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TIIE JUNE MAGAZINES.
" ' "PUTN A !'.
The Jnne nrtmbe of Putnam' Magazine
has the following list of articles: - ., ,
"Down the Danube,", Colonel John Hay;
"Birds of the North," President V. A. Chad
booms; "The Tale of a Comet' (concluded!
Edw. Spencer; VThe Outlook of our English
Literature, rrofessor J. M. Ilonpini "A
Woman's Right," Mrs. M. C. Ames; "Fulfil
ment," Mary L. Ritter; "Shall We Have i
More Readable Bible?" J. B. Bittinger; 'A
Domestic Romance;" "On Time;" "Quaker
Quirks," Mrs. F. Barrow; "The Eihibition of
the Academy," Eugene Benson; "Dinner ts.
Ruffles and Tucks," Louisa Falmer Smith;
Troportional Representation," David Dud
ley Field; "The Coming of the Dawn;" "Edi
torial Notes;" "Literature , at Home," R. II.
Stoddard; "Literature, Science, and Art
Abroad," Charlton T. Lewis.
From the very, pertinent paper by J. B,
'Bittinger, which asks the question "Shall we
have a more readable Bible?" we make these
extracts:
We do not ask this question irreverently,'
but conscientiously; for there is no book that
is so frequently printed as the Bible, none
that is bo universally read, ndne that is so
highly prized, and none that is so badly
printed. If we were asked to select a form
for a book, to limit its influence and read
ableness, we should seleot the form in which
our English Bible is almost universally pub-
lunad. ...
What other book is pnt before the reader
in such guise ? Here we have poetry printed
as prose, and prose printed 'as poetry; long,
involved, and compacted logical sentences
cut up into epigrammatic forms; and simple,
childlike narrative, which, in the original,
flows as smooth and clear as a meadow
stream, dammed, rendered turbid and inter
mittent by innumerable obstructions of
verses. In all other books the paragraph
ends with the sense; in the Scriptures, what
ever the sense may be, every line or two
brings the reader to a halt. The sign of the
paragraph is indeed prefixed, but it serves no
practical purpose, and is a positive blemish.
Should we dare to treat any other book so ill ?
Don Quixote or Robinson Crusoe would never
have outlived such ' 'hewing to pieces before the
Lord. " Imagine Pope's ' 'Iliad" printed as we
print Isaiah! Dissect "Samson Agonistes'
as Job is dissocted ! ) How long would they
survive such mutilations? One-half of our
Scriptures is poetry a poetry which brings
its structure with it a structure so strong
and characteristic that it lives even in the
prosaio moulds into which it has been run
in our Bible. If read appreciatingly, the ear
may catch the tones of the Hebrew Muse;
but when the eye turns to see her fair form,
r it is marred beyond recognition. Before the
rhap-hazard, horseback versification of Ste
.pheirs everything must give way the current
of narrative, 'the glow of fancy, the chain of
reasoning, and even the mechanism of gram
mar. And then, as if to aggravate the evils
of these numerous and inapt divisions, ever
'' since the Genevan translation .of 1557, each
1 - verse is -set -by itself -a jet of inspiration
isolated like an apothegm. .
Any one who' has been a member of a
family or a visitor in a family where the
Scriptures are read vorse-abcrut, cannot help
knowing what a limping, halting process it is
how the sense was obsoured, and all spita- '
tullY uiooiiaicu, uj iud voioa-LUUUlUUOUB.
The child invariably reads according to these
divisions, dropping its voice, and, with it,
the sense, At the sad of each verse. Then,
the next reaxlor begins, not with the tone and
inflection of continuity, but as if . a new idea
rere introduced; and so on to the end of the
chapter. It is hardly necessary to say that,
in this kind of reading, "the Word of
the. Lord" , has not the "free . coarse"
for;which we are taught' to pray; nor can it
k J be glorified" in such treatment. Or, if one
has no such domestio experience as this, let
him go to our schools, in which the Bible is
a text-book, and mark - how it is read, and it
will be impossible to resist the oonviotion
that the arbitrary division into chapters and
verses is a very serious mistake. The per
sons who most need to be assisted in the
reading of the Word, and to whom it should
be made "sweeter than honey or the honey
V comb," the young and the unlettered are
they whose books are thus marred and
xa&imed; - while, for the Greek scholar, we
. -. print our Testaments as we print other books
dividing them by the sense and according to
- ' the sense, and, in the printing, impart to
r them the appearance of other books. - .
. But a few examples of these verse-divisions
according to what shall .we say? not the
' sense, but, perhaps, the joltings of Robert
Stephens' horse on the road from Lyons, to
Paris, will show how arbitrary and obstruc
tive they are. Take a passage from Paul's
first letter to the Corinthians, l, 4-8:
. 4. I thank my God always on your behalf, for tbe
rrace of Ood which is Riven you by Jesus Christ;
' - tk 'That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in
all utterance, and (in) all knowledge ;
ft. Even as the tetlnieny of Christ was con Armed
in you:
f. bo that ye come behind in no rift; waiting for
the coming of oar Lord Jesus cnrlat:
8. Who shall also confirm you into the end (that ye
may It) blameless In the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
New imagine this sentence, fervid in feel
ing, impetuous in movement, and. logical in
structure, parcelled out among five readers in
the family or the school, and what ' must be
come of it ? Or suppose your reader is one
and the same person, but unskilled, is it
likely that he will get the same sense out of
those five aphorisms that he would get if
tney were primes in me xouowmg lamuiar
form ? v 5 - ! '
'I thank my Ood always en your behalf, for the
grace of Ood which la given you by Jesus Christ;
that In everything ye are enriched by
him, la all utterance, and - in all know
ledge; even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed In you: so that ye come behind In no
Kilt: waiting lor the -corning--of oar Lord Jeius
Christ! who shall also confirm you unto the end.
that ye may be blameless In the day of our Lord
jesus unrisu" . - --------
., . . . f In the divisions into . chapters the same
... : - fatality to the sense- often prevails. Some
times tnesa are bo maLapropo that nothing
but the reverence of the -intelligent reader
saves them from ridicule; but what tends to
. r xoit the ridicule or contempt of the learned
t j Xnay be a blind to mislead, or a barrier to
'atop the unlearned. In Illustration of our
remarks take the story of the vision of the
angel, b told in Joshua, chapters v and vi.
How does our Bible cive it ? Thev cut it in
two. One part is left in chapter v, and the
other part i found in chapter vi, the fifth
cnapter endiue - with.' the. ,l ifvir.fr
.words, "Joshua did so;" that is, took off his
shoe. Of the full import of the narrative the
reader of the fifth chanter will know nothing
and the same is trueof th lender of tha
sixth chapter. ' Unless read in connection
they cannot be understood. In Isaiah the
. thread nignificance of more than one of his
THE DAILYEYEINING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA,. WEDNESDAY:, MAY 18, 1870.
"burdens" is obscured bv these arbitrator In
terruptions. Each prophecy is a poem, and
should be printed as distinctly by itself as a
psalm of David. But the Burden of Babylon
Is cut In two part is in one chapter, part in
another; while the Burden of Palestina is
farrrMul tn Ihfl Anil nf rrianr.AT Tiv aa an anna.
"TB 1 mm mu of'sou-
dage to the Burden of Babylon, In chapter
xxi wreo distinct propnecies concerning
three different countries miiari inf
one. It would be far less misleading to print
""to yotMiuo m uua coapter man tnus
to confuse and confound three prophecies.
Of the same character is the cutting off of
the twenty-first chapter of the Aots from the
twento-seoond chapter. The former, like a
sensation novel published in' parts, breaks off
in the midst of the interest. The same of
fense is repeated at the end of the 23d chap
ter. Of eolirRA. nn nnnh nnnrnrthv mnfivu
influenced Stephen, who happily lived before
heavier jolt, or a more hazardous stumble,
that broke tho thread of Luke's narrative in
these most inopportune places. The Bible 1b
a household volume, given to the poo-
Til A anil for nrivntA raaAinn Tf la A
and heard read, a dozen times as often
as it is nsea xor vemying quotations. Let it,
therefore.be printed in th ntArAntnf ha
people, rather than in the interest of the po
lemic What defense can be made for ampu
tating tbe last part of the eighth chapter of
Mark, and adding it to chapter ix ? It is the
Conclusion Of a most tonnhinor annnnl 4h
immediate jewel" of Christ's discourse. The
man who pernotrated it rnliV.od iha aiVMI.
chapter of that which did not enrioh the
nintfc, and made the former poor indeed.
m m W W
If. now. the ChrinMnn nnKlin aalr "Whiua
duty is it to put the Word before the Ameri
can peonle in a readablA fnrm?" va imwa?
unhesitatingly, The American Bible Society's.
xus putiiuuu, nn weaitu, its power, ana its
Orestice. call Unon it ta fn fliia wrrlr
other house can do it as well and so effective
ly as the Bible-ITonRA. ITnv mnrh if. Mn Art
may be inferred from the fact that it has the
confidence of the Prntantant wnrlrl Tk haa
the patronage of the whole American Church,
nave a portion 01 me uaptist denomination.
It has the market of the entire country.
How much it can hinder by mere in
difference may be gathered from the
limited success of Reeves' Paragraph
Bible, first published in "F.nolnnd in th ha.
ginning of the present century, and repubJ
the Universitv of Oxford. Thnt TtihlA nf
haying been adopted by the societies through
which, by far, the largest number of English
Bibles is circulated, the advantanma nf thia
form of division into paragraphs were neither
sufficiently known nor duly appreciated."
Unless, therefore, this work is undertaken
and done bv these creat nnnint inn what too a
said fifteen years ago must continue to be
i . nrri ... ...
irue: .mere is no sucn mini:: as a readable
Bible."
Fancy Fashions.
"There is no knowing in these davs of
restless luxury," says an English writer,
"what fashion mav not revive. Powder is
already much used this season in Paris, pro
bably it will not be long before it blows over
here; and as for paint, it has been looking up
for a ' considerable time. In the abstract.
1L! J i . - '
uuuuug, ii must oe coniessed, seems more
absurd than to conceal the golden sheen or
siiKy uiacsjiess oi women s nair under a snow
shower of scented flour. But in practice the
result is far from unpleasant. Go into a
flour-mill and see a robust young miller at
work: yon will then at once observe what a
value the rose oolor and healthy carnations of
his complexion gain from the whiteness of his
hair. Certainly his eyes look richer and
darker from the contrast, and the result is an
scathe tic rain. At all events, nowdnr ia hat
ter than the gold-dust used to spangle the
hair of French ladies some seasons ago. That
fashion lavored too much of the days of the
ltoman empresses, when careless slaves were
sometimes thrown into tanks to feed the
ampreys. Gold-dust I Why, the glistening
of a tress of golden hair, untempered by any
such sophistries, exoels metallio gutter as
much as a sunbeam transcends a streak of
yellow paint.
"There is no knowing what may not be re
vived. Perhaps the peasood doublets of
Raleigh's time, (he sleeves hung with gilt
bells of ltichard the beoonda period, the
tight-fitting cote hardies and broad jewelled
belts of Edward the Third's barons, or the
cocked hats and three-tier wigs of the Geor
gian era. The Greeks had other views
about these matters. They never changed
their style of dress. The plain robe and
tunio of Phidias resembled the robe and
tunic of Demosthenes; the peplam of Helen
hung in similar folds to that of the peplum
of Aspasia. The u reeks never grew tired
of the simple folds and the statuesque carves
of the. simple dress their first sculptors had
immortalized. What would they have said
to the 'Grecian bend,' that last distortion
of folly and affectation? The purest ideal
or the way a woman should walk is the
manner in which a milk-girl carries her
pail erect, buoyant, elastio, the bosom
thrown forward, the head up. Put such a
child of nature, Irish or Welsh, beside a
young lady walking in the absurd way now
fashionable. It matters little whether the
modern belle tries to walk so, or whether
high-heeled shoes produce in her that Chi
nese helplessness. Une would think she was
trying to play a sort of female pantaloon, as
she minces forward with pretty helplessness,
some form of Rpinal disease being induced by
every step, r arewell to what French cynics
call 'the grenadier stride' of Englishwomen.
Women totter forward now, they do not walk.
Tbe French shuffle and tho Spanish glide are
divine compared with such a style of walking
as the Ureoian bend produces. The bend
is ungraceful, unnatural, and unhealthy. But
it is useless to remonstrate or revile. What
did Punch do against crinolines ? No folly in
dress was ever laughed down. What did
Hogarth do against the absurdities of his day ?
Nothing. It is supposed that women's fickle
ness in dress arises from a desire to please
man.; If.it does, how. is it that a folly in
dress never alters one feonr the sooner for all
man's ridicule or dislike'?''
J Z-A writer in the Adcance&js-. "Not eo
long since I heard sung in tbehurch the an
them "Rock of Ages," in which there is a solo
to the words, "Should my tears," etc, which
was sung as follows:
' "(shoo-hoo-hood osy-hi-to-hears
Por-eh-ver-her rlow-ho,
Stoo-hoo-hood my-hi-ze-heaJ
No langor kno-ho,
Tbi-his for- bor si-hin could
No-hot ah-ha-to-hone,
Thou-how muh-hust sa-have,
And thou-how ah-ha-lone,
In my hand no price I brina,
Simply to thy craw-hosa f-hi cling."
XT E WELL, LANDSCAPE AND GENERAL
Xl liumaa Fbotocrapbai, Ma TH AKOU Street, bu
rr laouny I or uuunc j-uutograpba 0r uountry Beats la
n mt of tha State. alorCIiauLl. m-nnfauLnriii-a- and im.
portera ama Bf Mauplet ol twit ybetotfrftyd in toe
tori vm w im
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First Mortgage Bonds
Of TBI
DanTllle, Ilazleton, and Wilkes
barre Railroad Company,
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At 05 and Accrued Interest
I : '.
Clear of all Taxes
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INTBUBST PAYAfcLB APRIL AND OCTOBKB.
Persons wishing to make Investments are Invited
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Pamphlets "applied and fail information given by
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FINANCIAL AGENTS,
No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
418 tf
PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken In
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WE OFFER FOR SALE
THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
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AND
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These Band ran THIRTY TEARS, ai pay SKVXR
PlR CENT, in tercet in gold, eleu of all taxes, payable
at the Ftrrt Rational Bank in Philadelphia. .
The amount ol Bondi leaned la 80'A5,OOO and are
Moored by a First M ortgaie on real aetata, railroad, and
franchisee ef tha Company tha former of which eoet two
hundred thousand dollars, which haa been paid for from
Stock subaeriptions, and after tha railroad ia finished, ae
that the product of tha mine ean be brought to market,
it U estimated to b worth 81,000,000. 1
Tha Railroad connect with tha Cumberland Valley
Railroad about four miles below Ohambersbare;, and mn
through a aeotion of the most fertile part of tha Camber,
land Valley.
We sell them at 99 and accrued interest from Maroh L
For farther particular apply to
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FREE OF ALL TAXES. .t j
ALSO, ' j
PhiladelpWa and Tarty Sailroad 7
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Coupon payable by the Chesnut and Walnut Streets
Railway Company. i
These Bonds will be sold at a price which wtt
make them a very desirable Investment. f ; k
P. 0. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
Ml ' PHILADELPHIA, -
FINANOIAU.
Wilmington and f Reading
riAILIlOAD
Bcvcn Per Cent. Bonds.
FREE OF TAXES.
We are offering; g900.00O of the
Second 9Iorf caff Honda ot
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AT 82 AND ACCitUED INTEREST.
Foa the convenience of investors these Bonds are
Issued In denominations of
$1000s, tSOOaj, and 100s.
. The money is required for the purchase of addl
tlonal Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the
Road.
The receipts of the Company on the one-half of
the Road now being operated from Coateavule to Wil
mington are about TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per
month, which will be more than DOUBLED with the
opening of the other half, over which the large Co
Trade of the Road must come,
Only SIX MILES are now required to complete
the Road to Blrdsboro, which will be finished by
the middle of the month.
WI. PAINTER & CO.;
' BANKERS,
No. 36 South THIRD Street,
68 1 PHILADELPHIA.
LEIIIG1I CONVERTIBLE
6 Per Cent First Mortgage Gold Loan,
Free from all Taxes.
Wa offar for aala $1,780,000 of tha Lehigh Ooal and Wavi
ration Company' new First Mortae 811 Per Cent. Gold
Bonds, free Mom all taxes, interest due Maroh and Bap
tember.at
rjirjETY (90)
And interest in currency added to data of pnrohaae.
Thee bonds are of a mortgace loan of 94,000,000, dated
October 6, 1869. They have twenty fle (86) years to ma,
and are convertible into stock at par until 1879. Prinoipal
and interest payable in cold. "
They are secured by a first mart rage on 6600 acres of
coal land In tha Wyoming Valley, near Wilkesbarre, at
present prodaeinaj at tha rata of 900,000 ton of ooal per
annum, with work in progress which contemplate a large
inerease at an early period, and also upon valuable Real
Estate in this city. .
A sinking fnnd of tan cent per ton npon alt ooal taken
from the mines for five years, and of fifteen cents par ton
thereafter, is established, and Tha Fidelity Inraranoe,
Trust and Safe Deposit I ompany, tbe Trustees under tha
mortgage, collect these sums and Invest them ia these
Bonds, agreeably to tha provision of the Trust.
For full particulars, copies of tha mortgage, etc., apply
to
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4 94 PHILADELFBXA.
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Maters, eto. .
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Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings,
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November 1, 18fl.
fWO.Ooo United Bute Five Per Cent.
Loaa, ten-fortiea in 8, 000 -00
100,000 United States Six Percent.
Loan flawf ol money) 101,TBO-00
- BO.ooo United states Six ret Cent.
Loan, 1881 60.000M0
100,000 Bute of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent Loan 118,900-00
00,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent Loan (exempt from
100,000 State of' New 'jersey six Per W0'W8'00
MnMB Cent Loan 09,000-00
0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent
Bonds 430O0
86,000 Peniwylvanla Railroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent
Bonds B3.63SD0
5,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) K.000-00
0,000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent Loan 16, 000 "00
T.000 fetate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent Loan 4 ABTO-OO
19,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
. ,PaIiy. 260 "harea stock li.000-00
D.000 North PeniMjlvanJa Rail- .
road Company, loo shares
stock t.900'00
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall steamship com-
... . P11 80 shares stock T.BOO-OO
6,9Q0 Loans on Bond and Mort
gage, first liens on City
Properties M.toO'OO
11,981,400 Par. Market value. l,as, 370-O0
BAallCataf- COSt H.915,828-97.
Real Estate BS.OOO'OO
Bills Receivable for Insurances made.'" taa.TOO'W
Balances due at Agencies:
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
Interest and other debts doe the Com
pany S0.09TTO
8tck, Scrip, etc, of Sundry 'corporal
tlons,!470. Estimated value.......... 170-90
Cash In Drawer bh-m
169,M114
11,869,100-04
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Thomas C Hand,
I Samuel B. Stokes,
Edmund A. Bonder,
Theophllus Paulding,
James Traqualr,
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Henry C. Dallett, Jr..
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WUllam C. Ludwlg,
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Hugh Craig,
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George W. Bern&doa,
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rr luuuu M. UOUltOU,
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Joshua P. ttvtb.
Spencer McUvaln,
j. u. oempie, mttsDnrg,
A. R. TtArcroi PIHahn.r
ID. T. Morgan, Pittsburg
THOMAS C. HAND, President
HENRY LYlXVZr?
HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. n
HOMESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Policiei Issued on all the Ordinary
Plana, ,
AT LOW RATES OF PREMIUM,
With full participation In the Fronts.
All Policies Non-Forreltable.
Ful Cash Surrender Indorsed on Each Policy.
NO RESTRICTIONS A8 TO TRAVEL OR RESI
. DENUE. k
The form of poUoy adopted U a plain and Simple eon.
timet, precise and definite in its terr and fraa frou
ambiguous conditions and restriction. .
(Special attention is called to the
HOMESTEAD PLAN
this Company, offering the
COMBINED ADVANTAGES
OF TBI
Building Association
AHD OV
, I-lfo Insurance.
Every Policy Holder Secures a
House of Ills Own,
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, furnished on appli
eation to tha Company, .
OFKIOE, "
N. W. corner Seventh and Chesnut St,
PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM M. SETFERT, President. I
LATJRXNCK MYERS,
Vioe-Preeident.
D. HAVES AGNKW. M. D.,
Medical Director.
R. W. DORPHLKT,
Secretary.
WILLIAM L. HIRST
OonnseL
DIMCTOH.
Wm. B. Reaney,
Edward BamueL
H. P. Mnirheid.
Clayton MoMiohaet 49Sn
Win. M. Beyfert,
Laar.no. Myers,
J. M. Myers,
Wm. B. MoManas,
1829a CHARTgR FERFETUAL. 2gJfJ
Fraiiiin Fire Insnrance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Not. 435 and 437 CHESSTUT St
Assets Jan. I , '70L$2I825,73 1 '67
CAPITAL 4400,000-00
AOORUJU SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.... Maoalul
INCOMK FOR 1SL0,
$610,000.
LOSSES PAID in tarn
Alii ri.ji.iri "WS7.
Losses paid since 1829 over $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Term.
The Company also issue polioiee npon the Rente of all
kwda of buildings, (4 round Rente, and Morta-irea.
Ice "U A NKUN-ha.ee DUiPUXAD OLAiiL
C mam) aV
DIRJIOTOR ,j
Alfred O. Baker.
Samuel Grant,
George W. RiohardS,
Iaaao Lea.
el'bomastjparkw
WilUamSTUrab.
Thomas 8. Kills.
Oaorga ialea.
ALFRED n ha kkh WMi.(nl
OKOKHB KALKS, Vloe-Preaidena,
JAMF8 W. MOALL18TKR. SeoreUry.
THKODORK M. RiCOKB. Aaaiatant Seoretary. 1 1)
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1M26 Cnarter Perpetual.
No. olO WALNUT btreet, opposite Independence Bquara.
This Company, favorably known to the ootnmnnity foe
over forty years, oontinuee to insure against loss or dam
ago by hre on Public or Private buildtnge, aiiner perma
nently or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, btock
of (ioods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
Tb.ir Capital, tonetber with a large Surplus Fund, is
Invented in tbe moat careful manner, which enable them
to offer to tha insured an undoubted aeourity ia tha oaae
ofl- diuICtoBS.
Daniel Smith, Jr., j John Devereox,
Alexander benson, I Thomas bmito, ,
luuio liailebunt, 1 lienry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, I J. Uilliugham FalL
Daniel Iladdook. Jr. ' . .
DANIEL HMITU. Ja. President.
WM. O. CROWE LL, Becretary. '
TEE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADKLPHIA.
Offlc 8. W .corner of FOURTH and WALNUT BUeet
FIRE INbURANCK EXOM'KIVKLY.
PEBPit'iUAIi AND 1'HRM POUOIES leSUFD.
OAbii Capital (paid up in full)....... ttAM.uuO'OO
Caak Aaaets, (U'l ,
F. Ratohford 8tarr, , J. Livingston Erring -
Nalbro krasier, Jamee I- Ulaghocn. i '
John M. Atwood, Wm. (i. Bouiton. , '
beuj. T. Tredick, tlharle Wbeaier,' '
Claorge H. btuart, i Tbomaa U. Montgomery, ' '
John H. Brown, James M. Aertaao,
F. RATUHFORD 8TAUK, President.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vi-PridaiiL
ALEX. W. WlbTKK, KeoreUry.
JACOB K. PaVl JUCbON, Aawstaat BacreUry.
INSURANCE.
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AHERICA.
JaTOABT I, im
Charter PerwexaavL
CAPITAL .m . S 300,000
ansets A,rs3,asi .
Iamm paid dace rcnnlzatUs).... 933,000,000
Receipts f Premlnna, lH09...1,9913r4S
latereM frasm laveatnseaU, 69. 114,6964
te. P-J. 1869.........;. JtoJISSS'S
rStsueaBesit ar ths Aaeeta. , ,
l0TXnJHiW Pro?"rt: ....I.. 768.450'
jm wTHWDfni ana otasr rflsj
Bond
Railroad, Bank and Oanal Btook.....".,.V,V" ,
Caah in Bank and Offloe
Loan, en OoliaUral Becurity .....
Rote Re eei Table, mostly Marina Premium...
Aeerued Intereat
Premium in oouree of transmUalea.
Unsettled Marina Premium m
Real Eatata, Offloe of Company Philadelphia..
U9t84t
S.70S
KIM
8067
SMSS
looos
vno
DIRKOTORa S3W1
BamuelW.J ,, Ki ward U. Trotter.
9Zbn. A J?r? Edward & OlaVkeT'
Charles Taylor, . T. Obarltoa Ilanrv
ArnhroaeUb.te.
B. Morns Wain, Charlee W. ttasWa.
Job" "0". Olemecit AUrS
ttaorge la Uarrlaoa, WilUam BrookieT
ARTHUR O. OOFFIH, Proeident
OUARLKS PLATT, Vloa-Preaidant
MATTRUS Makis, Becretary.
O. H. Rirvxa, AasigUmt Secretary. , ' t
pIRI AB8O0IATIOB.
INCORPORATED MARCH 47, 1690.
OFFICE,
BO. M NORTH FIFTH BTREET
, INSURE)
BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY,
From Loss by Firs (in the City of Philadelphia only).
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 180, S1,S79,73!!)S.
TRUSTEES. ; t 'A
WM. H. HAMILTON.
JOHN OARROW,
GEORGE I. YOUNG,
JOS. R. LYNDALL,
iOHARLKS P. BOWER.
Rf 1HT1 Bliniruilri1
PETER-ARMBRUsf:
i.nvi r. uuatd,
BAMUEL BPARHAWK
m. n. uiurviix HUN.
snsna. 'riCTKK WJM.li tiann
.innVPli V onuori """"I
WM. H. HAMILTON, Preeideni,
BAMUEL 8PARHAWK, yice-President,
WILLIAM T. BUTLER
' ' ' ' ' Secretary.
IH
pAME
INSURANCE COMPANY,
NO. 809 CHESNT7T Stvaat.
INCORPORATED 186A CHARTER PERPETUAIa
CAPITAL $300,000,
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
InsuraneeCaa-aiBst Loss or Damage by Fir either b Pa
patuai or Temporary Puliciaa. ,
. . . DIRECTORS. ...
unane Hiotiardaon, . Robert Pearo.
William VI Sh...
WilUam M. Beyfert.
John V. Bmith,
Nathan Hilles.
John K easier, Jt-
Charles Stokes, :
John W. Evermaa.
Ueorge A. West,
OHARI.FS BlfiniRTVin. x '.ia .
WILLIAM 1L RHAWN. Vioe-Preaidsct
WlIXIAMS I. BLAKcaaBD, Secretary. 733
JMPERIAIi F1BE INSURANCE CO.,
' LONDON. 1
1 ESTABLISHED 1803. -
'. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Fundi,
g8,000,000 "IPf GOLD.
, PREVOST & HERRING, Agents,
4 No. 107 S, THIRD Street, PhlladelphiaT"
OH AS. M. PRBVOBT OHAJB. P. HERRtNQ
( LOMBERi
1870
BPRUCB JOI8T.
BPRUCK JOIST.
H KM LOCK. '
HKMXOCK.
1870
1 Q7A 8KABONED CLEAR BINS, QptA
10 I U B BASONED CLKAR PINK, " lo7U
, CHOICB PATTBRN PINS.
' SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTKKN&
R&D CEDAR. . -
1870
. FLORIDA FLOORING, , ; Opt A
1 FLORIDA FLOORING. S i lOlO
: CAROLINA FLOORING.
. VIRGINIA FLOORING.
1 ' DELAWARE FLOORING. '
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING. i
FLORIDA 8TEP BOARDS.
' RAIL PLANK. ' ;J
1 ft 7 A WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK, -f QryA
lO i U WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANIlIoYO
WALNUT BOARDS. -
1 WALNUT PLANK. .
1Q7A UNDERTAKERS' LTMBKR. -iQni
lO t J UNDERTAKERS' LUMBJChV loll)
RED CEDAR. " w
r WALNUT AND PINB. '' 1
1870
SEASONED POPLAR,
BJKAONKD CHERRY.
1870
ABU.
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
1 Q7A CIGAR BOX MAKERS' OTA
10 4 U CIGAR BOX MAKERS' lOlO
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS.
FOR SALE LOW.
1 P.7A . CAROLINA BCANTLING. , qha
10 i U 1 ' CAROLINA H. T. SILLST lo70
NORWAY BCANTLLNG.
1870
CEDAR SHINGLES, -.OTA
CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOlV
, MAULS. BROTHER A CO.,
No. aooo south street
119-
.TANEL PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES.-.
W""rOOMMOBOARDriUiJBa,U
. 1 and I BIDE t ENOB BOARDS.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS.
' VBT V1W 1 V T 1 1 U Dlvif l nnn TTy . ...
'BPRUOE JOIST. ALL SIZHS. "awMil
HKMLOOK JOIST, AIX BIZES.
riaBijuuMU um A brUUlAtiTT,
Together with a general aaaortmant of Rruiding Imbg
for eel low fat eaah. T. W. b MALTA.
ll4m
FIFTEENTH and STILES Btreet.
United-States - Builders' 'Mill,
FrFTEEHTH Street below Market
ESLER & BROTHER,
PROPRIETORS. ; f ' 4 89 8m
Wood MoaldlDgs, Brackets and General Turning
Work, Hacd-rall balusters and Newel Posts.
A LARUE ASSORTMENT ALWAYS ON HAND.
UMBER UNDB R COVER,
ALWAY8 DRY. . . .l
Walnut, White Pine, YeUow Pine, Bprnce, Hen
lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rates.
' WATSON A GLLUN'G HAM,
M No. 924 RICHMOND Street, 18th ward.
BUIL.DINQ MATERIALS.
E. E; THOMAS & CO.,
DIALIBS Df " ,
Doors,1 Blinds, Sash, Gutters,
. i , , WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., ,
' 1 ' K. W. OOHMSS J
EIGHTEENTH and MAEKET Street
4181 ' ' ' ' PHILADELPHIA.
J" ET GOODS NEWE8T BTILEs" DIXON'S
&81B.aUttHTUattrA ' Mliiw