Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — A Caution to Merchants [ARTICLE]

A Caution to Merchants

The New Orleans Delta tells a good story of a sagacious country gentleman who came to that city some days ago with a bill on a highly respectable firm of the place. The bill was duly presented for acceptance and a young member of the find, a fashionable, showily dressed gentleman, who had cultivated a very dainty mustache, wrote with a gold pen his indorsement on the bill, giving bis name in full, thus, J. Templeton Tompkins. The countryman looked at the signature, read it slowly, glanced at the fashionable merchant, who was fantastically twirling his whiskers, and handing the bill over to him, remarked: “ Here stranger, cash this document." “ What!” indignantly replied the merchant, “discount my own paper, it is a positive insult” “ Wall, I can’t help it,” said the countryman, “ if you don’t, I must got somebody else to do it” To prevent his paper from getting on ‘ Change, the merchant concluded to cash the bill, and paying over the money to the countryman, asked him quietly: “ Why, my friend, do you offer me this gratuitous insnlt of requiring me to diacoUnt my own paper f’V ■ .. ”1 don’t mean any harm, stranger, but I have jest got an idear into my skull, that when you see a merchant with that bar on his upper lip, and Who writes his middle name out in full, and indorses bills with a gold pen, you may put them down as pnrty certain to bust up in a week.” —Last year the Mormons artificially irrigated and made fruitful 93,799 acres of land. Altogether they had a large amount 6f land under cultivation ; 80,518 actes in cereals, 1,817 in sorghum. 6,839 in root crops, 166 in cotton, 29,876 in meadow, 906 in apples, 1,011 in peaches, 75 in grapes, and 195 in currants. —A Georgia paper says that some farmers there who formerly cultivated fifty acres of land and got an equal number of bales of cotton, get an equal amount now from twenty acres. They prepare the land and cultivate better than formerly, and their profits are increased thereby, and at much less expense. The Riverside Magazine for July come# with a midsummer table of contents: “ Strawberries and cream,” some bed; has called the cover, and equally appetizing dishes are fonnd displayed within. “ Snipe Shooting.” will be the first coarse taken by many youngsters, who will gaze at Qastou Fay’s frontispiece with ardent desire te be in thak salt marah. “ A Tale ol the Sunset Sea” la one of those pictured lalry poems by Miss Blsbop, which readers ol the “Riverside” have learned to look for. Mr. Stockton comes with further adventures of the droll fairy Ting-a ling; the sketch of “Joan of Are"lsCoflclnded; Mr. Benjamin tells “ How a Ball Boat is built and rigged,” preparatory to telling howltis managed; “Papa’s Story" contsins more of the Inimitable pictures by children; Nellie Eyster describes an historic block house on Lake Erie ; Hans Andersen slips in with bis latest, freshest story, and the number makes a fine shew with its two dozen pictures, large and small. An Important an nonneement la made respecting the next number. Pnblisbed by Bonn & Uououton, New York, 93,60 a year. The Children's Hour.— . The short stories, sketches, poems and illustrations in the July number.will serve to Instruct and amuse the children for many an hour, and give pleasure and profit to oven the older beads In the family. This popular little monthly is published by T. 8. Annum Jt Sons, Philadelphia, Tm.r Single copies per year, $1.16; one copy three years, 9S 00; five copies one year, 96 00; ten copies, and one extra, 910.00. Single numbers, 15 cents. Sample' number, 10 cents. Once a Month.— Ttia Jfuly number— No. 1 of yol. S—contains Chapters XV. and XVI, of the Mills of Tuxbury; Among the Shops—second article; Mrs.Hnbbard’s Three Warnings; Pawnbrokers; A Cluster of Lyrics; LowsU’s “ Un derthe Willows ;" The Toll-Bar; Over a Cliff; Howling Dervishes of Asia: A Plea for the Robins; It will all be High; in the Morning; Rabbi Raschi—a Jewish Legend ; Some Light on a Dark Subject; Nature'sEver-durlngSutra; American Aristocrats; A Startling Example; The Guardian Angel; The Cruelty of Women; The Depth of Beauty; Long Sermons. The subscription price r* ■ ;

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