The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasty.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Wiclis in the State of Kentucky, J
September l, 1878.

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
| (WlchS in the State Of Kentucky,)
September 1, 1878.
Thenan Wich undertakes to benefit
his febw loads up a very heavy con-
track. Half the citizens Nv the Cor
ners ae a gOin back in the most
ongratful manner onto the Onlimi-
ted Cofidence and trust Company.
They re a gettin $40 bushel for
Wheat,lnd about the same for oats
and cor, and men now talk of thous-
ands with never before knowed how
to prOnGnce the word, but vet they
amt happy. They hey a hankerin
after redemption NV sum sort-they
demam to know when this money
Nv Oun is goin to be redeemed in
suthinelse-sum other kind Nv mon
ey-e2 tho our money, backed by
faith, yazn't ez good ez any in the
world Eff these malcontents wood
only IKE it and look pleasant there
Woodnt be any truble about it.
Bu' these men are not the worst
we heV to contend with. The citi-
zenS Wich are the stanchest sup
~ = AZ the nelY money hlY-de-
tetnriheu that, IT we heY The rite to
ishoo money they hev the same
rite. And 50 fore moo banks hey
been started this week.
Mackey and Burns started one,
with Mackey ez President and
Burns ez Cashier, and a nigger car
penter ez the BOord uy Directors.
They hev got the drop on us by re-
quirin the officers to give bonds, Wich
they accomplished by hevin Mackey
sign Burns, and Burns sign Mack
ey's, and both sign the nigger car
penter's. Then they hev another
advantage over us for they bought
their own press and print their own
notes, Wich, ez we hev to pay Simp-
son, the printer, a profit, enables
them to make money cheaper than
we kin. They call their institooshun
"The Nashnel AssoShasun," and hev
the offs in Mackey'S bedroom in the
Pogram House.
Scasely wuz this bank histin out
money afOre Squire Pettis and Ged-
ney, the shoemaker, started another.
witch they called 1.-THE Blessings
Diffushun Bank of North Ameriky,"
with the offs in Gedney's shoeshop,
and they got ahed of us by printin
their notes in two coIors, wich
must say give them a solvent look.
By this ume wheat he'd got up to
$50 per bushel, and wuz scase at that.
Then Parkins and Barney, the
who he'd made great deel
Nv money since inflashun set in, they
he'd to start bank, wich they called
sIhe Ekitable and Insaseable Bank
Company NV the YOonited States"
and they ishooed their bills by the
bushel.
Wheat went up Immediately to
93S per bushel, and a new era NV
set in.
Before these finanseerS had got
fairly under way, Butts and Bustere
conclooded they'd go into bankin,'
and behold one mornin the bills NV
the Labor Stimyoolatin Company
i. Butts President" made their
appearance. They didn't hev any
oills, for Butts said he didn't see no
use of an offs. He Good pay out
money on the street all he wantid, ef
the people wood take it, and ez it
never wuzn't goin to be redeemed,
wat did he want Of an oils? ? He
Wuzh't goin 10 eny such expense,
for he eleeved in eCOnomizen. To
go to yooseliss expense wuz to show
a culpable disregard NV the interests
VA the people. Wheat went up to
$40 per bushel, and there wuz more
Then troubles set in chunks. The
people who wuz not interested in
bankin refoozed, pint blank, to take