Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-10-01
miscellaneous.
NAsBY's INITIATION EXPEREEN-
CES.

| W1CH Is IN THE STATE Nv hENTUCKY,
September II, 1875.
The man wich undertakes to benefit hi:
fellows loads up very heavy contrack,
Half the citizsns Nv the Corners are a-goiu
back in the most ongrateful manner onto
the Unlimited Confidence and Trust Com.
pany. They are a gettin so bushel fol
wheat, and about the same for oats and
corn, and men now tall: Nv thousands witch
never before knowd how to pronounce the
word, but yet they amt happy. They
have hankerin after redemshun of some
sort-they demand to know when this
money Nv ourn is goin to be redeemed in
suthin else-some other kind Nv money
ez tho our money, backed by faith, want
ez good ez any in the world. Ef these
mdconteuts would only take it and look
pleasant, there woodent oe any trouble
abou it.
But these men are not the worst we hey
| to contend with. The citizens which arc
the stanchest supporters NV the new money
hev determined that, if we hev The right
TO isho money, they hev the same rite.
And so four moo banks hev been started
this week.
Mackey and Burns started one, with
Mackey ez President, and Burns ez cash.
lei with them, and niger carpenter ez
the Board Nv Direkters. They hev got the
drop on us by requirln the officers to give
bonds, which they accomplished by hevin
Mackey sign Burns, Burns sign Mack,
ey's, and both sign the niger carpenters.
Then they hev another advantage over us,
Cor they bought their own press and print
their own notes, wich, CT we hey To pay
Simpson, the printer, a profit, enables en-
TO make money cheaper than we kin.
They call their institooshun The Nashne
Reneft Assoshashen,' and hev the bankin
oils In n rackey's bedroom in the Pogram
House.
Scaselv r>-ua .lIio bank histen out money
afore Squire Pettus and Geduey, the shoe
maker, started another, wich they called
1.-The Bessln Diffusion Bank NV North
Ameriky.n with their otis in Gedney'
shoe shop, and they got sahead of US by
printin their notes in two colors, which
must say, gives EN- solvent look.
By this time wheat he'd got up to S29 pei
hushel, and wuz scase at that.
Then .Parkins and Barney, the plasterers,
who he'd made great deal Nv money since
inhashen set in, they he'd to start bank,
wich they called THE Ekitable and In,
sashable Banking Companyof the Yoonited
States,n and they ishood their bills by the
bushel.
Wheat went up immejitly to S3S pei
bushel, and a moo era Nv prosperity sot In.
Before these finanseers he'd got fairly
under way, Butts and Bustard conclooded
they'd go into bankin, and behold one
morin the bills NV the Labor Stimyoola
tin Compauy-I. Butts, President''-made
their appearance. They didn't see no yose
Nv an offs. He Good pay out money on
the street all he wanted TO ef the people
wood tahe it, and ez it never wuznt goin
to be redeemed, wat did he want w an
offs? He wuznt goin to any sich ex'
pense, for he bleeved in economizin. Tc
60 to yooselis expenses wuz to show cul
pable disregard Nv the interests Nv the
people. Wheat went up to S45 per bushel,
and there was more prosperity.
Then the trouble set in in chunks. The
people who wuz not interested in bankir
refoozed, pint blank, to take any Nv theiI
ishoos. Bands wuz q gettin rather toe
t,.okent, and the times wuz gettin rather
loo prosperous. A reackshen okkured
acen our money wich we who wuz inter
ested determined 20 crush to wuntz.
The ofiishls wv the five banks in the town
met md decided to hold meetn NV the
citizens at which steps shoold be taken tt
legalize on, ishoos.
The meetin WIZ held, and NV course We
t,,rr;o5 :. ,,;,ho ut eny trouble, for seven
teu,hs NV en- he'd c ur money In their pock
cts, and they wuz ,''ry favorable ,a,. to an, q;
ackshen that would ket " IL 4 D'iln IL
that end we passed the :. "'''i" '''O'00
shens %.
WAREAs, the Democrisy Nv onio 'n'
Pennsylvany, with singerly JUS "fpio
shiashen NV the wants NV the citize. Is Nv
the Cross Roads, hev demanded II. 'ort
money, and
WAREAs, Five companies hey kerried
out the idee Nv the Democrisy Nv Ohio and
Pennsylvany by furnishin the people more
honey, and
WAREAs, Notwithstandin the onparall-
!. d prosperity that hez remitted from the
n rease in currency, certin men in this
,u moonity, by refoozing to take it, decline
, b benefited, therefore, be it
r, solued, That this meetin Nv citizens
pna nd of the Town Council that II
,vp, ,st convene and pass an ordinance
akin the ishoos Nv the five banks lega