The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-08

ness. Legislashen don't fitch EN-. Th
ordinances, wich made death the penalt
for refoosin our isshoos, only workt $
far II takin NV EN- for taxes. The col
porashen did take EN- for taxes in pur
sooanee NV their own legiSlashen. an,
| here wuZ where the trouble begun. Tn
taxes wuz levied on a greenback basis
and the entire levy amounted to IS, 900
| Well, the taxes for the first time in n,
histry NV the Corners .wuz al pade il
full, and with great promptness. 4
more prompter set NV taxpayers | never
seed.
The treasurer he'd IS, 600 NV our ishoo.
when it becum nessary to buy a plow
and fur 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, suddenly got out Nv
plows and spades, and when he went to
Louisville it took 81, 900 in our currency
to pay his fare, and he offered the hard
ware dealer the other 81, 900 for the i'm
plements he wanted, but itiwoodent go.
He he'd to come back without eIn.
Then he came and demanded some
evrrency NV us wich he Good yoOse. wich
NV course, we hedn't got none, and he
beeum an opponent to our system.
Two sboemakers, each with $40, 900
NV our money, coodent buy a side NV
sole leather to cOntinyoo their bizniss
with, and he'd to stop, our ralerodes and
turnpikes he'd to stop, becoz, hevin got
to the pint wher we he'd to hev iron and
males and sich things, We coodent go on.
So all the labrers he'd to he discharged,
which made a desprit populashen, all
howlin agin US,
But the wust wuz yet to come, We
Good hev wethered all this, but alasl
BAsCOM FAILED.
This wuz the finishin blow-the great
staggerer wich the Corners Good not
possibly recover from.
Bascom made manly fife, and must
say did all that he Good to stand up for
us. He raised the price Nv drinks to S2
a drink, and when he saw his barls rap
idly failin he tried to keep the Corners
agoin, by waterin his -likker ez We he'd
watered the currency.
But theze expedients didn't work. The
higher the price he put on his ikker the
more the people seemed to want to drink
NV it. 1t seemed to be a delite to em to
pay out our money ef they got anything
whatever for it. But they woOdent do
wat Bascom most desired-that is to say,
they woodent stand his watered whiskey.
They sed to him, ''Ef 8 n drink amt
high enuff, charge 81. It's all wun to
u.s. Set EN- up agin."
And the bar-roon full would step up
and take suthin, and the man who askt
elm wood throw down Oh the bar a peck
of our currency and tell Baseom to help
himself.
Bascom come to us and begged that
we shood let him hev suthin that he
Good yoose to re-stoek his bar He sed
the dealers in Louisville lafred in his
face when he offered em our money for
likker, and he had but two barls left.
And them two barls wuz Vi2ably
shrinkin every mint. 1t seemed eZ tho
the populis got insane for hkker at the
very time when we didn't want EN- to
hev it. For the first time in my life,
wanted the Corners to be temprit, for
every drop drunk from those barls
brought our bank that much nearer its
end. l sot opposite Bascom's and saw
the crowd go in with sinkin sensashen
that wuz akin to death. Drink by drink
it went, and, ez eff they coodent eggsaust
it fast enough by the single drink, they
got to comm for it in tin dippers,
"How does it hold out" wuz the mes
sage sent him at 10 \. NJ,
The anser come prompt:
"10.5 A. NJ. Wun barl untutched,
twenty gallons in the other, and sinkin
evry mint. b."
Then | sent this:
"1O.1O. Fill her up with water. Keep
JefTson Davis a pourin in. Hold the
fort N"
And tine answer come:
"1O.15. Jeffson Davis is a histin in
water ez fast ez he kin carry it. Mrs.
Bascom is a rinsin out old barls, 10 wiCh
she adds kyan pepper and camfene. Ell
| he'd some Scotch snuff it would help.
VIII hold out ez long ez t'spossible. But
it's terrible. A man jist come in and
demanded a gallon, b."
Twenty minits thereafter Bascom sent
this!
''Hev iist put a spiggot in the last bari.
and the Corners is a howlin. 1t won't
last an hour. b.
Then an expedient segested itself to
me. sent this note:
Time is everything. Bust the spig.
got. \;
Wich he did, thus keepin the wolves
at bay for an hour, while it was bein re
paired.
But WAY h grow the public buzum
with the detales L., this painful story
The end wuz inevitable. Drop by drop
drink By drink, pint 10y pint, that likkel
wuz ebbin away, and each drop weak
ened the bank. That likker wuz oul
Ife-blud, and ez it flowed we wilted.
Waterin the bari wuz merely pallia
tive: and it wuz with feelin NV relic
that saw George w. throw Up his hand
and exclaim: ''It's all gone bot gallon
wieh I sheI keep fer my own yoose. 1t
! all gone, and l can't git another drop IL
Louisville.
And he dropt his head despondinly oI
a nile nv about S12, 900 NV our currency
wicb he hedn't taken off the bar, an
wept despondinly.
why can't 700 get more z demande
the excited pOpulis.
ssBecoz l amt got no money but this
and 700 coodent get bari up whlske
in Louisville for ear load NV it. y
l attempted to reason with the people
told EN- that one reason NV our wealt
WIZ that we he'd it in currency tha
we coodent send away frum home, thu
keepin our capitul within ourselves, br
they refoozed to listen to me. They d
my bank, they id Inc, and they wei
for the bank, sweaFih that ef ther WI