Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-20

TO the rear Old ez 1 am, kin make fair
ly good time for 50 rods
wuz respectfully invited to make my
statement
Ez | rose n most anxshus silence prevail
ed that assenblage. You Good hev heerd
a pin drop cf anybody he'd dropt one
Wipip my streamin brow | remarked
that he'd never intended that the Corners
shood loose a cent by our bank nor did
now SO intend. l contest that lookin
simply to the idee NV infashun, follering
the idees of the Dimocracy NV Ohio and
Pennsylvany, he'd not givin sich careful
attensnun ez shood hcv done to the matter
NV redempshun.
Atthis pint the awjence seemed to be vis-
ably pleased.
] he'd he'd week NV solitood, and | he'd
employed that time wrestlin with the
question nv finance, and l wuz happy to
say that he'd finally mastered it. | he'd
matoorcd a skeem for redempshun wich
wuz willin to present.
Go on 90 oni" the people shreeked
delitedly.
" l propose TO redeem tho ishoes NV of
Unlimited Trust and Confidence in the
| bonds NV the Company
Their faces resoomed expresshun NV
stolidity wich did not like.
Will them bonds bear interest,"" they
All aSkt IN kOTus
Certainly they will. Wcshel be gem
erous, You may fix the rate of interest at
wat you chose"
That seems fair" they exclaimed.
l congratulated myself on hevin got
| through tollable easy and was steppin of
! the platform to go over TO Simpsons 20 hev
the bonds printed, when that fecnd, Joe
| Bigler, who wus q sittn with Pollock, rose
and remarkt that he, ez billholder, he'd a
question to ask.
| go on" sez l.
"Yoo'l give interest bes7ing bonds for
your notes, will you p
Certainly, Josef" sed l, course VIC
will"
Wat do you perposc to redeem the
bonds in?'
why our notes, NV course Wat else
hcv we TO redeem EN- in? Our notes, with
the privilege NV convcrtin NV EN- into bond.
at any time-and taith--is the best money
in the world"
Then wat'll you redeem the notes in ~
persisted Josef with feendiSh partenassi
Why, the bonds, uv course" Was my
response. Wat kin any wun want better
than interest bearin bonds, and wat curren
cy kin DO better than that wich 700 kir
convert at pleasure into sich bonds2 Ny
friends, whever yoo want bonds for yool
don't DO afraid NV givin the officers trouble
1t is our pleasure to serve the public, anC
we Il go - any lengths
" But wat did un stand yoo'r goin {,
redeem them bonds in p asked Josefagain
Our notcsr l answered, out Of pash
ense with him.
And 700 redeem the notes with you
bondsY"
"Certinly; iesst ca our friends NV Obi,
| 10 h, oahf n1 a
And this goes on for time and eternityT
"Certinly, Josef A Ananshel insttoo
shen, constructed ez ours is, kin go on from
time to eternity, becoz it is convertible
one species NV paper into another, and an
other into one. You sec"
" Ges ] see: but, citizen Bascom, wher
700 hcv sold all your likkor agin for thi
paper, and you turn around and convert
into bonds hey you any ashoorance tha
they'll take them bonds in Louisville 70
more likker2 Did they take the notes afore
How much better does the bonds max
EN- % " Fellow citizens Of the Corners
Josef spoke mpressively Fellow citizen
Nv the Corners, inoggerate this system agi
ifyoo choose, but feel it my dooty I
warn 700 that in a week there won't be
! drop NV likkcr in the Corners, and wat
more, you won't be able TO get drop
Yoo are standin on the brink Nv pressipi:
|
The people seed it to wunst, and with
glare like so many infooriated tigers the
riz and went for me- didn't keer to sta
TO argoo finance with en-. The winder wa
open, and / sprang through it, and mad
for the woods, wich | reeched just in time
He'd they caught me they would hev hun
+ me out Nv hand.
am now in the cabin, in wich l he
spent the last week, sick and sore. Doc
finanseerin mean perpetooal skeeting fo
: the woods? Am ] TO alluz &c escapin wit
, my ife Oh for quiet, sekoor post off
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
President of the late Unlimited
Trust and Confidence Company
p. S.-The nigger who owns my hidr
place has discovered who l am. Ho wer
to the Corners to get pervishens with tn
money | gave him, and then the cat wu
, out NV the bag. He sed he'd he knowd VIII
l wuz and wat l wuz hidin for, he nevt
wood hev took me in. He thot l WI
merely hunted and distrest hoss-thie
Ez l he'd nuthin to pay him in, he came i
: while wuz asleep and took my coat an
: boots, wich he sez kin hev when l Civ
him good money for that wich l paid hiI
in. He bleeves | hev some good none
about me somewhere. How l am TO g
away from here the Lord only knows.
T. V. n.