Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-08

YELLOW FEvER-DRoTHEB TALMAGE-ENoR-
NOUS FIGURES IN LIFE 1NsURANoE-ALL

YELLOW FEvER-DRoTHER TALMAGE-ENoR-
NOUS FIGURES IN LIFE 1NsURANcE-ALL
SORTS
New YoRK, August 18th, 1879.
The fears of yellow fever which have been
in some measure justified by the occurrence
of isolated cases, both in Brooklyn and New
York, are quite an injury in some quarters in
business point Of view. The quarantine
regulations are very stringent, and the owners
of steamers running to Havana are complain
ing bitterly. They say it costs them $500
extra to load steamer in the stream rs they
are now required to do. At the same time
some people are so anxious to distinguish
themselves, or so reckless on account of their
suferings by hard times, that applications by
the score have been made for the position of
nurses at Memphis and other infected places
down South, mainly by unacclimated persons,
andthe days of news editors of the great daily
newspapers are made burden to them by
reason of the swarms Of correspondents who
are ambitious to write the current history of
the epidemic which, unfortunately for Them
perhaps, docs not seem yet to have arrived
and which we devoutly hope will not arrive,
even for the benefit of our more or less regu-
lar brethren of the quill. The heat has been
quite severe for some days, and while there
seems to be II less average Of sun-strokes for
human victims, the horses have suffered
abnormally, and several have fallen down in
a regular apoplectic way in Broadway every
day
The gyroscopcal Talmage, while absent in
the flesh still exercises the spirits of his
Brooklyn flock and a vast number of outsid-
ers. His movements have, with more or less
reticence, been telegraphed at considerable
length by his shown business managers
in England, and whether true or simply as n
dexterous advertising dodge, it is now assert
ed that he has so charmed the Englishmcn
with the eloquence of his concluding arms
legs, hair, ears and jaw that his own people
will be left to seek some other attraction
Some who profess to know all about il even
go so far as to say the thing was cut and
dried long ago, and that Immediately at the
close of the trial on common fame" Tai
mage and London theatre manager made
terms by cable for three years starring tour
The current number of Harper's Weekly
contains an article on the recent doings Of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York, which embodies some remarkable facts
and figures. 1t shows among other things
that during 1878 the company paid out to the
survivors of its policy holders the enormous
sum of three and half millions of dollars,
and practically accounts for this immense
business by thus explaining the nature of the
institution:
For those who only want insurance it
may be interesting to learn that the Mutual
Life is n compact of individuals all assuring
each other, the new conner and the old being
on one footing. There is no question of stock
or proprietary interest of the stockholders of
a corporation standing up to absorb or con
troll the common interest. The measure Of
that interest has now attained magnitude in
millions, some twenty-five per cent greater
than all the capital of the banks Of the me
tropolis, being in the aggregate eighty-seven
millions of dollars. 1t is the largest financial
corporation known TO exist. Its policies out
standing, securing life insurance, equal in
amount the entire issue of the national bank
currency ahoat."
The constant increase of this incompatible
success is still further accounted for by the
reduction of premium rates which the Mutual
put in force something like n year ago, and
which enables it to give insurance of the
most unquestioned safety at the lowest known
figures
The northern portions of Manhattan Island
are being built up with remarkable rapdity,
and business people generally seem encourag-
Al, IL.
seen the worst Of the results of the panic of
1873, and that we have entered on an era of |
renewed prosperity. What is held to be a |
significant feature, one of the straws which |
show the way the wind blows, is the wonder
full impetus lately given TO immigration. Cul- |
mnating in 1872 it fell of tremendously but |
has started up very brskly now. Mennonites |
from Russia, mostly well supplied with money, |
and Icelanders scarcely less thrifty. have |
just touched our shores, and been whirled |
West by the earliest trains while the bone |
and sinew and brain Of England has for the |
first time riyalled the influx Of Irish and Ger |
mans.
Charges have been preferred against Po-
lice Commissioner the last of the batch re-
Gently removed, for the embezZlement of a |
considerable balance received from policemen |
in payment for uniforms. His friends hold |
that the thing is all rubbish. mere concoo-
ton for political effect. 1t has, however, |
aroused considerable interest, for we are viz |
tuous nowadays in New York, aud it is several |
months at least since we had to haul over the |
Goals for dishonesty any of our public of
ficials.
We are all anxiously looking out for tho |
great Canada balloon, which with its novel |
machinery it is claimed can be navgated with
the precision of an ocean steamship. Our |
own aeronauts Mt Manhattan Beach are at
tracing great deal of attention with their
great captive balloons, and several scientists
of renown have been making experiments in
conjunction with the director Of the enter
prise, Professor King.
John Brady, the oldest printer in America,
and veteran of 1872, who remembered Hor-
ace Greeley when, a raw boy, he applied for
work at the Evening Post, has just been car
red to his long home. The old heroes are
diminishing fast in numbers, and their an
nual feasts at the Sturtevant House are very
pathetic festivities. RADIx.
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