Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-15
soME FAMOUS ENDS.
The Wonderful Treasures Unearthed in
SpaIn, Germany and Russia.

Spain, Germany and Russia.
The recovery of the Spanish galleon
wrecked off Hispaniola, of which the
bullion was secured by some English
Spectators in 1857, has cost later gen.
erations dearly. The duke of Abe
marie, COVE rnor of Jamaica, received
500, 900, the royal share was 1000,
gentlemen who had adventured s10O
took ss, 900 to 100000. Innumerable
have been the disastrous enterprises
which this success promoted. Within
the last few years we saw n company
formed to recover Napoleon's army
chest, sunk, with the vessel that con-
tanned it, at the battle Abullir.
Perhaps the most interesting find,
saving those wondrous tombs in South
Russia, was the treasure of Guar
razar," discovered in 1873. Some peas
ants travelling near Toledo noticed OBJ
jects of gold and jewel work washed
partly out of the ground by heavy
rains. They broke them to pieces and
divided them. Happily, an intelligent
man heard the story in time. bought up
every fragment, pieced them all to-
gether, and fed to Paris, where he sold
the lot to the Musee Cluuv. The objects
proved to be eleven crcwns-nostly
''votive" of Gothic monarchs who ruled
Spain during the seventh century. OF
the owner in two cases there is no
doubt at all, for they bear
his name in letters of gold hang
ing by gold chains from the cir
cles, with jeweled pendant from each
letter. One bears the simple inscrip-
ton: "Suinthila," who re!cncd from
Cpl to 651 a. D.; the other: "Rcccesvin-
/ IL
672 A. d. Two, if not mere, are
queens crowns. One, the largest, has
thirty big sapphires and thirty pearls
of great size; below it hangs n cross set
with large sapphires and pearls, which,
again, has jeweled pendants. But we
must not describe infinitely objects
which are, perhaps, better known, to
antiquarians at least, than any pieces
| of goldsmiths' work existing.
The Treasure of IIildcsheim" also is
priceless. 1t was found by soldiers
digging q trench for siege practice near
| the town of that name in 1850. Wecan
not doubt that this glorious trouvaille
was the 'camp equippagc" of some very
rich traveller, probably a Roman general
though conjecture has boundless field
for specula ting how it could find it's
| armies never reached. There are stew
pans, pots, plates. Il battcric de cuisine
complete, all of silver, exquisite in form
and in ornament; the legs, 50 to call
them, of table, stands for lamps,
and other things indcfun ble, all
silver and all lovely; a con- plcte dim
ner service, plates, dishes, cups. COB
lets. of beautiful Greek work, in silver,
with gold wreaths and attachments
One might say in truth that the gold
smiths art could not go beyond the
grace and richness of these articles
many of which are ascribed to the first
century A. D.-had not the Russian
finds surpassed them. The Hildesheim
| treasure is at Berlin; the Russian at the
Winter palace. That, in truth, is glo-
rious beyond imagining. OF one piece
NJ. Theirs declared in rapture that a
nation would be justified in making
war on the car for possession of it.
This is the ''NillOpol vase" Volumes
have been written and libraries will be
written on these marvcls. They have
been recovered from tumuli in the
neighborhood of the ancient Greek col
onies on the Black sea Chicago Times.