The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-01-05
OUR LETTER FROM sRoAoBRIm.

The yagaries Of Wall Street Speculation
Mans Perfdy and Woman's Weakness
A Pleasant sociaI Event-Mrs. Astor's
Prospective Ba1l-A Holiday Problem
Noble Evangelist, Etc.
New YoRK, December &C. 1883.
EDITOR CHIEF:
About three or four weeks ago I 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 a
very uncomfortable frame of mind, and
woke up on Wednesday morning to the fact
that they we're hundreds of thousands on the
wrong side of the ledger with the chances
exceedingly light of ever getting their bal
ances back. The shrinkage on the Willard
stocks has been something enormous-sin
one year ago last October over seventy mill
ions of dollars-to that extent some Door
lambs must have suffered-and unfortu-
uately that vast sum has been taken from
those who are least able to bear it. It is
not the Billings or the Wizards who suffer.
They know just when to buy and when to
sell. The are on the inside. II they want
a few thousand shares of stock at a low
price, which they sold at very high
price, they have only 10 pass dividend,
and set reports in circulation of irregu-
larities In the management. Instantly the
stock begins to tumble, and when they have
it down TO the lowest notch another diyi-
dend is declared, the reports of irregularity
are authoritatively contradicted, the stock
booms again, the insiders sell out and the
outsiders buy, till the big guns have un
loaded, and then they are ready for new
deal. When it was reported on the street
that Mr.. Willard had resigned the presi-
dency of two of his most important com
panies for an hour or So it looked like Black
Friday. Then the Willard stocks bounded
mp like an India rubber ball, and all the lit
tie 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 any thing to sell got
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before the hungry crowd was satisfied, and
night fell on the scene Of disaster to the
faction whose boast it is that their greatest
success is built on national ruin. Keep
your eye on Mr.. Willard, and if any body
tells you that he is about to fail, give your
informant dose of njtro-clycerine and look
out for torpedoes and spring guns.
There have been three trials during the
week which have set people thinking, and
We are asking ourselves il there is not some
thing thoroughly rotten in our social fabric
which needs immediate reforming. One of
the most shocking cases Is that of Miss Rose
Ksyser, the suicide of the Windsor Hotel.
will not allude to the tragedy itself, for
yeu have read enough Of that. But consid-
OF for moment q woman getting up be-
fore jury to tell the story OF her husbands
crime. Without change of countenance
and without blush she acknowledged that
she knew ths connection between her hus-
band and Miss Keyser. and the infamy of
the arrangement never seemed for Q mo-
1AOA3s W eSA1A A1S1s i LIS pfSC1OUe rascal,
Dunn, introduces his mistress to his mother
and keeps her for months in her company.
The old lady has her board bills paid at fash
ionable watering places and swell hotels by
her sons Leman, and it never appears to
have struck her that there was any thing
wrong IN the arrangement. The ruin of
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
herself, Mrs. Dunn declares that she merely
regarded her as servant, who could fix
her bonnets and mend her frills, though it
is morally certain that the unfortunate sui
eide had more brains and more accomplish
ment than Mrs. Dunn or her son, and the
widow Alexander thrown into the bargain.
shall wait with some curiosity for the se-
quel of the widow Alexander's matrimonial
venture. ] wish her much Joy of her new
husband. If we may indge of the future by
the past, she won't have him long. Should
her money give ont she will soon be aban-
doned for another, and perhaps experience