Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-04
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasty ON INFLATION.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
WIcH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
August %, 1875.

NICH is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
August %, 1875.
IF life wuz a rose-tinted dream to me
at any time dOOring my mortle pilgrim
age, this is the precize time. | am thor
oily happy-sO happy, indeed. that the
privashuns and troubles that l hev bin
thro are fadin out of my memory entire
ly. hev paid Bascom's account witch
hez bin runnin for so many years, and
hev his reject in my safe-my SAFE l
say. Proudly write these words. My
safe. Who, thirty days ago, wood hev
supposed that l should ever say My
safe Then hev two shirts for the
first time in my life, and / am wearin
stockins hev but one pare ez yet.
but one cant rise to the summit NV hoo
man graudjer at wun bound. shell buy
another pare in week or two. l think
every bank president ought to either hev
two pare of stockins or return to the
stern virchoos NV the Republic in its
better days, and 20 barefoot. Coin bare
foot or hevin change is necessary to
the keepin NV bank presidents Office
in sweet smellin condition.
But this is digreshen. Suffice it to
say, | am clothed. | pade three dollars
and a half pare for them stOckins-
they is cotton-wieh is three dollars and
a quarter more than they wuz worth in
the old money but wat difference does
it make That three dollars and half
wuz made by four pulls on Simpsons
printin press, and when money can be
made in that way wat difference does it
make wOt l pay for cotton sOx?
At the beginnin we ishOod 10, 20, 20
and 80 cent currency, bat We hev 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 per one, and the frakshnel
currency wuz decided to be yoosless.
Besides it cost jest as much to print a
ten cent note ez it does dollar. and we
bleeve in economizin.
Simpson, the printer, is maxim US a
little trouble. At the beginnin 1 yoosed
to pay him for printing our bills by jest
sinin enuff Nv EN- ez they come from the
press to make his amount, but lately he
hez refoozed to take our money and in
sists on greenbax. We tried to overawe
him, but when he threatened to publish
the inanshel cOndishun NV the president
and direktors it was considered advisa-
bic to humor him. 1t is singler that
such men throw impediments in the way
Nv progress.
The obstacles in the way Nv the bank
that hev thus far developed therselves,
hev bin happily and easily removed.
Bascom demanded wheat Nv us to ship
to Louisville to git more whiskey, and
We he'd to let them hev it, and take pay
IN our own money jest the same as
greenbax, that bein the standard in Lou
isville, We met a heavy loss. The ac-
count stands as follows: 1000 bushels
Nv wheat costs US in our own money, al
$3.50 per bushel, $4,000. Sold it t
Rasrnrn ar Louisville preenback prices
Wich is 81 per bushel, takin pay in the
same money We had paid for it-sl 900
Loss (Which is easily fggered)-S3,5 800
We had one more trouble, which We
got on easier with. Pugsby, the shoe
maker who took our money, run out u,
leather, and when he sent to Louisville
for more, the merchants there, ez in tn,
case NV Bascom, refoozed to take GU,
currency. Pugsby knowd NV Bascom'
experience and he came up smilin to he,
US sell him wheat enuff at greenbacl
prices to renoo his stock.
swat kin we do ?" | demanded il
dire distress, for really l didn't see WIN
Pugsby shoodent hev wheat to renoo hi
stock ez well ez BascOm, ceptin tina
wheat Is more necessary to the Corner
than leather.
"Do?" sed Issaker Gavitt, with a ex
preshun NV scorn on his elassik feechers
Do? And 700 claim to be fnanseers
Hez Pugsby a safe ? No? Well, wher,
does he keep the $4,000 Nv our money
In his desk? Yes 4? And that is wood
en-. And his bildin is wood Very good
, Tell Pugsby to come to-morrer and W
{ will give him wheat at a dollar bush
D ell for all Nv our money he has got. w
E hev twenty-four hours, and banks. g
| we'll ez nashens, kin be saved in twenty
four hours
And lssaker put some matches in hi
e vest pocket-about SO, worth. Matche
o hez gone up to $3.50 box-Our money
$ That mite Pugsby's shop burnt NJ
and the fire commenced jest under hi
desk. The next mornin that unforchni
J, man come to us and insisted on hevi
n the wheat on the score NV the money h
n had NV ours.
e "Bring us the money" said Issakel
: beawin sweetly onto him, "and we
e give you all the wheat you want"
n But 700 know that had yoOr nor
II ey' and that it was burnt up last mite.
, Il persOOm 700 he'd some ov our nor
e ey, but [ don't know it," replied Iss:
IS ker. "No we'll regulated bank kin liy