The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

1t is q nice thing TO belong to the stock
exchange as long as you can keep your
temper, have plenty of customers, and
keep out of the temptation to dive into
the pool on your own account. The fam
lilies of dead stock brokers find prompt
payment made themsof big sum, which
few men could ever manage to pay the
premiums for in any ordinary insurance
company. But the impecunious stock
brokers are'bounced, and failure to full
fill their contracts causes their privileges
TO vanish like dreams Moreover, their
peccadilloes are visited with stern severity.
There was breeze, for instance, the other
day, between q Mr.. Breeze and Mr.. Bou-
vier, wherein noses and eyes were punch
ed. They have both suspended for thirty
days. And good deal of money may be
missed in thirty days.
Some disagreement about the transfer OF
accounts caused the scrimmage, and after
all it was but the physical manifestation
of nervousness and irritability which just
now affects good many people. Wall
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story went about the other day that Jay
Gould was bursted up, body and boots,
He thereupon waxed exceeding wroth
called in some cronies and the cronies say
q wonder if they told the truth y that he
showed them $54, ,O00, 900 worth Of unen.
dorsed securities, giving him control OF
half dozen railroads, and was going to
show them his United States bonds, but
as his secretary said, that it weuld take
two trucks to carry them, his auditors
wouldn't stop TO listen. They say Cyrus
w. Field almost broke his neck trying to
jump out of a window, so eager was he to
spread the news and make million oi
two by the sudden rise in everything.
Talking of cable and pipe laying Field
he is quite unpopular among certain class
es for the way he has hunted the youth
full patriot who defaced the Andre memor
ial, and a secret society called the Order oi
the Iron Hand has, it is said been organi
zed to smash up the whole thing. Then
one evening a crowd assembled in from
of his house, in response to invitation, stat
ing men were wanted. 1t took the ener
getic action of the police to clear the way
of the deceived multitude. 1t almost re
comedies one not to be a millionaire If such
annoyances are to be expected by the
wealthy.
Talking of millions, Miss Sarah BUR-
died little while ago, and bequeathed
the snug little sum of $3,500,0O0 among
some 100 different institutions and chari
ties, besides number of private legscies
The Protestant Episcopal Church prof
il ed most by her benefactions, though she
did not forget sundry other denomination
which she considered deserved encourage
ment- The old lady, perhaps, thought hel
relations didn't deserve or need encour
agement, for she didn't leave them a cent
The legstees are very well pleased, the Re
lations are not.
1t must be a nice thing to be receiver
The position is dignified, and one can ap
point any number of assistants to hell
each other do nothing as long as posi-
BILE. The Receiver of the Continental Life
Insurance Co. managed to collect $640,o0'
and it cost him to do so, so he says, $3.50,
600. The stockholders have not, as rule
made quite so much out of the affair as h'
| and his friends have