The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-27

camfene Eff | had some Scotch
stuff il wood help. viii hold out e.
long ez possible. But It's terrible. A
man jist come in and demands a gal
Ion B."
wenty minits thereafter Bascom
ut this;
Have jist put spiggot in the
last barl, and the Corners is howl
In. 1t won't last an hour. B."
Then an expedient sejested itself t.
me. | sent this note:
Thine is. everything. Bust tbs
spiggot and delay DRAWN. NJ
Wich be did, thus keepin the wolves
at bay for an hour, while it was beiI
repaired.
But why horror the public buzun
with the details Nv this painful story
The end wuz inevitable. Drop by
drop drink by drink, pint by pint
that Ekker wuz ebbin away, apc
each drop weakened the bank. The
likker wnz our life-blood, and ez i
flowed we wiIted. Waterin the bar
wuz merely palliative-and it wul
with feelin of relief that | saw
George w. throw up his bands and
exelaim:
"lt's all gone but gallon, wich
shell keep for my own use. Its al
gone, and l can't get another drop il
Louisville"
Aud he dropt bis head desponding
ly on pile w over $4,000 Nv our
currency, wich be hadn't taken of
the bar, and wept despondingly.
"Why can't you git more?" de.
manded the excited populis.
"Becoz | amt got no money but
this, and 700 eoodent git a barl nv
whisky in : ooisville far a carload
Nv it,"
i attempted to reason with the peo-
Pile | told them that one reason Nv
our wealth wuz that we bed it in a
currency that we coodent spend
away from home, thus keepin our
capital among ourselves, but they re-
foosed to listen 10 me. They id
my bank-they id me. They
went fur the bank, determined Ell
tber wuz anything there that could be
turned into likker, Bascom shocd hev
it, IL is unnecessary to remark that
they didn't find anything. Antlepa,
tin an onpleasantnis, We he'd removed
the valyoobles to place uv safety
wich wuz the under side Nv nv bed
at Deekin Pogram's.
Then they demanded that the mon.
ey they held be redeemed into some
thin they Good yoose, but nv course
we declined to discuss the matter, re.
ferrin them to the terms of the ishoC
ez expressed on the note, ez well
ez their OWE Endorsement Nv the
skeem.
But this didn't satisfy EN-. They
delibera ELY brought out S675, 900 w
the ishoos Nv the various banks, anC
pilin it up on the street. set fire to it
dancin a demoniac dance around it
This amoosed me, for NV course
he'd no earthly objeckshun to thei
redeemin Nv it in that way, but wher
| seed EN- riggin ropes to the trees ii
the visinity. | remarkt to nv fellow
officers: Gentlemen, your Presiden
hez pressfu bizniz in y0nder forest!'
and got out ez rapidly ez my pool
wasted Inns would permit l AatteI
myself that | made tollable time fOr
a man ofmy age, whose strength is
mostly in his stumick. Indeed, wher
| turned and saw ten or dozen Nv
the foremost men nv the Corner:
close behind me, and all shoutin
Hang the Id theeil" no gentle
gazelle that ever | heerd NV ever
skinned the plain ez | did. | did
not cease runnin till | got into the
middle Nv the big swamp, in e plact
| knowd wuz sekoor from EN-.
Wat bekum Nv the other Direckter;
| don't know. The last fond l0ob
that | turned towards the Bank
saw Issaker Gavett and Dekin Pog
ram struglin in the bands Nv The
mob, wich wuz playfully forcin EN- tC
sit down on burnin pile Nv their
own currency.
| am in deserted swamp wict
wuz yoosed by runaway niggers il
the old times, and am fed by a mig
ger farmer who hez not heered w
the kollapse, and consequently take:
his pay in the Unlimited.
Ef the moose ever gets to him Nv
the reel condishun Nv things. and be
shets off supplies or reveels my
whereabouts, | am lost man.
Wat changes there is in life A
week ago a suekcessful fnaEseer anC
the pet Nv the populis-the Savior Nv
the Corners? To-day hunted fugi
tive livin On corn hee-cakes fur
nished by niggerl One needs to be
q filosofer.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
Late President of The Unlimited
Trust and Confidence Company,
n. B-I heerd from the Corners
The ungrateful people, after bal
KILN the ofiisers of the Bank, passed
resolooshens that We wuz all pack
of thieves, and that them ez he'd sold
land and sich for our money shOod
500 far recovery thereof, and thai
they'd hang any Judge or joory wict
woodent decide agin Us.
"Bascom hez gone back onto u:
and haz sold back to Pollock and
Bigler the store we bought nv EN-
and hez got greanbax enuf to get 9
few barls OF likker, and hez reopened
He hez put the price of likker dowr
to 5 cents agin, and refooses to take
anything for it but nickles or posta
currency. He sez be aint gettin el
many cart loads Nv money ez be die
10 the infiashen period, but he's sat
is6ed. The most NV the citizens i;
bankrupt and room is everywhere
oh, why did their faith give out a
the wrong time! P.Y. y.
Centennial Hall Blown Down.
PHII ADFIPUIt October 10
About noon to-day high wind blew