The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-30
NssBY,s FIAT MONEY at THE coz
<CEs
now IT WAS aoTTEN INTO ciRcULA
TIoS, AND HOW ThE PRICE OF
SHOES. WHISKY AND GTHER
NECESSITIES WENT Up
TIE NEW FIAT
MILKs
CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
Wieb is in the State Of XIV.
September 20, 1878.
ssplember %. 1873

Web is in the State Of Ky.
September 20, 1878.
The amount of prosperity tie cor
luers IS isbEia under, Just nov. is mi.
rskuius Me and Issekes Gsgi,t hes
ishood over three huadfed thousand
dollars Of our fat mpEey, aud ez
psrdie.ed, The Corners is proapena
to a degree that 10 'one, not even
myself, ez sanggln * | am. never
dreamed Nv
Jssaker Gavitt and me he7 qail
lshooin ia. money sad tbe town
council hev takin it ia hand, 50 thet
/ i, shell hev an oilisbei look.
The money they ishoo reads thus
This Is a DoHdr
Sekoorei by the faith Of ConieGriJ \
Roads"
These bills is signea by toe May
or and clerk Nv the cofporashen, and
Il they are printed u two colors
with green 6ack, they look q good
ez any money ever saw
The ques tlUn wuz low 20 get EN-
10 cigkeiashen. Money amt good
for nothin onless it eifseletes, and so
the council resolved oh system of
internal Improvements to git en-
cat
Accordingly they let the follerjn
coatrax
4 new city ball to cost $25O,00O
Peblick skool bildin 10 cost slG,-
COO (rhis wuz considered extrag-
agant, bu5 the main plat i3 to git the
money into eirkelashen.)
j ship canal to connect Co1fed-
/ rit Ruu with Sucker erik. EZ ther
amt no water Nv any akkouat in
either, ingenious system uv arte-
! sian wells hez TO be bored, and SUI.
fstent water to G1at 6 steamboat is
TO be pamped into EN- By steem en-
gines. The eslimatid cost ~ this
uesssrY Improvement Is one million
az dollars.
4 Earfer guage railroad to conRee.
/ the Corners with Secsssionvilie oa
the Louisville road cost $500, 600
A plank road to Dayisvil!c, to cost
! S200 coo
Steam fre engines end e complete
fire department to cost 100000.
Tbs 10 ez far ez the council ntz
got, bdt other appropriations viii be
made for other Improvements ez fast
ez the money is wanted to get into
eirkelasben, t6ay beiag the maia pin;
new.
The eontFax wCz ell lei to citizens
" tbe corners, mostly 10 members
uv ;bo council. and they wuz eli bas-
ed "a the price Of d:ink, piaue, ff,y
cents The counsel ted The moAey
prin.eaLo pay tie ker. klers giih.
Ez We didn't want to wait long be-
fore the era uv prosperity sot IN, il
wuz voted ;Eat each kontrakler shood
/ lev an advance Nv twenty-five per
ceat en- the amount of his koDtrak,
that the money might be got into
cirkulsshun to wunst, and The good
olsx mite be felt immejitly This
wuz done, and some $500 600 WIZ
paid to EN-.
The efsck is terii. The wages Nv
l-b-in men hez gone up to 81 Day,
and il Is difficult to prokoor em at
tba. WHISKY hez riz 10 fifty cents a
drink without sugar, aud seventy
Ihye Niih Tie groaBin shoemaker
" Aich used 20 &c. So foF pair az
siogy boots is gett,n $50 nov, and
ho aia'E particular abou, se!.in even
a. that price. Every body hez got
all tee money they want, and the
! CorueFs is bgskiu IL The beems ~
unlimited prosperity. THIS fat mon
ey Is big hing
TIE Only spot oa our shinin sun is
Bisier asa Pollock Tney ref9cze
to lech our Gouey at ell, and u they
keep 20 ds y Licn We must have its
inc9uyeuicG, Aud then Joe goes
auou! asking all sof.s Nv fool qaes-
tons. lie wants 10 know who's ev-
er goin to redeem The money? He
wants to kaow wat good this money
is soiG 10 be ia louisville, where cur
supplies come from primarily lie
wants to know who is agoin 10 pay
The taxes for oil these Improvements,
aud how we will feel when the bub.
bic basts aud We are left with i'm
meuse debt cato cur shoulders
/ aGs@tIed bim thct be didn't
know nutEin about daanceerin. That
the very esseace Nv lat money wuz
that il wUz9'5 never 70 be redeemed,
that the peep Il wuz takin it fer
their goods and labor, and that they
soala pay il out for more goods aud
labor, cad that it wood keep On for
ever ia one eEdlIs round.
But" scd ice, the ko9;r4k.ofs
heg got to hey iron tools aad things,
AID the laboreFs hev got to hev
shoes and q efea, deal OF liker, aud q
l.tile suthia to eat occasionally. It's
all very sell "a long ez they kia
trade among themselves, but bow
viii il be- q Louisville! Will they
take il here
That r the cloud that haags cger
os. VIII they ,ake it in L1cisFi!le,
wAer we tey u buy cur goods
We must move on the legisischer, |
and get The state 10 adopt the Coz
aers idee and then We must 60 10 |
congris ard compel the ishooin Nv fat
money oy nc geUrai government, ma
Kin il iegle te1der wherever the flag
aJa.s. Ana tha, il may be got into
ciiEe!ashuo, the genral government |
must be paternal, AID must initiate
the Corners il the matter W internal
Improvements. There must be q |
ship eaaal from Chicago to Toledo, |
the Erie canal mus, be enlarged so
as to pass the Great Eastern, the
y hole Mississippi Valley must be
kivered with levees aud everything
else, there must be custom houses and
postoilices bilt in evry city and village, |
and az fer railroads, Lord bless us,
they must be bilt from everywhere
to every here, aad sll atthe expense
Nv the gayerment, for the purpus av
gittin haL money iGto ciIkelasbun iu
sufficient vOiiuUs 10 meet the re-