Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-04

pint of his bildin a new house, We hev
benefited him and the commoonity ez
well. But eff to avoid the inconvenience
Nv redeemin that money we hev to burn
the house, wat good hev we accomplish
ed? None. We hev got to find some
other way. but no doubt it will sejest
itself to me in time.
1t is astonishin how the Corners is
boomin, now that it hez money enuff
Five new ralerodes are bein built,
twelve new turnpikes, one hundred and
twenty-eight new eellers for new houses
is bein dug. and last week the corner
stuns for eight factrys wuz lade with ap-
proprit ceremonies The gradiu is bein
dun on the ralerodes and turnpikes, and
that part Nv the work willed be pushed
to an early compleshun, for the labrers
furnish their own shovels and picks and
take our money for wages. The labrers
buy their Twin Nv the farmers along the
line with that money, and then the far
mers come to the Corners with it. and
cheer Their soles at Bascom's.
So far all is serene and sweet So far
the money sheds blessins. ez skunk
sheds perfoom. But at this pint comes
worry. Wat is Bascom to do with it?
The Louisville merchants refooze to tech
it for likker, and we can't afford to give
him wheat at Louisville prices agin. We
wood bid distillery, but alas We can
not pay for the nails, the glass, and the
stillin apparatus in our money, and amt
got any other. But, thanks to an over
ruin Providence, Bascom hez enuf lik-
ker to last two weeks. and suthin will
turn up afore that is gone.
Valyoos hev gone up so that it takes
a vast volume Nv currency to transact
the biznis NV the Corners. Simpsons
hand-press won't anser the demands
made onto it, and he hez purchased
power-press, which will print 1000
sheets an hour. And to facilitate biznis
and to make it perfectly shoor that we
shell hev all the currency we want. l
hev hired my name and Issaker's engrav-
ed, so that it kin be printed in, thus
savin US the trouble Nv signin EN- with
pen.
Our prosperity is astonishin. Pugsby
gifts $40 pare now for pegged boots a
great deal easier than he yoost to git
81, and Bascom hez put drinks up to so
cents for new whisky and 70 when you
take sugar in it. Lots in the corpora
shun hez quadroopled in valyoo within
the week, and reel estate is changin
hands lively. Good wish, however,
that the ishoos Nv the Unlimited Trust
and Confidence Company Good hev a wi
der cireulashen. took brief vacashun
this week at the Glauber Salt Springs,
and wuz beaten out NV 5000 at cut
throat loo. The gamblers refoozed to
take my money, and WIZ compelled to
leeve my watch with em-that is, Cap
tain McPelter's watch, which l had Dor
rowed to make an imposin appearance.
But it wuz all the same to me, ez / paid
him for it in our own currency. | wu1
OOrry W loose 1t. Tor l he'd depended on
that watch to help us out when we got
into an exceedin tite place.
PETRoLEM Y. NAsBY,
President Nv the Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
P. S.-Another trouble is loomin ur
on the horizon. Perkins, the blacksmith
is out Nv iron and Sampsell, the carpen.
ter. hez to hev jack-plane and two au.
gers. all Nv which hez to be got at Loo
isville, and they demand NV us sicl
money ez Louisville will take. Their
another mortlfyin circumstance happen
ed yesterday. The Directors NV The
Bank had determined to lay the cornel
stun Nv our new bankin edits, witch We
hev commenst, but after announsin th,
event we coodent lay it. A bigger rop,
than any in the Corners wuz nessary t.
lift the massive stun to its place Nv,
he'd 1t massive as an emblem of our so
lidity) but we coodent rake up enuf
currency that they'd take in Looisyill,
to buy one. So that corner stun ain
laid, and the work on the bulldin,
spose. will hev to stop till we kin turf
up suthin. Theirs crisis approchin.
P.V. n.
The St. Adams butter market Sent
70, was quite active Common to fair
Is to 20 cents fair to good, 20 to 2!