Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-08-15
Nasty.

Nasoy.
The Innation Id~a-Th~ Further Pro.
gree. Of the I.li.sssrd Truss and Cos.
adene~ Company -Consi.ued suecess.
CoNFEpRrr Y. ROADS,
wicH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.
Ef life ever wuz q rose-tinted dream to
me at any time doorin my mortle Pilgrim
age. this Is the precise time. am thoro-
ly happy-so happy, indeed. that the pri-
yashens and troubles that hev bin thro
are fAdn out NV my memry entirely. |
hev paid Bascom's account witch hez been
runnin for so many yeers. aud hev his re-
ceet In my saie-my SAFE say. Proudly
| write these words. Ny safe, Who
thirty days ago wood hev supposed tha, |
shood ever say NY safcl Then I hev two
scots or cloze-good ones wich Is one
aud half more than | hcv he'd sence
was Postmaster under Johnson-Heven
rest his sole | hev two shirts for the
hrst tine In my life. and am wearin
stockings, hev but one pare ez yet. but
one can: rise TO the summit nv human
q AMER IT one bound. | shel buy another
pare In = week or two. ! think every
Bank President ought to either bev two
pare nv s.oCkinS or return to the stern yir-
choos NV the Republic In its better days
aud 90 barefoot, Coin barefoot or hevin
change + necessary 10 the keepen Nv
Bank Presidents office In sweet smelin
condition.
But this is dgreshun. Suffice il to
say. | am clothed. | pale three idolars
and half pare for them stockins-they
is cotton-wich is three dollars and n quar-
ter more than thev wuz worth IN the old
money. bur wut difference does IL make?
The three dollars and a half wuz made bv
four pulls on simpsons priutin press, and
when money kin be made In that way vat
difference does 1t make wat pay Tor cot
ton soX.
Al the beginning we lshood 10, 20. -. 80
cent currency. hut We hev quilt that.
Prices hev gone up so. under the general
prosperity. that there amt anything in the
Corners that sells for less than a dollar for
one. and the frackshnel currency WIZ de-
sided TO be yoosIi.. Besides 1t costs lest
eZ much to print ten cent note eZ il does
a dollar, and | bl-eve in economlzin
Simpson the printer, is making US 1T
tie tro1bse. At the beginning voosel 10
pay him for printing our bills by Just sign
in enuf NV EN- eZ they come from the
press to make his amount, but lately he
has refoosed TO take our money. We tried
TO overawe him. but when he threatened to
publish the finsnshel condition NV the Pres
idents and Directors, it wuz considered
advisable to humor him. 1t is singler that
sich men throw impedments in the way
NV progress.
The obstacles in the way NV the Bank
that. hev thus far developed therselves,
hev bin happily and easily removed. Bss-
CON demanded wheat Nv us TO ship 10 Loo
isylle TO git more whiskey and We he'd to
let him hev it and take pay In our own
money. And ez he demanded that We take
our money, We met heavy loss. The ac-
count stands ez follows:
900 bushels Nv wheat cost US in our
own money. At $40 per bushel... 81 300 On
Sold II to Rascom al Louisville prices.
wich is 81 per bushel-takin pay in
the same money We he'd paid for it,. ! 900 90
Los(wich is easily fggered) go. $4,000
We he'd one more trouble. wich We got
on easier with. Pugsby, the shoemaker,
who took our money, run out Nv leather,
and when he sent 10 louisville for more.
the merchants there ez In the case nv Bas-
com. refoosed TO take our currency. Pays
by knew OF Bascom's experience. and he
came up smiiin 10 hcv Us sell him wheat
enDf at Louisville prices to renoo his
stock.
Wat kin We do?' | demanded in dire
distress, for really didn.t see why Pugsby
shoodent hev wheat to renoo his stock ez
well ez Ba.com, exceptln that whiskey is
more necessary. TO the Corners than leath-
er.
DO !"sed Issaker Gavitt, with a express
hun Nv skorn on his classick feechers.
DO! And yoo claim to be fnaniseers?
Hez Pugsby a safe: No? Wall. whar does
he keep the Sl2 200 NV our money! In
his desk Yes? And that Is wooden.
Aad his bildn is wool. Very good. Tell
Pugsby to come to-morrer and we will
give him wheat at a dollar bushel tor all
NV our money he has got. We have TWEEN
ty four hours"
Aud Issak'r Put some matches in his
vest pocAet about 50 worth. Matches
hez gone up 81 80 box-our money.
That mite Pugsby's shop burnt Up and
the hre commenced jist under his desk.
The next mornin that unforchunit man
came TO US and insisted on bevin the wheat
on the score nv the money he he'd uv ours.
"Brns us the money!" said Issaker.
beaming sweetly onto him, land we'll
give 700 all the wheat yoo want"
But yoO know that he'd yOor money,
and that it wuz burnt up last Mite"
Il persoom you he'd sum Nv our money,
but l don't know it, replied Isssker.
No well regulated bank kin live II they
shood take evry mans word, ez you want
US TO. How kin tell but what you hev
that money conceded. and that the burnn
OF yOor shop was a skeem to defrod your
creditors. am not shoor that it isn't my
do ,ty TO investigate the matter"
And Issaker looked so stern that Pues-
by left the bank with howl of terror.
Issaker Is developin so great genius in
financerln that I'm reely jelus ny him. He
l. the master sperit NV the iustitooshun.
At the Board meetin last mite We DISGUST
wat We shood do In sich cases ez Pugsby's
hereafter, but arrived at no defnit con-
clooshun. There is several Nv EN- and
they will hev to be met. Issaker bleeyes
10 the style NV t.eetment he yOOsed in
Pugsby's case. but can't consent to it.
Its heroic, l admit, and good enuf for a
temprary expedient, but it wont do for
regglsr system. Ell our money stimulates
| q mans biznis TO the pint Of his buildin
new house, we hev benefited him, and the
commoOnity ez well, But ef to avoid the
| Inconvenience Nv redeemin that money we
hev to burn the house wat good hev we
| accomplish? None. We hev got to find
| sum other way. .iou't see any other way
but no doubt it viii sejest itself to me in
| time. .. t.-.
| II is astonishin hoW the Corners is boom
| in. now that II hez money enuf. Five
| new ralrOdes are bein built, twelve new
] turnpikes, one hundred and twenty eight
( cellers for new houses is bein dug, and
| last week the corner stuns tor eight fac
! trys WIZ lads with approprit ceremonies.
| The gTadln is helm dun on the ralerOdes
and tunpikes, and that part " the work
\ will be pushed to AZ early cOmpleshun.
| for the labrers furnish their own shovels