|
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.
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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
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“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, <uch are the interests at stake,
rVHE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING E8TA
and such is the terrible machinery em 1 a Purchasing Agency in bah FrancUc
promptly to all order» for Ladle» and
ployed in modern warfare, that we con tend
Furnishing Good». Millinery. Pattern«. Ac.
template the outbreak of hostilities on mission or ten per cent, will tie Charged. 8
guaranteed. The money muat accompany e
the present questions with feelings of hor Letters cheerfully and promptlyianawered.
good» »ent lr requested. Fit raaponalb
ror. Let us hope that the wrongs of the of
to the editor of thia paper. • Address Mri
Christians in Turkey may be righted WMKBLKK, SSI O'FarJell Mt.. H
without a recourse to arms.— Frank
TJ uerm ’« no such thing as a season of
at for a Detroit ice-wagon.
R ussia doesn’t care to break the peace,
iiljhas 400,000 soldiers in camp.
B ronchitis has become England^ »tend
ril disease. It takes her by the throat.
A M ichigan potterv man yearns for
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