NEWS CONDENSER. 
llisccllaiifoits, 
IMPROVED FENCE AND 6ATE 
Now Hampshire boasts a defunct volcano. 
The Nile overflow lias begun. 
Boston has a woman's rights store. 
Salt Lake City pays$18a cord for piuc wood 
New Hampshire has 35,065 militiamen. 
Cohoes, N. Y., baa eighteen knitting mills. 
Florida had 300,000 visitors last winter. 
Scotland had new snow the middle of June. 
Sitka has an American school. 
Texas is eating while blackberries. 
Nino Missouri papers have recontly died. 
Missouri has 10,00(1 Sunday-school scholars. 
Stamford, Ct., is to have a brass band. 
The Hawaiian Islands have no snakes. 
Butfalo is infested with Canada llios. 
Fo.vos Infest the vicinity of Nlskayuna, N. Y. 
Fifteen veterans of 1813 live in Wurron Co., 
XTINEfJAR.—IlOW M YUE Fit091 CIDER, 
t Wine, Molasses or Sorghum hi 10 hours, without 
using drugs. For terras, circulars, .to., address K. I. 
SAUK, \ Itiogar Maker, tiromwoll, Ct. 
and vll la go t onoing, alter recGiviux the approval of 
ninny praetknu t'aruiui s and .vleehuni-s. i>y mUeaoi 
aotual UHo ou tliotr own pruuitsos. is now tittered lor 
sale in burin. Town, County ay.ri State Rights, at 
tonus so modorute a* to penult its unfvctW adoptiun 
wiiuro fencing timber it not an Incumbrance to the 
land. 
The posrs are of iron, tne unit's or Stone, the rails, 
boards or piokots of wood *, mni the entire fenoons 
cheap In ilrst «ost ns if built with wooden iiohIh. The 
posts uru I»dr.ttri«oUBl« ay tlinu. weather or frost. 
Agents wanted to ounvuus id l parts of tho United 
States. For Pamphlet Ctroularfl, eonlnlnltiK descrip¬ 
tion and plans, address, with stump Inclnsoii. 
WILLIAMS’ UKNUK AND CATE GO., 
Rl.irit KiioH, i.i o' Co . N. Y., or 
Slieriduti, Chautauqua Oa., N. Y. 
, „ 3. P. WILLIAMS, Proaidont. 
L. b. ALLEN, Sec’y and Treasurer. 
H OLT’S* estates of England,- 
ti-jO,00(1,01)0 awaiting olaunuurs in tills 
country, Every HOLT, or thoir descendants, in 
America wi|l plcuso apply fora pamphlet, free, from 
the Holt Estate Association, 150 Fulton street, Now 
York. 
/I U R L VO V It II AIR. 
A sample of PKOF. ROOD'S MAGNETIC OUU- 
UQUJC sent FREE. It ourls straight liair (without 
injury) In soft, luxuriant, beautiful, flowing ourls, 
ON THIC PUiSr application. Address, with St a up, 
I’Kop. 1J. a, HOBO, Parkman, Ohio. 
Cush Assets 
Cash on hand. In Bank and In Trust Company..,. 
Invested in Unitod States Stocks, (Market value, $11,lid,80ft 7ft.) cost.......... 
Invested in New York City Bank Stocks, (Market value $17,803,) cost. 
invested in Now York Statu Stonier, (.Market, value, $901,070,) cost. 
Invested in other Stocks, (Market value, 722,500,) cost. 
Loans on Demand, secured by 17. S. and other Stocks, (Market value of 
Securities, $505,745 60)... . 
Real Estate, (Market value, $1,028,806 fill).. 
Bonds and Mortgage*. (Hocurod by Real Estate valued at over $5,000,000,) 
buildings thereon Itisurocl for 83,055,700, and tho policies assigned to 
the Company us additional collateral socurity. 
Loans on existing Policies.,. 
Quarterly and Homi-Annual Premiums due subsequent to January 1, 1809.. 
Interest accrued to January 1, 18110. 
Rents uccrued to January 1, 180!)... 
1 rctniums r,u Pi.dlcies in hands of agents and In course of transmission*.. 
Add excess of market value of securities over cost. 
— Philadelphia had forty-four tires on the 5th 
inst. 
— An Indianian has had six wives within four 
years. 
— The Irish West is Cincinnati’s new Celtic 
paper. 
— Indianapolis’ free letter delivery began 
Jirty 1. 
— Indiana potato bugs have taken to eating 
apples. 
— Russia has seven deaths a day from drunk¬ 
enness. 
—-The secret service costs Britannia £30,000 
yearly. 
— There arc 17,000 Baptists in continental 
Europe. 
— Emigrants arc on their way from Kansas to 
Arizona. 
— Hartford is the wealthiest town in Con¬ 
necticut. 
— The Income tax of Chicago for 1808 was 
$1,746,000. 
- Quoit matches are among Saratoga’s quiet 
amusements. 
— In 1808 Finland had 53,103 deaths — chiefly 
from famine. 
— The vicinity of Terre Haute is Infested with 
liorso thieves. 
— Boys in ll^ie, Pa., syringe the passengers in 
the horse cars. 
— A baby but eight weeks old has just crossed 
the Continent. 
— F.ight Caihoiie churches are a-buildiug in 
Massachusetts. 
— Virginia’s new Legislature will have seven 
colored members. 
— -Northern Mississippi is overrun with com¬ 
mercial travelers. 
— Tho Southern rice crop will exceed that of 
any year since 1800. 
— Tho Dog Register of New Albany, Ind., can 
enroll 75,000 canines. 
— A man was sent to jail in San Francisco for 
“ general meanness.” 
— The small-pox lias reached Sherman, Chau¬ 
tauqua county, N. Y. 
— The Philadelphia Press will not print ac¬ 
counts of prize lights. 
— The Dominion lVile Association shoots at 
Toronto, September 
— Peoria, III., benefit a plow which turns a fur¬ 
row thirty-two Indies wide. 
— The Whll ney’% Point (N. Y.) lockup is to be 
named after its fidst inmate. 
— •‘Newspaper Row,” Washington, is nearly 
deserted by oourespondeius. 
Dueling to the rmuio of n piano is the Jatest 
Gorman students’ innovation. 
— New York hnd twenty-eight Arcs, destroy¬ 
ing pin $2,01)0 worm, on tho6th. 
— Balilwiusville (N. Y.) thieves steal the flow¬ 
ers from graves in tho cemetery. 
Milwaukee! lias a musical society of five 
huudrod and sixty-two members. 
— Boyle county, Ky., will have a thousand 
mules for the South next autumn. 
— Twenty-five miles of New York streets are 
in a disgracefully filthy condition. 
— The Vermont State Prison has cighfyy-fivc 
inmates, but three of them women. 
— A Vermonter “sugared oil’” the lash week 
in June, and “ waxed ’’ ou snow too. 
— The Pacific Railroad him had i(s first 
dent, and killed one of its brukoinen. 
-Groat Britain will probably soon adopt the 
halfpenny rate of newspaper postage. 
— Scgiiln, Texas, pays a dime a pound fog but¬ 
ter, and half a dime per dozen for eggs. 
-'■Tho Boston Traveller says that mor& than 
halt the Nova Scotians favor annexation. 
— Tho Maine Universal ist Convention i/pposed 
capital punishment and favored prohlbt) a on. 
— The paymaster, through whoso hands all the 
money paid tho French clergy goes, is a Jew. 
— A Burlington (Vt.) man wants a “ devorg,” 
but says, ” if it cost $20,1 cant pay that, much." 
— The celebrated Widow Ciiquot makes near- 
iirance Company. 
NEW YORK. 
President. 
Vice-President 
Cash Assets, January I, IStil) 
lFrom the American Krchanuc and Ttailew, March, 1808.1 
The business and financial position of the Now York Life Insurance Company, at the 
0,080 of 1HIJH, will exoilo morn than usual Intercut in the genorii! public) and be especially gratifying to 
Its policy-holders. Last yen* the operations or this Company worn a success unparalleled by any of Its 
previous annual achievements. Not. only In the general growth or revenue and assets, bat In the spcci- 
tioatlons of its aooountJ is tliu exhibit for 1808 especially noteworthy. Nearly one-half of Its disburse¬ 
ments were for dividends to pollay-holdurs. yet the further dtvUubhi surplus at the close of the year was 
$1,1)89.232.17, being still mentor than tlui pravious annual dividend. Thu lutorest account (including 
premium on gold, Ac.it shows a great Increase; Income from this HOtireu alone was more than adequate 
to pay the losses, and was 5T per cent, gain ns compared with the corresponding receipts Of 1807. 'The 
gain In new policies was 2,5(8 above the total of 1807, being au aggregate for tho year of 8,105 new poli- 
oies-au average of 176 per week. All the details prove t horough work—a widening circle of luliuQnec — 
higher results to its poflcy-ltoldors — and the engrossing of a larger share of public attention. A grout 
future is before the New Yoiik life. 
DIRECTORS. 
...President, 
.......V ice- Pvesi dent, 
.of Wi (lets Sc Go. 
.of Brown Bros. As Go, 
..of Thorne, Watson Sc Go, 
.....Attorney Olid Counsellor, 
... Solid! Sc Co, 
.... oT J. tieytuour Sc Go. 
.No, ‘$3 West Twenty-fourth tit, 
. of Foster S: Thomson. 
.Treasurer of the Novelty Iron Works. 
.of Cooper, Fellows Sc Go. 
.Vice-President of the Bank of Coin move o, 
...Banker, 
...of John Caswell Sr Go, 
.President National Bank of the Cormnou wealth, 
.......No. \I33' Broudwny, 
.No. it43 Water tit. 
.No. 03 Wall tit, 
.of P. W. Engs ifc Sons, 
.of Brown Bros. Sc Go, 
....Merchant, 
...of Elijah T. Brown Sc Go. 
.of Cooper, Hewitt & Co. 
WILLIAM If. IjjfiLOW. 
ROBERT M. STRATTON 
SAMUEL WILLETti. 
CLARENCE ti. BROWN 
JONATHAN TIIORNE. 
JOHN N. UIIITINf;. 
ROBERT SCHELL. 
J. o. SEYMOUR. 
WILLIAM BLOODGOOD 
J. F. LIRA I’D FOSTER .. 
J. WILSON STRATTON.. 
JOSEPH M. COOPER ... 
R. LENOX KENNEDY.... 
>11 NOT C. MORGAN 
JOHN CASWELL. 
EDWARD HAIGHT. 
WILLIAM M. TWEED. 
CHARLES J. SHEPARD 
9WIOI1T TOWNSEND. 
PHILIP W. ENGS. 
JAMES M. BROWN. 
SAMUEL I,. MITOniLL . 
ELIJAH T. BROWN. 
ABRAM ti. HEWITT. 
In the past five yenr* this Company has effected over one hundred and live million* ot 
Insurances, and its advance lit this period ts Illustrated U 3 follows: 
Poltoles Amount Cash Dividends Losses 
Issued. Insured. Paid. Paid. Income. Assets. 
. $13,113,3* $09,655 58 $815,200 $1.729,fill 17 $5,711,1178 (ft 
. 6.U4 lti,.l2MW 250,5*1 11 190,522 2,842,065 49 6,018 219 011 
J5jif. 7.2% 22,784,804 282,221 21 480,197 3,088,801 47 LOOtl lrtW 
88). . <(.000 29,078,(17 8,11,958 h( 6110,280 8,50] ,891 28 I),150 752 ‘M 
i3WJ . “.loo 80,700,917 1,226,800 20 741,013 4,478,280 20 11,0003!!:.' ul 
These are stages of an expansion wliich lias not come from fortuitous Or extraneous clreumsluiK 
but WhloJt may be chartictorl/.cd. so to speak, ns un organic growth—a development in duo process :i 
order. Tho New York Life Insurance Company now transacts ubout onc-eightceuth of the entire I 
Insurance business of the Unitod States. 
(.oncoming the regulations which snide tin: interior sovrrniiient of thin Company. 
Superintendent BAitNES Jtuikos this statement und commentary In his hist annual report: 
"The By.Luws confine tho business of the Company exclusively to insuraneo on lives-llmit risks on 
anyone life to ten thousand dollars—prohibit u. trustee or ofJlcor from using or borrowing the funds of 
the Company, and provide timt nil Investments shall bo made in the name of the corporation, and not 
in tho name of any individual us an officer of the Company; besides many other stringent business 
rules for Unanolal health and soundness.” 
Thi* citniion is an epitome ol tho G'ompnay’s nfficial history. It* general inniingc- 
ment adheres faithfully to the provisions required “for limftelal health mid soundness.” The accumu¬ 
lating resources of the Company justify, however, an enlargement of the maximum of Insurance 
upon one life and #20,000 is now the limit. 
The well-approved business men who compose the hoard of able Trustees, exercise 
thoir Supervision with groat cure and dlscroLlor.. President -Mourns Fu.vxicj.ig, ami William II. 
Bllih, Ksq.. Vice-President and Actuary, (and alike capable in botli positions,) discharge their duties 
with tireless vigilance and a foresight clear and broad. The years as they go on bear golden testi¬ 
mony to their eiUoiency. 
Wc lic-ro append un extract from the Company's Twenty-Fourth Annual Statement' 
Which announces the redemption of the last scrip dividend outstanding, and tho appropriation among 
the policy-holders of the dlvtstblo annual surplus: 
CBIAKI.BS HS. IMYHOail, President 
K016KBET A. «S£A3ix\ISN, Secretary. 
S*I3KB a B*AKB> HIIO.VBA^'S, Consulting Actuary. 
J From 
fourth *lmn 
Cash Assets, January 1, 1S(J8. 
Cash Assets, January 1, ItifiB. 
Income, ISfiti. 
Divisible Surplus, January l, ISfiO 
Tliis is a Mutual Company. The Policy Holders are its Members. 
The Surplus and Eurnings are theirs, and Divided among them every year on the 
Contribution I’luu. 
Its Directors are aiiiont the most experienced Insurance Men mid Financiers in the 
country. 
Its Officers are careful and conservative. 
Ils Assets exceed One Million Two Hundred mid Fifty Thousand Dollars. 
The Interest 
It bus paid j 
(icci 
The Board of Trustees has directed the Redemption, on and after the first MONDAY 
March, ln«t.. of the lust and only outstanding Hcrlp Dividend (that or 18(57,) and from the Undivided 
•plus of $1,089,202.17 they have declared a CASH DIVIDEND, available on settlement of next annual 
raliini, to each participating policy proportioned to Its ”contdUnitton to Burplns.” 
Dividends not used in settlement of premium will be added to tho policy. 
By order of the Board, 
on Investments more than pays all Losses. 
u two years nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Dividends. 
Its risks are examined and selected with great care. 
As a consequence, ils rote of Mortality is less than any other Company in the country. 
It deals only in Cash. 
It pays the foil amount of llio Policy in Cash. 
Its Dividends are paid ill Cash. 
Its Assets are Cash, 
Its Managers and Representatives believe in the Security ann Economy of Cask onlv 
Cash Insurance is tho Safest. 
Cash Insurance is the Cheapest. 
I liis Company lias never done other than a Cash Business. 
In the character of Policies issued by this Company — 
l lie Policy Holder makes an Investment Having better Interest thau Government 
Bonds i 
Lays up an Annuity for Sickness or Old Age; 
And secures those dependent on him from want in case ot noatii. 
1 .i< most popular lentures in the practice of Life Insurance were originated by the 
Actuary ol this Company. 
The business of the Company is the embodiment of them all. 
It is, hence, enabled to offer advantages unsurpassed by those offered by any other 
Company in the couutry. 
Intelligent investigation will prove this. 
Farmers and Business Men who seek to unite 
SECURITY! A PAYING INVESTMENT! AN INCOME IN OLD AGE! 
AND A PROVISION FOR THEIR FAMILIES! 
WILL 
WILLU1I IB. 1MEI2KS 
YiecPrcsldeiit :md Actual* 
MORRIS FRANKLIN, President of the Now York Life Insurance Company. 
WILLIAM n. BEERS, Yioo-President of the New York Lifo insurance Company. 
DAVID DOWS, (David Doiva fc Co., Flour Merohiuita,) No. 2!) South St. 
ISAAC C. KENDALL, Union Buildings, cornur of William and Pino Sts. 
DANIEL S. MILLER, (Late Mi]lor & Co., Grocers.) 
HENRY K. JJOGKttT, (Bogert & Kneolaud,) No. 4!) William St. 
JOHN L. ROGERS, (I,ate Wyeth, Rogers, Sc Co., Importers,) 5i William St. 
JOHN MAIRS, (Merchant,) No. 29 South St. 
WM. H. APPLETON, (Appleton & Co., Publishers,) No. 03 Grand St. 
ROBERT B. COLLINS, (Collins & Brothora, Stationers,) No. 100 Leonard St. 
WM. BARTON, (Bunker,) No. 33 Wall St. 
WM. A. BOOTH, (Booth & Edgar,) No. !)5 Front St. 
GEORGE A. OSGOOD, (Banker,) No. 35 Broad St. 
HENRY BOWERS, (Bowers, Beckman A Co., Dry Goods,) 61 Leonard St. 
CHAS. L. ANTHONY (Anthony & Hall, Dry Goods,) No. 66 Leonard St. 
SANFORD COBB, President Eagle Fire Insuraneo Co., No. 71 Wall St. 
EDWARD MARTIN, (Provisions,) 400 West Twelfth St. 
EDWIN HOYT, (Hoyt, Spragues & Co., Dry Goods,) 50 Parle Place. 
LOUTS F. BATTELLE, (Battelle, & Bonwlek,) DM Front St. 
II. B. CLAFLIN, (H. B. Clallln & Co., Dry Goods,) corner Church and Worlh Sts. 
NB03S12BN FRA5fIiI,IIV, B 8 i*oisl«E<‘iiS. 
9JB fll. UB A.B6S, ^ susti ActWRFj'. 
T1IEODOKK ,YS. IIA AT A. Cashier. 
CORNELIUS R. BOGERT, M. D. / 
GEORGE WI LIVES, M, D„ Medical Examiners. 
CHARLES WRIGHT, M. D., Assistant Medical Examiner. 
Parties desirons of connecting themselves with this Company, either as Agents or 
becoming Members, will please address the Home Office, personally or by letter. 
tahst* won’t establish it unluf s insure 
burglars. 
i nr7 A f ! irmer ncar Grim <u Ga., has 
H ifty-eight bushels of wheat to the non 
A hew crop. 
-i . ~, I llG “seventeen-year l/»eust” has 
j in Connecticut, as predletjed in the 1 
-f January 9. 
7 ? "“The net earnings of the Miehigm 
i) u\i 0(Ul for the Fear ending May 
J $1,015,343.54. 
Tr' ~ Tho last week In June the water in 
V amazoo (Mich.) River wa« higher thuu 
lore know a. 
JOZjtf* THE TOia’TIlffB CJSiASS OP THIS COMPAStflT 
The Public are requested, for full information, to apply at the Company’s Office, or to 
any of its Agents. 
C9- Active, intelligent men, familiar with the business of Life Insurance, will do well 
to co-operate with this Company. 
Address all Communications to the Company’s Office, 
Ao. 132 RROADWAf, HEW YORK. 
