Show Grant is Solid New York Touching the stories of Gen Grants bankruptcy an excellent authority has the following Gen Grant told me that from England as well as China Germany Japan and from other countries he has received letters and telegrams tele-grams asking him whether those rumors were true ia some cases stating tbe regret re-gret that that news had caused among his friends and that all this had assumed a character quite disagreeable to him He told me that he had not invested a cent in stock speculations in which it was supposed sup-posed he had lost his capital and that those rumors had no other object than to effect certain stock in the market for the purpose of depreciating the former that for a long time past he had made up his mind not to contradict any rumors published pub-lished about him and that for this reason rea-son he had not contradicted in a formal manner those which referred to his supposed sup-posed financial ruin but that privately he had to tell his friends that it was entirely en-tirely false and that ho had not lost a single cent in operations attributed to him I |