Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-21
,vrrvR FROM AMERICAs METROP.
OILS.

OILS.
Some time in July / read of a cyclone
~hich RACED through Illinois and Iowa
destroyine towns and villages, pros
tratinc forests and killing and manning
msn: women and children. 1t was q
fsarful tornado, and the tail end of il
struck Wall Street on Monday last
lining the Stock Exchange with dead
ducks and lame geese. not TO mention
the ganders who are left without leg
To stand on. Oh, my eye, wasn't 1t a
fearful time The shrinkage of values
m n week has amounted TO hundreds oi
millions of dollars, and lots of would bs
capitalists are trembling IN their boot
for fear the end hath not yet come
"PhOo. phoo, phoO," says Mr.. Gould
business il brisk ; We are doing mor'
than ever. As 10 the shrinkage II
stocks, it is only six or seven hundred
millions, a mere rag of nails" They
may all whistle and snap their fingers
but bIuer looking set ! never saw
Even the bears who were supposed t
profit by the storm looked sad, Tor wnen
bear has nothing to do but SUCK ni'
own paws he finds IL rather dry anuse
ment, and this is about all tue peaIs
nave had I'd 10 IOf coFGhat NSDNp fN-'-
The brokers have had 1t all to them
selves. thouph many outsiders have been
brought to grief, and they were the fools
who tempted ruin by trusting their
money with lot of pirates with no
more conscience than Hottentot,
aud no more heart than an Egyptian
mummy.
Plenty of men who would feel dis
praced to take little ante at faro or
draw poker, are always ready for little
flyer in stocks. Clergymen, Sunday
school superintendents, and venerable
church trustees, could be seen cluster
ING about the tickers for the past few
DAYS, in a manner painful to behold.
MANY of them went in on small mar
pins-from three To ten per oent. Some
0ambled with ten or twenty dollars in
the bucket shops, betting that New Jer-
sey Central would go higher, or others
bettinp on the drop of Lake Shore or
Missouri Pacific. The little earnings #
Years have been swallowed mp in this
financial storm, carrying ruin ana desc
iatiou through the lengta aud breadth
OF this land. There must be bottom
somewhere, and We have nearly reached
IL in stocks. In few days the Knights
OF the Golden Fleece will begin to gath
or in the plunder of the wreck.
Our telegraph fight has taken a new
and startling phase, at which there is
much rejoicing. The new Postal tele-
praph was started some months ago,
and II now looks as il it might prove a
formidable rival to the Western Union.
John w. Mackey, the Nevada million
airs, turns mp as very important factor.
Mr.. Mackey is credited with fabulous
wealth, and ia said to be able to start a
telegraph company of his own that
would rival the Western Union. But
the Postal telegraph is already started
and II it is true, as reported, that
George Robert and Senator Fair are
likely to take q hand in the pool. the
chances are very much in favor of
cheap telegraphy for some time to come.
There is tut little doubt but the new
telegraph company would do the bulk
Of the business II it only had she facili.
ties to do it, as the great body Of the
people detest the name of Jay Gould,
and las far AZ he represents it, the
Western Union. Anything that can
rescue the country from the grasp of
the heartless monopoly which now
threatens it, we hail with joy: we there
fore welcome to the brotherhood of
teleg raphy, Mr.. Mackey and his associ
ates, and give them Rip Van Wrinkles
toast. MAY you live long and pros
per-"
Hoskar Wilde il back with us, ye
know. Yes. sir; he dropped In npon US
rather unexpectedly the other day, but
like Sampson, he is shOrn OF his looks.
New. Oscar Wilde, minus his hair and
knee breeches, does not amount to
much. He was not particularly heavy
weight when he had both; but now that
he has neither he is ''very higle, de
pigle, dc snigle, dc wigie, dc matter OF
fact young man." My fair friends will
find it hard to believe of this sensatio on
al English sesthtte. but as he stepped
from the steamer the other day, he
looked positively horrid. There was
neither style or beauty about him, and
he who trayersed the country few
menths ago, lecturing ua ON beauty and
style, now appears fat, flabby, unin-
teresting person, who might have
been brick-layer, or porter
In dry goods store. or a
pawnbroker's clerk, or anything else
But Oscar ia not here TO teach us good
manners amy longer. He il here TO look
after his interest in his new play OF
Vera, written for Maria Prescott. Mad.
anne Prescott il the lady who recently
supported Salvini, the great Roman
aotor, 6, and who also recovered several
thousand dollars from the American
News Company for circulating papers
which contained libel on herfair fame,
written by disreputable New York Bo-
hemian who ought TO be III the peniten-
tiary. During the trial Mrs. Prescott
got AN immense deal of gratuitous adj
vertising, and on this, as well as her
ability, no doubt, Mr.. Wilde counted in
his play then he expected that there
would be considerable curiosity to See
what kind OF play he could write. Of
course we will all 90 once, and II Oscai
on the opening night would only exhibit
himself in knee breeches and a wig I'D
give an extra quarter for the show.
We have trouble at the free public
baths which il not creditable to ths
Board Of Public Works of the city
These baths ara scattered in different
places around the rivers, aud durinS
the season they accommodate seyera
hundred thousand hathers. The pos
ition of keeper has generally beer
awarded TO low political heelers ans
rufiians who have worked IL like regu
lar bonanza. They treated the bath.
like their private property, renting on
the dressing rooms, renting towels
bathing dresses, etc., and those whs
did not patronize these institutions re
ceived but Indifferent accommodation
Some days in the week we're set apar
for females exclusively, and IL is sait
that ON these occasions several OF thu
low ward rufiians have invaded ths
baths, outraging every sense OF decency
and at last the offence became 80 fla
grant that one Of the lady superintend
ents finding that abe could get no salts
faction from either the Mayor or ths
Board Of Public Works. resigned. Th
matter Ia exciting very unfavorabi
comment, and it only proves the utte
rottenness of our present municip,
system, when low rnfiian can keep hi
place after being accused of such
crime. IL ia quite on par with tn
fact that convicted burglar Is now tn
clerk of one of our principal courts
and as long as Nugent confined his rob
bsries to this side of the river il wa
impossible to send him TO States prison
he had to go to Jersey before he got hi
deserts.
The beating Of gongs and the brayin
OF innnmerable horns announce IN
enmiue nf fha vfval trs.nraoEa rifsa