Show wealth and wires chicago Uc the aniro announcement that john 0 W lk mackey lackey the bonanza king has in invested half balfa a million collars doli ars in the postal telegraph company and has become a director therein is fraught with a peculiar interest it is the tile first investment mr bir IN mackey has made of an industrial character since lie st stopped ed sinking money in the nev nevada ay mines i hitherto mr ur I 1 Mac lackeys keys investments have been in government bonds bond sin in gr gratifying ft the whims afan of an extravagant wife and in the purchase 0 of f cos costly y works obart of art for which h he e b has n no use and for which he has but little taste or appreciation wo welcome mr mackey again to the tasks of toil and business it chows that he has bat got tired of lolling in europe of hobnobbing hobnob bing with kings and emperors and of paying for feasts or other follies he doubtless feels that a swing at the tile good old pick that he be used to handle so deftly in the bullion and other mines on the comstock would be good for his physical mental and moral economy but as that would never do ho he lias has cesoli ed to go into Im business siness george D roberts who is the head and front of the postal telegraph is one of mackens mackeys Mac keys old cronies in california together they used to rock the cradle on the banks of the old tuolumne watch for colors in the fiffles rif lles fles and horn out the dust they fried flapjacks flap jacks in tile same pan slept in the same blankets washed their clothes in ill the same pool with the same piece of soap and kept their dust divet in itt the same buckskin Wh when enthey they went downto downto sell the gravel gravell t to 0 D 0 mills at sacramento they were not divided nor were they far tar apart when the nearest hurdy gurdy hove bove in sight and in the fr free C c and frolicsome dance lance they whirled in the same set in all the glory of cowhide legs figs and red shirt it is true eorge corge and john have been at variance since this might have been owing to alic demoralizing influences odthe of 1110 ailed shirt which both of them donned but which in california used to be regarded as marking he be boundary line of friendships john squeezed george fin in the bonanzas oh on the rise an dGeorge with jim kcena as a leader harassed the soul of john in the fall but that was six years agn george has squeezed a good many neove people since but we have ni no doubt both not i millionaires consider that honors are easy mr 2 fr dickeys in t eres tal telegraph means mat he be will take an active part in conducting the affairs of the company ho ile always does that he ile will prove the tile wheel horse borse in details the quiet conservative night and day worker that lie used to be when ho he was sinking sharf ts opening levels and turning out bullion at the rate of a month dflia if ho makes up his mind that the western union lines are tobo tobe paralleled they will be for he lie can call swing 10 of liis his own to accomplish it we look u upon poll the securing of mr ackels mackeys Mac keys wealth and influence in th this set enterprise r p r i so vt as the lie heaviest blow the th western N tern union ilon has yet had it is no wonder that the stock is tumbling in the markets |