6 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1870 A TALE OF ANCIENT WRONG. From, the N. V. tTation. About this time of the year, as regularly as the seasons roll, the newspapers begin to dis cuss the Bttbject of "country board," and to reoeive letters abont it from thnt large class of dwellers . in cities to whom the expensive joys of Newport and Saratoga and Sharon are forbidden, bnt who, nevertheless, want to pet to the country with their families during the hot weather, and, partly for the sake of seclusion and plain clothes, and partly for the Bake of eoonomy, resort to the farm-houses. The number of farm-houses which now re ceive city families in July and August is practically unlimited. The boarders, how ever, generally come back to town feeling swindled, attenuated, badly bitten, and some what run down in digestion, and possibly with the seeds of disease implanted in the children by poor fare, vowing, if not swearing, that they have had the last of "country board." By the time the summer comes again, however, the memory of last year's woes has grown faint, and the grass and foliage become tempting, and the streets look hot, and dusty, and lonely, and the children look pale, and another trial is made; and so on from year to year, till some people are lashed into fury by the mere sight of a farmer, and think of a farm-house as a den in which strangers are starved and cheated, under the pretense of being fattened and strengthened; and their indignation is favored by the press, which, in May and June, remonstrates savagely with the agricultural population upon its beds, its beef, its butter and milk, and, indeed, its whole manner of life. We are not so vain as to suppose that any thing we can say can bring the parties in this controversy to an understanding. There are some woes which nothing but the consola tions of religion can assuage, as the lady said apropos of the expensive clothes of her next door neighbor's daughters, and we are far from flattering ourselves that we can pluck from anybody s brain the bitter memories of saleratus bread, and boiled pork, rancid but ter, skimmed milk, or other country delica cies. But we think we can give some reasons why a city family of moderate means and average fortitude should accept the existing condition of country living with at least as much resignation as it accepts the narrowness of fortune, or the dust of the cars, or the dulness of trade, or the weight of taxation. In other words, we think there is more to be said for the farmer and his wife than this pair of badly fed extortioners are likely to say for themselves, partly, no doubt, owing to their callousness, but somewhat to their de fective literary training. In the first place, we think the ideas of farm-house life formed by city people are greatly colored either by boyish recollections of the enjoyment of things only enjoyable when one is very young, very poor, and very inexperienced, or by the literary view of country life derived from magazines and novels. According to the novelists and magazine-writers, the farm is a real Arcadia, flooded, however, with the light of modern thought. The air is ever heavy with the scent of the flowers and the blossoms and the new-mown hay; the orchards are laden with golden fruit; the barn-yard swarms with ten der chickens, and the shelves of the dairy groan under the cream-pans and the cheese; and of these nothing goes to market till the family have had their rill. The farmer him self is a jolly and open-handed man, full of wise saws and modern instances, and his wife, an industrious, bustling, efficient person, with her head full of receipts for dainty dishes, which it is her special delight to pre pare, and which she revels in seeing other people eat. ine picture ot tne daugnters, too, is well calculated to fire the dullest im agination. They make their own clothes, of plain, sensible materials, it is true, but cut on patterns furnished by Harper's Bazar, so that, as far as externals go, they are not dis tinguishable from really good city girls. They do nearly all the work of the house, and delight in it in fact, consider it ' inn witn- out even soiling their dresses, and almost without soiling their fingers, and hate the sight of Irish "helps." They take a 4 'Robinson-Crusoe-like pleasure" in the chores. Every morning "they give the cof fee pot a ration of fragrant beaten paste the brown kernels mixed with an egg: into one frying-pan "they set the milk for the brewis, into which, when it boils up white and drift ing, go the sweet fresh butter and the salt, and then the bread-crumbs; and the result is a light, delicate, savory bread-porridge, to eat daintily with a fork, and be tnanktul for. In the other pan "are the fried eggs and the sprinkle of salt and pepper, and "over it stands Barbara, with a tin-spoon, to toss up and turn till the whole is just curdled with the heat into white and yellow flakes, not one of which is raw nor one dry. When the break fast is on the table, Rosamond puts a tea-rose in a glass vase at the edge of the white waiter napkin, and through the three cool west win dows the morning breeze comes in, and "overbears the remembrance of the cooking and the reminder of the stove. After breakfast, "Ruth Dicks up the dishes, and it is something deli cate to see her scrape them clean with a pliant Knife, as a painter might cleanse bis palette, and then they are set before mother in files and groups on the Pembroke table. She sits in her raised arm-chair, as she might sit making tea for company, and has her little mop and three long, soft, clean towels beside Her. We need hardly say they also con tribute to the Atlantic and Galaxy, and read Emerson. When they propose to take a few boarders in summer, what wonder if people from the city fly to them, and smack their lips over the prospect of the coffee and the brewis and the scrambled eggs, and sniff in anticipation the aroma of the tea-rose? The unvarnished truth the horrid truth- la, however, that farm-life in the United States, aB in all countries in whieh labor is scarce and dear, is a very hard, coarse, mono tonous life. The lovely farm-houses of the poets and novelists are plaoes in which ser vants abound, in which stout dairy-maids milk the early cow and make the fragrant butter, and stout cooks serve the delicious coffee and the savory brewis and the perfect scram Lied eggs; and in which the stout kitchen maids scrapo the dishes, not as the painter scrapes his palette, but in whatever fashion will take the grease off quick est: and stout laborers handle the shovel and the hoe, and the farmer ooks on and grows fat, and his wife coin pounds receipts and follows up the maids, and the girls of the family have time to trim tne roses, and train the sweetbrier, and ride the pony. The farmer who offers you board every summer, dear city people, is a very hard-worked man, who, by constant toil with his own hands from morn till night, all the year round, barely makes ends meet, and lay up something for his old age, and to give hia boys and girls a start in life, or send them to school or college. Ilia wife is just as sorely tried as himself, and has for many years found the preparation even of the fare you torn up your notes at such a very dismal task the btove so b"t and her back s weary that not only is her repertory of receipt very small, . and , not only does she not care to add to it, but she wishes in her heart there was no Bach thine as food known, and would herself, were it not for the cravings of her men folk, gladly live on tea and bread or coffee and pie all the year round. The girls, instead of looking forward eagerly to your coming, and being ready to discuss Shakespeare and the musical glasses with yon, have probably gone off to teach or work in a factory, as the readiest way of supporting themselves and lightening their father's burdens. Even if you should find them at home, however, so far from wanting to make coffee and brewis and bake bread for yon, they have been so long and so faithfully learning the great democratio lesson of equality, that the last thing in the world they wish is to wait on you. They think you are quite competent to wait on yourselves, and that if you did more of it it would be bet ter for you; so they set themselves resolutely to keep you in mind of the futility and base lessness of the little airs of refinement and social superiority which you bring down with you from the city. It must be borne in mind, too, which it seems not to be by many persons, that farm ers who offer country board are not induced to do so by a feeling of compassion for the city people, or from a desire to bring the roses back to their cheeks. They are induced to do it by the hope of making a little money with the least possible outlay on their part, and the least possible disturbance of their daily life. People who complain of the coarseness of their fare and the badness of their beds talk as if they deliberately went to work to set up a poor boarding-house, and that the poverty of their table was the result simply of a desire to cheat. It is nothing of the kind. The way that the farmer asks you to live is rather better than the way he and his family live all the rest of the year. The saleratus bread is the bread always consumed in the family, and if he sends his fat chickens and his lambs and his best vegetables to the market, it is because he has always done so; if he were to let you eat them, he would probably make little or nothing by keeping you. What you ask him to do when you call for good bread and fresh meat every day, and good vegetab'es and milk of the first quality, is to rearrange his whole life and business for two months in the year. If he were to give you such a table as yon ask for, he would have to get from New York such a cook as you pay sixteen or eighteen dollars a month to; and, instead of the wild "help" whom you see rushing to and fro furtively between the kitchen and the wood-pile like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons, probably picked np in the nearest settlement at five or six dollars a month, he would have to get a waiter or two from the city at double that sum. In short, for the number of boarders his house will contain, the thing would never pay. He does not want to go into a new busi ness; he simply invites you, if want country air, to share the fare and conveniences of his own household. The remedy is to be found if remedy there be in the multiplication of boarding-houses, managed by people who understand keeping them, and make a business of it. Boarding city people cannot be tacked on to farming, as American farm life now is, and as Ameri can women now practise cookery. What we want is a greater number of country inn keepers, who know what city people need to make them comfortable, and are not above try ing to supply it,instead)of making, as so many "hotel-keepers do, a steady ettort to reform city manners, and show guests that their desires are unreasonable. Let us suggest, too, that, now that women are looking about so eagerly for new fields of employment, and are so fretted by the public disinclination to let them be lawyers and brokers, that there is here an excellent opening for farmers' daughtars. A company of young women, in any healthy and pic turesque locality, who could furnish amongst them really good cooks, chambermaids, and waiters, and were not above being polite not servile, h 't polite might, we are sure, reap a golden harvest every summer. There would be little difficulty in their finding houses or capital if they gave any evidence of ability to make use of them; and they might rob sum mer of the terrors it now has for so many thousands of families. But of the improvement of board in farm houses we cannot conscientiously hold out any hope. It cannot come without a total re organization of American agricultural life, and the breaking up of many very deeply rooted habits, and these we are not likely to see in our time. People who cannot stand farm-house board, and cannot afford the great hotels or country houses, would therefore do well to stay at home. If they have to do so, too, we Bee no objection to their persuading themselves, as so many do, that the air of Murray Hill is as pure as any on the continent, and that, for real coolness and repose, there is no place on a summer evening like the stoop of a New xoik house. But there is little use in . abusing the farmers and just as little in dreaming golden dreams of the summer that is to be. All board is vanity and vexa tion oi spirit, whether it be in town or country. There is probably no image whioh bo many active and subtle brains have de lighted in conjuring up as the ideal boarding- house-keeper. Many is the pillow on which she has spread succulent beefsteaks and pota toes done to a turn, and light, wholesome, and well-baked bread, with a winning and respectful smile. But the vision fades with the morning light, and we fear it will be long before poor humanity sees it embodied in flesh and blood. A XEW TUEOli Y OF IMMORTALITY. The immortality of the soul is so conclu sively established in the teachings of Chris tianity that an attempt to prove it on grounds apart from revelation must naturally seem to most minds a mere labor or supererogation, even if it be not one of irreverence; but, as evidence of the curious themes the human mind can invent, we would call the attention of our readers to a most remarkable theory propounded by the late Dr. Ivan Slavonski, a very distinguished Russian mathematician. in which he attempts to give "Mathematical and Physical Proof of the Immortality of Man." But it is not immortality, as we ordi narily understand it, that' the learned mathe matician believed himself to have established, for his "mathematical and physical proof consigns us for vast and indefinite periods of years to utter oblivion, but recalls us upon the stage of life at regular reoumng erao, to re-enact our little drama of existence to be born again, to enjoy, to suffer, to die, exactly as we are now born, and as we now enjoy, suiler, and die. We will endeavor ta make Dr. Klavonhki's extraordinary theory cloar to the reader in os few words as possible. Dr. Slavonski asserts the atomic theory of the universe. The world is composed of a limited and definite number of indivisible atoms. Atoms are detined as the smallest exit-tirp ort'on of rcnt.ter. The inft'i'tf divisibility of matter baa been averted by some philosophers, but Dr. Slavonski asks pertinently whether or not there is the small est existent portion of matter. To say there is not, is to Bay there is a portion of matter smaller than itself, which is an evident ab surdity. The universe being composed of a definite number of atoms, these are cease lessly undergoing change of place, constantly combining in new forms, and with variable results. Bat, the question arises, into how many possible forms may these atoms be arranged, and, when every variation of form is expressed, must not former combinations recur? The letters a and b, for instance, can only be formed into ab and ba; the letters a, b, c, give six variations, or permutations, which are abe, acb, bac, bea, cab, cba. Two things may be arranged by pairs in four ways, as a and b can be placed an, ab, ba. and bb. These letters may be varied by pairs nine ways, and, as evidence "of the number of combinations of a few things taken by twos, by threes, by fours, and so on, it is only necessary to state that in this way the letters of the alphabet would give 1,391, 724, 288,887,252,9'J,J,42."),128,493,402,200 changes, and not one more. This result is definitely fixed by the law of their arrangement. And, iust as there is a law of limitation in the com bination of three, six, or twenty-six letters, so there must also be a law of limitation in the combination ot any number of items or atoms. There must come a time, then, ac cording to this rule, when all possible place changes of the atoms composing the universe will have been exhausted, and nature must return to forms or combinations that have previously existed. This theory, the reader will understand, asserts that the time must come "when the earth will be in the same condition it is at this moment, and that it has already been a vast number of times. The geological eras which have made it what it is will again work out their necessary results, and man will appear again, each individual being precisely the same individual he is now, born of the same parents, be reared under the same circumstances, and live the same life." This surprising theory assumes, it will be noted, that each person is no more than a "fortuitous congregation of atoms, and en tirely eliminates all conception of soul or spirit. The vast interregnum between each of our eras of existence is described as m no way affect ing us, because we should be unconscious of the duration of time. Of what that duration may be, we can form some sort of breathless guess when we recall what we have already told of the number of combinations the English alphabet is capable of. If any one would like to estimate how many years must elapse betore the world returns to its old courses, and things that have been shall once more be, let him assume the largest possible number his imagination can grasp as a possi ble enumeration of the number of atoms in the universe, and then let him aoolv the rule of permutations, which is as fol lows: To find, say, the permutations of two letters, multiply one by two; of three letters, multiply one by two, and the result by three; of four letters, multiplv one by two, the re sult by three, and the last result by four. Seven letters will give five thousand and forty possible changes and with this start we hope some oi our industrious readers will ascertain the time when our earthly turn ought to come around again. But how strange and startling is this proposition ! If it assumes that, at each recurring era, we should be un conscious of preceding ones, then this sort of immortality is nothing to us; immortality, it it concerns us at ail, must mean the per petuation oi our individuality and if it does mean this, then Dr. Slavonski's theory is worse than any purgatory ever dreamed of. Think of men and women being compelled in ever-recurring eras to endure over and over again all their trials, struggles, disappointments, and sorrows, all their pains and ills, all their delusions and sharp disci plines. Think of calamity, and war, and famine, of crime and disease, of persecutions and cruelties, of sloth and -debauchery, of oppression and wrong, being also immortal, forever and forever returning to renew their terrible history! Why, this conception of immortality renders life absolutely appalling, and may well make us hope that Dr. blavon- skis "Mathematical Proof, will be found to have omitted some important factor, by which the dire result predicted may never come about. Appletons Journal. SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES. CECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY, KOBUElir, FIKE, OK AU011JENT. . The Fidelity Insurance. Trust, and Safe Deposit Company, OF PHILADELPHIA. IN THE IB Hew Marble Fire-proof Building, Nae. 39-331 CHESNUT Street. Capital subscribed, 81,000.000; paid, 8330,000. COUPON BONDS. STOCKS. SECURITIES. FAMILY riiaiHi uuin, ua.cua, ana ALU4CLfc3 oi every deboription received for saf .-keeping, under guarantee, at very moderate rates. The OomDanv also rent SAFES INSIDE THEIR HTTR. GLAK-fKOOD' VAULi 8, at prioea varying from $15 to it 16 a year, according to size. An extra aize for Corpora tions and Bankers. Rooms and douks adjoining vault. proviuea ror naie xvouuans. TiwpnsTTS nv twonitv RKnFrvwnnw twtitoiujh at three per cent, puyable by check, without notice, and at lour per cent., payauie uy caeca, on ten aaya' notice. TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OS CREDIT fnmi.h.H available in all pans oi n-aropa. INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one per cent The Comnanv act as EXECUTORS. ADMINHsTRA. TOKS.and (iUAKDIANS, aud REUE1VK and EXE CUTE TRUSTS of every description, from the Courts. uorporauona, ana inmviuuau. N. B. BROWNE, President. C. H. OLAKek, Vice-President. ROBERT PATTERSON, Secretary and Treasurer. n . uiuwuvt Clarence H. Clark, John Welbb, Charles Macalester, W V -D Alexander Henry, Stephen A. Caldwell, tleorge V. Tyler, Hsnrv U. Gibson. itawara w. lutr. J. Giuinghtun Fell, Hen: Pratt MuKeau, 6 13fmw5 TUB PHILADELPHIA TRUST DEPOSIT AND IMHLttANCK COMPANY, OrHCK AMD BURULAB-PROO VAULTS IN THE PHILADELPHIA BANK BUILDING. No. 421 OHE8NUT STREET. O A P I ill, 1500,000. For Bant-utPiNO of Government Bonds and other Stcuai'i'uca, t am ilk Plate, Jewllmv, and other VaXO- ajulb, unuti special Euarautee, at ui. lowest radea. The Company also offer for Rent at rates varying from Bio to f io per annum, tne renter alone nolillng toe key. SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS affording absolute Secdbjti against FiaE, TBEirr, Baa GLAjtx.ena aixidcti All fidnoiary obligations, such ai SHIPS, KXKt UlUUkUlira, etc, will faithfully discharged. Tbcsts, Ooardu De undertaken Circulars, giving full details, forwarded on application DIRECTORS. Thomas Robins, , lieujamin B. Oomegya, Lewis R. Antihunt, Augustas He&ton, J. LiviUKSton i.rnuner, I V. Rutchford btarr H. Y. WcCiullKiih, I Duniel Haddock. Kdwin M. Lewis, Kdw&rd Y. TowuAeua, James L. Claghorn, 1 John U. Taylor, Uoo. m. A. Porter. OtliCfcHS. v,,wI,EWlS K, AM1HUR8T. Vifri'..ia.-J. LIVIM.STOS ERR1NOITR. fc,fi,i;orii rramrfTll, P. MoUlillAUH. S. i. i.--KiLHAHU L. AH11UU UKT. I nith (oa I. SCCL5 FOIl J5 CZ11TS. J lt Uttuil FINANCIAL LEHIGH CONVERTIBLE Per Cent First Mortgage Gold Loan, Free from all Taxes. W. offer for Ml $1,750,000 of the Lehigh Ooal and Karl ration Oomranj'i nsw First Mortgage 8U Par Cent. Gold Bonds, frea from all taxes. Interest doe March and Sap timber, at NINETY (90) And interest In currency added to data of purchase. These bonds are of a mortgage loan of 8a.000.000. dated Oolober 6, They have twenty-fire (25) years to ran, and are convertible into stock at par until 1879. Principal and interest payable in gold. They are secured by a first mortgage on 6000 acres of coal lands in the Wyoming Valley, near Wllkesbarre, at present prodnoing at the rate ot 900,000 tons of ooal per annum, with works in progress whioh contemplate a large Inorease at an early period, and also upon valuable Baal Kstate in this city. A sinking fnnd of ten cents per ton upon all ooal taken from the mines for fte years, and of fifteen cents par ton thereafter, is established, and The Fidelity Insuranoe. Trust and Safe Deposit Company, the Trustees under the mortgage, collect these sums and invest them in these Bonds, agreeably to the provisions of the Trust. For full particulars oopies of the mortgage, etc, apply to O. A H. BOR1H. W- H. HKWBOLD. SON A AGRTSEJV JAT COOKE A CO.. DREXEL A CO., E. W. CLARK A CO. 6 11 1m UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Land Grant Conoon Ilonds, $1000 Each, Interest April and October, for sale at 17(H) each. They pay SEVEN (7) PER CENT. Interest, run for twenty (20) years, are secured by 12,000,000 acres of land, an lying wltwn twenty (20) miles of tne rail- road. TUB UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY RECEIVE THEIR LAND GRANT BONDS FOR THEIR FACE AND ACCRUED INTEREST in pay ment or any of tnelr lands. From July 23, 1SC9, to date, the Company have re ceived upwards of seven hundred tliousand dollars In cash and land grant bonds In payment for lands, sold by inem. Pamphlets giving fall details of the land can be obtained by application to DE HA YEN & BEG, i No. 40 South THIRD Street. B. K. JAMISON & CO.. BUCCESSORS TO r. F. KELLY te CO, BANKERS AND DEALERS IN Geld, Silver and Government Bonds At Closest market Bates, IT. W. Cor.. THUD and CHESNUT St.. Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS In New York and Philadelphia Block Boards, eto. etc 8W S I JL. '"V 22 JEL FOR SALE. C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. SO South THIRD Street. ss PHILADELPHIA, (LraDlXXIXCj., IAVI fc CO., No. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GlENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORY, No. 17 WALL STREET, NEW YORKJ BANKERS AND BROKERS. Receive deposits subject to check, allow Interest on standing and temporary balances, and execute orders promptly tor tne purchase and sale of STOCKS, BONDS and GOLD, In either city. Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia house to New York. n R 8 Williamsport City 6 Per Cent Bonds. FREE OF ALL TAXES. ALSO, Philadelphia and Darby Railroad Per Cent Bonds,' Coupons payable by the Chesnut aad Walnut Streets xuuiway company. These Bonds will be sold at a price which will make tnem a very aeairaDie investment. P. 8. PETERSON & CO.. Nd. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 869 ' ' - PHILADELPHIA E LLIOTT i u n l BANKERS Wo. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET, DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURI TIES, GOLD BILLS, ETC. DRAW pir.l-h UP EXCHANGE AND ISSUB COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT ON THE UNION BANK OP LONDON. ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OP CREDIT ON LONDON AND PARIS, available throughout Europe. Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of o&arre for parties making their financial arrangements with us. M( FINANCIAL. QEVEN PER CENT. First Mortgage Bonds or TBS DanYille, Ilazleton, and Wllkes barre Railroad Company. At 85 and Accrued Interest Clear of all Taxes. INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER. Persona wishing to make Investments are lnrlted jo examine tne merits ot these BONDS. Pamphlets 'applied and fall lnlonnatlon given by Sterling & Wildman, FINANCIAL AGENTS, No. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 19 tf PHILADELPHIA. Government Bonds and other Securities taken In xebange lor the above at best market rates. WE OFFER FOR SALE THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THX SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY. These Bond run THIRTY TEARS, aud pay SEVEN PHR CENT, interest in gold, clear of all taxes, payable at the First National Bank in Philadelphia. The amount of Bond, issued ia 86'I5600, and are secured by a First Mortgage on real estate, railroad, and franchises of the Company the former of whioh ooat two hundred thousand dollars, whioh has been paid for from Stock subscriptions, and after the railroad is finished, so that th. product, of th. mines ean be brought to market, It U estimated to be worth 81,000,000. The Railroad connects with the Cumberland Valley Railroad about four miles below Ohambersburg, and runs through a section of the most fertile part of the Cumber land Valley. We sell them at 09 and aoerued interest from Mareh L For farther particulars apply to C. T. YERKES. Jr., OO.y BANKERS, ETO 2 SOUTH THIRD .STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Wilmington and Reading RAILROAD Seven Per Cent. Donds. FREE OF TAXES. We are oUerincr $200,000 of the Second Mortgage Ilonds oi tills Company AT 82J AND ACCRUED INTEREST, Foa the convenience of Investors these Donds are Issued in denominations of $10008, $500s, and 100s. The money Is required for the purchase of addU tlonal Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the Road. The receipts of the Company on the ODe-half of the Road now being operated from CoatesvlUe 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 Coa Trade of the Road must come. Only SIX MILES are now required to complete the Road to Birdsboro, which will be finished by the middle of the month. WM. PAINTER & CO., BANKERS, No. 36 South THIRD Street. BO PHILADELPHIA. JayCooke&(Q). PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND WASHINGTON, BANKERS Dealers in Government Securities. Special attention given to the Purchase and Sale of Bonds and Stocks on Commission, at the Board of Brokers In this and other cities. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS. GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD. RELIABLE RAILROAD BONDS M-ENT, FOR INVEST- Pamphlets and full information given at our office, No. 1 14 S.TIII11I Street, PBILADELPHIA. 1418m 0. C. WHARTON SMITH t CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, Ko. 121 BOOTH WIRD 8TREET. DooMson to Smith, B tadolpb Oa, hHI brtneto ot tts sasmsM will bt. prompt .tuntio. ss bsr.telorc QaoUtiona Oi Mock, UoiTamnU, sad tiold Oob. s?itlf rM.Mt rc.m York brwc Whr, box MS MBdl,B4mas4D ft 0 financial; A DESIRABLE f J Safe Home Investment THE Sunbury and Lewislown Railroad Company Oiler $1,200,000. Ilonds, bearing 7 Per Cent. Interest in Uold, Secured by a r First and Only Mortgage. The Bonds are issued in $1000s. $500s and $4009. ; The Coupons are payable in the city of Philadelphia on the firsi days of April and October, Free of State and United States Taxes. The price at present is SO and Accrued Interest in Currency. This Road, with its connection with tho Pennsylvania Railroad at Lewistown, brings the Anthracite Coal Fields 67 MILES nearer the Western and Southwestern markets. With this advantage it will control that trade. The Lumber Trade, and the immense and valuable deposit of ores in this section, together with the thickly peopled distriot throngh which it runs, will secure it a very large and profitable trade. WM, PAINTER & CO., BANKERS, Dealers in Government Securities, ' No. 36 South 6 9 tp THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. Free from U. S. Taxes. t. Eight Per Cent. Per Annum in Gold. A PERFECTLY SAFE INVESTMENT. First Mortgage Bonds OF THE ISaiJE OP $1,500,000, i BY TBI ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD CO.; Issued in denominations of $ 1000 and $ 300, Coupon or Registered, payable in 30 years, with Interest payable 15th August and 15th February, in New York, London, or Frank fort, free of tax. Secured by a mortgage only on a completed and highly prosperous road, at the rate of $13,50379 per mile. Earnings in excess of its interest liabilities. This line being the llidJle Route, is pronounced the Shortest and most Natural O ne for Freight and Passenger Traffic . Across the Continent. St. Louis and Fort Kearney Spanned by a Sail- way, and connect- , ing with the Union Pacific at Fort Kearney. Capital Stock of the Company.. ..$10, 000, 000 Land Grant, pronounced value of 8,000,000 First Mortgage Bonds 1,500,000 $19,500,000 The remaining portion of this Loan now for sale at 1)7 J and accrued interest in cur rency. Can be had at the Company's Agen cies in New York, TANNER & CO., Bank ers, No. 49 WALL Street, or W. P. CON VERSE Sc CO., No. 54 PLNE Street. Pamphlets, Maps, and all information can be obtained at either of the above-named agencies. The attention of Capitalists and Investors is particularly invited to these Securities. We are satisfied they are all that could be desired, and unhesitatingly recommend them. TANNER & CO., FISCAL AGENTS, No. 49 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. W. P. CONVERSE & CO., COMMERCIAL AGENTS, No. 54 PINE STREET, 6 9 tfrp ' NEW YORK. WATER PURIFIERS. PARSON'S Iew Iatent Water filter and l'urllier Will effectually cleans, from U IMPURITIES, and r moT. .11 foul tast. or smell from wster pused through it. In operation snd lor ssls at th. MANUFACTORY, No. S3U DOCK Street, and seld b House-furnishing Stores generally LEXANDER G. OATTELL & CO. PROPtJOK OOMMIBSION M H ROHAN rS. Ko. MJiOBTU WUABVKU Wo. r NORTH WATFR BTRKKT. P'?M.DlLi'iiL4 AUSAWPU G. OATXUJe KUMJi OAZXU
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