Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — GOULD’S METHODS. [ARTICLE]

GOULD’S METHODS.

How Those Who Hare Money Easily Make More—A Description of Gould. Jay Gould’s regubar broker (Connor) is only one of the many in his service, and Connor himself often employs other brokers in order to carry out Gould’s secret schemes. It was in this matiner that Gould depressed the elevated stock until it touched the desired point, wnen he loaded himself with all lie could carry. He then changed from bear to bull, working out his scheme with grand success. A vast amount of money was lost by those who solu ont under Gould’s attack, and the advance of these very shares now adds a million or more to his wealth. It has been for ten years Gould’s role to watch for weak stoftks. When he has made a selection he forces it down by a series of well concert ed attacks, and then makes heavy purchases and forces]the market up as easily as he forces it down. Only a man of the highest order of genius ean carry on such a system, and the fact that Gould succeeds is the greatest proof of his vast natural powers. Gould is the most inferior of all leading business men in point of personal appearance, and a stranger would take him for a Bowery clothes dealer rather than a railway king. He has the air of a spruce trafflker in cheap goods. Both front and side face are inferior, but the lower part of the latter is concealed in a heavy beards so intensely black that it suggests artificial means. Gould leads a hard life. He labors with close application and is driven by the paessuie of his engagements until he may be considered a mere bondman. He has no leisure, no society, no reading, no recreation, but is simply under the whip and spur of necessity. To this has been added the consciousness of impending danger. To this has been added tne consciousness of .impending danger. He has a body guard of detectives to protect him when walking the streets, but he spends most of his time in his office, being as secluded as possible.

A brilliant meteor was seen in the western sky at Raleigh, N. C., abou t 8:30 o’clock Friday evening. The moon was shining brightly at the time. The News says the meteor started from a point about 20 degrees above the horizon, and at the commencement of its course looked like a fiery point. It increased in size rapidly, and swept through the air a blazing mass, leaving a fiery tail behind, until it sank below the horizon. Fire Marshal James 8. Thompson resides at 1209 Filbert street, Philadelphia, Pa., and concerning St. Jacobs Oil, he says: “A very troublesome attack of rheumatism in my forearm has been overcome by the aid of St. Jacobs Oil. I think that all persons who have to be exposed to the weather would act wisely in keeping St. Jacobs Oil on hand. Mrs. Lucy H. Hooper,who does the “American Colony Gossip” for the Paris Continental Gazette, denies the reported engagement of Miss Liliau Norton, the American vocalist, to a Russian or any oth6r kind of a noble man. Mrs Hooper is reg&ded as good authority in such matters. The town of Princeton, Worcester county, Mass., may boast somewhat of ttye longevity of its inhabitants. But Seventeen persons died within its limits last year, aud of these one was 95 years of age, five between 80 and 90, and four between 70 and 80.