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Show A HIDDEN GOLD MINE NEAR WASH-INliTUN. WASH-INliTUN. Tl.o Hartford Tinvs publishes a aUt:rn:nt from a Wabhir.tuu correspondent, corres-pondent, that it id a corUin fact that during tho war a soldier of a Connecticut Connec-ticut reyimcnt, diiscovarud a mine somewhere in Montgomery county, Maryland, ncsr the national capital, and secretly worked it Lr a time, telling to the Georgetown jewelers tome $2,000 worth of the gold. He refused to tell where his miuo was located, and upon Gliding that his movements were watched by others, gave up mining altogether. A couple ol'yoarj after llio war wan over the same man made- his appearance on . thn lo-nniir 1 fn l,n,.r,ln,t thnr fnr several months. He told tho people he stooped with that ho was a geologist, geolo-gist, and that he was prosecuting his studies among the rocks in that location. loca-tion. Frequently ho would send away large trunks of the rocks which he gathered in his studies. Tho inhabitants in-habitants finally learned that it was gold ho was after, and their inquisi-tivoncss inquisi-tivoncss bothered him so much, that at lust ho agreed that ho would tell the owner of the land the place where ho found the valuable rocii, upon receiving a deed of one hall of the land. This was consented to, and the deed was properly made out. As eoon as tho papers wero drawn, he drove- over to Itoclcviile, Md., a dis-tauco dis-tauco ol about twenty miles. It was a very warm day, and he was over-1 como by tho sun on his way, and forced to remain at a house about midway between both places for several sev-eral days boloro ho sufficiently re- cuperatcd to finish his drive. After recording his deed, he drovo to Washington, Wash-ington, and on his way ho liad a relapse, re-lapse, and was requited to remain in Washington, where, alter a few days' illness, bo died, with the secret still locked in his breast. To this day, the man who deeded away half of his farm docs not know where the gold mine on it is located. He haB spent all the money he could raise prospecting prospect-ing for it, but a Live up tho job a couple of years since. |