Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1883 — Page 7

THE DAY'S RAILWAY NEWS Coal a More Economical Fuel for Locomotives ttian Coke. Where the Railroad Interests of St. Louis Are Lauie Matters of Geuerai Interest. Person ill Points. J. H. Iledrten, chief train-dispatcher of the Evansville & Terre Iluute road, has resigned, and M. 8. Conners is his successor. Henry Monnett to-day retires from the position of general passenger ageut of the Nickelplate, to take a similar position on the West fflhors A Buffalo. H. 8. Craig, engineer of maintenance of way ,n division of the P., C. St St. L. oast ot Columbus, 0., retires to-day, owing to ill-health. ±ns rnn n ceasor is yet to be appointed. B. F. Horner who has represented the interests of the Pea nay Irani* road at Chicago for some years past, to-day takes the general passenger •gency of the Nickel-Plate road. Lery Here, late superintendent of bridges on the J., M. A I. road, to-day assumes the position superintendent on-tlie western division or tiie Louisville A Nashville road, which extends from £fasbvllle to Evansville. One of the busiest superintendents on Indiana fode is K. C. Murphy, of the Wdmsh. Helios under his supervision 371 miles of road, namely: From Indianapolis to DetroU, Peru to Michigan City, and Denver to Logansport. H. \V. Hibbard, general freight agent of tho Vandaliu, left for the East yesterday, and D. M. Kendrick, assistant general freight agent of the system, who is lu ill health, has goue to New Mexico to be absent some weeks. P D. Ford has been Appointed supervisor of the New York division of the Pennsylvania railroad, between Trenton and Philadelphia, to succeed the late Jonathan B. Wright, who was the pioneer of Eastern railroad supervisors. President McKeen’s private car passed through tho city yesterday, eu route for Pittsburg, and ■will le used to convey a bridal party to California the Inner part of the w*ek. Miss Ford, a ■daughter of General Passenger Ageut E. A. fsrn, is to be married. W. W. Mansfield, engineer of maintenance of 4ray on the several divisions of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati A St. Louis, which are under the. superinteadoncy of J. F. Miller, and Harry Miller, engineer of bridges and stations on tho same, are In the city on official business. 8. C. Baxter, who retired from the position 4>t chief clerk of the west-bound business In the Jiee Line office to accept to-day the position of a**hier in the Wabash freight office, was last evening presented with an elegant diamond pin and diamond miff buttons by his late associates. Tom Peek succeeds Mr. Baxter In the Bee Liue -office. Local Notes. The programme now is for the Bee Line people to commence operating the Terre Haute A South Eastern road the 15th of this mouth. The American Express Company is is arranging to put messengers on between rndiannpolis and Chloagn, over the Air Lise, April 1, 1883. Passenger men report travel to have Increased 50 per cent, during the few davsiho weather In** been pleasant, and trains making schedule ilme again. There are now fourteen miles of side track at Am trews, the new division point ou the Wabash, St Louis A Pacific and ten miles additional is to be laid this season. To-dar the Ameriohn Express Company will pit their messengers on the Nickel-plate road. Tlie Indiana division will he uuder charge of Superintendent E. W. Sioane. Tin lumber movement has now set in briskly. Heavy shipments are coming in from the Northern pineries, and Southern pine is coining North by train 10.-tds, consigned to car-works scattered over the Middle States. Shippers at this point who again propose to tackle the local switching question possibly better let well enough alone Investigation will show that at n. railroad center in this country Is similar switching service done at as low a rate. The Bee Lino management la reducing the pay of ns telegraph operators, cutting the salary of some $5 p r month. One would think that this pranch of tbe service was now so Important that living salaries could ho paid first-class operators at least. Friday evening nett the governors of the Board •f Trade will list<-u to the grievance of Hate Ad•jnsrer Peck, who appealed front the action of the railroad committee of the Board of Trade, which notified him that his resignation would be accepted. Indianapolis roads and their connections are oil in good condition again and the usual order of running trains resumed. At the Union depot •an'.he train-board through tho entire day yesterday, showed all trains to r> on time, being the best record in two weeks past. H. C. Towuaeud, general ticket and passenger agent of the Wabash. St. Louis A Pacific, has Just. Issued a very attractive folder as an adverinent. On the outer pages are the time-tables of the several divisions, prepared m a very complete style, while a map and names of nromiDent oouuection* adorn the interior of the folder. The Uniou Hallway Detective Association was reorganized yesterday, John Ewan superintendent of the Bee Line, was elected president; J. W. .Sherwood, superintendent, of the C. I. Rt. L. A J. J. Turner, of the I. & V., and John Ewan were elected executive committee. The detectives employed by this association have done a good work the past year. The Chicago, St. Louis A Pittsburg Railroad Company, which pmchased the Chicago, Columbus A Indiana Central road at the recent fore closure sale, are perfecting their title to the property by placing their deed on record at the respective county seats along the several divisions. Hon. Conrad Baker is the only resident director of the no w com pany. D. H. Lentz, superintendent of machinery at the steel-rail mill, has invented a hooking machine, the use of which, if it 1* successful, will dispense witii eighteen honkers in a mill tho size of the liidisuapolis Steel-rail mill. He is now putting It up at the mill, and experts who have examined the device ane well satisfied that it Is practical and will do the work satisfactorily. A. M. Stewart, general stock agent of the Bee Liue system, is in tlie city. Ho states that as soon as the roadbed becomes fairly settled the company propose to make the running time of itock trains five miles faster per Hour than the present schedule time. The new stock cars of the company sre more substantial In their build than the old rolling s oek, and it will bo safe to run thsir stock trains morn rapidly. W C. Cromer, superintendent of construction of the Bee Line proper, Is in the city, and from buu is learned that the hydraulic interlocking switch aud signal which the company, a few months since, put, in operation at Wellington, 0., Is working to their entire satisfaction, and has never failed to perform its duty. Railroad Commissioner Sabine and twenty-five members of the Legislature of Ohio, a few days since, visited 'Wellington, witnessed its operation, and recouijnended u adoption at railroad crossing points ju the State. For a couple of months past the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago has been using on two or three engines coke instead of coal a* Joel. A month ago the Journal stated that it was not walking satisfactorily'. Bur President lugallt, to thoroughly test its steam-producing power as compared with coal, experimented with coke another month, and after a careful test decides that it is not so economical or well adapted to loomnotives for steaming purposes ns coal, and is ranch harder on t-lie firemen, as a strong lire has to be kept up constantly. General Notes. Commencing with to-day, the Union Pacific will allow 150 pounds of baggagt to a person Zr< e to all points iu Montana. The man age men tof tho Boston, Floosao Tunnel A Western have discharged a large number **f man who have beeu convicted of drunkenness Efficient service is incompatible with tho use of intoxicating drinks. Gigantic operntiona are promised tlie coming eeaso.i in The Pennsylvania coke fields, where two pools have been formed. One or these is Snade up of a number of prominent Pennsylvania railroad officials. The other by parties who Are bucked by Vanderbilt. The now’ Lackawanna freight line, which is to operate between Boston and the West via Fitchburg A Delaware, Lackawanna A Western roads, made arrangements with the Nickel-plate troad which will give it a first-class connection 'tielweeu Buffalo and Chicago. A special from 8t Louis says that, yesterday, lu the Circuit Court, the demurrer of the Mis troitri Pacific Railroad Company, in the suit for possession of the Poplar-street trock, was overruled, and the case will now be set for trial on Issues. This decision Is materially averse to the Gould interests. The Grand Trunk Rail way Company still re fuses to Im a party to any further agreements fbout east bound freights until seme disposal is

made of the Nickel-plate. This would indicate that Vanderbilt either has little to do with controlling Tbe affairs of the Grand Trunk or that he is not so anxious to nsalo tain rates on the trunk lines as he has beeu represented to tie The South Carolina railway la one of tho oldest railroad* In the Uuited States, and the first for which a locomotive whs built In America. Work was begun on it In 1834, and the main line. Chari* *ton to Ansiwin, was completed in 1834: and the road enhstantlolly as it is now was completed in 1848. It is remarkable for having remained so long without increase of mileage and without, toeing absorbed in any great “system.” Before tbe war it was a prosperous aud profitable property, paying large dividends. LIVELY TIMES IN PROSPECT. A Harrisburg special to the New York Sun says that Don Cameron is to lake the position of first v*w6-presided of the Pennsylvania railroad, lately vacated by A. J. Cassatt. The Go wen-Vanderbilt alliance in Pennsylvania, tho proposed new lines east and west in competition with tho Pennsylvania, the assiilt* upon the Standard Oil Company, and the struggle in the Legislature for and against the anti-frclght-diseriinitiation measures, supported by tho Gowen-R.-adiug interests, and opposed by tbe Pennsylvania, all point to a giant wrestle of tho corporations which iua> overshadow the politic* of nußtatS, and in which Cameron, as an officer and leading stockholder of the Pennsylvania, would be a conspicuous flgnre. SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE. The order of the fast-freight line managers to agents to discontinue noting ou way-bill of lumber shipped Last, “actual weight,” is creating a good deal of ill-feeling among lumber men, one of the by-laws oi their association being that they will ship lumber over no line which refuses to make such notations, and prospeots for a bitter fight over the question, between the lumber men anti railroads, is veVy flattering. It is olairaed tiiat no matter bow carefully a car-load of lumber is weighed and its actual weight reported, when that our strike* a New England road and is weighed it is reported over weight and excess charges demanded. C ars have been reporied as iu oxcess of weight at which they were billed 1.000 aud 2.000 pounds, which were weighed at Indianapolis iu tiie presence of witnesses, and were billed at the actual weight, ami tiie opinion prevail* West that the New England roods are tricky in tiie matter. GROWTH OP ST. LOUIS RAILROAD rXT**WSTB. Bt. Louis, as a railroad point, is rapidly gaining prominence. A comparison of the business done by the ro:ids entering East St. Louis and Bt. Louis proper in the years 1877 aud 1882 will show that the tounage and earnings of these lines has increased more largely iu those five years than has tiie tounage aud earnings of the same number of roads in any other section of tho country, The increase of business with Chicago road*, which number niu more than lias St. Louis, is but slightly in excess of the increase shown by tbe less number of Bt. Louis roads. While much of the credit is due to tiie new life which the Jay Gould syndicate has instilled into the Southwestern lines which arc tributary to St. Jsmi* aud to the Wabash proper as well. The Vandalia, the litdiaunpoliH A St. Louis, the Ohio A Mississippi, and last, but not toast, tiie Chicago A Alton have had much to do with the prosperity of the railroad interests of St. Louis, and a* the roadbeds of these several lines have beeu greatly improved, and large additions made to tiie equipments, and all are uuder excellent management. Rt. Louie has by no means yet reached its greatest prominence as a railroad center, and the year 1883 commences very auspiciously, the eigiit more prominent St. Louis roar.s tne first month of tut* year showing an average iit create of 39.9 per ceiit. over earnings of tiie same lines in January, 1882, The Toledo, Cincinnati A Rt. Louis, although a narrow-gauge affair, will soon be running trains into East at. Louis, and will increase their business more or less; but stili more important to St. Louis is the extension of roads already iu operation to Southwestern and Southern points, reaching all the more prominent business town* of Missouri. Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, a portion of Tennessee, theu reaching northwest to Omaha, and at Kansas City connecting with roads for the Indian Territory, Colorado and me great West, mid then on to tiie Pacific coast. The most serious drawback now, even to the prosperty of the Bt. Louis railways is the exorbitant arbitrary charge at the river, and the sooner this is remedied the better for St. Louis ana its railroads. There should be at least two more bridges crossing the river, as matters now stand. An immense amount of business goes out of the way via Chicago to avoid the heavy arbitrary charges at Bt. Louts.

Real Estate Transfer*. Instruments filed for record in the Recorder's office of Marion County, Indiana, for 24 hours ending at 5 o’clock r. m.. Fob. 28, 1883. a* furnished by Elliott A Butler, abstracters of titles, room No. 3, .Etna Building: Maggie Wilson and husband to David 8. Benson, lot 39 iu block 5, of Willliaui Braden’s Riverside addition to tiie city of Indianapolis $509.00 Martha JE. Doran aud J. W. Doran to Sarah E. Cimui.ighnni, lot 21, of Calvin Fletcher’s subdivision of Jots 30, 81, 32,33. 34, 35 and 360f Butler A Fletcher’s addition to College Corner, In tbe city of Indianapolis.. 350.00 John I. Jane s et al. to Mr*. 8. K. Cunningham, lot 24 of Cal vin Fletcher’s subdi vision of lots 30,31,32, 33, 34, 35 and 36, of Butler A Fletcher’s addition to College Corner, iu tiie city of Indianapolis 350.00 Thomas A. Wallace ro George P. Bisreli, trustee, 66 feet north of 130 feet, southwest corner of lot 174, in the city of Indianapolis 690.75 Peter Lieber and wife to Magdalena Bottler, lota 4 and 5 in Dunlap A Tutewllor’s subdivision of lots 20 to 26 inclusive, in B. F. Morris’s addition to the city of Indianapolis 1,800.00 Edward Schurmann ami wife to Henry Schuruiiinn, part of lot 10 and part of lot 9, In square 55, iu ihe city of Indianapolis 25,000.00 Conveyances, 6; consideration $28,690.75 Mr. J. A. Paugii, Logansporf, was cured of aggravated dyspepsia by Brown’s Iron Bitters. REMEMBER THIS. IF YOU ARE SICK. If you are sick. HOP BITTERS will surely aid nature in making you well again whom all else fails. If you are comparatively well, but feel tiie need of a grand tonic aud stimulant, never rest easy till you are made anew being by tne uee of HOP BITTERS. Ts you are. costive or dyspeptic, or are sufferering from any other of tbe numerous diseases of tbe stouiaeh or bowels, it is your own iauit if you remain ill, for HOP BITTERS are a sovereign remedy in all such complaints. It you are wasting away with auy form of Kidney disease, stop temptiug death tilts moment, and turn tor a cure to HOP BITTERS. If you are sick with that terrible sickness. Nervousness, you will find a “Balm iu Gilead” m the use or HOP BITTERS. If you are a frequenter, or a reaident of a miasmatic district, barricade your system against tho scourge oi all countries—malarial, epidemic, bilious, ami intermittent fevers—by the uae of HOP BITTERS, If you have rough, pimply, or sallow skin, bad breath, pains and aches, and feel miserable generally. HOP BITTERS will give you fair skin, neh blood, the sweetest breath, health and comfort. In short, they cure ALL diseases of the Stomach, Bowels. Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, etc... ami SSOO will be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or tor anything impure or injurious found in them. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother or daughter, can be made the picture of health ay a lew bottles of HOP BITTERS, costing but a trifle. Will yon let them suffer? Cleaiiße, purify and enrich the blood with Hop RITTERS, and you will have no sickness or suffering or doctor’s bills to pay. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway. Cleveland, 0., February 15, 1833 The annual meeting of tbe stockholders of this eouipauy, for the election of directors, and for t lie transaction of other business, will bo hold ut tiie office of the company in Cleveland on Wednesday, March 7, next, at 10:30 a. m. The transfer books will be closed on the evening of February 20 and reopedert March 3. GEO. H. RUSSELL, Secretary. GRAND HOTEL, INDIANAPOLIS. IND Passtmgar elevator an J all modern oonven ences. Leading Hotel of the city, and strictly rim-class. Rates, $2.50, $3 aud $3.50 per day. Thelatter price including bath. GEO. F. PFING3T, Proprietor-

THE ESTDIAJS APOLIH JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1883.

UNIVERSAL TESTIMONY* IN FAVOR OF ‘KIDNEY-WORT.’ THE GREAT SPECIFIC FOR KIDNEY DISEASE. LIVER TROUBLES, MALARIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, LADIES’ WEAKNESSES, AND RHEUMATISM. TERRIBLE KIDNEY DISEASE. “Mr*. Hodges says I cannot too highlv praise Kidney-Wort,” say’s Mr. Sum. Hodges, Williamstown, W. Va. “It cured my terrible kidney disease. Mr wife had to turn me over iu the bed, before using it.” SEVERE KIDNEY DISEASE. “I was entirely cured,” recently said Mr. N. Burdick, of tbe Chicopee Box Cos., Springfield, Mas* . “of severs kidney disea.se by using Kid-uey-Wort.” COULD NOT WORK BEFORE. “I’ve had no pain* since I was cured by Kid-ney-Wort.” said Mr. Jus. C Hurd, of the Chicopee Box Cos., Springfield, Mass. “I couldn’t work before using it, so great were my kiduey difficulties.” KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES. “Several ..odor* failed,” write* N. Bteeny, Allegheny City, Pa., “hut Kidney-Wort cured iny kiduey aud liver troubles of two years standing.” KIDNEY COMPLAINT AND DIABETES. “For six years,* says Engineer W. H. Thompson, of C. M. & St. Paul K. R , “I had kidney complaints and diabetes. Kidney-Wort has entirely cured me.” IT HAS DONE WONDERS. “I can recommend Kidney-Wort to all tfie world,” writes J. K. Binguriion, Crestline, 0.. “It has done wonders for me and man}' others, troubled with kidney and liver disorders.” CONSTIPATION, PILES AND RHEUMATISM. I have found in my practice that constipation and pile* in all form*, as well a* rheumatic affections yield readily to Kidney-Wort.—Philip C. Ballou, Al. D.. Monktofi, Vt. PILES SIXTEEN YEARS. “Kidney-Wort is a medicine ot priceless value. I had pile* for 16 consecutive vears. It cured me.”—Nelson Fairchilds, St. Albans, VL GRAVEL, PERMANENT RELIEF. “I have used Kiduev-Wort. for gravel.” recently wrote Ja*. F. Reed, of North Acton, Maine, “and it. gave iue permanent relief.” TWENTY YEARS KINDEY DISEASE. “I had kiduev disease for 20 year*,” writes C. P. Brown, of Westport, N. Y. “I could scarcely walk and ennld do no work. I devoutly thank God that Kidney-Wort ha* entirely cured rae.” A GREAT BLESSING FOR RHXUMATIBM. “It is, thanks to kind Providence, a great temporal blessing,” truly remarks Wm. Ellis, of Evan*. Colorado. The gentleman referred to Kindey-Wort, and its magical curative properties, iu cases of rheumatism and kidney trouble. RHEUMATISM ON THE BENCH. A priceless jewel. J. G. Jewell, a judge at Woodbury, Vt., says: “Kidney-Wort cured my rheumatism. Nothing else would do It.” PILES. From Nantucket, Mass., Mr. Win. n. Chadwick writes: “Klndey-Wort works promptly and efficiently in cases of piles as well as kiduey troubles. It’s a moßt excellent medicine.” LADIES’ TROUBLES. “No medicine helped my three years’ pecular troubles,” says Mrs. H. Lamoreaux. of Isle La Motte. Vt., “except Kidney-Wort. it cured rae, aud tuuuy of my friends, too.” OVER THIRTY YEARS. “I had kidney and other trouble* over thirty years,” writes .Mrs. J. T. Galloway, Elk Flat, Oregou. “Nothing helped me but Kidney-Wort. II will effect a permanent cure.” A PHYSICIAN’S WIFE’S TROUBLES. “Domestic remedies ana prescriptions by myself (a praeticing physician) and other doctors, only palliated my wife’s chronic, two years standing, inflammation yf the bladder. KidneyWort, however, cured her.” These are extracts from a letter of Dr. C. M. Summerlin, of Sun Hill, Washington county. On. SETTLED CONSTIPATION. “I had kidney disease for thirty years,” writes Mr. Sarah Phillips, of Frankfort N. Y., near Utica. “Kidney-Wort h* allayed all my pains aud cured my settled constipation.” LADY DISCHARGES TWO SERVANTS. “I have not been able to do ray house-work for many years, until lately,” writes Mrs. M. P. Morse, of Hyde Park, Minn., “I’ve now surprised all my friends by discharging ray two servants and doing their work. Kidney-Wort was the cause. It cured me, and I’m strong.”

A POSITIVE CURE FOR Considered IncurI cheerfully add my B testimony to the value of Ely’s Cream Balm as a specific in the case of one in our family who has been seriously debilitated with Chip..:! for eight years, having tried ineffectually other remedies unit several specialty doctors in Boston, She improved at once under this discovery, and has regained her health and hearing, which has been considered incurable. Ri.hort W. Merrill, Grand Rapids, Apply by the little fcdj Ik V KrßS 1 4/ET gfW finger into the nostrils. * 8 By übsorptiou it effectually cleanses the nasal passages of catarrhal virus, causing healthy secretions. It allavs inflammation, protects the mem pleteiy heals the sores aud restores the sense of taste braiial linings of the head from additional colds, com and smell. Beneficial results are realized by a few applications. A thorough treatment will cure. Unenua.ed for colds in the head. Agreeable to use. Send forcircucuiur. Sold by druggists. By mail f>oc a packagestamps. ELYS’ CREAM BALM CO., Oswego, N. Y. QOMMIBSIONER’B SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Notine I* hereby given that bv virtue of an order of the Circuit, Court of Putnam county, in the State of Indiana, in the ease of John G. Blake et at. vs. William H. Blake e al., No. 2,971, the tiadersitrued, commissioner iu said cause, will hell at private sale, for not less than the appraised value t hereof, at the office of Isaac L, Bloomer, No. Kant Washington street, in the city of Indiauapolirt, Marion county, Indiana, at 2 o’clock p. in., on the 12th day of March, 18S3. the following described real estate, towit: Tiie undivided two-i birds (2-3) of the west half of lot number five (5), in square number seventy (70), iu the city of Indianapolis, In Marion county, in the Btate of Indiana. Tkkms of Rale.—One-fourth oasli in hand, one-fourth payable in six months, one-forth iu twelve months, aud one-fourth in eighteen months from the day ot sale. The purchaser to execute notes for tho deferred payments, with approved security, bearing interest at 6 per cent., and waiving benefit of valuation and appraisement laws. ROBERT L. BRIDGES, Commissioner. I. L. Bloomer, Attorney. Bids for said real estate may be left with T. L. Bloomer, at his office, at any time up to the day of sale. LADIES’ VISITING CARDS. NEW STYLES RECEIVED. BOWEN, STEWART & CO., No. 18 W. Washington St. d&tMg E. C. ATKINS & CO., Manufacturers of best resW'fined Cast Steel and tiie oeie■JT bliiled Silver Steel Circular Our warranty cover* nil real defects. Send for catalogue and special quotations. 200 to 216 S. Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ry-A.it kinds of Baws repaired.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OFTITLii. ELLIOTT 4 B U TLE H> NO. 3 AETNA BUILDING. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. CH ARLES M ARTIN DALE, Attorney and. Counselor at Law. Prompt attention given to collection* and litigation in State aud Federal courts. PATENT'S OBTAINED. Correspondence in relation to patents solicited. Office, /Etna Building. REAL ESTATE ANDJNSUHANCE. ALEX. METZGER’S, INSURANCE and LOAN, REAL ESTATE and STEAMSHIP AGENCY, Second Floor Odd-fellows Hall. TRU ANjJFACTU RER. Ij'ULL ASSORTMENT. TRUNKS MADE TO Jt 1 older. Repairing neatly done. JAMES BOGERT, No. 52 Washington street, Bate* House. MISCELLANEOUS. PATE NTS! PATE NTsf PROCURED FOR INVENTORS. Patent cases attended to. CHARLES P. JACOBS, Patent Attorney. Indianapolis. Ttid. LRCULES POWDER. THE SAFEaT AND strongest powder in the world. Powder, Caps. Fuse, and'all tue tools for Blasting Stum os kept by C. H.JENNE, boie Ageut, 29** North Pennsylvania street. Indianapolis Oil Tank Line Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Comer Pine and Lord Streets. - saws; W. E. BARRY. Saw Manufacturer. 132 and 13 4 3. Pennsylvania St. Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 Martindale’a Block, near Post office. Clean, dye and repair gentlemen’s clothing; also, ladies’ dresses, shawl*, sacques, aud 1!k and wooien goods of every description, dyed and retlmsiied: kid glovee*neatly cleaned at 10c per pair. Will do more first-cioas work for less money thuu any house of tne kiud in the State. JOHN B. SMITH.

GJI.3 STOVES. No Kindling Required. No Coal to Carry. No Ashes to Remove. Prices from $2 to sl6. See Otto Silent Gas Engine. On exhibition ami for sale by the GAS COMPANY, No. 47 South Pennsylvania Street. MAIL LETTINGS. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS POSTOFFTCE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., March 1, 1883. Proposals will be received at the Contract Office of this department until 3 p. m. of April 21, 1883, for carryiug the mails of the United States uirau the routes, aud according to the schedule of arrival and departure specified by the Department, in the State of Ohio, from July 1, 1383, to Juue 30, 1884. Lists of routes, with schedules of arrivals and departures, instructions to bidders, with forms for contracts aud bonds, aud all other necessary information will be furnished upou application to tho Second Assistant Postmaster general. T. O. HOWE, Postmaster-general.

PURE DRINKING WATER. THE GATE CITY STONE FILTER it ftaou mU. Agents wanted. GEO. B. WRIGHT & CO. RE A TTY ’Q Organs, 27 stops, $1.25; Pianos, DlJfil 1 1 u $297.50. Factory run mm: duv and pigkt. Catalogue free. Address DANLEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J.

lOFFICIAL.J STATEMENT OK THE CONDITION OF TIIE HOMCEAPATHIG MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1882. Located at No. 257 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. Tho amount of if* capital l. $100,001! The amount of its capital paid up is 100,000 TIIE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand aud in hands of agents or other person* $ 14.955.36 Real estate unincumbered 32,500.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of per ceut., secured a* follows (market value): Per schedule 282,272.55 Loans on collateral ]2.650.n<> Policy loans 10,246 77 Interest account 5,913 3$ Loans on bonds and mortgages on * al estate wmau double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from : iy prior incumbrance 313,200.00 Debt* other wise secured 230 87 Debts for premiums 16,008.76 Total asset 8 $ 687,978.19 LIABILITIES. Personal $ 1.030 87 Premiums paid in advance 844 41 Losses uuadjusted 7,342 77 tx>sses m suspense, waiting for further proof 7,384.00 Reserve 13,000 OO Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding rl6ks 553,458 00 Total lianiiitien $ 583,060.05 STATE OF INDIANA, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor of 3Latoorr.be Btate of Indiana horebv eertlfy that the above is i correct copy ot Hie t*teiuoin ot tno condition ot tic ahove-iimntlotUfi oompam a tim 31st day of December, 1352. as shown by tho original state meat, aud tihlt said original statement is now on fib* in this office In testimony wneruof, I hereunto subscribe my name aud affix my official seal this 20th lay of February. 1883. [AskAi..] JA3. FI. lUCE, Auditor of State. |OFFICIAL.| STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF TIIE STAR FIRE INSURANCE COIPA’Y On the 31st Day of December, 1882. Located at No. 141 Broadway, New York, N. Y. The amount of it* capital i* $500,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is 500,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hand* of agent* or other persons 30,161.04 Real estate unincumbered 20,000.00 Bonds owned by The company, bearing interest ut the rate of per cent., secured as follows, per schedule 430,206.25 Loans on bonds and mortgage* of real estate, worth double the amount for which tho same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 123,275.00 Debts otherwise secured 70,287.90 Debts for premiums 53,246.03 All other securities 31,964.51 Total assets $ 759,140.73 LIABILITIES. Amount due to hanks or other creditors $ 15,000.06 LoH.se* adjusted and due ( -- Q o r - a Losses ad,iusted and not due J oo.w^o.dj Losses unadjusted 12.005.00 Lossesin suspense, waiting for further proof 1,800.00 All oiln-r claim* against tiie company 8,174.65 Amount necessary io reinsure outstanding risks 153,725.78 Total liabilities $ 246,642.02 STATE OF INDIANA, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor or State of tiie state of Indiana, lier dnr certify that the ahors is a correct copy of tho statement of the c million of the above-mentioned company, on the 31st day of December, 18s2. as shown by tho original statement, aud that the sai l original Htatoinent is now on tile iu this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my.name and affix my official seal thi3 21at day of February, 1883. [seal.) JAS. H. RTCE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.! j STATEMENT OB 1 THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE METROPO.LE INSURANCE COMPAT On the 31st Day of December, 1882. Located at No, 20 Kilby street, Boston, Muss. JNO. r ’. PAIGE, Manager. Home office, Paris, France. The amount of its capital is $4,000,006 The amount of its capital paid up is 1,000,000 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. 8. ARE AS FOLLOWS: Dash on hand and In the hands of agent* or other persons $ 4,81G.0C bonds owned bv the company, bearing interest at the lute of 4 aud 44i per cent., secured as follows (market value): $246,000 U. K 4 i*er cent, consols of 1907, registered 353,720.00 $115,000 U. 8. per cent, cousols of 1891, registered 130,237.50 Debt* for premiums 54,112.69 All other securities 993 92 Total assets $ 543,880.31 LIABILITIES IN U. 6. Losses adjusted and not due $ 20,130.73 Losses unadjusted. 50,42348 All other eluting against the company 24,453 39 Amount accessary to reinsure outstanding risks 220,535.79 Total liabilities $ 315,843.39 Tbe greatest Himmut in any one risk, $17,5t'0. Tne greatest amount allowed by the rules of tho company to bo lusured in any one city, town or village: No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured 111 any one block, $75,000. STATE OF INDIANA, Office of Auditor of State. T. the undersigned. Auditor of State of the Stato of Tndlana. hereby oartlfy that the .above is a correct copy of the stateiiiout of tiie e edition of the above-mentioned company on tiie 31st day o* December, ISB2. as shown ay the original statement, and that tho said original statement is now ou tile 111 tins office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe mv name aud affix iav official seal, this I7th day of February, 1883. I seal. 1 JAS. 11. RICE. Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.! STATEMENT OE THE COISTDITIOISr OF THE GERMAN INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, ISB2. Located at corner of Bridge street and Galena avenue, Frgeport, 111. The amount of it* capital is $200,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is 200.000.0 C THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cush on hand and iu the hands of agents or other persons $ 203.333.21 Real estate unincumbered ... 10,000.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing in lores t at the rale ot per cone., secured as follows (market value): Per schedule 95,149.22 Loans on bond* and mortgages of real estate, worth double tlie amount for which tho same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 487,917 31 Debts otherwise secured—Accrued interest 29,745.13 Debts lor premiums—Bills receivable 359,534.0’J Total assets $1,185,978.92 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not duo.. 1 Losses unadjusted > $ 54,599.7f Losses iu suspense, waiting for further proof ) All other claims against tiie company 4,699.15 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 758,360.0 C Total liabilities $ 817,658.68 Tiie greatest amount in any one risk, *5,0(10. The greatest amount allowed by tho rules of ihe company to bo insured tu any 0110 city, towu or village: Discrctiouaily. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in one block: Discretioually. STATE OF INDIANA, Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned, AuUtor of State ot tie State of rn>liana. hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statoiaeut of tie coalition of the anove-uetitioiied company on Clio 31st day of December, 1862. as shown oy tho original statement, aud that the said origtu tl statement is now ou tile in tins office. In testimony wnercor. I hospunio subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 20th day ol February, 1883. Ihkal.) JAS. 11. 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