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and, finding it bad, must have
concluded that all gold was bad
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Writing from Placquemine, better. Finding ourselves stopp
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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to use when soft
B roadhead W orsted M ills .
A
STRANDED
GOLD
BUG.
DRY
Broadhead * *
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oration.
hold of a counterfeit gold coin, I water is not plentiful.
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