Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18

sash of ladder room window along
with the end of that bath and other
things and pot of paint, with rush
that would have done credit to a
comet.
The ladder stopped at the window
sill, but Duddybauger and the paint
pot kept right on. He looked around
for something to stop against, too, but
as he didn't see anything nearer than
the bath room floor, he thought that
he might as well see the thing through
anyhow and get rid of such terrible
suspense, so he just sailed on and
brought up just where he had intended
to, on the floor, along with a lot of
tin and paint, and glass, and wood
splinters, and stars, and things, and it
occurred to him that the party who
moved out just as he came in possess
ed great deal more Judgment than
clothes, and was remarkably agile and
decided for one so old This inter
ested him so that he sat there and
thought it over and some other things
until his wife came for her sisters
clothes, and then he got up and went
down stairs, and after asking his wife
to apologize to her sister for him, he
went ont to the woodpile and delivered
an Grafton, in which he said that paint
ing wasn't his best hold, but he thought
if he had about the right kind of
stick he might possibly satisfy the
public as to his ability to scratch that
hogs back for him.
For week after *his Duddyhauger
divided his spare time between watch
ing for that hog and picking little
pieces Of glass out of his hands, and
trying TO make up with his sister-in-
law; but as he didn't succeed much he
cooled himself of. and went to work
and repaired his fences Danbury
News.
- An interviewer Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer has broached Senator Thur
man-if the Sunday News will permit
us the use of the word. The tap was
reasonably successful. The Senator
stated the obvious fact, famillier
enough to our readers, that the stagna-
ton of business could not be the re-
suit of q scarcity Of currency, for the
very good reason that we have 26
millions more currency now than we
had in the flush times before the panic.
The panic was simply the arrival Of
pay day after extravagant expendi-
lures begotten of plethoric currency !;
this was followed by retrenchment-
retrenchment every rywhere, National,
State, private. Governments, corpor-
ations and individuals Immediately be-
gan to econOmize. Congress is cut
ting down appropriations by millions, -
SAYS Senator Thurman 1.-THE rail
road corporations, great and small,
are in the same category. They buy
fewer rails, locomotives, cars, ETC.,
than formerly, and limit their expen.
ses to the indispensable. The great
body of the people pursue the same
course They are economizing in or
der to get out of debt, or bring theil
expenses within their means. They
buy less than formerly and generally
nothing but what they actually need
The consequences of all this is thai
manufacturers, merchants, etc, sci
less than for some years past, because
the demand is less, for everybody j:
-economizing. And hence many labor
ers who have found work in factories
shops, and on public improvements
now find it more or less difficult to oh
tain STEADY employment, They, O
all others, most deserve our sympathy
for it was not their errors, speculation
or fast living that produced the dis
tress, But although the present cir
cumstances are trying, the good re
suit of the economy of which I hay
spoken will soon be felt. I am assur
ed bv we'll Informed business men tina
the liquidation Of Indebtedness is pro
ceeding with unexampled rapidity.-
In q short time it will reach the poir
when stagnation ceases and activit
. begins to revive; and should we hav
good crops this year, you will 500
hear nothing about stagnant business.
This is very sound and satisfactory
r Senator Sherman says he is oppose
to- both imitation and contraction
There again we need announce II
new departure to have our reader
p understand that Senator Thurman
homologOus with the best authoritie
. which modesty forbids us to nam
t "Refect little,'' says Thurman, (bt
. they won't refect-they can't refec
senatorD Reflect a little, and yo
| will discover that not one dollar ca
be added to the actual wealth of
v country except by labor. The nom
= nal value of property or labor may
e increased by depreciating the currel
f cy, but the actual value is not enhan
r ed one cent. And yet there are PEI
;. pie who think, or at least pretend
Il think, that all we have to do to g
$ rich, is to set the printing-presses
O work to strike Of pictured shinplas
Il ers"
We are not surprised to learn th
p Senator Thurman does not own half
o. million in Government bonds,
e charged by some Democratic rooste
Il i'll. Government bonds were not
4 vorite investment with the Senate
q during the late unpleasantness. T
r. laid down less than many poor wiz
If ow. in those now so desirable inves
3 ments He did not show faith as lars
# as a grain of mustard seed, in th
10 matter, we have been told that he e
Ie pected to have seen greenbacks e
,r changed for unshelled corn, peck f
a peck, before the war was over. 1t
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