Fourteen Thousand Dollars in Gold Pieces

A few days ago, Mr. Cole Nall was asked by a big farmer in this county to go out and buy his cotton which he had not sold for three years.  Mr. Nall went out, weighed and classified the cotton which amounted to $14,000.  Mr. Nall was about to write a check for that amount when the farmer said he would not accept anything but $5 gold pieces.  Mr. Nall went to the band and got 2,800 $5 gold pieces, and carried them to him, whereupon the farmer got out a jug and counted them into it for burial purposes.  Pike county Journal

Middle Ga. Argus - Week of February 8, 1894