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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

VIM. Dudley
We give below testimony from those who are in
situation to know something of this company
and its management.
Hon PETER DorLs, Secretary Of State and In
surdnce Commissioner:
DEAR SIR: Having furnished you statement of
the condition of the MADISON MUTUAL INsUR-
ANCE COMPANY on the let of May, 1877 with it's
guaranty capital of 100000 all paid In. under
thnris of special act of the Legislature, permit
re to say that have this day INCREASED the
urer to S63, OOO which you will observe exceeds
the reinsurance fund required to be held By this
B. E. HUTCHINSON,
Secretary.
B. E HUTCHINSON. Secretary Madison Mutual
Insurance Company.
DEAR SIR: am In receipt OF yours of the Doth
inst. stating that you have increased the amount
of Bonds on deposit with the State Treasurer to
sxtythre thousand dollars.
l would add that from an examination of the
affairs of your Company, recently made, 1 am
tirely satisfied that it is fully up to the require
ments of the law.
PETER DOYLE, Secretary of State,
and e1-oHcio Commissioner Of Insurance.
We do not hesitate to endorse the Madison Mu-
tual, with it's old record and capital The
company will hereafter write good business risks
intending to be very conse vative in it's manage
ment and seeking to do safe rather than large
business. There is no reason in the world why
Madison should not build up first-class compa-
ny. The goodwill of its people will insure
it.-MG05SOn Democrat.
Of foreign companies, we can only Judge which
ones are safe from reports OF the Madison Mu-
tual, we can speak from positive knowledge; we
knoO 1t is sound and relable we Gnoao it is able
to meet every obligation, and that it will do it.
Ii person in sures his property and meets with
loss. he desires to be assured that it will be paid
He has this assurance in the 81 ADDISON Mutual. 1t
has alW Us been prompt. 1t is now, better than
ever able to do So Wisconsin State Journal.
The old and reliable Madison Mutual Insurance
Company is gradually taking the front rank since
its reorganization, and it is rapidly growing in
favor simply because it pays, and that, too, with
cut any bother TO the insured:-Oshkosh N0ffh-
acestern
THE MADISON MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
This Company has made large additions to its edsh
capital all ofwhich has been paid up and the STATE
| authorities, who have been giving the affairs
of the company careful investigation, now have
the utmost confidence in it. We are not IN the
habit of recommending insurance companies, of
which we know little nothing to the puollc,
| but from what we have learned OF the financial
condition of the company and the high character
of the officers in immediate charge of It's general
management, well say that we consider 1t
! entitled to high eonhdence.-Stdte Register.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

To keep moths out of old clothing
Give the clothing to the poor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
CASH ASSETS.

CASH ASSETS.
Real Estate unencumbered. .... $19, 955 81
Loans on Bonds and Mortgages. ....... SO, $40 81
United States and Madison City Bonds. 4S, 600. 90
Cash on hand and in Bank ......... :. %, 375. 90
Net Premiums in due course of collec-
ton. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S,63O96
Bills receivable. .......... -. ....... 1856 81
All other property exclusive of Premi-
UNI Notes and amount due on Assess
ment). Observation-Disclosures. 2,2S7.5O
sos, 967 .03
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05

Dir. CToRs:-Timothy Brown, David Atwood
Andrew Proudft. B E. Hutchinson, VIM. F. Villas
VIM. Dudley.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
S2O6, 967.03
A8ILITIES

Amount of Claims for unpaid Losses,
and all other liabilities except Capital
and Reinsurance. ........S2 So. 562
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
INCORPORATED 1851.


INSURANCE CO., OF MADISON, WIS
STATEMENT MAY /, 1877.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
OOD, B. E. HUT IHINSON,

President. Secretary
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
HARMFUL Passions.

The passions which act most Sc.
verely on the physical life are anger,
fear, hatred and grief. The other
passions are comparatively innoc,
uous. What is called the passion of
love is not injurious until it lapses
into grief and anxiety; on the con-
trary it sustains the physical power.
What is called ambition, when it
exists purely, is nobility lifting it's
owner entirely from himself into the
exalted service of mankind. 1t in.
lures when it is debased by its mean
er ally, pride or when stimulating
man to too strenuous efforts after
some great object, it leads him to
the performance of excessive mental
or physical labor, and to the conse>
quences that follow such effort.
The passion called avarice, ac>
cording to my experience, tends
rather to the preservation of the
body than to its deterioration. The
avaricious man, who seems to the
luxurious world to be debarring him
self Of all the pleasures Of the world,
and even to be exposing himself to
the fangs Of poverty, is generally
placing himself in the precise condi~
lions favorable to long and healthy
existence. By bis economy he is
saving himself from all risks Incl
dent to penury by his caution he
is screening himself from all the
risks incident to speculation or the
attempt to amass wealth by hazard~
GUS means; by his regularity of
hours, perfect appropriation Of the
sunlight, in preference to artificial
illumination, he rests and works in
periods that precisely accord with
the periodicity of nature; by his abb
stemiousness in living he takes just
enough to live, which is precisely
the right thing to do, according to
the rigid natural law. Thus, in al
most every particular, he goes on
his way freer than other men from
the external causes of all the reduc-
ed diseases, and better protected
than most men from the worst con.
sequences of those diseases from
which spring causes that are uncon-
.trollable. hsa4 M
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
MARRY TO BE HAPPY

| Men and women wed each other
to be happy. And why not if they
marry wisolyY The man should al
ways Be little older, a little Drawer,
a little stronger, a little wiser, and
little more in love with her than she
Liz with him. The woman should al.
ways be q little prettier. and q little
more inconsiderate than her husband.
He should bestow upon her all his
worldly goods and she should take
good care of them. He may owe
her every care and tenderness that
affection can prompt; but pecuniary
indebtness to her will become a bur-
den. Better live on. cfust he earns
til an fortune she has brought him.
Neither must encourage sentimens
tel friendship for opposite sex. Per-
feet confidence in each other, and
reticence concerning their mutual
affairs, even to the members of their
own families, is fret necessity. A
wife should dress herself becomingly
whenever she expects to meet her
husbands eye. The man should not
grow slovenly, even at home
Faalt-fnding, long argument or
scolding, ends the happiness that be-
gins in kisses and love-making.--
Sisters and brothers may quarrel
and "make up" Lovers are lovers
no longer after such disturbances oc>
cur, and married people who are not
lovers are bound by red hot chains.
If d man admires bis wife most in
prints, she is silly not to wear them.
If she likes him best in black cloth,
he is a fool if he neglects to indulge
in it. They should contrive to please
each other, even if they please no.
body else, for their mutual happi-
ness can only be the result of their
mutual love, and that love will new
er ia to exhalt its object.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
THE YOUNG MAN WHO SPENT A
FORTUNE.

=
A marked instance Of the fckle>
ness of fortune, and how circum~
stances completely control the actions
Of men, has just come to light in
Connecticut Granville Ely was
the son of the late Elias Ely, a law
yer of some prominence in New York
at one time, and who had amassed
quite fortune in his profession.
Granville, being an only son, was hu-
mored in every way. His father
gave him twenty thousand dollars a
year to spend as he pleased, and as
he gave very handsome banquets
and entertainments, and as he added
wit to wealth, and drove fine horses
besides, he was great toast and lion
with all those fortunate enough to
know him and enjoy his hospitality.
A few years since, however, his fath>
er died in reduced circumstances,
and the son, evidently for the pur-
pose of keeping up his extravagsnt
mode of life, committed forgery, of
which crime he was convicted and
sent to Sing,Sing. He has since
then committed several acts of petty
larceny, and on Monday last was ar
rested for stealing a coat. 1t is as
serted that he has several times been
arrested for such thefts, and eyident>
ly, in his present low condition, he
cannot refrain from stealing anything
coming within his reach. He has
changed so much in personal appear
ance that he is scarcely recognizable
by those who were his intimate
friends eight years ago. He is high
ly educated and belongs to an aristo-
cratic family, being near relative
of the Hon. Zebulon Ely, of New
York city, and Samuel G. Ely, of
Lyme.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

If There is any bond in life that
ought to be sacredly guarded from
everything that can put it in peril,
it is that which unites the members
of family. If there be a spot
upon earth from which d;scord aud
strife should be banished, it is the
fireside. There centre the fondest
hopes and the most tender afec-
tions. -
How lovely the spectacle present.
ed by that family which is govern
ed by the right spirit Each strives
to avoid giving offence, and is stud,
iously considerste of the others
happiness. Sweet loving DISPOSE
tons are cultivated by all and each
tries to surpass the other in his eff
forts for the common harmony
Each heart CLOVIS with love and
the benediction of heavenly peace
seems to abide upon that dwelling
with such power that no black fiend
Of passion dare rear his head within
it.
Who would not realize this lovely
picture 2 1t may be realized by ell
who will employ the appointed
means. Let the precepts of the Cos
pei be applied as they are designed
to be, and they will be found to shed
holy charm upon the family circle,
and make it what God designed it
should be, the most heayen-like
scene on earth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
THE ORIGIN OF GENIUS.

Columbus was the son Of q weaver
and weaver himself. Claude Lor-
raine was brought up pastry cook.
Molliere, the great French comic
writer, was the son Of tapestry
maker. Cervantes served as COM
mon soldier. Homer was a beggar.
Hesiod was the son Of small farmer.
Demosthenes, of cutter. Terence,
the Latin comic writer, was a slave.
Oliver Cromwell was the son oi y
brewer. Howard, the philanthropist,
was an apprentice to a grocer
Benjamin Franklin, the son Of tai
low Gambler. DR.. Bishop, of Wor~
chester, son Of linen draper. De-
Foe, the great English political wri-
ter, was the son Of a butcher. Whit
field was the son of an innkeeper at
Gloucester. Cardinal Woolsey, the
son Of a butcher. Ferguson was a
shepherd. Virgil was the son Of a
porter. Shakespeare, Of a wool deal
er. Horace, Of shopkeer. Lucian,
of a stationer. Hogarth, an appren-
tice to an engraver. Dean Tucker,
Of smrll farmer, and came to Ok
ford on foot. Bishop Pridcaus work.
ed in the kitchen at Exeter College.
Edmund HALEY was the son of g soap
boiler.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27


GEN. Woford is the first man we
have to take issue with in the con-
vention. On Monday last he offered
a resolution to the effect "that no
citizen in this State shall be deprived
of the right to vote on account of
his inability to pay his taxes, and
that Acknowledgement shall only be
after conviction for crime.0 The
issue we make is that no man should
be allowed to control government by
his vote and not support it by "his
taxes. Free government means
equal obligations upon all its citizens.
-CaytcysUille Express.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
TACT.

People cannot help having been
born without tact, any more than
they can help having no ear for mu-
sic; bnt there are occasions when it
is almost impossible to be quite char
table to tactless person. Yet peo-
pie who have no tact deserve pity.
They are almost always doing or say
ing something to get themselves into
disgrace, or which does them an in
jury. They make enemies where
they desire friends, and get repu-
tation for i'll nature which they do not
deserve. They are also continually
doing other people harm, treading
on metaphorical corns, opening the
cup boards where family skeletons
are kept, angering people, shamiDg
people, saying and doing the most
awkward things, and spologizing for
them with still more forcible blunt
ness. IF there is one social boon
more to be desired than another, it is
tact; for, without tact, the career Of
the richest and NEST beautiful is often
utterly marred.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

In a meeting ofthe Massachusetts
Dental Society, g. F. Waters des-
cribed and tested very simple and
easy remedy fof burns and scalds,
consisting simply ID covering the af-
fected part with the colnmon bicar-
Donate Of soda--the ordinary soda
used in cooking aud then overlap.
ing wet cloth. The severe pain is
Immediately relieved, and the burn
rapidly heals. DR.. Waters poured
boiling water on one of his wrists,
and then he applied the soda and the
wet cloth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
GO BACK.

10 the young man with his hail
parted in the middle who is about to
put his college education and his sole
leather trunk on the Texas bound
train, wa.say,stop! To the clever
artisan and the honest mechanic
who thinks be will go from his hard
times where he is, to get Imaginary
well-paid employment in the Lone
Star State, we also say--stop
To the adventurous rustic who
wishes to leave hoeing the turnips Of
some New York or Georgia farm to
find soft thing in this land Of prair-
les, we emphatically repeat, stay
where you are We would that we
inhabited the earthly Elysium that
some Texas papers say we do, but
we are afraid we don't. From the
bottom of our hearts we should be
glad to think that there was plenty
and prosperity for every one who
seeks to settle among us-but all
the same, there isn't. ~
8. We do possess something of an APP
proach to the eternal summer and
the marvellous growth which the
East is so tired of hearing us brag
about, but that is ALL Sooth to say,
there is no chance here for men
without money, all the eager, new,
arrivals to the contrary notwith>
standing. In plain English, the pa,
per that speaks Of the magnificent
opportunities this State presents to
the newcomer, lies and lies in a
very gratuitously criminal way in
deed.
The unvarnished truth is that our
labor market is stocked to overflow
ing, and every fresh arriving train
but adds to the miserable multitude
in our midst that waits, suffers,
starves and finally fights its desper-
ate way back home again. Before
the door of nearly every house in,
this city, there daily begs hollow-
eyed swarm that would sadden the
heart of satyr. Men Of brains and
culture, good clerks, excellent ac>
countants, business men Of undenia>
Bile energy, mechanics of ability,
walk the streets in dumb despair,
and finally take those that lead to
the chain gang and work>house.
The writer of this cannot remem>
Der one evening for very many that
he has not been asked for money to
buy meal or bed by men who
would have sooner died on the rack
than asked aims in the light of day.
And some of them do die on the
rack-the rack of bitter disappoint
ment, continued misery. Yet still
some journals calmly sing the same
old siren song; and still this overs
crowded, over-traded and financial
ly Frustrated community is held up
with fatal persistence as the proper
Mecca of the American youth.
We beg the journals in the East
and North to copy this article. We
ask that the truth be told there as
simple duty. Of humanity. In the
name of the distress we see around
us, and are powerless to relieve, 10
the name of the tramps and va
grants that fill our cities and towns,
we solemnly warn intending immi-
grants of all classet, except farmers
and men with money to invest, that
we are over~stocked with labor, and
will be for the next four or five
years. Though his ticket may be
purchased and his trunk packed, we
say to the man looking hither for
employment Go back !-1eras In
telHgeuce. si
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
AN EDITORIAL RRUTUs.

An editor out West INDUCES in
the following talk to his subscribers
and patrons
"Hear us for our debts, and get
ready that you may pay; trust us,
we have need, as you have long
been trusted acknowledge you in
debtness, and dive into your pockets,
that you may promptly fork over
If there be any among you-one
single patron -that don't owe US
anything, then to him we say Step
aside, confess yourself a gentleman.
If the rest wish to nowwhy we dun
them this is our answer: Net that
we care about ourselves, but our
creditors do. Would you rather that
we went to jail and you go free, than
that you pay your debts and keep
us moving AS we agreed, we
have worked for you; as we con-
,tracted, we have furnished the pay
to you; but as you don't pay we
dun you. Here are agreements for
Job work, contracts for subscription,
promises For long credit, and duns
for deferred payment. Who is there
so green that he don't take paper 2
If any, he need not speak, for we
don't mean him. Who is there SO
green that he don't advertise ? If
any, let him slide; he amt the chap
either. Who is there so mean that
he don't pay the printers If any,
let him speak, for he is the man
we're after"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

THE eagles Of the law are terri,
bly, in earnest nEarly county, and
the News notices, "as an index to
the times, that six goats and three
chickens were advertised by the bal.
lift Of Blakely on Monday last to sat-
isfy distress warrant"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

~ JAMES HART was arrested in San
Francisco on g. charge of forgery
A BANK clerk positively identified
him as the man who bad obtained
money on bad check. He would
have been wrongfully convicted
for he was innocent-had not the
real forger, Livingston Ayers, came
forward and confessed. A close re-
semblance between the two men had
caused the mistake.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

"Don't put too much confidence in
a lovers vows and signs" said Mrs.
Darlington to her niece let him tell
you that you have lips like straw
berries and cream, cheeks like tar
nation, and eyes like an asterisk ;
but such things oftener come from a
tender head than a tender heart.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

THE recent trial of negro in
Emanuel county, Sta, for stealing a
peck Of peas cost ~ ], aud the ne
gro was acquitted. If Emanuel
county has to pay at the rate of ST.
500 bushel for all the peas stolen,
she had better abolish the crop.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

THE news comes from New Or
leans that Judge Jere Black will help
prosecute the members of the LOUIS
lana Returning Board if they are
brought to trial. ts sl
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

A young and beautiful damsel,
near Frankfort, SKy, having two
lovers, and not knowing which to
prefer, settled tho. matter by marry
ing one and clipping with the other.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

IT now appears that the grand ju
ry that indicted the Louisiana re-
turning board contained only four
democrats out of sixteen. The 9TH
er twelve were conservatives and
Liberals, and four of them we're ne
groes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

Elk Gov, TILDEN, Secretary of
State BigelOw, Of New York, and
Syrus w. Field have sailed for Eu,
rope, Mr.. Tilden to return in Octo-
Der.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
Why is the eyeofa coquette like
a glance of sunlight in the early
spring time : Because it encour-
ages greenness.

A grocer had pound of sugar
returned with anotc, saying: "l'oo
much sand for t,.ble use and not
enough for bulldog purposes
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

THE Grand Lodgeof Odd Fellows
of the State of Georgia, will meet in
Gainesville on the 9Th day of Au
gust. The Grand Encampment will
meet on the 9TH Of August. There
will be from ono to two hundred rep
resentatives in attendance. This
body is a self sustaining institution.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

A. Russian engineer has invented
a bomb proof tower, which is moved
about by steam, and in which artil-
lerists sit and peIt The enemy with
destruction. By the time the next
war breaks out, the warrior will sit
in rocking chair IN the front par
lor of the hotel and talk his enemies
to death with revolving telephone.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

Tue Hawkinsviile Dispatch no.
tees the fact that a. physician in
that place has discovered that the
quinine he has been using was large
ly adulterated with carbonate of mag
nesia. The recent advance in this
article, the result Of the Eastern war,
offers to unscrupuIous dealers an in
centive to largely manipulate this
generally used article, and legisla>
ton should protect the people from
the imposition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

Human foresight often leaves its
prOudest possessOr only choice of
evils.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27

JOHN SHANNON, in Coleman, KY,
was separating some cattle from the
rest of the herd. A rope had been
thrown over a powerful bull, and he
was fastened to q tree. The rope
broke, and the bull made for Shan
non, caught him on bis horns, and
tossed him in the air. AS he came
down the maddened. beast caught
him again and threw him up, this
time killing him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
Blanks on Hand.

st Blanks on Hand.
We have the following Legal Blanks on hard
and for sale:
Warrantee Deeds,
Bond for Titles.
Blank Interrogatories,
Recognizances,
Affidavit. Bond and Attachment,
Garnishment, Affidavit and Bond,
Marriage Licenses,
Justice Court Fifas,
Justice Court Summons
SupGnas,
City Blank Bonds, RI
Exemption Waiver Notes, &c.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-27
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UPSTAIRS, IN sFREfER'S BRICK
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