The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-09
GONE To TEXAS.
John BIasini, who Gave all His Creditors
the Slip Save HIS Cashier.

| Not long SINCE in little shanty located at
| the corner of Basin and Common streets. one
| John Blasini started to run cofeeehouse.
Business was so brisk in short while that he
| had to hire cashier. The individual he hired
was no less a parsonage than Matt Hogan. With
Hogan as cashier. John thought he was bound
to do thriving business OF course. every
body knows that Matt was whale in the shape
OF a cashier. John, somehow or another. did
not pay bis employees as regular as they might
! Hogan 6Co were doing rafting business.
One night when delightful north wind was
blowing the little shanty took fire. and before
the Fire Department could render any assist
| ance the once prosperous little par room was q
pile OF smouidering ashes.
had bis stock well lnsured-say sl2to.
/ Whether the business was prosperous or not
John had neither paid his employees nor his
A day or so after the fire Blasini Hogan Co
were run into Jail on the charge Ct carrying on
not been destroyed by fire.
On this charge they were acquitted. When 81 the the
Matt asb te ess5 D
and told him that 1t was tine to settle up.
The model employer said he hadn't any She
surance. Hogan not only claiming to be good
cashier. but also an able copper" was not
long making up his boss's intention to give q M
that lie shouldn't do any such thing. Ii his de-
tective ingenuity could prevent 1t.
| Hogan was right. John made up his mind
that as soon as he got his insurance money he
would give all of his creditors the slip and skip
10 Texas. John got his money and, having
everything In readiness, one morning boarded
Morgan's ferryboat, with the intention Of tax
ing the train on the other side OF the river for
Texas. Before the ferry backed out. eagerly
did John keep a sharp lookout to see il any oil
his creditors had dropped to his game. The
boat blew her whistle and backed out Into the
stream. John was cbuckling, all over at his
beaten
his employees and creditors.
But suddenly. like the ghost Of Banquo, Matt
Hogan his long-tried servant. appeared unto
him. John turned pale, then red. then his
countenance wore death-lfke palOr. Where
are you going2" inquired Hogan. I am only
taking a morning ride for my health" respond
> ed John. You carry large amount Of bag
gage for man that only Intends, to taking a
! morning ride on ferryboat.' replied the IRE
, preesible Matt.
Then Hogan told his ex-boss tale OF the
terrible fate of a man who met death by drown
ing, and wound up by forcibly i'm pressing John
with the fact that IL he did not wish to take a
morning bath. with the chance OF never reach
ing land again, he had better hand him over
t the money he owed him and also little extra
change In payment for the trouble he had ir
: watching him.
john came up like little man. and Hogan
then told him that his visit on the boat at tina
early hour was purely accidental so far as be
| was concerned; that he came down STINT ly fol-
! the purpose Of taking ride for his health anc
to watch the rippling waters OF the Mississippi
Now that John ,sojourns peacefully In Ia,
Lone Star State. the balance OF his creditor:
3 say that Ii he ever sets foot on Crescent Cit!
soil they will treat him to a bucket of hot tai
and feather bed