The Story of a Buried Treasure.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3026, 11 October 1888, Page 3

The Story of a Buried Treasure.

The Paris correspondent of tho 'Daily Telegraph' sends a statement concerning, a cliost .containing nearly a milliorMpinos in gold and silver . coinage which is said to have been reposing for tho last seventy-six years a foot or two underground, within a etone'B throw of an important Russian highway in the neighborhood of BieloawcS; in tho Grodno district. 'The Czars Minister of the Interior has, it is said, just despatched a Special Committee to dig up the chest .nnd its contents at the point inch--cated. The'treasure is a relic of tho "Retreat of Napoleon's Grand , Army." This research is duo to the initiative of Fronchman M. V. Jonnich whohaJJbeon ransacking aomp'mauusbriptt'left'by.'his grandfather,' one of tho stoutest troopers in the Emperor's Tho old gentlemen related that • he was with a- detaohraont acting as escort to this cliost, which contained tho ••sum of £34,000 sterling, whou,'tboconvoy waspursuodby a strong '..jprceofCossoctts. Seeing thateswipe jms impossible, the party hastily ? buried the chest close.to the Hielostook road, along which it was riding, ; and every man was cut to'jfljfc with the exception of Jonnich, who lived to toll tho tale in ' some memoirs penned for the'beneht of his relatives, if tho ohest be really found, M. Villebaudo Jonnich will, according to Kussian law, be entitled as informer to a third of the booty. j