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Show PLUMBER STRIKES IT RICH, Excavating for Windmill Unearths a VvA Potful of Gold Coins. ' CSi- It. McKennoy Price, tho well knOwn ' te plumber nnd contractor of this city, has struck It rich In Virginia, says dispatch from Salisbury, Mil. 'A few weeks ago Mr. -Price, whllo excavating for the foundation of ft windmill, struck something hard about threo feet below the surface. Investigation disposed an old Iron pot. Ho hauled tho pot out and found It filled with gold colnB of various denominations de-nominations and of various nationalities. nationali-ties. Tho money was found on the old ; home place of the very well known j Drummond family of the eastern shore of Virginia. Tho family was Immensely Immense-ly wealthy, and when war broke out ( the male members who were old enough went Into the Confederate nrmy. Beforo lenvlng for the war. It ( Is supposed, the head of the family burled the gold for safe keeping. |