Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-09-16

CoNFKDRIT Y ROADS,
WIcH Is IN THE STATE w KENTUCKY,
~ August 81, 1875.
Eff life ever wuz rose tinted dream
to me at any time doorin my mortle
pilgrimage, this is the precise tune. l
am thereby happy-so- happy, indeed 4,
that the priVashens and troubles that
hev bin thro are faden out of my men,
ory entirely. hev paid Bascom's ac-
count which heZ been runnin iOr SO
many yeers, and his receet in my safe
my SAFE, l say. Proudly l write
these words. My safe! Who-thirty
days ago-wood hev supposed that l
should ever say MY safe! Then 1 hev
two suits of cloze-gOOd ones-which
is one and half more than / hev he'd
sence l was Postmaster under johnson
-Heven rest his sole-I hev two
shirts for the first time in my life, and
L am wearin stockins ! l bev but one
pair ez yet, but one cant rise to the
summit of hooman grandjer at wun
bound. ] shell buy another pair in a
week or two. l think every Bank
President ought to either hev two pare
NV stockings or return to the stern vir-
choos NV the Republic in its better
days, and 90 barefoot. Coin barefoot
or heving change is necessary to the
keepin NV Bank Presidents office in
asweet smellin condition.
But this is digreshen. Suffice 1t to
say, am clothed. 1 pade three dol
lars and a halt pare for them stock
ins-they is cotton--wich is three dol
L, NJ q
worth in the old money, but wat diff
ference does it make? That three dol
lars and half was made by four pulls
on Simpsons printin' press, and when
money kin be made in that way wat
difference does it make wat l pay for
cotton soX?
At the beginnin' we ishood 10, 20, %
and 80 cent currency, but we new quit
that. Prices hev gone up so, under the
general prosperity, that there amt any
thing in the Corners that sells for less
than dollar for one, and the fracksh-
mel currency was decidedto be yOoselis.
Besides, it costs jest eZ mch to print
d ten cent note eZ it does dollar, and
we believe in economizin.
Simpson, the printer, is maxim US q
yoosed to pay him for priniin our bills
by just signin enuf NV EN- ez they
come FROM the press to make his
amount, but lately he hez refoozed to
take our money, and insists on green
'bax. We tried to overawe him, but
when he threatened to publish the fl.
nanshel condition of the President and
Direktors, it.wuz considered advisable
to humor him. 1t is singler that sich
nen throw impediments in the way
NV progress. a5 -.--...' '..t..
The obstacles in the way NV the Bank
that hev thus far developed themselves,
hev bin happily and easily removed.
Bascom demanded wheat wv US 10 ship
to Louisville to git more whisky, and
we he'd to let him hewitt, and take pay
in our own money. And ez he de-
manded that we take our own money
jest the same as greenbax, that bein
the standard in Louisville, we met a
heavy loss. The account stands ez fol-
lows: ---
1000 bushels Nv wheat cost us, in our
own money, at 81 so per bushel.. 81, 500
Sold it to Bascom at Louisville green
back prices, which is 81 per bushel,
takin pay in the same money we he'd
palu 1or 1,O0O
Loss (Which is easily fggered) ed).......-...$3,5 500
We he'd one more trouble, which we
got on easier with. 'Pugsby. the, SHOE
maker, who took our money, run out
NV leather, and when he sent to Eoois-
Vile for more, the merchants there, ez
in the case Nv Bascom, refoOzed to take
our currency. Pugsby knowd Nv Bas-
CONS experience and he came up
snilin to hev US sell him wheat enuff
at greenback prices to renoo his stock
swat kin we do?" I demanded in
dire distress, for really 1 didn't see
why Pugsby shoodent hev wheat to
renoO his stock ez well ez Bascom,
ceptin that whisky is more necessary
to the Corners than leather.
"Dop said Issaker Gavitt, with a
expreshun Nv skorn on his classick
feechers. "Do! And yoo claim to be
finanseers? Hez Pugsby a safe? No?
Well, wher does he keep the $4,000
NV our money? In his desk? Yes?
And that is wooden. And his bildin
is wood. Very COED. Tell Pugsby to
come to.morrer and we will give him
wheat at dollar bushel for all NV our
money he hez got. We hev twenty
four hours, and banks, ez well as ma
shens, kin be saved in twenty-four
hours" az -r-,--.,
And Issaker put someinatches in his
vest pocket-about So worth. Matcbesf
hez gone up 81 so box-our money.
That mite Pugsby's shop burnt up