St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-12-05
Our New York Letter.

A STUPENDOUS SCOOP IN STOCKS-THE
LARGEST PRIVATE SALE EVER MADE IN
THE WORLD-THIRTY MILLIONS IN A
LUMP HOW NEW YORK ENJOYED
THANKSGTVING-AF FORTUNATE YOUNG
MAN THE GARRoTER ABROAD
DANGERS OF PIE EATING.
NEW YORK, Nov. %, 1879.
To the Editor of the Caledonian:
Wall street has been swept by the
street cleaning department, and the
pockets of its outside frequenters have
been swept by the most stupendous
scoop" ever known on the script. Van
derbilt has made cash sale of $780,
OOO, 900 of New York Central stock to a
syndicate composed of Jay Gould, Rus
sell Sage, Cyrus w. Field and other
strong financial magnates, and of course
everything is boiling over. Other stocks
fell with lightning rapidity, and opera
tors in margins have been shorn to the
very skin. The brokers feel particular
ly jolly. They have all made money.
What is to come of it all no one seems
able to predict, and for the next month
at least, the stock market is likely to be
rough sea for anyone to trust himself
on. The biggest vessels need to keep
Il sharp lookout to avoid shipwIeck,
and small crafts will have no chance at
all.
Thanksgiving Day passed in the qui-
ct way here which has become more
and more usual with each succeeding
year. 1t was happy day of family re-
unions, great day for the small BOYS,
and field day for sundry popular min
listers, who preached to consolidated
congregations of dOvetailed members of
neighboring and sympathetic churches.
Ialmage, as usual, shOne conspicuous.
His pulpit was a good sample of a booth
at an agricultural fail. and overlooked
with specimens of the vegetable
grOwths of the continent. His discourse
was eccentric, of course, but his hearers
seem to like it, and always go away
almost as we'll satisfied as if they had
attended the Black Crook at Niblo's.
Everyone comedies we have everything
to be thankful fol. Our exports and I'M
ports. have exceeded by many millions
the commerce of the most prosperous
year hitherto, wages have gone up,
business has been brisk, and the pros
poets on every hand are cheering. To
crown all we had superb weather. 1t
was perfect day.
All the young fellows, and a good
many old ones, have been talking about
the joyful prospects and actual posses
siOns of the son and heir of the famous
Col. Samuel Colt, who invented the
first, and possibly the best, of modern
revolvers. The young man has lust
come of age, and entered into the ell
lJOyment of an enormous fortune, run
ming up, in ready money alone, into the
millions. Hartford, where the family
belongs, and which is one of the most
eligible suburbs of our great metropo-
lis, where hundreds of our most active
manufacturers and merchants sleeI
every night, was Mecca for pilgrims
OF fashion from all over the United
States, and the festivities in honor o.
the happy youths birthday were of the
most gorgeous and bewildering kind.
Crime runs in epidemics just like the
measles. just now garroting is in fash.
ion, and several outrageous assaults
coupled with successful robbery, hav,
occurred in New York and our sistel
city, Brooklyn. In the latter collection
OF homes for busy citizens, letter car
rier was chOked in one of the sparsely
settled outskirts, and despoiled of hi
, spare cash, watch and sundry trinkets
the thieves letting the mail bag severed,
alone, while our streets leading to tn,
ferries have been the scenes of sundr,
: other breaches of the peace and right