Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-03-17
/" Well, what do you propose dolng?"


Jacob Astor. They will see the statement in
the newspapers, and swallow it with a gud-
geon's eagerness. Stocks are daily fuctuating,
you must buy on credit and sell for cash---and
continue TO buy and sell until your fortune is
made. know many cases where fortunes
have been staked upon lighter presumptions.
Now, tell me, what stocks You will have. Here
is splendid opportunity for speculation in the
Grand-Rag Sugar-Anii- Slave Labor Compa-
ny"
:. Rag Sugar What the devil is that" ejac-
ulated Harry
! The Company was formed" said Timber
stock, upon The report in the newspapers, that
French chemist had discovered process for
extracting sugar from old rags On this hint,
we have gone ahead, The capital OF our COM
pany is three hundred thousand dollars We
have already established grand Rag Depot, at
the Flve-POints, and our apparatus for the man
uiacture will soon be constructed. Suppose [
put you down for hundred shares? The
stock is only ten percent above par. We shall
drive 1t up to fifty in day or two. What say
you to hundred shares"
Harry Singleton began TO suspect he was the
victim of quiz---or, as the knowing ones say,
be even with his 'victimizers, and so said, with
assumed carelessness:
"Oh, put me down for couple of hundred
shares, while you are about it."
"Why that is twenty thousand dollars" said
Buckwood
I" Only twenty thousand" exclaimed Single
ton---"Well; if you think that too little, put me
down for three hundred shares"
{" Brayo!" exclaimed the broker, noting down
the order---''lhree hundred shares for Mr. Sin
gleton, in the Grand-Rag. Sugar Anti SlaveL
borC Company" ~.
"To be paid for in rag money" added Buck
wood
"Ah. here" said Mr.. Timberstock, 'is the
most wonderful project of all We call it the
Patent India-R -Ru66er-Suc Atldntic-NHk
supplying Company and our proposal is, to es-
tablish grand milk reservoir at Montauk Point,
and to supply ships crossing the Atlantic, with
milk, by means of three thousand miles of sue
ton hose, composed of TndIa-rubber. Between
you and me, got up the company to help on
my lndia-rubber stock. How many shares
will you take!"
AS the projecti is rather a bold one" replied
Singleton, ''and as entertain some phlosophi-
cal doubts as to its feasibility, think will
venture TO take only couple Hundred shares"
Now, you had better say three hundred"
said the broker, with his most winning smie
Il assure you, upon my honor, the stock will
rise ten percent before the week is out If YOU
were not a particular friend, / should not think
OF letting you have it at any price. Shall say
three hundred!"
Well; it is all the same to me. Let it be
three hundred"
Three hundred it is. Let me see, what
comes next on my lst-a plan for amelioraing
the condition Of quadrupeds- pshaw Plan
for carrying the mail by balIoons---the Saw-dust
and Shavings Association, who have taken out
a patent for making deal boards out of sawdust
and shavings s,-Snbmaripe Exploring Compa-
ny.---the Tar and Turpentine Paving Company,
1.-The Bubbleton Timber Association, Zounds!
does no one among all these hit your fancy?
Well; what think youof Who'll holehogopoliscity lots?
On, / will take them by all means, TO any
amount" said Singleton with alacrity.
Good will put you down for five hundred
shares. And now must be off. In the morn
Ing you must give me your note for these stocks,
endorsed by Buckwood, and before the week
is out you shall be rich man, in spite of your
self Mr.. Singleton. For the present good bye.
Come, Buckwood" qE $50
Now il CHANGED, that as Messrs. Buckwood
and Timberstock were taking leave of their
Trend and approaching the door, they confroat-
ed MIR. Cabbage, the tailor, who was entering
with very formidable looking bill in his hand
Harry Singleton, wearied and vexed, had thrown
himself upon sofa, unconscious of all that was
spoken.
:. Cabbage, my boy, how are you?" exclaimed
llmberstock, striking that individual upon the
back with vehemence that made him draw up
IFS leg with paln-" Have you come to con-
5ratulate our young friend here!"
/" es, if you call that congratulation," re-
,hed Cabbage, displaying his bill with grim
iryness of manner.
llmberstoek glanced over the document, and /
hen whispered with apparent earnestness, II
Nonsense, Cabbage; your charges are too $
moderate. Clapon at least fifty percent. Hell
vii pay it Why doyou stare! Have Mt you
eard the news?v . .
M, Il