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Remains Of A Child Found--a

Remains Of A Child Found--a image
Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
March
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mtstery. - A negro named Amstror.g, while engaged, on Thtirsday, a gatherng drifiwood in the bond oí the river near the island, drew out, nmong other things, a sinall board box whioh, upon opealng, was found to contuin a portiou of tho skuletnn of a cliüd in an idvanced state of deeomposiiion. 'I'ho bones ot the head, whioh were tbe most perfect of any, Ddiuated a child of from sevet) to nine months froi.i eonception. Appearances ndicated thut luna had beea deposited wi h tha bidy to facilítate decomposition. 8o far, the aíiair has nut been doerned worthy ol a judicial investigation, and wa prosuinu no good would come ol such a stap It is probably the lust - eurttily - chapter in a drama ol denept.ou, Uojertiou and crime, over which it íb quite aa woll to draw the veil. The box had on it the sbipping mark of agontleman wiu was iu buBintjss here se feral yeard aso. Froin bim it was d.nibtless takun to ba used for the purpuse to whieb it wan appropriated. A uiiizen calis to inind a circumstaneo, two or throe yoaií back, whero a sitniliar box was exhumed from where it was buried on the bank of the rivor, a few roda above wtioro' the box in question was fouad, 'nnd' about whioh unrae suflpicionn exiaied at the time. The koowlddtte of it was ' confined to a few pbrson-, ' whi, fionn ' circumstances knowñ to thein, cjid not think it udvisable to makó it public. - It is a very natural sujipositíon 'that tho box just found is the same previously seeu, which boen wasued lrom the bank by thö liigli water and carried o whero it was pioked up. If so it is probably a matter of no vary difKuult solutiai), - Ypsilanti HêralS, ' Mank % fc" poor poet, ratliur than conlinuü to ecribble, sliould hang hia harp on the iimb of a tree - with his neck" cauglit in the string. iW All pooplü are iond' of salt, büt' Lot was W6fJded to it. . - 'M -jSSL" The leavpa die of chills ahd lover - sometimos it is the soarlet feyer, sonietimes atld most utwavn yellow fevor. '

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Old News
Michigan Argus