The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-10-28
November Magaz ines


The November number begins the thr-
teenth volume Of Scribncrs, and opens with
an deliberately illustrated article on Hartford,
by Chas. III. Clark, of the Hartford COurant
Prominent objects in this sketch are Colts
beautiful estate at Armsmear; the residences
of Mark Twain and Dudley Warner; the fam
Gus Charter Oak the insurance buildings;
portraits of DR.. Bushnell, Gen. Hawley and
Yung Wing; with many other subjects OF
general interest. In no connection is Hart
ford better known to the general public than
with her Insurance companies. In regard TO
these we have the following statistics:
BY the last official report, 1t appears that
212, ACT people have their lives insured in
Hartford. If each Of these represents fami-
| ly OF five, then more than million Of people
are looking to the city as their refuge IN the
time which the insurance agent, himself
Hartford product can so pathetlcaly describe
as certain to be, for the uninsured, of acute
financial as we'll as domestic distress. These
lives are insured for S450000,0U0 altogether,
and the property insured in the fire compa
MES is S645, 1916 900 more, so that the total
risk which Hartford carries is in round mum
bers 81 100000G00 But the business of in
surance has reached such a scientific basis
that the probable losses admit of close calcu-
latlon, and the amount OF assets necessary to
a certain payment IS definitely fixed. The
Hartford companies, having $l130OOOOO,
have large SURPRISES above the amount re.
quired. Yet nearly all this accumulation has
come within "A short time. The lie insdr-
ance business began about 1850, and but three
fire companies antedate the exceptional dis
aster of the Chicago fire,
The following story of the Hartford pulpit
is told, in illustration OF the simple customs
of the days gone by
DR.. Strong, alter his Revolutionary chap
laincy, was u pastor for many years in the
city, where he was universally loved and re
spected. On week days, the Doctor was in.
Iteres,cd in the sale of rum as member Of a
firm who distilled and sold the liquor. This
may seem strange, yet ii Is worth remark that
the liquor business appears to have been bet
ter in the time when ministers managed II
than now; but that Is now all the story. The
firm failed, and the sheriff followed up The
minister with writ. The latter retired e
his house and shut himself up there to es
cape, but Us writs could not be served on Sun
4 days, he would come out of exile on those
. days, and, making his way TO the sanctuary
a would in safety lead his flock in their re,ig
4 ious duties, nor did anybody then comment
}, on the affair as peculiar. Another version Of
Z, the tradition has il that the sheriff did arrest
Il the minister but he was released "withiI
c limits" rs the custom then was, and the lega
). "limils" had To he especially extended to
II the benefit of this culprit in order that HI
might be able 10 reach the church where IN
l. preached.
o The article, as the product of Hartford
{ man, shows the Chicago fault of "a want o
u self appreciation but will pleasantly sa,isi.
a pervading public interest in regard to III
q "Charter Oak City"
Charles Barnard begins in the presen
rs number a series of articles on Cooperate
in Great Britain, which promise to be of ur
" usual interest and value. The same may b
: said of IA series OF microscopic papers, begu
% by Mrs. Herrick. Mr.. Clarence Cook cor
,e tinues his talk about furniture; Mr. Thewin
gives his experience as To the compsri
~ tive expense at different colleges-Yalc, Ha
,e ward, &c. TX Marvel writes about the Phili
delphia Exhibition. There is an illustrate
y paper on Rome there are several short ST
:, ries and poems; and in the departments
the end of the magazine We have such sui
b ljec,s diseased as County Homes, America
he Art, Politics and the Jews. la connection wit
the last named DIR. Holland makes these SCI
:, sible observations:
II is very curious, not to say amusing, I
&c see how people resent the introduction of III
" Jewish element in George Eliot's last grei
d. story That the Jews killed Christ is II
a. principal thing that many excellent Chri
IN tians reme mber about that extraordinary rae