The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-10-06
NASBY.
Imitation at the Corners. The Smash
of the Unlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company---'rhriIIin scenes.

dence CoInpany--'fhriIlsng scenes.
From the Toledo Blade,I
In THE SWAMP, NEAR CoNFEDRIT ]
x ROADS, WICH Is IN THE
STATE wv KENTUCKY.
September 16, 1875.
There is a gloom onto the Corners
Our sun NV prosperity is sot, and my
hopes is blasted. The Unlimited
Trust and Confidence Company is not
eggsackly no more, but is near onuff
dead to make it safe to bury it on a
voucher Its eyes is sOt. After
brilyant career of five weeks of corrus
eating along the sky Nv finance, she'd
din blessings at every jump, its life
hez gone, its brilyancy hez departed,
l.and It don't eerrHscate wuth cent.
We hevnt suspended, nor failed,
nor closed our doors, nor nothin, for
the simple reason that the bank was
i constructed on an ijee that made fail
in impossible and the elosin Nv doors
| onnessary. Ez we don't hev to re-
deem, wat shel we fail for? Ez We
| don't perpose to pay nothin. wat shell
| we close our doors for? Their amt
nothin hide bound about this bank.
The people is welcome to come in and
discuss finance, and put ther feet on
the benches and spit tobacker ioosc
on the floor, jest ez friendly ez they
choose, and they may do it ez long ez'
they choose.
No, the Unlimited Trust and Conf
dence Company amt failed, but it's
kinder petered out, ez it were. 1t is
expirin OF dry rot. Its notes, wlch is
! its blood, aint hevin any cirkelashsn.
i l., hof
cheerlulness wich is necessary to a
don't fetch en- The ordinance wich
made death the penalty for refoosin
our ishoos only worked so far ez TAX
in EN- for taxes. The corporashen
did take EN- for taxes IN pursooance
NV their own fegislashen, and here
wuz where the trouble begun. The
taxes wuz levied on a greenback basis,
and the entire levy amounted to
time in the history NV the Corners,
wuz all pade in full with great
promptness A more prompter set ot
taxpayers | never seed.
The treasurer he'd $1,000 Nv our
| ishoos, W hen ii wuz necessary 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
| kpowin wat currency he he'd to pay In
suddenly got out Nv plows and spades,
and when he went to Louisville it
| took 81 600 NV his currency to pay his
fare. and he offered the hardware
| dealer the other 81 600 for the imple-
| ments he wanted, but it wouldn't go.
He he'd to come back without EN-.
1 l. 1a, oH
currency NV US wich he Good yoose,
wich NV course, we hednt got none,
and he become an opponent NV our
| system.
Two shoemakers, each with S70,.
| 600 NV our money. coodem buy side
Of sole leather to continyoo their BIZ
ness with, and he'd to stop-our rail-
roads AMI turnpike he'd to stop becoz,
hevin got to the pint here we he'd to
| hev iron and males and sich things,
we coodent go on; so all the laborers
| he'd to be discharged. wich made u
desprit populashen all howlin agin
| us.
But the wist wuz yet to come. We
could hev weathered all this, but
alas Bascom failed
This wuz the finishin blow-the
| great SldSScF 1Eou WtCh thS Soi hSA .
Good not possibly recover.
| Bascom made lively fite, and |
must say did all that he could to stand
up for US. He raised the price Nv
drinks to 80 per drink. and when he
saw his barls rapidly tailin, he tried
to keep the Corners agoin by waterin
his likker, jest ez we he'd watered the
| currency.
But the expedients didn't work.
The higher the price he put on his
likkers the more the people seemed
| to want to drink of it. 1t seemed to
| be delite to EN- to pay out our money
eff they cot anything watever for it..
But they wouldn't do wot Bascom
most desired-that is to say they
woodent stand his watere1 whisky
They sed 10 him 'Et 50 drink
aint enuff charge 81. Its all wun to
| us. Set EN- up agin.
An the bar-room full wood step up
and take suthin, and the man who
| asked EN- wood throw down on the
bar peck NV our currency and tell
Bascom to help himself.