Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — Singular Freak. [ARTICLE]

Singular Freak.

James Truesdell, a gentleman of some Seventy years, living in Liberty, Pennsylvania, had been for over twelve years past industriously’ engaged, when the weather and his health wouid permit, in digging over a piece of ground near his dwelling, and carrying the stones and some dirt into a pile. Here he has labored, taking one stone or a shovel full of dirt at a time, until the mound has reached the bight of thirty or forty feet, and is much larger than his house, lie said as a reason for his labors that he lost a sixpence in his garden. He soon after found several sixpences, but continued to dig until his whole garden had been carried to increase the mound. He is peaceful and industrious in this way, so his family let him work. To their offers of assistance he gives a decided negative, and digs away alone. Mr. Truesdell is a well informed man, and talks rationally' on any subject but his lost sixpence. Qts”Some New York paper having stated that Gerrit Smith was a Republican, and a leading Fremonter, Win. 11. Burleigh, in a note to the Tribune, denies both statements. He says: “Mr. Smith did not vote for Fremont. From the very or animation of the Republican party he has steadily' and consistently opposed it and its candidates. Personally, he was friendly to Fremont, but he felt that he could not., without a sacrifice of principle, vote for him, and he did not as I have Ward him repeatedly declare.” Mr. Burleigh himself it is well known, is a radical Abolitionist. *' (kJ7"Wo often hear of a widow mending her condition by’ repairing.