Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-29

pitched coppers, and this was the cry IN the
game for centuries after the head and the
PROV had both disappeared from their
money.
The British coins extant form most in
terestiug and valuable collection. The COL.
lections which have been preserved in pub
, lie and private museums embrace an
unbroken series of coins, running down
from the earliest life of the nation through
all the revolutions of every kind which
have transpired during the nation's growth
and existence The illustrated works upon
coins and coinage, which exist in volumes
sufficient to form large library, show the
fact that if the entire written history of the
British islands were destroyed, and all men,
ory of it forgotten, a very respectable histo.
ry could be constructed from th ese numis.
matte memorials
The Process of coming was, in early
times, accomplished by hammering bullets
of metal fiat and placing them between two
dies, the impression being secured by
heavy blows, with huge mallets. The
French improved upon this method about
the middle of the sixteenth century, by the
application of the screw. The coinipg press
was invented in 1868, by Antoine Brucher,
and milled money was first coined by Eliza.
beth, in 1862, though it was not general in
England till hundred years later. Boul.
ton invented his coming machine in 1888,
and the most of the coinage of the realm
was carried on at bis works, at Soho, Bir-
mingham, till the mint was established, in
1910.
The primitive money of the American
Indians, which under the name of wampum,
consisted of white shells, strung together,
was peculiar in the fact that, unlike any
other money in any part of the world, it
was in itself worth only the labor involved
iu its manufacture. The shells we're abun-
dant on the seashore and required only to
be picked up and made into strings. This
money was used by the early white settlers
of New Eogland But we propose to de.
vote second article exclusively to Ameri-
can coins and coinage.
The earliest mention of money in history
is found in the book of Geuises, where A.
braham is recorded as buying field and
cave in the land of Canaan, in which to
bury his wife, for ''four hundred sheckles of
silver current money" or, better translated,
"current with the merchant" This money
was weighed, as they had no coin In one
of the Theban tombs, among the iunumera.
BILE illustrations of ancient Egyptian Gus.
toms, there is the picture of scribe On the
walls, with bis scales, bis pencil, and his
book, weighing out the wealth of his mas.
ter and recording the amount. In one
scale is a weight representing lamb and
in the other the pieces of the precious met
al. This picture is interesting as an inter-
pretation of the fact that the word transla.
ted pieces Of silver in the Bible means also
lamb and just aoeight The lamb was thus
used to determine the just weigh of the
pieces Of silver. Jobs friends are thus rep
resented on Que occasion as bringing him
each lamb or piece of money and an ear
ring.
Gold and silver at this period was often
put into rings, as both the pictures upon
Egyptian monuments and ancient writers
show Rings, bracelets, and auklets were
in use then, as they are in fact now in ori.
entail countries. The coming of money be-
ing unknown to them, they formed their
gold into rings around the arms aud ankles
for preservation, and when wanted to sell
the tinker was ready with his tools to cut
them off and the scales we're at hand to
weigh them. AT the present day travellers
are often surprised in the East to see the
poorest women with heavy rings thus upon
their limbs. The early Britains used ring
money, and the fact is mentioned By Caesar
in his account of England, and be remarks
that these rings had a .fred aceight, being
used no doubt as we use coins. Ring mon
ey was used also in Gaul and in Northern
Europe before coinage existed. The rings
are now found abundantly 10 various parts
of England and Ireland, aquantity ia 1882
being found at St. Quentin, France, of
which the intrinsic value of the gold was
nearly $4,000.
A BRAVE WoMAN-L Hessick, who
runs a pack train between Red Bluff and
Hayfork of Trinity, gives the particulars of
a daring and muscular exploit worthy re-
cord and Henry rifle. Mrs. Sarah Don
nelson, formerly resident Of Red Bluff, is
living in log house on the trail with her
children and her father. A few days ago
her father went out hunting stock, and Mrs.
D. was looking after her poultry short
distance from the house. Suddenly five
Indians made their appearance. Mrs. D.
started for the house, and was intercepted
by two Indians, Throwing them from her,
a third caught her by the shoulder. She
knocked him down and reaching the house
in safety she barred the door. The ln-
dams rested one or more rifles on the win.
dow, leveled at the woman who approached
them. She took down her fathers rifle and
returned the fire Of the Indians through the
apertures or "chinks" of the log house.
On attempting to cock her gun Mrs. D.
found that the thumb of the right hand had
been shot away by an Indian bullet, but
nsinu her Left hand she SOON had the nleas.