Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-09-16

md the fire commenced jist under his
lesk. The next morning this unforch-
MT man came to Us and insisted on !
hevin the wheat on the score NV the
money he had NV ours.
'Bring US the money!" said Issaker.
beaming sweetly onto him, land we'll
give you all the wheat yoo want"
But yoo know that he'd yoor mon
ey, and that it waZ burnt up last nite.'
perso0m you he'd some Nv our
money, but | don't knoU it, replied
1ssaker. No we'll regulated bank kin
live II they shood take every mans
word, ez you want US 10. How kin i
tell but wat yoo hev that money con-
ceeled, and that the burDin of yOor
shop waz skeem to. defrod yoor credi-
tors. l am not shoor that il isn't my
dooty to investigate the natter
And lssaker looked so stern that
Pugsby left the bank with a howl of
terror.
Issaker is developin so great a genius
in flnanceerin that Pun RELY jealus Nv
him. He is the master-sperit of the il.
stitoohun. $500 te.eE\N
At the Board meetin last mite we
DISGUST wat We shOod- do in sich cases
ez Pugsby's hereafter, but arrived at
no detinit conclooshn. There is sevral
Nv em, and they will hev to be met.
Issaker bleeves In the style NV treat
ment he yoo.ed in Pugby's case, but l
can't consent to it. Its heroic, | admit,
and good enuff for a temporary eXpedi-
ent, but it won't do for regular sys-
tenn. Eff our money stimoolates a
mans biznis to the pint of his bildin d
new house, we hev benefited him, ,and
the commonity ez well. But eff to
avoid the Inconvenience Nv redeemin
that money We hey 10 burn the house,
wat good hev We accom- lIshed? None.
We hev got 10 find some other way.
l don't see any other way, but nc
doubt it will sejest itself to me in time,
In is astonishin how the Corners is
boomin, now that it heZ money enutf
Five new ralerodeS are bein built
twelve new turnpikes, one hundred
and twenty-eight cellers for new houses
is bein dug, and last week the corner
stuns for eight fsctrys waz lade with
spprOprit ceremonies. The gradin i.
bein dun on the ralerodes and turnpike
and that part Nv the work will bt
pushed to an early compleshun, for the
labrerS furnish their own ShOvelS anC
picks and take our money for wages
The labrers buy their livin Nv the
farmers along the line with that mon
ey, and then the farmers come to the
Corners with it, and cheer ther soles a
Bascom's.
/ So far, all is serene and sweet. So fal
the money sheds blessins, ez skunk
does perfoom. But at this pint come:
worry. Wat is Bascom to do with it.
i The LOoisaille merchants refOoZe t
tech it for likker, and we can't AFFORD
to give him wheat at Louisville price:
agin. We wood bid distillery, bu
alasl we can't pay for the nails, the
glass and the stillin apparatus in oul
money, and we amt got any other
But, thank an overrulin Providence
Bascom hez enutf likker 10 last two
i weeks, and suthin will turn up afOrt
that is gone.
Prices hev gone up SO that it it takes
a vast volume Nv currency to transact
the biznis Nv the Corners. Simpsons
hand press won't anser the demands
made onto it, and he heZ purchased s
power-press, witch will print 1000 sheets
an hour. And to facilitate biznis, anC
to make it perfeckly shoor that we
shell hev all the currency we want,
hev he'd my name and Issaker's en-
graved, SO that it kin be printed in
this savin us the trouble Nv signin EN-
with pen.
Prices NV things is still mountin up
and general prosperity prevails. Pugs
by gifts $40 pare now for peggeo
boots great deal eazier than he yoosi
to Kit 81, and BascOm hez put drinks
up to so cents for new whisky, and 4;
when you take sugar in it. Lots in the
corporashun hez quadroopled in valyot
within the week, aud reel estate i:
changin hands lively. Good wish
however, that the ishOos Nv the On
limited Trust and Confidence COmpa
nv Good hev wider circulashen.
took brief vacashun this week, was al
the Glauber Salt Springs, and wuz
beaten out nv. 5000 at cut-throat loo
The gamblers refoozed to take my
money, and wuz compelled to leeve
my watch with em: that is, Captain
McPelters's watch, Wich l he'd bOr.
rowed, to make an imposin appearance
But it wuz all the same to me, ez
paid MIN for it in our own currency. ]
was sorry TO lose it, for had depended
ON that watch to help us out when we
got into an exceedin tite place.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
/ President NV the Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
| P. P.S.-Another trouble is lnomin uI
on the horizon. Perkins, the black
smith, is out NV iron, and Samsell, the
carpenter, hez to hev jack-plane and
two augers, all Nv wich hez to be got in
Louisville, and they demand Nv Us
sich money ez Louisville will take
Then another mortifyin circumstance
happened yesterday. The Directors Nv
the Bank he'd determined TO lay The
corner stun Nv our new bankin edits
I witch we hev commenst, but after an
nounsin it we coodent lay it. A big
ger rope than any in the Corners wul
necessary to lift the stun to its place
I'VE he'd it massive ez an emblem Nv
our solidity,) bui We coodent rake W
enuff currency that they'd take in Loo
isville to buy one. Sc that the corner
stun amt laid, and the work on the
buildin. spose, will hev to stop til
we kin turn up suthin. There's cri
; sis SpDrOachin. ---- =. V. n.