The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
NaSby.
The End of the "Onlimited Trust and Con
fdence Company"-the Final Smashing
CONFEDERIT X ROADS,

CoNFEDERIr X ROADS,
WITCH is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY.
Theresis gloom onto the Cornersi Our sun
Nv prosperity is sot, and my hopes is blasted.
The Onlimited Trust and Confidence Company
is not eggsactly no more, but it's near enuff
dead to make it safe to bury it on vencher.
Its eyes is sot. After brilyant career NV five
weeks, coruscatin along the sky nv finance,
sheddin perfect rain Nv blessings at every
jump, its light hez gone, its brilyancy hez de-
parted, and 1t don't coruscate worth a cent.
We hewitt suspended, nor failed. nor closed
our doors, nor nothin, for the simple reason
that the bank wuz constructed on an ice that
made failin impossible, and the closin nv doors
Unnecessary. Ez we don't hev to redeem wat
shell we fail for? Their ant nothin hide bound
about this bank. The people is welcome to
come in and discuss finance, and put ther feet
up on the benches, and spit terbacker jooce all
over the floor, jest as friendly as they choose.
and they may do it ez long ez they choose.
No, the Onlin.ited Trust and Confidence Com
pany amt failed, but it's kinder petered out,
ez it were. 1t is expirin nv dry rot. Its notes
wch is its blud, amt hevin any cirkelashen.
The people don't take EN- with that cheerful
ness nessessary to proper bankin bizness.
Legislashen don't fetch em. The ordinances
wch made deth the penalty for refoosin our
ishoos, only workt so far ez takin nv EN- for
taxes. The corporashen did take en- for taxes
in pursooance Nv ther own legislashen, and
beer was where the trubble began. The taxes
wuz levied oo a greenback basis, and the entire
levy amounted to $4,000 Well, the taxes for
the first time in the history Nv the Corners wuz
all pade in full, and with crate promptniss. A
more prompser set Nv tax payers 1 never seed.
The treasurer he'd IS 900 nv our ishoos when
it becum necessary to buy a plow aud four
spades to do some work on the roads In vane
he tried to git en- The dealers at home, know
ir what currency he he'd to pay 10, suddenly
got out nv plows and spades, and when he
went to louisville it took 81 900 in our currensy
to pay hfs fare, and he offered the hard ware
dealer the other 81 600 for the implements he
wanted, but it woodent go. He he'd to come
back without EN-.
Then he come and demanded some currensy
Nv US witch he Good yuse, and wich Nv coarse
we hedn't got none, and he becum an opponent
to our system.
Two shoomakers, each with $4,000 NV our
mummy, coodent by side Nv sole leather to COT
tinyoo ther bznis with, and he'd to stop, becos
hevin got TO the pint wher we he'd to hev iron
aud males and sich things, We coodent so on.
So all the labrers he'd to be discharged, wich
But the wust wuz yet TO cum. We Good hev
wethered all this but alasl BAsCoM FAILED.
This was the inishin blow-the great stag
gerer wich the Corners Good not possibly recov-
er from.
Bascom maid a manly fite, aud 1 mnst say,
did all that he Good to stand up for Us. He
raised the price nv drinks to $1,000 drink,
and when he saw his barls rapidly failin he
tried to keep the Corners agoin by waterin his
likker ez we he'd waterec the currency.
But these expedients didn't work. The higher
the price he pus on his likker the more the peo-
rle seemed to want to drink nv It, IL
seemed to be delite to EN- to pay out our
mummy of they got anything whatever for it.
But they woodent do wat Bascom most de-
sred-that is to say, they woodnet stand his
watered whiskey. They sed to him, 'tEf 81
drink amt high enuff, charge 81. It's all wun
to US. Set em up agiu."
And the bar-room full wood step up and take
suthin, aud the man who askt em wood throw
down on the bar peck of our currency and tell
Bascom to help himself
Bascom come to US and begged that we shood
let him hev suthn that he Good yeose to restock
his bar He sed the dealers in louisville LATED
in his face when he offered EN- our money for
likker, and he had but two bsrls left.
And them two barls wuz vizaby shrinkin ev.
cry mint. 1t seemed ez though the populis got
insane for lkker at the very time when we did
MT want EN- to hev it. For the first time in my
life, wanted the Corners to be tempris, for ey-
cry drop drunk from those barls brot our bank
huCu nearer ltS tuu. l. SOU OppOSlt6 DaSCOm %
and saw the crowd 90 in with sinkin sensa-
shen that wuz akin to death. Dfink by drink
it went, and, ez if they coodent eggsaust IL fast
enuff by the single drink, they got to comm for
it 10 tin dippers.
"How does it hold out?" wuz the message
sent him at 10 Am.
The answer come prompt:
40 a. D. Wuu barl untutched, twenty gal
| Ions 10 the other and snkin every mint.
b."
| Then sent this:
80 10. Fill her up with water Keep JEFF
| son Davis pourin in. Hold the fort. N"
And the anser came:
"1O15. Jeffson Davis is histin in water ez
fast ez he kin carry it. Mrs. Bascom is rin-
| sin out old barls, to wich she adds kyan pepper
and camfene. EFF he'd sum Scotch snun IL
wood help. Will hold out ez long ez it Is pos
sible. But its terrible. man Just come In
and demanded a gallon. b.
"4ev list put spiggot in the last bari, and
| the Corners Is howin. 1t wunt last an hour.
B."
Then an expedient segestid itself to me. L
| sent this note:
thine is evrytfin. Bust the spiggot.
| Wich he did, thus keepin the wolves at bay
| for an hour, while it waz bein repaired.
| But why harrow the public buzum with the
| detales Nv this paneful story. The eud wuz
| inevitable. Drop by drop, drink BY drink, pint