| Detroit Currency. The O’Keefe Millions. The Eastern Complication—The Con ference. The O’Keefes are in great luck, says Commercial Insuranc > Company, This Company is in a spl| ndid condition, A fine business has been < me during the the St. Louis Republican. There’s mil­ The war-cloud still looms ominously ; year, and with comparatively little loss. The ions in it. They are poor, too—all ex­ over eastern Europe. There is but one ' amount of capital stock of ti j company paid cept one, and he’s dead. Died in Alla­ ray of hope, and that comes to us through up ' in cash is $200,000; capital an a' surplus, ...: its organi - i- ­ habad, India, possessed of $24,000,000 the dull medium of the projected confer- ' $450,000. The C om merci al Since zation February 26th, 187T , not quite five and no blooded heirs about him to claim ence. There has been manifested a dis­ years, has paid in losses $404 l (M)O, which is a shares or divide the spoils of grim mor- position on the part of the leading Powers creditable showing. The ( C ommercial has talitv. Charles Robert O'Keefe was a to meet together for the purpose of ex­ been thoroughly conservativi i; has transacted jondoner by birth. He had one brother changing their views; but we look in vain a legitimate business in evl iry way, and its present prosperity is owing] ;o the care and .nd one sister, both of whom died young for any evidence of a willingness to come attention given its affaifs, by directors as well lis father and mother both died before to an agreement, or to abide by the de­ as officers. Mr. L aton , th« Secretary, is a ie grew up. So the direct line of his cision of the majority. Some of the Pow­ thorough underwriter, anj | manages the MO. 41» CLAY BTRJ ancestors aqd stock is disposed of. There ers, it is evident, have prejudged the case; various departments of til fe business with tatt and clear Melligence. We Between Sanaome and Battery, s SA |elligence, couldn’t be any more brothers and sisters* they are preparing for war while they thorough are glad, to chronicle the success of our local Charles Robert- was apprenticed ft> a profess to be seeking for peace; and it will companies, among which tjie C ommercial Manufacturer» of Men'», Boy»', Yi FINE CALF BOOTO. trade, and not liking it be ran away from not be wonderful if, in spite of diplomatic occupies a promit ion.— Illustrated dren'a Order» tollclted and promptly fllle lis master in 1842, went to India, be­ palaver and plenipotentiary wisdom, Christmas Spirit of qualltiea made at the lowest market t Pleaae examine the rood» and price came a soldier and finally engaged in there should occur at any moment a clash Hard Times. One EGG, or one Quart of mercantile pursuit. The opium trade of arms which will shake the world. between India and*China made him rich. almost univer- Hard Times. WHEAT, or 3 pjnts of CORN, The situation has been unnecessarily Must be true, and they doh sally th At tl|e Davis Verii Feed Sewing Hard Times. or 2 Quarts of POTATOES, or He died last February, aged fifty-two, complicated by the speeches of Lord Bea­ is decidedly the! it, and adapted Hard Times. and left a fortune estimated at the above consfield in London, and of the Emperor Machine to the gj-eatest range of w of any in use. Hard Times. 1 CABBAGE, or 3 Pints MILK, magnificent figures. The East Indian of Russia at Moscow, lrt was hoped that •» , w JUtthe Centen­ Hard Times. or IX Ounces HUTTER, or 2 house. O'Keefe never was married and had no if caution were observed bn the part of nial Commission says substantially the saine Hard Times. feet of WOOD, or X 0>- of F ragrant and spicy—The theft of children, and not expecting to die so the representative statesmen of the Powers thing, and have awarded ahe Grand Gold Hard Times. SUGAR, or X C Times. unce TEA, or |6,000 worth of spices in Old slip. Can­ soon as be did, he left no will or any most immediately interested, a conference Medal of Honor, and Dipt, ti of Merit to the Hard Hard Times. one P. O. 8TA 4P, saved or Davis. Ju the short timj |ial this machine not the police get a “scent?”— New York mention of his family. In fact, as he ipight be held under circumstances such has bee$ in use upon tj I coast, it has at- Hard Times. produced Hertdd. wandered off, so other branches of his as would eqcOurage the belief that diffi­ tained th art enviable pop irity that is rap- Hard Times. Hard Times. Now that the Centennial is a thing of family scattered, he knew not where. culties would be smoothed down, and the idly increasing as it becof b better known, Hard Tinies. enterprise aq ^development are the past the illustrated papers are bring­ There was a colossal pile of savings to be way opened for a peaceful and satisfac­ Mechanical Hard Times. makingirapid strides, andj tso-called stand- WILL I O IT, ing out some very good pictures of the disposed of, and no claimants near. tory settlement. The incaution or bold­ ard madhiues that satis! our wives and Hard Times. O'Keefe’s solicitors in Allahabad adver­ ness of the Earl of Beaconsfield, en the daughters a few years ag! exhibition. now laid aside Hard Times. worthy to stand Hard Times. • T hs Rochester Chronicle advises young tised for heirs. The advertisement found one hand, and the daring utterances of to give plac.e to a mach-ji in the front rank of invea de progress. See Hard Times. its way into the Irish World, of New the Russian Czar on the other, have mln not to marry unless they can secure and try the Davis before! iking a purchase. Hard Times. Hard Times. wives who can make a pumpkin pie and York. Now, American heirs to big fig­ sharpened the lines which separate Rus- ures over the sea are aboqt the easiest sia'and Great Britain;and while they al­ Hard Times. flop a pancake. Webster on r Bridge. Hard Times. thing in the world to find. They never most bar the hope of peace, they make it fST’Parents, Children and Strangers, visit this Palace of Wonders, Elevating “No seat—no fare" is the motto on fail to turn up. Everybody in Europe, Hard Times. We do not believe Unit I io much benefit Instructive and Amusing. certain that, in thp event of her ally being passenger trains in Indiana, and the con- Asia aud Africa seems to have an heir iu be derived from tire j |ame amount of Hard Times. attacked, the last-named Power will not can money in any other way aj i by purchasing a Hard Times. America. America is the heir of all the contemplate the struggle as a merely in­ Webster’s Unabridged lAct ftnary. Is a per- Hard Times. »Hage, suit to attend to. ages and all the people. The Charles terested spectator. It will be a war in son at fault about the apbli^ ktion of any par- Hard Times. Country A fter spending $600 and two months’ Robert O'Keefe's Indian millions stirred which wilt be put to the test the strength ticular word, or of the way] lshould be Used, Hard Times. time a New England professor has dis­ up the American O'Keefes in Danville and endurance of three of the mightiest and its different tneaiftuKk j je has but to look Hard Times. or COMB AND BEB, HALP CAM WOT BE TOI.D._d Hard Times. covered the bones of a dog in one of the and Georgetown. Kentucky. They are governments in the world. Such, at least, in his Unabridged, and he i ill! find examples Hard Times. of all. Everything that|c in be illustrated ancient mounds of Florida. now getting ready to rake in their wealth. is the light in which we are justified in by tigurtis or diagrams if i it illustrated, (by Hard Times. This is the way it came to light among interpreting the facts of the moment. the 3,000 illustrations.) It i a perfect cyclo- Hard Times. T he young lady who wants to drown Hard Times. herself about these days should be care­ the O’Keefes in Kentucky: Michael A conference at last has been agreed pedia, and we would advise uny one who has Hard Times. “Webster on £ bridge/* t f Mrs. Partington ful to bundle up warm and take along a Geary is of the Georgetown gas-works. upon, and it is understood that all the no has it, to do without an . e: eoat or dress Hard Times. hot brick, as the water is very cold. His mother-iu-law is a Mrs. Morrissey, Powers interested in the affairs of the and get one—they will n|v< tra t regret it.— Hub. Hard Times. Hard Times. No man in Michigan has seen any who is a sister of P. J. O’Keefe, and, all East have consented to be present by Advertiser. Hard Times. ' | ------- 1 • ■ I 1 live in Georgetown. Some time .Ago representatives properly accredited, and spring robins of late, and people have Hard Times. A New Attrt ction. Geary, who takes the Irish World, was invested with ther authority of plenipo­ about concluded that the backbone of -Hard Times. Among the many attract ¡>na to which the Hard Times. winter will endure for a week or two yet. reaaing that paper by his humble candle­ tentiaries. Turkey, for a time, was un­ light, and was attracted by the family­ willing to take auy part in the projected attention of visitors is difeet led ■ upon reach- Hard Times. to make T he Boston Journal of Chemistry says name and its associated millions. He conference. In some quarters the Turk­ ing San Ffeahcisco, none ]x;, {haps- will afford Hard Times. that clothes-closets in a house are a great read out the item. His mother-in-law, ish Government has been greatly blamed more pleasure or prove uio le attractive than Hard Times. Wood's Museum, recently c at 522 Call­ Hard Tjmes. nuisance. The proper way of disposing Mrs. Morrissey, exclaimed, “That’s my for the stubborn attitude which it as­ fornia street.- Mr. Wood cl betted inns to have (and Hard Times. of spare clothing is to hang it over cousiu! Charles Robert O'Keefe is my sumed. We think that Government has we believe he , biu^’ the t 1st collection of Hard 'l imes. chairs. cousin, who rah off to India when a buy.” been blamed most Unjustly. It is the relics west of Philadelphia. i The collection Hard Times. T h ^ re are 7,000 more women than men Then she explained, and left no doubt first duty of any Govefbment about to en­ ment of nature and art, to in every depart- Hard,Times. Hard Times. in the District of Columbia, and yet if about it. Michael Geary is one man ter into a conference to 'keep its own hundred thousand. VisfU Hard Times. one woman falls into the canal and is who may reap the benefits of keepings counsel until the delegates have assembled- Wood a pleasant, geniitl Hard Times. Hard Times. drowned a great hullabaloo ia made about mother-in-law in his family. Tliere were and until the business which brought oughly devoted to hi*, b! Hard Times. it in the papers. only four of them—brothers apd sisters them together has been fairly entered Hard Times. — and they were only cousins of Charles upon. In this particular Jlussia has en­ B ritish butchers are as mad as hornets Hard Times. Hard Times. over the arrival of American beef, but Robert aud heirs of his millions. Two tirely failed in the discharge of her duty. Land Owners Wil .tbmit Patents Hard Times. still their customers continue to remark: of them live in Georgetown as above She has allowed the world to penetrate Should fenclose $2 with the • receipts to Col. Times, “Hi’ll take hanother steak hoff that stated, one, a brother, in Danville, and the secrets of her council-chamber, and L. Bingham & Co., Attome „ ,» for Claims, &c.. Hard llgrd Times. one, a sister, never left England, and she the demands which she is prepared to Hamerican hox.” Washington, D. U., aDd ri' qçeive their Land Hard Times. hasn’t been heard from in eighteen years. make in the conference have been made Patents? Hard Times. T he Rochester man who got his foot She is supposed to be long dead and not public in advance. * We have no fault to Hard Times. tangled up in a saw-mill and broke C ancbr can Bl C.URBÜ. .—Dr. - - . B - ond ____ , of Hard Times. troubling herself about earthly treasures. find with these demands, in themselves twenty-eight hundred dollars’ worth of Philadelphia, announces his discovery for Hard Times. The Danville brother is now in Missouri considered- It is very possible that if the the radical cure of Cance . No Knife! No machinery should confine himself to Hard Times. somewhere, making preliminary arrange­ conference should be held, some suefe re­ Paint No Caustic! Remedies with lull full direc- direc­ Hard Times. ______ agricultural pursuits. ments to visit England and Ireland with forms will be agreed upon, and Turkey tions sent anywhere. Patnpbl lets and particu- Hard Times. A fter fooling around for a whole week the Georgetown brother, for the purpose will have.po choice but to give her con­ larstent/ree. Address with j stamp, Dr. H. Hard Times. T. B ond , 859 North Broad st, Philadelphia, Pa. Hard Times. to open a big safe, a Dubuque merchant of establishing their claims to the fortune. sent. But they are reforms which natural­ Hard Times. discovered that it hadn’t been locked,any A pleasant postscript is that P. J. O’Keefe ly wound; the sensibilities of a great peo­ A pleasant , safe and effectual remedy for Hard 1 imes. of the time, and he called his head clerk . lately received a letter from the priest ple—reforms which can be wrung from Bright’s disease, diabetes?! gravel, and all Hard Times. a fool and discharged him. who married him in England, corroborat­ the Ottoman Government only under the diseases of the bladder and kidneys, is K ear ­ Hard Times. ing the death of his* rich India cousin, threat of dismemberment. It is not won­ ney ’ s E xtract B cchu , There Is none to Hard Times. D. D.—Domestic Difficulty. Hard Times. and also referring to the great fortune he derful, therefore, that Turkey refused to equal it Sold by druggist#, Hard Times. H elp for “H ard Ti|r It is all right for the Hon. Bardwell left. The people of the two Kentucky take part in a conference the object of Hard Times. Hard Times. Slote to lug his “Mighty Dollar” around towns aforesaid are deeply interested in which, as her greatest enemy had declared Hard Times. the country and say g. f. for good fellow, the fortunes of the O'Keefe’s, but never beforehand, was to impose upon her con­ Hard Times. thought them much worth cultivating ditions w|iich would practically take out c. d. for cash dowu, and s. m. for sour Hard Times. before their foreign, far-off cousin died of her ha^ds the government of the beat mash, bet such little eccentricities don’t J hb L ittlb P ains , toaihi tache, headache, Hard Times. portion of her European territory. Hap­ earache, eramps, colic« <&ri wear well in the family circle. A for­ so suddenly. ms and bunions, 1 Hard Times. pily the objections of the Turkish Govern­ are, relieved by one apo icati ition of Trapper’s { Hard Times. ward youth of fourteen, whose parents Hard Times. Wall Street Fortunes ment havfl been removed. The conference Indian OiL Price 50 Uei to; five on Myrtle avenue, entered the house > Hard Times. would htMre been a mocker/ and s sham the other day and remarked to his Hard Times. Instances of the melting away of for­ without k Turkish representative. * Hard Times. mother: tunes might be multiplied by the score. It is perfectly manifest that Russia has Hard Times, “Is dinner ready, and if not, why in t. The riches accumulated in Wall street i Hard Times. little hope of any great good being ac­ (thunder) and 1. (lightning) ain’t it!” -- BUT--- ' , seem to be the most unstable of all. ■ Hard Times. “What do you mean I” she slowly in­ They come By chance and frequently go complished by the conference. She has Hard Times. evidently more faith in her army, and quired. PUMPS ARE LOWER. Hard Timas. in the same way. The country is familiar “I mean that you had better t. a. 1. with the case of Daniel Drew, who is now the extensive preparations which she is making abundantly shows that she is de­ (tread around lively),” he answered. bankrupt, though his wealth a rew years She didn’t say any more, but when the ago was so great that he hardly knew termined to push her purpose, even if it should be necessary to fight Turkey with father came home to dinner, she quietly what to do with it. The popular esti­ informed him that young Napoleon was mate of it was $10,000,000, but popular all the power and wealth of England at her back. The Ottoman Government has BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED! picking up slang. guesses at individual wealth are usually ----- BOTH------- “Ia, eh! I’ll see about that," and he very wide of the mark. Berdell, the ex­ but little reason to hope well from the conference. Its success can only mean PROTESTANT ANL ^CATHOLIC, President of the Erie Railroad, who was her humiliation. In her present mood, AT COST PRICE. recently tried for shooting his wife’s she seems quite as willing to submit her To close a consignment before he first of the year. brother, is another fallen monarch. Since difficulties to the arbitrament of the john o. ho ’ do K A CO., 1 his overthrow as a speculator be has had sword as to leave them in the hands of S17, 8»P and 831 S aksomb I IT., B ak F bakc ^ co . a succession of troubles. His wife sued diplomatists, whose judgment, whatever it for a divorce and got it Shortly after­ may be, must in some way redound to her ward he had the encounter which re­ injury. It may be that Russia is too sulted in the death of his brother-in-law. strong for Turkey—that in the struggle A few days ago his daughter began a the latter must succumb; that the armies suit against him for the recovery of of the Sqltan are no longer the despicable $100,000, out of which, she alleges, he things they once were; and we may rest defrauded her. Berdell is now on the assured (hat even if she is left to fight the list of bankrupts. Another case that may fight single-handed, she will not go down iTEETH SAVED. be cited is that of Woodward, the Brook­ easily or without making her powerfu lyn Sunday-school Superintendent, who antagonist feel that victory has been illing teeth a specialty - gold , silver aud Bune Filling» w.rrautdg. - Beautiful ----------------------- Seta oí got up the famous Rock Island pool bought at too great a price. Nor is the Teeth for BIO and upward. " “ thing Gas admlnls- some years ago, and went to pieces in tered. Ten yean eouatant pn e. Office, isobut- peace prospect encouraged if we look at itreet, above Montgomery i Francisco. (Take the crash that followed. He got a dis­ the attitude which Great Britain is as­ ter 1 another not having the Elevator).' UK. the moat Intelligent charge in bankruptcy last week. Capt. suming. It is the conviction of the Brit­ Stockwell, who ruled Wall street during, ish Government that Russia means to in­ ividend notice , no . ».-COLLATERAL the Pacific Mail excitement just before sist Upop claims which she believes the NUA Loan and-Savings Bank »hasdeclared ' ‘T he best practical E nglish D iction - a dividend Monte r St the panic of 1873, is also understood to be Porte wjll refuse—that she means to push oi Two per cent, for November, berJbayable December 5th r bxtamt ."— London Quartei ly Kniew, Oct, 1873. ber 27th. pretty thoroughly used up. Henry those claims, if she should have recourse to stockholders oi record N< ovetti Fj«. CARTER, Sec’y. E^*The National Standard. Clewes, the administration banker, has to arms; and the British army in conse­ PROOF—20 TO 1. COLLATERAL LOAN AN' 8AVING8 BANK, subsided so much that bis name is no quence is already buckling on its armor, V corner Pont and Kearny via 8. F. The shares ol Goods. The tales of WetMter’i Dictionirtea iriea throughout the till» bank ar« offered tor sub iriptlon at Bi*4 per country longer heard in the street. Likewise while British iropclads are moving to the •bare Io 1873 were 90 time« aa lirve as the aalea of daring the month of .lx ember. In January any other Dletlunarlea. We will ■end proof .on appll- Jay Cooke, who outranked all the specu­ point of danger. What 'shape British in­ the price will be advanced to 115 per share. The gallon, and aueli sale (till con tin 4e*- are now pay lag refcul r monthly dividends lative nabobs till the smash came that terference will take will depend entirely •hare» More than THIRTY TH*DSARD coplea of of 8 per cent.' Webster'» Unabridged have bee i placed In aa many brought down his house like a castle of upon the action of Russia. It may lie Public School» In the United btates, by State enact­ cards. Perhaps it is creditable to the taken for granted, at the outset, that Eng­ ments or School Officers. Can you better promote the cat ae of education and foresight and sagacity of all the fallen land will station her ships so as to pro­ HfjONTGOMEBY AVENGE „ AJI I» KEAliNY ST., lu. San Francisco. A new aajl 1 commodious four- the good of community than by laving a copy of Web­ speculators that even when they become tect all the > avenues of approach to Con­ ■tory Hotel, Vi th 173 tlrsteiaafcl light room«, elegant- ster a Unabridged tn your family, »nd trying to have ly ramiihed, and a ateam yleyi ator. Free Coach a copy In each of your Schools ? confessed bankrupts they manage to live stantinople. This in the first instance and Carriage» to the Hou»e Bor* i all point». Chargee, Published by fl. A C. MERRIAM- 8prtngfleld, Maaa. just as well as they did before—that is, will b^ all, unless that power should be BB.OO par <(ay. JOHN KKLLY' J so far as actual personal comfort is con­ directly included in the declaration a* (For M year. Propria»« cerned. LYM HOTJC1 war—a result which is not to be regardec AND CANNING COMPANY as out pf the list of possibilities. Altogether the situation is full of gloom. The hope of continued peace is small in­ 330 POST STREET, deed The conference may be held; but deed. fAPPO8ITE UNION SQUARE. SAN FRANCISCt we are not permitted to believe that the The oldest and most complete Commercial Co conference will prevent, a catastrophe lege en the coaat. Elegant halls new tarniture: tho ough Instruction; practical teat her»; high alandin which is imminent. War sooner or later with the public. Students cat commence at an must determine the question whether the time. Day and evening aesaloni. Circulars may t had free on application. Crescent or the Cross is to be the symbo of power in the finest portions of Eu- ropean territory. It may be deferred. Will to Xnkrged and Improved. It cannot be prevented. Should war break out now, it would be vain to im­ FOR YOUNG \ADIK8, A agine that it would be limited to Turkish SAN MATEO, I AL r soil. It would inevitably spread until it involved the whole of Europe, and not KEV. E. B. CHURCH, A. ML, Priaei**!. rPHE WKXT 8ES8ION BEGIN jTHURSDAY, JAN. improbably the better part of Asia. A X 4, 1877. With recent lm| Movement* In build­ war in which the Crescent would be in ing» and appointmentsthe beat ifkclllties are offered danger would not leave undisturbed the young ladles for a thorough c >ur»e in English, the Modern Languages. Music and A X Those wishing to millions of Mohammedans in India anc secure places for their daughter ; should address the Principal at an early day. Persia. So great are the questions to be settled,