GARDEN 
(Trfcs, , Cecils, 
PEESONAL ITEMS, 
Bancroft is traveling in Egypt. 
Blondin Is performing In London. 
Matilda Heron has become insane. 
Edwin Booth 1« playing in the West. 
BniQNOLi has failed as a singer at Milan. 
Ex-Gov. Seymour Will winter In Florida. 
MRS. H. B. Stowe's husband Is recovering. 
JOHN Owens will build a thouler in Baltimore. 
The American Club in Paris has 100 members. 
Gen. Kilpatrick is now lecturing |on Gen. 
Grant. 
Seward’s new book has already sold 50,000 
copies. 
Jeff Davis Is In good health and making 
money. 
Edmund Yates will go on a tour through 
Canada. 
Mrs. Walsd, daughter of Gen. Dix, Is living 
In Paris. 
The Illinois State Penitentiary ha8 39 life 
oonvlcts. 
Parepa has been to the top of the Pyramid 
of Cheops. 
J. M. Bellow, the great English reader, has 
white hair. 
MR. JEFFERSON took *6,000 for four nights in 
Baltimore. 
Prof. Tyndall gives $1,500 to Y. M. C. A. ol 
Washington. 
Lee's blrtb-day has been celebrated with great 
eclat In Georgia. 
The now Senator from Kansas was born In 
Haverhill, Moss. 
The Infant Prince of Spain Is called Louis 
Amedeo Fernando. 
Cyrus JJ. McCormick has bought the Interior 
newspaper of Chicago. 
flEV. Mr. Hepwoutii and Rev. Dr. Tyng are 
editing the Working ChrlBtlan. 
GEN. WM. H. MOIUU 8 , of Gov. Dix’s staff, has 
become Editor of the New York Era. 
Congressman Palmer of Iowa, will become 
an editor of tho Chicago Inter-Ocean. 
John A. Brown, a late Philadelphia banker, 
gave away ovor half a mllllou of dollars. 
Miss Kate Fox, one of the Rochester rap¬ 
ping sisters, has just married an Englishman. 
144 & 146 Broadway. 
for THE YEAR ENDING DECKiVIBER 31? 
NET ASSETS*, Jaunnry 1, 1872 
RECEIPTS DARING 
For Premiums and policy Fees: 
Original Premiums. 
Renewal Premiums. 
Annuities... 
For Interest on 
Bonds and Mortgages. 
•• 
Banks. Trust Companies, etc. 
Promlum on Gold. 
For Office Bolldtng Rents. 
Vv»«. v 
uiiyo wr wv sum ro.ujv ■ ■?, •••— — -- - - --- -- . - 
cost. Those Who afterwards '-end money to the 
amount of One Jm)Uu or more for Sends may also or¬ 
der Twenty-lire Cent*’ worth extra-the price paid lor 
l, Tht? U hoiimn, Sowthir B heuutifill. giving ninnsfor 
making Iturnl Horne*. Designs fur Dining 1 nhlr 
Decoration*, Window Garden*. Ac., arid con¬ 
taining a mass of Information invaluable to the lover 
of flowers.-One Hundred and Fifty pages, on fine 
tinted paper, some Five Hundred Engravings and a 
superb Colored Plato and Chrowo Cover. - 
The First, Edition of Two Hundred Thousand 
just printed la English nnd German, and ready to 
send out jAJHES VICK, Rochester, N."Y. 
DISBURSEMENTS 
*2,203,667 90 
386 340 U 
69,650 00 
15,591 63 
7,417 08 
2,843,727 92 
1,553,068 72 
2,416,477 22 
17,540 02 
333,015 29 
332,448 46 
155,600 07 
90,489 47 
38.506 80 
268,702 20 
28,965 33 
54,214 50 
121,509 89 
2,108 55 
24,149 40 
Claim* by death.... 
Additions to same, being Dividends.... 
Matured Endowments. 
Additions to same. .*. 
j j fv! d «* d*a f°Ja rmnry *1™ 1872, applied to purchase paid-up Insurance 
Surrendered Policies...V'iiLl'51Y..YU5... 
Surrendered Additions used in payment of Premiums. 
Annuities.... . . 
Commissions to Agents..... 
Commutation of future Commissions. 
Expenses: 
Advertising.... • • • <; .. 
Taxes on business In other Slates. 
Medical Examinations..... 
Salaries..-.... 
Law-.-........ 
Printing and Htattojnury.«•••„.v.M. 
Sundry Expenses, Exchange, Postage, etc.*. 
Office Furniture and Profit and Loss. 
Taxes on Real Estate... 
Net Asset* December 31, 187‘J. 
SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS : 
Cash In Bunks and Trust Companies at Interest. 
Bonds nnd Mortgages...*.;■ 
Cnlted Statc» Stocks.i• R.V • . '.'.'.'..'.'.V, 
New York State. Town and City Stocks. 
Real Estate........*.. 
Balances due from Agents... 
ADD: .. 
Freud unis—Deferred, Scmt-auuuai, nnd Quarterly.. 
Premiums In Course of Transmission. 
.Market Value of Stocks In excess of cost. 
Cross December 31,1872. 
Increase In Net Assets for tho Your...* 
1 have carefully examined tlio foregoing statement, and find the ^ LOYDi AliditoT 
IE! 10 £ ; 
OWEH AND VEGETABLE 
Elegast Eao'aa oa VTisScw Girdoaiaj, etc, 
SAWAY 
as premiums to our eiisionier*. Bpo our rb’iil 
lliimtrate-i.llntf.! ' , «i:iln"iie !■ r 1873,now read 
Free io all. WOOD & HALL, Geneva, N.Y 
856,074,484 31 
SIS®® 
SMB® 
$753,679 2-1 
1,035,158 « 
118X41 43 
672,696 00 
I was the first to introduce to tho public tne ttuo- 
bard Squash, American Turban Squash, Marblehead 
Mammoth Cabbage, Mexican Sweet Corn, 1 hlnnoy * 
Water-melon, and many other 
NEW AND VALUABLE VEGETABLES. 
This season l have a new and exceedingly 
squash, new varieties ol corn, three j no melons, and 
other claoiee new for my enstomm. 
the ASSETS ARE THUS APPROPRIATED! 
Gross Asset-, December 31, 1S7A . idABIUTl‘E 8 V 
Reserve for all Policies and Additions In force (American Tib,e 4 .P er . oe . nt '.^2,331,7 
Raserve 6 for 1 Annuities and 'Reductions of Premium's/.'.'.'. .'... • • • 
Claim# by Doutb nut yet due.*’/’. 24,' 
pnut-mortem Dividend®.....*. 
DuringVh* veur 1372 an extra Dividend has been computed, adjusting the Divlsloi 
Ml fei 2 iT«o f w°« 
,8,he disposition of suhplus. 
Total surplus a» above...... ..... 
Extra Dividend of 1B72...*.*.. 
Undivided Surplus, for Dividend of 1873.. *V"' 
From this sum u Dividend will be apportioned to each Policy which 
versary in 1873. POLICY AND RISK ACCOUNT 
Policies In force, January 1st, 1872. 
Issued uud restored during the year. 
Deduct: 
Cancelled...*. 
Forfeited.*. 
Dead.*. 
Matured.... .. 
In force, Dec. 31st. 1872..... 
Increase during the year.... 
Xoxr -Cancelled Policies are those upon which no 
of the Forfelt-d Policies a surrender value was paid el 
The Amount of Dividend Additions to Policies is a 
irort 1973, 
Wlili Descriptive Priced Catalogue ol 
Seed*, 
now ready, and will be mailed free to all applicants. 
Wholesale Lists on application. 
Address PLANT SEED COMPANY , 
St. Louis, Mo. 
3VTJRSBRV 
600 Aorca. 13 Greon-Housas. 22d Year. 
KoS fflWd-pVr 1,009, 12 to 14 It- $00; 1. to 20 ^ ^ 
sSfeiffilSp 8 ®® 8 8 
jl.ule Rose I'otuioe* (Campb< b ) l >• ' ’ 20 00 
■Fl»»\vt-r" Vegeiubie’ and Tree Seeds. ¥ 
Cofored finite of i run- and Flowers, 5 samples l 00 
Four Catalogue's for Bloomlngt 0 n, HI. 
Amount. 
$228,770,867 
31,327,775 
Number. 
73361 
12,181 
161 3,200,305 
079 18,053,596 
7 vS 2 ’54,’So 2,899 23X60,325 
. . 78,146 $210,047X17 
4,232 11 , 277,250 
nlum was ever paid. For a large proportion 
In Cash or in Paid-up Insurance. 
. $23,000,000 
Consumed in Current Expenses.. . *> 
Paid In Taxes in the dltlcrent States...,..... 
Ratio of Expenses to Receipts In the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Yor 
since its organization: P „ rt. Y,*r. P« Ct. 
Mf, t=i mt §==« p=i 
88 :::‘Ss fe ft m. : «» « 
^ ft'SBffliSS&ISSrffiSK 
ILLUSTRATED CATAliO&UE 
AND FLORAL CUIDE, 
In English, German and French, mailed puke 
TO ALL APPLICANTS. 
If to the surplus now In 
and the sum C ' 
or buii-'iuo «.»a p* *-»^*« ,- 
six hundred and sixty-four 
064.254 84). 
BOARD 
V.V PRUyS N ' IaMUEL M.CORNEL 1 
ROBERT H- McCURbT, J; r U C JkhT H°BROWN’ 
FREDERICK S 
RICHARD A. L- 
JohM M. Stuart. Secretary. J 
O- E 3ST E JFt -A. Ij AGENTS 
. jir-Ri»EI,L. General Agent for Michigan, Indiana, llllnot 
Ylerrell A Ferguson, Detroit, Mich. 
ENCEK GOBJ.L. General Agent for New Jersey 
FORBES, Generul Agent iur PacWe 
.. e, General Agent for Vlxgtnm. Meat mi, 
ee. interior of the CarolInas, Georgia and A 
JENNINGS. General Agent for Oh to »■ 
BO AR OMAN. General Agent for- 
mTTLe'G eneral Agent for Southern New 
" 'i 1 OLS. General AgeDt for Connecticut., -vow 
1 hH i iNS'N General Agent for Vermont, uml 
i jviiv**** *'•*,' i «• *-* -> rwiidmaivt T'.mnmp. 
Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, I- 
for Rhode Island, Providence 
General Agent for Missouri, Kansas. 
gent for Maine and New Hampshire, I ovtland, Me. 
f Agent for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Addrc- 
Market Gardeners 
^end a stamp for Dreer's (Jnrdcu Culendar lof 
IS} ■} 1 I 68 luipcs), with Illustrations, pmottcaldlreo- 
tlorfsT price lift, and the finest selection of 
i*in , 11 L Hu lb*, and every requisite for the rlowe: 
GardenGTeeh-YlOUse?Ac/ .sl\a Hants und S.vts a 
ll ' 1 A. DEEER, 711 Chestnut St., Phila da., Pu. 
To Farmers and Marketmen. 
Ymvi want none but the very best of seed, grown 
from carefully selected seed stock. With the money 
yon liuve to Invest in manure, help Knil gluss yijH 
... cannot nEoixi to on< utin’ •' you tool texy 
an • toils about it: thy wtnb. Cat*logues free to aU. 
N. B, -Cii 11 in the Spring and see what onions, cab- 
baL ' C JAMES ^^GRaGORY^Marb ieliead, Muss. 
jTih. THORBUHN & CO.'S 
Descriptive Annual Catalogue 
A OP 
VEGETABLE, AGRICULTURU ASD TREE SKEllS 
For 1S73. is nown'Hlj^tointoiin^ to applicants. 
j 5 John St., New York. 
THE DUDLEY SEED FARM. 
liuntlrcU of nrv Western Crionds last season. They 
lmve proved B to he good, r will forward It, free to 
mail or express, at 41-6 per lb. Oroer early- *.ow as 
soon as the ground L workable- t or New \ egeta- 
nle* see Catalogue, sent free G. A. LAW, 
Seed Grower, Rosltnda.le. near Boston, Atass. 
i-y Lute Seedsman to F K- Phoenix. 
- “I OJF TRUSTEES 
*. *™QP_W. 
HENRY A. SMYTHE, 
WILLIAM E. DODGE, 
PAT Rick i GEORGE 8 . COE, 
POPUjIm, WM. M. VERMILYE, 
r - - JOHN E. DEV KLIN, 
LEK, ALONZO (TULD, 
HCSTED, HENRY E- DAVIES, 
3 WINSTON, President. 
McCURDY. Vicd-Fres’t. 
And all others who want 
nnH irinwHi* Seed*, sond a stamp ror JLtrrt i »»•*** 
deu Cmiondar lor 1873, with prices, directions 
aQ if U A' dREER.' 711'Chestnut St., Phtladn., 1'a- 
FRANCIS SK1DDY, 
J. ELLIOTT CONDICT, 
JAMES C. nOLLJEN, 
HERMAN C. VON POST, 
GEO. C. RICUABDSON, 
ALEXANDER H. RICE, 
W. T. BABCOCK. * „ 
F. RATCUFORD STARE 
ALFRED BRIDGEM:' IT & rC!T, 
87G Jiroadwny, -Vr.c Xm ii. 
Growers, Importers and Dealers in 
Vegetable, Field 
—AND- 
Garden Tools and Horticultural Books. 
Onr annual priced Catalogues are now read; 
and mailed free to all applicants. They contai 
all the leading and most popular sorts < 
Vegetable, Field and Flowe 
Seeds* including all ihemost desirable Lur 
ravin novelties of the past season. 
Actuary 
Is, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. 
St., Newark, N. J. 
rlnUi^Lnstrlct of Columbia, Maryland, Kentucky, 
nrclu and Alabama 15 south St., Baltimore, MS. 
nfiio Addr«s!> J oil rdn^s, Hiy:^ins & Bi*uuk5, Cleveland, O. 
r Novthoro ttnd Western Xeiv York. Address Christie u 
u. lux wmjro^ Xew York. 
; ent for Connect. cut, IWw U ( Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, 
1 Sul 1 Ivan l ^ D el a w'aVJT lir o ome, Tioga and Chemung, in State Of New York, 
i, R. L, and Massachusetts, Boston, 
— —g Xebr.iska, Colorado and Western Arkansas, 
Address h'tsk & Eland, St. Louis, Mo. 
f. "—‘land, 3Ie. 
leiaware. Addi'ess Vanuxcm, Bates & Lam- 
H. B. MERKELL. 
Address M«»••«* 
L. SPENCER,GOB LE. Gel 
A. E* IT. -■ • —•, —-r . 
O. F. BREESE, General a 
E ast Tennessee. I ' 
JOHN G. J’ 
DERICK L. 
Boardmuu. Tro; 
JOHN A. J.n i i.c., utiwiw 
JOHN W. NICHOLS, General A 
FAYETTE P,-- ' ' 
Putnam, V.G-'.: 
Vu S&lin, 3d, General Agent 
Mass. 
CLINTON B. FISK, . 
and Montana, Dakota and Wyoming - -- 
W. u. LITTLE, General Agent for Maine 
F. W. VANUXiiM, General Agent 
bert, 100 Walnut 8t.. Philadelphia, Pa. 
NORTH FAIRFIELD. <»•. 
I'ulev in Garden, I* mid and 1; lower 
i, Sweet Potato and other 
State you saw this in 
O llCU UAH 
- Growcraud uj-»n» ■ 
Seeds. Bulbs. Seed Potatoes. 
plapiB Send fur Catalogue 
the RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
