The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-17


es with such amazing power. Her mistake
lay in going beyond her sphere. The old
Greek maxim exalts the importance Of self
knowledge. "7O gnotM Sc duton, accord
TO that utterance. is heavenly gift. 1t is
evident that Miss Dickinson was not thus
inspired, else she had never abandoned her
true sphere for profession to which she is
not adapted. Even Napoleon failed when
he misjudged his powers, and the conquer
or OF Jena and AustcrlilZ was to be taught
a new lesson by the scenes of Moscow and
the horrible retreat from Russia. The worst
feature in these lessons is that they come
too late. Alas, how often Is misfortune
found to be irretrievable!
PERSONAL FACTS.
Anna Dickinson 10 in her thirty-ffth
year. She was Of Quaker birth, but soon
showed that she could not be held within
the limits of that quiet community. She
is native Of Philadelphia, and was the
youngest of five children, whose mother
was poor widow. At the age of fourteen
her fret article was published In the Lib
orator. Three years afterward she became
q rural school teacher. During this time a
meeting in behalf OF woman's rights was
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ventured a brief address. The audience
was both astonished and delighted, and the
inquiry went through the mass, "Who can
che be-" Tie reply was, "Miss Dickin-
son, the teacher" In order to be near her
friends, and also to enjoy the advantages of
q great city, she obtained employment In
the Philadelphia mint, but was discharged
in consequences of her severe comment on
the tragic blunder of Balls Bluff. This led
to her engagement as a political speaker.
She found hersolf in field worthy of
genius, of which she had long been un-
conscious. At the age of twenty-one she
was commissioned by the republican state
committee OF New Hampshire to stump the
state end she afterward accepted similar
commission from the Connecticut commit
tee. Next came an engagement to canvass
the mining and agricultural districts of
Pennsylvania. Since that time she has
been widely known as a brilliant and
powerful platform speaker. She has
during this career addres sed a larger num-
Der OF lecture-going audiences than any
orator except Beecher and Cough. Miss
Dickinson Is what some would call small
woman, but her frame appears to be very
powerful, and when wrapt by congenial
theme, she rises to full and msjestic
dignity. Nevertheless, that she is not
adapted TO the stage seems very evident,
and she might well remember the warning
given US by Young in his satires;
"Beware the fervor OF the mind-that thirst
With which this age Is eminently curst."
MORE SENSATION.
The Front street tragedy will soon be
forgotten. One of its interesting features
is the fact that 1t gives Staten island the
third sensational funeral within a year.
The first was that of Mr. and Mrs. Garner,
the victims of the yacht calamity last
summer. Garner was the richest man
that ever perished by drowning, so far as
we have record. The next was the fuseral
of Commodore Vanderbilt, in which three
steamboats, and 150 carriages were en-
ployed, and third il the double funeral Of
the Jewctts, in which tho suicide assailant
and his victim were both consigned to the
grave. Who would ever have expected
such catastrophe in quiet old fashioned
Front street? Ii seemed, indeed, like
lightning out of clear sky. Never before
this has any such tragedy been connected
with the paint trade-a staid and methodi-
cal guild, whose operation yielded cash
rather notoriety. Thirty years ago the
name of Jewett was brought before the
public in a narrowing manner, but in that
case an unfortunate woman had been muir
dered by her paramour, and this made
Richard p. Robinson and Helen Jewett
the widespread theme of bloody interest.
Society has since then advanced in Its
capacity for outrage. At that time mere
murder was sufficiently appalling, but now
we demand not only murder but suicide
with hand grenade and an internal ex-
plosion to constitute grand sensation.
WALL STREET TORPEDO.
The stock market stands with its gates
ajar, ready for the devils entrance at any
time. More than third of century ago
Bennett inserted picture in the Herald
representing "Satan rolling ten pins in
Wall street. Very profane and irreverent,
all must allow, and yet is not the history
of that street suggestive of just such an
idea The latest pins to fall are the
operators in Delaware and Hudson, and also
the Kennedys-men who were included
among the most careful of all the broker
fraternity. Harvey Kennedy has been in
Wall street for twenty years, and had fairly
won first-class reputation. He is a native
OF West Galway, and the family included
six brothers-men of fine personal ap-
talent. Associated with Harvey Kennedy
was his brother William, and also Durant,
son of DR.. Durant, the latter being we'll
known stock operator. Harvey Kennedy
was director in Rock Island, and also in
Chicago and Northwestern, which is one OF
the most notorious of Wall street footballs.
During the panic of 1878 1t fell from 80 10
81, and then recovered to 81, but since
then il has been on the decline. On the
9th inst. it sold at 81 y, and on the 18th it
fell to 49,. This is decline of nearly
so per cent. in two days, and for such a
collapse even Wall street Is hardly pre-
pared.
THE GENERAL RFFECT.
The decline affected other stocks 10 a
NAKED degree. q. G. & l. g. was sold at
20, which is low figure for stock which
has been quoted at 1876 and has paid 20 per
cent. dividends per year. The Kennedys
will no doubt soon retrieve their reverses.
They stand well in the community, and
have only to feel that this is the fortune Of
war. All Wall street 1obbing is of the
nature of free fight, aud the cry here, as
on the battle fields, is Ca pictis, woe to the
conquered. The low price of some stocks
shows how easily large capitalist could
purchase an entire road. The Toledo,
Wabash and Western is quoted at 5, and at
this rate its apparent capital (Which is
fifteen millions) could be bought for
$3.50, 900. G. @. & 1. O. is now selling at
3, while New Jersey Southern is down to
that is to say, a share whose par value
is 800 can be bought for seventy-hye
cents. This is the lowest quotation ever
recorded in Wall street. There was time
when such contemplate figures would not
have teen put in print but alas we have
got down 80 low that the smallest stems
must be reckoned.