Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-27

The panic has come down onto Skeens-
boro and brought her trunk to make a
long visit. Eyerthing in the way of
money is as tight as new pair of we'd
ding boots.
Old Mr. Squeezem, who is worth
800, 900, and doesn't owe anything
worth speaking of, is so hard up that he
couldn't pay poor laborer SO. so which
he owes him for digging ditch for him,
so the latter has got the distemper. The
poor Mr.. Squeezem was actually COM
PEELED that same day to buy new set of
jcwelry for his oldest daughter and a
bran new shot gun for his son, to keep
them from starving.
Tight times? Yes sir zee. Everybody
has caught the disease.
If Jones has twenty dollars in his
pocket. he won't pay Brown a bill of
s., and Brown he thinks everything is
going TO smash, so he hangs onto them
$50 he has and refuses to pay a bin Of
81 for pew rent, which makes the min
lister hard up, as the church can't pay
him his salary The minister, then,
being unable 70 pay his debts, makes the
store-keeper hard up, and as all such
critters can't deposit any money in the
bank the banks can't let any of their
customers have any money on good en-
dorsed notes, and, consequently notes 90
10 protest, and bust-up takes place.
Tight times is caused by everybody
hanging on to their money tight, and
crying out, ''Panic!"
May be this haint hunky time for
men who are not in the habit Of paying
bills even in good times.
biII To cpr,1o of fl,iS rlacc a,,I
they meet your clerk with a smiling
countenancc, and inform him. "That-
well-the fact is, you see-tell your
master that-ahem that the panic has
made money so tight that | really can't
pay"
No one pretends to pay up. Every
man has got the panic. It's worssen
than the epizooty of last year 1t is a
perfect millinium for those who don't
like to pay, which makes it a decided
bell for those who do.
A man here in Skeensboro paid a bill
yesterday of $50 to a store-keeper. The
store-kceper paid it to a farmer for a
debt he owed him; the farmer paid il to
wagon-maker for bill he owed him
the wagon-maker paid ii to blacksmith;
the blacksmith paid il TO a hardware
the man who paid il out first that morn
ing. At night all of these men went to
bed happy, while the first owner Of the
fifty dollars became the owner Of it in
the end.
Between you and me the, panic would
get up and move mighty lively if the
people wonld only rattle a little. money
at 'eu Nothing like a lively scattering
Of grcenbacks, and general knocking of
the idea out of your head that your
neighbors are all consarned highway
men, or sneak thieves, to drive off
paniGs. Even the women and children
have got the panic fever One poor
maiden in the village hain't had but two
new B0nnets, and three. new silk fFocks
this. fall, because of the tight times,
while all of the Skeenshoro school chill
dren have been obliged to cut themselves
down to ohlyt two sticks of chewing gum
per week. ....s .-... 81. .,...s. +
Every way a feller turns its ''panic,
slight times, - mo money!" and CrQak
ing and fault-fiuding generally. Let
every man, pull up his gloomy and long
face. Let a general feeling of conf.
denGe come back to us. Let us all pay
each other what we owe, and yoa can
bet a peck of potatoes to a rotten apple.
that this ere panicky ghost that is knock.
ing things, Will get up and dust out, and
leave men to go on in the even tenor of
their ways Yes sir /, the Late
Justice, says so. Always dowa on the
panic or any other noossnee.
:. 5 IL. ~ HIRAM GREEN, ESQ.,
81 -. ..-.s, Late Justice of the Peace.