Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-21
THE CORNERS CONTINUES IT'S Ex-
PERRIN ENTS WITH FIAT MON.
EY--HOW THE THING WORKS.
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS,
(Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,)

The amout of prosperity the Corners is
labrn under, just now, is mirakulus.
Me and Issaker Gavitt hez isshood over
three hundred thousand dollars Nv our
fat money, and, ez, l predicted, the
Corners is prosperin to degree that no
one, not even myself, ez sangwin ez I
am, never dreemed Nv.
lssaker Gavitt and me hev quit ishooin
fat money, and the town council hev
taken it in hand, so that it shell hev an
of6shel look.
The money they ishoo reads thus:
s.THIs IS A DOLLAR,
"Sekoored by the faith of Confedrit
K Roads,"
These bills is signed by the mayor and
clerk Nv the corporeshen, and ez they are
printed in two colors with green back,
they look ez good ez any money | ever
saw.
The question wuz how to git EN- into
cirkelashen. Money amt good for moth
in onless it cirkelates, and SO the council
resolved on a system Nv internal i'm
provements to git EN- out.
Accordingly they let the follerin con-
trax
A new city hall to cost $3.50, 900.
Publik skool bilding to cost $4,000.
| This was considered extravagant, but
the main pint is to git the money into
cirkelashen.)
A ship canal to connect Confederit
Run with Sucker erik. The estimated
cost Nv this necessary improvement is
one million Nv dollars.
A narrer-guage railroad to connect
the Corners with Secessionville on the
louisville road. cost $5OO,O00.
A plank road to Davisville to cost
100000.
Steam fire engines and complete fire
department to cost $4,000. @
This is ez fur ez the council hez got,
but other appropriations will be made
for other improvements ez fast ez the
money is wanted to git into cirkelashen,
that being the main pint now
The contrax wuz all let to citizens Nv
the Corners, mostly to members Nv the
council, and wuz all based on the price
Nv drink. plane, so cents. The coun-
Gil he'd the money all printed to pay the
contrackters with. Ez we didn't want
to wait long before the era Nv prosperity
sot in, it wuz voted that eech eontrackte1
shood hev an advance Nv 25 per cent. Oh
the amount Nv his contrack. that the
money might be got into cirkelashen to
wunst, and the good effex mite be felt
immejitly. This wuz done, and some
100000 wuz paid to EN-.
The effeck is terrific. The wages u,
labrin men hez gone up to 81 a day, and
it is difficult to prokoor em at that
Whiskey hez riz to so cents drink
without sugar, and rs with. The groan
ing shoemaker witch used to git $5 for {
pare Nv stogy boots is Citing $40 now
and he amt particular about selling ever
at that price. Everybody hez got all
the money they want, and the Corners il
baskin in the Deems Nv Unlimited pros
peritY. This fat money is big thing.
, The only spot on our shining sun i
t Bigler and Pollock. They refooze t
, fetch our money at ali, and ez they keel
| goods wich we must hev its inconvenient
t And then Joe goes about asking all sort
: Nv fool questions. He wants to know
{ wat good this money is agoin to be il
/ Louisville where our supplies come fror
f primarily? He wants to know who
| agoin to pay the taxes for all these i'm
{ provements, and how we will feel whe
$ the bubble busts and we are left with a
: immense debt onto our shoulders
! I answered him that he didn't kno'
5 nothin' about fnanseerin. That the yer
J. essence Nv fat money wuz that it wuzn
f never to be redeemed, that the peopl
f wuz takin it for their goods and labol
b and that it would keep on forever in on
J. endless round.
But" sed Josef, ''the contraction
d hev got to hev iron and tools and thing
e and the labrers hev got to hev shoes an
v great deal Nv likker, and little sutt
:. in to eat occasionally. It's all very we
n SO long ez they kin trade among then
d selves, but how will it be in Louisville
lt Will they take it there 80
It That is the cloud that hangs over u
s. Will they take it in Louisville, where v
= hev to buy our goods? ~
t. We must moove on the legislacher ar
N get the State to adopt the Corners ide
|, and then we must 60 to Congris ar
is compel the ishooin Nv fat money by Il
le general government, maxim it leegle tel
N der wherever the flag floats. And th
is it may be got into cirkelashen the gene
IF al government must be paternal, al
must initiate the Corners in the matt