American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-01-09

buying Consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia the following may be mentioned:
r. N. Graves has his 5000 shares of Con
solIdated laid away, and a slice of Cali
fornia of unknown dimensions-the prof
its on both of which would to-day net
him over S2O00,OOO Gen. Tom Will
iams of ACCOMPLISHMENTS Democratic
opponent for the Senate-has made over
81 600 900, so that when the next politi
cal fight comes off the General will be
about as well qualified" for the Senate
as anybody. The amount of money
made by the great firm of Flood
IL O'Brien during the last six
months must be unparalleled. 1t is I'M
derstood that there are four partners in
the firm ii. G. Flood and w. S. O'Brien,
in this city. and John Mackay and james
G. Fair, of Virginia City. They own "a
controlling interest in each of the mines
mentioned-say 10000 shares of each.
Consolidated Virginia sold yesterday
after the Board at $40O per share, and
California at $500. If the number of
shares credited to the firm is correct
| they are worth. in these two mines alone,
Si5, 100000, or trif1e over $11,OOO0OO
apiece In the midst of their vast
"tiOpd" of wealth these gentlemen
| have not been unmindful of their poor
| friends, and there are scores of men, and
| women, too, in San Francisco, who have
been suddenly lifted out of poverty's
iron grip by timely hint from Flood &
O'Brien.
Many people have made money who
are not known on the Bourse. They be-
| long to that class who "never touch
stocks, sir," who send in their orders in
| a roundabout way, pretty much in the
same way as the late eccentric W. b.
| Bourn used to do, "to cover up his
| tracks," and who quietly bank their
profits, button up their coats, and turn
| up their noses when they pass California
| street. Many of the fair sex have
profited by the excitement There are
| stock oracles among the ladies as among
| the gentlemen. They get " dead points"
from their gentlemen friends, and COM
| municate with each other by mysterious
| signals. A few days since a lady named
| Mrs. A called upon her friend Mrs. b.
Stock came up for discussion. Mrs. B
said she never dealt in stocks 1t was a
dangerous business, and demoralizing.
Presently, in came messenger.
He said: "Mrs. B, am sent
of black silk. Mrs. C says it
is cheap at any price, and you had better
get thirty or forty yards for full suit.
This brown silk may be good, but she
| doesn't know yet whether it will wash
we'll" Mrs. A didn't understand the
messenger. Mrs. B instantly arose and
said: Excuse me, ma ckere, a message
from my dressmaker; must go down to
the White House and attend TO it ut once
as surprise for hubby; he loves black
silk" Mrs. A retired, and few minutes
thereafter Mrs. B might have been seen
entering the office of B, c & Co, brokers.
where an order was left for forty shares
of Consolidated Virginia and twenty
shares of California as a flyer. AS this
occurred week since Mrs. B. can realize
quite lot of n-money, even after divid-
ing with Mrs. c. There is honor among
the female operators. Whoever gets the
point first and communicates it is entitled
to ene-half the profits. And, as a gen
| eral rule, the points are reliable. How
the women get the points is a question
open for discussion. But they do-San
Francisco Chr0nicle, Dec. go.