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Show Old Lot Letters. A special dispatch from Canajoharie, N. Y says: "While at Stone Arabia a few days ago a citizen of Palestine Bridge found a begrimed and badly battered bat-tered metallic box. It was opened with much difficulty, and its contents consisted consist-ed of a locket, a bundle of parchment letters and a piectf of faded blue ribbon. The locket is of gold and of tine workmanship. work-manship. On one sido in monogram ara tho letters 'A. H. D.,' and on tho other a curiously wrought hunting scene. " Th letters were all written in 1778-89 by a lady of evident royalty residing in London. Lon-don. They weio to her betrothed and couched in the most tender language." |