The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-12
A TREMENDOUS REPUTATION.
What a Connecticut Paper says OF Fisls. Ir,

What a Connecticut Paper says of Fisk, Jr.
From the Hartford Ece,ting Post.
It's pretty dull day for lawsuits that Mr.. James
Fisk Jr don't sue somebody for $780, 900 in damages
And when you come TO consider of it moment
what reputation this must have been before ever it
was fired into! In dimensions how extensive, in
purity how immaculate, in brittleness and
fragility how sensitive to the breath of sus-
gieion! Imagine this genial creature
Fisk spreading out his moral character like
map before the country. Think of the sprightl-
ness with which he jumped from his peddler's cart
into Wall street. and commenced unrolling to a
gaping universe the mammoth proportions of his
personal reputation. 1t was hardly spread before a
merit-hatng, honesty -contemning, and modesty-
despisng world commenced 10 throw rotten
oranges at it, shot from Springfield carried away
100000 worth OF It tin in the twinklng OF bedpost-
head over his shoulder, he just said to his
attorney, Bring suit for it," and kept on
spreading himself. From some other source-we
forget What for we sat gazing so intently at the
character that we hardly noticed whence came the
attacks-an offensive missile slammed up against
IT, James merely said over his shoulder, "Sue
MN Tor hundred thousand" and the suit was
brought Then, as the Fisk stood with his face
ages, mscrlblng in brazen letters, ''James Fisk,
Jr', across the backbone OF the continent, Mr..
Z. >. Bushnell, OF New Haven, chucks some
decayed fruit at the picture innicng damage to the
amount OF another 100000 for which suit is imme-
dlatey brought Hardly had the papers been served,
when, with ker-whish ker-slop, the New York
Times let of whole bucketful of remarks damaging
the Whteness OF the Fisk character the of
least Acknowledgement for which amount Mr. Fisk
Will at some leisure moment slip into court and ask
to have entered on his behalf
wen, tS rather magnificent spectacle IL eX-
hlDlts genus all this. For, Mr. James Fisk Jr., if
we may truSJ the oath appended to his income re-
turns-ahG mere we mean TO step gently as not to
spater single cents worth of mud upOn his yeraCity
was not successful in business last wear He had
no income Under oath he says so. Not cent of in
come. lie returns watch. That's ALL SO
having no money, and hard luck, he has
set up thls magnificent character, the largest
anu Wmtest ever spread before the Ameri-
can people, and proposes to take his
chances for damages against the little boys who
come along rubbing against IL, or throwing water
melon rinds at 1t. With ordinary degree OF sue
cess he VIII make handsome thing of il. Should
he get Yerdlcts in his favor i'm the suits already
Deguh they VIII Drlng him in from one and half 70
TWO mlil0hs' Whlch VIII keep him through the year
comlortaDly, ana as the people keep throwing
things at him he has good prospect OF making a
living by libel suits for several wears 10 come
And these things we enjoy. For they make every
thlng nvey. But sitting here, thinking it over
wondering at the immensity and the purity OF this
mans character, admirng the genius with which he
makes II prontable 10 himself as well as beautiful TO
all the world, and then remembering that it is likely
to cost the newspaper press OF the country untold
millions for the privilege OF firing at tit occurs to
us-and we make the suggeston-that the press
club together and 'buy the whole niece" at fair
valuation. Firing at IL at retail prices will impOver-
sh everybody Let us take what there is left OF 1t at
wholesale. Then Mr. Fisk will get il of his hands,
which will really be godsend to him, and we can
all have shY at IL at reasonable cost.
Florence and William Wright the ''brother and
sister" who played the confidence game extern
siVey In Vermont and Connecticut some time since,
have been released from Norwich JAN
Why Ia a dogs tail great noyeItyY Because no
one ever saw II before,