The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-22
worth $40 gallon, sl,6sO0O per bari

worth $40 a gallon, s1,eso-oo per bar
this mornin."
IN take barl," sed Perkins.
''sAll rite" wuz G.. WIS response
''Pd ez soon sell barl TO wunst ez by
the single drink"
So q. w and his wife, and his old
est son, jefferson Davis, rolled bari
up into Perkinses wagon, and Perkins
remarkt that he wanted to pay Tor
that likker on the spot. Basconl
smiled pleasantly. There Wuz nothin
so pleasant, Perkins continyeod, ez
payin for things wen 700 get EN-, ez
it saved book-keepin and yexashus
troubles Nv all kinds.
Give me pen, ink, and paper, IL.
W., sed this outrageous Perkins.
Nonplushed. Bascom did so me-
chemically, and Perkins ran his tongue
out, CT people do in the Corners
when they attempt writin', and after
thirty Minutes Nv intense labor, with
SWEET rollin' from his brnw fearful,
he handed Bascom the foilefin dok-
eyment:
CONFEDERATE x ROADS,
September l. 1875.
I promise to pay G. w. Bascom
sixteen hundred and eighty dollars.
JEHIAL PERKINS
WAITS this ?' askt the astonished
Bascom, with an expreshun NV in
tense disgust usurpin' the place OF the
smile.
Pay for that likker,' replied Per-
kins, calm ez .Joon mornin.
But this amt lay-its your prom
Use to pay, and you amt got, time nor
place fixed for paymentIyoo amt got
no interest exprest, nor nothln. Wen
do 700 perpose to pay 1t
Never, g. W., never. Under the
moo spensashen, promises to pay is
money. All you want is faith. So
long ez you believe that that paper is
money, wat do yOo want NV money?
l hev been fggerin this matter out in
my intellick ever since / hev bin
takin your bank money. It's all the
same. Eff | hey faith in yoor money
VOC must hev faith in mine. When
this note wears out come to me and [
will write 700 new one. And don
keep it too long-I shell take pleasure
in Writin you notes often, SO that they
alluz be new and pleasant TO look at
How pleasant il is, Baseom, to pay eZ
You go! How much better | feel to
pay on the male, and how much better
700 must feel to hey yoor cash when
700 deliver yoor goods.
And Perkins drove off with the lik-
ker, lite hearted. leavin Bascom dunn
founded IN the door of the grocery,
gaspin with astonisment and blind
with rage.
Perkins didn't stop with bari Nv
likker. He bot a pare OF pegged boats
for $50, and pade for 'em in the same
way, and kag NV nails. and two scots
NV cloze. and calico dresses for his
wife and dawters, and a box NV paper
collars and a neck tie, things he had
never dreemed NV before, and he got
SO eggscited at his success in fnan-
seerin that be went home drunk as
billed owl.
But the misery NV all this is, every
cuss within five miles, seein Perklnses
success, is doin the same thing, and
an immense volyoom NV wat | may
call indivijile currency is afioat. And
they is seriously thretnin to vote to
hev the corprashen take the stuff for
taxes The idea NV takin money for
taxes that amt printed, and that
heznt got no President and Cashier,
and Board of Direkters! There is
sech a thing ez carryiu this too fur.
But l rosperity continoos her slim
ulatin rain. We ishood thirty thou
sand dollars NV our money last week,
and the benefishle effeck is visible. |
Wheat is now So bushel, likker 81 |
a drink plain, and 81 so to them az
take sugar in thcirn, pegged boots
$50, cotton sox 81, and town lots
well, any price that one chooses to !
ask for 'em The diegin Nv cellars is !
goin on satisfactorily, ez is enything |!
else that we kin pay for in our own
money. But [ tremble with appre-
henssions. Wat will happen when
to come to want the lumber, and nails |
and glass, and other things which |
hev to come from Louisville! That's
the COST that hants me.