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Show TELEGRAPHIC rillMUTiY'i FALL. It Huh Due lo iTSIniuc Stocks. New York, 31. A Times' Boston special speaking of Cashiei Pillsbury'a di-falcatione, says: Piilibury's epecu-UtionB, epecu-UtionB, like those of Treasurer Dur ; fee, in Fall liiver, were ail within tho last three wot-ks. They were moBtly in Sierra Nevada and Union Consolidated, and other California slocks, which a short time ago were quoted at 90, but which fell lo 30. Half of the mining Block turned over by the dolaulting cashier whb sjld yesterday for about $15,000 and the remainder was put on the market to-day. The Ecaiiixj Pu.it, commenting on the Pillsbury defalcation, says: " i Id cat" mining stocks aro responsible for a great dtai of misery and crime, and il ia to be fe.ired will bo the eauce of a great deal more. The revival of basinets haa whetted a fredh oppetite for speculation, and there are, no doubt, at this moment hundreds ol persona who are secretly dabbling up these insecure securities who have no moral right to risk a dollar in them. Every wcok new mines are introduced to the New York market, usually with a rattling flmriah of trumpets and relays of guild are constantly found to feather the nests of sharpers who have taken thttn in.' Tho ruin of another bank ctlicer was made public laal evening, and is due lo the fatal cram of gambling in mining stocks. A mouth ago be was honest; a craving to get ricli quickly seized him; he eaw the stock of some new mine bad doubled and trebled in value within a ftw weeks, Pillsbury, so in-cly four weeks ago, invested heavily ol tbo bank's money in min iug stocks, and from that moment bis fate was sealed. |