The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-24

Ieneveri thought, of it. You do not i'm
] agine I would think of -dunning you tor
] such d paltry trife p No, sir. ! came to
solicit YOU a. for the manufacture Of your
mourning suit" - ri,
s5aaWhat mourning suit ?"
..aFor youruncle: No doubt you will
desire two, suits for q change-silk hat,
Grape, with shirt, black studs, etc" ~
"Just now, Mr.. Snip, such an order from
me would be impossible" "o. u s.la ..-t Z:
81 hope you don't think, Mfr. Mac Arone,
of withdrawing your patronage. You
know my materials are prime, my work
men first class, and my prices as moderate
as you can find them -even:ins st. Louis" !"
.!iItell you again,,I have not yet re-
1 ceived-"'at YRS. 49, - - =" '
gsI beg Of you, my dear Mr.. Mac Arone,
not to speak of money, I am not pressed,
it will come soon enough" and Mr.. Snip,
/ who had already taken out his scissors,
passed his measure around my waist 1
was certainly in want of clothes, and,
therefore, permitted him, TO make his
| measurements. -;srcE g. .,a.. s,.s
No sooner was he gone than another
individual entered. He began 3aa 1s'.7a'ti
"Mr. Mac Arone, you must do me a
great service. - Buy my house aud lot.
You are rich, very rich, you want some
real estate in Kansas City. Forty thou,
sand dollars are nothing to you, and at
present I am in urgent want of money.
1expected Mr.. Hardcash to buy it, but he
does not decide, and / haveisome pressing
engagements to settle" - q sseHpq 'e--.s'.t
"I buy your house what nonsense ?"
| ssIti is no nonsense 1t is a. safe invest
| ment. In two years. it will be worth dou-
BILE the amount. have your word 2 and
he left without giving me time to reply.
So we'll did he circulate the report of
my purchase, that very soon Mr.. Hard
cash, apparently in a bad humor, honored
me with a hurried visit, He at once re-
marked: 49,, Is 20 Il. ,gs. y.
"Mr. Mac Arone, I cannot do without
that house. I thought, ,ait was already
mine. I offered thirty seven thousand FIVE
hundred dollars for it, believing that the
owner would soon and surely come to
terms. But there is no hope of starving
you into an agreement, so without further
preliminaries, I want to offer you an ad-
vance of fifteen thousand dollars on your
bargain"
Fifteen thousand dollars coming to me !!
I scarcely. knew what to make of it. L,
who had so much trouble to procure work;
/. who had toiled so necessarily for seven
ty-fve dollars a month !!
Although but little acquainted with
business, saw in twinkling the advan-
tage to be derived from my position, and
replied:
s.It is impossible, sir, for me to give you
an answer just now. Return by five
o'clock. Meantime l will consider the
matter"
At quarter before the appointed hour
Mr.. Hardcash was before me.
"I had no wish for that house," said /,
"and did not even think about it when the
owner came and begged me to buy it. As
it suits you, and as any other will do as
we'll for me, accept your offer"
"You shall be paid in two weeks, in pa.
per on St. LOUIS" said he, delighted with
nv promptitude in business.
Paper on St. Louis i was so little ac-
customed to financial nomenclature and
proceedings imagined / should send it
thither for payment accordingly wrote
to banking house not far from the post
Office, stating that had certain funds to
invest, and asked advice on the safest
mode. 1t appears the phrase "certain
funds has different acceptations con
change" according to the name and posi-
tion of him who employs it.
The news of my Inheritance must have
reached St. Louis No doubt found its
way into the .sMissouri State Items" of
the papers. Perhaps the mercantile agen-
cies became posted. "Certain funds" sit
uated as 1 was supposed to be, was q
modest manner of specifying a considera-
BILE amount. At least l supposed so, on
receiving an answer from the house to
which wrote.
They said my letter had just arrived in
time to take one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of Iron Mountain
Railroad stock just offered on Change
If l thought that too much, large profit
might be Immediately realized, as it had
rapidly gone up. A postscript in the wri-
ting of the president, who is an oily hyp-
ocritical fnancier, congratulated me on
my access to fortune.
A hundred and fifty thousand dollars |!
The letter fell from my hands. The sum
frightened me. l telegraphed instantly
to my correspondent that so large sum
was beyond my means, that l had no re-
mittances as yet from Helena, Montana,
and that was not then able to satisfy
their claims.
My reply came in a couple of days, say
ing that in accordance with my implied
wish, they had disposed of the stock at
profit of seventy.fve thousand dollars,
which was placed to my credit. They
begged of me not to be uneasy, as they
were aware that in consequence of the
troubles on the overland route the Union
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