The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-03-31

= 'Aese a, A Ren1afHdoiS S9o
4 a. pnts '' I'D in South Russia TWO Years
er as LII S''''
ach NJ. rory one laS come across
OF innss se s,n,ls who are under the delus-
~ INTO dds wi english 1861 pennies contain Ian
m pn.l peopt ~ percentage OF gold says IL
r rs. log pss Tho gold, OF course. is non-ex-
doc Ofes ss put that fact has not pre-
e th,' s'L any estimabe individuals
iment y ralsa ali the 1861 pennies they
.ent coa 0ps W law their hands upon with a
~ ~ to melting them down : o ,i",
e soo % m nan named Meyers, VINO dled
t.-o1ak bo w. used to boast that he pos
-, ana 1fatt ~ 400 He estimated their
what j ,Ius sts1s5. :. o,,,,o ss;n,o
lonal Can - small towns it IS quite possible
sfl1eats D .,-per, for limited period CONS
.i taaa " y nv one denomination, ~ "eisn
ny ny G nav resort the local band was so
.oos p "n.nt at the large proportion OF
W D,..,ries in its silver collections
WY Ms . licked up every nalfpenny re-
poh tha d. !, q few weeks there was
HeIy: . s halfpenny in the town. ana
o orsa 4. band thenceforth Feaped a mar
e 9 enc W Of pennies. A Manchester man
1t and = 50 s.ute that on returning
~ be opened Copper Change"
foSI. p ,or small commission, he re-
,dved packages OF pence from those
49, business brought them in too
vou, >. ,,nv giving them silver in exchange
| cut nv n 1879 an Irishman Of Cashel made
tors tnr \, that thirty single shillings
for Pa, .,.d NOT be got in all the Shops on
.0-tan day. For days in advance
h changed innumerab.e sovereigns
II hank notes, thus cornering prac-
s.,lr all the silver. He won his bet,
X opponent, who was OF course, IN
rs AZ .r,ora,ee of the trick, being able to
Dr., s.r,na .osether only eleven shillings.
cornering coins with criminal in
FONT led to a Bayonne frenclman
,,mei Bornier getting five months
rnrisonment in August last BOrnier
.rppred several thousand 1888 sou
Unla .pes and sold them at fifty Gen.
corpas ttmes 10 cents) each to simple-mind-
made French Government was going to
umba make each sou bearing the date token
IT uo,a uouey for one franc He swindled
nceu. aver 200 persons before being appre-
aceu,, Asrded.
matn ile u ..ansa u.a ,p nothina mora
han ta .@', =. ,A uan,,n., ,-ar,s bas baon 81.
most completely cornered by num-
req m Der Of individuals who believe that it
Dsrd will rise in price as mementO OF
a coEs Queen victOria's jubilee. OF the tens
lall hs n thousands issued from the mint few
II Of y specimens are now in circulation.
n en-. Cornering gold coins demands a
NAM, capital which few men possess. At I.
j.. Neppe, however, some years ago,
there was sudden scarcity of ten
franc and twenty franc pieces, which
vas traced to an american visitor
ely, named Bragg, who, for some cryptic
II o. reason, mad the day before changed
ectm beveral hundred bank notes Of high
[ hi Falue for gold Laden with the coins |
doll he left for Paris and it was not for
nth } week that the normal amount of Z
gold returned to the town. T
Superstition has led many ignorant q
Individuals to collect large numbers 4
coins Of particular denomination. a
\ remarkable case occurred in South q
Dal kussia two years ago. A prophet" e
~ ppeared at Berdiansk, on the Sea of q
urG Aioy. and proclaimed that he had Z
ho RI ,;th | "
nd BOD reception from the townspeople, p
.1a uamped inland and gained many n
a. y easant adherents. Among other a.
uA,4 aeer Doctrines he preached that all 81
We copeck pieces issued in 1881, the tr
r7 car OF the emancipation of the serfs, is
N1 we're holy" Taey were to be brought 81
MN for preservation in an oaken W
Tut aesl Wnen Russia got into difficult CT
hil u these coins would turn to gold A
Y M save the Empire. pc
V'er an area of 300 square miles OF
n peasants feverishly set about col by
i, d Saas the holy money. When the m
!, v vpaet mad collected about $40
:, 0'a ne decamped. after changing
= mem at local bank for gold.
a. attempt to corner the Maria ST.
w ae1esa dollars. which are used as ha
~ .'ency in many parts of northern it,
a. nca collapsed owing to a queer lal
~ An Abyssinian. Ras Makoppo, in
" s'ed the ingenious idea of col gls
1 all specimens of these coins
-. In his district AS they were ha
. GUNS ne reasoned they would rise ole
h .Aae. After he had possessed him. sh,
4 q about 5000 he found that the .
was as we'll supplied with BOZ
II - ever. While he had been ow
collecting them modern Maria Of
"a dollars made in Germany tha
= oeins imported BY the thousand. me