Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-17
CHANGE FOR A HUNDRED.

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turing town not many thousand miles remove
from Lancashire, and the confines Of that neigh
boring county so celebrated for the 'cuteness
of its inhabitants. The railway had brought il
thousands of people that morning, fromall part
of the adjacent country, most for business
some for pleasure, some for convenient mix
ture of both. Men came in TO make money
and made il or not, according to circumstan
ces; their wives and daughters came in t.
spend money, and found no difficulty in accom-.
plishing their object other people came in fol
other purposes las will appear before the con.
clusion of this faithful narratiye) and were
equally successful in carrying them out
In the Exchange, merchants and cotton
spinners, and brokers and agents thronged to.
gether, and were as busy as bees in hive
What were they doing? All that cannot say
Hundreds and thousands of pounds change
owners on market day in this same Exchange
without scrap of writing, or earnest TO bind
the bargain. Who can tell what sreek transac-
tions were being clenched? Perhaps some one
was buying up all the cotton in Liverpool per-
| yention that will provide broad-cloth at six
pence yard perhaps that vulgar looking old
| fellow, to whom all are touching their hats, on
account of his reputed wealth, is buying what
he knows very well he never will be able to
| pay for; and who knows but that those sancti-
fed individuals in white neckcloths are con-
tracting for supply of thread, bearing lie
upon its label, in order to cheat the poor
seamstress of her due? Such things are done
we know, thanks to that much-vilified tribunal
Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery.
But we have little to do with the Exchange
and those who frequent it. This great town
which is to be nameless, for certain sufficient
reasons-goes to dinner at o'clock, eats
great deal of cold meat, and drinks great deal
of hot wine; and being town of inferior or
ganzation. gastronomcaly speaking, is not
afflicted with those frightfil consequences from
which any other town of more fashionable and
dyspeptc habits would suffer, Consequently,
about an hour after the time have named
there is lull in the transaction of business
and whilst the bees are on their return to their
The principal jewellers in this nameless town
are Messrs. Elephant & Castle, and goodly
sight their shop window affords upon market
day, especially when the old year is at its gasp
and all the pretty-prettics' for new years
gift are exhibited in glittering rows therein
So thinks an elderly gentleman from the coun-
try, clergyman of the Church of England evil
IDENTIFY, from the spotless white neck-coth,
snug chin, and heavy gold seals that hung
more mgjdrunl, after the fashion of Ourancc ;tors,
from his fob. There is n wcll-to-do creaking
in his carefully polished boots, and smile up
on his.ruddy cheeks that bodies well he is al
together the sort off person at whose table you
would like to have place. and in whose will
You would have no objection to find your name. |
Mr. Elephant (Castle, his partner, is at home)
has high respect for the cloth, so he bows
profoundly to the clergyman as he enters, and
his reverence, who is urbanity itself, bows to
Mr.. Elephant in return. The jeweler is charm
ed. Politeness is not staple commodity in |
this nameless town. Great Is its wealth, but |
the magic tuppence a week. which in some
has been but sparingly expended by
the parents of the present generation Of its
denizens Mr.. Elephant knows gentleman
when he sees one and sending his young man |
to wait upon some other customer attends to
the stranger himself
The supplemented pastor at once states his
errand. Thursday is New Years Day, and
Mrs. Delcimer must have her accustomed pres
ent. What shall it be? Something useful,
you know, not more than thirty, or perhaps
forty pounds.
II iE pleasing to hear the good man speak OF.
money 1t is clear that he prizes it only as the
means of giving pleasure to others.
Many valuable trinkets are exhibited for se-
lection; but were rejected with correspond
ing number of smiles by Mr.. Delcimer, as 'tri-
1es.' At last very solid gold watch with chain
md pendants, heavy and plain, tit for the wife
1f bishop is produced and approved. Fifty
pounds is the price, and whilst Mr.. Elephants
Young man is finding case wherein to pack it,
he Rev. Blank Decimer takes from his pocket
fat black pocket-book, and from its interior
| bank note for one hundred pounds. He was
ust such man as you wolld expect to have
such a pocket-book and such pocket would
iot have been complete without such large
,risp bank note in il. There are some people,
whose very tooth-picks proclaim their respecta-
1ilty.
The Rev. Blank Delcmer was very sorry he
must trouble Mr.. Elephant for change-Mr.