Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-18
ABSOLUTE SECURITY.

The North British and Mercantile In
surance Company Of London and Edin-
burg, is a name which carries with it ev-
erywhere in the United States a convic-
ton of absolute and almost ideal security.
It's colossal accumulations, amounting TO
almost fifteen millions of gold dollars,
and q record which, for sixty years. has
been full of conspicuous integrity, afford
an abundant n tangible guarantee of
perfect fidelity, noteworthy even among
the characteristic excellences of those
few great corporations which have
achieved = worldwide reputation. In
England and on many a distant shore,
where this stalwart company has planted
its agencies, it would be needless to seek
a better passport TO public confidence han
the broad policy OF the North British and
Mercantile. 1t has been reserved for Hi
nOis and. her sister States to utter the
heresy thai from such a company, and the
two or three other companies which are
proud TO be its peers, that protection"
of home interests demands the safeguard
of a State deposit by foreign companies.
We do not now debate the wisdom of that
recent addition to Our statutes, but we
commend to business men a becoming
consideration of the alacIty with which
the North British and Mercantile has re-
spOnded to the Legislative demand. Its
deposit Of $500, coo of gOld-beariDg securi-
ties with tbs State Treasurer of Illinois:
a similar deposit in New York; its invest
ment in the United States OF nearly a
million Of dollars of its fund; and the
exclusive control and management of its
American business by an American board
of directors, not only, in effect, localize
the company in this country, and give
-permanence to the transactions Of its
United States branch, but contribute an
additional guarantee of the superiority of
its indemnifying abilities. Moreover,
the eminent peeuniary responsibility
OF the wealthy and influential New York
merchants and bankers who compose the
American directory affords another inn
portant guarantee which ~tronZly com
mands the confidence of every mercantile
community. II it were necessary to par
ticularize other points which are especial
ly worthy Of consideration by the insur-
ing public, we could allude to the large
lines of insurance which the company is
enabled to carry, and to its proverbial
prOmptneSs IN the settlement of losses,
without any of the vexatious delay which
would arise if claims had to be referred to
the home Office. It is because of these
superior advantages, and of the vastRess
Of its resources that the North British and
Mercantile is d name which finds so much
favor in every American cOuntiug-room,
where insurance is always a subject Of
careful, thoughtful selection. The mer-
chant who is insured in that company re-
poses under a warrant ofabsslute security.
We consider it fortunate for the insuring
public of Memphis, not merely that the
North British and Mercantile has en-
HANGED its claims upon public confidence
by depOsiting with the State Treasurer an
amount of securities required by the laws
of Tennessee, but also that it is represent
ed in this city by an agency of so much
prominence and such high business stand
ing as that Of Messrs. J, G.. Lonsdale i
Co., at No. 43 Madison street.
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and see the magnificent Bell Treble Pi-
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their superiority as well as the place OF
their manufacture justly entitle them to
the patronage of the Memphis public.
CALL and examine our new stock of
trimming goods, now being received.
They are by far the handsomest in the
city. T. W. JOHNSTON q co.
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