The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-12
,r.euRE GUARDED BY GHOSTS.
rAqend of Old steuben Recalled by
= q Recent Occurrences.
r.,,, the Nelr York Sun

.. Cau,n Brook, IN the Town OF w OOuHu4ii
u IN unity. forced the creek through its
'l,, on the farm of Sidney Harrington
-, tbe waters subsidized it was found
- laige of rock had been exposed by
lna'~s.bout The rock contained sub
L. le that yielded to the knife like lead. A
sltaannt;ty of it was dug out of the stone
Ylo aas very heavy, and melted in a ladle
readily. -,... ;,,.o.os+ y, +t,,
i;tioDs of Steuben county about lead
va silver mines that were known only TO
g o. In51ans. One of these traditions located
"I - mine in what is now the town of
S,,oodbnll and citizens of that town believe
w. The having bare by the flood of the
-. With the traces of lead in it has given
.5a11 cew to the exact locality OF the old
i1dian mine. and that there is now prob
.biIifv of the main deposit being discovered.
Other legends of mineral depoSlts ana MD
dan trea ures are recalled to old residents
If the county by this uncovering of the
oilsrad lead ore in Woodruff, the most
; a., Of which has its scenes laid in
q town Of Jasper.
s.Tba original settlers of Jasper believed
@. confdently as they believed in anything
that somew here within the boundary OF the
tovVn A rich silver mine existed" says an
old resident Of Hammondsport, land their
descendants, IldII Va OAiOAlA, O0hOfC Az SWIM
This belief is based on a legend. About the
braa king out of the French and Indian war
two Out ker brothers of the name of Dick
;osor came into the Cohocton valley to
trada with the Indians. The brothers
Tainad the confidence of the Indians to such
on extent that the latter discovered to the
Ouakers a silver mine, the existence of
which had long been a secret with the In
dians. The mine was somewhere along
hxa4 Loot firR,a
in taking advantage of this discovery, and
they W. rked the mine, the silver in which
was exceedingly pure, night and day. The
treasure they took from the mine they
stored in a cave, the location OF which was
known only to themselves, it being their in
tention. accordiI G Co the legend, to have it
rem, we'd to Philadelphia.
"These Quakers had another brother in
Philadelphia. There was also with them il
the woods al old and trusted family SER
want, but not old enough or
trusted enough. it would seem
bv the tenor of the tradition, to be
taken into the confidence of the willy Qua
kers. Near the close of the French and
Indian wars a stranger appeared one Gay at
the cabin of ii Quakers, which was IN the
deepest part Of the wilderness. He said he
had stumbled upon the cabin by accident
as he was fleeing from pursuit, having de-
serted from Ll6 pTtllCu ARMY. OuSI where
the army was legend does not state
The stra ger begged for food and shelter,
which we gladly furnished to him by the
be evolent Quakers. That night after he
had retired to the couch of bearskins pre-
pared for him in one corner of the cabin, he
overheard the QuaNers talking about their
hidden treasure, and from what they said he
learned that they intended to start their old
seIvaut the next morning on his way to
Philadelphia, with a message to their
brother here. This message was to give
the brother minute instructions as to the
loo ton of the cave, so that he could find
it in case ANYTHING happened to the brothers
in the wilde ness. This thoughtfulness on
the part of the kind old Gu kers started the
stranger to thinking a little on his own
accc unit. TIE result of his linking was a
determination to kill the two Quakers in
the morning, then follow the old servant as
he wended Philadelphiaward, kill him, ard
pos ess himself If the important message
himself and all that it implied The legend
doesn't say, but 1t is to be presumed that
the grateful French deserter then said his
prayers and went to sleep.
EARLY next morning the old servant
with the fateful message hidden in his gar
ments, babe a fearful adieu to his masters
ard turned his steps toward Philadelphia
The French deserter, while thanking the
SAahcIS lOI Ducli MuiDD6Q MS
knife from his boot or somewhere, and
stabbed them o death. Then he followed
the old servant and at last overlook him.
He bu led his knife in the faithful bench
mans back, and with any explanatiol
riticd him of the message. The servant died
right away, and the f1e dish ex-soldier tore
open the paper that was TO reveal to him
the stOrehouSe of untold wealth l SUPPOSE
be was about the hottest man that ever
N-aI. NH ~. a..
been SO considerable as to write the mes
sage in cipher. The chances are that the
Frenchman just more than hoped
and wore i'll that primeval forest
although the legend doesn't actually make
that declaration. He was unable to fiad
key that would solve the mystery OF the
cipher, and the legend says that years after
ward grinning skeleton was found, with
its bony hands clutching its skull where
there had presumably been hair at one
time. sitting az a crumbling table in the
Gu iker's cabin. while before this reminis-
cence OF man lay a paper. yellow with
age, and Inscribed with mysterious figures
Tie paper shook itself into impalpabie dust
When 1t was touched, and the bones ratified
ike castnet SOLO as they fell to the cabin
floor. Inc skeleton was accepted as that of
the French soldier, and the vanishing paper
was the Quaker's cipher message, of course.
Aho FlcHCuludu ulu uleu while struggling
to solve it. That was all the satisfaction
the legend would give the honest settlers
When they went TO at part of Steuben
county and preempted the wilderness.
Now come some incidents connected
with this legendary treasure that are so
recent as to have been contemporary with
people who are living to-day, but they are
none the less strange. | don't know them
10 be true. but there are people who saw
they do know EN- to be true. If thev are.
they are stranger than lies ever heard
A man named G. egory Harding settled in
the town Of JASPER eighty years ago. He
made clearing there. At that time the
legend of the silver mine and the Ouaker,s
hidden cave OF treasures was a subject of
oally conversation among the scattered
Sc tiers. Harding hain't been in the
locallty 10 when he had a dream II
dreamed that near his cabin there
was cave, the opening of
H. winch was covered by a large fiat stone,
Upon which was a copper kettle. In the
aSAVe was stored enormous wealth in silver.
r4qt 1t was guarded by two ghostly sentinels'
Harding concluded not to investigate the
accuracy of this dream. Not long after
ward twin brother of Harding Joined him
IN The wilderness. The first night he was
there this twin brother had dream that
eeorresponded in every way with that of
Gregory Harding. This was regarded by
Tue two as corroborative evidence of the
caves existence, and the brothers made a
search for the rraasura trOva srhaxy fo,,nd