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Th© Daily Reporter. MISCELLANEOUS. and, finding it bad, must have concluded that all gold was bad D. C. IRELAND A CO. PUBLISHERS. One Part of America Where Gold money. Coin Does Not Pa_s Current. Subscription Hute«. This morning I have learned By Carrier per week........................... 10 oenta New York Commeroial-Advertiaer. (Payable on Katarday.) Writing from Placquemine, better. Finding ourselves stopp Bl little Copy.......................................... 2 “ By Mail to oenU per Month (In Advance.) La., a correspondent sends this: ed here, I ordered breakfast from Headquarters for I find myself this morning in a the buffet, and after eating set Hate« tar Adverlitinf gold 8TÄPW O FOOT Will l«e niade «atiafHotory to nil npplicantw. novel predicament, amusing, if out to get some of my one is philosophical enough to changed into bills or silver at McMinnville, Or. - - Jan. 14. 1887 the shops of the town. Alas! the ■' 1 1 - look at the amusing side of it, Senator Tom Cooper, of Penn but at the same time very an shopkeepers of the place, even sylvania, Gov. Beaver’s prospect noying. We are brought to a including the saloon men, were ive secretary of state, was in halt here by a railroad wreck, like-minded with the porter. Washington for a few hours one and are likely to be detained One and all were persuaded that day last week. The golden here for at least a day. I have gold was not good money, and haired angel, as he has been my family w ith me, and natu with one mind they refused to called, is not a handsome man, rally there are expenses to pay. I take it. I offered to “treat all General Merchandise having qualifiedly red hair, and have in mv pocket a number of round” at a saloon if the bar -------- o- ■ keeper would take a $5 gold- h face by no means fascinating, coins made of gold and bearing Sole Agent for the Celebrated but he knows more about poli the stamp of the United States piece in payment and give me tics, practical ami theoretical, government, in certification of change, but he declined. I ask than any man in the Keystone their weight and fineness. The ed if the genuineness of my gold state, where every one is more coins are American |5, $10 and was doubted, thinking that or less of a politician. Mr. Coop ♦20 gold pieces, and if I w;ere in might be the trouble, but I was er would make the most success England,or Germany, or Russia, assured that all gold was refused ful diplomatist of his time. He or India, or elsewhere in the in the town, and one man, a Assortment of these Popular Goods can say a wonderful amount of world except right here in Plac merchant, told me he belived ALL THE LATEST nothing in a given time. When quemine, La., I should find my there had been “some govern NOVELTIES, NEW questioned about the object of money readily current at its ment action on the subject which AMD DESIRA his visit by a news reporter and nominal and actual value, be made gold no longer of any ac about some tender points in cause the two are everywhere count.” Finally, one man came BLE COLOR to my rescue and gave me silver known to be identical. Pennsylvania politics he smiled INGS, But here in Placquemine, in return for a $5 gold piece, most blandly, seem to take the JUST RECEIVER. reporter to his heurt at once, Louisiana, a little tow’n whose saying that the gold might per and forthwith began a long and jeople are direct decendants of haps “go for something in New’ Please Call and Examine, Acadians, my Orleans.” He did it very much confidential chat. It was all Longfellow’s very nice and kind of the great American gold is uncurrent ■ as hi* might have given $5 to a W hat we G uarantee money ! 1 first encountered , human being in distress, and I man, but some how or other FOR THE DRESS GOODS OF OUR this state of things last night j see tha t he had very little hope | after the golden haired angel MANUFACTURE. of ever getting anything out of when 1 offered gold for the por had poured forth a stream of confidences the scribe could not ter of the Pullman car in pay the bright new gold piece which To be made from the very best ma That 1 had drawiua few days before at terial, by skillful workmen, with the recall a word that would be of ment for my berths. latest and most approved machinery, any interest to news ¡taper read worthy politely refused it on the i the London and San Francisco and to be the cheapest goods in the ers. He was enthusiastic over ground that “that kind o’money bank in full faith that the gold market when service is considered. h.” I re- coins of my country were the the constitutions, the tariff, Gen. ain’t good out here Are so thoroughly finished that they and told ' best and surest possible repre can be worn in damp weather, or in a Logan, and the weather, but not moustrated with 1 a word about bisown intentions him that Americu gold was sentatives of value anywhere to ; shower, without fear of being ruined here, be- be found. by curling or shrinking. or about Senator Cameron’s worth its face evei I am still without any expla the gold in i merely as presidential boom or Matt Quay's cause 1 The manufacturing, dyeing and fin nation of the phenomenon, but gold, is worth the amount of ishing is done in such a manner, that senatorial light. ■ After inter- 1 it is a fact worth recording that the goods can be washed if desired viewing him one feels under an very nearly the face value of the He was deaf to argu American gold coin is not cur- without the least injury to fabric. obligation to him for his free piece. I of that kind, and so 1 ex ynt money in Placquemine, Our goods are wool dyed, and colors talk, vet there is nothing to ments 1 show for it. 1 pounded the law to him, and Louisiana. I wonder if confeder as fast as the purest dyes and greatest quoted the provision making the ate notes, or continental cur care and skill can make them. It has lately been discovered gold coin of the United States rency, or the bills of the Indiana! Goods show just what they are and that woodpulp, such as is used in legal tender in payment of all wildcat of 1837, would please will be until worn out, as there is no weighting, stiffening, or artificial lus making paper, can be used for debts. It was equally useless. these people better! tre used to increase the weight or fin all kinds of building ornaments The porter knew nothing about ish ; as is the case with a large class of Dr. II. R. Littlefield expects to made of plaster of Paris. Orna legal-tender laws or standards goods in the market, but which disap ments made of this material take of value or any thing of the leave for Murray, Shoshone pears after a few days’ service. painting and gilding much bet kind ; he only knew, or thought county, Idaho, about ahe 20th. As manufacturers we have taken ter, and are much tougher and he knew, that gold coins were We hope that Doc. will strike it great pains to supply an article in stronger than those made of bad, uncurrent money on this rich, and as he has some ground, every way reliable, and unsurpassed plaster. They can be fastened quarter of the country, and he and Murray is not far from the by similar goods, either foreign or do- with nails or screw«, and can l»e would have none of them. I center of the famous Couer d’ mestic, and would respectfully ask an examination of the various styles and made for half price of plaster. managed to scrape together Alene, why not. shades to be found on sale by mer I Woodpulp bids fair in the near enough silver, eked out with Ever ready lye is made by I chants who are agents for the goods. • future to prove a useful adjunct nickels, to pay for the berths, filling a barrel half full of hard All goods of our manufacture should to all kinds of building orna and decided in my own mind wood ashes and filling up with bear the name and trade mark of mentation and architectural dec that the porter must have got water. --............ — Handy to use when soft B roadhead W orsted M ills . A STRANDED GOLD BUG. DRY Broadhead * * * * Dress Goods oration. hold of a counterfeit gold coin, I water is not plentiful. Jamestown, N. Y.