The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-07-12

= RICHMOND,
Z box Office and inquired for Mr.. Cur
doy. @
sWhat do you wanta' said the
ticket seller. 4~ 9.
II have a letter for him." replied
| Ned. q l
81 don't know" and young Cut.
tie told his story.
| At this moment Mr.. Curdoy en-.
tered and the letter was duly hand
ed to him by Ned He read eager
y, smiled, and putting his hand
into. his velvet waistccat pocket
| threw. Ned silver dollar. Ned felt
no longer sheepish, for he regaled
himself on mutton chops and ale.
| Next night, Ned was at the thea
tire door again, hoping to earn an
other dellar, Well reader, such
things do happen. Mr. lCurdoy
did come out of the box Office with
aletter in his hand and again sent
Ned on an errand to Beacon street.
|, The result was another silver dollar
and more mutton chops and ale.
/ Two weeks after Ned Cutie was
|a Roman q live Roman in armor
behind the foot lights, sporting .
lance and armed, cap-a-pie. Ned
had turned s'super." Two years
after, our farmer boy was billed as
Marcellus. Five years more, and
he was back at the St Charles un-
der the baton of Mr.. Manager Cur-
doy, enacting the. role of LAertes.
Good for Ned Cutie!
It was the 14th of April, 1862,
Ned Cutie was playing that night.
his farewell engagement He hadn't
set foot in his fathers house since
the day of that awful beating. He
had written to his friends and told
them he was doing well and that
"a 8
was all. Asa Cutie and Martha,
his wife, were now, dead. Charley
had gone to China; and Agnes was
married and lived in the old house.
The barn still stood, and the spike
held good in the rotten beam. Ned
had selected the part of Rob Roy
as his blowing exit" before the pub
lie. He had just dressed himself
when . letter was handed to him.
i simply, contained these words:
sThe hundred years expire to-mor
row at midnight" - "a
Grsy headed Ned Cutie entered
the home of his boyhood after an
absence of forty four years. It was
but little changed The actor pre-
pared to obey the. wishes of his
dead ancestors. Watch in hand.
and axe uplifted, he stood there,
ready to strike the blow, his sister
Agnes and her husband standing
BY. It was twelve o'clock, one
hundred yearsago since egrandfather
Cutie had placed that spike in that
beam with the intention of commit
ting suicide. The first blow was
given. The iron did not move. A
second and third were. repeated,
and the lusty spike snapped in two,
leaving 3 part imbedded in the old
wood, The beam was then removed
from its position, chopped in two
and the remaining portion removed
In giving the final blow a piece of
leather not bigger than cent piece
fell out from the crevice in the
wood, Ned picked it up. He exs
amined it carefully. He saw that
1T had been sewn together and was
in fact two pieces of leather cut in
. circular shape. Opening them
he found piece of tin and on il
these words: Dig three feet be
meath the spike
dSomewhat puzzled to solve the
meaning of these words the three
at last understood that they signi-
fed that they were to dig three feet
beneath the ground in perpendic-
ular line from where the spike had
been originally placed by grand
father Cutie. A spadaa and pick
being procured the spot was hit up
on and the two men set to work.
The ground was pretty hard, but at
length their exertions were reward
ed. The actor found a tin box, with
q paddock and key attached; but
the hinges were worn away by time.
Il was full of English gold! On
piece of parchment was written
these lines: sa SIS sb 4
Il, Abraham Cutie, bequeath this
sum of gold to my oldest grand
Child be he living when it is found
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