He suggested my purchase of a quantity of Mr.Watts's oil stock when it was knocked flat on its back by two wells turning out dry; but if Mr.Watts's third well comes in, and young Fisbee has convinced me that it will, and if my Midas's extra booms the stock and the boom develops, I shall oppose the income tax.

Poor old Plattville will be full of strangers and speculators, and the 'Herald' will advocate vast improvements to impress the investor's eye.
Stagnation and picturesqueness will flee together; it is the history of the Indiana town.

Already the 'Herald' is clamoring with Schofields' Henry--you remember the bell-ringer ?--for Main Street to be asphalted.
It will all come.

The only trouble with young Fisbee is that he has too much ability." "And yet the daily will not succeed ?" "No.

That's too big a jump, unless my young man's expressions on the tariff command a wide sale amongst curio-hunters." "Then he is quite a fool about political matters ?" "Far from it; he is highly ingenious.