Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Where the Earth Cure Failed. [ARTICLE]

Where the Earth Cure Failed.

Some years ago a man in Trinity County called Doc. Somethinganother wrote for the Weaverville Journal a short sketoh of what befell a man with the scurvy. He got his friends to dig a deep hole, put him standing in it, and cover him up tightly with earth to his chin. They left him to pass the night, hoping to dig him out cured in the morning. It is not known how the plan would have worked, for the coyotes came came along during the hours of darkness and ate his head off. Joaquin Miller atole the story and amplified it. A somewhat similar yarn now comes from Minnesota. It is to the effect that a man was paralyzed by a stroke of lightMflQMt tnSI II Hi MfU NC6BT6CI #&M~ tricity from the buried end of a lighting rod, it would in the same mannas draw out the charge with whk&fesy supposed him to be filled. Therefore, they dug a hole and oovered him up te the He died in that position. - Sun PrameUco Alta.