Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-06
X GERMAN IN LUCK.
He PIOws Up Seventeen Hundred
> 3 Dollars i'm Gold ON his Farm.

He PIOws Up Seventeen Hundred
b Dollars i'm Gold ON his Farm.
From the Laclede (Mo.) Republican
h We have just come into possession o
the facts in connection with one OF those
remarkable coincidents which appear
more like romance than reality wher
presented to the public as an item o.
news. Soon after the close of the wal
German named Herman Schubert, who
had. served three years in the Eleventh
Missouriinfantry, located with his family
in Livingston county, on a small farm.
Herman, like most of his countrymen
had large family, and the malaria SC
prevalent in the bottom lands of Grand
river affected them as it does other fam
lies Sickness and ill-luck in various
ways depleted Herman's purse, so that
the struggle to keep the wolf from the
door was lasting and severe. He was
involved in debt, to commence with
having made but a small payment on
his homestead, and mortgage was re-
corded to secnre the amount unpaid.
Herman was one of those persevering
Germans who have done so much toward
developing the agricultural resources Of
our country; yet persevere as he would
the payments he could not meet as they
fell due. He who held the dread mortgage
was fully convinced of the German s in
tegrity, and was lenientt to great degree;
but forbearance always ends, and SO II
did in this case. Herman's farm was
offered for sale for debt. The gloom
produced in that family by the sad
event we will not attempt to describe.
The care-stricken man made several at.
tempts TO raise money, but his friends
were all hard up, too. Not one ray oi
hope CLEANED on his prospects, still he
plowed and toiled as though all were
we'll. Now comes the astounding coin
cident: The day that the farm was TO
be sold arrived. Herman went into the
field to plow, as he had been doing for a
few days past For some unknown
cause he was in buoyant spirits, not
withstanding the clouds hanging over
his household. The land which he was
plowing had at an early period been oc-
cupied by a Mormon family, judging
from an object soon after exhumed by
Herman plow. The article in question
was a pine box about two feet long by
one foot deep, which had been buried
about thirty years since, and when
brought to the surface found almost de-
cayed. But the contents of the box
form the subject Of interest Some aFti-
cles of dress, papers, Mormon Bible,
and a small tin box containing SlIOO IN
gold and 81 65 in silver were found. ns
The overjoyed man seized the box,
rushed home, entered the house where
his patient froW was engaged at her
usual duties, and exclaimed: Mine
Gott in Hinmell If it bees mine ] pays
for te farm right awayl'' The frow and
kinder soon took up the spirit Of the
occasion, and a scene Of tumnh ensued
seldom witnessed. Lmv
The neighbors were quickly apprsed
OF the Germans good fortune, and lost
no time 10 visit him for the purpose Of
gratifying their curiosity or expressing
their congratulations. One gentleman,
however, we are informed, laid claim TO
the box, basing his right on the fact that
his nncle once owned the farm whereon
the valuable prize was found. The held
in question had not been in cultivation
Cor many years previous 70 Hermans
taking possession oft. It was doubtless
owned bya Mormon settler who skedad.
died from this vicinity at the time these
heretics werescieaned out BY the Mis-,
sourians. lu ----- .ol