The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-02-01

of money he wrote a recsipt and handed it
to the stranger, who after reading it, said
II would prefer your making out a bill
for thousand bushels, and writing on It,
Received on account FIVE hundred dollars =
at may Overrun that quantity SAID
Ashburn
"No matter, new bill can be made out
for that I'll take all you have"
The farmer saw no objection to the form
proposed by the stranger, and therefore tore
up the receipt he had written, and made a
bill out in the desired form.
"Will you commence delivering to-day?"
inquired the sportsman. who all as once be-
gan to manifest marked degree Of inter
est in the business.
EYES," replied the farmer.
elbow many wagons have you?"
"Two." -t.
GAS it is down hill all the way to the Ca
nal, they can easily take a huddrea bushels
EACH" ..
"Oh yes"
Every we'll. They can make two loads
apiece to-day; by starting early, three loads
apiece on Monday, which will transfer the
whole thousand bushels to the canal, Twill
20 down Immediately and see that boat is
ready to commence loading You can go
to work at once.
By extra efforts the wheat was all deliv-
cred by Monday afternoon; and the balance
of the purchase money paid. AS Mr. Ash
burn was riding home, a neighbor who had
noticed his wagons going past his house
with wheat for two days, over took him.
$50 see, Ashburn, that, like me, you
are content to take the first advance of the
market, instad of running the risk of a de-
cline, for further raise in the market
What did you get for your wheat?"
Il sold for ninety cents"
"Ninety cents!" exclaimed the neighbor.
"Surely you didn't sell for that?"
II certainly did. tried 10 get ninety
two, but ninety was the highest offer could
obtain"
"Ninety cents! Why, what has come
over you, Ashburn? Wheat is selling for
dollar and twenty cents. pve ust sold
five hundred Bushels for that"
'Impossibev" circulated the farmer.
"Not at all impossible. Don't you know
that by the last arrival from England have
come accounts Of a bad harvest, and that
wheat has taken sudden rise?" ..
"No, don't know any such thing" re-
turned the astonished Ashburn.
"Well, it's so. Where is your newspa-
per? Havn't you rcadit. got mine FRI
day evening, and saw the news. Early on
Saturday morning, found two spectators
ready to buy up all the wheat they could
get at the old prices; but they didn't make
many operations. One How, who preten-
ded to be a fancy sportsman; thrust him
self into my way; but even if | had not
known of rise in the price of wheat,
should have suspected it as soon as saw
him, for read last week Of just such a look.
ing chap as him having got a head Of some
ignorant country farmers by buying up thei
produce, on sudden rise of the Market a
a price below its real value"
"Good day!" said Ashburn, suddenly ap
plying his whip to the flank of his horse
and away he dashed homeward at a gallop
The farmer never sat down to make {
regular calculation Of what he had lost by
stopping his newspaper; but it required M
formaty of pencil and paper to arrive a
this. A difference of thirty cents on eacl
bushel, made the important sum of three
hundred dollars, ard this fact his mind in
stantly Saw.
By the next mail he enclosed one dolla
and a half to the editor of the "Sentinel,
and rc-ordered the paper. He will doubt
less think IA good while, and retrench
a good many points before he orders an
other discontinuance.