Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-10-07
NASRY BUSTED.
Imitation at the COrRers--The
Smash Of the 0nlimited Trust
and Confidence Go IN p a II y---
Thrilling Scenes.
From the Toledo Blade.

CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
Wien Is N TIE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
Sept. 10, 1915.
There is gloom onto the Corners! Our
sun Nv prosperity is set, and my hopes
is blasted. The Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company is not eggsactly
no more, but is near enuff dead to
make il safe to bury it on IA vencher.
Its eyes is sot. After brilyant Ca
reer of five weeks NV eorruscatin along
the sky Nv finance, sheddin blessins at
every jump, its life heZ gone, its bril-
yaDcy hez departed, and it don't cOrrus-
cate wuth cent.
We hevnt suspended, nor tailed, nor
closed our doors, nor nuthin, for the
simple reason that the bank was con-
strueted on an ijee that made failiu i'm
possible, and the closin of doors onnes-
sessary. Ez we don't hey to redeem,
wat shel we fail for? Ez we don't pro-
pose to pay nuthin, wat shell we close
our doors for? Their aint nuthin hide
bound about this bank. The people is
welcome to come in and discuss finance,
and put their feet up on the benches
and spit tobacco joose on the floor, jest
ez friendly ez they choose, and they
may do it ez long ez they choose.
No, the Onlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company aint failed, but its kim
der petered out, eZ it were. 1t liz ex-
pirin of dry rot. Its notes, wich iz its
blood, aint hevin any cirkelashen. The
people don't take EN- with that cheer
fuiness Wich liz nessessary to a proper
bankin bizness. Legislashen don't fetch
EN-. The ordinance wich made death
the penalty for refOosin our ishoBs on
ly worked so far tz takin EN- for taxes.
The corporashen did take EN- for taxes
in pursooance Nv their own legislashen,
and here was where the trouble begun.
The taxes was levied ON q greenback
basis, and the entire levy amounted to
$1,000. Well, the taxes, for the first
time in the history NV the Corners, ,wuz
all pade in full, and with great prom pit
ness. A more prompter set NV tax
payers l never seed.
The Treasurer he'd $1,000 Nv our ish-
ooS, when it was nessessary to buy a
plow and four spades TO do some work
on the roads. In vane he tried to git
EN-. The dealers at home KNOWN
wat currency he he'd to pay in sudden
ly got out NV plows and spades, and
when he went too Louisville, it took
Sl,000uv his currency to pay his fare,
and he offered the hardware dealer the
other $1,000 for the implements he
wanted, but it wouldn't 60. He he'd to
come back without em.
Then he cum and demanded some
currency NV US wich he Good yoose,
wich of course, we hednt got none, and
he became an opponent Nv our system.
Two shoemakers, each with $40, ,000
Nv our money cOodent buy side Nv
sole leather to cOntinyoo their biZness,
and he'd to stop-our railroads and
turnpikes he'd to stop becOz hevin got
to the pint where We he'd 10 hev iron,
and males, and such things, we cOodnt
go on; so all the labGrers he'd to be dis
charged, wich made IA despfit pOpula.
sten all howlin agin US.
But the Wust wuZ yet to come. We
Good hev weathered all this, but alas!
Bascom failedi
This wuz the fnishin blCw-the great
staggerer from Wich the Corners Good
not possibly recover. .. o. .
BascOm made 4 manly, fife, and /
must say did all he Good 10 stand up
for US. He raised the price Nv drinks
to 81 per drink, and when he saw his
barls rapidly failin, he tried to keep
the Corners agoin by waterin his lik-
ker jest eZ we he'd &atered the cur
rency.
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 EN- to pay out our money ef
they got anything whatever for it. But
they WoOdnt 40 wet BdScom most de-
sired-that is TO say they woOdnt stand
his watered whisky. They sed to him:
"Ef 81 drink aint enuff charge. "a.
Its all Wun to us. Set EN- up agin."
And the bar-room full wood step up
and take suthin, and the man who ask
ed 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 10 restock his bar. He said
che dealers in louisville laffed in his
.ace when he offered en- our money for
likker, and he he'd but two balls left
And them two barlS was Vizably
shrinkin every mint. 1t seemed ez
though the populis got insane for lik-
ker at the very time that we didn't
want em to hewitt. For the fust time
in my life ! wanted the Corners to be
temprit, for every drop drawd from
the barls brought our bank that much
nearer its end. 1 sot opposite Bascom's
and saw the crowd go in with a sinkin
senshashen that wuz akin TO death.
Drink by drink it went, and ez ef they
coodnt eggshaust it fast enpff by the
single drink they got to con1in for it in
tin dippers.. ~ = s-.