The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-09
Mound City Mutual Life Insurance tom-
~ pany-LouiSiaHa Branch.
& VERY PLEASANT REUNION.


The election of officers for the Louisiana
Branch of the\abOve-named company was
held Monday -eveqing last, in the Story
Building. The following named gentle
men were elected BoATd of Directors tor
the ensuing year: Gov.\Nlouton' Judge
Merrick, Gen. SHINES, Major Noorhles,
Col. r. S. Morse, Col. +. II. Match, and
Messrs Robert Hare, James Jackson and
Thomas Fitzwilliam. Y
The Board subsequently, organized ny
the election of the following officers: Gov.
Mouton, President; Judge f. L. Merrick,
Vice President; and Gen. b. Is. Slmmes,
Secretary and General Agent.
We understand that this Board, with
only one exception, is composed OF the
same gentlemen as that of last year, which
was so eminently successful in its manage
ment The Louisiana Branch has only
been established twelve months, has issued
policies to the amount of three millions of
dollars, yet, fortunately for the company as
well as the policy holders, there has not been
a death among therlatter. This reflects
great credit on the administrative ability,
untiring energy, sound Judgment and prac-
teal experience of the Secretary and Gen
eral gent, who devotes all his time and
all his labor to the success and prosperity
of the company. 1t reflects credit also on
the skill. of the medical eXapffhers, Drs.
Austin and Folwell, and is highly favorable
, to the sanitary character of the climate OF
orr State, which is so little known and SO
slightly appreciated abroad.
Ester in the evening Gen. SimDies in
formed the gentlemen who had beGh invited
to assemble at the City HoteN that Col.
| Morse, one of the above named Directors,
had made some provision/for their enter
tainmcnt, and very soon/the Directors and
their guests were seated ut Il number OF
! tables in very pleasant room. We arein-
+ IfcbrUCt to tire kind aud thoughtful courtesy
/ of a gcntlemap, a member Of the Board
with whom II has been our good fortune tc
be acquai1ted, for an invitation on that oc'
casion and feel grateful to him for the en-
ioyment of very pleasant evening. We
! have been at similar entertainments II
other places in the years that are past, bu
! we do not remember one that could have
surpassed that of that evening in the am
plituie of the means and the val iety of the
assortment of every thing that coul'
crafty the most luxurious taste for TIN
good things of this life, while the genia
! atmosphere that seemed to fill the room
cloQuence of the speakers, and the gentle
manly propriety which presided over tn
whole, clearly entitled it to lac. called thu
- Feast of Reason
Toasts We're given and speeches wer,
made, aud animated and pleasant CONVEX
sation filed up the intervals. The speak
ers were Gov. Mouton, Judge Ryan, o
| Rapides, DIR. Austin, Judge VOORHEES,, the
Rev. j. Moynihan, Gen. SHINES, Judg,
| Merrick, Col. Mouton, NJ. F. Bgney, of the
/ Times, w. w. King and, we rhelievc, Others
whose names have escaped our recollection
The speeches were all good, full of goot
sense, and we'll delivered, anda could no
| be surpassed in any similar assembly.
Our Louisiana Branch has wide field o
prosperity opened to it, which will becom,
still wider in the future. It's business af
fairs are in the hands of an energetic fad
ministrator, who knows how to secure fol
the company all the advantages that may
me-within -'its-reach, while the grea
majority of the policy=holders- made NJ
of the representative men of the State o
Louisiana May the company rive ant
prosper, and, to use the fervid language o
| Oriental Imagination, may its policy holder.
/ live a thousand years.
ST. ANNE's CHURCH. - This church, or
St phiIip Street in the Second District