Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-17


shell hev no extravaganza about this
bank"
Pollock, the Illinoy disturber, in
the most brootal manner refoosed to
fetch it, and consekently his bizness
suffered. One shoemaker from Ohio
followed soot, and undertook to argoo
agin so much money. He asserted
the heresy that addin to the volume
of currency didn't add nothing to
its power. Sed he:
'sI will illustrate so the Corners
will comprehend. Yoo take a gal
lon NV whiskev and add to it three
gallons uv water. Well, 700 hev
four gallons in the bari, but there
aint but one gallon NV square drink
in it after all" m
Iansered him by readin copious
extrax from Cary's speeches, shown
that troo prosperity goes hand in
hand with plenty NV money. ~
They finally was convinst and took
our money for their grain, tho we
had to pay them at the beginning
twenty cents bushel more for the
wheat than other money would hev
got it for. But we didn't care, for
we knew we Good make all nv it we
wanted.
1t wuz astonishing wat era Nv
prosperity set in on the Corners to
wunst. Mony became ez plenty ez
blackberries, and everybody had
their pockets full NV it. Land went
| up in valyoo two hundred per cent.
in a week, and the price of the neee-
saries of life raised ekally. Bascom
put up his new whiskey from to 25
cents per drink, and sech was the
run of trade he he'd, that
his wife and oldest son, Jefferson Da-
Wis Bascom, both he'd to stand in the
bar to wait on customers. The bank
bought all the wheat and other pro-
duckshuns and paid for EN- in its own
money, and we paid sech prices ez
happened, for money wuz with US no
objeck. The high prices brot all the
trade for twenty miles around to the
Corners, and all the deelers who
wood take the money stood up to
their middles in it.
Then my turn come. Pintin to
the crowds of people in Bascom's, l
sed to the doubter:
''Wuz trade ez brisk ez that be-
fore infashun ?" which settled him.
Improvements are being projected
every day. We heV organized q
company to build branch road from
here to Secessionville, another over
to Bloody Fork, and still another
over to Little Andersonville. Five
turnpike companies hev been organ
lied, and three factories hev bin ac-
toolly commenced. The water pow
er on the run jest above the village is
to be improved at wunst, and Bas-
com is already at work on wing to
the back part Nv the grocery. Town
lots are doubling IN valyoo every
dav, and new addishuns are being
perpetooaly laid out. EVERYBODY il
spekelating, and everybody is get
| ting rich. There is flush times here.
The people are all infashionists. I
I am president nv all these compa-
MES, and I see no reason why l can't
put EN- through. 1t is troo the price
Nv everything hez gone up. The
commonest nigger labor is now up
tn SS a dav. and a pair Nv pegged
boots is wuth $40, but wat difference
does that make2 So long ez Simp-
kins, the printer, kin work his press
we kin manufackter all the money
we want; and ez long ez we kin
manufackter money, why there must
be prosperity.
Pollock and Joe Bigler we he'd tc
CIT rid NV, for they wuz prjodissen the
people agin us. Pollock's stock u1
goods and store wuz wuth in the old
times before the era NV infashioh
about a thousand dollars, and Bas-
com, me, and Deekin Pogram went to
/ him and offered him that sum for his
"Things hez raised," sed he land
/ 1 wont sell it for less than s2,60O.''
HWe promptly accepted that price
and l sent boy back to the bank
with bushel basket to bring the
money. When it com Pollock re-
foosed to take it.
81 want greenbax," sed he.
1 uOnr noonav is lest eZ 1000. ."sez j
81 know it,n sez he, ''but 1 hev
preioodis in favor NV other money
There wuz crowd about, and ii
wood never do to acknowledge thai
anv money wuz better than ours.
took Bascom to one side.
| &c. w, ,"sez ], "here is a COLDER
opportunity to do two things. First
we get red of a disturber, second tc
give confidence in our ishoos. Rake
up what greenbax 700 hev and pay
him in en-" IL
g. w. consnted, and it wuz done
in the presence NV the people.
'Yoo see," sed 81 my friends, tha
we wood just as soon pay greenba'
ez our own money" III
The crowd wuz reasshoored ant
| took our bills ez readily ez ever
Pollock and Bigler gave up the prop
erty, but they did not leave the vii
| lage. On the contrary they went z
tavern to board and jeered us wus'
than ever. They sed they he'd made
more money by this transackshen
than they he'd ever made in the Cor
ners since they landed there.
Deekin Pogram, Captain McPel
ter. and Issaker Gavitt hev all PalG
off mortgages on their farms, and
bey bot a farm On gettin up plans
for a nanshun beftting my new pos
ition. l am now happy and con
tented. 1 hev FINELY struck my gait
Bank Presidentin scots me- wui
horn for it. Eff / wuz reljusly IN
clined / shood pray for Willyum Al
len until / he'd eorns on both knees
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
President nv the Unlimited Trusi
and Confidence Company.
P. S.-There's a trifin' but still
embarassin trouble okkurred. TIT
unprecedented run on Bascom il
konsekence NV the plentifulness ~
money exhausted his stock of likker
YESTERDAY, and he sent to louisville