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The New York herald., 1879-03-06
THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY

THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
The 'forelgn" insurance companies 40 called be-
cause they do not transact their principal business
within the limits Of this state and have only branch
Offices In New York city. whence. indeed the greater
part Of their revenue is derived all send In their
nua statements to the Insurance Department here
These institutions comprise mainly tho lite insur-
ance companies Of Connecticut and Massach usetts,
whose main Offices either in Hartford or Boston,
but yet rely principally upon New York city for the
bulk Of their business.
The Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company has
GG352 policies ahoat representing $i7s $50 $685. and
line of bond and mortgages second only 70 the Mu.
tual Life OF Now York. IL has placed loans In Ili
nois. Missouri. Wisconsin and other States. but q
great many OF these loans have resulted in fore
closures. The following real estate is owned by the
Connecticut Mutual. and bought In, with tho OK.
coption OF the last item. at foreclosure saie:--
Chicago, n........--............ 1,775,04g 90
st. Louis Mo.... 7vO,Ul2 90
Cincinnati. ......... .-.................. 1000 90
Kansas CITY TO,OO5 81
Indianapolis 246.216 10
Hartford Including company's buildng) 1,11S101 20
Total. ,vOS 30
Tho amount of mortgages hold by this company is
remarkable, aud shows great faith in the future
The New York herald., 1879-03-06
CORRECTION.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Among the list of mortgages published in the
HERALD of yesterday is one for $4,000 property
No. SAG Fulton street, Brooklyn, purportng to be
held by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
This is erroneous. No such mortgage Is held by
them or any one else on the property mentioned.
Please make the correction and oblge yours, Sc.,
WILLIAM BEHRTS SONS.
The New York herald., 1879-03-06


ENGLISH STOCK GUARANTEED.
when General Patrick returned TO the Office of the
Board of Health in Brooklyn yesterday, after his
conference with the Custom House officials of this
city in reference to the cattle supposed to be dis
cascd on the steamer Lepanto. he was waited upon
by DIR. Mclean, sanitary inspector, who presented
his report relation to infected stables diseased
cattle within the city limits of Brooklyn. According
to OF these reports II appears that during the
past two days three led from the Bliss
vile stables and killed at the slaughter house Moses
May, on Johnson avenue. During the same period
seventeen cows. found to be infected with pleuro-
pneumonia at the stables, were knocked on the head
and thrown the ofal boat for removal TO Barren
Island. Only 14s cows remain ut the Blissvilic
stables. and before the lapse of many days. all.
whether sick or healthy, will have been slaugh
Dr. Mclean spurns the idea that the stables will
thereafter be set apart for steers only lie says IL IL
much more likely that the place will be filled with
hogs, which will secure ample consumption for the
swill General Patrick said that he had been unable
from the pressure of business to devote much at
cntion the examination and slaughter of the Bliss
willie cattle expected In the beginning of his
labors. otherwise not one of the animals would now
be living. He sends courcrs every day to the stables
in order to be kept informed as to the manner in
which the quarantine is maintained. This insurcs
constant vigilance on the part of the Sheriff and his
deputies.
Dr. Mclean is preparing statement in relation to
the prevalence OF pleuro-pncumonia among the cows
in the Bssville stables and he will reply therein to
the opinions expressed by the veterinary surgeons
who contended that there WAS not case worthy of
serious attention. His challenge, published In the
HERALD some days ago. has not yet been accepted
Its acceptance, he says, must como through
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had no right to coerce State. That Is what
the Democratic party, according to their eau
Gus resolutions, believe now, and that is what
every man who supports the Democratic par
ty votes for, whether he does 50 Intentionally,
intell:gently, or not. Upon this platform,
under Democratic rule, the Union of States
would again be q rope of sand. 1t is true the
validity of the constitutional amendments is
conceded; that is to say, the Democratic eau
Gus agree that they may stand. They do not
coHcede that they were legally adopted. No
leading Democrat has gone that far. That
admission could not be twisted out of such
men as Thurman or Bsyard, or Hill or Lamar,
or Tilden or Hendricks. The concession,
therefore, is insincere. 1t is blind. Besides,
what would the constitutional amendments be
worth if the government were in the hands of
the Democratic party? What is the amend
ment guaranteeing the right of suffrage to the
colored race at the South worth now? Even
while the Democrats only have one foot in
power, it is virtually ignored. 1t is spit upon.
Now, put the South in control of the gov
ernment, which would be the case if the
Democratic party should get into power, and
judging it from the standpoint of human ma
ture, what would it be reasonable to expect ?
The Southern people were conquered and
largely Impoverished. Their slaves were set
free. The debts created in prosecuting the re-
bellion were wiped out. They had no money
| to pay claims for damages; nor to pay PEN
sions to MANNED soldiers, or the widows of
those who fell in battle. At the same time
the South is taxed to pay the national war
debt, and the thirty millions year in PEN
sicns to Union soldiers, or their widows or
orphans, as they are also to pay the claims Of
Union men for losses sustained during the
war.
Is it reasonable to suppose that this state of
things would be permitted to continue under
government controlled by the party that
conducted the rebellion and made the war for
the Union a necessity? This question be-
comes specially pertinent when We consider
that no leading rebel admits that the rebellion
was wrong, but, on the contrary, believes that
the war for the Union was crime.
If the South was right in the rebellion, as it
contends it was, and submitted to the con-
querors only as the conquered submit, would
it be inconsistent in that section, whea it gets
into the place of the conqueror, with the
purse strings in its hands, to reimburse itself
10 the extent of equalizing the losses Of the
two sections ? If, having got into power, it
should proceed to do that, what could the peo-
Pile of the North do about it2 The South wo'd
then, in addition, be in a position to secure
through legislation what it lost on the field of
battle.
These are matters worthy of grave consid-
Grafton, and now is the time to consider them.
-GCincinnati Gazette
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

ONE TIME Henry Ward Beecher
went down to Boston to lecture. In
the afternoon he went into q barber's
shop of great tone and refinement to
be shaved. The barber was garru.
lous little fellow who entertained Mr..
Beecher, while he lathered his face,
with intellectual conversation. He
asked, Are you going to the lecture
this EVENING" Going to the lecturer
oh Mr.. Beecher replied, wearily, as a
man who didn't take much stock in
lectures, Il don't know; who's going to
Lecturer Why the amazed barber
exclaimed, Rev. Henry Ward Beech>
OF; Rev. Henry Ward Beecber, of
Brooklyn. Going to lecture tonight
in Music Hail. Mr.. Beecher reused
up little with an air of Indifferent
interest. oh, WE'LL he said, III he is
going to lecture, guess I'll have to
CO. Got your tickets?' the barber
ratified on. 'Got your tickels?' 'No,'
Mr.. Beecher replied. Il have no tick
et.' The barber laughed merrily.
sHa, ha, ha,' he shouted. You'll have
to stand up; you'll have to stand upi
Seats all gone two days ago; you'll
have stand up.' We'll, now,' said Mr..
Beecher. with an air of grave vexa-
tion, do you know, that is Just my
luck? 1 was in Brooklyn last Sunday,
and went over to Plymouth Church
twice to hear that fellow preach, morn.
ing and evening, and both times had
to stood up oil through the sermOn.'
And as he went away the still unen
lightened barber laughed at the man
who would have to stand up at Mr..
Reecher's lecture.-BurlingtOn Hawk
eve
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The Shining Little House.
By Il. II.


1t hung in the sun, the little house,
1t huLg in the sun, and shone;
And through the walls could hear his Voict
Who had it all for bis own.
The walls were of wire, as bright as gold,
Wrought in pretty design;
The spaces between for windows served,
And the floor was clean and fine.
There was plenty, too, to eat and drink,
In this little house that shone;
A lucky thing, to be snre, you'd say,
A house like this for ones own!
But the door was shut, and locked all tight,
The key was on the outside;
The one who was in could not get out
No matter how much he tried.
Twas only prison after all,
This bright little house that shone;
All, we would not like house like that,
No matter if 'twere our ownl
And yet, through the walls heard the voice
Of the one that who lived inside;
To warble sweeter song each day,
1t did seem as if he tried.
To open the door, he never sought,
Nor futtered in idle srife;
He ate and he draIk, and slept, and sang,
And made the best of his life.
And l, to myself, said every day,
AS his cherry song heard,
There's lesson for US in every note
Of that little prisoned bird.
We all of US live life like his,
We are walled on every side,
We all long TO do hundred things,
Which we could not if we tried.
We can spend our strength all foolishly
In discontented strife;
Or we can be wise, and laugh and sing,
And make the best of our life.
ST Nicholas for February
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13
Kind Inquiries.

Cousin Kate was sweet, wide awake
beauty of about seventeen, and she
took it into her head to go down on
Long Island to see some relations of
hers who had the mifortuns to live
there. Among those relations there
chanced to be young swain who had
seen Kate on q previous occesion, and
seeing, fell deeply in love with her.
He called at the house on the evening
of her arrival, and she met him on the
piazza where she was enjoying the
evening air in company with two or
three of her friends.
The poor fellow was 80 bashful that
he could not find his tongue for some
time. At length he stammereG out:
"HOw's your mother"
"Quite well, thank you."
Another silence on the part of Josh.
during which Kate and her friends did
the best they could to relieve the mo-
notony. After waiting about fifteen
minutes for him to commence to make
himself agreeable, he. again broke the
spell by l.i HI .f.-i
"How's your father?" which was an
swered much In the same manner as
the first one, and then followed anoth
er silence like the other.
"HOw's your father and mother?''
sgain put in the bashful lover.
"Quite well, both of them" This
was followed by change of glances
and suppressed smile.
This lasted some ten minutes more,
during which Josh was fidgeting in his
seat. stroking his Sunday hat. But at
length came
'How's your parents?"
This produced an explosion that
made the woods ring.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13


The Southern bulldozers make haste to con
mittee has established the truth of the charge.
against them. The leading bulldozing organ
of South Carolina labors through three col
umns to show that the Democrats have not
sucha bad case after all, and. then in fervid
peroration upsets all its work by turning bul-
ly, and thus virtually confessing judgement.
1t declares that "with the negro, without him
as class, the Democracy, white and colored,
will retain possession of the State;" that ''for
peace, for security, and for the conservation
of their political rights, the white people
of South Carolina have fought before, and
they will not abandon the fight now that the
ballot is more effective than the bullet
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13
Cr0n ReDOrt.

: WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-An important cir
cular has been prepared at the Agricultural
Department, and win be issued in few days,
reviewing the condition Of crops and live
stock for the past year. The report states
that the crop of winter wheat shows slight
increase over last year in the New England
States, the Gulf States and the States north of
the Ohio river. In Illinois the increase is
especially large, there being an extensive
change from spring to fall sowing. West Of
the Mississippi the average Of winter wheat
has been reduced from that of last season.
The condition Of crops on the LIST Of January
was not promising. The area OF winter rye
has fallen eh abou: l per cent. The crop Of
corn for 1878 was l. Ell, ,O00, 900 bushels, an
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13
The RObesOn Case.

A Washington special to the Cincinnati
Gazette CT Friday, says that ex-Secretary
Robeson has practically triumphed over the
Democrats in the Robson committee, and to-
day Whitthorne, who has been pursuing Rob.
eson for four years with the hope of having
criminal proceedings commenced against him
on account of alleged maladministration while
Secretary of the Navy, on his own motion
Withdrew from his report the feature recon-
mending criminal prosecution. had this not
been done, it would have been impossible to
get majority of Democrats to sign it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13
Billings Sayings.

Ihsv finally cum to the konklushun
that if kant prove thing without
betting 5 dollars on it, the thing haz
got dredphull weak spot sumwhare.
Q.-Will you pleze define an Entru.
zIas,? A. An Enthusiast iz party
who beleaves about times az mutch
az he kan prove, and who can prove
about 4 times az mutch az ennyboddy
else beleaves.
Yung man, set down and keep still,
yu will hav plenty Of chances to make
q phool of yureselt before yu die.
Take all the phools out ov this
world, and thare wouldn't be emmy
pbun nor profit living 1t 1t.
The best thing knO ov liz fust rate
wife, and the next best thing Ia SEX
ond rate one.
Hunting for happiness IL like hunt
ing for hens eggs away under the
barn, after yu hav found them, haff
the time yu find they are added.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

IT is interesting to know tha in the Con-
necticut town of Norwich, where the sale Of
alcoholic liquor as beverage is forbidden,
Jamaica ginger is becoming fayorite triple.
A newspaper of that city remarks that ''as
the extract has double the alcoholic strength
of ordinary whisky, and as it is medicine in
constant demand, and kept by all druggists, it
makes very satisfactory substitute for the
habitual old topper, who is bound to get drunk
on something" In one drug store the sales of
Jamaica ginger have increased three-fold since
the no-license law went into effect. The ar
rests for drunkenness, however, during two
months of prohibition, have been one-half less
than they were during the two corredsondiDg
months of 1877, when license prevailed. %
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

D. Mr.. RICHARD d. GREGG, who is known to
fame in a limited way as the father of the
Greenback party in Indiana, has no faith in a
nation of Democrats and Greenbackers in
$780, He says all prospect for such union is
destroyed by the unmistakable intention of
the Democrats to play into the hands of the
money power. His party has been looking
about for candidate of its own in 1880, and
after confidential interview with the vener:
able Rise-up William Allen, is satisfied that
hc is available for the position. he declares
that the Greepbackers have no faith in Thur
man. since they believe he is trying to ride
two horses. Mr.. Gregg undoubtedly repre-
sents the sentiments of his party correctly.
The noble purpose of that organization is to
further rupture the Democratic party. New
York Tribune. &
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

THE Tilden Bureau is clearly enough food
ing the South again with editorial pabulum.
The contributions do not appear in the more
prominent journals of the South, but in the
more obscure and rural ones. In those the
tune about Tilden being the only man who
can carry New-York State is ground out with
great persistency. 1t is varied with remarks
about the folly Of nominating Western infa-
zionist, and thus losing all the Eastern and
Middle States. Tilden's denomination by &C
clsmation is already predicted, and if the
South makes up its mind to have him again,
of course the party will have to bow in acqui-
escence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

THE value of the iron and steel exported
from Pennsylvania last year is estimated at
$4,000, 900. OF this about 81, ,OO0, 900 was di.
rectly from establishments in Philadelphia,
half a million from neighboring towns, and
the balance from Pittsburgh and the interior
of the State. In addition to this there were
probably million and half of shipments
abroad from Pennsylvania that went through
other ports. The largest exports were in To-
comotives, machinery and iron coming West
in weight.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

increase OF q, ,000, 900 bushels from 1877, but
the average price at which IT was sold was
about five cents cheaper per bushel than in
1877, thus reducing the aggregate market
value of the crop about S44,OO0,OOo. The
crop of wheat in 1873 was greater than that
of 1877, by 57,0OO,OOO bushels, but the aver
age price at which it was sold was thirty
cents per bushel lower, 50 that the aggregate
market value of the crop was less than that Of
1877 by about $50, 900. The high price
of wheat in 1877 was owing to the war in
Europe. In 1878 90, 0O0 900 bushels, or one
fourth of the entire crop of wheat, was ex-
ported.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13
Ground Hogs Day.

Old Probs' spectacles only enable Us
to peer "a hours into the weather, but
mankind have u universal wish to look
further, and for ages have pinned faith
on eertsin days OF the year which are
supposed to have prophetic power to
them, so that by using our eyes and an
almanac we may learn what the com.
ing year will bring "of good or evil
luck, Of plaques, of deaths or seasons
quality" One of these days whose
prophecy from time immemorial has
been held In great veneration on Feb.
2, called among rs Ground Hogs Day,
in Roman Catholic countries Candle
mas, and In the calendars of the Re
formed churches "the Day OF the Puri-
fcation," being supposed to be that
day when the mother of our Lord
presented herself in the Temple forty
days after His birth to bring in her
poor offering Of . poir Of turtle doves
or pigeons. From the earliest times
Candlemas Day has been held to fore
tell the duration Of winter. In Ger
many 1t is the badger that peeps out
Of his hole upon Candlemas, and II the
ground be white with snow and the
day overcast, he walks abroad; but If
the sunshine greets his eyes, he lies
snug in his hiding place, like our own
ground hog or marmot. In Norway
the bear does the same thing. There
is a German proverb that q shepherd
would rather see wolfin his fold than
the sun on Csndlemas. In the eastern
counties Of England there is q proverb
that shepherd would rather see his
wife in her grave than bright sunshine
at Candlemas, and they have embaIm'
ed their Candlemas prophecy in a rude
rhyme:
AS far as the sun shines in on Candlemas Day
So far will the snow blow in afore next May.
In 1855 an English gentleman deter.
mined to verify this representation.
That year there was bright and sun.
ny Candlenas. ''On the following
evening"" he says, "about ten O'Clock
a thaw suddenly commenced, but on
the evening of the 9Th frost again set
in, with Increased intensity, which
continued uninterruptedly to Feb. "A,
the ice in the ponds ranging from
inches to foot in thickness" In the
islands off the coast of Scotland sheaf
of oats is dressed up in wOman's
clothes the night before Candlemas.
This is laid, with a big club by its side,
in sort Of cradle. Next morning IL
the mark of the club be found in the
ashes on the hearth, it Is held presage
Of good harvest and healthy year.
The predictions of Candlemas may be
said to be governed by q rule of contra
ry, as the old rhyme assures Us:
If Candlemas Day be dry and fair
The half Of winters to eome-or mair.
II Candlemas Day be wet or foul
The half of winters gone at Yule.
Or, as a more modern version puts IL:
If Candlemas Day is fair and bright
Winter viii have another fight;
But if it be dark, with clouds and rain,
Winter il gone and won't come again.
AS there were plenty of bright sun.
shine yesterday, we may expect, IL
there be truth in ancient proverbs, that
ulsters and seaiskins and arctic over.
shoes will be in use for a long time to
come.-Balt. American, Sd inst.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

TIE infamous gerrymander Of Ohio last
spring is justified by Senator Thurman on the
ground that it saved the organization of the
National House to the Democracy and Sc
cured the party should the next Presidential
choice fall into that body. The outcome, he
says, proves that it was a "wise political
move, and the old man grows quite gleeful
as he contemplates the fruits of the theft.
There is no higher law in the mind of great
Democratic statesman than party expediency.
Gin. GaZ.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

THESE Southern speeches mean that the
South, while pretending to abandon the war
claims, will press heavy subsidies for so-called
improvement schemes, and will demand
Northern Democratic corporations as the
price of Democratic solidity and fidelity
rAlbany Evening Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

UEDER Republican rule Maine has always
maintained the highest credit; but now, under
Democratic Governor and q Greenback
House, there is trouble, and proposition has
been presented to meet the existing deficiency
by drawing on the sinking fund. 1t is well to
keep these things in mind.-[ Albany Evening
Tnurnal
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belmont CHRONICLE
ST. CLAIRSVILLE OHIO.
THURSDAY. FEB. Is, 1879.

TIE Potter investigation was begun for the
purpose of proving that the election of Presi-
dent Hayes was not legal. After almost two
years of its existence it is well to revert to
this, simply for the purpose of refreshing the
public mind regarding nearly. forgotten fact.