Delaware State Journal, Advertiser And Star

A few days since, three young men on the south side of the Island of Martha's Vineyard, were engaged in labouring in a field which was once an orchard--two of them ploughing, and the other picking up stone at a distance. As a plough passed over a certain part of the land, the ploughshare started up two or three pieces of silver coin, which were hastily snatched up by the holder, and put in his pocket. His companion observed him stoop and pick up something, and when the plough went over the spot again, seeing him repeat the movement, he desired to change situations with him. This was done, and he too reaped his crop; when each finding that the other was master of the secret, they proposed a manœuvre to get rid of the third person, so that they could divide the spoil without his coming in for a share. They therefore declared it best to leave off work that forenoon, as it was nearly twelve o'clock, which was readily acquiesced in. What they obtained, no one can state--but it is believed that not far from two or three thousand dollars, which had been originally buried in a bag, (ascertained by pieces of cloth adhering to some of the coin,) were excavated. This must be divided between the two; leaving the man in the field with them, (who was no less a personage than Mr. J. A. Jones, well known as the author of Haverhill,) to attest the truth of the old adage,

"He who by the plough would thrive,
Must either hold himself or drive."

New Bedford Gazette.