversation his voice
is never pitched on q high key, but
is deliberate without being slow,
anu enefgeblc WlGnOuJ Delng ueLhOn-
strative. He is one who is eminently
fitted to exert great influence over
men, and to retain hold on their
confidence. He is q growing man.
At the close Of the war be gracefully
accepted the situation, came north,
and entered upon the work ofral
way engineering. He is at present
the engineer in charge of the Dakota
division Of the Northern Pacific
railway, and is personally supertend-
ing the operations of the extension
of the line to the Yellowstone. He
enjoys in a high degree the conf
dence of the company, and it is safe
to affirm that his confluence Is in no
respect likely to be misplaced.
Year: 1873

Man loves the mysterious. A
cloudless sky, the full blown rose,
leaves him unmoved; but the violet,
which hides its blushing beauties be-
hind the bush, and the moon, when
she emerges from behind a cloud,
are to him sources of inspiration and
pleasure. Modesty is to merit, what
shade is to figure in painting; it
gives it boldness and prominence.
Nothing adds more to female beauty
than modesty; it sheds around the
eountenance q halo of light which
is borrowed from virtue. BOtanists
have given the rosy hue which tinges
the cup of the rose the name of
''maiden blush" This pure and
delicate hue is the only paint that
Christian virtue should use; it is
the richest ornament. A woman
without modesty is like faded flow
er, which difuses an unWhOlesOme
odor, and which the prudent garden
er will throw away from him. Her
destiny is melancholy, for 1t ends in
shame and repentance. Beauty
passes like the flower Of the aloe,
which blooms and dies in a few
hours, but modesty gives the female
character charms, which supplies the
place of the transitory freshness OF
| youth.
Year: 1873

AT the inquest held over the body OF James
Price, on Monday, DR.. l.. +. Bush stated the
cause OF the death Of Mr.. Price, and then read
the following, which we believe meets the spPrO-
baton Of nearly every intelligent citizen The
law authorizing inqussts has been abused TO such
an extent for the fees which the county required
to pay, that these officers now force themselves
into the grief stricken family circle, when there
is not the remoiest cause for their presence. DR.
Bush deserves the thanks of the community for
thus calling attention to what IL becoming very
serious matter


wish to Justify myself before this jary, for re-
fuslng to testify voluntarily, on the summons OF
the Coroner in person. The only part of the law,
as read il, which seems TO apply to this case, is
as follows: "lf the dead body of person be
found, and the circumstances of the death be un-
known" the Coroner shall summon, &c. As l
understand 1t, the whole tenor and intent OF the
Law, it is TO make inquisitiOn whenever a death
occurs, in regard to which there Is reasonable
ground for suspicion that the person came 10 his
end by intentional violence%and the object of the
law is to secure the community against the danger
of death by violence.


Where any ground of suspicion Of violence eX-
ists the inquest should be made; but otherwise an
inquest is an imposition upon the community in
its private and public capacity. As said before,
am satisfied that no ground for suspicion OF Vio-
lence exists in the case; and therefore retus ed
10 obey the summons OF the Coroner. And
ehall always do the same, under like crcumstan-
ces. The community has right TO be protected
against what / conceive to be a violation of Its
Just rights and privilege, especially under the
affective circumstances OF q sudden death in q
family"
Year: 1873

WHAT Is IT?-We find the following para
graph in one Of our Republican exchanges. 1t
would be great satisfaction TO many doubtless
10 know more Of the particulars of this tremcnd-
Ous affair. The people have been expressing their
dread of the power of great corporations for
several years, but Notwithstanding the corpora
tiOns have been growing more rapidly than ever,
and even now the tendency toward consolidation
is increasing. We would therefore wish the pub
lie TO know what the scheme alluded to below is


aft is said that a gigantic scheme has been
nearly matured at Washington, by which heavy
corporation with an immense capital, proposes
10 get possession Of the entire transportation
system of the United States. The game has been
adrOitly played and includes an attempt 10 secure
the cooperation of various prominent Congress
men, so as TO prevent adverse legislation. The
organization has been worked quietly, until the
managers, a few days since, tackled the wrong
man (sad 10 be General John A. LogaD) who on
being offered stock at par, flew the track, and
proposes to expose the whole thing. This scheme
possesses more than ordinary significance at this
Time. If, indeed, this new Trojan hoT4e can he
built up amid the ruins Of the Credit MObilier,
there is good reason Tor alarm at The potency Of
public condemnation.
Year: 1873

THE BACK PAT.-A letter from Washington
says prominent member of Congress and a
good lawyer declines TO touch his back pay
claiming that a refusal to avail himself of it en-
sures its being covered into the Treasury. The
Treasury Department holds differently, and the
Second Comptroller is Of the opinion that this
money, being credited 10 the salary account OF
the House is as such debt due and can at any
time be drawn by the member or his heirs. Ser
geantatAms Ordway is authority for the state
ment that about fifty members have turned thsiI
back pay into the Treasury, and some five or si1
members have not drawn it, nor signifed what
disposition shall be made of il. Many of The
members who drew their pay with the intention
OF devoting it to school purposes, &c, finding
that the objects of their generosity refuse TO ac
cept such contributions, are in a quandarl
whether to keep it or put it back into tn
Treasury.
Year: 1873

Washington weekly says "Ihe death Of
Chief Justice Chase has caused a depression in
the minds of all lovers Of good government here,
as it is feared that the Supreme Court will here


after expOund the law according 10 the will OF
the Autocratn
Year: 1873

As Binding Associations pay their own mem
bers ten per cent, on their investment, and give
them a house each, the Washington Capital wants
to know why the National debt is not handed
over TO one Of eIprohtable,insiitutons.
Year: 1873

just for change, we would like
to see the Clarion DemOcrdt make one
honest political atatement. 1t goes on
to say, in its last issue that s"Congress
contains a republican majority of two
thirds in each house, hence that party
Is responsible for all legislation"


In other words, Democratic Con-
gresham, because his side is in the
minority, may vote for the passage of
any obnoxious bill, any land grab, any
back pay, or front pay steal, and not
be held responsible; whyH because his
party is in the minority. Take bill
for instance that all the Democrats
(say one-third of the whole number)
in Congress should vote for, aud sup
pose that one-ffth of the Republicans
should vote for the same bill; it would
pass. The Republican party would
be responsible for that legislation be.
cause they had majority. The back
pay steal could not have been passed
had the Democratic side of the house
voted solid, or nearly so, against it.
Yet, the Republican party ig respon-
sible for that, Even your beloved Grif-
fifth, the first Democrat for number OF
years, who has had a chance at the
public crib from the Goth District,
voted for that steal. Is the Republic
can party responsible for his vote
Now Brown let up on us. Do try to
be honest once. 1t may make you
sick, but it will make white spot on
your conscience.
Year: 1873

each one accuses the other. II 10 .
continual recrimination, as to whether one
honest boy, having stolen with the rest, did
not carefully return the plunder from the
mere honesty Of his nature, before the owner
had missed it and before there was any row
about it or whether another honest fellow,
pocketing his share the meanwhile, did not
prophetically warn his comrades that it would
get them all into the State Prison. Never was
Congress so thoroughly worthy of contempt !;
never was degradation of character so patent !;
never was such meanness held up before the
eyes of nation as in the past few days on this
subject 1t was shameful fact when the knowl-
edge was forced upon the country that q
majority of Congress could vote to commit an
embezzlement of public funds /; but even that
might have been ambiguous-peopl could
have doubted, tor Congressional intelligence
leaves room for it, whether members per-
ceived fully the scope of their vote but as to
this latest spectacle there can be no doubt
and it is far more shameful than the primary
fact They are convicted by their own
acknowledgment of conscious dishonesty in
the first vote, and now of demagoguery
without parallel in its servility and meanness.
An endeavor has been made to
relieve the dominant party of the RESPONSE
biity Of this public theft but it can
have no result Salary stealing is of q
piece with the other corruptions in which
republican rule has been so fertile, and the
republican party has not rejected the thieves,
even when caught and known. It accepts
them all, and must accept as its own the
odium of their acts. OF this the composition
of the committees in the House is crowning
evidence Democrats took part in the salary
theft, and SO have no claim to superior hon.
esty; but the republicans could have pre-
vented it and did not, and it is upon their
party the popular indignation must fall. To
say, as was said in the Senate, that the Presi-
dent would have vetoed the clause for back
pay but that it came in the General Appropri-
alton bill is only to move the ground Of accu-
sation and defence, for the republican majority
is overwhelming and without practical con-
troll, and could have kept it out Of the Appro-
priaton bill and kept it from showing its dis
honest face in any bill whatever if that ma
jority had had the will and the honesty to do
its duty properly toward the country. It was
in these great respects it was found wanting,
and party without the moral stamina to put
down dishonesty within its own lines or else
where cannot continue to rule the American
people
Year: 1873

PROFESSOR AeAssIz man of Pro-
fessor Agassiz requirements and celebrity is
stricken down as he has been the weakness of
language in its power to express public SYM
pathy is very painfully felt The few lines of
despatch printed elsewhere will serve to in
dictate, quite as well as any elaborately ex.
pressed condolement would do, the breadth
and depth Of the grasp he had acquired upon
the hearts of his friends and acquaintance.
Professor Agassiz is one Of the few men OF
whom il may be said, with some approxima.
ton to the truth, that the world cannot afford
to lose them. There are too few whole-souled
and conscientious devotees to science. Pro.
fessor Agassiz is one Of those few. Every one
who Is familiar with his career at home and
abroad will await with more than ordinary So
hcitude the intelligence of his recovery, and
will mourn with no common grief should that
recovery be pronounced impossible.
Year: 1873

The Indians are at it again in Texas, MUIR
dering and plundering From San Antonio
it is reported that in late raid on the Nueces
River they killed twenty-four persons, mostly
sheep herders; that at Riells ranch band
of thirty Of the redskins succeeded in running
off thirty-eight horses that at one place they
came upon two Mexicans, one of whom to
save himself jumped into well, and that the
facetious savages, thinking it a good joke,
threw the other one in, and went on their way
rejoicing; that at another ranch where thir-
teen herders were driving sheep, the playful
Indians killed seven of the men and hung
them up in the trees to dry, and as for the
other six men, they are missing. We believe
that there are four or five thousand United
States troops occupied in guarding the Texas
frontier, and that Texas-excluding her In
dians-has population of some seven hun
dred thousand, and we know that her white
men as o rule are good shooters and have no
objection to fight. How it is, then, that q few
bands of half-naked Indians can roam about
at pleasure, killing and plundering in the
heart Of the State, we cannot comprehend.
We fear that the State and its people depend
too much upon the United States troops, and
we believe that il the State were to take this
matter of the suppression of Indian disturb
ances into its own hands these outrages would
soon be suppressed. Here the old maxim will
aptly apply that Providence helps those who
help themselves.
Year: 1873

RIGHTEOUS SENTENCE. Hackett
must be recorded as having accomplished o
duty He has sentenced to Imprisonment in
the State Prison for twenty years felon who
aided in one of the most piratical outrages
ever committed in the waters of the harbor of
New York. Our harbor police must be more
on the alert, otherwise condemnation for
neglect of duty will be visited upon them
eelves,
Year: 1873

There is unusual interest manifested Just
now in the subject of cheaper transportation
for the products of the remote parts of the
country, and from the West particularly, to
the seaboard and market. Congress-, during
the last session, saw the importance of it, and
select committee was appointed by the Sen
ate to collect evidence and to report on it. A
committee of the commercial community of
New York has been similarly employed, with
the view Of urging suitable measures upon
Congress. The farmers oranges and cognate
societies among the agricultural population,
now o most powerful body, make this the
prominent object of their association. Public
men everywhere, in Washington and in the
several States, are following and acting with
public sentiment. Cheap transportation, in
fact, is likely to become an important element
in the future political movements Of the country


1t has been said that the President would ere
long send o special message to Congress on
the granger movement and the objects of it.
The Senate Committee on Transportation has
been working industriously during the sum-
mer, and is now about to ask for time to ex-
tend its Investigations, chiefly in New Orleans
and the Lower Mississippi Valley.


That something advantageous to the coun-
try will come out of all these movements we
cannot doubt The late panic and the neces-
sity thereby shown of enlarged facilities for
bringing the abundant products Of the West
to market have increased the interest in this
question. The difficulty will be, probably, to
devise practical measures, without involving the
government in enormous expense and opening
the door TO jobs and corruption on one hand
and yet to afford tho relief needed on the other.
Private enterprise is best to meet the de-
mands Of commerce whenever that can be OBJ
Year: 1873

DEATH IN THE STREETS. The Board of
Health calls attention, none too soon, to the
dangerous condition of the excavations on
Fourth avenue, for the Harlem railroad track
sinking, both as regards the public health
and the risk of accidents to life and limb.
There appears to be no more regard for human
life, not to speak of the convenience and COM
fort Of citizens, in the whole of this work
than there was in the use of the boiler
which recently exploded at Harlem.
Sewers are opened, excavations are left
without proper safeguards, the railroad cross
ings are without sufficient guards, and every.
where tho work, which is designed as public
good, is q public evil, likely to do more dam
age than its ultimate advantages will recon-
pense. Such o work as this, in the heart Of
the city, should never have been made neces-
sary but being unavoidable, it should at
least be carried on with q decent regard for
the public safety.
Year: 1873

An experiment is reported to have
been tried before the Royal Geographi-
cal Society in England, by which the
principle of the circulation of the
waters of the sea was demonstrated.
A trough with plate-glass sides, about
six feet long and foot deep, but not
more than an inch wide, was filed with
water. At one end a piece of ice was
wedged in between the sides to repre-
sent the polar cold, while the tropic
heat was represented at the other end by
n bar of metal laid across the surface OF
the water, the projecting end of which
was heated by spirit lamp. Red col
oring matter was then put in at the
warm end, and blue at the cold end, so
that the currents could be traced. The
blue water, chilled by contact with the
ice, Immediately fell down to the bot
tom, crept slowly along, and gradually
rose toward the surface of the equatorial
end, after which it gradually returned
along the surface to the starting point.
The red water crept first along the sur
face Of the polar end, then fell to the
bottom Just as the blue had done, and
formed another stratum, creeping back
again along the bottom and coming to
the surface. Each color made dis
tinct circulation during the half hour
in which the audience viewed the ex-
pertinent.
Year: 1873

A mean-spirited wretch in Albany
named Van Cott has shown himself to
be the enemy of the female sex in a
most aggravating way. For couple
of months past complaints have been
heard from many of the ladies of the
city that their dresses have been ruined
by somebody VINO has made it q prac-
tice to expectorate lquorice juice upon
them in the streets at night. 1t is said
that over hundred valuable silk
dresses have been ruined in this way
by this Van Cott, who was arrested re-
Gently, just after he had elected a
quantity of the liquorice juice upon the
dress of a lady who was going to church.
He confessed that he was the author of
all the mischief that had been done to
ladies' apparel. His shirt front was
found to be stained with iquorice, and
in his pockets were several pieces of
that composition.
Year: 1873

it was not the proper thing for us to have said in a recent MINER, that the HaTdyville mall wagon would supply Walnut Grove with mail. We wrote It Walnut Creek" Walnut Grove a- though large setIlemcDt--has 70 mail facilities
Year: 1873

A rose with SO pretty title and
so full of romance as this ought to
be beautiful, and so is the Cherokee
rose. Here is the story told of it:


An Indian chief Of the Seminole
tribe was taken prisoner by his
enemies, the Cherokees, and DOOM
ed to torture, but fell SO seriously
ill that it became necessary to wait
for his restoration to health before
committing him to the fire. And,
as he lay PROSTATE by disease in the
cabin Of the Cherokee warrior, the
daughter Of the latter, young,
darE-faced maid, was his nurse.
She fell in love with the young
;.chieftain, and wishing to save his
life, urged him to escape. But he
would not do so unless she would
flee with him. She consented.


Yet, before they had gone far, I'M
PEELED by soft regrets at leaving
home, she asked permission of hes
| lover to return for the purpose OF
bearing away some momento OF it.
So, retracing her footsteps, she
broke sprig from the white rose
which climbed up the pole of ner
fathers tent, and preserving it dur
Jig her flight through the wilder
ness, planted 1t by the door of her
new home in the land of the Sem
inoles. And from that time to this
the beautiful flower has been
known between the caves of Flor


ida and throughout the Southern
States by the name Of the Chero-


Loo rnsn
Year: 1873

dress pertinent to the occasion, which
might have emana.ed from an English ag-


tator. lie objected to the proposed pa
geant on the ground that it was not worth
while for Sweden to make itself ridiculous.
4 republican feeling is also said to be
growing gradually in Norway and Den
mark