Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — A Thrilling Adventure. [ARTICLE]

A Thrilling Adventure.

We find the following account of a thrilling adventure in the Oakland Radiator: “The Noble Grand Humbug of the Sazeracs burst into this office this morning, his face covered with a deadly pallor," and his limbs shaking in every joint. Something terrible has happened: “Gimme four fingers—a bird load!” he gasped, between chattering teeth. The jug was handed out of the cupboard, and its contents administered in broken doses. He was soon sufficiently soothed to tell the following terrible tale: “Well,you know,” he said,“thatthere has long been talk of heavy deposits of gold in Milpitas. The other day two prospectors from the Black Hills were wandering with their picks and “pans around the suburbs of that classic city, when they discovered a cavern of marvelous appearance. They took no heed of the surroundings in their thirst for gold, but boldly entered, and their eyes were greeted with a scene that beggars description. A horrid smell pervaded the cavernous recesses, and they found huge bowlders and snags of a substance resembling quartz. After removing the rubbish their picks struck in vast pockets of solid gold, and they soon succeeded in filling their sacks with all they could carry. Just as they were preparing to leave,” here the eyes of the Noble Grand rolled wildly, rendering three more fingers necessary, “there was a violent upheaval. The ground under their feet was thrown into terrible convulsions and rose nearly to the roof of the cavern. Then it opened again, and the bold prospectors found themselves flying through the air at the rate of 60,000 feet a second. They landed in a marsh five miles from the mouth of the cave, comparatively uninjured. “Was it a volcanic eruption?” innocently inquired the youngest reporter. “Volcano! ” shouted the Noble Grand scornfully. “Why, you darned fool, they had crawled into the mouth of a Milpitas girl while she was asleep and were digging away at the plugs in her teeth, when she sneezed them out! ”