Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-12-11
Life Insurance.


The following paragraph from the Phil
adelphia Inquirer Of the Sd inst. illustrates
the benefit Of Life Insurance to creditors,
as we'll as debtors and other persons. No
better provision against poverty and priva-
ton can be made for the families of persons
of small means, or overwhelmed with debt,
than a policy on the life of the husband in
the wife name-the proceeds Of which can
not be taken by the husbands creditors. A
moderate annual payment to the Company
will thus secure a sum for wife and child
rem. in case of the husbands untimely
death, that be might not have been able to
lay up by years Of toll. The Editor of the
Chronicle is Agent for the EQUITABLE"
Company, mentioned below, and is ready
at any time to issue further Life Policies
in addition to the several thousand dollars
already thus secured by heads of families
in this neighborhood. The rates Of this
Company are reasonably low.
V.The importance of Life Insurance has
recently been demonstrated in q somewhat pecu-
liar manner. A we'll known merchant of Market
street, was q few years since unfortunate in bus
mess. He vas indebted to a gentleman in this
city to the amount OF $4,000. The creditor
applied to two life insurance offices. and had the
life of the debtor insured to the amount Of his
debt. A short time since, the unfortunate man
died, and the creditor stepped into our office
yesterday 70 inform US that the Equitable Insu-
rance Company" had just sent to him and paid
the liability Of that Office. And this within the
time specified by law. Such promp,ness is truly
creditsbls. The policy Of insurance Vas taken
out about three years ago.
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.MxLoDY OF DlArH"-One Of the most beau
tiful illusions Of the post Byron bore this title,
and il strikes US that the following extract from
that poem, embOdies some OF the sublimest ideas
the English language has ever expressed. Will
no, our readers agree with US in opinion!
"Thnu shalt lie down
With patriarehs Of the infant world-with king,
The DOW erfu Of the .arsh-the wise, the COOL,
Pair forms and hoary SEER Of arrseast,
All in mighty sepulchre- The hills
Rock-ribted, AID ancient as the sun-the wales
Str-t-hing in pcnsive quietness between;
The venerable woOds-nv-re that InoNe
In msjesty-and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green and poured round ell
Old oeean's gray and melancholy waste
Are but the sol-Inn DECORATIONS all
Uf mans last resting ngplacs'-Sorristosss Rc2ist,T.
All true enough, Mr.. Register, so far as
your encomiums upon the poetry are con-
cerned; though it happens to be of an
order of excellence that Byron, with all
his transcendant gifts, could not approach.
We venture to take the liberty of sugges-
ting that you hunt up the volume and
page of Byrcn's works containing the quo
ted passage, and have it transmitted to
Barnum, who would doubtless give it a
conspicuous place among the multitudinous
curiosities in his Museum, and pay you a
handsome premium into the bargain. And
while you are about it, just send dupli-
cate copy Of the Register to VIM. c. Bry-
ant, of the n. Y. Erening Post, that he
may see how sadly he has been mistaken
as to the paternity Of "THASATopsIs," "
and the refreshing air of unconsciousness,
with which his editorial brethren, along
the classic Schuylkill, parcel out and re-
label the world-renowncd productions of
his genius.