, 1873-01-01
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How Joy Gould Made Five Millions
OIL tho London Stock
Exchange.
Commodore Vanderbilt 8 Wit
moss in the Stokes Muir
der Trial.
What the Venerable SpecuIator Thinks
OF lanes Fisk.
miscellaneous Local News,

Miscellaneous Local News,
] sptcial Despatch to The Chicaqo Tribune.
New YoRK, Dpo. 3l.-An evening paper saya |
now leaf Of Eric manipulation in the English |
market has just been developed, which exhibits
remarkably silcccnsful speculation OIL tho part
Of Jay Gould in tho London Stock Exchange.
Ibr aosIrul flays pnst European oablo dispatches
hayo announced humorous failures among tho
spocnlatorB thero, who hayo boon selling calls
on Eric stocks, which is equal to selling stock
! short for decline. Ono largo London honRe
! liz announced to havo failed on 10000 shares.
It turns out that Jay Could just previous previous
Broad strcet spcoulator to London with fottors
of credit to largo amount, with orders to quiet
| ly buy calls upon al imnouso number Of shares.
| Tho stock i'll Now York Ind beon depressed by
| Gould about 10 por cont, and Was mndo to LOOK
very woak to induce tho English Bpeouiatofs TO
soil calls 1t choap rates. No dispatches wero
sent by cablo TOR fcar Of tho operation loaking
out and the market for Eric waB kept down, until
tho return Of the New York agent two woeks
ago, when tho calls woro oil secured, tho trap
was sprung, and Erie ehnros ran up 10 por ceut
within two days. Goula'a profits IN the London
markot nro estimated at $4,000. 900.
Aftor twenty-ono yours Of official service,
Mayor Hall retired to private life to-day, and
will rebumo tho practice Of Inv. He gavo q
collation. tha afternoon in one Of the rooms Of
pnper reporters. Ho said that after long
municipal service ho had bought burial lot,
and would not DO many miles from tno City
rho following ia Commodore vanderbilta
testimony in tho Stokos case, to day: :" know
James fislz in his ufe-tino; I had known
him 'acG IN r., 1gss 49,, udco h1 tut hnew very him. caf
was not VOL enough acquainted with him TO
know Ills tompor aud disposition /; I thought ho
was a rockloBs MN, md would do pnythng he
undertook to accomplish pulpohe'"
tompor waB always heard he was IT. wild man,
violent man to accomplish anything ho de-
sired"
Q-poraonally yiolont
Q-Do you know Of any instance wllcro ho ro-
sorted to personal violence
, A--No, Hir. I hayo hoard all kinds Of bad
! ! things Of Mr. Fisk.
To n1r. Tronaino-1 simply mcan 1 mover
heard Of his being personally engaged IN IN at
, | tack, heard OF his attack OIL the Albany j.
BuBquohanna Kailroad, aud hoard Of tho Eaton
afIair.
Nlr. Vanderbilt Qeaving tho stand )--You won't
let MO giye my opinion Of the 1Ean?
t Mr. Fulerton-No, N1r. Vanderbilt; you Gun
take that out with you. [Laughtor;1 ~, 81.
Earlo's Hotel, falsely representing heraolf to be
: tho Now England authoross of "Iho William
r Henry Lottors," md refused to pay thcdcbt, wae
: discharged by Judge Barnard to.tl"}, on ths
decided againBtthe constitutionality Of tho Hote
law, and that it was ,nonstrous to pass such c
law making civil debt Q criminal ot1onco. !,
In Now fork dqr;n 1872 + thSrG were 9S1
r Tho deaths exceed tho births by nearly II ,o0o
The total death roll is 2294l, being o,ooo In cz
CESS Of last year.
= tho Contro street flro was continued to-day, bu
without finding any trace Of them, except I
+ charrcd human thigh and pair Of shoes noarl,
= burned up. Tho work will DO prosecuted unit
y prevails that tue bodies arc reduced to aslloa
Z This conviction WAS strengthened to-day Whol
II tho fire was found to be still burning ut tho bot
;r torn requiring the Of fro plug. Tho ruin
~ underneath tho olovntor hnvo now been ontfrel
y excavatod. It was expected ao1no bodies woul
~ ~ bo found thore but, though the aales and eartf
- - we're carefully romoycd and slftod, no huma
7, remains was discovered. It was i'll this corno
p u up to tho fourth story, TINT q portio
T.. T. OF human skull with black lair attached
y aud piece OF black and wllito plaid shaN
=, ~ wero yesterday found. Tho elevator reaoho
y within sixtoon foot Of q hallway, which no
~ looks liko woll-holo. nlr: hlidd|otons so
j.. states llo saw four womon in this life-i..sp whc
w ;" tho 1lames woro In full blast, and that the
=. ono Of them could hayo been saved. When til
~ ~ blackcncd fragment of thigh was recovered
= WINS loartreuding TO witness tho griof OF tho re-
- nfVnH and tn hear THAR that tile ElDHt
Yo frarmont might bo Laudol over to tlom Il
buriai.
IN ITO tho Associated I7ress.l
III New York, Dec. sl-At White plaius yoste
B- day. tho will OF A1r. Grceloy, dated iu 1871, VT
It. proyentod for admission to probate 4 hearin
81 in tic mattor, however, was dc]ayod unt
~ Jan. Ii.
A petition is receiving signatures OF buHine
or mon, requesting tho Legislature to abolish Il
ng prouont uH,lry laws, and to substitute tho
-. passed by tho Legislatures Of Massachuset