The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
,YA4 A.vnniNG, AUGUST 10.

by pint, that likker wuz ebbin away, and each
crop weakened the bank. That likker wuz
our life blud, and ez it flowed we wiltid.
Watrin the bari wuz merely palliative; and.
it wuz with feelin Nv relief that saw Geol
w. throw up his fands and exclame: It's al
gone but gallon, WITCH shell keep for my own
yoose. Its all gone and cant get anuther
drop in Looisvl.'
And he dropt his he'd despondiugly on pile
Nv about $l2 900 Nv our currency, witch be
hednt taken off the bar, and wept despondin,y.
why cant 700 get more?' demanded the
exctid populis.
"Bscos amt got no money bat this, and 700
coodnt git bari uvwhisky in Looisvil for
car lode Nv it.
attemtid to reeson with the people told
EN- that wun reeson Nv our welth wuz that we
he'd it in a currency that we ccodent send away
from home, thus keepin our capital within our
selves, but they refoosed to lisn to me- They
id my banks, they id me, and they went
for the bank. swarm that If thar wuz anyt bin
thar that Good be convertid into likker Bascom
shood hev it. 1t is Unnecessary to remark that
they didn't find anythin. Antsspatin an on
plesantnis we he'd removed the valyooables to
place nv safety, wich wuz the underside NV
my bed at Deekin Pogram's.
Then they demanded that the money they
held be redeemed into suthin they Good yoose,
but nv coarse we declined to discus the matter,
referin them to the terms Nv the shoo ez ex
pressed on the notes ez we'll ez their own endos-
meut nv the sBeem.
But this di0n't satisfy EN-. They deliberate
ly brought ont $675.000 Nv the ishoos NV the
various banks, and pin Nv it up on the street.
sot ire to it, dancin a demoniac dance around
1t. This amoczed me, for nv coarse he'd no
earthly objecshen to their redeemin Nv it Ia
that way, but when | seed EN- riggin ropes to
the trees in the visinity, 1 remarkt to my fellow
officers: "Gentlemen. yoor President hez pres
sln b'znls in yonder forest" and got out ez
rapidly ez my poor wasted limbs wood permit
L fatter myself that made tollable time for
man Nv my age, whose strength is mostly 10
his stomich. Indeed, wen turned and saw
ten or a dozen Nv the foremost men Nv the Cor
ners clOst behind me, and all shoutin "Hang
the id thiefp. no gentle gszele that 1 ever
heerd Nv ever skinned the plain ez 1 did. 1
did not cease runnin till got into the middle
Nv the big swamp.
Wat become nv the uther direkters l don't
know. The last fond look that turned toards
the bank saw lsaaker Gavitt and Deekin Pc
gram strugglin in the hands ny the mob, witch
wuz playfully forcin Nv EN- to sit down on a
burnn pile Nv their own currency
am in deserted hut in a swamp, witch wrz
yoozed by runaway niggers in the old times,
and am fed by a Niger farmer who hez not
heerd nv the kollapse, aud CONSISTENTLY takes
his pay in the Onlimted Eff the nooze ever
gets to him Nv the reel condishun NV things
aud he shets off supplies, or reveels my where
abouts, I'm a lost man.
Wat changes Their is in life. A week ago a
successful finanseer, aud the pet NV be populis
the saviour Nv the Corners! To-day hunted
fugitive, livin on hoe-cake furnished by a mig
ger. One needs to be flosopher.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Late President nv the Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
N. B.-I hev heerd from the Corners. The
ungrateful people after half KILN the officers
Nv the Dank, passed resolutions that we wuz all
pack nv thieves. and that them ez he'd sold
land and SIGH for our money shood 500 for re-
covery thereof, and that they d hang any judge
WITCH woodn't beside agin us. Bascom hez
gone back onto us, and hez sold back to Pol
lock and Bigler the store We bot nv them, land
hez got good money enuff to git few bars nv
lkker, and hez re-opened. He hez put the
price Nv likker down to five cents agin and re-
foozes to take anything for it but nickell'. He
SEE he amt gittin ez many carloads nv money
ez he did in the inflashun period, but he's sat-
istied. The most Nv the citizens is bankrupt
and room is everywhere. Oh why did their
faith give out at the wrong time! p. VN.