A Resurrected Fortune

Dubuque Herald, Dec. 25th. Soine time ago a well-known miner iu thia vicinity, who has a very shaky idea of the security of the banking syatem, believing more faithfully in the old-fashiuned injunction, " when you get a good thing keep it," pulled up stakes and set off for a prolonged absence on foreign shores. Before leaving, however, he dug a hole in a aeqiiestered part of his land and there deposited the hoarded gaina f many a year's hard toil, to the amount of $5,000 or $(5,000 in gold, and went hia way meditating on the frailty of all banks except clay banks, as the receptacles of golden treasurea. In the long absence of our friend the premises were occupied by hia son, who continued to make various changes and improvements thereon, until flnally many old laudmurks were obliterated, and the burial place of the bidden treasure waa deseorated by being overtrodden by a prolific family of pigs, comfortably domiciled above it. The old gentleman returned to his native hearth, and wemt in searth of his buried gold. Every trace by which he had hoped to lócate it had diaappeared, all attempts at resurrection seemed hopeless, and the search was finally abandoned, when it was found that the maternal swine, in her burrowinga and rootings, had unearthed several $20 gold pieces of the golden coin. She had found the open aeaame, and the long bidden treasure was ruvualod intact.