The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-02
Abraham Deweese's Singular Discovery Of
stone Statues.

A N ELIzABETHTOwN letter to a
IA Chicago exchange tells the follow
ing In the land of seed-ticks and
hoops, OF children and butter and eggs,
In the State of Grayson and near the
village OF Milwood, there lives man
upwards OF sixty years Of age, over
whose head the cold blasts Of Boreas and
the rays of Sol have played for over
threescore years whose life has been one
of honesty, sobriety and virtue. This
aged man, whose name Is Abraham
Deweese, is in his way most eccentric
man. Honest to fault, his life has
been one Of quiet simplicity, unosten-
tatious, but happy aud contented. Born
and reared under the old regime, he has
been bred to believe that "honesty Is the
best policy"
Old man Deweese Is also as supersti-
tious as he Is honest and trustworthy,
and his fund of information on biblical
or historical subjects, which is never
falling and reliable, makes him q fluent
talker, and as his actions are guided by
the light of past events, his manner of
talking and doing his given him the
title of eccentric" He will not begin
any labor or any job of labor on either
luck attending the success of a venture
begun on those days. He says Christie
pher Columbus, with all his success, dis
covered America on Friday and the very
next time he came to America he was
carried back loaded with chains.
Uncle Abraham land he will pardon
the familiarity of the expression) has
made discovery of gold mine near
his place, or what he is thoroughly inn
bued with the belief is gold mine, and
his discovery of 1t is as remarkable as is
the man himself. Wandering around
over his domain some two years ago, Mr..
Deweese Unexpectedly came upon about
a dozen stone statues of man, visible
from the waist up, above the surface of
the earth. The arms and features of
these statues, or " images" as he calls
them, were clear-cut and distinct, even
to the eyebrows on the bulging" fore
heads.
All of them faced toward the West,
and some were above the others, as
though in descending the hill they had
become petrifed and sunk to their waists
in that position. With horror of any
thing idolatrous, Uncle Abraham at once
set about demolishing these heathen
gods, and to his energies and persever-
ance may be due the fact that in short
space of time those " images" were no
more. But how came they there, and
) what caused their appearance in that
unlooked-for locality, puzzled Uncle
Abraham, and his most logical conclu-
sion was that gold was in that hill, and
he set to work. He has been working
off and on, himself, and assisted by 9TH
ers, for about two years, and at this time
he has two immense holes in the bowels
of the earth.
He has found peculiar rock in the
hill, filled with glttering yellow specks,
and this he thinks is gold. Miners
lore told him it was gold. A gentleman
living in Missouri, an old miner, will
be here this fall, and will assist in the
further development of the matter,
while samples of the rock or quartz
will be subjected to analysis at an early
date. One popularity remarkable about
the rock is that nowhere in the country
has any like it ever been found While
the people are divided in their opinions
of Uncle Abraham's success, there is
none who doubts his word on finding
the images, and that he fully believes in
the fact that he has found bonanza.