The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-10-31
Mr.. Easby's Last Experience
with Fiat Money.

aAAs GaNDS y hhNN G%PNaathGt
with Fiat Money.
CosYEDRIT Y ROADS, (Which is
in the State Of kentucky October
10, l878.-The October elecshuBs
amt es satisfactory ca they mite hey
bin, but they will do. We hey lost
Ohio and Iowa, but We hey gobblcd
Inieany and West Virginny. The
CRATE coz NV fnanshel salyashen hcz
not ez Wit passed into triumph, but ii
hezn't bin killed. wich is some com
fort. Tier Is VT room for hope.
Wheat hcz come down five cents a
bushel in conscience Nv the dismal
prosjeck thai Their won't bc no Euro
pean war, aud thai encourages us.
The people never did ascribe low pri-
eco Of pardoosc to anything but the
party in power, and this drop, ef it
proyiieusbc!ly %continyoos, viii make
votes for u. tn. price Of prodoosc
controls a great dcel more than any
one hcz any idco nv. [ he7 Enowd a
pr0videnshel potato rot to elect q
Democratic member NV COngris.
Issaker GaYitt is grown daily more
gloomy ez the prosper NV general
European war diminiShcs.
TITS croocl," seq he, with a tear in
each eye. mo war in Europe, and
I've got ten hogs wich l wantid a
high price fur. This world is full of
disappointments. | don't suppose
pork on foot will now be with more
than three cents a pound. Wat do
them European cabinets meanI'
But this is a diversion.
Il supposed that when we he'd
ishood our fat money that ON troub
les VIM over. | supposed that, whea
the Common Counsel Of the Corners
he'd ishood a currency based upon the
good faith NV the Corners, and he'd
passed an ordinance making it legle
tender, that everything wood go
along smoothly, and that the era Nv
prosperity wich we hey all been look
in for would immejibly set in, Bat
ii don't work with q cuss. We he'd
expected TO be relieved NV our indebt-
ednis to Pollock & Bisler, but ulfor-
t%unitly them disturbers, with u fore
site that is feendiSh, hev persistently
refoOzel the Dimocri3Y ny the Corn
ers credit for many yeers, 80 That we
don't owe them anything. And Pol
lock remarked giah0s!y tnat ef we did
owe him anything he wood ez soon
take pay in IA money oz anything
e'se ha wuz likely to sit from Us, e.
be never expectia anythln; anyhow.
But we desided to git even with
lin. I went into his store and asked
for a pare w boots.
"All rite" sed Pollock, wat kind
nv money do 700 perpose to pay in
the glorious fat Nv the present or the
despiscd- grcenback Nv the past :"
Sir / remarkt impre5oiyely, 81
am too patriotic not to assist in git
ting our new money into cirkclashun.
1 shall pay in fat, of which | hev
plenty, and more a coma"
"All rite" Pollock, perdoos in a
little strip Of leather, "Thcm Is the
boots."
But they is not boots" I exclaim-
ed. wat kin ! 10 with that strip of
leather ?"
"Jist cz much oz I kin with your
money. You say that piece of paper
700 hev is money! say that piece Of
leather is boots. My word is, 1 trust,
ez good cz Yoors.'
And with q ( cendish laff he told
Joe Bigler to keep an eye on me and
turned around scllin substansheI
boots to a niger farmer wich he'd
Nashnel bank notes.
Sadly | went over to Blscom's, and
found there the entire Corners discus
sin the fnanshel s~ityooashen. There
was Dechin Pogram in his old fami'-
yer chair, there wus ISakcr a lyin on
his back on a round table that tn"
citizens play kcerds upon when it IS
aroused, and Captain McPelter lean
ing against the bar, all sighin at the
scarsity NV money and the dpprest
condishun Nv industry. 1t wuz a
site l hev seed a thousand time and
it meltid mo. [ determined to dem
onstrate that there WIZ n patriot
that wood rcspeck the laws uy his ma
tive place, and accept her currency.
Gentlemen" I seq, firmly, "step
up. Bascom, set 'em up"
Bascom he'd bin takin our money
for some days, and bed bin to Louis
vile for likker. lie sot out the bot
tie with a sardonic grin that BODIED u2
no god, We each poured out the
likker, however, and placed the glass.
es to NJ respective lips. Immeiitly
every man spitted the likwid out upon
the floor, | turned sick. for | he'd
uncawshusly swallered q little NV it..
IT wUz WATER! THE FIRST I HE'D
TASTED FOR YEARS!
"Wat does this mean. sir ?" | de
mandid feercelv.
Don't you ike the wliskov 2"
WIZ his anoer, ez he glarel f%eorcoly
at me. Mm-nn1nAanaanha,