The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-08
A buried treasure was recently dis

A buried treasure was recently dis
covered near Waveand, Montgomery
county in this state, by man named
Mcintosh. The lucky individual was
engaged in piowi ing, when he discover
ed belt filled with gold coin, and an
earthen vessel filled with silver. The
newest Of the coins were dated in 1851
No clue has yet been obtained by which
the mystery can be solved.
By the Ocean Bank robbery which
occurred in New York few days ago
Mr.. Frank c. johnson, the we'll known
nursery man Of this city, lost about
$4,000. Last summer while on visit
to New York he made special deposit
Of government bonds to the amount of
SO 800 in the Ocean Bank for safe
keeping. To-day the coupons on
50, 900 Of the bonds amounting to $40
are due, which makes his loss nearly
tea thousand dollars. lie received no.
tice of his loss from the bank officers
Tuesday.-Ner Albany Ledger.
"A theft Of So is penitentiary OF
tense in Indiana. A man in Union
county recently stole a brig Of wheat
which was proved to be worth 81 80
7-12. This being only petit larceny,
he was sentenced to Jail for sixty days.
Five-twelfths Of cent more would have
sent him to the penitentiary.
The Terre Haute Journal says
that General Lew Wallace has once
more, for the twentieth time, "resum-
ed the practice of law" in Crawfords-
vile.
Indianapolis is fifty years old. The
first log cabin was built there by George
Pogue in 1919.
TIE delinquent taxes of Wabash
county this year, amount to twenty
thousand dollars.
An artesian we'll in the Court House
grounds. at Fort Wayne, is being talk
ed of.
The VandeTbursh county Poor Farm
boasts ola hog weighing l ZOO pounds.
Not very poor farm for hog raising.
The Upton Times states that the
Washingtonian Temperance Society of
that place numbers about 600 mem
bers.
The Goshen TINES says the expcrta-
ton of black walnut lumber this year
promises to exceed that Of 1868.
Mrs. Jackson, of Woleytown, Mama
county, was made the happy mother of
three infaut girls on tie 14th inst.
They are al, alive and doing well.
The Delphi journal says the greater
part of the citizens of that town sleep
with revolv ers under their heads, and
warn thieves to be careful or they will
get hurt.
The Lebanon Patriot says the Court
House Of that town was converted into
house of ill-fame on night not long
since. 1t also says that decent lady
cannot walk the streets without dan
ger Of Insult from libertnes, who are
constantly on the lookout for
a strumpet All of which indicates a
bad state of morals at Lebanon.
A fatal case of cholera occurred at
Suingtown, near Evansville, the other
day
Evansville has cOlored citizen who
is one humid ed and SIX years old. He
has just buried his youngest child who
died when three months old.
The Madison Courier says that in six
days, six hundred barrels and one thou
sand one hundred boxes of starch have
been shipped from that city East.
John A. Conwell, of Aurora, has
been appointed Clerk of Dearborn
county in the place of Colonel Cheek,
deceased. He has agreed to give the
family of the lamented Cheek 81 900
year out Of the earnings
A cheese factory has recently been
started in White county. The prcprie-
tors are manufacturing about two hun
dred pounds Of cheese per day, fully
equal to the best Ohio factory cheese.
They contemplate using the milk of ct
least five hundred cows next season.
There are sixty-6ve income tax
payers in Gibson county-the highest,
S63 10, and the lowest, SIT. The
total amount Of inc ONES on which tax
is paid is S54,2S7.
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