The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-09

ed, Tor money wuz with us no ob;eck Tba
| nlgh prices brot all the trade for twsntv m;ies
arouoo 10 tne corners, and all the dealers who
| in ii. " 'i iniouies
| linen my turn come. Pntin to the crowd.
| Nv people in Bascom's, l sed to the donbter.N
| WIZ trade ez brisk ez that before ipfia-
/ shun?" which settled him.
Improvements are bein projected evarv aor
we heV organized a company to build branch
ioau from here to Seeessionville another over
20 Bloody Fork, and still another TO little An
uerso9viiie Five turnpike companies hev been
ali. nn1e anu tnree factories hev been actoo-
saiy commenced Tne water-power on the Run
Jist above The village is to be improved at wunst
anu Bascom is alreddy at work on a wing to
tne back part of the grocery. Town lots ara
douolln In Valyoo every day. and new adisluns
are bein perpetyooally laid out Everybody ia
spekeiatip, and everybody is gettin rich. T6ere
shiouists.
am president nv all these compnies, and
see no reason why can't put em through. 1t Is
ttoo tue price Nv everything hez gone up The
commonest niger labor is now S8 day. and a
pair Nv pegged boots is wuth S20 but wat DIFF
tererce does that m Ike? So long ez Simkins.
the printer, kin work his press We kin manu-
lackter al the money we want; and ez long ez
we KIN manufackter money, there must be
prosperity ~
Pollock and Joe Biggler we he'd to git red nv.
Tor they wuz prejoodissen the people agin us.
Pollock stock NV dry goods and his store wuz
wuth, in the old times before the era of iDfia-
shun, about a Thousand dollars, and Bascom
ana me and Deekin Pogram went to him and
oHsred MIN that sum for bis property.
,, ffhlngs hez raised" sed he. "and won't
sell for less than $780,
we promptly accepted that price, and sent
boy back to the bank with bushel basket 10
sring the money. When it came Pollock re-
foosed to take it,
II want greenbax," sez he.
Our money is Jest as good" sell
Il know 1t" seq be, "bat have a preioodis
In favor nv other money"
There wuz crowd about, aud it wood never
do to acknowledge that any money wuz better
than ours. took Bascom to one side
u. W." sez /, here is a golden opportunity
10 DO two things First we get rid of a dis
turoef, and second we give confidence to our
paT him in en-"
u. w. consented and il wuz dona in the
presence NV the people.
"Yoo see" sed l, my friends, that we'd lest
ez soon pay greenbax ez our own money"
The crowd was reassured and took our bills
ez reddlly ez ever. POLLOCK and Bigler gave ND
the property, but they didn't leave the village.
On The contrary, they went to the tavern TO
to board and jeered at us wuss than
ever. They sed they he'd made more muney by
this trausacksheu than they he'd ever made in
the Corners since they he'd landed there
Deekin Pogram Captain McPeiter and Issa
ker Gavitt hev all paid off mortgages on their
farms, and hev bot a farm and am gettin I'D
plans Tor manshun befittin my new posishuu.
L hev hnaly struck my gait. Bank President
SCOTS me-l wuz born for it. Eff wuz reliins-
ly inclined shood prav for Wilyum Allen un-
til he'd corns on both knees
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY.
President Nv the Unlimited Trust and Conf.
dence Company
p. S. There's tri1n but still embarasin
trouble okkured. The unprecedented run on
Bascom IN consequence Nv the plentfulness nv
money exhausted bis stock NV lkkers yester-
day, and he sent to Louisville for more The
hkker merchants Nv that mersenary city, ez a
matter Nv form generally require Bascom to
pay for goods afore they ship EN-, to avoid
mistakes. He sent on a thousand dollars NV
our money, and they refoozed to taks it! Ez
be paid all the greenbax he had to Pollock
be can't get supplies, and the Corners ez
Darched Wat to do we don't know We don't
see why our money sboodnt 60 in Louisville.
1t Will take two weeks to ship enough grain to
louisville to exchange for the likker, I'D then
comes another terrible qondary. Bascom de-
m ands the grain Nv the bank and wants to pay
Tor 1t IN the banks ishoos! And he insists on
hevlD u at wat its wuth in Louisville in green
bax! tinanseern aint the easiest bizness in the
world. Our money started well enuff ON the
cirkle, but there seems to be break in it, Eff
we let Bascom hev that grain and take our
own money for it, were liz our profits? Ef we
don't let him hev the grain the Corners will
die nv drouth! And eff be gifts it our money
must be taken for il, that's all he's got I
might cut the Gorjcn knot by failin, but then
the wheat wood be attached. l shell hold on
and see wat week will bring forth. Proy-
dence never deserted me yit. P. V.N..