THE DAILY EVENING TELK0UAIM1 PHILADELPHIA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1869.
. WritlH for It t'hUiuiriphia Hvtmny Ttxjraph.)
LirsJennison's Thanksgiving Guest
' " ' Of ail lb Had experiences which have come
feome to mo and left their impress upon my
keart, none is Radilcr than that connected
with Arthur Tillary, who, more years ago than
I care to recollect now, Unit became my guest
on the day before Thanksgiving Day.
A fortnight previous to this, a gentleman, a
perfect Btranger, had called upon me and
auked for a few moments' interview. On
going into the parlor I found myself con
fronted with a tall and most gentlemanly
looking man. His was no pigmy order of
beanty. It was stern and massive. His voice
was deep and rich, and he spoke like a man
accustomed to oe obeyed. The only thing
about him which struck me as being par
ticularly disagreeable was his cold, glittering
grey eyes. These were fixed upon me slowly,
deliberately, relentlessly, whenevor he spoke,
and whenever I answered him.
Were the rooms which I had advertised
still nntaken? They were. Could he see them?
lie could. They consisted of a bedroom and a
Bitting-room opening out of one another, and
commanding such a view as was alone worth
the price asked for them. I will venture to
say that no one in the suburbs had rooms to
let commanding a more spacious and pictur
esque coup d'uil than was to be seen from
those windows.
My visitor regarded the rooms attentively,
and seemed to be very well pleased. The
mirrors, the lace curtains, the carpets, the
bed-hangings, the fautenils, the lounges, all
underwent the rapid yet careful inspection
which the connoisseur is accustomed to make,
and when he had completed his examination
he announced himself quite satisfied, and pro
mised to communicate with me in a few
thya.
The few days passed, . and tho expected
communication came. It was to the effect
that I might consider the rooms engaged, on
my own terms, from the following Wednes
day, and that their occupant would be Mr.
Arthur Tillary, the brother-in-law of the
strange gentleman who had called upon me.
I got my rooms ready, and I pride myself
in saying that they never looked nicer. The
weather was particularly cold for that season
of the year, so I caused Elizabeth, the house
maid, to build a rousing fire in the grate, so
that at any rate his welcome might be warm.
... At about five o'clock in the afternoon of the
day on which he was expected I was sitting at
. the front parlor window,' when I was aroused
by the opening of the gate at the edge of the
lawn which extends in front of tho house. In
an instant I knew that this must be my gen
tleman. He was an excessively fine-looking
man, of perhaps forty years of age. His fine
black hair had already become thickly inter
spersed with grey. His complexion was
florid, but not enough so to possess that
beefy look which too often ensanguines the
British skin. As he approached nearer, I
could see that his eyes were of a deep, serene
1, blue, and shaded by thick lushes that were
almost black. But in every nook and corner
of his grand face dwelt the indications and
beginnings of such beaming smiles, the ex
pression of such a disposition to make the
best of things, and insure happiness to all it
found itself in contact with, that I found my
self lost in admiration ol my lodger before he
raised his hand to the bell.
Well, if ever any man understood the art of
making himself at home, and setting himself
at ease, Arthur Tillary was surely that man.
"We had dinner at half -past six, and at half
past six, just as though he had been living
with mn for the last twentv vaavs. instead f
hardly more than twenty minutes, he took
the bottom of my table, and assisted me in
the carving. I don't know when I felt more
thankful; forwhentwo dishes, each demanding
a carver, are placed at opposite ends of the
table, and only one individval willing to
officiate in that capacity is present, what is
that one Individual to do? This had been
. precisely my position during the many months
, I had taken boarders, and how grateful I felt
to Mr. Tillary for halving that duty with me,
I cannot easily express.
He 1 chatted all dinner most gaily, yet
always with discretion and taste; had some
thing to say to everyone, and said the plea
Bantest things with such a charming air of
sincerity that you never despised yourself for
yielding to it as flattery. Yet his was not the
Buccess of the mere brilliant adventurer. Had
it been discovered the next hour that he was
a penniless impostor, foisting himself upon
me, a poor widow, for the sordid sake of get
4 ting gratis board and lodging for a few weeks,
I will venture to say that any one would have
exclaimed that he had played the gentleman
to perfection. .
After dinner he joined our little party in
the parlor, played and sang for us, told us of
his travels in Europe and his adventures in
Africa, and finally started off to bed about
midnight, after having fairly captivated all
our unsuspicious hearts, and that was the
last I saw of Arthur Tillary for several
days; and here the mystery commences.
At breakfast-time next morning he did not
appear. My experience, however, had ac
quainted me with numerous odd and excep
tional specimens of humanity, and I was not
at all surprised to receive word front Mr.
Tillary, through James, my long-tried and
trusty man-servant, that he was not feeling
very well, and did not care about any break-
fact being either kept or sent in to him.
generally endeavor to let my lodgers be happy
In their own way, and after satisfying myself
that nothing serious was the matter, felt pre
pared at any rate to meet him at lunch. I
Lunch came, but no Mr. Tillary. Dinner.
, hour arrived, and our favorite guest was
absent. Still the' same message was sent
from the sick-room, that all he desired was
perfect rest and quiet, as he should probably
be as well as ever on the morrow.
For once I allowed toy better judgment to
be overruled. He had looked so good, and
be bad behaved m well with such per
fection of good-breeding aud good-heart-edneps
that I suspected no deception, and
would have been the first to scout Buch an
idea. Credulous and mistaken as I was, I
allowed the whole of the next day to pass,
contenting myself with the messages received
from the sick-room, aud with sending to the
invalid all the little tempting delicacies which
my culinary imagination could conjure up.
'That day was a particularly busy one with
me, for it was Thanksgiving Day, and all my
boiirders remained at home, excepting fer an
hour or two in the morning, when some of
them went to church. However, when our
Thanksgiving feasting was over for it was
feast-day and not fast-duy with us and the
last filbert had been cracked, and the last
glass of sherry swallowed, and the whole
house had fallen asleep, I too laid my head
on the pillow, thankful that the set trasoii for
thankfulness was over, and that I might luxu
riously yawn off into sleep my discontent at
the unequal distribution of blessings in this
tantalizing world.
The door of my bed-room was locked, but
that of the adjoining room, in which my two
young children were sleeping, had unac
countably been left open. I could hear their
gentle breathing as I lay awake, and I was
just dropping off myself when I was thrilled,
as wide awake as I had ever been in my life,
by a strange, ponderous, mullled sound,
which resembled nothing so much as the
footsteps of an elephant trying to get up
stairs.
I had not time to speculate as to what it
could be before I hoard it stop before my
bed-room door. For a moment or two there
was perfect silence, all the more horribly tan
talizing from tho mysterious sounds that had
preceded it. Then there was a sweeping,
hurried, indefinite motion over tho panels of
the door. I could endure it no longer, but,
starting to my feet, exclaimed:
"Who's there ?"
A voice which I did not recognize, in a
deep, hoarse, yet perfectly distinct whisper,
replied:
"Brandy! .brandy! I want brandy !" Tor
an instant or two there was the same swaep
ing, hurried, indefinite motion, as of huge
hands blindly feeling their way over the panels
of the chamber door; then the ponderous,
muffled tread repealed itself, and an instant
after I turned sick with horror, as I heard the
frightful step enter the next room, that occu
pied by my children, and commenced wander
ing uncertainly around there.
Frightened as I was, I took n t;ni3 for
thought, but leaping from the bod, rushed
through the open door that connected the
two apartments. I scarcely know what I
expected, or what I thought, but I certainly
was not prepared for the sight I encountered.
By the dim light of tho gas, turned down very
low, and shaded, I saw Mr. Tillary bending
in his night-shirt over the bed occupied by
my children, and fumbling, with actions in
describable, over their counterpane.
Borne faint gleams of the beauty of his
natural expression must have shone in his
face, or I could not possibly have recognized
it under the hideous distortion of the mo
ment. Every feature was inflamed and
swollen. The eyeballs burned like molten
lead, a crimson flush was on his cheeks, and
his lips were parted with a panting expres
sion that was horribly repulsive. I don't
know what words I used, as I pulled my dress
in jj-gown around me, and preserved just
enough presence of mind not to ring the bell.
It was well that I did not betray any
timidity at that moment, for seeing me appa
rently calm, and looking steadfastly at him,
he knelt down on the floor, and repeated in
the same low, distinct whisper I had heard a
few moments ago at my bedroom door:
"Brandy! brandy! give me brandy!" at the
same time pawing the carpet with his hands,
as a wild beast might use his claws.
I woke one of the children and Bent him
up stairs to wake James and Elizabeth and
send them to me. Then I addressed myself
to the miserable man at my feet, and by dint
of entreaties and kind words got him down
stairs and into his bed. Upon turning on the
light in his room, however, a most unex
pected and disastrous spectacle was presented.
The atmosphere was poisoned with the per
fumes of almost every species of malt and
spirituous liquor. In many cases, so eager
had been the haste of the wretched mono
maniac that he had not stopped to pull the
corks, but had broken the necks of the bot
tles, and drank their contents at the imminent
risk of cutting his mouth into slices. At
least a dozen broken-necked champagne bot
tles were on the mantel-piece; uncounted
Scotch alo bottles were flung in a heap under
the bed, and from some not quite emptied
ones the frothy liquid was streaming over my
nice new carpet. Sherry and brown stout,
and gin, and brandy, and whisky alternated
with one another over the various pieces of
furniture. Under his pillow I found a three-
quarter empty phial of McMunn's Elixir, and
upon a little stand by his bedside were
several bottles containing various prepara
tions of ether. In fact, the whole room was
such a pandemonium as only the long-esta
blished drunkard could get up who had been
furnished with illimitable means and granted
acarte blanche. '
When James came down he acknowledged,
tremblingly, that he had been accessory to
the poor wanderer's present condition. Mr
Tillary, it seems, had bribed him to procure
the different articles for him, and they had
been surreptitiously brought in, either when
I had been out, or engaged in some distant
part of the house. Of course, I dismissed
James on the instant, and Elizabeth aud I
turned our attention to Mr. Tillary himself.
We sent for the nearest doctor, and about
two o'clock in the morning the doctor came.
What he said confirmed my worst suspicions.
Everything, he remarked, supported the be
lief that the case was one of confirmed, in
curable drunkenness. The broken necks of
the botueg) the heterogeneous assortment of
liquors, the, condition and appearance of the
! patient, , were sufficient evidence of that.
Whether he could live was doubtful. The
doctor, himself, who was a personal friend of
mine, remained with us watching until morn
ing. We bathed his feet in hot water, put a
bladder filled with ice around his head, every
half hour the doctor administered a toaspoon
ful of the potion be had preparod, and I sat
at the bedside, holding and stroking the poor
patient's hands, but he clung to me with the
touching confidence with which the child
clings to its mother.
Well, after days of anxious nursing we
brought him through alive, at last.but through
such depths of despair as it has never been
my lot to witness in any one else since. Im
mediately that tho first effects of the liquor
had subsided, he grew as gentle as a child,
entreated my forgiveness with an abjectness
and a self-crimination that were painful, and
hung upon my looks and motions with an in
tensity that would have embarrassed me had
he been less weak and wretched, less in need
of every loving word that could be spoken or
act that coidd be done. With the devil of
drink cast out of him, he was an angel once
again.
When he was sufficiently restored to be
able to sit up and converse at length which
was not until after the lapse of a week I told
him what I had done, viz.: That from some
papers and memorandum-books I had found
among his clothes, I had learned the address
of his wife, and had written to her. I can
never hope to make you realize the expres
sion of despair which deepened upon his
gentle, handsome face when I told hit' this.
After looking at me intently for a mo-nent
with trembling lips, he clasped his hands, let
them fall idly upon his knees, and bending
his head low, while the tears coursed
down bis cheeks, asked simply whether
there was any answer.
There had been no answer a fact at which
I was somewhat surprised myself. A week
more passed, and my patient had passed from
convalescence to health, and still no answer
came. Meanwhile his money was drained,
and Mr. Tillary was evidently anxious to
conceal from me his brother-in-law's address
in the city. All the other boarders in the
house intimated that I was a fool for my
pains. My most intimate friend, Mrs. Fim
perley, who had lived with me ever since I
had taken boarders, openly declared that she
believed I was fond of drunken men, and as
for Major Stemstand a gentleman who had
the suite of rooms on the second floor, and
whom I could least afford to lose he told me
in confidence that if Mr. Tillary didn't leave
the house, he would. But then I knew he
was only joking. To think of the Major
pretending to get along without me !
At length there came an answer a brief
note addressed to me from Mrs. Tillary. It
was very politely but very distantly worded,
and most cold in tone. She made a charming
little apology for her husband's conduct, ex
plained that his case was quite hopeless; that
she had not given up all attempts to live with
him until the thing had repeatedly proved
itself an impossibility; but that Mr. Tillary
was quite aware of the sole condition on
which she would again consent to reside under
the same roof with him as his wife. That
condition was that no intoxicating beverage
of any kind shoidd pass his lips for two years,
and that those two years should be passed
outside the walls of the asylum. '
Outside the walls of the asylum ! I shud
dered at these words. Could it be that this
unhappy being, so fair, so noble, so intel
lectual, so innately good as I felt he must be,
could ever have been classed with those mad
men or miscreants, call them what you will,
w hom the justice of society relegates to the
custody of bolt and bar? Determined to
clear up the mystery, and to learn all now
that I know so much, I handed the letter to
Mr. Tillary, and watched him while he read it.
Then, at last, I learned the truth, though
it was told me piecemeal, with faltering
tongue, and a frame quivering with deep
emotion. And his story was this: That the
habit of intoxication had beset him for the
past fifteen years, until it had grown with
him a monomania; that he had wearied and
worn out the patience of every friend he had
in the world, not omitting his own wife; that
in one of his fits of semi-consciousness he
had signed papers which had for ever taken
away from him the control of his own pro
perty, which was large, and handed it over to
his brother-in-law, the gentleman who had
called upon me; that finally, one day, more
than a year ago, upon recovering from a pro
found lethargy, induced by intoxication, he
had found himself within the walls of a pri
vate insane asylum, spoken of by its pro
prietor by the more euphemistic title of
vidUon de sante; that he was kept a close
prisoner there by reason of the physician's
certificate that had been procured, until the
proprietor of the place bad no good excuse
for detaining him longer, and had pronounced
him cured for the time being; that his brother-in-law
had voluntarily supplied him with
money and offered to procure rooms for him
at my house, assuring him that his wife
should join him there; that this was a conspi
racy between the brother and sister for once
more getting him under lock and key, for
that they well knew that if he had money
enough in his pocket, he could not resist the
temptation to drink, and that if I did not con
ceal him, or at least express my willingness
to receive him as a permanent inmate of my
family, two of the keepers from the asylum,'
attended by his brother-in-law, might be ex
pected to take him away at any moment. ,
I was dreadfully troubled. I could have
wept myself just to see him weep, and hear
his solemn protestations of Borrow, and his
resolutions to amend. I firmly believe that
had cirenmstan'ces admitted of his remaining
with me, I might have wielded over him the
restraining influence which he had not found
elsewhere. With me he was as docile as a
child. AH that he needed was firmness and
kindness exercised towards him by some one
whom he respected and loved. I verily be
lieve that, had I been left to my own im
pulses, Arthur Tillary would have been with
me to-day, a good, happy, a useful man.
But that was not to be. Early one Decem
ber morning I went to the city to make some
purchase?, to call on some friends, and re
main at the house of a relative until the fol
lowing day. It was one of those mild summer-like
mornings which sometimes happen
with us even in December, and Mr. Tillary,
who had walked down the path in front of
the house to open the gate for me, stood
there bareheaded for a few moments, the sun
shining full upon his beautiful iron-grey hair
and splendid figure. He kissed his hand to
me and waved me a glad good-bye. I nodded
my head and said: "I shall see yow. early
to-morrow" and that is the last I ever saw
of Arthur Tillary.
Upon reaching home next day, Elizabeth
met me at the door.
"Oh, Mrs. Jennison!" she exclaimed, "did
you meet them ?"
"Them? Whom?"
"Mr. Tillary, and his brother-in-law,
ma'am, and two men 1"
I sank down upon the nearest chair, feel
ing as though the throbbing of my heart
must be heard all over the house, and heard
what Elizabeth had to say. From that it ap
peared that the previous evening Mr. Tillary'a
brother-in-law had arrived; that the two
gentlemen had dined together on apparently
good terms, although Mr. Tillary had at first
evinced symptoms of strong excitement.
After dinner the visitor ha.l sent for some
brandy, and from what Elizabeth said I had
no doubts, and still have none, that the
wretch left no means untried to persuade
Mr. Tillary to take that first glass which, with
his temperament, meant ruin to body and
soul. At any rate he was put to bed that
night in a state of profound intoxication. To
what extent he was plied by his brother-in-law
during the night and in the early morn
ing, of course Elizabeth could not say, but
soon after breakfast the villainjlef t the house,
and only returned in company with two
keepers from the asylum, who had remained
oil night at a neighboring hotel, who, under
the brother-in-law's orders, took Mr. Tillary
away with them in the morning, in a state of
deep unconsciousness, and who, I subse
quently had my reasons to believe, had been
bribed by him for that purpose.
Once, and only once after, I met the vil
lain who had so wrested the ends of the law
as to ruin the body and soul of an innocent
man. His name was Fondruth. He was
walking in the street at the time, but I in
stantly went up to him, planted myself in his
path, and said:
"Mr. Fondruth, how dare youhave suffered
your brother-in-law, Mr. Tillary, to become
an inmate of my house that Thanksgiving
Day, well knowing his weakness as you did ?
how dare you have behaved to him and me so
villainously ?" '
He looked at me for a moment with his
cold, passionless grey eyes. On the only
other occasion on which I had ever seen him
his language and manners had been those of
a perfect gentleman, so that I was completely
taken aback by the following answer:
"It is your business," he said, never re
moving his eyes, "to satisfy yourself as to the
reference of those you take. You should not
have been such a fool."
He would have passed on, but I detained
him, my hand upon his arm, for I was sick
with thinking what might have happened to
an existence with which mine had once been
so intimately, yet so briefly connected, and
which might have become so fair and
peaceful.
"Mr. Tillary," I said, "your brother-in-law
what of him ?"
"Foor Tillary !" ho exclaimed, with a
gloomy smile, in which there was some scorn.
"He is as dead to this world, by this time, as
though he were in the grave. He is a con
firmed epileptic, my dear Mrs. Jennison. He
passes his life between four walls, and I doubt
whether even you could soothe his ravings
now. Good morning."
And raising his hat, he passed from my
sight, and I never saw him again.
But often as Thanksgiving Day comes
round, there float to me tender, tearful
memories of the gentle-dispositioned, sweet
minded man who might have been so much,
under different surroundings and more lov
ing influences; and I cannot but believe
anything to the contrary notwithstanding
that He who laid aside his Godhead and bo
came human, will yet give poor Arthur Til
lary a chance in that better world which we
all hope for.
DRY GOODS.
EYRE & LANDELL,
FOURTH AND ARCH STREETS,
OrENED TO-DAY
SECOND INVOICE
LYONS SILK VELVETS.
NOBILITY QUALITY.
FASHIONABLE PLUSHE& "
BEST A8TRACHANS.
EXPENSIVE LONG SHAWLS.
INDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SCARFS.
ROYAL RIBBED POPLINS.
SILK-FACE VELVET POPLINS.
DRESS GOODS REDUCED. 10 18 Smw
ALEXANDER O. CATTELL A CO,
PRODUCE COMMISSION MFROHAJrfa,
ail01" wharves
AMD
Ho. PORTS WATER 8TBJEXT, .
FtULAD&LmiA. I Bl
AlEXUIDHi d UtKUUe SUMS tUXXfcUa
INSURANCE.
2329-OHARTB TERPETUAL.
Franllin Fire taance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I, '69, $2,677,372 1 3
CAPITAL
AOCRUEO BCRTLUS."
PREMIUMS......
...Hoo.eoo-oo
,1,083,d!Wi
1,193,848-43
INCOME FOR 189,
360.000.
UNSETTLED CLAIMS."
Losses paid since 1829,over $5,500J00
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Term.
Alfred G Ba.er, ""TOk TH..
Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks,
-eore W. Richardi. William 8. Grant.
I saac Le e, Thomas 8. Ellis,
Ueorgs tales, (iostavns R. rlonsnn.
IvKR. JWrtmt.
JAB. Vr.KcAlAlttWt' Vio.-Pd.nL
J HKOIHJKK M. RKOeA, Assistant Secretary. 8 9
-A. S B TJ Xfc Y
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TVo. OS ItllO AIMVAV, corner of
Klcventk Street, 7ew York.
CA81I CAPITAL 8180 000
$126,000 deposited with the Btate of New York as security
i Policy holders.
LKMUK.Ij BANGS l'rnaldent
GE0RGFpE!i;r HrulTnt "a Secrete.
EMORY McCMNTOC'K Actnarv
A. K. M. PURDY. M. D.,MemcaT Examiner.
PHiLAnri.pmA Br.rERENric..
Thomas J. Tssker,. John M. Maria, ,J. B. Llpplnoott.
Charles Spencer, William Divine. James Ting? "
Ar.'hntVi Wonris Wain, I James Hunter,
Arthur O. Golhn, 'John B. McUresry. K. 11. Worne.
Organized April, lbS8. 375 Polioies leaned first six
months j over Suuu in the twelve months following.
All lormnof Policies if sued on most favorable terms,
hpecial advantages offered to Ulergymen.
lew good agent wanted in city or country. Apply t
JAMK8M. LwNUACRR,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Office, No. ni-J WALNUT Street, Philadelphia,
SAMUEL POW EK8, Special AgenL 41
J N S U R E AT HOME
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
NO. 921 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASSETS, 83,000,000.
CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE.
MANAGED BY OUK OWN CITIZEN
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID.
OLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Application may be made at the Home Office, and
, at the Agencies throughout the State, a 188
JAMES TR A QUA IK PRUSTmrwp
MANUEL E. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JUIIIX V. IfUKIMOtt A, V. P. and ACTUARY
HORATIO 8. STEPHENS SECRETARY
QTRICT L Y M U TUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. HIS. FOURTH STREET. '
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE amonir
Good risks of any class accepted.
Policies issued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President. SAMUEL R. sniPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONOSTKETH,
Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY.
The advantages oilered by tills Company are un
excelled i 27
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANr
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office b. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
KIRK INbURANOK EXCLUSIVELY Dlre0U
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED
CshCapiUl..... 9mjMm
Hi5l:t.2791l.
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston Erringer,
naiuro rrazier,
John M. Atwood,
llonjamin T. Tredick,
George 11. Htuart,
William J. iioultou,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
This Gomnanv insures nnlv Artt..l.u .l.
uoun n. nrown.
specially hazardous risks whatever, such at factories,
mills, etc '
F. RATCHFORD STARR. President.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
At.Kxandkh W. Wihteb, Secretary. 2(
PIIGENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP
PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1804-CHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Bxouauge.
This Company insures from less or damage by
... , FIRE, !
on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., for limited periods, aud permanently on builUinus by
deposit of premiums. "
The Company has been In active operation for more than
SIXTY YEAlW. during which all losses &y8 been
promptly adjusted and paid.
John L. Hodge,
umnuiuKn,
David Lewis,
Benjamin F.ttin,
Thomas H. Powers,
A. R. MoHenry,
Edmund Oastillon,
Samuel Wilcox,
Lewia ( 1 N-n ry i .
M. a. oianony,
John T. Lewis,
William 8. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
D. Clark Wharton,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
Samuel Wilcox, Beoretary.
iiutia it.
WUUHJCRER, President.
4
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, No. 233 WALNUT Streak
Philadelphia.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
Capital, $500,000.
Assets $2,350,000
MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE.
OVER 20.000,OUO LOSSESPAID SINCE ITS ORGAN-
Arthur G. Coffin.
DIBECTOR?'
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose WhiUs,
W illiam Welsh.
8. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
Qaorira L. Harrison.
rranoisK. Copa,
Edward H. Trotter,
Edward S. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jessup.
John P. White,
louls O. Madeira.
Charles W. Ouahman
ARTHUR G COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Vloa-President.
MATTBUR Maris, Secretary.
CliAS. 11. Rkkvkb, ABst. Secretary. g tj
JfAME INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 809 CHESNUT Street I
INCORPORATED 1868. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, tauo.ooo.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per
petual or Temporary Polioies. 1
iliKttClUKO
Charles Richardson,
William H. Rhawn,
W'illiam M. Seyfort,
Henry Lewis,
Nathan Hilles,
liaorK A. West.
Robert Pesroe,
John Kessler, Jr..
Edward H, Orne,
Charles Stokes,
John W. Kverman,
CHARLES RIOHAHnKOW pra'.M.n.
moraecai nuzoy.
WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vice-President.
Wruum 1. BliANCBARD. Secretary. 7 235
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
-Incorporated ltsio Charter Perpetual.
No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square.
This Company, favorably known to the community for
over forty years, continues to insure against loss or dam
age by tire on Publio or Private Buildings Neither perma
nently or for a limited time. Also on b urniture, Stock
of Goods, end Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capitol, together with a huge Surplus Fund, is
invented in the meet careful manner, whiuh enables them
to offer to the insured an undoubted security la the ease
ef loss.
DIRIOT B.
Daniel Smith, Jr., I John Ds versa 1,
Alexander Benson, Thomas Smith,
Isaao Hazlehurat, Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins. I , J. GiUiimham Fell
Daniel Haddock, Jr.
DANIEL SMITH, Jb., President
WM. O. CROWKLL, Secretary 8 au
LEGAL NOTIOE8.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR
THE CITY AND COUNT? OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of BAMUEL R. M AbSBY. deoeaaed.
The Auditor appointed by tbe Uourt to audit, settles
and adjust the account of LAMBICRT R. MASriEY,
trustee of the above estate, and report distribution of the
balance, will meet all parties interested on MONDAY,
November llbu at lao'olft-k. t hisottic-e.
J. lliljlj MAKI1N, Auditor,
11 10 (Vulva Nw. 217 BuuUi THIRD street.
INSURANCE,
piPERJAI. FIRE INSURANCE CO.-
ESTABLISHED 1S03.
Paid-op Capital and Accumulated Foada,
68,000,000 IN GOLD.
PREVOST & HERRING, Agenti,
1 4i No. 10T S. T1URD Street, Philadelphia.
CHAS. M. PREVOST. CHAS. T. ITERRINQ
EDUCATION ALs
JHE EDOEIIILL SCHOOL,.
a 13 oar din and Das Rnhnnl fn Km milt Kia u. -
session in the new Academy Building at
MERCUANTVII.LE.nEW JERSEY
MONDAY, September 6, 18W.
Fot elrculars apply to Rev. T. W. CATTELL,
IBtf Principal.
TU F U S A D A M S,
ELOCUTIONIST.
No. IH14 GIRARD STREET,
(Betwern Chennut and Market streets.) '11 Mmw16t
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC
LADOMUS & c6f
( DIAMOND DEALERS A JEWELERS.)
WATCHES, SaWBLRY A SILVER WAK.
WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
J02 Cheitnnt St.. PMlft'
Ladies' and Gents' Watches,
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED,
Of the most celebrated makers.
FINE VEST CHAINS AND LEONTINES,
In 14 and 18 karat
DIAMOND and other Jewelry of the latest designs.
Engagement and Wedding Rings, in 18 karat and col
8olid 8ilver Ware for Bridal Presents, Table Cutlery,
riatdW.r...U. 11 i taw
RICH JEWEL R Yt
JOHN BRENNAN,
DIAMOND DEALER AND JEWELLER,
NO. 13 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET,
8 mwfBmrp PHILADELPHIA.
ESTABLISHED 1828.
WATCHES. JEWELRY.
CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, and
FANCY GOODS.'
O. W. RUSSELL,,
NO. n N. SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA."
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH STREET,
' Has a well selected stock, at low prices, of
WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY, SILVERWARE,
D 113wfmlm
ROGERS' TRIPLE-PLATED SPOONS. FORKS, ETO
Ce WILLIAM B, WARNE & CO..
fe-Zflo Wholesale Dealers in
WATCHES AND JEWELRY,
STEtT corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
8 1K1 becond floor, and late of No. 85 S. THIRD 8s.
PAPER HANGINGS.
ftJACLE, COOKE & EWINC,
LATE WITH HOWELL 4 BROS. '
runrjcn aud aimehicau
PAPER HANGINGS
No. 1338 CHESNUT Street.
GEORGE P. NAGLE.
H. H. COOKE, late of nrm of nowell ft Drotners.
H. C. BAYING. 9 24 fmw2m
LOOK ! LOOK ! ! LOOK ! ! ! WALL PAPERS
and Linen Window Shsdes Mannfaotnred. the
HPR.NO GARnKWi08'1?,"''' Ki TO
ENOINE8. MAOH1NERY, ETOT
? STEAM ENGINE AND
:-"-fT22IAEWPBKS NEAFIR A LEVY.
i teJ3!6Ay.T.I.OAI' AND THEORETICA L
BsTajC3l-lf IVKlrlM J.; KKS, MACHINISTS. BOILKB
WAKKHS. liLACKSMITHS, and FOUND ERSvin
, J ' " wMJwmui upuraiion, ana Deen ex.
clusively engaged in building and repairing Marino and
River Emtines high and low pressure. Iron Boilers, Water
2ink Kr?.el 1' et0K et0- fPetfrully offer their Ve"
vices to the ouhho as being fully prepared to oontraot for
engines of all sizes, Marine, River, and Stationary ; havimr
sou of patterns of diffnrent sizes, are prepared to exeouta
orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern,
making made al : the ahortest notice. High andLowDraa
sure 1- ine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best PVS.
sylvania Charooal Iron. Forglngsof all sizes and kind",
Iron and Brass Castings of aU descriptions. Roll IHirninr
hcrew Cutting, and all other work connected with th
above business. wrr
Drawings and specifications for all work done at the
establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed.
The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room for repairs.
b5at! Whier" tb1J, V lie ?? Derfeut "'at. nd are pr
tided with shears, blocks, falls, etc. etc., for raising heavy
or light weights.
JAOWB O. Nil A FIE,
,,, JOHN P. LEVY,
JLH BEACH and PALM KR Htreat.
SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND
WASHINGTON Streets, '
PHILADELPHIA.
MERRICK & SONS,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS,
manufacture High and Low Pressure Steam Enirinei
lor Land, River, and Marine 8ervIoe.
Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, eta
Castings of all kinds, eltber Iron or Brass.
Iron Frame Roofs lor Uas Works, Workshops, and
Railroad Stations, etc
Rvtorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and moat
improved construction.
Kvery description of Plantation Machinery, also,
Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Ofl
Steam Trains, Defecators, Filters, Pumping; Ea.
gines, etc
Sole Agents for N. Blllettx's Bngar Boiling Appa
ratus. Nesmyth'a Patent Steam Hammer, and Aapin.
wall k Woolsey'a Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain.
lng Machines. am
QIRARD TUBE WORKS.
JOHN H. MURPHY & BROS.'
BIuHiaotarer ef Wrought Iras pine, Ete,
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
WORKS,
TWENTY-THIRD ua FIJUBESV Btreete.
OFFICE, rfl
He. 4'i Kerth FIFTH Scree.
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, ETO.
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS
AND '
Drawing aiatcrlnls
Of all kinds.
CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION.
JAMES W. QUEEN & CO.,
9 ggwfmtf N?!2 CHESNUT Street
CORN EXCHANGE
BAO MAHUFAOTORY
JOHN T. BAILEY: '
K. E. comer of MARKET n(1 WATER Street,
Philadelphia.
DEALER IN BAUS AMD BAGGING
Of every description, for
Grain, Hour, Salt, Suuer-l'hoauiiate Line, Boa
Dust, Eto.
IrgO and Uttall GUNNY BAUS constantly ea band.
3-5 Also, WOOL SACKS.