Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — It Rained Dollars. [ARTICLE]

It Rained Dollars.

A good many people have a vivid recollection of a cyclone which about seven., years ago tore through this country, entering this Btate from above Pendleton, passing Williamston and jumping overGreenville City. Soon after the passage of this unwelcome visitor somebody found in its track on the place of W. H. Merritt, Busby Creek Township, Anderson County, a Spanish silver “Rex" dollar of the reign of Chfi;ka-IV. The coin had evidently been dropped along with, other miscellaneous fragments and wreckage by the cyclone. A few- days ago another coin of the same kind 'was found, on the same place. Dri T. E..Jame* brought it to the city, ft is in good Condition, bright, sound* and c ear of rust, and is dated 1725, witb “Carolus lIU. Rex" on the mnrgjo,— [(HceuviUe C.) News.