Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-28
EVENING STAR.
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Never 60 q claiming at high wa.
ter" This was the advice which a dy.
ing fisherman gave to his only son.
There is some wisdom in it. It is this
" claiming at high water" which brings
about a large portion of our bankruptcy.
Buckram, Silk & Co., was q year ago a
man in very excellent circumstances. In
October last, he thought he would ego
claiming at high water" bury Erie rail
road stock, at eighty-seven dollars. In
about month the stock began to g sub.
side." Buckram became alarmed; and
counselled with Bullion, q broker of Wall
street. Bullion advised him to hold on.
Buckram took his adyice-and with good
effect. The arrival of the steamer Ali.
ca, with " five days later from Europe, y
announced that there was. northeast
storm raging in Europe, in consequence
of which it was anticipated the Gar
would be attacked with the bronchitis,
and thus bring the war to q close. The
news had a momentous effect on all kinds
of securities. Consuls advanced three
eighths, and other steeks in proportion.
Erie went up eight per cent. in few
hours. Buckram was in ecstacies. He
saw before him IN immense fortune, and
marble mansions of the Fifth avenue.
Buckram, for three days, was the hap.
pieSt man in Europe. At the end of thu
period, the Atlantic arrived, with the
startling news that the northeast storm
had abeted, that the Car had not got
the bronchitis, but that Louis Napoleon
had been drinking out of wet tumbler,
caught cold, and on the day the Atlantic
sailed was threatened with q pulmonic
attack. Stocks were Immediately seized
with panic-consols fell off one per
cent. and Erie seventy-three.i In few
days Erie took another tumble loco.
motive ran over . short-tail COW. and the
company, according to the Herald. was
threatened with long and expensive
lawsuit" 1t was now quoted at !" tifty.
five and dull" From this it descended
to fifty-one-forty-eight and
finally brought up at thirty -one. Buck
ram could stand it no longer. He or
dered a broker to +" sell him out at what
it would bring" The broker followed
his instructions with net loss of thirty.
five thousand dollars, and all brought
about by disobeying the instruction of
that fisherman-by "going claiming at
high water" Learn wisdom from the
tisherman-and in any business that YOU
may enter, watch the tide" !
-"With you, my dearest John, I could
love, and be happy on crust; without
you ! would consider myself wretched-
though l owned the world" .sr
Yours, till death, MARY ANN.
The above is the conclusion of femi-
nine letter that came into our possession
yesterday. 1t is evident that Mary Ann
has got the palpitatlon in the +" natural
way Marry Mary Ann, and what a
change would come over her. Cupid and
Hymen are as opposite in their disposi-
tions as a spendthrift and miser. Gu
pid deals in poetry and flutes, and makes
people feel SO eternal, that Mary Ann
doubtless imagines that she could live on
sighs, and float away on soap bubble.
Hymen don't believe in /" this sort of
nonsense" Hymen is practical, talks
of cradles and mutton chops, and has an
increase of opinion. A lock, bolts and
patent tea-kaddeys. Cupid takes lib
eral view Of matters-and sucks a living
out of cracked flute, or knock-kneed
clarionet. Hymen detests SUCH weak.
nesses, and proclaims with emphasis that
the only musical notes worth listening
to, in this world, are auriferous sugges-
tions which comes from" clinking pair
of doubloons.p Mary Ann, single, and
Mary Ann, married, will not be :" like
the same person" In few years from
the present writing, the young lady who
could Z" live On crust" will be blowing
up her g dear John because he didn' {
get more pork and taters" for 20 theil
young ones" Funny world this well
it is.
Widows, are much healthier thar
married women. There is our friend
Mrs. Jones. A year ago she was SO ner'
vous she "coufd not drag one foot after
the other" A few months since, Mr.
Jones cup and died one day." Sine,
Iuc1l HAS UCCOlllC dS du(
robust as a hod carrier. Last season
Mrs. Jones could not support "her OWL
weight" This season She supports moi
only herself, but six children and brin
die pup These facts viii be dwelt on
For curing nervous complaint, a ittlt
adversely does more good than all tht
medicine that was ever invented.
"A genius in New Bedford is fitting
up steamer for the purpose of towing
icebergs to India, where they sell for sia
cents a pound. Another proposes to dc
still better-to fit screw to the berg it
self, and thus avoid the expense of shiI
building. We go in for the latter ar
rangement, Those wanting shares, car
address the editor of the Dutchman, OIL
the secretaries of the East India Anti
Phognistic and North Pacific self-sup'
porting refrigerating association. Office
Julep Avenue, No. %. ..-,, .-..,.