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A laily fair, I .gent o in.ilelu,
Anld hl 'ill iii t'n th of Imanly} prtlli,
In Many it gay ind gittli 'i leg
Andl 4otnetitn', 'whlt f'r"41 hart' and halind
Io thri llia n o Irn ' lllllS of u l I t rolnIn,
l'vi ,-4'4n hir lilt h, ý,oft. whit' bllnld
A I onIll1oil o41. hi ol41bl dl,'r gloans.
And oft, at hinoe, when pi'sst a g Iv,
As he r,,lini'. II hi 11 M i chair,
l've so-1 n hirt little., ,- l hinrd lio
IUinhe.ded 4, lihi ahiningl hair.
lhnt ofthn,,t. whon thy're' ;,lona
IFora hirt Ilk-, holrs ,are pain a tld I,\
lint little, weft 11:11141 cook' hf, ownl.l
Alas'! tunnoti ted t re Ite o io.
11i hoves hl'e' Y,' ; ut loco ~'f Ilan
"Is of, hi life a tthing aati;,l
11' Ieando, ait a w,.I tin un,
I.nshrnsl.e ati hdi in hli hIi h I.
Laovse is, w ith t tn, a. I t anlnit h1iI 1u ,
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Elljoyv d as. plrfml'llm id' II: Ia . \ ,l'r.
And then a- lightly .'nat aw; a'.
He drenlam nit of i I1i longing 1 ho,
In her nuli-livlinii, i tri-tiitng trta-.
That liilako htr lifolina wvitiiiniZ pjia yr,,
&o ninti'ly, tiurliuigly 'l'r 'nit 'I.
A ira"rt that. if hie love hr v't- ,
Wlth that swait lci,' f atT lvy y,,ata.
lii ht e i'YT I.'Vr i 1t , f, ,gal
'tIhat hlddUn loe ila'i " hlilon te:it
And i()t 't ina tome it thi.:
'UTh'l t ah of earlh It i l 11IlFi'n.m 1ail
l.He'd give for thit tno t rIu iont hlih,
The \vanishd tnuh of thatl ..tt handI '
TVWO 1!.\IR II~.~ S.
_A TORY PWITH NEITHER BEGINNINGO
NOR ENII.
FRAGMNNT 1.--TOLD ON TIHE TR1AIN.
"Yes, sir: it's a queer thing about that
ring, as there's a mate to eom'ere.. I
dun'no as I ever told any one how I
come by that ring, which the way of it
was a little peculiar, but 1 don't mind
telling you if you'd like to hear it.
"All right, then, sir; put your feet up
onto that box o' mine if you can ride
any comfortabler that-a-way. Thankee,
sir, I don't care if I do, seein's you
offer it. You carry better cigars nor
mine, I suppose, but then you see, sir,
mine is to sell an' yours is for your own
smoking, won'erful difference that
makes-you bet.
"Well, as you see, sir, my bianess is a
riding up an' down the line sellin' news
papers, weekly an' monthly 'pubs.'
'yaller backs' and sich. 'Make much
.at it?' Well, yes, a goodish pile in the
long run, but not very much at a time,
air. Well, an' so in the course of my
-oute, you know, I see a sight o' difler
-ent people-course nothin' naturaler
"you'll say-but what I mean is, I see
the diff'rance in 'em. Now a good
many reg'lars we have, goin' up an'
down, an' fer all I hardly ever speak to
any of 'em, nor them to me, 'cept in the
way of makin' change or such like.
Still I believe I could tell you as much
about the nature of them fellers as
their own families could, p'raps more.
That comes o' takin' notice. lIows'
ever that hain't the story of this here
ring, tho'.boarin' on it.
"The first time ever I laid eyes on this
yere ring was about--lemme see-yeep
-about seven years ago. I was new on
the line then an' took a powerful sight.'
of notice o' what was goin' on, tho'
p'raps I take jest as much now, on'y in
a different way.
"It was in the fall o' the year, jest
about this time, mebbe a little earlier,
mebbe a little later; anyway the drop
pin' leaves was thick on the track where
for miles it runs through that stietch o'
woods as we'll come to presently, an' I
recollek of standin" on the rear plat
form watchin' them a Ilutterin', red an'
brown an' gold colored some of 'em, an'
the draft of our Flyin' Forty ketchen'
'em an' tumblin' 'cm over an' over, till,
'way in the back distance with the sun
a shinin' on 'eat they looked like red
hot coals a bobbin, along after us. try
in' to ketch up fer to have it out 'ith us
efor disturbin' 'em. Queerish kind of
a fancy that, too, come to think of it,
but that's the way they looked to rie,
any way.
"There's a little shanty about midway
in them woods we'll come to 'ema soon
now, an' you can see for yourself as
the train hands cdl 'Stump Stat ion,' cos
there haint notiing there 'sides the
shanty but stumps. Sometimes the
shingle-weavers and bark-peelers as
camp out way back in the woods come
out there to boarl the train, or to git
provision, which is expressed up to
them from the city, an' sometimes in
the shootin' season a city feller or two
come up to hunt, gits off there, but it
haint no reg'lar station, an' nobody
stays there an' so it's very seldom we
stop.
"But this time I'm telling you of, and
while I was standiri' out there on the
platform tryin' to calculate how long it
would be at the rate I was makin'
money (times was better then( before 1
could say some words I had in my mind
to say, as soon as I was well enough
fixed, to a certain little dark-eyed gal,
as I was sure was waitin' patient and
expectin' of me tosay 'em. Don't mind
tellin' you this now, you see, sir, cos
that came out all right long ago, an'
I've never had cause to be sorry for say
in' them words, but kinder think they
was the most sensible ones I ever said.
Well, as I was a-standing there out
comes a young feller as had come up
with us from Philadelphia. He was a
,nobby-looking feller, dressed out all
regular in shootin' coat. peaked hat,
high-top boots, dogs an' guns, an' big
.hamper in the baggage-car. cQuiet and
,lcvil, a reg'lar blooded gentleman, you'd
say at first sight, an' he was very good
lookin' with his wide-open blue eyes
and brown, curly hair and beard, but
still I didn'cquite like 'imr; not but what
he was pleasant an' decent enough to
me, but whenever he spoke his upper
lip had a fashion of lifting up--kind o'
,snarly like: an when he Laughed,which
he did of 'en an' easy, it was a regTar
.one of them ere cdogs you've mebbe seen
with their upper teeth stickin' out over
the under ones-they can't bite, no ways,
but they're fearfut on a snarl. But I
had my notion that this feller could
bite too, as well as snarl, if it so pleased
him, and I says to myself, thinking of
Simi, 'You'll bear watching, you will,'
an' kep' a eye on him accordin'.
"Well, sir, that gent wore on the little
Otger of his left hand this same iden i.
;ia ring. It took my notice while
atlLkin' to him, though being made
.f4 two kinds o' hair, an' one sort
..-d r was off his own curly pate,
y. by ,' by, talkin' o' one thing an'
- ,.|i~ works around to rings, an'
ially bold to say to him
curus kind of a ring for a
0-0- aiat it, twisted it around
careless like, turned kind o' red and
laughed a little, snarl still showing out
plain, an' says--
"Yes, rather neat thing; do you fancy
it?"
")Don't unlderstand you, sir," I says,
"What. might. you meani?"
"I mean," says he, "if you like it you
may have it; I'm rather tired I of it, my
self.' and with that he pulls it off an'
hand~s it over."
" 'Much ohleegod to you, sir,' ays I;
'hut I wasn't. miteanlItL'' to ask for it,
tot, by no means.'
" ' )h,' Ihe says, 'it's o.~ co e ise
quct'l'e; if I hadn'tt give it. t(t you I'd l
give it to sotmi one else,' and with that
Lte turllns aboullt land wallks Into1 the ear,
and I puts t hi ring on tiy fin ger, think
in' it wouldl make a pretty keepsake to
give my little gRal and when we canoe
to Mtuip Station Ily gentleman gets
out, dogs and gunis and baggage and
4i rtrl :.l' all, an' that's the l.st I ever
siaw of fiit.
",\bout two weeks after that time I
there was 'I very pretty youlng lady got.
ont tihe train at. Ehlii Station, julst out of
l'hiladelplhia, you know. She didn't
htivo tiobody with her, and seemned kind
o' timid like anid skeer .'; niever mnovin'
hardly out of her first poslsh, 'ept i
when the train stoplped atl so me station,
tho' being a throug h express we dtlltl't
stopI at imarlty--but when we did 1 no
lteodl she allus pulled her l hick black
vail down over her pretty face and
kinder turnied her head into one corner
o' the seat, etltin' on to be aslelp, an'
when anybody came in or went past her
seat- -which some of 'ell as haven't
traveled ituich is allays a doin', yo i
know, sir, walkin' tip and down restless,
and goin' for dritks and ehangin' seats
conltnuially -wlhenever they did that I
could see her give little jumiips and look
kinder quick and frightened like, an'
the blood all rutshin' up into her cheeks,
makin' theom look prettier yet, and then
she'd git pale as death the next miniit,
and kinder plush her hair balck off her
temples with one lltt tole white hand, like
it was too heavy and hurt her and
'most all the while she kept twisting' a
little hair ring she wore on her tinger,
aroun' and aroun, 'and a putting it up
to her lips once an' ag'in when she
thought nobody was a looking. I'd a
give my hull stock of 'yaller backs' and
p irize packages to a' bten in that ring's
place jist once ; the' of course thie lke
of me had no busine s to be even
watchm' her from behind the stove as
iI were, it bein' fitter for me to have
boon thinkln' of my own Janey await
t in' for them words.
"The moment I see that ring I jerks
L mine off an' slips it into my vest pocket.
The moment I see that ring I see to my
self, 'there's a mate to mine,' an' says 1
to myself, 'Jack, my boy, you keep
right on takin' notice, it being my opin
j ion ther's something iup;' an' I sets to
myself, 'I hop. that there snarly chap
hain't been a-bitin' nobody, as he'll feel
sorry fer it when he comes to die' an'
then I kept on a takin" notice, might
r closeat.
"Well, we kept a gok.' on, some git
tin' ot' here and there, and none gittin'
on, an' by an' bye gitt n' off ag'n, till
along in the afternoon there was only
three or four passonge:s in the ear,
whieh they were mostly 'samples,' or
traveling agents, as aklays takes off their
boots an' goes to sleep soon's they strike
a seat. But this here young lady she
new-er moved out of her first seat- just
set an' set, and get to lookin' tireder
atd pitllfuler like, every mile. i drop
pod a L'slie' into her seat once and for
got to take it up ag'in on purpose, but
she never looked at it; and so, tho' I
was as sorry for her as could be, an'
knew she'd had no lunch, cos she'd
never got out when the train stopped,
an' she hadn't a smitch nor sign of
satchel or luggage of any kind- still I
was dub'us about offerin' to do any
thing, knowir' she was a real lady and
1 was only a train agent, and a orkard
hand at sayin' them kind o' things at
best, an' she beiu' all alone na,, a trav
elin' might tako it ill. Butt at last,
comin' in an' out, an' seein' her sittin'
there, lookin' so awful lonesome and
tired, and dark lines a comin' under her
big dark eyes, lookin' like she would
cry but dasn't--and, by Hickory. I'm
glad she didn't, cos that would a upset
me quicker'n wink, being one o' the
things I can't stand no way, to see a
woman cry. So seein' she would never
make no more of herself, I jist. give nmy
self a poke in the ribs to klnud r rile my
courage, and goes up to her seat like I
was after the L'sliU', and says, "Miss.
excoose me mumi,' ses I, 'but you d.
look quite done up, if you'll excoose me
mum, see 1, 'and I've got a sister of my
own mumu, if you'll ex, )ose the liberty
mum,' ses I, 'an' I'd humbly like to be
of some service to you mumll, if you'd
pilese to menshin' in what way tmum,'
ses I.
"She looked up in a way as I can't
tell you of, sir, if I was to try over so
hard, and she ses: 'You're very kind,
indeed.' sheses, 'and I thank you very
much,' she sos, but I require nothing -
nothing,' an' then she looked away
agin, out o' the winder, and I pee her
mouth twitch an' her soft eyes Ilashin'
with tears, and I thinks to myself.
'Jack, she is a lovely good young wo
man, as far above you as the skies, and
and as has trouble, and here you are
a helpin' to pile it onto her; you ought
to be kicked oflln' the train ; why don't
you clear off and quit a botherin' of her '
and so I did, makin' her the best bow
of respect I knew how, and raisin' a
lumpon my eye-brow a doin' it, through
inanvertently comin' down to far an'
hittin' my fore'id on the seat-back.
"The next station we stopped at, was
a 'wood and water,' where we gen'aly
staved about ten minutes; there was a
restaurant there, an' so I runs in and
gets a slapping btg cup o' tea, and four
'am sandwidges, telling the boss I'd
bring back the ckiny next trip, an' as
we was well acquainted, that was all
right, and so I walks into the car with
em, tho' a shakin' all over, and I says,
'I hope you wont think me a villin,
mum, but I think if you'd have the
kindness to take a little of these pro
visions you'd likely feel better.'
"Well, I didn't think she would, but
she took 'em, thanking me in the pret
tiest way-I can hear her yit-(she act
ually laughed a quiet little laugh when
she see them four sandwidges which was
a leetle overgrown, I 'spose), and then
she pulled out her pocketbook, as was
chuck full, and handed me a bill, and I
darsu't refuse, though it went agin the
grain to take pay for such a tritle o'
kindness to such a sweet young lady,
,even if it was a little pincheed, an' she
not lacking, as I could well see by her
general get-up.
"Well, air, it got to be late in the af
ternoon, an' I was beginnin' to pack
away my Looks an' things, gettin' ready
to leave the train at the end o' my route,
when we came in sight o' 'Stump Sta
tion;' the engineer .saime one's on to
da}, blowed his whistle an' the con
ductor (killed in the big accident last
year, poor fellow- found with the bell
cord in his hand), he pulled the rope for
to stop, and blessed if it weren't for that
there lovely young girl to get off. No
one there to meet her-not a soul in
sight, anti by Hockey's, sir, if oerer
felt to moved to do something that I
had no business to do, it was them sixty
seconds we stoitpped to leave that, angel
all alone in themo woods. ()no look F
front her would a took me off'n that I
train in a jiffy, an' the apples and news
papers mighIt a gonile to1 ericho but what
I'd1 a seen her safe to where she was
hoitndl, though wherever at gentle, tiniui
yotung th ing like her Mould wish to go in
themn lovely woods, two hundred ihiles
fron her home, was noreo'n I coul I
tntake oilt. iowse'aver, railroadt trainsr
ain't ino ways senttimental, sir, and It,
don't r make no kind of d ifTfreniell to the
(Company what. Ibecomes or wthat, don'lt, I
Iecoollle of thire passengers, h(e-!Iun's or
shle-in's, after I hey're set down, Ionig's
thiey've plid their fare. Andt so we
dashed on, leavin' her strtidtn' there,
poor thing, an' the dead leaves falling
aill around her, and shie tiot. mindlng
them, but, looking straigrtil urp the track
and iinto tile eun, going down In the reed
haze at. the e'nil of It:
"That, wern thell first, time I saw her,
and it were the last, itn' of'eon an' of'en
I've thought it over since then, andl
though I never heardl a word of inquiry
nor nothin', still it's my opinion as
somtething awful wrontg happened near
along that, tilne An' I've iever took
the ring off'n tuy finger since."
FitR iMt NT It. TOtiL IN Tite F itMi ti st:E.
"1 loved him so! O)hI! I did love hint
so!
"Them was her very words, sir, which
she never changel! 'eti nor slaid nothh i'
else tihe whole timento but, thero there.
Not a ai tienor a ireath of a nlale
just 'hint. And sihe continualtly ragling
over it, andl over it., attl overt it, tillit
made one skeery like to hear it, poor
thing.
"Sluch ii night, too, Its it. was when mlly
man--that's mlly hlstband, I miean, sir,
brought her in. In the fall yes, sir,
and it a rainin' and blowin' and dark asr
a ink-bottle. }o foundti her to'rds night,
he said, when he wits on the road home
here, which he had been over with a
load of oats, sir, to the bark peelers'
camp, fifteen miles if it's a foot. She
was wandering along the road, he said,
anl didn't ktnow here she was goin', it
seemed, nor how she got there, thoughi
she like as not got off one of the trains
at the shanty near there, though they
never stop, but thaIt we'll never know, I
suppose, in this worlhI; antd so lie
brought her horne with hint on 1 that,
perishing night and handed her over
to me.
"She was quilts gone then, out of her
headl, it. being my belief that she didn't
know me fronm herself then, nor niever
after, poor., poor dear, an' so young.
"A man never can see a thing till it's
poked right into his eyes antd .ollered
into both ears; excuse me, sir, hut. no
morlle he can't., and i ly matn he 'lioveod
t hat poor creaturir wiis drutnk or errivy.
Dirunk Ah, sir, I think if the man wiho
was the wicked cause of that poor, for
saken child being a tmindless wandlerer
that night, could only tit' soen her as I
'seen her, when 1 .took her:into rny ,wn
room and puit. her into my own bed, lie
would have took the shortest. way out of
the world that he sent her outt of in
misery and darkness, and far from her
own. Sihe wits a lady born. as could he
easy seenu y tier hands, the prettiesat I
ever saw -so white and etonIder, though
with nothinlg on them b1it t his little hair
ring, as you say' you've s.oon the mate to,
and itrade of two kindst--on(, of 't'in her
I own, I know, being the e olor of gold
almost, and tile o tier --- Oh, I can't.
bear to think of what the croat:ire that
wore that lock of hair will have to an
swer for some day. Anul all her clot hes,
which in spite of the iltd and dragglo
mlelt., I c(ould see was of thei tIlnesti and
tdelicatest; there was no namne or Ilark
of any sort on any. If she had a dropped
out of the clouds Is she corlln't ta tbeen
more unbekntown. by any sign or token
anywhere about her.
"Well, sir, I watclhed her tihrougth it
all, and cared for her like one of my
own--which I a t a grandmrother, sir,
anti was th'en, I hough inot lookiing it, I
dessay, being married very y ir.ug.
She never kL;ow it, thouigh. She never
got her reason at all, atdI not event the
little [.[ast's cry . it, wasa girl aind t looked I
n11) mrllte like her thant I did not even
its cry as catne from a strong pair or
Il tulgs, I insure you -eotllti seem to
bring anything biack to her, buit juist
that onet moani, so imournfull and weary
like, while she keoptt turning her great.
blue yves t his way ant that, looki n'and
lokin", thiltugh with ito tntatLninirg in
thin] at all, j.st tlhat awful wil stiare
as if she was seeillng straight through
thre wall t a hitrlundret nilt-s awIy.
And so a-tossing ani tllrniing andI never
resting, but tall rhrough the night till
morning, anditl still thr, ght the day till
nightagain, and never changing, only
getting weaker and wveaker, shte never
left otT twisting her hands arll cryingt.
'I loved him sou! )h, I dihd love him
so'
S'"The little babeo was just a week and
one day ol whten she sali( it ftr thie last.
time in tihe world, andt she had never
seen itt, know it.
"We buried her out unltor that old
beech, antd not knowing what else to
iput on it, we just wrote on the board,
ras you can see for yourself, the late lof
when she came and themn words of hers.
" 'And the little one?' That's her in
the garden out there, seven years old
this mtonth. She'll bear our name and
never know as long as I'm alive--nor
after I'm gone, I hope-but what it's
her own by right.
"Y es; it's a queer and very sad story,
sir, that's so an awful story, and it
makes me feel very sober when I think
of it, as I often do when I'm alone,
and I never go into that room when I'm
alone in the dark-we've never used it
sin' seven years avo but what I seem
to hear that poor, dear child's heart
broken and dyin' wail-
"'I luc.ed him so. Oh! I dil love him
so.' '
- -"f `-- -
Ruustlan BablIe,.
ussian hbabies lead a nimnummy-like exist
onI'e until they are able' to help thm.sielves.
They are always swaddl',, and r dled up
tight in banwaiges, s.o that they may be ',n
vfnientiy put away without risk of getting
thil.emselves into niisch.ief ,r dLanger. () i en
trliring olne if their houlies anl etllthusi:ia ti ,
traveller t iunk- he has o ,n'u up'on Pagan
tribe, having their idols and ii.n.tes, with the
hoiead well c'aried out and thei r'.-t of tle b' od
left in block. He lhoks euriuslv at one laid
upon a shelf, anlltler hung 1o the wall on a
peg, ia thirid swun:g overI' lone the' imiain b.an; s
of the roof, and rockeid by thei mothe'r, who
has the cord Ii' pid i er tier ftoot. ''"Why,.
that is a thiold ' rie the traveler, with a f"',l
ing similar to that experienced on treiadling
upon a tlad which wa's suppoesl ito o' a
sitin'. "Whyl what el-i' sho uit! it b? " an
iswrs the m~ther. Hiaving 1t arn," .,, mu,-h
in so short a r eil, the iil'uiýitive travy' e
wil.hes to inf ormin himself about the habit< of
the creature; Iutt the curio -ity b.-in g meII
what danimped tby the extreme uirt of the little
tigure, lie inquiiresn of the ptarellt when it was
wa-hoi. "\ashd"' shrieks tdlhe trrildh,
mnother, "wasied -!-what, wash a childi You
would kill it."
Twins have occurred lifty-six times in Ohio
within the past year, so great is the demand
for Ohio men.--[New Haven Register.
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440ob ohr .. 114 11 ... in $112. o 11141 d º
1n1 r ro ' $ .N:5(n iv r nRk .. . 1(,115 (191
On 111101110 ri41ks" . " o '111,61'1 91
11µ)21.4r 49
Urtadjlltot1~l 1,x011111 `.16,041 114
All--+.2:16 4
FIto- rIrollraoo.....44,797 29
(l'lorlt ( oIIol14,
Ullolrwn\IlH rI11211
F 1111 1'k clll11l1l, 610,279 11
lilrorvo fnr 1),1. . . 1o1.41µ 41 14
l1(t lrilt nnr- 14(10!4
.111... .""""".1491.662 41
1)1µ,,w110 1111.1 ((ton
1 r)1............. ..71.1176 119
244.4)4)1 7:1
$2t',9799 a
Not proilt......................`/104.84.149 27
Tho o tmrany ha1 t111 followIng 1A 0ote e2tl
N1911 1n1(1 .(....1................. &90,29 011
LIoaIm'n mrl g ..ln .....l..... ...... 9.9122 49
Loan14 (1n 11InigWI........... " 94.0404 419
Sl1l1I rolooIvall lo. . . . .. 11.4.49 i1
l Ion! O fit" ...t..................... 29,0411) (10
Cash on handl ............................ 169.4412 79
Total 15141an11 . . . .... ..... ir8i1.969 RP 4
Th1 frlgl'IIWI1I 11 11411' t,)fnllnf a roout. I tril ar11
rll t, I ot. t rn11 09 tl pt f ro nt! tIii., books of th e tImm
JAS. 1. DAY, I1ralldot.
11. CA OworrrR. H~o'Tr'1IIry.
sIworn to 110(1 9ll)111(oor1)11 holt(,rn mo thls
olghto,'i·Cth dary ~f Jar'nrary. 1974.
A. 1NGILAHAM. Notary P01llo.
Th" I'ooard of DlrA'tors. ,11 ta mot'tg hold on
'thi nl11l111411(tl1 lay7 of Jlrlollry. 14717. )afltr Rlot.
itng 111110 $04IlNI to rooTrvrO fIr l from thoe not
ollO)la4rl714 ( f the y'llr, an011 pay'nq Ing 11pr "oft0 I
IllvS 1(1110 1o th1 14to1kholllniI. have roiolvol to
pay11a CA( H DIVIDEND OF TWENTY-FIVE
PEl CENT 11 thll not1 (IIrnoil tIparItIIlatlng
troml- 11114 of ,ho y1arr lening Dl'omllor 111
1077. 0,111 rivl~iiorll Ipaynnlo on rind afltor Mon.
,Ilay. the twInty-og11th dlly of January. 1978.
DIRIECTORH:
E. J. Hart. J.004 8. Flower.
J. I. IlarrloInrY ILHInr ll4lW.
J. . WVIr. 1. Al~o,.
IlInIh Wll1on1, 11. W. allor.
i H`·ott M,'Oh~v, 13 Iiluoo
J. C. Morris. ). Fat j,
A. Ilalwiwn. Jalmro I. Day.
T1'. L. Alnoy. CharleM MaLtroly.
LIon~ l C. TLevy It. E. CraIg.
lW. E. lloynolnr. Eroory (latlO.
-)an'l L Boy. Jhn G1. GaavrH
I D. A. Chidlraix. John S. Grovoo.
11521
ANNUAL NTA'I'EIENT
-OF THE-
NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE COIMPANY,
Up to December 31. 1977.
ESTABiLISJIIE) IN 10,5.
Fire premiums,......... $28,..41 02
MiarIne prfllillni s .... .... . 4,822 42
ltiver prmiums ......... 29,246 04
Total Drmiums ....... $ 759 48
bIrSS -
Prominmsn on unnlt,. rtd
Risks..............-- ...... 5.07 66
Itlrln pr'lmi u .......... 12,190 14
.iHtnsurancee.............. 20.742 89- 118.990 73
Nt carol- premiumsRn........... $2t..78 75
Add interest and salva1.s "..4 41,823 54
$803.592 29
Doduct
Fire I.sse ...... 66,417 96
Mariolas ,. -.. 17,722 1)
ltivr ilossen ..... 12.;:o 45-- $96.40 70
R .ato a.. 15 poro',nt..... (. 46,499 04
Gf.wrra .expti s es ......... 34,214 46
State and city tax's and
li 0ns4 ................ . ... 10.242 70
Board of Und+rwrite.s.... 6.759 55- 194.176 o
Profit for the year 1877 ..............$103.415 84
Deduct
Profit and loss.............. 68,06 28
Dividelnd. June
:K. 1877 ....... $25,000 00
Dividend, De
cember 31.1877. 25,000 00-- 50,000 00
Balance.................... 809 56- 109,415 84
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY AT THEIR
MARKET VALUE.
Cash in bank ............... $s8s.o0 76
R atl estate ................... 118.275 12
United States Gold Bonds.
New Orleans City Rail
road Company. Jackson
and Great Northean Rail
road Company (1stmort
gnae bonds). Bank and
Insurance stocks and
Louisiana State Consols. 195 3:x0 42
Bills receivable (for pre
mium ) .................... 11,429 38
First mortgage notes and
pledge notes.......-..... 16;,52t3 4
Premiums in course of col
lection............... ..... 70.210 94-$619,896 46
The above statement is a true and correct
transcript from the books of the company.
J. TUYES. President
J. W. HINCKS. Secretary.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this six
teenth January. A. D. 187R.
JOHN LARESCHE,
Third Justice of the Peace.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors held
on the tenth instant, It was resolved to Ipay the
semi-annual interest DIVIDEND OF FIX E PER
CENT on the capital sloek to the stockholders,
or their legal representatives, on and after the
tenth instant.
J. W. HINCKS. Secretary.
New Orleans. January 16. 1878.
DIRECTORS:
Ernest Merilh, H. Gally,
Charles Lafltte, Ant. Carriere,
Charles E. Schmidt, Jules Aldige.
Charles J, Leeds., W. A. Bell.
D. Fatio, Pierre Poutz,
A. Rchreiber. Jules Tuyes,
ia 18
ANNOUNCEMENT
EXTRYAORDINARY.
FOIR T'IE NEXT TIIIJITY DAYS WE WWIL IH El, AT
1"Itl"I I: (O) 4'1' IF( lU ( ',>A!II,
OURl H'UI'PElt Ar4OILTMENT OF
MA'T'IN, SILK IIII'S, RIO IIO('ATEL, COT'OLINE AND ('ASMIEIltE
FRENCH PLATE, MANTEL AND PIER MIRRORS'
MOUNTED IN GOLD. AND WALNUT AND GOLD FItAME ,
OItNAMENTAL AND FANCY
TA IIENS, PEESTALM,, JAIll)IENNIEl,, ('Allil) RE 'EIV r1IS, CAI;TN WORK
TAIILES, D)ESKS ANDI OIINAMENTAL C(hAIlS AND ItOf'KERN.
Wn will aln0r, nll. AT TIlE VEIRY I, ,WE. r M ikl(iIN. all ,thtr g'dlu it, n ~ ,-r Irn, t.- ~ tock.
Our ol.tt its to r'dtn our nv r,'row'l,',I sto-k. and WE ARE DETEERMINED TO SELL. Call
old I m ke your 8010t1on1 while it Ia yet tin''.
ALL GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE.
R. M. & B. J. MONTGOMERY,
111IE S UIj k, IH ILIDING,
mh' (Crllrner t'fnlmp and Pnydr. twreet,
SE. FI2CEA'S
Air Cooling Apparatus,
The Oniclkest and Mont I'r.ctficul MoIthodi for
(G)((> II 1 ALI It
in IlIildinýt, ('ellar0, Ireweri' ý, 1hi4p, , ('ar Mo.-t- 'Piarkin g Etla lijh nt I , Eft.
3 Th,, fr,,,i',ttng t n thi,, , ,'' ' f thI , ,ardlrp d g '. beir.a -intt tlyft w ,up' ' ft . dotT away
with tih. nli r ont -' t aMl i tinl l Iit "' ,' by t i th' v'r 'inn tt .t IO f v~v'-''i ,t-. -- rit''r r ariny
't h, Irnt., <- n -,,i'V 1 t tr',--idF l lv 'hi< \I'"I'1\i 'I'TU will l!.w a r m " ,' " ' to
I k iLt at a rt lla lot. " w tmIlll rtl I "w it I Ia I" ll ly , l,, liotll
AIR COOLING APPARATUS.
, . II ,. 1 ,
lis d in a fw h .
Br8w, ri '' al, ll tabi-how II ' 'm TL r waer 1,w.'r , , 'q.... .
& CO. for th construction o th r
d the a aratu.
4d/, . F i/a/rI,
/ ''j )4 U
Cone ofi 1)eor an ochrgretNw ral
W. A. ROBERTSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OPELOUSAS,
Parish of St. Landry
All business entriute to me will be promptlY
attended to. mys tf
W. W. SHARPE & CO.,
PUBLISHERS' AGENTS,
No. 25 Park Row. New York,
Are authorized to oontract for advertlsina Im
our Dpaer. 0no2