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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-22
ASSURANCE.

RI ASSURANCE.
VvHE NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE CON
Corner of Canal and Camp streets.
1 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL STATEMENT.
NEW ORLEANS Jan. 15 1876.
In conformity with the requirements of thei
charter, the NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE CON
PANY publish the following statement of thei
affairs for the year ending December 81. 1875:
Fire premiums ,32o "
Marine ..-..---..---.---.--...-. 62.a39 Sc
River. 75,SH 81
For unterminated risks Deem
Der 81, 1975...---s----- 1883 IA
Return premiums A,972 %
Net earned premiums .S42O, $50 4
Add
Interest, salvages, etc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3o,63l l;
| 1851, 400 S;
Deduct
Relnsurances- ----......-... S26,34o o3
| ,oS'0' -. 60
,n"'in0 o. -. q,
"a 1872 ga
Iph. 40 .ae At
Commissions to
ooants 81 11a 90
60 .--.,a.,.a. -
.,.o,a;o. ,,,o 20
General expenses Of
home Office. 1880 90
contingent expenses
Daiu u on"oA
"i'oA'' o'o'' - = s47 716 RI
-. 90 ooA 90
s'ol'am oo
= s,- mn m
80, ~ ooo ~
''N' szo ooo m
$55 312 IS
Ie-r $500 49,.
NO. ~ 'ano e,o.o,, or
Fledge and mortgage ~'oooh %
Stocks ana oonds .--.-----.-----.---.--. 1921 oo
Bills receivable %@oo' oo
Premiums in course OF COLLECTION '''4o' W
Agency premiums In course oi trans"iS-
sion-- .----.---.-...-----'----'---.- N'slo %
Suspense account...... 1924 80
Sundry debtors ----.---'-...-------..--- 1'sls "
C.a1' ae ozo >,
- :.
,,,p,rrrrrc
po.s g. .o,;u..od r;s,,s s,.7 sea :.
Dividend declared. Is 900 90
Dividend uncollected 10 Os6 IS
49,. -
-
The foregoing is true and correct transcript rom
'i'0 '-' ' N " TTyEs Pra0ida
J. w. HINCKS, Secretary.
sworn 10 ana subscriber before me OIL thls i'n oa
of January, 1876
JOHN LEMONNIER
rL;, r.;oo &c .h paaooo
Parish Of Orleans, La.
A. mae+,ro of the Roard If Directors held On the
80, -. ;. p. .,. J. 49, IL 49,; ,,,o1 |
interest dividend of five per cent the capital stock
10 the stockholders or their legal representatives on
~. ITpsT ,roNrDsv af r..r,,.u. 80
anu aiIer Ino 4 AhoA MN 20 VI cooi""iJ noA'' |
j. W. HINCkS Secretary.
DIRECTORS;
Ernest Merun, a. M Dlchhan
p,oo;ao ror.+.u 4 S.bre;hsr
eo
H. Gally. J. Tuyes,
wv w. p+hrso, n Ea+;o
Pierre Poutz D. D. Rogers.
;o,oon
80
|
4 EERCHANTS' MUTUAL INSURANCE CON-
wi
PANY OF NEW ORLEANS,
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Table Of Rates Of Domestic Postage.

| The following are the rates Of postage On Dos
nestle Mail Matter Of tho different olassee
Note-Au domestic mail matter (cxcept nova,
papers, magazines and periodicals. sent to actanS
subscribers from known Office Of pub.,s.scn
must be prepaid by postage stamps
letter on which one full rate Of postage 10
prepaid, but on which further postage IL chSzxs4
sble, win be forwarded, when deposited ia q.
post-ofice, charged with the unpaid possas. eS
be collected on delivery. If the poetsge h lssSa
wholly unpaid, or il prepaid less than Gre issss
rate it will be held for postage and sent 10 asae
Dead Letter. Office. Should it reach TO dsssssa,
lion by inadvertence, however, it will be cAsrgse
With double postage On delivery. st1s faae
rate" means, in the case Of nail letters e. oahaa
frst class matter, three cents.
In large cities and adjacent districts es lsrga
population, having two or more post-offces wssh~
in distance Of three miles Of each other, RAY Iss
ter posted at one of such Offices, and addressed 30
locality within the delivery OF another ct sseb
Offices, which shall have been Inadvertently nre,
paid at the "drop" local letter rate OF nsssAcs
only, may be forwarded to it's destination tSsccsA
the proper Office charged with the amount Of Aha
deficient postage, to be collected on delivery.
II articles chargeable yith differena rates aS
postage are sent together in one package, tAs
higher rate must be paid on the entire pacaax,s
but two or more different articles, both charge.
able with the same rate Of postage, may be sesb
in one package on payment Of that rate on the
whole package.
The following articles are excluded hosn thS
mails: Liquids, Poisons, Glass, Explosive Mss
terials, Books, Pamphlets, Pictures and othc7
publications OF an obscene or indecent character.
all letters upon the envelopes Of which, and poa.
tai caras upon which, scurrilous epi.heas ass
written or printed or engraved, or disloyal ds-
vices printed or engraved and all articles which
from their form or nature are liable to deetsoy,
deface or injure the contents Of mail bags OF tina.
person Of any one engaged in the postal ser gisa,
Postmasters are not allowed to give credit sos
postage, nor to deliver any mail matter unsil Ata
postage due thereon has been paid.
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The above statement is . Just true and correct
transcript from the books of the Company.
P. FOURCHY President.
G.. W. MOTT, Secretary.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish Of Orleans, city of New Orleans
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 18th day Of
June 1875. JAMES FAHEY N. p,
At meeting of the Board Of Directors held on the
14th day of June 1875 it resolved to pay to the
Stockholders on demand interest at the rate of 10
Der cent per annum on their stock.
DIRECTORS:
P. Maspero. Ed. Toby,
D. Fatjo P. Fourchy,
S. q. Relf NJ w. Smith,
L. f. Generes, J. J. Fernandez,
d. A. Chaffraix, J. n. Allen,
Chas. LATTE jel6 rs 1y
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RESOURCES:
Loans and discounts 1926 1873 %
Overdrafts NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 16 GIT 90
United States Bonds to secure circulation 200 900 90
Other stocks bonds and mortgages. --...- $500 90
Due from approved reserve agents. 6,023 05
Due from other National Banks. ........ 1000 Al
Due from State Banks and Bankers - II 1888 %
Real estate furniture and fixtures 10000 90
Current expenses and taxes paid. $500 %
Premiums paid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000 90
Checks and other cash items. ........--.-. 669 sc
Exchanges for Clearing House ..- 60 1872 80
Bills Of other National Banks. ....--.. IL 81 90
Fractional currency (including nick els) $40 SO
Specie Gncuding gold Treasury hottest. 1850 90
Legal-tender notes. 10000 90
Redemption fund with o. s. Treasurer five
per cent OF circulation) .......-.. 1000 90
Total 1856 so 90
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in 600 90
Surplus fund 900 90
Other undivided NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3d. $50 IS
National Bank notes outstanding. 1T 900 90
Dividends unpaid Observation-Disclosures 1,245 90
Individual deposits subject to check. 36a 1874 81
Demand certificates of deposits. .... Sc 407 so
Due to other National Banks .-.....--.S 1929 "a
Due to State Banks and bankers. 16,O6I ~
Total 1856 $50 SO
STATE OF LOUISIANA. ,
Parish of Orleans: :
l. WILLIAM PALFREY, Cashier of the above
named bank, do soemny swear that the above state
ment is true to the best OF my knowledge and belief
WIN. PALFREY, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sd day of
January, 1876
ANDREW HERO. Jr.. Notary Public.
C0rrect-attest:
sAM'L DELGADo.
a slGauND KArz Directors
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Report of the Condition
OF THE
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
At the Close of Business, December ~, 1878,
At New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana
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TJvHE NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE. COMPANY
OF NEW ORLEANS, La,
Corner Of Camp and Canal Streets.
ESTABLISHED IN 1905.
Assets December 81 1874 $50 e.
The Company insuros Fire, Marine and River
Risks. Issues Marine Policies, payable in London In
case Of loss. J. w. HINCKS, Secretary.
AD. SCHREIBER, Vice President.
]. TUYES, President.
nnEcToKs,
VIZ Schmidt A. n Mckham,
plAcide Forstau, Ad Schneider,
H. GAlly Jules Tuyea.
CHARLES LATTE W. A. Ball
". Van Benthuysn- D. Fatio =
Emile Bouny; p. .. Rogers. IeS u
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At meeting of the Board Of Directors held on the
18th inst, it resolved to pay the semi-annual
interest dividend of five per cent the capital stock
to the stockholders their legal representatives
and after the FIRST MONDAY Of February next
j. W. HINCKS, Secretary.
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Moses Greenwood, R. M. Walmsley,
W. A. johnson, A. Brittin.
John l. Noble A. n. May,
John Chaffe S. H. Snowden,
Richard Milliken T. Lytt Lyon,
Samuel E. Moore, VIM. G. Raymond,
il. Warren, Jas. s. Prestidge
R. 7. Buckner. Samuel II. Boyd,
Samuel Friedlander, Joseph McElrOy,
IA. Yates, e. B. Wheelock,
John l. Adams, Cyrus Bussey,
Isaac Seherck, VIM j. Behan,
81 3. f. Eschleman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09
Heroic Under Adversely.

Says Jennie June, in letter from New
York to the Baltimore american: There
was one person absent from the charity
ball, whom perhaps few missed, but who,
in her days Of affluen e, never missed
one, unless absent from the city. Only
very short time ago she occupied elegant
apartments at the st. James, kept her car
rage, and received all the attention which
the still young, rich, handsome and &C.
complished widow of man who had held
high public positions abroad, as we'll as
al home, is sure of obtaining. To-day she
occupies, with her mother, one poor room,
in building in which rooms are rented
to the poor who cannot afford the weekly
sum demanded in tine cheapest boarding
house. and who, in one room, neither
large nor we'll ventilated, cook whatever
food they can afford to purchase, eat and
sleep. Her financial ruin was caused by
the failure of two large banking houses,
in which the whole of her money was, rs
she supposed, secured. Thirty thousand
dollars, which lay in other hands, were,
by the representations of the head of one
of those establishments, transferred to
him for safe keeping but three weeks be-
fore the failure occurred, and, of course,
went with the rest. She would not have
had money enough to buy bread, this win
ter, for herself and mother, but that a
Spanish gentleman from Venezuela, and
soon to return, hearing of her misfortune
through an artist friend, hired a sleeping
room in the same building, and begged as
favor that she would, every morning,
give him his breakfast, offering, as a
plausible reason. his ignorance OF the En-
glish language and her knowledge of
Spanish. The arrangement was therefore
made, and the amount paid has nearly
covered the weekly expenses, the remains
from the breakfast being made to serve
for all day. In the same building are two
young gir.s who came from the country
with little money that one had saved, in
order that one might take some long an
ticipated and eagerly desired lessons in
pastel painting. 1t was the presence of
these two young girls, good and hopeful
as they arc, that had induced the artist
friend to recommend the lady to seek hum
BILE shelter there, for it was he from whom
the aspiring young girl was receiving her
lessons, and he was acquainted with her
circumstances, and with the fact that both
girls had left comfortable homes in the
country, one 10 pursue art studies, the
other to be companion and manager OF
their small resources. The day she ar
rived they invited Mrs. w. to share their
dinners, and they have since taught her
how to cook simple dishes, what TO buy,
what to pay for it-how, in short, to put
her resources to the best use. Out of all
the dear 500 friends she had, there is not
one of whom she would be willing to ask
a favor. 1t is to these two girls, Of whom,
few months ago, she knew nothing, and
who know nothing of the circle to which
she once belonged, that she clings for
companionship and comfort.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09
Beans In Q Barrel.

One day last week q gentleman in .
produce store in this city proposed .
guessing match in regard 10 tic number
of pea beans in barrel of that vegetable.
There were several groccrs in the store,
and their estimates varied from 40, 1000 to
1000, 900, all giving wild guesses. II was
ascertained that there were about 566, 600
pea beans in . full barrel, this result be-
ing obtained by counting the number of
beans in pound weight, and multiplying
that by the number Of pounds in the bar
rel. This of course would give only an
app. oximate number, as the figures for
each pound will vary probably very
lightly, and the stated number Of pounds
in barrel may also vary. A gentleman
of an advanced mathematical education
who happened in the store was asked to
guess the number of beans: He reached
4 result ly measuring one bean, and then
figuring how many beans could be put in
a barrel. lie placed the number in the
barrel at 2,OCO less than the result OBJ
tanned by the easier method of calculation,
and his figures may he even more correct
than those by the loose method.-Lo,oeH
(Mass) Courier.
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The TOrnadOes in Missouri and In
diana.
ST. CHARLES, MO.

81. CHARLES, Feb. q.
About 2:3O O'Clock this evening our
city was visited by most terrible tornado.
AT the hour named dark clouds came
sweeping down from the south. Rain be-
gan to fall, followed by hail. In a moment
dark yellow streaks were observed follow
ing in the course of the clouds. A noise as
loud as thunder was then heard, and in
the twinkling of an eye the tornado was
upon US. The heavens were shut out by
the debris of wrecked buildings, which
filled the air so that nothing could be dis
cerned. The roar of the wind was an.
palllng, and everyone paralyzed by fear.
The duration of the tornado could not
have been longer than one-half of a
minute. AS soon as 1t subsidized, and the
people began to venture out, the sight that
met their eyes was such as to make the
stoutest heart quail. The main street of
our city, from Water street to Clark,
distance of some twenty squares, was
filled with bricks, porches, signs and the
debris OF destroyed buildings. The loss
OF life has not yet been ascertained. So
Tar, two bodies have been taken from the
ruins OF the gas works, James Gosney
and his little son. Both were found in
the rctort house under one of the massive
retorts. The child was closely clasped in
the arms of its father. Both bodies we're
crushed SO as to be unacceptable.
ST. Louis, Feb. 20.
Later advices from st. Charles state that
the damage by the tornado yesterday was
much exaggerated; but it is still believed
to be heavy, probably from $1OO,O to
*15O,OOO. The remains of George Line
bur, boy, were found in the debris this
morning, maxim three persons killed by
the storm. About twenty persons were
injured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09
Opium Dangers.

1t is curiously suggestive fact that
very few Of the weekly journals, cs-
pecially of literary nature, which go d.
rectly into families, can nowadays be ex-
am:ned but that somewhere in their adveE-
Using columns are found announcements
offering radical cures for the opium habit.
We have found these advertisements
abundant in fashion magazines: and in
deed so widely spread are they, and SO
persistcntly are they kept before the pub
lie, tlrat stranger might seriously ask
himself whether the mania for the drug
be not as strong in this civilized country
as in China. Two or three cases, OF
those who have become addicted to thc
use of opium through its employment as
a medicine during acute illness, have
lately been brought to our knowledge
and some further inquiry leads us to be-
lieve that the large majority of opium.
eaters thus acquire their bancful taste.
DR.. J B. Madison, in an article in the
Medical Record, strongly advocates this
view, and rcinforces his conclusions with
timely caution to physicians regarding
the careless prescribing Of the drug. 1t
appears that, while alcoholic intoxicatiOn
is decreasing throughout the United States,
opium drunkenness is increasing, and the
uGalCIS III CIuuC lAC
facturers of its alkalOids assert that the
importation of the one and the prOduc-
tons of the other are rising rapidly year
that at one of our largest manufacturing
centers the supply is said to be insufficient
for the demand.
DR.. Madison adduces most interesting
array of ms ances in proof of his views.
Cases are mentioned OF persons (who pre-
viovsly took opium to gain relief from
the pain of sciatica, or neuralgia, or sim
liar acute maladies) becoming confirmed
inebriates, utterly unable to disenthral
themselves, and swallowing their daily
potion not as means Of qualification, but
as physical necessity. Legislative en-
actments prohibiting the rehlling of an
opate prescription, or the dispensing Of
opium in any form, unless in pursuance
OF prescription from the attending ply
sician, would, DIR. Madison considers, ac-
complish an immense amount of good. 1t
would not wholly check the vice, but
would greatly mitigate the same. I'm
carrying out the REFORM" he adds, :"it
should be the aim of every practitioner,
when called upon to prescribe this most
valuable medicine, to see to it that he ex-
ercises discriminating care in so doing,
by careful inquiry as to the neurotic status
of his patient from the standpoint of he
redltary tendency, and, ii necessity de-
mands q somewhat prolonged administra-
ton, to watch most warily and guard
most strcnuously against the earliest indi-
cations of an appetite that, thoroughly es-
tablished, will scarcely be denied, and
which entails upon its unhappy possessor
q darkness so dense, q horror soindescrib-
able, that death, at times, seems preiera-
BILE. "-Scientifc american.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09
CONGRESSIONAL.

SEVERAL petitions were presented and
referred in the Senate, on the sd, among them
being one signed by 49, 90 women and nearly H.
900 voters in Indiana on the subject of temper
ance, asking Congress to appoint commission to
investigate and report as to the effect Of the al
coh9lic liqnor trafic to prohibit the importation
of alcoholic liquors from foreign countries, their
manufacture and sale In the District Of Columbia
and the Territories, and to require the total abeti
hence from alcoholic liquors Of all civil, military
reported from the Committee ON Finance amend
story Of the acts Of July Il, 1870, and Jan. %,
1871. authorizing the refuDding of the National
Of bonds bearing four and 1 half per cent. be in.
creased to 5000 O,OOO, and that they be payable
at the pleasure Of the United States after thirty
years from the date Of their issue, instead Of aer
provided for by the original acts, and the bonded
debt Of the Government not to be increased by
the amendment. Among the bills introduced was
chise in The Territory Of Utah. The bill con-
fefring exclusive Jurisdiction over Indian
reservations upon the United States Courts,
ted ted 81 and assin.t Il the ' Indians, wa.
snsued. involving the questions q Indian civil
n soo a s.s to nsSs
reconsider tho vote BY which the report Of the
Conference Committee on the joint resolution TO
pay the interest ON the 3.65 bonds was agreed TO,
was laid on tho table-67. to la charge being
made that $4,000 Of the bonds had been ksued
for fraudulent claims. Bills were introduced in
and 70 provide for its gradual reduction and the
consolidation OF certain OF It's ets6 departments
70 increase the clerical force Of the Pension
q II os
Quiry. and resolution authorizing the sub-com-
mitees Of the several Committees that are charged
with Investigations. 70 conduct those investi-
IN md frNp nsnA
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09
A Stupendous Centennial Bust.

A recent number of La Stottttn, an
italian journal, informs us that the Italian
sculptor, Pictro Guarnerio, of Milan, who
won prize at the Viennese Exposition
for two groups of his which were pur-
chased by the Emperor of Austria, and
rcpctitions of which were afterwards or
dered by the Emperor of Germany, has
now in hand q most wonderful bust of
Washington. Signor Guarnerio, it ap-
pears, understands it to be the intention of
our Centennial Commissioners to erect a
single building covering an area of z, 57S,-
600 square meters, and representing there
fore length of more than one statute mile
on each side, together with a tower to be
of thrice the height of the So called Flower
of Babel" of the Cathedral of Milan, or,
in round numbers, about 1,075 feet.
Naturally enough Signor Guarnerio has
come to the conclusion that any body who
expects any work of his to he SO much as
visible in 50 vast an edifice, the like Of
which, he justly observes, "has never been
seen before on earth that we know Of"
must put himself to unusual pains in the
way of conception and execution. 50
Signor Guarnerio is now engaged in max
ing colossal bust of the Father of our
Country "at the moment when he gave
the United States their Constitution" and,
in order to give this bust dimensions
adequate to the circumstances" he has
purchased four car loads of modelling clay,
and is making a fig ure the little finger of
the hand of which is to be twenty six
centimcters, or about quarter Of yard
in length! II is gratifying to know, on
the authority of La St1fetta, that in this
remarkable work 1.-THE great citizen OF
America is represented in the most simple
and natural attitude possible, and ex
presses the satisfaction Of a stainless con-
science which, having fulfilled sublime
act and being convinced that it has dis
charged its duty thoroughly, feels that it
has touched the summit of its wishes.
But what will Signor Guarnerio think
when he finds himself called upon to find
q place for this enormous bust in build
ing considerably less than mile in length
on any side! 1t is great pity that such
visionary ideas Of our Exhibition should
be floating about the world, because they
: can only tend to impair the natural effect
which must otherwise be produced upon
intelligent observers of all nations by the
really noble and magnificent scale on
which the buildings Of the Exhibition
have been actually planned and put up
N. T. Graphic ,~ p.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09

A LEFT-HANDED man, ON North Hill,
rushed out, yesterday afternoon, for :
chain pump to get bucket Of water. He
made some ill-natured remark about men
making pumps wrong side to and COM
menced to grind. He turned, and turned,
and ground, and ground, and stopped and
rested, and talked softly 10 himself, and
ground again, and kicked the pump, and
took off the lid and looked down into the
cistern, and put on the lid and sat down
to think, and got up and turned the crank,
and sweat, and kicked the pump again,
and there hung that bucket, innocent
of moisture. And there came = wom-
an to the back door, and voice fell
like falling star, Turn that crank the
other way, you stupid thing, or you won't
get any water tonight. "-Burlingto
i Ha,ck- Eve.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09

DRIED POTATOES, which may be kept
any length Of time, and which, when
boiled with little salt, IRE not distinguish
able in taste from the fresh vegetable, are
prepared as follows: After being peeled
and cut into disks, they are treated with
cold water to which has been added one
per cent. Of sulphuric, or one to two per
cent. Of muriatic acid. Washing in pure
water follows, and the pieces are then
placed on wire frames and dried in an
oven. When done, the disks are of q
slightly yellOwish tint, and ere transpar-
ept. like gun, 6cimsisc Amsriee".
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-09

THERE is some reason to believe yet
that we are living in q Christian land. A
coal dealer Of Patterson, New Jersey, has
been convicted of cheating in selling coal
BY the use Of false weights, and has been
sentenced to pay fine Of $3.50. He doesn't
take the sentence kindly, however, but
publishes a card in which he announces
his intention Of having the proceedings
reviewed before another tribunal, and, If
he fails there. Of taking them before .the
Eternal Judge. IN 7. Mail.