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Show Farmer'a Lucky Purchase. A Lticama, N. C, special says: Re-rently Re-rently a fnst train carrying the West Inillnn mull ran Into a fortl.lr.er car and much of tho mall wa thrown onto the fertilizer car and burned. The company sold tho fertilizer to a far mer for a trifle, nnd In distributing It on his fields his farm hands picked up several dlnmonds. Thorough search wan made by the farmer and HO.non worth of gems wns picked tip. Neighbors, hearing of the find, turned nut by hundreds and so overran the Hold thai thn crop was ruined. |