A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.

Evening Star, Issue 4132, 25 May 1876, Page 4

A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.

A few weeks ago Jacob Klinck, a farmer ia the United States, was sawing down a chesnut tree, when the tooth of the saw came in contact with some metallic substance. Fearing the presence of something explosive, he directed the workmen to saw on the other side of the tree. They did so. After the tree had been felled a gold watch, two gold pencil cases, and a gold chain were found embedded in the wood eighteen inches from the surface. They were wrapped in a soiled sock. The tree was sawed off close to the ground, and they had evidently been hidden at the junction of two roots, where the wood bad grown over and enclosed them. The watch was old-fashioned, having a case that could be easily detached, and was inscribed with the date 1740. One of the pencil cases was provided with a pen. The other had only a pencil, and was minus the seal. The chain was long, and was intended to pass around the neck of the weaver. There was also a gold watch-key, which, however, did not fit the watch. The tree had attained a great age, being about six feet in diameter. An old mansion once stood near by, and it is supposed that the articles in question were buried during the war of the Revolution. The watch was uninjured except that the hands were rusted off. The finder has had it repaired, and will exhibit it to any who are curious to see such a relic.