Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-08-29

CoSFEDERTT Y ROADS.
WICa Is IN THE STATE w kESrrCKr.
felt that ef he'd to stay anuther week
in this Internal cabin shood die. With
nuthin but hoe cake TO eat-wiih infrek-
ent and Unreliable drinks. wiki no soc Iety
whatever. life didn't seem TO me TO be
wuth hevin. Therefore | sent a note 10
the citizens NV the Corners, askin fer a
promis NV safety, that | mite make em a
proposishen. wich, ef they wonld accept.
wood enable the bank TO 20 and b-cum e1
permanent ez time herself
The Corners met and decided 10 reserve
me. aud appinted a committe to hcer my
proposishen. and on reseeving their an
swer made my way ththsr.
The meetin wuz held in the church. II
wuz all impressive sene. On the platform
in font the pulpit sot the ecommtie-the
orditorium Ia front wux crowded with clti-
Zens, the most NV whom he'd baskets Nv
my currency, and thar wuz an cxpectant
murmur ez ] entered. | wuz delited "a
see that thar wuZ a winjer jcst back Nv
whaf ! wuz 10 stand, aud olso that It wuz
only feet TO the ground and lhet the
woods wuz only about 80 rod, to the recr
Old IL am, ken make fare.y good time
fur 50 rods.
/ wuz respectfully Invited to make my
statement
EE | rose most anxStus silence per-
vadcd that assemblege. You Good hcv
heerI = pin drop ef anybody he'd dropt
one.
Wipin my >treamin brow | remarked
that he'd never Intended that the Corner,
,hooI loose cent by oar bank nor did |
now so Intend, contest that Iookin sim
ply 10 the iiee Nv inhashun. folerin the
idees OF the Dimocracy Nv OHIO aud Penn
sylvania, bed not given slch careful At
tenshen ez | shood hey done 10 the matter
Nv redempshuu.
Al this pint the awjence seemed to be
visably pleesed
he'd he'd a week Nv solitood and he'd
employed that time q wr.stlin with the
question uv finance. and | wax happy to
say that | he'd finally mastered l.. he'd
mastered a sAeem fur redempshun wich |
wuz wlllin 10 present.
Go on! 20 on the people shreeked
delitedly.
| propose to redeem the ishoos NV on
limited Irust and Confidence in the Bonds
Nv the Company"
Their faces resoomed An expresshun Nv
stolidity wich did not like.
"Will them bonds bear interest,"" they
all asked IN horus.
Certainly they will. We shell be geuer-
Gus. You may iix the rate Nv Interest al
wat yoo chuse.'
That seems fair" they exclaimed.
| congratulated myself on heyin got
through tollable easy, and was steppin of
the platform TO 20 over 10 Simpsons TO
hey the bonds printed when that feend Joe
Bigler, who Yuz sittin with Pollock. rose
and remarkt thet he ez a oill-holder he'd a
question To ask.
Go on" sex |.
~ Quill give einterest-bearing bonds for
your notes. will yoo2'
Certainly, Josef" sed |. NV coarse We
will"
'.w at do you propose to redeem the
bond. in:''
Why. our notes. NV coarse. Wat else
hev we to redeem them In. Our notes,
with the privilege Nv convertin NV them
into bonds al any time,-and faiths the
best money IN the world"
Then wat'li you redeem the notes In ?"
persisted Josef with feendish pertenassity.
"Why, the bonds. Nv course" was my
response. "W al kin eny wun want better
than interest bearn bonds. and wat cur
Iency kin be better than that wich 700 kin
convert into such bonds: My friends,
whenever 700 want bonds for your cur.
rency don't hezitate TO come for EN-
don't be afrade Nv givin' the officers
trouble. Ii Is our pleasure TO serve the
public, and we'll go to any lengths
bat wat did | understand yoo'r goin to
redeem them bonds inf" askt Josef agin.
Our notes. [ answered, out NV pas
hense with him.
But 700 redeem the notes with yoor
bonds:''
"Certiuly; jist eZ our trends Nv Ohio
perpose To pay the nashenel debt"
And this goes for time and eternity!'
Certainly. Josef. A hnanshel iusti-
tooshen. constructed ez ours Is, kin go on
from time to eternity. becoZ it is convert-
ble-one species Nv paper into another,
and another into one. You see"-
"les, | see; but, citizen Bascom, when
yoo hev sold ali yoor likker agin for this
paper, and VOC turn around and convert it
into bonds. hev yoo eDy ashOOrance that
they'll take them bonds in Louisville tor
more likker? Did they take the notes
afore: How much better does the bonds
make 'em. Feliow-citizens of the Corners
-(Josef spoke inpressively)- Fellow
citizens Nv the Corners. inoggeraLe this
system aglu if yoo choose, but feel it my
dooty to warn yoo that in a week there
Won l Ut q uIOp ithhcT III luc >,
aud watts more 700 won't be able to git \
drop. Yoo are standin on the brink Nv q
pressipis Haul of before it is everlast-
ingly too late.
The people seed 1t to wunst, and with q
glare like SO many infooriatid tigers they
riz and went fur me | didn't keer to stay
10 argoo finance with EN-. The winder
wuz open, and l sprang throO it and made
fur the woods wich | reached just In time.
He'd they kort me they wood hev hung me
out NV hand.
am now in the cabin In which hev
spent the last week, sick and sore. Does
fnanseerin meen perpetyooal shooting for
the woods? Am to alluz be escapin with
my life? Ofor quiet sekoor post offs?
PETROLEUM v. Massey
President Nv the late Onlimitid Trust and
Confidence Company.
P. S.-The nigger who owns my hidin
place hez discovered who l sm. He went
to the Corners to get pervishens with the
money l gave him. and then the cat wuz
out Nv the bay. He sed he'd be knowed
who wuz and wat ! wuz hidin for, he
never wood hev took me In. He thot
wuz merely q huntid and distressed hoss
theeE Ez | he'd nvthin to pay him in he
came iu while wuS asleep sud took roy
cote and boots. wich he sez kin hev when
give him good money tor that wich
pade him 10. He bleeves hev sum good
money about me somewhere. How l am
to get away from here the lord only
knows. P.V.N.