The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-10-07
NASBY,
Imitation az Ihe COFners-fhe Smash
or the Onifmited trust and Conf
dence CO.--ThrIIllHg Scenes.

0fHCt LU---INfEllnS oCCuCs
INTHE SWAMP NEAR,
- ACOxFEDRIT Y ROADS, "
WICH Is IN THE STATE wv KY,
Sept. 16, 1875. -
Th-rs Is gloom onto the Corners 7
Our sun nv prosPerfty is sot. and my
hopes is fITasted. The ODIimitsd
/. Trust aud Confidence Company is got
eggsacklV no more. but is near enuff
dead {, sszks its2fs to bury it -oI \
vencher. IL eyes Is sot. After a
brilyant caneeriOf five weeks Of eJrus-
catin along the sky Nv finance, SHED
din blessings at every jump, Its lite
iiiez gone, its brilyancy heZ departed
and il dnn't corruscate wuth q cent.
We hevnt suspended, nor Jailed,
nar cIcseli Out doors, nor nothin, for
ft1g siInpl,s reason that the bank was
seonstrueted On an ijse that made
faifin ffnp possible, and the ciosfn Nv
doors Onneasary. Ez We dnn,t bag
To redeem, wat sheI we fail for t? Ez
We don't perpose to pSy nOthin, wat
shel we close our doors for Fnef
aintuothingfh fhide-bODad5 about Ghis
CONE 10 aud iscuss finance, and pat
ther feet up on lhe benches and spit
tobacker jJOse on the h1Irs jest ez
! friendly "a they choose, and they
may do it eZ long ez they OhOass.
No, the Onlimited Trust aud Con-
fidenee Company aint failed, but its
kinder petered out, ez IT were. y II Is
expirin NV dry-rOt. Its notes, wich
is it, blood, ANT hsyin any cirkelAsh-.
en-. The people don't take en- with
that cheerfulness Wi0h is necessary TO
a proper baKin bizness. Lsgislashen
don't teteh- em. The ordinance
which made death the penalty for re-
refonsiu- our ishOos only worked so
far cz takin EN- for taxes. fne cor
porasben did take eM for taxes in
pursoOance Nv their own legislashen,
and here Wuz where the trouble be-
gun. The taxes WIZ levied on a
greenbaek basis, and the entire levy
amounted TO 5000. Well, the taxes,
for the first time in the history Nv
the Corners, vuz al pade in full and
with great promptness. A more
prOmpter Set Nv taxpayers l never
seed.
The Treasurer he'd 5000 NV our
ishOos, when it wuZ necessary to buy
a plOw aud four spsds to do some
work on the roads. In vane he tried
to git EN-. The dealers at home
knOwin wat currency he he'd to pay
in suddenly got out nv plOEs and
spades, and when he went to LoOis-
vile it took 81 900 NV his currency to
pay his fare, and he offered the hard
ware dealer the other 1900 for the
implements he wanted, but it
wouldn't go. He he'd 10 come back
without EN-.
Then he co ne and demanded some
currency NV us which he Good yOIse,
wich, Nv course, we hedn't got none,
and he become an opponent NV our
system. -
Two shOemakers, each with SIC, 600
Nv our money cJodent buy y side Nv
leather to continyOO their biznes with
and he'd To stop-our railroads and
turnpike he'd to stop beeOZ, hevin got
to the pint where We he'd To hev iron
and males and sich things, we coOdent
go on; so all the laborers he'd To be
discharged, wich made desprit pop
ulasnen all howlin agin us.
But the wust wuZ yet to come. We
Good hev weathered all this, but alas
BASCOAI FAILEDi
This wuz the finishin blow--the great
staggerer from wich the Corners Good
not possibly recover.
.B4scom made a manly fite, and |
must say did all that he could to stand
up for US. He raised the price NV
drinks to 81 per drink, aud when he
saw his barls rapidly faIlin, he tried
to keep the Corners agOin, by water
in his likker, jest as we he'd watered
the currency.
But these expedients didn't work.
The higher the price he put on his lik
kers the more the people seemed to
want to drink Nv it. 1t seemed to be
a delite to iem to pay out our money
eff they got anything watever for il.
But they woodent do wOt BascOm
most desired--that is to say they
woodent stand his watered whisky.
They sed to him "Ef 81 a drink amt
enuff charge 81. It's all wun to us.
Set 'em up agln."
And the bar-roOm full wood step up
and take snthin and the man who
asked 'em wood throw down on the
bar a peck Nv our currency and tell
Bascom to help himself.
Bascom come to US and begged that
we shood let him hev suthin that he
Good yOose to re-stock his bar. He
said the deelers in louisville latfed in
his face when he offered em our mon
ey for likker, and he had but two
barIs left.
And them two barlS waz viZ4bly
shrinkin every mint. It seemed ez
though the pOpulis got insane for lik-
ker at the very time that we didn't
want EN- to hev IL. For the fust time
in my life / wanted the Corners to 10
temperit, for every drop drawd from
the barls brought our bank thst much
neerer its end. sOt opposite Bas-
CONS and saw the crowd go in with
a siukin. sensashen that wuZ akin to
death. Drink by drink it went, and
ez ef they cOodent eggshsust it fast
enuff by the single drink they got to
comm for it in tin dippers.
allow does it hold out ?' wuZ the
message sent him ct 10 A. M.
The anser came prompt:
1905 A. M,-W1n bari untuched-
20 gallons in the other, and siukin
every mint.
b.
Then l sent this:
10:10.-Fill her up with water.
Keep Jeffson Davis pOurin in. Hold
the fort. n.
And the anser came
I0:l5.-Jelfson Davis is q histin In
waiter ez fast ez he kin carry it. Mrs.
Bascom is a rinsin out old barrels, to
Wich she adds kyan pepper and cam
fene. Ell / he'd some Scotch snuff it
wood help. Will hold out eZ long ez
possible. But it's terrible. A man
jist come in and demands a gallon.
B.
Twenty minits thereafter Baseom
sent this
"Have jist pat spiggot in last bari,
and the Corners is hOWlin. 1t
won't last an hour" B.
Then an expedient sejested itself to
me. l sent this note:
"Time is everything. Bust the
spiggot aud delay drswin," n.
Wich he did, thus keepin the wolves
at bay for an hour while it wuz bein
repaired.
But why harrow the public buzzum
with the details NV this painful story
The end wuz inevitable. Drop by
drop, drink by drink, pint by pint
that likk wuz ebbin away, and each
drop weakened the bank. That likker
wuz our life-bloOd, and eZ it flowed
we WiIted. Wsterin the bsrl wuz
merely a pallatiye-and it wuz with q
feeIin Nv relief tnat [ saw Geo. w.
throw up his hands aud exclaim
"It's all gone but gallon, wich l
shel keep for my own yoOse. It's all
gone, and can't git another drop in
Looisville.n
And he drOpt his head despOn denly
on a pile Nv over $4,000 NV our cur
reney, Wieh he hadPt taken off the
bar, and wept despOndinly.
"Why can't you git more ?'i de-
manded the excited populis.
"BeccZ l amt got no m"ney but
this, and 700 cOOdent get q barl Nv
whisky in l. lOisville for q car load NV
it."
attempted to reason with the peO-
pie. 1 told em that one reason Nv
our wealth wuZ that we bed it IN cur
rency that we cOodent spend away
from home, thus keepin our capital
among ourselves, but they refoOse1 to
listen to me. They id my bank
they d ID me. They went for the
bank, determined ef there wuz any
thing there that Good be turned into