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Show A WKDD1NG-RINO DISCOVERED IX A CODFISH 13 ID EN TIKI ED. A remarkable statement comes from Newfoundland concerning the recovery of a wedding-ring in the entrails of a codfish. It is given in the following dispatch to the .New York Herald: It may be remembered that a few months ago a story was current in the New York journals to the effect that a signet ring, bearing the monogram "P. P." had been discovered by a fisherman fisher-man in tho entxails of a eodhsh caught in Trinity Bay, i F. The fisherman, John Potter, kept the priie in hiB possession pos-session until the 12th insr, when ho was requested in a letter from the colonial col-onial secretary to send or bring the ring to tit. Johns, as he had received letters from a 1'amily named Bnroam, in Poole, England, saying that they had reaaon to feel certain that the riog onoe belonged to Pauline Burnam, who was one of the several hundred passengers of the Allen steamship Anolo-Saxon, which was wrecked ofi , Chance Cove (X. F.) in 1S61, the said i Pauline Burnam being a relative of theirs. The fisherman in whose possession the ring was, brought it to tit. Johns and presented it at tho colonial secretary's secre-tary's office. He was requested to take a seat and wait awhile. After about half an hour's delay the man of the fish was introduced to an elegantly dressed gentleman, a Mr. Burnam, whom the colonialsccretary had sent for on the fiherman's arrival. Tho ring was immediately identified by Mr. Burnam, who called it his mother's wedding ring, which she bad always worn pi nee her marriage in Uuddersfield, Kngland, in the year 1849- a- , The ring was accordingly given up to 5Ir. Burnam, who rewarded the fisherman fish-erman with bank notes amouuting to twenty pounds sterling. |