Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-31
NEW YORK.
Holiday Week In the Great Metropolis
Theatrical Amusemenfs-BOOks
and Book PubIIshers-Big
Dividends.
From an Occasional COrrespopdeptJ


Dividends.
From an Occasional Correspondent
NEW YORK, December 27.-Holiday
week in this city appears different from
all the other weeks Of the year. 1t is q
season Of more than usual gayety and
enjoyment. The business man gets his
harness pretty well loosened, and gives
his inclinatiOns treer rein. People with
few cares dissipate, and children enjoy
themselves in an innocent way. Very
little work is done on the exchanges, as
the week Is devoted principally to settle
ments and preparations for the new
years operations. The shop-keepers are
the busiest, but the season is dull one
with them this year, and its results will
prove unsatisfactory. 1t is hard to pre-
dict what the new year will bring forth.
With Democratic majority in con-
gress there is some hope that wise and
patriotic legislation may afford relief. At
present We are all wrong on the financial
and the tariff questions, and on most
questions relating to the south. The coun-
try at large is prosperous. There never
was q time when the products of the |
Held, OF the workshop, and the mines |
were so great as now, nor when the fu-
ture lin these respects, at least) looked |
80 bright. Manufactures and shipbuild- |
ing lag behind, it is true, but that is ow-
ing to the lack of capital to carry them |
on, and capital is afraid to venture out,
and lies locked up in Wall street. Ali |
kinds of first-class amusements are well |
patroniZed, and theatrical managers are |
getting rich. The Fifth Avenue theater
has had two new plays this season, one
OF which had long run and the other
promises well. The Union Square has
run the play Of Rose Michel over q hum
dred nights, with full houses. jarrett
d Palmer will put new Shakespearian
piece on the boards for the first time to-
night, with the most splendid appoint
ments and scenery ever produced here.
1 mention here the singular fact that no
theater now exists below Fourteenth
street l wish had time to take your
readers through the publishers and ex-
anime all the new things in literature
with which they are OVERLOOKING. This
is the season par excellence OF new books.
You will be glad TO know that J B. Ford
q Co. are recovered from their embar-
rassment, and bid fair to become more |
tlourishing than ever. They have issued
recently volume of Christmas stories,
written by Mrs. Stowe, handsomely
bound, and of unusual interest to all who
would understand New England charaC-
ter and customs. A second work, totally
different, is a novel, "St. George and
st. Michael" by George Macdonald,
the plot Of which is laid in Old Eng
land in the middle ages, and treats OF
the loves and trials Of highbOrn damsels
and Of the adventures and perils of war
rior mobiles, whose bravery and wisdom
founded civilization which now en-
circles the globe. Lee & Shepard, of
Boston, had hardly closed settlement
with their creditors, satisfactory in every
way, before their extensive establish
ment was again in motion, and new
books were given. out in increased num-
bers and in larger quantities than be-
fore. Since resumption they have pub
lished "The Great Bonanza" illustra-
tive Of gold and silver mining, oil wells,
ships and shipping, rafting on the big
rivers, Utah and the Mormons, and lie
in the west and south. Il is by Oliver
Optic and others, and has proven one of
the most entertaining and useful of the
season, Also, "One Hundred Gems"
which is simply collection of the finest
works of old masters and new, gathered
from all parts Of the world, and put to-
gether in one volnme, which is bound
in green and gold. For holiday pres
ent it is perhaps the best thing Issued,
and costs six dollars. Also, +" Going
West" an interesting and instructive
book for young people; "The Trip OF
the Asbury Twins to Europe" we'll
written work, altogether out of the
usual style of works on travel. Besides
these the firm have issued for young
people, "The Boy-Fsrmers of Elm
Ve,ln nd ~ Apfh |
Captain" ''The SOphomores of Rad
cliffe;" swimming his Spurs;n "Foar-
Footed Lovers, or the Adventures of a
Happy Family of Pets" consisting OF
squirrels, cats, dog and two calves;
" Brought to the Front" They also
announce Histories of a Grandfather
about American History" &c The Young !
"The Yacht Club" and
others, all illustrated with fine engrav-
ings. AT some other time we will take
a look through other leading houses.
Putnam & Sons have issued an unusual
Of books this year, many of
which are standards in science and art.
Scribner & Armstrong have republished
many first.class English works. Next |
Monday will be dividend-day, when
nearly all the great corporations will pay
interest on their bonds and dividends
on their stocks. / do not hear that there
will be much defsulting this time. The
condition of every bank, railroad, and
other company is pretty well known by
this time, as the effect of the payment
or non-payment Of interest or dividends
has been discounted. The largest divi-
dend will be that of the Consolidated
Gold and Silver mining COM
pany, amounting to one hundred and {
twenty per cent. on its capital. Each
holder Of share Of one hundred dollars
will receive dividend of one hundred I
and twenty dollars in gold coin out Of
the profits of the year. The capital
stock OF the company is ten million
eight hundred thousand dollars, only
five per cent OF which was ever paid in.
Its total dividend for 1875 will be twelve |
million, nine hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars. Its dividend for 1874 was
six million four hundred and eighty
dollars. The stock Is owned !
in London, New York and San Fran
cisco. The Union Pacific, New York
Central, Pennsylvania Central, and most
Of the other dividend roads will pay div !
idends Of six to eight per cent, the sg-
gregate of which will amount to twenty
five million dollars. Railroads are not J
az popular as they were, as means Of in
owing to the frauds, misman-
agement and rascality which have been
developed by them. As predicted one
year ago, the mining interests CT the
country are beginning to get large
share Of attention. In this market the
Mariposa mines are again becoming the
and it is believed that in an-
other year the stocks will be more than
double in price. T.