THE DAILY EVENING 11 3 I CITO- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1367. TIME-MEASUREll S. IB TWO FABTB PART If. In 1690 a very remarkable clook was mvla for "le Grand Monarque," whom Bclenoe, m well as literature, It seems, delighted to flatter. Louis was therein represented upon his throne, surrounded by the electors of the Ger man States and the prinoes of Italy, who ad Tanced towards him doing homage, and retired chiming the quarters of the hours with their canes. The klrjgs of Europe did the same, ex cept that they struck the hours instead of the quarters. The maker, Burdeau, advertised his intention of exhibiting this work of art in public, and knowing the stubborn resistance offered to his sovereign by William III, he de termined to make the English monarch's efflgy particularly pliaut, so that when its tnrn came he should show an especial humility- "William, thus compelled, bowed very low indeed; but at the same moment some part of the machinery snapped asunder, and threw "le Grand Monarque' prostrate rom his chair at the feet of the British king. The news of the accident spread In every di rection as an omen; the king was informed of it, and poor Burdeau was confined in the Bastile." Clock-omens, it seems, have not been con fined to the work of this unfortunate French man. "A correspondent of Notes and Queries for March 23, 1SG1, relates the following ac count of a curious omen or coincidence: On Wednesday night, or Thursday morning, at 3 o'clock, the inhabitants of the metropolis were roused by repeated strokes of the new great bell at Westminster, and most persons supposed it was for a death in the royal family. There might have been about twenty slow strokes when it ceased. It proved, however, to be due to some derangement of the clock, for at 4 and 5 o'clock, ten or twelve strokes were struck instead of the proper number. On mentioning this in the morning to a friend, who is deep in London antiquities, he observed that there is an cpinion in the city that anything the matter with St. Paul's great bell is an omen of ill to the royal family; ani Le added: 'I hope the opinion will not extend to the Westminster bell.' This was at 11 on Friday morning. I see by the Times this m'orning that it was not till 1 A. M. the la mented Duchess of Kent was considered in the least danger, and, as you are aware, she ex- rired in less than twenty-four hours. am told the same notion obtains at Windsor." A century after liurdeau's master-pieoe a much more useful work, and one perhaps equally characteristic of the nationality of its maker, was executed far George III by Alex ander Gumming, of Edinburgh, which regis tered the height of the barometer. "This was effected by a circular card, of about two feet In diameter, being made to turn once In a year. The card was divided by radii lines into three hundred and sixty-live divisions, the months and days being marked round the edge, whila the usual range of the barometer was indicated in inches and tenths by circular lines described from the centre. A pencil, with a fine point pressed on the oard by a PriDgi and held by an upright rod floating on the mercury, accurately marked the state of the barometer; the card, being carried forward by the clock, brought each day to the pencil. It wss not even necessary to chnge the oard at the year's end, as a Denoil with a different colored lead would make a distinction between two years. This barometer-oloclr. oost nearly two thousand pounds, and the maker wai allowed a salary of two hundred pounds por annum to keep it in repair." Taking leave of these ingenious complica tlons, we may Bay indeed that in nothing has "man sought out many inventions," or exui- Lited his diligence and patience, more than in the science of clockmaking. Earth, air. fire, and water have been pressed into his aervice lor this purpose the sand or earth clock being worked like the water-clock; the air-clock consisting in the pumping of a bel lows, like those of an organ, the gradual escape of the air regulating me descent of 'a weicht, which carried round the wheels; and the fire-clock being formed upon the prluoi pie of the smoke-jaok, the "wheels being moved by means of a lamp, which also gave - light to the dial; this clock was made to announce the several hours by plaoing at each, a corresponding number of crackers, which were exploded at proper times." This very alarming time-piece was outdone by a cannon-clock . placed in 1832 in the gardens of the Palais Royal. "A burning-glass was fixed over the vent of a cannon, bo that the sun's rays at that moment of its passing the meridian were contracted by the glass on the priming, and the piece was fired; the burning-glass being regulated for this purpose every month." At Greenwich Observatory there is a most ingenious wind clock, which, however, is not a time-measurer, but registers for itself, with pencil and paper, the wayward action of the wind. "Each ' minute and each hour has its written record, without human help or inspection. Once a day only, an assistant comes to put a new blank sheet in the place of that which has been covered by the moving pencils, and the latter is taken away to be bound up in a volume. This book might with truth be let tered, 'The History of the Wind; written by lUeli' an Aeolian Autobiography." The well-known and simple piece of mechanism' called a cuckoo-dock has been the cause of some spiritual mis ' chief. An assortment of them wa3 taken by certain missionaries to the Friendly Islands, the inhabitants of which resolutely refused to attribute them to soienoe; they believed that each contained a spirit which would detect a thief if anvthing were Btolen from their English visitors. When a native was sick, the cuckoo-clock was always Bent for, as being "great medicine." Unfor tunately, however, one of the clocks got out of order, and since the missionaries did not understand how to t et it rightthey fell into contempt, and lost their usefulness. The two moBt curious examples of olock T?rk'T,lpart from iatrieaoy to which Mr. od has introduced us, are the clock-lock and the clock-bed. The former, made by locksmith of Frankfort in lb59, con Bibted of a strong box without any keyhole at all, and which even its owner could not open. Inside was a clock-work, the hand of Which when the box was open, the owner placed at the Lour and minut(J wUim ue ,gaIa , w anted to Lave access to tue interior of the box. The works began to move K ar, . the lid was shut, and Time alone wag the key. The (lock-bed was the invention of a Bohemian in 1858, and was so constructed that a pressure upon it caused a soft and gentle air of Aubur'g to be played, which continued long enough to lull to sleep the moft wakeful. At the head was a clock, the hand of which being placed at the hour that the sleeper wished to rise, ' when the time arrived the bed played a march of Bpontoni's (spontaneously) with drums and cymbals, enough to rouse the Seven Sleepers. For usefulness and accuracy, however, we English may well la proud of our own locks. The great timepieoe of Westrnins'er, which receives Greenwich time by elec tricity, exhibits no sensiblo error in lens than a mouth. Mr. Airy'a last report upon its rate was that the first blow of the hour may be relied on within Ihps than one second a week; which is a seven time3 greater accuracy than was required in the original conditions under which the clock was built. A proportionate part of Mr. Wood's inte resting volume is devoted to the smaller sub ject of watches. The invention of the coiled spring as a motive-power, instead of the weight used in clocks, seems to have taken place in 1477, at Nuremberg, where watches were hrst made, and called, from their oval shape, Nuremberg eggs. In 1530, we find Charles V, in Ins retirement at the monas tery of St. Yute, amusing himself with "poitable clocks;" reflecting: "IIow foolish I was to have sqnandered so much blood and treasure to make men think alike, when I can't even make a few watches keep uniform timel" and good-naturedly observing, when a clumsy monk overthrew them all: "I have been laboring for some time to make these watches go together, and now you have effected it in one instant." This emperor possessed one watch that was made "in the jewel or col let of his ring," so that dlminutiveness of con struction must Lave been rapidly attained to. George III, however, had a repeating watch presented to him (by Arnold of Devereux Court, in the btrand), whose size did not ex ceed that of a silver twopenny pince. "It con tained one hundred and twenty different parts, but altogether weighed not more than five pennyweights, seven grains and three-fourths." For this delicate and exquisite f pecimen of his art, Arnold had to make nearly all the tools used in its manufacture. This tiny watch contained the first ruby cylinder ever made. The king presented Arnold with five hun dred guineas, and when the Emperor of llnssia offered a thousand guineas for a simi lar one, the watchmaker refused to make it,' lest he should depreciate the value of his gift." VV lien uiana oi j. outers necamo mistress oi Ilenry II of France, the courtiers, because sue was a widow, paid ner tne singular com pliment of wearing watches in the shape of skulls and coinns. fair joun dick .Lauder pos sesses a skuu-watcn mat belonged to Alary. Queen of Scots; this is of silver gilt, and or namented with representations of Death be tween the Palace and the Cottage; the Garden of Eden, and the Cruciflxlon; the Holy Family at Bethlehem, eto. The works are as brains in the skull, the hollow of which is filled by a silver bell; the dial-plate being on a flat upon the roof of the mouth. With, reference to tms guastiy subject, Mr. Wood relates that in a French engraving of IboV, Death enters a watch maker's shop, and shows Lis Lour-glass to the roaster, saying: " vais-je bun f" to which the latter answers, "Vous avancez horriblcment." Many persons addicted to the science of watchmaking Beem, indeed, to have been on unusually familiar terms with the King of Terrors; and some have left epitaphs behind them of a very characteristic nature. In the churchyard of Lydford, in Devonshire, ia to be read the following: Here lies In a horizontal position tbe cutside cae of George Koutlcl(?h. watchmaker, whofco abilities lu that line were an honour to his profession. Integrity was the mainspring, and prudence the regulator of all Hie actions of his life; Humane, generous, and liberal, his hand never stopped till he had relloved distress : Bo nicely regulated was bis movements, tli at he never went wrong, except when aet-apoinff bv uconle wild did not know his key: Even then he was easily set right again. He had the art of disposing of his time so well, That his hours glided awny in one continued round of ploHSure and delight, Till an unlucky moment put a. period to his He departed this life November 14, 1802, Aged 67, uonnd up. In hopes of beinn taken in hand by his Maker, . And of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired, ana set-agoing lor the world to come. A much pleasanter compostion in conneo: tion with watches is to be found in the Gen tleman's Magazine for 1809: ON SEEING A FRENCH WATCH BOUND THB KECK OP A BEAUTIFUL TOUNO WOMAN. Mnrk what the gain from foreign land"; Time cunuol now be said (o linger, Allowed to lay his two rude hands, Where others dare not lay a finger. Of course watches could not he made to Imi tate the feats of the Strasburg dock; but in the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg there is a watch which was made by a Russian pea sant, named Kulubin, in the reign of Catherine II, which is sufficiently wonderful. It is about the size of an egg, and contains a representa tion of the tomb of Christ, with the Roman sen tinels. On pressing a spring, the stone is rolled from the tomb, the sentinels fall down, the angels appear, the holy women enter the sepulchre, and the same cnam wnicu is aung in the Greek Church on Kaster Eve is accu rately performed. The most costly and elaborate watch ever produced by Britibh workmen, up to 1844, was made in that year by Hart & Hon, of Cornhill, for the Sultan Abdul MedscUid; the brilliancy of its colors, and exquiaiteness of its pencil ling, seem to have surpassed anything of the kind of foreign manufacture. It struck the hours and quarters by itself, and repeated them with the minutes upon pressing a small gold blide; and the sound, produced by wires instead of a bell, resembled that of a powerful and harmonious cathedral clock. Its price was one thousand two hundred guineas. lie most accurately exact watch is probably Mr. lienson's Chronograph, used for timing the Derby. "It consists of an ordinary quick train lever movement, on a scale suilioiently large to carry the hands for an eight-Inch dial, and with the addition of a long seconds-hand, which traverpes tbe dial, instead of being, as usual, just above the figure VI. The pecu liarity of tbe chronograph consists in this seconds-hand and the mechanism connected with it. The band itself is double, or formed of two distinct hands, one lying over the other. The lower one, at its extreme end, is furnished with a Email cup or reservoir, with a minute orifice at the bottom. The corres ponding extrumity of tbe upper hand is bent over so as to rest exactly over this puncture, and tbe reservoir having been filled with ink of a thickness between ordinary writing fluid and printers' ink, the chronograph is ready for action. The operator, who holds tightly grasped in his hand a stout string cnncted ,iii. nnii-liAnlm peculiar to this iuHtru- .v.t i-.cna . hIhiuIv look-out for the fall of tbe starter's flag. Simultaneously, therefore, with tbe fctait of the race the string he holds is pulled by hhu, and at the same moment the upper Laud dips down through the reeer i Tnrintim i.iu.r lmil laveH a little dot or Bretk of ink upon the dial. This is repeaten as the horses pass the winning-post, so that a laming and indisputable record is afforded by the dots on the dial of the time exact to the ter.tb. of a second which is oocupied in run ning the race. Is an example of the results of tliis liiBtrurueiu'a operations, we may add tbnt it timtd vu Hart and arrival of the IJei by nice in lliiU a : f. Hows: Start, 3 hours, 'M lido., 0 tre.-, anival, 3 hours, 3li uila., 4'J sees duration of rmw, a uiln., 49 sec." To give au idea of the extraordinary divl- jion of labor in this delicate toienco, it was stated in ev idence before a committee of the Home of Commons, that there are one hun dred and two distinct branches of the art of watchmaking, and that the watch-finisher, whose duty it is to put together he scattered parts, is the only one of the hundred and to persons who can work in any other depart ment than his own. The hairspring gives a very curious proof of the value that can be given to a bu all piece of steel by manual labor, lour thousand hair-springs soarccly weigh more than a single ounce, but often cost more than a thousand pounds. "The pendulum-spring of a watch, which governs the vibrations of the balance, costs, at the retail price, twopence, and weighs three- twentieths of a grain; while the retail price of a pound of the best iron, the raw material out oi which fifty thousand such rpnngs are made, is the Bum of twopenoe." Mr. Bennett whose advocacy of female labor in the watch-trade Las rendered him ob noxious to some persons states that he found at rseufchatel, where the bwiss watches are chiefly made, twenty thousand women em ployed upon the more delicate parts of the watch movement. The last part of this very interesting volume is devoted to that perfection of timekeepers, the chronometer, by which is found the longi tude of a ship at sea. Twenty thousand pounds was offered by the British Government for the invention of this instrument, which was awarded to John Harrison in 1705. His chronometer, in the first instanoe, was dis credited on a voyage to Jamaica, smce it dif fered with the chart by a degree and a half, lui u was eventually discovered that it was the chart that was wrong. Of Low accu rately chronometers are made, there are numberless instances; here ia one with which we must conclude. "After several months spent at sea," writes Dr. Arnott, "in a long passage from South . America to Asia, my pocket chronometer, and others on board, announced one morning that a certain point of land was then bearing north from the ship, at a distance of City miles, lu an hour afterwards, when a mist Lad cleared away, the looker-out on the mast gave the joyous call of "Land ahead 1" verifying the reports of the chronometers almost to one mile, after a voyage of thousands or miles, it is allowable at such a moment, with the dangers and uncertainties of ancient navigation before the mind, to exult in con templating what man Las now achieved. Had the rate of the wonderful little instrument in all that time quickened or Blackened ever so slightly, its announcement would have been useless or even worse; but in the night and in the day, in storm and in calm, in heat and in cold, its steady beat went on, keeping exact account of the rolling of the earth and stars; and in the midst of the trackless waves, which retain no mark, it waa always ready to tell its magio tale, indicating the very spot over the globe over which it had arrived.' Among the relics of the Franklin expedition brought home from the Arctlo regions by Mo Clintock waa a pocket-chronometer in excel lent preservation; it Lad stopped at 4 o'clock. The owner probably had done with Time ere that. Chambers' Journal. FURS. 1867. FALL AUD WINTER. 1867 FUR HOUSE, (Established In 1318.) The undersigned Invite the special attention of the Ladles to their largo stock ot ITUKH, oouslstlus ol tVlufTs, Tippets, Collars, Etc.. IN KUbBlAN BABLK. HUDdOWB BAY 8ABLK, MINK 8ABLB KOTAI. ERMINE, CHINCHILLA, FITCH, lrl AU Ol tne LATEST STYLE. tsUPKBIOR FINIdH, and at reasonable prices. Ladles in mourning wlU find handsome articles' PERSIAN NEB and BIMIAS; tbe latter a most bean tllul lur. CARRIAGE ROBES, B LEIGH ROBES, and FOOT MUFFS, in great variety. A. K. & F. K. WOK? RATH, 1 11 4m KO, 417 ABi'H 8TRKET. JTiTWlll remove to our new Store, No, 1212 Cliesnut street, ahnlit Way 1, 1M8. FANCY FURS. The subscriber buying recently returned Irom Europe with an entirely new stock of FURS Ol his own selection, would ofler the same to his cus tomers, made up In tbe latent styles, and at reduced pricts, at bis OLD ESTABLISHED STORE, NO. 139 1SOBTU IIIIBD STBEET, 10 23 2mrp ABOVE ARCH. JAMES REISKY. SADDLERY, HARNESS, &e. THE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF THE HEW fllKSM'T STREET (NO. 1810), SADDLERY, HARNESS, AND IIOK.HK- IfXRNlfclilNU HOODS IIOVSB OF LACEY. MEEKER & CO.. 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BU12 8lf BROOKLYN LIFE INSURANCE Or NEW YORK, MUTUAL. IOLlC1S KOK-FORFEITABLK. Thirty days grace given In payment ot Premiums. Wo extra charge for residence, or travel In any portion of the world. Dividends declared ainaally, and paid In cash, Dividend In lt67, 40 per cent. COLTOfc & SnELDEN, . H7UAL AGXKTB. ' ' 1 . E. CORNER MVCNTH AMU CIIEMM CT. Agents and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and towns In Pennsylvania and fcouihern .New Jer sey a ! gftSURANCE COMPANY 01 NORTH AMKIIIOA; OFFICK.Ko. 2 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 17M. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL, ft.100,000. AfttNETN JANUARY 8, 1807 tl,7BS,90780 IISSU11ES MARINE, INLAND TRANSPORTA TION AiND Jf'IUK RISKS. DIRECTORS. Arthur G. Coffin, rJamuel W. Joues, Joun A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, Klcbard D. Wood, William welub, H. Morris Wain, Oeorge L. Harrison, i'raucls K. Cope, Edward H. I'rotter. Eoward H. Clarke, William CumminiiS, T. Chtriton Hemy, Alfred D. Jewup, Johu P. Whit. joun Aiasou,; Lou in C. Madeira. ARTTTTJK G. COVFiN Prlrtnt in niiAD a jv 1 ii oct;i rtiii y WJLL1AM BUKHLKIi. HarHihtirrr. Pa . rnfrpJ Btriii lut miv Dkoirj js a cu uny 1 vnuin, J. aoj QIRARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, (No. 63Q) N. E. COR. CHE3NUT AND SEVENTH STS., PHILADKLPUIA. CAPITAL AND kJKPL.lJSJ OVER 9300,000. JAIOJIK IUH ItiOd, 10S,U34. Losses Paid and Accrued In 1866, M47.00O. Of which amount not fitooo temaln nnpald at this date. 1(iO,Iihi,(HiO ol property bas.been successfully insured "J mi" wuiiauy iu wirieeu years, aua JUaat ilua DIRECTORS. Thomas Craven, Niiai yerkes, Jr., Allred K Uillett, N. b. Lawrence, tlnarlm I. Dupont, llenrv Kni urmau ISbeppard, Tin mas MacKuilar, Jc lin Hupulee, John w. Uagnorn, . a .TTT,KOMAa "AVKNi President:. m.' f. uiliLiu,!!, v ice-rresiueuu tirafmwt JAM EM B. ALVORP, Secretary. T I R E INSURANCE. UYEItPOOIi AND LONDON AND fiLOBB IsBDJIAACfJ SJOII PA Hi ASSETS OVEB HlH.nnn nnn INVUTEO IN IUEV.S, O VKU-91,800,000 FHILADELPHIA BOARD. Lemuel Ooffln. Esq.. ICharle. H. Hmlth. K.n Joseph W. Lewis, Rsq Ueury A. Duhrlug, Eaa Edward biter. Eso. All losses promptly adjusted without reference to .ra, giand. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, A'o. 8 MEKCHANTW EXCHANGE, ATWOOD BMITIt 10 17 thsloBm General Ageqt for Pennsylvania, pEOVIDOT LIFE AND TRU8T COMPANY I 1 . ir pun a 1 1 1. 1 l. . j 1 . 1 No. Ill a tOUKTIl btreet INCORI OHATEJJ 8it AlONTU 22, 1868. CAPITAL. SIBuoo.. Pa 1 11 im' . " Iuturance ou Llves by Yearly 1-reuutims: or bv S 111. or Ml ver tniiiin,i i.'n...i......i. v Annuities grauled ou favorable erms. It.rill P..ll,.uu I 'lillilrui.l. L. , '. - - ' " ' " " o Aiiuuwiutiiiia. lb la Company, while giving tbe lusured the security ola paid-up. Capital, will divide tbe entire proUis ol ti e 1.1 e bumuens among lu policy holders. j v.. i"ini, auu paiu on uemaua. Authorised by charier to execute Trusts, and to act as .xecuu.ror Administrator, Assiguee. or Uuardiau. khfl III lilliu, Kfl iiolu fit nui.i...lil... ... " ; J v.-cL1 ...:a. uuuer apuoiuimeufc 01 any Court ol this Commonwealth, or any Demon or IIHLullH lir Ixullea Iw.lllln ,.p ' r til H hUt OHM. JdMillA 11. MOKKIs. liil'lUith Woojj, B1CHAB.D CADliimV. 11. WI4TAH HKOW.V, WILLIAM. HACJCEU,' I 'II A H I 1,'M r K-r BAMTJEL R. billl'L- y. ROWLAND PARRY. witt.r.r. T.fi ':..... . Actuary. n". , .""".. 1 ii. 1 11, vice-rresiueui. i'J.'MAtt .WISTAK M 1J.. J. B. T"VK3END, 7t7 Medical Examiner. Legal Advluer. pnCEMX INSUBAKCE COMPASY OP PHI- lCOKrC'KATED 1FH4 CHARTER PERPETDAL. No. 22 WALNUT Street. ii.mI.u tlT- i-J.fr".1 TLlnl liliiii,. Iiuii.u I...,,. 1. ....1 . " - .- - v.. u.iii.nq u y lllli, ou uoerai terms on iiuiiuiiirs, mercbandlse. fur. ultuie. etc., lor Hunted periods, aud permaueutly vu uumiiii,n ujf .riM, ui iremium. The t oinimny haa been 111 acuve operation for inm. than blA'l Y VKA Kb, during which all -Sasos have been promptly ai'iuhled and ui il. "ro Jnh n T.. lTodva. lmvld LiwIr, ItenliLiiilri hillnv li. li. Mahony, J 1I1 11 '1. i.e im, William b. (Irunt, Xi.liei l W. l.eauilng, . Clark VN'liarlou, T u il ,u 1 if u I. .lr 'I'tiouiaa II, l'owu'rs, x. AiuiLuury, hdiiiund Castlllon, -auiuel Wncox, JOHN R. W L'CbEHKU, President. Eamuki. Wli.(;ox,beoretary, ' uiuim ii xvorria. FlltE lKlJUACK KX('I,rj81VELY. TUB HCNfcfY LVAN1A PI KK INSURANCE tX)M PANVlricorporated l15-Chartr Perpetual-No. tin WALNUT run, opposite InrtependeuoH Waoara Tblstkju.pauy.lavorably known to tue oommuiilty lor over loriy years, onutluues to lnaure asaliiNi loaa or damage by ore on Ptihlie or Prtvatebulldlnsa. either pernianeiuly or for a limited time. Also, oa rnrniture. htocke of Goods, aud Merobandise sine, ral-ly , on llheral teruis. uuiiu B 'Ihelrtawbal, toseiher with a larre SnrpHis Food. slDVeoted to the ninatoarelul manner, which mianl.s ii em 1 o ofler to the lusured an uudoubteil aecurltr In tbe case of loaa. , . OIBItC'TOBa. Uanlol rimlin, jr., , Alexander heni-on, Joha Devereu, I tiouias tSiuiUi, xanr HULnuim, lieiirr I.svla. Tboiuaa Kobblns, J. OlllinahKnl Fell. iiar.tei tiaddi k. Jr. DANlitLMMlTH, presldeni. W1JU.1AM O. CkowkU, tmcruary A INSURANCE COMPANIES. DtLAWAEE MUTUAL SAFETT INS0 1IANCK COMPANY. IncurDorated by the LtM)lktur uX Pennsylvania. Inn. Ofllce.B. E. corner TniKI) nnd WALNUT Street, 1 niittoeirma. MATMNk: I Null li A VfFH On Vessels, largo, aud Freight, to all parts of tb ' INLAND I NSHTRAVcrcq On fords ty river or al, lake, and land carriage al parts 01 the Unixn. w ... ltiK INSURANCES On niPTcrian1lie n'Tn-rnHr. Ou biuies, uweillng Mouses, etc. Ab'BJLTH OV THE COMPANY. November 1. 17 liOO.COO United htates Five Per Cent. Loan, 10-411'n t2M, 000-01 131,400-JO 8262-81 210,070-0 128.128 -09 81,000-00 19.800-00 2S,375 00 20,000-00 18,000 00 ,270 0 1HW0-00 T.8O0-00 8.000-00 1W.0C0 Unwed rilaUM ilve Per Cenu 1 emu, lwtl 00.0(0 Untied Hiatea 7 10 Per Ceut Loan Treasury Notes...., KiO.tOO fctnte of Pennsylvania Blx Per Cent Loan 128,000 City of Philadelphia elz Per Oeut l,i'o (exempt Irom tax) 69,000 Hale of New Jersey Biz Per CenU JxmnMWH..M.HM4.wMi. 10,000 Pennsylvania liallrnad First MwrtKHKP blX Per Cent. Bonds.... 18,000 Pennsylvania Kallroad, snooud Mortgage mix Per (lenw Bunos.. 28,000 Western Peimsylvauia Kallroad hlx Per Cent, tetds (Pennayi. Vanla Kallroad R"rnt)... AO.OOOfrtnteol 'lennewiee Five Per Oak Ixinn ... T.OOO Ctatu ol TenneHMee biz Per Ceut. Loan 18,000 Snoahures Mock of Uerruaniown Uhh Company (principal and in term Riiaranleed by the city of Philadelphia) 7.800 160 piharen Hock of Peuuaylvauia Kallroad Oimuony 8,000 100 fcharefi Mock of North t'euuevlv. ula kallroad L'ouitmuv tC.000 80 Fbarph Htuck of Ptnladelphla ana bontnern Alan Hteamship com Pany. 15,000-00 i,no-oo 201,900 Torus on Pon lR otid MnrtuHice, first Hens on City Properties...... 11,101,400 per. Market value (I Peal Patate Bills Ktceivaiile for luBurauoe made' Balances due at A (r-nclea- Pre miums on Marine Policies A crutd Interest, aud other debts due the Com puny M ttock and bcrlp of Sundry Insu rance and other Oompaules, ajTK'nft u 1 1 .... ..1.... 36,00000 219,135-67 43,031-36 i.017-04 lOJlS-M Cfsh In flank .Kia,(ii7,10 vaau ill JLirawer... ................. JS.6'i H,6n7,08-lS DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, James C Hand, Samuel K. uuikea, James Traquatr, William U Ludwlf, . Jacob P. Jones, James B. McFarland Joshua F. Kyre, , John D. Taylor, Hpeiicer Mclivalne. Uenrv O. Lsllott, Jr., Ofjorge W. Berimrdon, J. B. hem pie, FiltstmrK, A. B. Bprtrer, jonn u. Davis, Komund A. Houder, Joseph H. Beal, Theophtlus Paulding, Hugh tYalg, nawara nariinjrion, Jobn K. Penrose, H. Jones Brooke, Henry Wean, George O. Lelper. wuiiara o. Kuuiton, Fdward Lafourcade, jaoob Ulegel, THOMA it C. HANI). Prfnld.nt JOHN o. 1A V 1st, VIoo-Presldent. HENRY LYLBURN.becretsry. HENliY BALL. Abslxtant Secretary. 12 6 19 31 WATCHES, JENVELRY, ETC. AMERICAN VATCHES. W. W. CAB3IDY. No. 12 South SECOND Street. Philadelphia, ant's attention to his varied and exten sive stock of OOLD ANWBILVElt WATCHES AND blLVKBrWAKE. Customers may be atsnred that none but the best articles, at reasonable prices, will beaold at his store. A fine assortment of PLATED- WAKE, constantly oa band. Watches and Jewelry carefully repaired. All order! by mall promptly attended to. llltuth A LEVIS LA DOM US & CO., nmnnKn nrairp? in iriwrnrpc' No. SOS CHE8NUT HXItlClCT, I yvouia invite tne attention or pttrcaasera to tneu large stock of UENTN' AND JLADIEM WATCHES, Just received, et tbe finest Enropean makers, Independent quarter, 'econd, and sell-wlndlug, la gold aud silver cases. Also, AMERICAN WATCHES of all sizes. Diamond bets, fins, btudH, Kings, eto. Coral, Malachite. Uarnet. and Etruscan Bets, la great variety. (6 l4p bOLID HILVERWARE of all kinds, tncluullig large assortment suitable lor Bridal Pre-euis.. FINE WATCHES. We keep always on hand an assortment ot LADLES' AND CENTS' "FINK WATCHES Of tbe beat American and Foreign Makers, all war ranted to give cuuiplelo satislacllou, and at GREATLY REDUCED PRICEB. FAKR 5b BUOTHEii, Importers of Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, eto, 11 Hsnitbjrpj No. 824 CHEtiNUT 6t below Fourth. Especial attention riven to repairing Watches ndj Musical Boies by PlKBT-CLAbf workmen. C. RUSSELL & CO.,C 1 Mn. VI NflltTR NITTH KTP.PFT. OPrKB OHK OF THE LABtiEST aTOC'lU or FINE FRENCH CLOCKS, UPIISMKOWN IMHIB1ATIOS, IN TUB CITY. 6 26 AMERICAN WAYCi.ES, 'The best In the wcrid. sold at Jaoior Prices, c. & a. peQUicrJor, , MAMLFACTCKEKS OP WATCH CAeSid; Ko. 18 Bouth SIXTH Ktrett. 1 2 UruiuuGtorv, A'o. fi. S. flt TU Street, gTEELIKG SILVERWARE MANUFACTORY MO. 414 LOCI ST STliKET. 13 O I t O H2 H II A-It r, Pateutee of the Ball aud Cube patterns, manufactures every description of flue tsTEKLIflU SILVER WARE, aud oilers for sale, wholesale and retail, a choice aoaoi tmvut of rich aud beuulirul goods of now styles at low prices. ' USUI Hut J. 11, SHARP. A, KOBEKDi. FIRE AND BURG LAtt FHOOF SAFES C. L. MAISER. If afernvarrrnaira A flBI AM) SI uUuUI'aOOs rJAFKB, LVl KHMiril, Kl l.s. HS-HVm, AiiU ' AI. jH IK HI iLIIISti SIAWJJW Aitl", 6( AO, 4M4 UAIK aiJtaKr, A LAEGE AbfUKTAlJCVT 0 Fma ,i'J- aud Kuririhr-pri.oMAFk.Hou baud, wutt Inside iluiirs, i'Melilug-hixise rM-. fie In. mi dauifiueaa, J-rioeslow, i. HAi"ll-:'4iHs-,H, s Ho. ui VI ." it ftiiee, i ,1
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