The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-12-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

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said in one of my letters that Henry
Willard was abundantly able to take
care of himself. Some of the bears
seemed to think that they could take
care Of Mr.. Willard, but they went to
sleep on Tuesday night in very COM
Portable frame of mind, and woke up
on Wednesday morning to the fact
that they were hundreds of thousands
on the wrong side of the ledger with
the chances exceedingly light of ever
getting their balances back. The
shrinkage on the Willard stocks has
been something enormous-since one
year ago last October over seventy
millions of dollars-to that extent some
poor lambs must have sufered-and
unfortunately that vast sum has been
taken from those who are least able to
bear it. 1t is not the Billings or the
Wizards who suffer. They know Just
when to buy and when to sell. They
are on the inside If they want few
thousand shares of stock at low price
which they sold at a very high price,
they have only to pass dividend, and
set reports in circulation of irregu-
larlties in the management. Instantly
the stock begins to tumble, and when
they have it down to the lowest notch
another dividend is declared, the re-
ports of irregularity are authoritatively
contradicted, the stock booms again,
the insiders sell out and the outsiders
buy, till the big guns have unloaded,
and then they are ready for a new
deal. When it was reported on the
street that Mr.. Willard had resigned
the presidency of two of his most i'm
portant companies for an hour or so it
looked like Black Friday. Then the
Willard stocks bounded up like an
India rubber ball, and al! the little
bears fastened to cover their shorts,
but they were late In two hours the
Willard stocks went up from five to ten
points. Everybody who had anything
to sell got cash for his goods, but four
O'Clock came long before the hungry
crowd was satisfied, and night fell on a
scene of disasters to the faction whose
boast it is that their greatest success is
built on national ruin. Keep your eye
on Mr.. Willard, and if anybody tells
you that he is about to fail give your
informant dose of nitro-glycerine and
look out for torpedoes and spring guns.
There have been three trials during
the week which have set people think
ing, and We are asking ourselves if
there is not something thoroughly
rotten in our social fabric which needs
immediate reforming. One of the
most shocking cases is that Of Miss
Rose keyscr, the suicide of the Wind
sor Hotel. | will not allude to the
tragedy itself, for you have read
enough of that. But consider for
moment woman getting up before
a jury to tell the story of her husbands
crime. Without a change of counten-
ance and without blush she acknow-
lodged that she knew the Of connection
between her husband and Miss Keyser,
and the infamy of the arrangement
never seemed for moment to strike
her. This precious rascal, Dunn, in
PRODUCES his mistress to his mother and
keeps her for months in her company.
The old lady has her board bills paid
at fashionable watering places and
swell hotels by her sons Leman, and it
never appears to have struck her that
there was anything wrong in the ar
rangement. The ruin of Il girl, more
or less, gives this excellent old lady not
the least anxiety, and now that she is
dead, and can no longer speak for her
self, Mrs Dunn declares that she merely
regarded her as a servant. who could
fix her bonnets and mend her frills,
though it is morally certain that the I'M
fortunate suicide had more brains and
more accomplishments than Mrs Dunn
or her son, and the widow Alexander
thrown into the bargain. | shall wait
with some curiosity for the sequel of
the widow Alexander's matrimonial
venture. | wish her much JOY of her
new husband. five may judge OF the
future by the past, she wont have him
long. Should her money give out she
will soon be abandoned for another,
and perhaps experience portion OF
the agony that poor Ross keyser felt
when she blew her brains out
Gordon, the villain who
!, -. little school girl, has been
NJ the crime of abduction, in
= sentenced to States
- - Il school uirl NOT |