The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-10

reign and some brooches. The vesse
in shape was like a wine fagon, and
with its contents weighed about seven
pounds. Needless to say, this haul was
OF considerable value. Early in 1891
the ceiling of an old house in the village
of Whitechurch fell in, and the Treas
ury was enriched to the amount of
tWenty-eight silver coins of the reigns
of Elizabeth, James / and Charles l.
They We're nearly all in good state of
preservation, and the oldest was over
300 years old. During the previous
year, however, the Crown came in for a
regular windfall when buckskin bag
full of ancient coins was discovered at
Creditor Church by some workmen en-
gagged in removing the ceiling. In this
instance the claimants numbered four,
and comprised the lord of the manor,
the church governors, the person who
found the treasure and the Treasury
which seized it all, but eventually re-
turned the greater number to the gov
errors, who put the coins up at auc-
ton, with gratifying results; for al
though their condition was not of the
best and they were of silver, they num-
Oerod 1885, and We're of the reigns OF
Edward w. Philip and Mary, Elizabeth
and the Stuarts.
One of the most peculiar instances of
treasure trove happened in Glasgow a
year or so ago. The police were exam
ming a shop in Highest, Glasgow, for
some stolen goods and after digging for
| four hours they came across an iron
box containing 1863 silver watches, sew
eral of which were wanted" Watches,
however have a remarkable habit of
turning up in strange places, as witness
those which We're found the other day
in u hedge, in the neighborhood of
EPSON, were they had been thrown by
some procrastinator whose theft of time
| had resulted in police getting to closer
quarters than he relished. 1T was in
similar hiding place near Llanelly that
a find of gold occurred couple of years
ago which was supposed to form por-
lion of the booty, amounting to E2o0,
taken from the body of a man muir
dered at the spot years before.
The ordinary individual who happens
upon prehistoric egg at the breakfast
table is apt to let fall hasty ejacula-
lions not altogether rapturous, and is
little disposed to look upon the find as
treasure trove; when the egg, however,
turns up in a dusty attic, and is an I'M
doubted addition to the fifty eggs of the
great aux known to be in existence in
England, and probably worth from
5000 to $780, the case Is materially
altered. Such an egg was shown at the
British Ornithologists' Club last year
for the first time since its rediscovery
in the aforementioned attic among a |
remnant of Lord Garvaghs collection. |
The egg was acquired for $50 in 1869
by Lord Garvagh but was believed to
have been broken to pieces in lS7l-the
year of his death-and was lost sight of.
1t transpired last year that 1t was
merely cracked in 1871, and was put on |
one side by Lady Garvagh, only to be |
forgotten for twenty-seven years. Inc
very common trait of forgetfulness fire.
duently leads to the discovery Of very
strange treasure trove, as the following |
instance shows: In the early twenties
the owner of Heathtield Park, near
Eastbourne, deposited three hundred
bottles of wine in a cellar, which he
intended to present to his son on the
latter obtaining his majority, Death
however, and the existence
of the store was forgotten until the
present owners time, when some work.
men demolished an old wall and found
the very matured liquor upon the other
side
Very little things frequently lead up
TO large discoveries. Early this year
through the agency of an industrious
mole. a large number of valuable coins
of Edward is and Alexander Ills
reigns were discovered at Penicuik;
while the British Museum has to thank
q diligent fox for what is perhaps the
finest torque-a twisted collar of gold
ever discovered in England. The
torque was found by a gamekeeper in
Charnwood Forest last year, at the
mouth of a newly made fox earth, and
was undoubtedly thrown UP by Rey-
nard when engaged in his excavations.
But one of the most peculiar cases of
d discovery Is reported to have taken
place at Soulac, in Gascony. In the
first place, we learn, cross was discov-
cred projecting above the ground; as it
was difficult to move, the surrounding
sand was dug away, revealing the fact
that 1t was attached to a steeple, and :
'urther excavation showed that the
iteeple formed part of a well-pfeserved
,hurch Of the thirteenth century, which
s now in use.
The dragging of rivers and cleaning
If ponds is also a fruitful source of
reasure trove, especially of mamouth
ueks and impedimenta of a like nature,
5aried at times with such oddities as
we're found at Preston, Suffolk, about
eighteen months ago, when bell bear
ng the date of 1888, a gold set of teeth,
md broken pipe mounted with mas
i've silver made a simultaneous appear
NICE a number of loaded shells such
Is We're dragged from the bed of the
seine about the same time, when prepa-
atoms were being made to lay the foun-
|ations of the new INDEPENDENTLY
nd carelessly left there by certain bel
icose Teutons who We're in the neigh
orhood of Meudon in the year 1870. |
Carly last year a fisherman at Doug
ass, Mass, brought up on his line an
Id rawhide case about two inches in
and ten inches in length
thich upon being cut open, was found
0 contain the will made by one John
of1in, dated March 8, 1916, duly signed
nd witnessed and bearing the official