The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-12


spades. and when be went to Looisyille i
took $1,000 10 our currency TO pay hi
fare, aud he offered the hardware dealer
tho other $1,000 for the implements b.
wanted, but it woodeut 60. He he'd [,
come back without EN-.
Then he came ard demanded some cur
rency Nv US wich he Good yoose, wich u,
course we hedu't got none, and he becuu
an opponent to our system.
Two sboemskers, each with $4,000
Nv our money, coodent buy a side u,
sole leather to conlioyoo their bizuis
with, and he'd to stop our raorodes auc
turnpikes he'd to stop, becoz, bevn got tt
the pint wher We he'd to bev iron am
males aud sich things, we coodent 20 90
So all the labrors he'd to be discharged
which made desprit populashen, al
howlin agin us.
But the wust was yet to come. W,
Good hev wethered all this. but alas
Bascom failed.
This wuz the finishin blow--the prea,
staggerer wich the Corners could moi
possibly recover from.
| attempted to reason with the poople
| told em that one reason NV our wealth
~uz tba; We bed it in currency that We
coodent send away from home. thus keen,
ln our eapitul within ourselves but the y
refused to listen to me. They id my
bauk, they id me, and they went foI
the bank. swearing that eff tbero wuz apy.
thing there that Good be converted iptc
ikker Bascom shood hev it. 1t is onnes.
sary to remark that they didn't fiud any.
thing. Autissipstin au onplcasantpess
we bed removed the vslooables to a place
NV safety, wich wuz the underside Nv nv
bed at Dcekin Pogrsm's
Then they demanded that the money
they held be redeemed into su,hing they
Good yoose, but Nv course we declined to
discuss the matter, reierrn them to the
terms Nv the ishoo ez expressed on the
notes. ez well e. their own Endorsement Nv
the skeem.
But this didn't satisfy EN-. They de.
li5erately brought out S675.O0O Nv the
iehoos Nv the various bauks. and piIn Nv
it up on the street, snt FIRE to it, daucin q
demoDiac dance around it. This amoozed
me, for Of course bed no earthly otjeck.
shen TO their redeemin Nv it in that wuy.
but when l seed EN- rigsin ropes TO the
trees in that viSiniiy, l remarked to any
fellow officers : "Geutlemeu. your presi.
dent hez pressin bizness 10 yonder forest,
aud | got out ez rapidly ez my poor vast.
ed Inns wood permit. Indeed, wen |
turned and saw ten or a dozen OF the fore
most men Nv the Corners clcst behind
me. and all ohoutiu "IIaug the id
thief y no gentle gazelle that I ever
heerd Nv ever skinned the plain ez did
did not cease ruunin till l got into the
middle Nv the big swamp
Wat become Of the other drekters |
don't know. The last fond look that |
turned toards the bank saw Issaker Ga.
witt ard peekin Posrsm struggliu 10 the
hsnIs Nv the mob, wich wuz playfully
iorciu Nv em to sit down on burnin pile
NV :heir own currency.
n. B.-I hev heered from the Cor
ners. The uugrsteiui people, after hal
k'lln the officers Nv the bank, passed res.
olooshens that we wuz all a pack Nv
thieves, md them ez had sold land and
sich for our money shood 500 for recovery
thereof and :bat they'd hang any Judge
which woodent decide sgin US. Bascom
hez gone back onto u.s. aud hez sold back
to Pollock and Biger the store We bot ov
EN-, and hez got greeubax enuff to git a
few baris OF likker, and hez re opened.
tie hez put the price OF likker down to
FIVE cents agin, and reioozes to take any.
thing for it but nickes and postal curren
cy. He SAYS he amt gettin as many cart
loads OF money ez be did 10 the infasheu
period, but hos Satisfied. The most OF
the ctinsns is bankrupt, and room is ev
Oh why did their faith give
out at the wrong time ?
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