The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-10-17

not found before his friend got out o
prison ii would be worthless He said tho
money was in grecnbacks and gold, in ;
tin box. and when buried was encased il
Il wooden box.
HIS STATEMENTS
were so clear and positive us to all tn,
details oil burial that not the sliohtcs
shadow OF doubt was. left upon the mine
OF my informant that S62, 900 lie burned
perhaps within Il stones throw of his owi
home but where no on could tell save
the one who hid it. TIL! young man who
thus gave positive assertion and assurance
as to the truth of the rum1n the money
burial is represented as be n young anC
gentlemanly in appearahcN we'll anc
neatly dressed, sober anH deliberate in
action, intelligent in conversation, an(
generally correct in habit and department
He left for his home onfthe next morning
after impartng the ab9ve information an(
since that date untlh few days ago NJ
knowledge As TO his whereabouts or his
tory has been possessed by any one here
HE RETURNS WITH A COMPANION.
A short time since two well dresset
gcntlcmanly looking }nd acting men step
ped off the cars at Keedysviilc, n little
town a few miles dist int from here direct
ly across the river in Maryland. They
secured horse and lalg@y with the state
ment that they were from New York, had
been soldiers in the late war and desired
to revisit the battlefield of Antietam. its
cemetery and adjoihing army historical
points. They spent some time about the
country, apparently looking At the ceme-
terry. g., but utkfully to kill tink I, and
by one or two Etrsons was this Nung
man who had liyst come to search form he
money recognized y
us COMPANION
is supposed b have been him who buried
the treasugs'he had searched for years ago
unsuccesflllv, recently out from prison.
| Toward evening they drew near ihr Pn-
| tomac River. crossed it and visited the
large cement mill below the town and
spent some time there looking at its work
inc and conyersing with the superinten-
dent TO him they also told the story of
| their visit TO old army camp grounds, and
their journey from New York here to re-
visit them. 1t was late when they left,
and they drove up to the town and ont in
the direction Of llarper's Ferry. Nothing
more is known of them until the next
morning, near daylight, when they re-
crossed the ferry and drove of toward
keedysville, where they took the traiH
east.
A DISCOVERY AND SENSATION. =
Hardly had the morning fairly dAwned
ere Mr. Myers. who lives about t1 miles
from this place. on the road Heading
toward Dut1eld's depot, Just ABOVE the
IIalper's Ferry wood, discovered that i'm
mense piles Of dirt had during.thc night
been thrown up from the rootnf = large
oak tree standing bv the roadside, a few
hundred yards below his hou l., ON the
road leading toward Che place lie and
several OF his worllmen imme1 hately Went
down and found that a horse and buggy
had been hitched TO the iepte during the
night. and that al least thIee or four
WAGON LOADS of'EARrH
had been taken out from aroelnd the roots
OF the tree by some unknown parties, evil
IDENTITY i'm search for something. While
they were looking ut the mysterious pile
of earth, trying to divine the c3tusc OF the
digging one of them discovered Il place
from which ha! evidently been taken II
box two feet in length by fifteen or eigh
teen inches in width. the dccayed por-
lions of which We're scattered all about
the opening. No sooner had this been dis
covered than the story Of the
pUAHTEEMAsTER's HIDDEN CASH
was recalled. and it was III once decided
that he had come and taken it away. The
story OF this discovery soon spread over
the community, and large numbers OF
people came to view The spot where for
nearly ten years
A SMALL FORTUNE LAY BURIED,
which had been sought after for 4 long
time with great energy by several people
who did not doubt its existence. | went
to the spot, which is about u mile from
town. and saw the evidences Of the truth
OF what have relMcd. The OF er facts
us related, have bet& obtained 10y careful
inquiry and are perfectly reliable.
THE TREE
whose branches have shaded thes sub
stance OF this story is Il huge white oak,
ut least three feet in diameter, standing
lust inside the lence in a field NOW filled
with ripening corn. The digging was
begun inst inside the fence, and extended
in sami-circle around the nee, the trench
being about four feet wiF all the way
around The Tough haypassed over the
SEASON. se n and several s@y pa ones since it has
been there without disturbing in the least
It's security.
A SPANISH MYSTERY. At Grenada,
in Spain in an Oig house which had tum-
blcd into ruins and has been for some
months past undergoing reconstruction.
the Workmen hi Ec come upon a subler-
ranean passaget 80 feet long by II
feet wide, car1 Il out OF the solid rock,
and 1T the end 3 which We're found seven
female>skeleto BY medical eXaminat-
ion it haabeed proved that these skeletons
have ocNp2 that position not less than
forty nor n e than sixty years. But by
a compariH Of dates it has been found
that the RusA>at that time belonged to
wealthy merchant a Portuguese jew
named Isaac Pedro Come. whose sons
are still living and Occupying high hnan
cial positions in Amerieq. This merchant
died at Vera Cruz in 1919 or 1880 at the
age of seventy-one years.. being at the
time of his death the wAaower of his
ninsh wife. The horrible question has
therefore been raised in ada whether
these skeletons are not the sile3 witnesses
Of some dreadful crimes, and whether
this mysterious cavern may ne fhave been
the dungeon of a Bluebeard more terrible
than any ever read of in stoI The dis
eovery loses none of its sens tional effect
by having been made among IN eXcitable
and PASSIONATE population like that of the
South of Spain.
The inventor OF |'spoon" fishing is said
| to be an old man named De Castle, who
for twenty-five years has been lock mas
ter on the canal around the Morrisburg