NEWS CONDENSER. 
llisccllaiteous, 
— Sullivan county, N. Y., is hunting foxes. 
— Le Seur, Minn., is to have a bank. 
— Chicken thieves infest Homer, N. Y. 
— Tho Viceroy of Egypt has go no to Paris. 
— The yellow fevor is leaving Peru. 
— Ilay i 3 nbundunt in Aroostook. 
— Kansas gains 1,030 inhabitants daily. 
— Chicago i 3 said to have 35,000 loafers. 
Alabama's school teachers want their pay. 
— Kalamazoo has begun laying its aqueduct. 
— Caron delot, Mo., has an lion furnace, 
— Boston has a woman’s rights store. 
— Bains have begun on the Isthmus. 
— Many peaches in Niagara county, X. Y. 
— Dominion Day was well celebrated. 
— Tho South will welcome Chinese laborers. 
— Duluth, Minn., is to be c.illod tho “Zenith 
City.’’ 
— Virginia has a wheat field of seven hundred 
acres. 
— Daraariscotta, Me., is building a $15,000 
bridge. 
— Tho Illinois Stato Reform School 13 to cost 
§13,000. 
— Binghamton is to have a $10,000 Baptist 
church. 
— The rebellion in Guatemala has been sup¬ 
pressed. 
— Steamboat racing has begun again on the 
Hudson. 
— Sailing vessels on the Hudson report a brisk 
business. 
— A baud of gypsies is encamped near Ath¬ 
ens, N. Y. 
— The tobaoeo crop is estimated at 130,000 
hogsheads. 
-Deseret Station on the IT. P. K. R. is now 
called Uintah. 
— Binghamton is worth $125,000 a month to the 
Eric Railway. 
— Busts of Pompey and Brutus have been dug 
up at Pompeii. 
•-Chicago letter-carriers are allowed to sell 
postage stumps. 
— London benevolent societies expend $10.- 
000,000 annually. 
— The total receipts of the Poace Jubilee were 
nearly $ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
— Knox county, Ill., Is vexed over tho location 
Of its oounty-sbat. 
— The inoomoof tho Wisconsin State Univer¬ 
sity is only $80,000. * 
— Kansas City, Mo., appears to have a secret 
Vigilance Committee. 
— Cincinnati has paid as low as $2 a bushel for 
Strawberries this year. 
— Around Padonia, Kan., the grasshoppers are 
particularly ravenous. 
— Covington boasts the biggest and best loolr- 
lug Jailor in Kentucky. 
— Chili accepts the mediation of Uncle Sam in 
her quarrel with Spain. 
The Louisville Courier-Journal is threatened 
with a $30,000 libel suit. 
— A very perfect, new counterfeit twenty-five 
cent note ia circulating. 
— The Fifteenth Amendment has passed the 
New Hampshire House. 
— Buffalo is having a series of summer con¬ 
cert) in the skirling rink. 
— Hartford has a three-months’-old baby 
weighing but two pounds. 
-Tim Royal Canadian Bank, at Montreal, is 
to resume specie payment. 
— A BufRilonlan has a bet that Canada will bo 
annexed within five years. 
— A fire at Santiago, Chill, June 8 cl destroyed 
§ 100 , 0 W worth of property, 
— Belgian chomistsmamifacturea champagne 
which sells at a frauc a hot’- It). 
— The El Dorado, the San Francisco Mormon 
organ, has died at an early age. 
— T wo American 
FENCE AND SATE 
UNION WASHING-MACHINE 
AND WHINGER. 
Admitted to bathe beat and most durable in the mar- 
vumnted to vrusli perfectly without soaking, 
& b i u S ii-« b0 J ! 7," 1 «ftyo UaeoBt in 6 months’ 
V Alt 1 AJII.IUGA.N MA NULL, for Ironies 
SSkum! Mn ' ua *‘' 
Mangled unlod ©Vory where for tho Washer and 
K ha ICE’S SUBSOI L.—C A N RE AT. 
niched to any plow. Tho best In use Price sii) 
HOWARD IKON WORKS, BuflUli/N V 
, J,. A .i el 7 hivented. but thoroughly tested Fk.voe 
AWl) OA rs lor Farm tr.clominv, us well as for Town 
and Vllluao lenoUnt, after receiving the approval of 
many practical Fanners and Mechanics, by miles of 
actual uspun their own preruljes. Isuow offered for 
sale m Warm, Town. County and Statu RTghte, at 
terms so moderate hs to puMHll universal {option 
where leociua umber u uot uu inoumor_nco to the 
land. 
Tho posts aro of Iron, tho bti#oa of Stone, the rails, 
boards or picket* nf wood; i.r.d the entire Con Co as 
cheiifi in drst cost as ,[ built with wooden posts. Tho 
* Hfm&uary 1 
Cush on hand, In Bunk and in Trust Company. . $3 
Invested in United States Stocks, (Market value, $3,151,808 75 .V’cost .'......... 2,'J 
Invested in Now York City Bank Stocks, (Market value $17,802.) oost. 
invested in New York Statu Stocks, (Market value, $#91,070,) cost. <1 
Invested in other Stocks. (Market valuo, 222,600.) cost. 2 
Roans on Demand, secured by V. S. and other Stocks, (Market value of 
Securities, 3505,“17, 60) . 4 
Real testate, (Market value, SI,028,800 ....................... 6 
Bondi umi Mortgages, (Scoured by Heal Eatatu valued at over 85,000,000.) 
buildings thereon Insured for !j2.0ft5.700, and tho policies assigned to 
tho Company 11 s additional collateral security. 2 1 
Loans on exliitlna Pulidos.. 12 
Quarterly and Semi-Annual Premiums duo subsequent to January 1 , 1800 V 
Interest accrued to January 1,1309 . ( 
Renta accrued to January 1. jn>.u.. 
Premiums on Policies In hands of agents and in course of transmission... 6 t 
Add excess of market value of securities over cost. 
Cash Assets, January l, 1869. 
WIIjV,YA 9I If. LUDLOW 
KOSIERT i»a. STRATTON, 
E5ENKY SNYDER, Secretary, 
JOHN N. AYHITING, Counsel, 
PARKS FACKLEB, Consultliig Actuary, 
FOSTER & THOMPSON, Solicitors, 
csiarles McMillan, hi. nicdicni i?. 
r , PrcsWcBt, 
Ykce«S. s rcasitieiit, 
[From the American Uxchflftos and ttevftw, March, 1960.1 
The business nml flnnucinl position «r lire New York Life Immrance Company, nt ti e 
close of 1808, will excite more than usual Interest In the general public; and be especially gratifying to 
3 policy-holders. Last year the opornttous of this Company were a success unparalleled by any of Its 
previous annual achievements. Rot only In tho general growth ol‘ revenue and assets, but in tho sped, 
noatlons of Its accounts ia the exhibit for 1868 especially noteworthy. Nearly one-half of Us dlsburso- 
® e "“ s ( V ero for dividends to poltoy-belders, yet the further dlvlsabto uurulim at the close of tho year was 
$1,689,282.17, being still greater than the previous annual dividend. The Interest eooouut (tnnlutMng 
premium on gold, Ac.,) shows a, great Increase! income from this source alone was more than adoquuta 
to pay the losses, and was or pi*- cent gain as compared with tho corresponding receipts of 1387. Tho 
gain In now policies was 2,508 above the total of U*i7, being an aggregate for the year of 9,105 new poli¬ 
cies—an average of J76 per week. All the details prove thorough work —a widening nirelo of luilueneo — 
hi,, her results to Us poUcy-boldm-s— and the engrossing of a larger share of public attention A great 
future is before the New Yotuc Live. 
In the past live yearn this Company has effected over one hundred and five millions of 
Insurances, and Its advance lu this period la illustrated as follows •• 
WILLIAM II. LUDLOW. 
ROBERT M. STRATTON 
SAMUEL WILLETS. 
CLARENCE S. BROWN... 
JONATHAN THORNE. 
JOHN N. WHITING. 
ROBERT SCHELL. 
J. O. SEY.UOv’K. 
WILLIAM BLOOD GOOD. 
J. P. GI11AUD FOSTER... 
J. WILSON STRATTON 
JOSEPH !>I, COOPER ... 
R. LENOX KENNEDY. 
MINOT C. MORGAN. 
JOHN CASWELL. 
edward iiaigeit. 
WILLIAM M. TWEED... 
CHARLES J. SHEPARD. 
DWIGHT TOWNSEND ... 
PHILIP W. ENGS. 
JAMES M. DROWN. 
SAMUEL L. MITCH ILL 
ELIJAH T. BROWN. 
ABRAM 9. HEWITT. 
.*...President. 
...Vlce-Prenident, 
..of Willett & Co. 
....of Brown Bros. <& Co. 
.*.of Thorne, Wuisou & Co. 
.Attorney ami Counsellor. 
.of Ruben Schell «fc Co. 
.of J. Seymour & Co. 
...No. 33 West Twenty-fourth St. 
.of Foster A Thnmsou. 
.Treasurer of tho Novelty Iron Works. 
.of Cooper, Follows & Co. 
■ .Vice-Fresidcut of the Bunk of Commerce. 
...-.Banker. 
.....or John Caswell Ac Co. 
Prcsideut National Bank of the Commonwealth. 
.....No. 337 Broadway. 
.No. 243 Water St. 
.No. 63 Wall St. 
.of P. W. Engs & Sous. 
.of Brown Bros. Ac Co. 
...Merchant. 
. .of Elijah T. Rrown & Co. 
.of Cooper, Ilcwitt & Co. 
hit Company, 
hnv’s Tweiity-FusmU Amu an I Statement, 
Ido ml outstanding, mid the i|ppropriution among 
CSEARI.ES SI. KAYMO^B, Prcildont 
SiOSSikSiX A. GHEAr^r^SSSj Secretary. 
&• Jt£!s■ S*ARD S2052AJYS, Coitsnltlag' Actuary. 
-at loa$t ono innocent, have 
been recently executed lu Cuba. 
~ A 10,111 liNW eggs wore smashed ia front 
of tho post office at Batavia, N. Y. 
— An Albany girt rake a divorce because her 
parents forced bor to the marriage. 
— Cinalmiatlans bent on suioJde are fond of 
the su-iponsion bridge to Covington. 
— Tim East River bridge between New York 
and Brooklyn will be 5,8(13 feet long. 
— Admiral Craven Is la command of the Hare 
Island Navy Yard, at San Francisco. 
— A Puritan window had tho sign “ Window 
to let for to-night’s plot. Prloe 20 17 * 
Sioux City, Iowa, has 3,500 inhabitants, and 
13 putting up twenty brick buildings. 
*- One Louisville policeman Bhot another the 
other day, mistaking him for a thief. 
c 7 Tl ,' e ljd y teachers of the Ypsilnnti Union 
behools have stmok for higher salaries. 
— Et. Paul bos had ono hundred und twenty- 
five eases of small-pox wlthiu alx months. 
— A striped bass weighing titty pound.? was 
oaught at W 0 JI 5 Beaoh, Mass, on the 2d lust. 
— The northern Texan prairies have been 
literally covered with strawberries this year. 
— The Will lama College Nine have been beaten 
by the nines of Amherst, Harvard and Yule. 
— The California Democratic Convention ap¬ 
proved the rejection of tue Alabama Treaty. 
— Twelve patients lu the IllinolsState Lunatlo 
Asylum lost their minds from disappointed love. 
— Two Albany Iron foundries have suspended 
operations, owing to the scarcity of Lehigh coal. 
— The troubles among the Aucklanders are 
reported to have boon “ incited by the Fenians.'* 
Admiral Turner has assumed command of 
i on 6 C0US&lldAted x<Jt Ul uad South Pacific Squad- 
Cash Assets, January 1, 1S68. 
Cush Assets, January 1, 1869.. 
Inconio, 1868.. v 
Divisible Surplus, January 1, 186% . 
This is a Mutual Company. The Policy 
The Surplus and Earuiags are theirs, 
Contribution Plan. 
Its Directors are among the most exper 
country. 
Its Officers arc careful and conservative, 
Its Assets exceed Ono Million Two 
I ho Interest on Investments inor 
Is has paid ia 
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, 
e than pays all Losses. 
two years nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Dividends. 
Its risks are examined and selected with great care. 
Ah a oonsoQueucc, its rate ol Mortality Is less than any other Company In the country. 
It deals ouly in Cush. 
It pays the full amount of tire Policy in Cash. 
Its Dividends are paid iu Cash. 
Its Assets are Cash. 
Its Managers and Representatives believe in the Security and Eooaomy of Cash only. 
Gash Insurance Is the Safest. 
Gash Insurance is the Cheapest. 
This Company has never done other than a Cash Business. 
In the character ol Policies Issued by this Company- 
uda f P ° l!cy i,oldcr “* k0B an Investment waving b<#ter Interest than Government 
I,ays tip an Aunulty for Sickness or Old Atrej 
Aud secures those dependent on him from want in case ot aeatn. 
tnaryof tWs I Couipauy! , * rC9 l ° Ul ° l>racUce of Insurance were originated by tbo 
The business of the Company is the embodiment of them all. 
i'* 8 _ , .. ,1 . euC .?;® nnb,ed to on™ udvautages uo»u i7 ,a S sod by those offered hv nnv 
tne lioaru ot lniHtees ban directed tho Redemption, on and after tho first MONDAY 
u-Xs h of Sni89 0 2C2 17°thev hav^rf 1 / 1 0ul “ tilr "*» n K Divldorut (tln.t of 1867.) and from the Undivided 
f, e<,I#red a ^A8H DIVIDEND, available on settlement of next annual 
retmum, to eaoh partlclputinK policy propqr.tionsd to Its “contribution to surplus.’’ 
Dividends not used lu settlement of ptLminw win be added to the policy. 
Bj order of the Board, 
WEWJAM H. REERS, 
Vice*Preddeut aud Aoiuary, 
TRUSTEES: 
MORRIS FRANKUN, President of the New York Life Insurance Company 
^ e ' P I e !! a * nt of 11,0 N( ” v York Life Insuranc® Company. 
DAVID DOWS, (David Dows & Co., Flour Merchants.) No. 21 ) South St. 
ISAAC C. KENDALL, Union Buildings, oornor of William and Pino 9ts 
PANIEL 8 . MILLER, (Late .MUlor & Co., Grocers.) 
HENRY K. IiOGEKT, (Bogert & Kneel and,) No. 49 William St. 
JOnN L. ROGERS, (Late Wyeth, Rogers, & Co., Importers,) 51 William St 
JOHN MAI US, (Merchant,) No. 29 South St. 
WM. H. APPLETON, (Appleton & Co., Publishers,) No. 92 Grand St. 
ROBERT B. COLLINS, (Collins A Brothers, Stationers,) No. 1(M Leonard St. 
WM. BARTON, (Banker,) No. 33 Wall St. 
WM. A. BOOTH, (Booth St Edgar,) No. 95 Front St. 
GEORGE A. OSGOOD, (Banker,) No. 85 Broad St. 
HENRY BOWERS, (Bowet*, Bookman & Co., Dry Goods,) 01 Leonard St. 
CHAS. L. ANTHONY (Anthony & Hull, Dry Goods.) No. fib Leonard St. 
SANFORD COBB. President Eagle Fire Insurance Co., No. 71 Wall St. 
EDWARD MARTIN, (Provisions.) too West Twelfth bt. 
EDWIN HOYT, (Hoyt, Spragues it Co., Dry Goods,) 50 Park Place. 
LOUIS F. BATTELLE, (Battollo, & Beriwick,) 103 Front 8 t. 
II. B. CLAFLIN, (H. B. Clutliu & Co., Dry Goods,) corner Church and Worth Sts. 
MORRIS FRANULIY, President. 
WILLIAM II. BELB9, YiecPw*. and Actuary, 
THEODORE M. BAATA, Cashier. 
CORNELIUS R. BOGERT, M. D .) XIt 
GEORGE WILKES, M. D., } Me wcal Examuners. 
CHARLES WRIGHT, M. D., Assistant JIedical Examiner. 
A INVESTMENT! AN INCOME IN OLD AGE! 
AND A PROVISION FOR THEIR FAMILIES! 
WILL 
