Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-10

in valyoo every day, and new addishuns are bein
perpetyooally laid out Everybody is spekeatin
and everybody is gettn rich There is flush
times here. The people are all iufationists.
am President Nv all these companies, and |
see no reason why cant put EN- through. 1t is
| troo the price Nv everything hez gone up. The
commonest niger labor is now up to S. day,
and pare Nv pegged boots is wuth $50, but
wat difference does that make? So long ez
Simpkins the printer, kin work his press We
kin manufackter all the money We want; and cz
long ez We kin manufackter money, why there
must be prosperity.
Pollock and Joe Bigler We had to git rid Nv,
for they wuz prejoodissen the people agin US.
Polock's stock Nv goods and his store was
wuth, in the old times before the era Nv in
and me and Deekin Pogram went to him and
offered him that sum for his property.
Things bez raised, s." said he, land won t
sell for less than S., 600
We promptly accepted that price, and sent
boy back to the bank with bushel basket to
bring the money When it come Pollock re-
foosed to take it.
Il want greeubax, sed he.
Our money is jest ez good, sez |.
II know it, sez he, but have preoods
10 favor Nv other money.
There wuz crowd about and it wood never
do to acknowledge that any money wuz better
than ours. took Bascom to Que side
'G. W." SCI l, here is golden opportu-
uity to do two things First we get rid Of dis.
turber, and second We give confidence 10 our
lshoos. Rake up what greeubax you hev and
pay him in EN-.
e. w. consented, and it wuz done in the
presence Nv the people.
''Yoo see, sed l, 'ny friends, that we ID
jest cz soon pay greeubax u our uwO money
The crowd wuz rcashoored, and took our bills
ez readily ez ever. Pollock aud Bgler gave up
the property, but they dldu't leave the village
On the contrary, they went to the tavern to
board, and jeered at US wuss than ever They
sed they he'd made more money by this trans
ackshen than they he'd ever made 10 The Cor
ners since they landed there.
Deckio Pogram, Captain McPelter and Is
saker Gavitt hev all paid off mortgages on their
farms, and | hev bot farm and am gettiu' up
plans for manshun bc6ttin my new position.
| am DOW happy and contentcd. | hev fney
struck my gait Bank Presdentin' scots me
| wuz born for it. Ell | wuz reijusy inclined
| shood pray for Willyum Allen until he'd
cOr0s on both knees.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty
ITesluept Nv the OullWlteu lruSt ana C0nn-
dcnce Company.
?. S.-There's lrhio but still embarrassin
trouble okkured. The unprecedented run on
Bascom 10 conscience Nv the pent:fulness Nv
money exhausted his stock Nv likkers yester-
day, and he sent to louisville for more. The
llkker merchants Nv that mersenary city, cz
mere matter Nv form, generally require Bas-
com to pay for goods afore they ship EN-, to
avoid mistakes. He sent on 81 1000 of our
money. and they refoozed to take ii Ez he
paid all the greenbax he he'd to Pollock he
cant get supplies, and the Corners is parched.
Wat to do We don't know. We don't see why
our money shoodent 60 i'll Louisville.
Ii will take two weeks TO ship enough grain
to Louisville to exchange for the lkker, and
then comes another terrible quondary. Bas-
com demands the grain Nv the bank and wants
to pay for it in the banks ishoos And he iu-
sists on hevin it at wat its wuth 10 Louisville
in greenbax Finanseerin' aint the easiest
bizois in the world. Our money startid we'll
enuf on the cirkle, but there seems to be a
break 10 it. Eff We let Bascom hev that grain
and take our own money for it, where is our
profits? Eff we don't let him hev the grain
the Corners will die Nv drouthl And if he
gifts it our money must be taken for it, for it S
all he's got I Good cut the Gorgen knot by
failiu, but then the wheat wood be attached
| shell bold on and see wat week will bring
forth. Providence never deserted me yit.
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