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Show j AN EMPTY ! BOTTLE. i J When the cornerstone of the Robert-I Robert-I son county court house at Springfield, j Texas, was opened up some time ago ' due to a remodeling of the structure, ! many articles deposited in it a half i century ago were brought to light, j ! One of the items known to have been placed therein was a bottle of whiskey, and onlookers at the open-j open-j ing of the cornerstone may have had hopes of sampling the famous product. pro-duct. But if so, they were doomed to j disappointment. The bottle was found, but it was empty, the contents having hav-ing presumably disappeared by evaporation. evap-oration. On the bottle was the inscrip-.ion: inscrip-.ion: "This whiskey was made at the distillery dis-tillery of Wiley Woodard and deposited depos-ited by J. S. Brown, Sept. 26, 1879; whiskey was three years old when deposited." de-posited." Many other interesting relics were j found in the stone, includ ng news-; papers, minutes of official proceed-ir.j'.s, proceed-ir.j'.s, lists of fraternal society mem-' t.eis, a history of the old Ivu Kluxj Klan, a bank statement and other documents. There was also a coin which is now 'J1 years old, one $100 bill and two ?20 bills. The bills were no more valuable than the empty bottle, however, as, they were Confederate currency. |