Year: 1877

While the strike produced a certain
amount of interest in New York, and
for time affected the community more
or less, it must be admitted that it did
not cause one half the excitement that |
the little fray did between Jay Gould |
and Major Selover. In. ten minutes
there were more stories aioat in Wall |
street about the fact and its causes, than
any suddenly discovered scandal eyer
gave rise to among lot of tea-drinking, |
gossiping old women. 1t is quality |
and not quantity that regulates the diff |
ference in these matters.


Lively times are prophesied for Wall
street, and war to the knife between |
Gould and the Californians or genuine
Kilkenny cat fight in which possibly |
nothing may be left but the merest tip
of tail end of their colossal fortunes


Gould is rumored TO have said whsn |
Keene appealed to him, that "he was in
a hole.' and Gould put him there, and
what he was. going to do about it-aI
will give youa pass over the Union Pa
cific back to California"


A witty broker drew a caricature of
Keene returning with such q pass, a
shocking bad hat and Chatham street coat
on, all his pockets turned out in search
for stray coin, wondering-"How in
'Omaha'-am / to get my breakfast
Gould is represented, standing outside
the God exchange, holding a few worth
less railway certificates, and saying, 1--WE
beat Keene, but I'm long of these, and
10 condemned fool left to buy. Jay,
you've won but your are ruined man."
"Chance" setting on throne in the Ex-
change, is an old hag surrounded by a
crowd of that nationality whom Judge
Hilton, refuses to recognize at the
Grand Union, who are begging "Shust
for one leetle song" while beneath is
written:


| Dead, one of them broke by the sea in
the East


And one of them broke in the West by
the sea,


Scalped! both my boys, you may get
up Il least


And shout yourselves dumb witk no end
of spree.


But no songs from me!


1t is amusing to hear the different
opinions in regard to the matter. Peo-
pie who believe Jay Gould to be invin-
chile, cold blooded and systematic, and
yet who are wise enough to say that he
has only done what any of the others
would have done in his place, think
Keene yet will go back to California
with a pass from the little man whom
Selover assaulted. Californians howev-
er, swear by Keene, and declare that
he can buy and sell Jay Gould, and will
be backed to the las. dollar by Fair and
O'Brien's S1OOOO0O0O, giving as a reason
for this, that Keene made Fair, O'Brien
and many other AIilIionaires. Such
reasoning may be all correct on the Pa
cifc slope, but it by no means holds
good here. That one man has helped
another to fortune especially in Wall
street by no means argues that, that
same man will return the compliment;
in fact, it goes far to prove that he will
not


The stocks went up last week in tire
face of the most depressing circumstan-
ces, more so than any recent event in
our financial history, prove Gould's pow
er very decidedly.


There will doubtless be very pretty
fight in which the smaller fry hope they
may get some pickings. As for honor
in Wall street, or belief that one man
will not make all he can, though his bos
ON friend comes to grief by it, would re
quire an amount Of faith not possible to
ordinary humanity. | doubt much,
whether that ancient Christian, Daniel
Drew, would not rejoice with an exceed
ing great and un-christian like joy to
see his old enemy in the dust. In this
battle there is no quarter shown, and he
is the best man that wins, whether by
ambush, strategy or fair play.


As regards the assault it selfevery one
denounces it as cowardly, because one
or two heavy blows from Selover wOull
have killed the little man. 1t was as if
a great lubberly school boy had attacked
a little one in petticoats and was looked
upon as very much the same thing.
We have had thoroughly French
suicide here in that of NJ. Marius, man
"a years old, who deliberately took his
own life to avoid pain and illness. 1t is
quite possible that Placid may have had
something to do with il as one crime IN.
fiuences another, but the whole affair
was as coolIy and indifferently underta-
ken as if it had been mere question of
a trip across a ferry instead Of a journey
from time to eternity. 1t seems strange
that having lived so long he could not
have made up his mind to have contn-
ned his life little longer.


Frank Leslie. is a Napoleon among
publishers in journalistic way; and
in each of his undertakings he seems to
have exactly suited the public taste.
Especially is this true of his Sunday
Magazine, in which orthodox people
who still believe in making difference
in their literature on that day, find a
pleasant escape from dull sermons, or
monotonous aphorisms.


have Just seen some very handsome
specimens of embossed glass, in colors
on a white ground for sign and orna-
mental purposes, and also, in ground
and transparent glass for windows, doors
or fan lights was told that there was
a very simple means of preparing this,
within the reach of any ingenious per-
son, so that it would be equivalent to a
new trade for many, and a means of
amusement to others. I will make in