The Portland daily press., 1878-11-08

N."AsN& HAHs iAvnCy-5Omc TrOu-
BILE on Account of the Scarcity efPaper.
The great ''fuanseer" of Confedrit X Roads
continues his history of the fiat-money scheme
at that place, in the Toledo Blade:
We he'd great deal NV trouble with Blscom
to git him to consent to accept Fiat mummy for
his lkker. He sed he wuz williu ef We Good
git the Louisville likker dselers to take it for
whisky, but net otherwise
when what hev is all gone" he sed, show
kin replenish eff they wont take the mummy 1
hev?"
thought ther wuz suthin in this, and he'd
mind to sling at him the text, 'Suffishent for
the day is the evil thereof, and the whisky like
wise" but 1t don't do no good to quote Scripssr
at Bascom. He knows only one text-"Pay
what thou owest, and he hurls that at me with
great frekency wen quote Holy Writ at him.
The more finer passagis he don't know nothln
Nv. He is a one-sided man.
Isejested that we call to US a louisville liz
ker deeler, and see ef we coodn't compermise
on the fiat mummy. One happened to be In
town and got him into Bsscom's to interview
him, He wuz very pleasant gentleman, and
tiooid talker, but wuz sadly defishunt in f.
nanshel knowledge. 1 asked him why Loois-
Vile wOodent take our mummy?
my deer sir" wuz his reply, I'VE cant take
it becoz there aint no necessity for takin it, Ell
we want fat mummy, wat is to prevent our hsy-
in our own? 1 believe in supportin our home
institooshens. The printin facilities Of Loois-
vile are excellent. We hev printin offices
without number, and coal for power is cheep
When we git to hankerin after tat mummy we
don't intend to send to the Crossroads for il.
All we hev to DO is to send to printin offs and
gltlt struck off. We kin do printin Jest az
cheep ez 700 kin, and, ez it aint never goiu to
be redeemed, the faith Nv the city nv Louisville
Is Jest ez good ez the faith Nv the Crossroads"
Their wuz nothin to be made out Nv a man
with sich antikated noshuns, and laft him In
disgust, and a committee waited upon Bascom
agn. He thot the matter over and when L
seiested to MIN that the mummy wood hev to be
taken, he consentid on these condlshuns:
The glass shood be set on one end nv a conn
ter scale, and we shood pour our drinks into ID
Then. sfore drinkin it, we shood put ez many
dollar bills Nv the fat nanny on the other end
Nv the scale ez wood balance 1t. That is, we
give pound Tor pound, the glass includid. This
worked very well. We had to ishoo an enor-
nous amount Nv 1t, and Simpsons press wux
KEEP rnnnln day and mite, and Sundays, bat We
sWelled tne vo.lum so the Corners didn't suffer
Bat Jest ez we got this to runnin smoothly
another tronble okkurred. One day Bascom
found among his mummy note which he didn't
KNOW. KNOW. 1t wuzn't Nv the Gross Roads, at all.
Inc = legend on Its face wuz different. 1t he'd
tie same "Ths is dollar" onto 1t, bat wuz se-
coored by the faith uv the coperashen NV Liber-
tyVille. The next day there wuz one from Sc
csssionvlle, and the next from Davisburgh.
Inls wuz more than we he'd bsrgained for On
investlgashen We diskvered that eyery village
and moonissipalit within range NV fifty miles
NED taken our ldee and wuz ishoon fiat munuy.
This woodent anser at all. We didn't want
aDyoody's ese's fiat mummy, ez we felt that we
Good PRINT ennH to supply the entire country.
we refoozed to take it. We held a meeting Nv
the Common Council and so resolved. Then
the other towns held meetings, and resolved
not TO take ours until reciprocity wuz estab-
listed, and that brot US to TERMS We wuz
compelled to recognize the fact that they he'd
ez good rite to ishoo mummy ez we he'd, aud
go we decided to take everything that coma to
US, that wuz properly stamped. Posslbly II
wuz mistake, but we did it.
Then it come thick and faster. it commenced
comm in single bills, then 10 masses and final
ly By the hundred wait There wuz a hud, a
aVaiance Nv 1t. There wuz millions NV money
10 the Corners, -nillious! It come to be more
than millions, We he'd our own ishoo. witch
wuz increesin every day, and in addishnn we
hed tDe lsno0s Nv all the surrounoin country
pourin in. We never saw so much mummy in
the Corners afore The Nashnel Bark ishoo.,
aud the greenbax wuz all druv out, and by no
chance did one Nv them ever appeer. he'd to
go 70 louisville last week, and ez the conduc-
tor on the road woodn't take Fiat muuny he'd
to GIT two dollars and o half nv Nashnel cur
rency. found farmer wich he'd that amount
and the graspin fend made me give him
twenty-hve hundred dollars nv our mummy for
IL. In Louisville L did sacceed in gittln 8 ten
dollar Fiat bill changed for small bills NV Nssh-
mel mummy, even up. The man wich accsmmo-
dated me wuz very drunk. and confirm. He
handed me his pockit book and / made my
own change.
we desired; mummy is Plenty. The farmers Is
prospeious,f for produce hez gone up amazingly
saw ioad Nv corn sell for $3.50 q bushsl yes
terasy, and the seller Good Jest ez we'll hev
neu SooO. Wheat IS any price they choose to
az for IT, and real estate is active at auy price
asked. There is however trubble. A farmer
sold hundred bushels nv corn for SIS, 500 and
fell on my tex and embraced me ez his finan-
shell preserver. He ssd he Uever expected to
hev so much mummy. He went over 20 B.s-
CONS and asked me to take suIhiI, aud that
cost him one tenth Nv his load, and Pettus our
shoemaker, wich takes fiat munny, CHARGED
MIN wat wuz left for pare NV stogy shoes.
He wuz amazed, for he expected TO pay off a
mortgage onto his farm with this mummy and
wnzn't satisfied till told him he didn't ask
enuH for his corn. There is trubbles in every-
thing, and tinanseeria aint the easiest thing in
the world.
for our money there wood set in sich era nv
prosperity ez we never dreemed nv. Bot nnan-
sheI ability. however great, can't do everything
to wunst. We shel cum to that. IL is enuff
for the present that we kin git likker for it,
and with that the average Gross roader Is toll
erably content. Nv course fiat money is ex-
pertinent, but we are solvin the problem And
we like it. Their aint no work bein done at the
Corners, for we are all specklatin, and besides
wat Is the yoose Nv work when money kin be
made without il? We hev fonnd onr rcadv
at last.
Z. s. There's more trubble. Simpson the
printer is out nv paper. and he can't git any
In Louisville onless we give him some nsshnel
money. The shoos hev come to an end, for
want Nv suthin that will furnish supplies
p s. ID We have bridged the difficulty.
We hev found lot nv wall paper, ana py re-
doosin the size Nv the bills and yoosn that we
kin git on for some days yit. We hev also
incre ased the denominashens, ishooin now
nuthin less than 2's. Bsscom is to take hsrf
the wait Nv the likker instid Nv even wait ez
before. But wat We shell do when that is gon
don't no. This will require the highest pos
sible fnanshel skill. But 'suffishent for the
day is the evil therof." / find onspeaksble
comfort in the scripter. My supplies will last
eZ long the wall Danar doas