8 OnnintEgTATBMB!T. to...,!, ud I' Friace for Tor Ccwv" tt O""""10" "- still another way of matdnir a llvini? u. -.ii hv conic speculation about Mudume 5.?.m notorlo"" woman who resi.le in the Ir nart or Fifth avenue, in one of its finest fcalance lor a rainy day out ot procnriU(f. ubortlona for ladln of the more refined circles ot inr New York aociety. It 1s naid that Madame Retcli baa m the bncement of her e.tabllsh nt a lftrfre furnace, which an ill-behaved aer Tant sir) bas had the temerity to say "must be lied lor burrnna r,e-boin bab.os." as she never Jaw lt used lor anything else. This must be to avert the rude necessity of hav.ug children's fun"aU Pas-inR down Filth avenue and Its adiaccnts. It is unfashionable and counted common for respectable ladles to Have babies bov more, and when they lall into Madame Bestoll s hands lor treatment, the mere kurnine of the ottprlns: Is but a small atonement for human nature lo make for the horrid intrusion which very Juvenile young sters are puiUy of In these latter days. I tin aeine that babies hereatter to beb rn, if they would avert the calamity that nuclit bo their late if there is the slightest tendency to their beine born in Fifth avenue, had better study the manner in which Tonsey came to irrist without encountering the dancers incident to lofty birth. It is much better to be ''raised" or to ''prow" than to be martyred for the sake of dcciety, in a red-hot furnace. Thut Madame is frightened about this statement, 13 apparent by her rushinir Into pnut in a card com Dianine of counsel who defended a poor servant pul charged with stealinr some towels asking questions about things which were not towels. The Madame will rind her houee the subject of a very close scrutiny within, a lew days. The sanitary department of the Board ot Health Is gome to search for the ter rible lurnace. If the Madame is guilty of any such business as bas been intimated, she must have been doine it without the licence usually accorded to bone-dust people and lat-boilers. It may be Interesting to know that this not very fascinating looking person, Madame Restell, was originally a tailoress, but not satisfied with tnat slow method ol earning a livelihood, she went to Paris to acquaint lieiscK with the "baby business." and havicg become thoroughly in doctrinated into the French system, returned to fame and fortune. Her husband is a Dr. Mau rlceau, alias Lohman, who, like his illustrious wife, advertises in the HeraUL He was loruierly a tailor. The Madame's Btaiden name was Caroline Lohman. Mr. Harris, our Kegtstcr General, is accusLomed to charge that certain foul air, or some other incongruous gas of the zymotic persuasion, "destroys" bo many chil dren, and people smile at the Doctor's odium; but what will they say when they are told of our vital statistics" report some of these weeks, that a number of new-born babies have been dfliToyedby the consuming fire of a furnace in 1 With avenue basement? Will the fact that such a den is near the new cathedral that is to be, help it to respectability ? Think ot the re spectable society sutainiiiff such an institution such a practice ! Think of women who know no better than to turn up their noses at any urchin who dares to call tliem "mother," or "mamma," or anything of a maternal kind, "beiore people 1" Race Between a Locomotive tud a Prai rie Fire. George W. Bnngay, who recently witnessed a prairie fir, writing to the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, says of it: About seven o'clock at night I took passage on the Dixon Air Line Railroad. The train had proceeded but a tew miles from the city of Chicago when we overtook a fire on the prairie. It was a bitter night; the wiud was blowing hard, and the snow was falling, but the tall, stitf dry grass of the rirairie stood high above the lulu Slieel bi snow on tub fW".!: ani1 tne flames spread with great rapidity. There Was a broad niarain between or track and the river ol Are that swept before the wiud. Tho Ude oi flame wai about half a mile in lenRth, and now and then it m:ide such rapid proeiess it seemed to keep pace with the train, ft was a picturesque aud graiid race between the ore steeds ot the prairie and the iron horse. The torn er has no delays to ronke at stations, side tracks, and crossings: the latter had the advantage of human bramu to do its thinking and pilot it. Ou, on they sped through the thick aud stormy nieht. One crackling and whispering in the wind, scaring and driving away every living thing in its path; the other neighing and pressing forwards with a tread which shook the ground and made the light in the nearest windows quiver like aspen leaves. One flared its banner of flame in the bky, and tosfced Its torches upon the crisp air, warning of approaching danger and liuht in which to escape to a safe retreat; the other, with its mane of smoke and breath of sparks, and its eye in its forehead, dashed along in a "meteoric shower" ot sparks. It was "poetry in motion" ringing with the rhythm of progress, whose sound is music married to the couplet of iron, in the iron epic of an advancing age. Our locomotive pained the race at la9t, and we left the fiery cavalry m me ai-siance, uguuug wiiu me wiuu and the snow, and leapine over the creeks and ponds in its course making bonfires of the lone haystacks that stood, like Lot's wile, within the reach ot its innumciable spears of 11 a me. Before it was borne a crimson flag that lit up the heavens; behind it was a charred and blackened wake of cinders. Whether it swept away any human habitations in its path I cannot say; but it was a most attractive sight, and so fail of suggestion I have been tempted to give a brief account of it. The Crop Report. The December report of the Agricultural De partment, just published, contains a variety of important matter, and facts, and suggestions con cerning Southern industry and resources. A history of cotton insects, by practical entomolo gists, besides valuable statistics from foreign ollicial sources, are among its interesting mut ter. The Commissioner represents that the corn crop ot the States, exclusive of eleven Southern and the Pacific States, was estimated for 18U5 in round numbers at 704,000,000 bushels. The same States in yielded an estimated pro duct ol 679,000,000 a decline of 25,000,000 bushels in quantity ; a deficiency in quality equivalent to 75,000,600 more, making a dill'erence in the feeding value of the crop ot 100,000,000 bushels between this and the previous year. In regard to the cotton crop, it is believed that the follow ing table, carefully prepared, gives the totul number of bales manufactured during the past year: ijnrth Carolina. ... 01 (HO Louisiana 109,000 south Carolina. . . .102 ( 00 i'oxaa 800 000 (ieomia 206,000 Florida 80 000 Arkaisaa. 182 OIK) leniiefs.ie 148.000 Alabama 220 OOOOtner States 87 000 Miesiftuppi 270,000 Total 1,750,000 The Amusement of New York. Recently we gave a statement of the receipts at the principal places of amusement in this city lor eleven months of last year, and which amounted in the apgreeate to $1,36(1,608. To this we now add the New Kork Circu9, $219,052; Van Amburgh's Menagerie (cieht months), $217,31)0; Academy of Music (four mouths), $120,151; Sun Vrnnciseo Minstrels (nine months), $$9,258; liroadway Theatre (eiirht months), $72,G35; Old Bowery (eieht mouths), $69,875; Fifth Avenue Opera House (three months). $10,04G making a errand aegregate of $2,209,867 in the eleven months of last year. On this basis we estimate the total amount expended for amusements in this city last year at $2,401,621 nearly two and a half million dollars. It will be seen thkt the figures are still incom plete. Barnum's Museum omits returns for two months; Academy of Music, ono mouth; San Francisco Minsttels, two month" j Broadway Theatre, one mouth; which, when made, will probably swell tie aggregate to over two and a half million dollars. JVVto York Commercial AdKertiser. -lie Woret las a tax of gout. Punch. THE DAILY EVENING TBLEGRAril.PBILADELPIIIA, SATURDAY, DRY GOODS. COTTON GOODS. GREAT DECLINE IN PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. NEW YORK MILLS, WAMSUTTA, VVILLUMSV1LLE, AMOSKKAO, HOUSEKEEPER, WIDE SHEETINGS, 13- HUGUENOT, 10-4 UTICA, 10-4 WALT1HM, PILLOW MUSLINS, 5- WALTHAM, 5-4 XJTICA, S-4 NASHUA, 3-4 WAMSUTTA, By the Piece at Wholesale Prices. J. C. STRAWBIUDGE & CO. CHEAP PANT STUFFS. LATE IN SEASON PRICES LOW. ELEGANT HEAVY CASSIUEaES, $125. FINE HEAVY PLAIN CAS8IMEBES, $125. NEW STYLES FANCYJCASSME&ES, $125. ALL-WOOL GC0D3 FOB BOYS, $100. VERY FINE THICK GOODS, $100.1 GOOD ALL-WOOL CASSIMERES, $100. J. C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO. LADIES' CLOTHS. GREAT REDUCTION. FROSTED BEAVERS. VELVET BEAVERS. , . TRICOT BEAVERS. CHINCHILLA BEAVERS. FINE OVERCOATINGS. BROWX MOSCOW BEAVERS. BLUE MOSCO W ITE A VERS. BLACK CASTOR BEAVERS. J, C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO. EIGHTH AND MARKET STS. 1 llfawrp LINEN STORE. 828 ARCH STREET. Tine Table Cloths. Pine Napkins aud Doylie?. Extra Large Table Cloths. Napkins to Match. ITWABD3 OF 200 PIECtS HeavvlPower-Loom Table Linen, TROM 75 CENTS PER YABD. THE LARGEST LINEN STOCK IN THE CITY, IlflsiotM Selling at Importer'. Prices. DRY GOODS. M A R K E T MUSLINS Chep enough to induce prudent buyers to par. chace. The greatest decline Is in BLEACHED, ol which we have bought at the lowest point abont 20,000 YARDS REW YORK MILLS, WAMSUTTA, WILLIAMSVILLE, SEMPER IDEM, AMOSKEACt A, ' "WHITNEY, ETC. ETC. 7000 YARDS UNBLEACHED MUSLINS, FB0M :5 TO 25 CENTS. 10-4 XJTICA SHEETINGS. 10- 4 WALT II AM SHEETINGS. 11- 4 UIWOENOT SHEBriNGS. 13-4 IIUCiUKMOT SIIEETIHGtS. PILLOW MUSLINS, EVEHY WIDTH AND WEIGHT, All at Wholesale Prices BT THE PIECE. 12tutbs4p RABIES & WARNER, No. 229 North N1KUI Street, AOV. JtAtiC. Waltnam Pillow-cabe Muslin, 2C couts. 6-4 Bleached Muelin, oaUd extra lieavy, 26 ceoUt 10-4 Dtica Bleached fcsbeeting, f cents. - Ono bale wide Doinet Flannel, 8 1 cents. One bale all-wool Flannol, 33 cents. Beet yard-wide Bleached Uuelin, 25 cert. Table Linens, lrom 60 cents to 81. Black Alpacas, 46, 60, 66, 62c. to f 1. 2000 yards selected styles of Ca icoes. Canton Flannels, 20, 22, 23, 25,28c , etc. All-wool Flannels, 83, 87!, 40, 46, 60c, etc. Superfine 7rd wide Shaker Flannel, 00 ceDtg. Bed and Grey Twilled Flannels. 6'76 large size ail-wcol B;ankete. Uiibleacled Mnslins, bett makes, all widiliB. Itnseia Crash, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20c, etc. Bargains In Linen Towel, 182. 26 and 80 cents. Balmoial Skirts, tl 75 over 60 dozen sold. Ladies' Merino Vete at reduced pricee, etc. PARIES A WAHNEIt, 9 26J1 Ho. B9 Wortb MSI 11 Street, above Race. 1) EP O T FOR FU11N1SHINU DK 00DS. A CARD. SHEPPARD,VAN HARLINQEN&ARRISON, No. 1008 CIIESNUT Street, Whose eatabHsument for the ealeol HOSSE-FURBISHING DRY GO0D8 Is nneqnalled in the fxtcit and varlf ty of Us assort ment, be 10 annouuee to HOLbEKEEPKUS EESKff 1 - O 1 HEIit BcPPLlf, ot persona About to jurniab, that they are now receiving their SPRING ASSORTMENT OP Fresh Linen, Cotton, and Woollen Gaoi 8 FOB HOC BEHOLD fJE. BDCB AS LINEN SHEETINGS, COTTON HBEEm G9, PILLOW LINENS, PILLOW MCBLIS8, TABLE-CLOTHS, TABLE LlJit' N8, L-AMA8K. NAPKIN 8, BUKDEREO TOWELS, TOWJCLLKNCH, ViUILTU, BLANKETS. Table and Embroidered Piano and Table Covers, And every other article suitable lor a well-ordered honaehold. 9 14 thstuiimrp MO. 1024 (.UEsftCT tltrect. In Anttclpatlou of Removal to N. W. Corner ELEVENTH and CHI8NTJT, White Goods, Laoes and Lace Gool, Handkerchiefs, Ladies and Geo if, every variety. Linen collars and' Cuil, Veil, Scarfs, Neck lies, Etc., Embracing Noveltlea Adapted for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, AT REDUCED PRICES. C. M. NEEDLED, KK1RT8. .QQ I L a TKH T 6T TLK , JU8T OVT O JlO Jds round. 1KAlL, lor the Brawfug-noui. Tbee Bklria are ta every way the most desirable that we have hereto ore otluiud to ihe pub lei ataTi comuleta llnea of Lad.e.1, AJisHea', aud I biuirenV B Sud 'i'raU Hoop Hklrta Iron, to 4 y.,0. m 5li"m" 'r5Sc4 W every length, all of ' our own make," wuoieaaie and letail, and warranted to alve natii tacUon Conatantlv on tiau4 low-priced New York rnuta Rklrta Plain nd Trail, j.p,Dm. 90 eenh" 28 sp?lngs, 1 ) sprluga, fl lO) and 40 aprtnga l-is. i hklrta made to older, aliered. and repaired Call ot n-ud lor Circular ol atvle, ixt ,u'a nrtce 4auDfttCtoryandHttlerooma auopriw ISO. m AUC'H treet, 18 m WILLI 4 M T. BOPK1N8. st is o ninth, zy DBY GOODS, pEICE & WOOD, N. W. Corner EIGHTH and FILBERT, HAVE JTJ8T OPENED One bale ef Domtt Flannels, 814 cents ; same goods as have been sellmc at 40 crnti Good All-wool Flannels, 03, 37 J, 40, anrl 60o, Tard-wide all-wool Shaker Klanacls, 58, 60 and 6? centa. 7 8 and 4-1 Ballardvale Flannels. Best quality Shirt, D(? Flannels. MUSLINil MUSLINS! Good yard-wide Bleached Munlins, 20, 23, 2C,and 28 cents. M rillow cass MuRllos, 20 28, SG eents. 8-4, 9 4, and 10-1 (heeling Munltnn. ' Yard-wide Cnbieacbod Mu-lins, 19, 28, and 26 cent. - Best Quality American rriutA, 182 cents. A Rood assortment of Table Lincnn, Uapkins and Towels. Buasia Crash, 12, 14, 1C, 18, 10, and 20 cents. Scotch Diaper by the piece or yard. Linen Bird-eye, for Aprons. Beet makes Shirting Linens. WHITE O0OUS1 WHITE GOODS 1 Cambrics, Jaconets, Samsook, Victoria Lawn, and Swiss MuMins. . . A cheap lot of l'laid Muslins. Ladies' and Gents' Linen Cambrio Odkts. Ladies' Hemstitched Hakls,oi Bertraad Mil cent's make, at 40, 44, 47, 60, 68 60, 76, 87c, aad 1. Gents' Hemstitched Udkts., 60c. to 1. 10 22 A large aMortment ol' Cloth Oioves, very cheap. PRICE & WOOD, N. W. CORNER EIGHTH AND FILBERT. NEW PUBLICATIONS. NEW 33 0 & k s. J. B.LIPPINCOTT& CO., 2708. 715 and 717 MARKET Street, PHILADELPHIA, HAVE JUST PUBLISHED, ID ALIA. A new novel by "fnlfla." antbor oi "Stiathmore," ctoendoe," "Ginvillt do VlgLe," etc. 12wo. ROBERT SEVERNE. . Bis lienild snd his Enemies. A novel By William . A. Hammond, lima. ELEMENTS OP ART-CRITICISM. A Text Book for Schools and colleges, and a hand book ior HOiSieuri and artlstB. By U W. bumson, U. !.. Pienirient oi Colombian oollefce, Wasblagun, it. O Crown 8vo. . , CAMERON HAI.li. A Story of the OiU War By M. A. C, author of - ine uit.e ii-piBcopaiiaiii), -Degie .ueiviue, etc. 12mo. NEARLY READY. OLD SIR HOCGLAB. By Hon Mrs. Norton. TJNDB.R 1 WO FLAG8. B"unlua" MIMUiRS Of TRfc CNFI)K11ATE WiB COR INDLPa NLFiOK. By Uer )g Vou ito.'tko, laia Curat oi Maft 10 GtneralJ li. B. Stuart. JDAXJJ'iy 0loui.8. J. B. LlPPINCOTT & CO., Nob. 713 and 717 MARKET Street, 19wls3t PHILADELPHIA. CURTAINS, SHADES, ETC. ftELUCED PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES KELTY, CARRINGTOiN & CO., 2fo. 723 CHESNUT Street, B kfe constantly in frtocfr. for retail city oncountiy trad, their CELEBRATED WINDOW SHADES MASUFACIURtD BY THEM ONLY. They are also Sole Agents tor the KEI.F-ADJUSTINQ 8PK1SO B'lXXUHEfl far Shades. The beat fixtures In the world. Also, CURTAIN MATERIALS and FUBNITTJRE COVERINGS, in great vailetj. Lace, iiuslln, and Nottingham Curtains, Piano and Tabie Lovers, tbe largest and finest stock In the city. Lace Cumins cleaned and mended. White inland Hnades calendered. 10 10 tuths3m GROCERIES, ETC. JNEW CROP JAPANESE TEA, OF JBE FJNFS2 QUALITY, FOB BALE BY JAMES R. WEBB, EIQHTB and WALNUT Streets. en N E W F H TJ I T. Crown, Basket, La: Bunch, Seedless, and Sultana Balstns. Cnirtnts, Citron, Prunes, Figs, Havana Oianges, etc et. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, . DEALER IN FINE GROCERIES, 11 7rp .Cornel ELEVENTH and VINE Sw, GW. WARNER, No. 1530 AND 1532 RIDGE Avenue, below Sixteenth Street. KEYSTONE FLOUR STOBB Choice Brands of Family and Bakers' Flour, Corn Meal, Oat Weal, Buckwheat and Eye Flonr Corn, Oats, and Mill Feed oi every description,' sent to all Pkrts ol the city Free of Charge. ri2191tnrp STATIONERY. ECKSTEIN, MAGLE & CO., No. 030 ARCH Street, PHILADELPHIA. F1IIST-CI.ASS STATIONERY, Adapted to mercantile and general bus ne w pur poses, embracing every style ana variety oi Note, Litter, Foolscap, and Quadrille Papers, ENVELOPES Ot all sizes and qualities, toirethor with EVERT AKilCLttj nauauy jouuq in a weu-appoiuia eta tionerv Warehouse. Both tho HCtlve members of the firm hayinr had a nuuibor o( years experience In the bouse of J. B. Lippmcott & Co , tool cuntldont ot their ability to runner enure saiiBiaciion to au wuu uusire iu iur chase. ENVELOPES HADE TO OBDEB. Orders Taken for Blink Books of every description. PBINTINfapf all kinds, in every stylo, done the neatest ana most expeditious manner. KDWIN M. ICK8TK1N, JOHN B. MAULa. KBNKX P. MOORB. UO tbstuSt ECKSTEIN, NACIE A. CO. JANUARY 12, 18C7. LIFE ASSURANCE EVEEY OHE IHSUEIN G NOW WILL TA11TICIPATE IN tTIIE , LARGE DIVIDEND TO DB DECLARED IN FEBRUARY BY T H E EQU I TAB L E i LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. This Dividend may be used as CASH IN PAYMENT OF THE NEXT ANNUAL PREMIUM, and on every CASH DIVIDEND, reducing the payments each year until they ceascy when NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE REQUIRED, BUT THE ANNUAL DIVIDENDS CONTINUE DURING LIFE, MAKING THE POLICY A SOURCE OF INCOME. The rates for this kind of Policy (Life) ARE AS LOW AS OTHER FIR9T-CLASS COMPA- N1ES, thereby giving the Assured the LOWEST RATE at which insur ance can be procured, with all the advantages of a "PAID-UP' or NON FORFEITURE POLICY, for which some other Companies charge double rates. t . 1 .liU.i i. - ..1, "I liLL.Il ,i . . It snoum oe ooecrveu mat must uuier vsumpiiuius wuanoiu mo payment ' of their Dividends UNTIL FOUR OR FIVE FULL ANNUAL PRE---. MIUMS ARE PAID, although professing to DECLARE DIVIDENDS ANNUALLY. To pertons proposing to ASSURE THELU LIVES, we invite investi gation before taking out Policies elsewhere, as the great advantages offered the INJURED BY THIS SOCIETY are believed to be unequalled. CASH ASSETS OVER $3,000,000. ANNUAL CASH INCOME OVER $2,000,000. rarely Mutual, (lie Entire Profits Exclusively, by the ANNUAL CASH DIVIDENDS. Amount of New iuslnaa for the Year Endtug November 1, 18CA, $26,347,000. Four other Companies were organized about the same time with the- hQUlTAULlf, and their combined or $396,294 less than that of this Society, while their total disbursements, IXiVAUlil Al lUOOVO KfJ V4 V IA. lit (IjII VA. VAJJLHUVOj wwuu villi VJf AA y jj VI VCUU UX their total income, whilst the EQUITA.CLE was less than twenty-six per " cent. At the date of the organization eighteen American Life Insurance Companies in the field, some of them. having commenced bus incss nearly having been organized later than 1853; .1 . ci-.r.i. ii. : i .1 .!: year oi me oocieiY, it i uuuuuy of the eighteen Companies above alluded to, while its percentage of dis bursements to cash income is less than Our next dividend will be declared after, and may be used in any of tho following ways: As cash in payment of premium for the permanent increase of the sum assured for the in crease of the sum assured for one year or a term of years for the perma nent reduction of tho premium for the reduction of the number of years in which premiums are to be paid. . THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY ia an institution which la emi nently entitled to the iublic confidence and consideration. It possesses features peculiar to itself, which belong to no other association la this country engaged in the business of Life Insurance, and which are so favorable to the assured that they cannot fail, in the opinion of the unders igned, to commend the Society in a peculiar manner to the attention and consideration of the public : . NEW A. &. A. LAWBENCE, II. II. CLAFLIX Sb CO,, S. B. CIIITT1SJIDEN & CO., CHAItL.ES J. MARTIK, UTI1BOP, IAJDISGTOJI &, CO IIEMIY J RAlMOJiD, GEORGE Tt HOPE, PHILADELPHIA. GEORGE H. STUART, D, & C. KELLY, WASHINGTON BUTCHER & SON, EDWIN HALL, &, CO., THOMAS A. BIDDL.E fc CO., WINTHROP, CUNNINGHAM A SON, LEWIS BROTHERS & CO., WOOD & CARY, HOOD, BON BRIGHT 4t, CO., WILLIAM W. HARDING, BLANKS, CIRCULABS, AND FULL INFORMATION FURNISHED BY BETTS & REGISTER, GENERAL AGENTS, No. 432 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 1 19 15 10 CONNIES. succeeding Premium there will be a- Being Divided Among the Assured Terms of the Charter. POLICIES N0N-F0RFEI TABLE.. business tor the year is $5,U50,706, of this Company in 1859, there were- twenty years earlier, and none of them and although this is but the seventh i i : it r uumg n imger- uusiucsa man lourteen that of any of the other four. February 1, 1807, and annually there YORK SIDNEY E. MORSE, JR., IIOPPOCK, GLENN & CO., JOHN A. STEWART, LOW, IIARRI1UAN, DURPEE A CO., JOHN SLADK & CO., HENRY WARD BEECHER, II. C. FAHNESTOCK,
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