The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-18

Wayne county-oI Sarro4 aHd1nst
Brumheld, but stponed it until En-.
day TO give the attorney in the case
time 70 examine the papers, -.
WESTERN PENNsYLyANIA NEWS.
Westminster and Greene county Items.
The whole number ofdeaths in Wash
ington, Pa, borough from July Isl, 1850,
to January list, 1866, was So9-or an
average Of So persons per annum- The
the year 1862 the fewest number OF
deaths (41) occurred, and in 1854 the
greatest number, WIZ, The oldest
person recorded last year was Mrs. ii.
Smith, aged 9S.l 49, bf.at 's!l.i'..lte.
!At 1.-The ANIMAL election held by the
stock holders oEthe First National Bank
of Washington on the 9Th inst, the
following named gentiemenwere chosen
Directors for the ensuing year: u. NJ
Reed, NJ a. Clark, John s. Brady. Jno.
HaFter, Joseph Henderson, David G.
Houston, John Johnson, SamuelfVance
and James WatsOn.I .;-eaa
The Democracy OF Greene county met
in convention recently and appointed
Ala. Purman, ESQ, as their Represent
tative delegate to the next State Con-
vention, Snstructing him to support g.
w. SdSS ZOE Inc 0uDek he1ttOAAeAA "a SAAAAAA'A
ton. Nii.!.s5a 80 -, s.;,., ~.
a correspondent Of the Greene Count
ty Repu6tieas Communicates to. that pa
per.the following facts touching a rath-
er strange discovery made in the vicin-
ity of Waynesburgh not long since
Some time since as Surveyor ]. l..
Mcconnell was passing down Smith
Greek, about one mile from town his, att
tenfion was arrested by some, charac-
terslon stone at the road, side. Upon
a close examination he found that the
inScriptionon the stone was as follows;
"Due East, "a o. Studying awhile
over the matter he came TO The conclu-
sion that due East q certain distance to
be representedby the fignres "a 6, there
was something curious. So fixing his
compass on the spot, he measured the
exact distance OF 2! rods, 4 feet and 9
inches q Striking his compass staH IN
the ground he ascertained that under
u metallic substance. of some
kind. Renewing the earth for few
feet around what was his surprise at
finding akron boX-and what was
more surprising he found on open
ing it that il was filed, with sill
yer TIh coin OFF, all denominations
from five cent pteeel to one dollar.T
Proceeding back to the stone which had
first arrested his attention--on turning
Il over he found inscribed on the other
side rs follows: Due west 2-4-6." Sup
posing something equally curious at n
distance represented by the figures 2 a
6 in a due west direction-h he proceeded
to. measure, the distance rods feet 6
inches due west,n Upon sinking the
compass staffat thatpoint he ascertain
ed that underneath was some metalicsub
stance. Removing some earth from
about The spot imagine his surprise at
finding an iron, box exactly like the
other, upon opening which he found to
containjgold coin of all denominations
from "a dollar to sani eagle, Hastily
selecting some specimens Of the con
tents Of both boxes he filled the exciI-
vafions and returned to town. Spefi-
mems of thecontents of both boxes can
now be seen by any one doubling the
OF this discovery, by call
ing on r.. W.. Downeyi at Waynesburg,
Pa.,, in. whose possession the specimens
were placed for exhibition to the public.
urshsig5 ID: OHElwHo HAS SEEN EN-.