Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1884 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Local. The Vandalia last week brought into Indianapolis 517 car-loads of block coal, and 20G car-loads of live stock. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Clncago road, returned from New York on Saturday night. Passenger men state that travel to Southern points, more especially to Florida, has this year been double that of any former year. A. B. Southard, assistant to the president of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, and traffic manager, spent the Sabbath in this city. Horace Tucker, of the Illinois Central road, has been appointed general freight agent of the •lines in lowa in addition to the duties of general freight agent of the Illinois lines. His appointment dates from Feb. 1. The Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg company last week received from the Ohio Falls Car Company some forty cabooses, which have been distributed over the respective divisions, fifteen being placed on the Indianapolis division. The belief is that the demoralization of eastbound freight rates, which was principally at St. Louis, Peoria, Terre Haute, and Indianapolis, has had its run. and that to-day there will boa general bracing-up of rates by all fast-freight lines. Under the recent changes, Bradford Dunham has been appointed general manager of the Owensboro & Nashville and Nashville & Florence lines, connections of the L. & N.. and C. P. Atm ore has been appointed general passenger agent of the same lines. The Bee-line last week forwarded east 1,546 loaded cars. “In transit'* still covers a large per cent, of their east-bound business. The Chicago. St. Louis & Pittsburg forwarded but 1,167 loaded cars, livestock included; the Indiana, Bloom ington & Western 203 loaded cars. The five Western roads last week brought into this station 3,507 loaded cars, as follows: 1., B. & W., St. Louis division, 139; Peoria division, 306; C., 1., St. L. & C., 580; Vandalia, 1,095: I. <& St. L., 1,387. Total 3,507. The corresponding week 1883 these five roads brought in 3,936 loaded cars. The Cincinnati; Indianapolis. St. Louis & Chicago road last week delivered at Cincinnati 99! loaded cars; forwarded from Cincinnati 801 loaded cars. In this statement, not only their city proper business is included, but the number of cars they deliver to and receive from connections. A New York telegram from President Roosevelt, of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, says that he will not reach Louisville bofine Thursday of this week. He will spend the remainder of the week at Louisville, and on Monday next start on an inspection trip of the entire system. General Winslow, president of the construction company, has been a practical railroad man for twenty years. He professes to be one of the heaviest losers by the embarrassment of the West Shore company and the decline in its securities. It is said tliat Ills, wife lias a very respectable fortune in her name, although a few years ago she was only the daughter of a poor country minister. The annual report of B. F. Sipp, car accountant of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago road, shows that ill the year 1683 cars belonging to 143 foreign roads, and * \rs belonging to thirty- two fast freight lines and private companies were handled on that road. Among the number were cars of the Central Pacific, Oregon Navigation Railway Company, Dakota Central, Northern Pacific, Florida A Western. The Consol engines oti the Indiana. Bloomington & Western have now been in service a sufficient time to test their merits, and the officers, engineers and train men arc lavish in their praises as to their performance, and those who were the worst enemies of the so-called hog engines now are the most pleased with their operations, and pronounce them the most serviceable and economical freight locomotives in the service. The handsome local traffic carried by the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis Sc Chicago road, frequently commented upon favorably; therefore the manner it has been built up becomes a nutter of special interest. The fact is, all hands work for business, from president to sectionman. A short time since President Ingalls took the afternoon express for Cincinnati at Greensborg. A couple of Rushville merchants took passage on the train, sitting directly behind Mr. Ingalls. From their conversation he concluded they were going to purchase goods. He shortly made their acquaintance, and asked how they shipped their goods. To the answer, “Over the O. n. & J." lie said, “Try our Rushville line via #peensbnrg.✓ We deliver your goods as promptly as our competitor, and will give you inside rates,” and before the conversation ended President In galls had secured their business for a year and made firm friends of the shippers. FREIGHT BUSINESS. Traffic Increasing with a Majority of the Indianapolis Roads. The train records show an increased movement of cars over several lines, with a sharp fall-ing-off over the I. & Sfc. L. and the Bee-line. The latter was rather expected, as the circumstances which created such a boom over tlie Vanderbilt lines in the week ending, tlio 19th- were not so favorable, the advantages gained by forwarding property as “in transit” being somewhat risky. The coming week a lighter east-bound traffic may be expected, as a bettor maintenance of rates is highly probable. Westbound tonnage has increased quite handsomely the last few days, more loaded cars coming west than there are moving eastward. The increased movement of freights westward is some days earlier in the season than usual, but nevertheless is fortunate, as most of the roads are badly in need of larger earnings. Through live stock traffic continues to be an important feature, it being considerably ahead of the shipments at the corresponding period in 1883. Business is improving somewhat with the north and south roads. The south-bound movement is made up largely of lumber, ico and provisions; northward, miscellaneous freights. For three months past, north and south roads have been doing but little, comparatively speaking, their tonnage seldom footing up so light; therefore a little increase in business is appreciated. Os course a large per cent, of the freight carried by those lines is of a local character and handled at paying rates. Local traffic is somewhat spasmodical. Some days about the city freight depots there is much activity an and on other days dull, yet agents speak of business as being fully up to tlie average of January for some years past. Below is giver, the number of cars received and forwarded in the week ending Jan. 26, at 6 a. m., as compared with the movement of the week preceeding: Name of Road. IJ an. 19 Jan. 26? Inc. I Dec. C. & I. Air-line 204i 212 8; I. &V 307 310 3 .... a,h.&i 441 528 st; .... Wabash 431 446 13 .... ) Middle 756} 966 210 1., B. &W. SSt.Louis.. 342 393 51 .... 1 Peoria 661| 801 140 .... r o, t p. i ’ 1 West. 1.8221 1,077 145 4. i., st.L. &c. j East _ 2i234 i 2 aaß •T., M. & 1 640| 717 77 .... 4,St.L.&P. 2,204 2.320 122 .... J Chicago 114 135 21 Vandalia 2.831 2 733 98 I.&St. L 3.303 2.445.....’. 918 Bee-line 3,335 2,794 541 _ Total 19,70f>j18,711 732| 1,728 Net decrease, 994 cars. The number of loaded c ars handled at this point was as follows: Received, 7,812: forwarded. 8,004. Total, 15,816. Decrease as compared with number handled at this point in the week ending Jan. 19, 717 ears. The corresponding week 1883, there were received and forwarded at this point 19,325 cars, of which number 10,827 were loaded. EAST-BOUND TRAFFIC. J. Heavy Falling-Off In Tonnage Over Chicago Roads. During the week ending Jan. 20 the total Shipments of flour, grain and provisions over tlie eight roads leading east from Chicago amounted to 53,443 tons, against 66,892 tons in tlie week

ending Jan. 19. The following table gives the details: Flour, j Grain, Previous, Total, Route. In tons.ilo tons. In tons. In tons. B. & Ohio R. It.. 325 2.766 794 3,885 C. & Atlantic Ry 986 4,154 664 5,744 C. &G. T. Rv... 240 2,521 2,216 4,977 C„ St li. &. R.R 1,322 5,701 2,193 9.216 L. S. &M.S. Ry 3,103 7,474 775 11,412 Mich. Cent’l R.ft 1,708 7,752 419 9,879 N. Y., 0. & St. L. Rv 447 1.938 182 2,567 P., Ft.W.& C.Ry 1,533 2,752 1,478 5,763 Total 9,724! 35,058 8,661 53,443 Per Cents.—Baltimore & Ohio railroad, 7.6: Chicago & Atlantic railway, 10.7; Chicago & Grand Trimk railway. 9.3; Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg railroad, 17.3; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, 21.3; Michigan Central railroad, 18.5; New York. Chicago & St. Louis railway, 4.8: Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway, 10.8. Total, 100. The Chicago & Atlantic, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Chicago Sc Grand Trunk and Michigan Central increased their tonnage slightly, while the other four roads show a heavy decrease. OVERLOADING CARS* Greedy Shippers and Good-Natured Agents Worrying Superintendents* Ton years ago tlie largest carrying capacity of a freight car was 20.000 pounds, and shippers were almost invariably loading 25,000 pounds. Five years ago 30,000 pounds was made the capacity of cars, and shippers then loaded 35,000 pounds to a ear. Now tlie capacity of nearly all cars built is 40,000 pounds, and shippers are overloading them 5,000 to 10,000 pounds hoping by hook or crook to get tlie load through as 40.000 pounds, and almost daily trains are de layed on the leading roads by a hot box caused by the car being overloaded, until the practice lias become so annoying that something has to be done in the matter. Careless or good natured agents are more or less responsible for this trouble. It is not an unusual thing for a general freight agent to receive a letter from one of these careless agents asking how much load a car of such a number will carry, notwithstanding the f;ict that its carrying capacity is stenciled upon each car in plain figures. A case in point Is given in the last number of the National CarBuilder. After a lot of new freight cars have been put on the road, with their weights and capacities stenciled upon them iu regulation style, it is a little annoying to the general manager to receive letters from station agents asking how much maximum load the new cars can carry. Not long since a lot of cat's with a stenciled capacity of 30,000 pounds were put upon a certain road, and shortly after the superintendent began to receive letters from the agents asking if they could not. put 40,000 pounds in them. The reply was, of course: “Can’t you read the capacity marked on the sides of the cars?’ The reply was pertinent, although a little evasive, and would have been quite as effective had it been accompanied with a general order stating that, in the loading of cars, marked capacities must not be exceeded. In this instance there was no such order, and not long afterward one of these same cars, after being cut out of trains a number of times on account of hot boxes, was finally, after burning off a journal, run on the scales, and its load was found to be 56,000 pounds. GENERAL NEWS. Tlie Pennsylvania Proper Increases Its Net Earnings Nearly #1,000,000. The official statement of the business done on all the lines of tlio Pennsylvania Railroad Company east of Pittsburg and Erie during the month of December, 1883, shows a decrease in the gioss earnings of $316,659 as compared with the last month of the preceding year. There was also in the month reported a decrease of expenditure of $315,034, and a decrease in the net income of $1,625. Although the above statement shows a great decrease in gross earnings, yet it also shows a corresponding decrease in expenses, which makes the profits of the month nearly the same as during the month of December, 1882. Their business for the whole of last year, compared with 1882, exhibited an increase in the gross earnings of $2,003,418, and an increase in the net earnings of $903,673. Tlie statement of the company's lines west of Pittsburg and Erie covering the twelve months of 1883 shows a surplus over the liabilities of $803,848, and, compared with that of the year 1882, shows a decrease of $1,090,452. Mean Business. It is becoming quite evident that the parties who have taken hold of the proposed narrowgauge road north from New r Albany will build the road certainly to Leavenworth. The New Albany Ledger says President D. W. Solliday, who has been with the engineers some days on their engineering expedition, returned on Saturday. He states that the engineers are now within six miles of Leavenworth, and have so far secured au excellent route and one over which tho work of construction can be cheaply done. The route into Leavenworth will bo equally favorable. Cold weather has somewhat interfered with the work of the engineers; nevertheless they are getting along rapidly. Everywhere. President Solliday says, the people are enthusiastic for the road, and will give the right of way without cost to the company, Tho only unfavorable feature in the enterprise is that it is proposed to make it a narrow-gauge road, a class of roads which, in Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, have proved bad failures and only sink-holes for money. Another Fast-Freight. Line Consolidation. The rumor is revived that, on March 1, the Canada Southern and the Red line fast-freight lines will be consolidated. Such a consolidation has been under contemplation some months, and probably has something to do with the unexpected resignation of General Manager Caldwell. of the Red.line. Both are New York Central lines, and it is claimed would be run much more economically if consolidated. Miscellaneous Notes. The Pullman car works, in Detroit, discharged a large number of their workmen last week. There is no truth in the report of a receiver to be appointed for the Little Rock Sc Fort Smith road. The railroad from Sanford to Tampa. Fla., is completed. The first through train will leave Tampa to-day. The Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago aro endeavoring to negotiate bonds abroad for the completion of the road from Aiken, S. C., to London, Ivy. Commissioner Fink has issued a lengthy circular giving changes in, additions to, and erasures from the west-bound classification, which went into effect on Saturday. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has no floating debt, and it earned nearly 9 per cent, in 1883. During the past year 266 miles of new track have been laid, and 32 miles of line acquired. Tho new patent railroad-spike mill, built by the Pullman’ Company and Pittsburg and Chicago capitalists, will begin operations in a few weeks. Four new Swindell furnaces have been put in, and if the experiment proves successful ten more will be erected in the spring. Tlie annual report of Manager Locke, of the Jloosae Tunnel, shows that the largest movement of freight through the tunnel was in No vembor, 1883, when 14,537 cars passed through. The average of all trains passing through the tunnel last year was thirty-live per diom. About twenty-four tons of used tickets, which have been accumulating in the upper sections of the Boston Ss Albany granite building at Springfield for the past six or seven years, have been recently cut up by a machine for that purpose. It took about three months to complete the work The reported war between tie* Union Pacific and tho Chicago, Burlington A Quincy simply oxists in the disordered imaginations of bogus dispatch writers. General manager Clark, of the U. P.. declares that he set's nothing discouraging in the situation there. Fairness, firmness, and a little time, he says, will settle all matters justly and permanently. All your o\vn fault if you remain sick or out of health, when you can get Hop Bitters.

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1884.

THE RECORD OF THE COURTS Supreme Court—.lan. £6. ITon. Geo. V. Howk, Chief Justice. PRACTICE —EVIDENCE OF PAYMENT. 10931. Sarah Applegate vs. Rachel M. Baxley. Harrison C. C. Bicknell, C. C.—Affidavits in support of a motion for anew trial do not become part of the record unless incorporated in the bill of exceptions. (66 liid., 19; 76id., 216; 86 id., 462.) An unqualified admission by the holder of a mortgage executed by a deceased person that tho debt was “settled” by the decedent previous to his death, is evidence tending to show payment, and is properly admitted in support of a plea of payment. Judgment affirmed. 10999. John Sliulties vs. Cyrus H. Keiser et al. WliitleyC. C. Best, C.— Appeal from an order removing appellant as administrator of an estate. The appeal must be dismissed under rule 14. because appellant did not file a brief written within sixty days after the submission of tho cause, and the appellee has not filed a written request that the cause be passed upon by the court. (51 Ind., 542; 79 id., 287: 88 id., 266.) Appeal dismissed. DEPUTY PROSECUTING — SALE OF LIQUOR —EVIDENCE. 11373. Daniel A. Stout vs. The State. Monroe C. C. Howk, C. J.—Section 5568, R. S., authorizes prosecuting attorneys to appoint deputies, and section 5569 provides that the deputy may perform all the official duties of his principal. The deputy is, therefore, authorized to sign indictments in the name of his principal. When the record shows that the grand jury returned tlie indictment into open court, and the indictment itself states that the grand jury were duly impaneled, sworn, and charged, the impaneling of the grand jury is sufficiently shown. (87 Ind., 144.) This was a prosecution for selling liquor, to be drunk on the premises, without a license. The evidence showed that appellant sold Ward a bottle of beer and furnished glasses for him and his companions to drink the beer, and when they had drunk it a few feet from the back door of the saloon, they brought the bottle and glasses back into the saloon. This evidence was sufficient to sustain the fiuding that the liquor was drunk on the premises. (85 Ind., 522.) Judgment affirmed. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION —PROBABLE CAUSE — DAMAGES. 10654. Wm. 0. Lytton vs. John W. Bair. Monroe 0. G. Colerick, 0. —Instructions must ’all be construed together, and if, when so construed, they express the law correctly, they will be upheld, although one of them considered alone and unaided by the rest, might be erroneous. (731nd., 46; 80 id., 242.) Inactions for malicious prosecution the question of probable cause is one of law, where there is no conflict in the evidence uor disputed facts, nor any doubt on tlie evi dence or the inferences to be drawn from it. But if there is conflicting evidence to be weighed, or tlie credibility of witnesses is to be passed on, the question of probable cause is one of mixed law and fact and must go to the jury. (4 Wait's A. and D., 344.) For the general rule as to assessing damages in such cases, see 34 Ind., 504; 44 id., 238; 17 id., 228. Judgment affirmed. WIL L—REVOCATION —D E CEDE NTS* ESTATE S—ASSETS. 10769. Thos. Clayton vs. Rachel A. Blought. Kosciusko C. C. Bicknell, C. O.—A testator at the date of his will owned land in Elkhart county which he devised. Afterwards he exchanged this land for land in Kosciusko county, of which he died seized. Held, this exchange worked* a revocation of the will and the Kosciusko lands were not affected by the will. (6 lud., 110.) A suit for partition has no connection with the rights of an administrator to make assets, and lie cannot come into such a suit and file a cross-com-plaint for tlie purpose of making assets. The mode prescribed by statute for selling the lands of a decent to make assets is the only one tlio administrator can pursue. Affirmed, with instructions to modify the judgment so as to make it conform to tlie findings of the court. INTERROGATORIES FILED WITH PLEADINGS —PIIAOTIOE. 10104. John E. Cates vs. Henry G. Thayer. Fulton C. C. Elliott, J.—Error is assigned that the court refused to compel appellee to answer interrogatories propounded to him by appellant. Such a question must be reserved by exception duly taken at the time the ruling is made and the assignment in this court should be founded on the ruling. (56 Jnd., 394.) Such interrogatories constitute part of the proceedings, rather than the trial. (7‘lnd., 649; 8 id., 458; 1 Pom. Eq., sec. 191.) Mr. Work’s strictures on the case of Reed vs. Spaydo, 56 Ind., 394 (l Work’s Prac., sec. 882), are entirely groundless. A surety is released where payment of the note is extended, upon a valuable consideration, for a definite period, but he is not released where the extension is for an indefinite period. (65 Ind., 249.) Judgment affirmed. HIGHWAYS—DEDICATION. 10990. John P. Carr vs. Richard Kolb. White C. C. Bicknell, C. C.—A highway was opened in 1851. and was used ever after bv the public as a highway forty feet wide, until in 1882, when appellant ascertained, as he supposed, that the center line of said highway was not the true half-mile line of the section, and built a fence where he supposed he had a right to put it, eight feet nearer tho center of the road than the old fence, Appellant owned the land abutting on the highway for nineteen years, and during all tliat time made no claim against tho public use of tho highway as opened, but the same was used worked and improved by the public, without any objection from the appellant and witli his knowledge. Tills evidence was sufficient to sustain a finding that there was an intention on the part of appellant to dedicate the ground for a highway. (36 Ind., 330; 25 id., 352; 86 id., 53; 78 id., 95.) Judgment affirmed. JUDGMENT AGAINST INSANE PERSON —VALIDITY OF. 10983. David Woods vs. Hugh M. Brown. Vigo C. C. Hammond, J.—A complaint to set aside a judgment for excusable neglect, etc., under section 1881 of the Revised Statutes, must show that tho complainant has a valid and meritorious defense to tho cause of action upon which the judgment was rendered. (39 Ind., 305: 56 id., 531.) Tho mere fact that the defendant was a person of Unsound mind at the time when a judgment was rendered against him is no cause for its vacation. Such persons are responsible in civil actions for their torts, except slander. (4.4 Am. Dec., 349; 42 Am. R.. 423; 7 Waite's A. and 1)., 157.) They are also liable for necessaries, aud where they are not under guardianship their just contracts may not be repudiated without restoring what was received, if tho other contracting party was ignorant of their mental incapacity. (81 Ind., 433; 83id., 18; 23 lowa. 333; 2 Am. R.. 202, 18 id., 716; 21 id., 24; 39 id., 766.) The collection of a judgment will not be enjoined for want of Jurisdiction where there is no claim of payment of the judgment or denial of tho cause of action upon which it was rendered. (88 lud., 303; High on liQune., secs. 125, 126.) Judgment reversed. FORECLOSURE—INSANE MARRIED WOMAN. 10597. Absalom Epstein vs. Lou Ann Greer, Dearborn O. ('. Black. C. —Where a judgment of foreclosure was rendered against husband and wife on Feb. 13, 1879, and the mortgaged property was sold thereunder to one not a party to tho action, and afterward the wife was adjudged to be of unsound mind and a guardian for her appointed, such guardian could not begin an action on Feb. 16, 1881, to review tlie judgment, on the ground that during the pendency of the action and at the rendition of the judgment, tho wife was of unsound mind. The facts do not show any error of law in tho proceedings, or any material new matter which could not have been discovered by reasonable diligence before judgment, and tlie filing of the complaint without delay after the discovery. (69 ind., 388.) Nor was the judgment void from the fact that when it was rendered the wife, who made defense separately and jointly with her husband, was not represented by guardian, though tho plaintiff know her mental condition, aud the purchaser had notice thereof when he bought tho land at sheriff’s sale. (69 Ind., .‘188.) Judgment affirmed. SUIT ON GUARDIAN’S BOND—TRJ \L BY JURY. 10934. Moor Galway vs. ex ret. Ballou. Howard C. C. Franklin, C.—ln a suit on a guardian’s bond the cause of action is based upon contract ai. 1 tho relief sought is a personal judgment for damages for a breach of the. contract. Such actions have always been regarded as actions at law. (I Work’s

Prac., sec. 827.) And upon request, must he tried by a jury. When a party is entitled to a truil by jury, he cannot be deprived of it on the ground that the court fairly tried and correctly determined the case. (11 Ind., 80.) Judgment reversed. The following cases were also, decided, abstracts of which will appear to-morrow: Martha J. Roberts vs. Hiram Huddleston. Hendricks 0. ('. Affirmed. Bicknell. (\ C. James W. Anderson vs. Horace F. Kramer. Boone C. C. Affirmed. Black, ( Daniel Ilill vs. Abraham F. Hazen. Elkhart C. C. Affirmed. Franklin, C. Charles M. Hull vs. ex rot Clara Dickey. Jennings C. C. Affirmed. Best C. Superior Court. Room No. I.—Hon. N. B. Tavlor, Judge, Sarah C. Van Vorhis vs. John M. Gaston; on note. On trial by court. Room No 2— Hon. D. W. Howe. Judge. Mary Foley vs. Francis M. Wright et al.; damages. On trial by jury. Room No. 3—Hon. Lewis C. Walker, Judge. Jeanette Raphael vs. Isaac Kahn et al.; on note. Judgment for $3,251.07. Marion Criminal Court. Hon. i’ierce Norton. Jutge. State vs. William Summers: information for petit larceny. Plea of guilty. Sent to the Reform School. New Corporations. Articles of incorporation were filed with tlie Secretary of State on Saturday by the following newly organized companies: The Goshen Elec-tric-light and Power Company, of Goshen—capital stock. $20,000; directors, Eleaser Hawks, J. H. Leah, E. G. Herr, Ed D. Chipman, and C. W. Bateman. Evansville Lumber Company—capital stock. $10,000; directors, A. J. Vincent. Samuel F. Strong, and Ignatius A. Greenvvell. Excelsior Electric Company of Indiana, Indianapolis—capital stock, $100,000; directors, John W. Culbertson, Israel O. Dewey, E. J. Ensigne, Harry B. Adsit, aud Seth R. Beckwith. Divorces Wanted. Maggie V. King has applied for a divorce from William King, whose wife she has been for ten years, alleging cruel treatment, failure to provide, drunkenuess, and desertion. Hannah Conklin wants a legal separation from Albert R. Conklin, whom she accuses of abandonment and of squandering $2,000 of her money. The Irving Company. Henry Irving and his dramatic company passed through tlio city last night, en route from St. Louis to Cincinnati. There are about seventyfive people in the company, and they travel by a special train, which consists of two baggage cars, two flat cars (for scenery), and three passenger coaches. Young Men’s Republican Club. The Young Men's Republican Club will meet at their rooms in the Bates Block this evening at 7:30 o'clock, to transact important business. All members are earnestly requested to be present. J. W. Wharton, President. C. B. Fkibleman, Secretary. An endless chain of certificates verify tlie excellence of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Price, 25 cents. DIED. VEDDER—John Vedder. at Brunswick Hotel, at 8:40 p. m., Sunday, Jan. 27, of ulcers of the fiver, aged 53 years. Will be buried at Sheboygan, Vis. Will leave here to-day, at. 11a. m. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETF, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Delaware Street. Telephone connection at office and resideuce. Carriages for weddings ami parties. fasaemmammmmmmmmsafm ipi When you come to think of it, it is not odd that literary people prefer a pipe to a cigar. It is handier to smoke when they are writing, and ever bo much cleaner. And then it gives them the true essence aud flavor of the tobacco. The most fastidious smokers among all nations and all classes of men agree that the tobacco grown on the Golden Tobacco Belt of North Carolina is the most delicious and refined in the world. Lighter than Turkish, more fragrant than Havana, freer from nitrates and nicotine than any other, it is just what the connoisseur praises and the habitual smoker demands. The very choicest tobacco grown p— 1 on this Belt is bought by Blackwell’s Durham Tobacoo Cos., and sS* appears in their celebrated Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. It is / Inm j known the world over. / Get the genuine, with Bull / trade-mark, then you will / JW be sure of having abso- / iifISTETTEtfc DoiSISi ttUMATi“BA>ily growing more " imperative, and of safeguard, and it is |jf w Sfeg nag ffßßi biJy au< l com!”£r rem * dy of For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally..

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[OFFICIAL.) STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Queen Insurance Com’y On the 3 1 st Bay-of December, ISB3. Located at Nos. 37 aud 39 Wall street. New York City. Home office. Liverpool. Englaud. JAMES A. MauDONALD. Manager. The amount of its capital is $9,700,000.00 The amount of it* capital paid up is 873,109.75 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. 8. ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash in bank and in the hands of agents or other persons $ 124 . 195.33 Real estate, u nine umbered 35 1,200.30 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured .1- follows: IT.l T . S. 1 percent, bonds. $7/2.300. market value 950.1i5t*.63 U. S. 4 Lj per cent, bonds. $84,000, market value 90. 195.00 Farmers' Loan and Trust ('• mpany stock. SIO,OOO, market value 40 000.00 Mississippi State bonds. $20,000. market value 29.999.90 N. Y.. Lackawanna and Western railroad bonds, SIOO,OOO, market value. 109.139.39 All ot her assets 12.21 1.28 Debts for premiums 13,584-93 Total assets $1.72*.902.86 LIABILITIES IN U. S. Losses adjusted and due l Losses adjusted and not due .......>$ 11l ,347.02 Losses unadjusted ) Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof - - 12 775.00 All other claims against the company 3.010.70 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 834,010.58 Total liabilities $ 963,549.90 The greatest amount iu any one risk. SIO,OOO. State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of St ab*. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above L a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company 011 the 31st day of December, 18815, a* shown by the original statement aud that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix rev official seal, this 26th dav of January, 1884. [seal.) JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.] STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE CO. On the 31st Day ot December, 1883. Located at No. 3 Carondeiet street, New Orleans. Louisiana. The amount of its capital is $500,000 The amount of its capital paid up is 300,000 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on band and in the bands of agents or other persons $ 95.106.01 Real estate unincumbered 63,581.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follows: I’uited States f524n.000) aud other bunds, market value 332.641.00 Stocks, market value 8,210.00 Loan ou all 66.920.17 Pledge note 19,000.00 Bills receivable for premiums 14,348.45 Loans on bonds amt mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 129,361.98 Debts for premiums J 19.1 19.14 All other securities ... 9.121.43 Total assets $ 839,440.58 LIABILITIES. Amount due to banks or other creditors $ 1 1.818.71 Losses adjusted aud due 28,904.90 Losses adjusted aud not due* 27.533.17 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof, resisted 2.000.90 All other claims against the company, dividend unclaimed . Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 216,697.02 Total liabilities $ 291,325.59 The greatest amount in any one risk, first class. $10,099. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one city, town or villages No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured iu any one block: No rule. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that tbe above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company ou the 31 st day of December, 1883, us shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on tile in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix mv official seal, this 25* h day of January, 1884. [seal.] JAS. 11. RICE, Auditor of State. ariEewaimaß?i—■ 1 wnn r ■ mini r"f wm l jßTmwr.’gwßm-tt ar-ii- ruMffwnßHM mmmeMiMnnmmvm. [OFFICIAL.] STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Home Insurance Com’y On the 31st Day of December, 1883. Located at No. 119 Broadway, New York. The amount of its capital is $3,009,990 The amount of its capital paid up is .... 3,000,000 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: (’ash in bank. $108,048.52; cash in bands of agents, $104,590.64 $ 212.645.16! Real estate, unincumbered Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest, market value 5.043,710.90 Loans ou bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is • mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 3.172.152.44 Debts otherwise secured 483.887.83 Debts for premiums. 70,363.91 All other securities 440,965.00 Total assets $7,488,644.59 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due ... $ 52.838.85 Losses unadjusted % i} Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof > •'* lfv 1 *" All other claims against the company 7.5(H).90 AmouSit necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 2.497,654.90 Total liabilities $2,825,311.94 The greatest amount in any one risk, $40,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of Stato. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that tho above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company, on the 31st day of December, 1883, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on tile in this office. In testimony whereof, I herouuto subscribe mv name and affix my official seal, this 23th dav of January. 1884. [seal.] JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL, j STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE COVENANT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 18S3. Located at No. 712 Pine street, St. Louis, Mo. The amount of its capital is None The amount of its capital paid up is Non# THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other j>ersons $ 6.910 77 Real estate, unincumbered Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent., secured its follows: 17 Missouri State bonds of SI,OOO each, market valno 18 519.90 la>hiis on bonds and mortgages ot real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance. 205.547.64 Debts otherwise secured | j [.525.89 Debts for premiums All other securities . ] 28.98 Total assets $ 385,397.15 LIABILITIES. Losses unadjusted. $ 4,057.75 All other claims against the company . * jjh, ]£ Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 337.1 15U0 Total liabilities $ 341 204.93 State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. TANARUS, him undersigned, Auditor of State of the Ntabo of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition f the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, ISH3 as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal, t his 26th dav of January 1884. [SEAL. 1 JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. ONLY SBI.OO PER YEAR. Thelndianapolis Weekly Journa SEND FOR IT.

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