Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Commerce

    Reports that an incomplete telegraphic message, 'Abd-el-Kader has been taken' caused 'funds' to rise, but the rest of the message—'with a dreadful cold in his head'—caused funds to fall. Adds that the 'coup had been sufficiently successful'; however, the telegraph's inventors played 'into the hands of their agents at the Bourse'.