Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-10-26
Mr.. Nasby's Last Experience with Fiat
Money.
Toledo Blade.

Is, 1878.-The October elecshun
amt es satisfactory ez they mite he,
bin, but they will do. We hev los
Ohio and Iowa, but we hev gobbleC
Injeany and West Virginny. The
CRATE coz Nv fnanshel salVashen hez
not ez yit passed into triumph, but
it hezn't bin killed, witch is some
comfort. Their is yit room for hope.
Wheat hez come down five cents a
bushel in conscience NV the dismal
prospeck that Their won't be no
European war, and that encourages
us. The people never did ascribe
low price of perdoose to anything
but the party in power, and this
drop, eff it providenshelly contin~
yoos, viii make votes for US. The
price of prodoose controls a great
deel more than any one hez any idee
Nv. . l hev knowd a providenshel
potato rot to elect a Democratic
member Nv Congris.
Issaker Gavitt is CROWN daily
more gloomy ez the prospex Nv
general European war diminishes.
cts crooel," SEE he, with tear
in each eye. "No war in Europe,
and I've got ten hogs wich I wantid
a high price fur. This world is full
of disappointments. I don't sup
pose pork on foot will now be with
more than three cents a pound. Wat
do them European cabinits mean ! "
But this is diversion.
81 supposed that when we he'd
ishood our fiat money that our
troubles wuz over. | supposed
that, when the Common Counsel of
the Corners he'd ishoOd a currency
based upon the good faith Nv the
Corners, and he'd passed an ordi-
nance maxim it legle tender, that
everything wood go along smoothly, |
and that the era NV prosperity witch |
we hev all been lookin' for would |
immejitly set in. But it don't work
with a cuss. We he'd expected to
be relieved Nv our indebtednis to
Pollock & Bigler, but unfortunitly
them disturbers, with foresite that
is feendish, hev persistently refoozed
the Dimocrisy Nv the Corners credit
for many yeers, SO that we don't
owe them anything. And Pollock
vishusly that eff We did
eve him anything he wood ez soon
take pay in fiot money ez anything
else he wul likely to git from US, ez
be never expected anything anyhow.
But we desidedto git even with
him, l went into his store and asked
or a pare NV boots.
call rite" sed Pollock, "wat
lind Nv money do 700 perpose to
Jay in ? the glorious fiat Nv the pres
mt or the despised greenback Nv
he past p
"Sir - remarkt impressively,
l am too patriotic not to assist in
Citing our new money into cirke~
oshun. I shall pay in fat, of
which | hev plenty, and more a
,Omin.
CAN rite, sed Pollock, perdoos
n little strip of leather, Them
s the boots" |
"But they is not boots" I ex~ {
,laimed. "Wat kin l do with that I
strip of leather p t
"Jist ez much ez [ kin with your t
money. You say that piece of !
PAPER 700 hev is money! say that s
oiece Of leather is boots. My word a
5, [ trust, ez good ez yoors. /
And with a feendish laff he told 0
oe Bigler to keep an eye on me v
nd turned around sellin substan- t
hel boots to niger farmer witch k
ed Nashnel bank notes. t
Sadly I went over to Bascom's, I
nd found there the entire Corners e
iscussin the inanshel sityooashen. g
here was Deckin Pogram in his 1
Id familyer chair, there wus n
ssaker a lyin on his back on S
ound table that the citizens g
lay keerds upon when it is b
reused, and Captain McPelter j
eanin against the bar, all sighin at
be scarsity Nv money and the de-
rest condishun NV industry. 1t .
-uz site [ hev seed a thousand il
me and it meltid me. l determin- v
4 to demonstrate that there wuz 2
ne patriot that wood respeck the Z
Tvs Nv his native place, and accept y
er currency, I
Gentlemen | seq, firmly, "step v
p. Bascom, set 'em up" 9
Bascom he'd bin takin our money /
,r some days, and he'd bin to Louis :
lille for likker. He sot out the bot a
e with a sardonic grin that BODIED a
S no good. We each poured out q
ne likker, however, and placed the /,
lasses to our respective lips. I'm j!
lejitly every man spitted the likwid 1
ut upon the floor. | turned sick,
" l he'd upcawshusly swallered a 9
tile Nv it. /
IT WUZ WATER, THE FIRST | HE'D :,
AsTED FOR YEARS r