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« 3 Jf<" ! f, j. itnl-ir * iiq^ . i . Vfr„ ... . . , - * ' - " Pledged l>utto Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win ua and no Pear Shall Awe." - V.I.HSI. s. "I1 11 , & VOL. 16. j; <•' • • / • V •' . K M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1891. ' *V - ? • NO 31 tgf \ -• r _ ;VS ^ V; ' ?r " ^•>r |\. S5 &'y: w. "i'i-i PtTBLianco Brm WEDKESDAR »R '; "v . v an s r. TK %•§, •DITOB AMD PROPRIETOR. , j «. . y Office in Bishop's Block, ;'¥V -ornuTi PIUT * OWM'I SS TEtlMH OP SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear (ID Advance) fLBO It Mot Paid within Three Months J.00 Subscriptions received for three or six months in the same proportion. 500 10 00 19 00 80 00 60 00 100 00 f>i"i rV Ir­ is* , * Bates of Advertising. W* announce liberal rates for advertising n the PuiKDKti.KB, and endeavor to state hem so plainly that they will be readily nn- erstood. They are *s follows: 1 Inch one year 3 Inches one year • * • S Inches one year - if Oohimm one year • H Column one year- ... lOolumn one year .... One inch means the meaiurenaent of one lneh down the column,single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have (be privilege of changing as often as they choose, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having standing cards) will be entitled to insertion of local notices at the rat® of 6 cents per line each week. All others will be charged 10 cents per line the first week, and 5 cent® per line for oaoh subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set in) the first Issue, and S oonte per line for subsequent issues. Thus, an inch advertisement will oost ® 1.00 for one week, |1.5« for two weeks, $4.00 for three weeks, and so on. The PLAINDKALBR will be liberal In giving editorial notices, but, as a business rule, it will require a suitable fee from everybody •asking the UM of its columns for pecuniary gain. BUSINESS CARDS. a J. HOWARD, M. D. fifitYslOIVN AND SURGBOK. McHenry, K. ill. Officio at residence, one block east of Public School Building. a H. FEGBR9, M, D- TSIOIAH AND SURGEON, McHenry, lis. offiee at Residence. WM. OSBORNE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offloe at Keaidenoe, VVeat Idctienry, III* OftUi jcmnp.ly attended to day and night. #"<i« -- Livery Stable. HI WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First • class rigs with or without drivers furnished at reasonable rates. Teaming of Siriutds ASM on short notice. ~ NEAR THE DEPOT, WEST MoHENRY, ILL, Keepe open for the accommodation of the Public a Flrst-Olass Saloon and Restaurant, (There he will at all times keep the beet brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars •:-i\ - be found in the market. Also Agent I*o» WtAIHZ FAXiK'S IKwhi/K"8 BMr- ier in Large or $maU Kegs or Bottles al- .'•'oti hand; cheaper thkir any other, quail. foncltyexwjL " Qrdejrs by mall promptly attended toJ , V tGOOD STABLING MX>S HOR8K8. Aroall andjiee ue. Robert Sohleaale, IVest McHenry, 111. ;/#«r • ILOOH AMD BESTMINT. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. BUSINESS CARDS. KNIGHT FT? BROWN, ATTORNEYS AT L A W. U. S. EXPRENJOO.'® Building, 87 and 89 Washington St. CHICAGO, II.L. JOSLYN:* CASEY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Woodstock IIL All business will receive prompt attes* tion. . . >:,• - A P. B ARN ES, « ATTORNEY, Roileitor. nndi counselor, Colleottons a specialty. WOODSTOCK, 1LLIKOTS. V.». liUMLEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, and solicitor M Cbancerv, „ • WOODHTOOK, ILL* Office in Park House, first 'floor. A. M. CHURCH, Watohmaker and Jeweler NO. One Hundre<lTwenty-Five State St Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. WAFiill Assortment of Goods in his line United States War Cluii Ape? OF WM. H. COWLIN, Woodstock - - Illinois. Prosecutes all classss and kinds of claims against the United States tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptly answered if Postage Stamps are enoiosed for reply. WM, H. COW US Office at Residence. Madison St., Woodstocs, Illinois. Attention Horsemen! MCHENRY, III., April 1st, 1898, I would respectfully Invite the Publlo to call and examine 017 stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No busl- ness dene on Sunday. N. 8. COLBY M'HBNKT ILL J. C0MPT0N, Agent lor the HOME, OF NEW YORK, Capital, 08,931,100. \A.ND TH1 ^TNA. OF HARTFORD, Capital, & 10,071,550, Fire tested, time tried Companies. Insures agalnat F're, Lightning and Wind-Storms, at the most reasonable rates. For insurance and further p irticulars apply to J. Compton, Volo. 111., who has been 35 years in the uusl- nesj, and always gava entire satisfaction in ea-te of loss. y»l» Hi., May Mth< MSSi •» MEN WANTED. To represent our well-known nursery in title county, for town and country trade. Good pay weekly. A steady position with a nur­ sery of over thirty years' standinsr, and a knowii responsibility. We waui good, lively workers, and will pay well. Good references required. Applv quick, stating age. CHASE BROTHERS COMPANY, 87-m2 Chicago 111. The Police Gazette, Is the "nly illustrated paper In the world containing all the iatesi sensational and sparling news No Salo-n Keeper, Barber, or Club Room can afford to be without it. It always makes friends wherever It goes. Mulled to any address in the United States securely wrapped, 13 weeks for {1, Send Five Cents for sample copy. BXCHABD X. FOX, RKAHKLIK SQUABK, New York ATTENTION! Farmers and Dairymen. j[t will pay thosft lookln^ffor CHOICE COWS Fresh milkers or springers, to call at mj premises before purchasing. I can furnish suoh by the oar load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, Oranrara* Farm about tour mile* northwest of Harvard, Illinois. JOHN P. SMITH, Watohmaker Ac Jeweler, MoHENRY. ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew­elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing line watches. Qlve me a CaI1" JOHN! P- SMITH. A pamphlet of inmrnjation and ab- if the laws, 8UDWin« How to Obtain Patents. Caveats, Trade Marks, CopyriRhts, sent free AddreM MUNN &L CO. 301 Broadway New York i Kentucky Liquors, French Sitters, [cHeary Lager Beer, IM®: --AND-- la any quantity from a Snitz Q-lass to 1C0 barrels. ||r WHOLESALE OR RETAIL Beer in bottles, keg| or case as ||Mp as the cheapest V.' S**" •• W& buy none but the best'and mil at Seasonable Prices. Oali and see me and I will use Mn well. •NTONT ENOLEN. r.J.Barbian. J. J. Barbiaa BAR31AN BROS. Wholesale and Retail DEALERS IK NE CIGARS, Me HENRY ILLINOIS* Saving leased the brick building one door South or the post office, we have opened as where, at all times can be founds fine cigars of our own manufactnre, together with smoking and chewing tobacco of the best brands. Pipes a Specialty. W« have a very large assortmentjaad ijsame T«7 handaosse patterns* OALti AND tiSE US. SDCOI STOriKL, Aic*nt fc,j ?«*senlx of BrssWys. Rockford Insur'ceCo rirt, ((llHtxini; and Tirnado Insurance placed safelv and with despatch in either ot above companies. Policies corrected, changes andltransfers made. Call on or address Simon Stofiel. West McHenry, Illinois. afooxrjksrs ORCHESTRA, tTesit McHenrj « Illinois, Will furnish flnt-rhw music for the dsnc- ing public at reasonable rates. Address all « ers to • nnl ' BD. NOON AN, West McHenry* III. Quintette Orchepjtra, McHENRY, ILL. At® preparedf to furnish |Flr«t OHwe Musi* to the Dancing Public at| Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden. Clarionet, C, Curtis, Cornet. L, Owen, Trombone, E, Ingalls, Basso and Prompter, Address all communications to Jerry Smith*, McHenry. NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E, Randolph St. Between Franklin and Market Streets, CHICAGO. Be$t Accommodation to 2Yavelier# teed Boarders. E. Q. E0EFPE, Prop. Il.so PES OAT, GOOD SAMPLE ROOM. A UrM-claut House, f AeXAqt• AU Stop TMrs. THE Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. Good Liyery, Ck>od Sample Room. FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS FOR PA TROJN& OF THE HOUSE. X run a line of carriages to Twin Lakes from t.lchmond, three-fourths of a mile nearer than any other road, and more level and pleasant by far. If you intend going to Twin Lakes, stop at Richmond ana inquire for CULVER'S BCS. It i« always there, rain or shine. Kound trip or Ices as usuai. C. N. /CULVER, P?op. SHORT BORN BOLLS 9 POLAND CHINA AND BERKSHIRE BOARS, AND Plymouth Rock Cockerels, FBr Sale at Living Prices by the under­ signed. Call on or address FRANK COLE, SPRING QROV«, ILL. 9pri*g Grove, III, Nov. 11, Special Announcement. Send 26 cents for a eopv of m<? HBW ILLVt- UTKATED CATALOGUE of; I^Sportiny, Athletio and Gyiiiuasiui^ Ghoo<|a, ~ The Finest Kver Is#ued, RICHARD"Ff FOX» Franklin Square. ,|§w TOBK. 0 A L E S M E W U WANTED. ll Traveling and local, to sell our choice Nur­ sery stock. Fa«t-se!ltng specialties In hardy f ruits, etc. -iplendld Outfit Free. Steady employment guaranteed. Tour pay weekly. Write for terms. Cermanla Nursery Co. Roches! sr, N. T. BRXEDBRS OF MORGAN HOUSES. Short IHorn, Bad FoIM Aagaa. And Jersey Cattle Hillside Farm, West McHenry, III. Our Morgan Stock Is all pur* Wred. and originated from the best Morgan stosk la the United States. Old Gifford Morgan, who stands at the head 3f our Stook, is one of the best bred Morgan horses in the country, and can show more and better all purpose colts than any »ftsr horse In the West. We invite the inspection ef our stock by horsemen and all lovers of fine animals, A few full blood Morgan Colts and young aorses for sale. Also one matched team, rail tiloods. to Cattle we have the full blood Short Horn *hich we are crossing with the Red Polled Angus and therefore instead of sawing on the horns we are breeding them off and with good success, A few Heifers and Bulls, both pure bred Short Horns and the cross above mentioned for sale. _ J. R. Sayt«r A tonft C. H, ALBRECHT, DENTIST. AL L NEW AND APPROVED Dental Oper. attoas performed it Reasqmable Prices. Crown and Bridge Workt1 And the preservation of t,h« natural teeth a specialty. Qas and ether (tiren for nainleae extraction. All work warranted. ^ Offlce over Kvanson ft Co.'s store. ' a. West McHenry, 111 > Dec, 17,1880. §1 IK " FLORIDA, r Send address, on iMStal card, for any inform ation wtnted about LANDB. HOTELS. K0UTE^#te^ etc. Answered promptly. LY.4ENNES8, HMhn i SAN FORD, F&OKIDA. PATENTS, I Trade-marks, Caveats, l abel* and Copyrights promptly pioc 11 red AfKtKTT-PAOtC BOOK FREE. Send sketch vf. mod el for free opin­ ion as to patentability. 'All business treated as sacredly confldentlaL Sixteen years' ex­ perience. Highest references. Send for no'>k Address, f W. 1. F£TZQERALD% F&tr«ett Washington, D. C. mi V" I V - :'l WM. 8TOFFEL. • "^4 / *~Agt*U for-- FIRt; - LICHTHIMO, M AeaidMtal XasonaM. Alee Iowa. Minnesota,, Nebraska, Alabama, and California Lands, call on or address WM. 8TOFFEL, McHenry, 111: * p ma VB to eanvass for the sale AUCN I dof our Hoflse-Qrowa Nursery Stor k. WANTED nmumiimn 0VBQCALEP (•"AOit.TTisa. One of the largest^ oldest-established, and best known Nurserlac ta the ooontry Ad d ress, W. <£ T. SMITH, Genera Nursery, Established in . Geneva, A. Y. ".'•J" s WANTED. N Lodal ox* Traveling. To sell our Nursery Stock, sslary. Expenses and Steady Employment guaranteed CHAIX BE0THKKB C0MPAVT. Koohsstsr, V. T. Agent* Wanted I TZXTS'TAll will be given to introduoeour new book Bible Brilliants: STORIES, MOTHER'S HOME JThe greatest SUMOM tSl yttar. -ancl now*, thing entire! v new in the bonk line. Royal Qnarto; eizf»,"fl9(KllX; finest of paper; large tvpe; .180 illustrations. 68 full page, two of them printed in nine col trs; retail price only 18.90 Thousands will be sold for Holiday Presents. Those first in the Held will reap a harveit, Act quick or you will miss it. FOBSHEE A MACMAKIN, Cincinnati, O. Save $36.50 A California. S. C. J0D8ON & CO.'S personally conducted CH II- foriUa Excursions in broad ftauRO I'ullman Tourist Bleeping Cars, via Denver & Hio Grande 11.1!.. (th« foenio line of the world) leave Chicago via Chicago & Alton li. R. 12:00 noon Saturday of every week, each excursion in charge of an emcientand gentle- maolj excursion manaper. Pullman tourist sleeping cars through from Boston and Chicago to San Fran­ cisco and Los Aneeles. For rates, reservation of ^N40a (.1MB hm STOCK MM, HEBBON, ILL, Pbflltps & Richardson* BREEDERS OP High, Grade Jersey Cattle, .REGISTERED POLAND OHIKA H008. AND PURE BRED POULTRY. Sliver Laoed Wyandotteo, Light Bramas, Ply| mouth Rocks, S. C. White aud'S, O. Brown Leghorns, Patrldge Cochins, and other Varieties. Mammoth B*onze and White Holland Turkeys. Pekln Ducks and White Guineas. We have & lew high Grade Jersey Cattle for sale, from choice selected stock. Oar Poland China Honrs are of the best and choicest asrains. We have some very choice spring Pigs for sale at very reasonable pricks. An Inspection of them is invited, or write us your wants and we will quote you prices. All piss eligible to any register. Poultry for sale at reasonable prices. Ejrgs during season. We have some very choice Poultry of all binds at Fall prices. All orders for Pigs, Birds or Eggs receive prompt attention. Onr stock has been carefullv selected and Is strictly pnre, and we Guarantee it «s such. Our customers may rest tesnred that we shall ship only such stock as will reflect credit upon ourselves an 1 them also. Correspond­ ence cheerfully and promptly attended to and respectfully solicited. Visitors welcome any day but Sunday, and we extend an invi­ tation to all to call and gee our stock. Hoping to receive a share of your patronage, and assuring our fi iends that we will labor to please you, we await your favors. Tours Respectfully. PHILLIPS & RIOHARDSON. September, 1S9C. ACHANGE TO MAKE MONEY Salary and Expenses paid, or Comm slon If preferred. Salesmen wanted everywhere. No experienoe needed, address, stating age, fl. W. FOSTER & CO., Nurserymen, \ Geneva, N. Y. A good pushing Salesman here. First- class pay guaranteed weekly. Commis­ sion or salary. Quick selling new Fruits and Specialties. FARMERS can vet a go id payin g| job for the winter, Write for full partic ularn. FRED E. YOUNG, Nurseryman. 8m2 Rochester, N. Y. •f&B 1M< This Trade Mailt toon Its M BQLDUB'S HFASTM2HT. Edited by WM. H, COWLIN, WOODSTOCK, RU. "To care for" him who ha* borne the tattle, and for hit Widow and Or. phant." --Lmootn. 'Friendship, Charity. Loyalty-- Worthy *on* of Jfefrtot Father* • Ct A. R. Directory. KHuntT MMT MO. MS. Meets the Flnt Thursday evening of each month. L. E. BimtT, Oon. WOODSTOCK POST, HO 108. Meats Srst and third Monday evenings of saek month. ^7 A. B. WBTOHT, OtM. •ram POST, io 398. Meets the leeond and fourth Tuesday evenings ef esea month F. B. cox. Com. UKVilD fOIT, TO KB. Msets the second and rourth Monday sasn tngset eaeh month. E. N. ACSTIM, OBttU. MAKUTOO POST, Na M, Msets every Second and Fourth Friday evenlcgs of eaoh month. E. B. Morns, Com, WAOOOMDA rOST, HO. 868, Post meets everv seeond and fourth Satur­ day evening in Q. A, R. Hall, Xaln St. A. L. PBIOK, Com. Along the Skirmish lias. A " 'poesum roast" is the latest form of entertainment among Kansas veterans John A. Dix post, No. 59, Columbus, leads the 'possum column. The dedication of the Capitol Building, Topeka Kan., Aug. 5,1892, is the event in which it is desired that poets from every State in the Union shall take part The Soldiers' monument at Sutton, N. H., presented to the town by the Hon. George A. Pillsbury, has been erected and will be dedicated at an ear'y date. Colonel George B. Stadden, command­ ing the Illinois division, is expected to be present at the annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Officers' Association, Sons of Veterans, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, III. Merriam l^ost, Meriden, £onn.^ creased its membership during the year by the muster of fifty recruits. The post now has a membership of over two hun­ dred, with a relief fund of f10,000. Comrade John Taylor, the efficient Quartermaster General of the Grand Army, has been elected a member of the board of trustees of the Union Prisoners of War National Memorial Association, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of General Clinton B. Fisk. Comrade Ezekiel Haywood, of Shoshone, Idaho, is the possessor of a very interest­ ing discharge*. It bears the record of forty-five battles in whi'h he partici­ pated, and for all of which he received the enormous salary of $13 per month. The will of the late General Charles Devens was filed Jan. 16th, at the Regis­ ter of Probate's office, Worcester, Masp. It requests that his body be buried at Mount Auburn, by the side of his father, and that a stone similar to that of his father and mother marfc b(s grave, and he leaves to the Mount Auburn Corpora­ tion enough money to fulfill this purpose. His library and other property is given to his relatives. The Commissioner of Pensions in his annual report recently issued gives some interesting statistics of the pension bureau. The number of soldiers who en­ listed is given as 2,213,365. The num­ ber killed in battle and died of disease to July 1,1865, was 364,116. The number surviving July 1, 1890, was 1,246,089, and of this number 144,000 are now 62 years of age or upward. The ex-Union soldiers residing in Kan­ sas, assisted by many other citizens, are very active in their work to secure for Topeka the location of the Grand Army of the Republic for 1892. It is proposed to raise a fund of $50,000 to be used in receiving and entertaining the veterans and their families. Kansas is a soldier State, and the committee having the matter in charge will ask the indorsement and encouragement of the Grand Army posts of the Kansas department. A.'Oa« Altoryof the Har "That Chickahominy was « bad, bad place, I tell you," said Phinkett. "It was in the days when there was no peace be­ tween the pickets. They didn't swap to­ bacco for coffee, and Bay how are you, Tank, or, how are you, Johnny Reb, erlong them lines. A fellow had to keep behind something, and keep mighty close. You could put your hat on your bayonet and stick it out and three or four bullets would hit it before you could say Jack Robinson. Sharpshooters were every­ where and it's of two of these that I want to tell you erbout. "For several days man after man was shot on the Confederate side, and the sharpshooter's place of concealment had not been spotted. At last one of the Confeds decided that as soon as darkness come ergain hp would try to make it to er big log that lay between the two lines, and so the next day he would have a better chance to observe up and down the line. No sooner than dark come than the Confederate started for his toff. He got there by crawling and creeping and never cracking a stick. "At sunriee the next morning the Con­ federate was snugly planted t^ebind the big log, but he was horror-stricken to discover that the fellow who had been doing the killing of his comrades for sev­ eral days was just on the other side of the same log. They discovered one an­ other's presence at the same time and at the same time they both lay mighty close to the ground and hugged the log. "At last the Confederate'lowed to the Yankee: "'Hellow, Yank, you'lw in er mighty tight place, hain't you ?' '• 'The same to yourself, Johnny Reb,' replied the Yankee. < " 'Well, darn you,' said the rebel, 'yon daysent raise your head.' " 'The same to you,' said the Yank. " 'You make the first move.' " 'I'll let you do that.' " " 'I hain't ergwine to do it.' "And so they talked for an hour or two, till at last they agreed to a truce between themselves, saying that it would be murder for them to shoot each other under the circumstances. The agreement was that they should not molest each other, but had the right to use every op­ portunity against any one else, and when night came they were to both retire from the log back to their comrades. "The day rolled on till away Bp la the afternoon when a young fellow on the Confederate side tried to change hiB posi­ tion from one tree to another, when the Yankee behind the log pulled his trigger and the young fellow dropped dead. "An exclamation broke from the Con­ federate behind the log and he 'lowed: " 'That was my brother I' " 'My God, you don't say so?' said the Yankee. "Before a second could have been counted, the Confederate's gun cracked and a young soldier fell fall length from behind a tree, "An excitation broke from the Yankee behind the log, and he 'lowed: " 'That was my brother!" " 'My God, yo'i don't say so?' said the Confederate. " 'Yes,' said the Yankee, 'and he leaves a wife and three helpless children back in York State.' " 'And my brother,' said the Confeder­ ate, 'leaves a poor old father and mother who will grieve to death over the loss of their youngest child.' "War's er bad thing, WlR*d tbtag." --Atlanta Constitution. Mors than a Quarter of a BITon to Money Lenders "Since the 30th of June, 1889, and up to the 1st of November last year, a period of just 16 months, there was actually paid to the bondholders of the country, in gold coin, out of the Treasury vaults, the following enormous sums: For fiscal year of 1890, $145,411,077 79 For the four months of the fiscal year of 1891,. ..111,478,^644 82 Total a $256,889,782 61 This is almost one fourth as much as the veterans of the country have received in the whole 29 years since the country has begun paying pensions on account of the war of the rebellion! These figures are direct from the Treas­ ury Department, and can be relied upon. The discrepancy between those given for the year 1890 and those which appear elsewhere is on account of interest due and jawaiting payment to the bondhold­ ers. AB the bondholdrrs actually lent the Government $2,381,530,294 in depreci­ ated paper money, the average value of which during the war was about 67 cents, the gold value of their lendings was only $1,595,627,296, it will be seen that in the 16 months specified the bondholders have been paid about one-sixth of the entire amount of their lendings, without taking into account the billions they had pre­ viously received and the hundreds of millions which will still have to be paid them. * How generously the Government treats the money-lenders, and how niggardly those who gave it what was of infinitely more value than money." Drafted Man. The New York Herald says: Among these patriots 776,829 had to be drafted in order to secure their services, aud many hundreds of thousands more were only tempted to serve their country by the most extravagant system of bounties ever heurd of. This is a specimen of the way the Herald distorts history to make its point. There were really 776,829 men drawn for service during the war; but from this there must be deducted the following figures: Failed to report... : 161,244 Exempted 315,509 Paid commutation or furnished substitutes 73,607 Released on account of quotas BMfcfie up and for other reasons! 80,122 Work of the entlsn Office. ^ During the week ending Jon. 24,1891, 6.370 claims were received, of whieh 350 were original invalid; 449 widows; 1 war of 1812; 4 bounty land; 19 navy; 3 old war; 32 on^account of Mexicaa service, 105 accrued pension and 607 applications for increase. Number of in­ jected claims reopened 392; act of Man& 4, 1890, --. Act of June 27, 189©, 3,800 original, 1,000 widows. The names and postofflce addresesB of 5,643 officers and comrades furnished for the use of claimants. Total claims received under act JnM 27,1890,557,999. ' " There were 103,887 pieces of mail mafc terreceived; 90,465 letters and blanks sent out. The number of cases detailed to special examiners was 470; 503 reports aai. cases from special examiners; cases aa hand for special examination, 5,069. Report of certificates issued during week ending Jan. 24, 1891; Original, 4,057; of which -- were under act of June 27,1890; increase, 1,483; reissue^, 205; restoration, 39; duplicate, 29; accrued, 117; act of March 4, 1890, 4; act of June 7,1888,0; act of March S, 1883, 0; total, 5,934. Total number of ^ ' Wfcsltk»SasamysssmtMi.. %\'M ' The question is often asked: What business was transacted by the Grand Army at its last National Encampment? The following brief outline of resolutions passed will answer the question and givi an idea of the work of the organization: That, in the selection or appointment of governor, superintendent or manager of national or State soldier's homes noDS but men who have done service in the army or navy should be selected. Asking that Congress enlarge the pro* visions of Revised Statutes Nos. 1754 and 1755, relating to preference to bt given honorably discharged Union veter­ ans in the civil service, so as to include all honorably discharged soldiers, sailoni or mariners, whether physically disabled or not, when properly qualified. Endorsing the movement of the Union Prisoners of War National Memorial As­ sociation for the erection of a memorial hall in the city of Washington, D C. Thanking Congress for the "most lib* eral system of pension laws ever enacts#,** and the President for his sympathy aa§ prompt approval of the disability ML That the display of the Conlsdania flag should be forbidden by the States law. Ti nt enlisted men now la the wiro^ermflftree WoMh'g'&Fffiore ^ the war of the rebellion, and who hare served thirty years or more, indndiMg service in the war, be placed upon the re­ tired list. ^ Indorsing the action of the comrades «f.v the Department of the Potomac inorgaa* ' izing the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hall Association. Endorsing a bill now before Congress*, relating to exemption of veterans now in the civil service from competitive exam­ inations for promotion therein, except such as may be required by the appoint* • ing power to test their fitness for promo* tion. Thanking the Committee on Library cit Congress for favorable action upon meas­ ure for printing* the National roster of this order, compiled by Comrade W. |L > Austin. . Asking that the naval veterans be ac­ corded the same privileges in the Naval Home as is accorded to the inmates of the National homes for disabled volua- . teers. Asking for modification of theconstrne- tioH of the present law, or for addition^ legislation securing to veterans of till navy the same and equal rights with sol* diers in admission to national homes. That the Commander-in-chief take as- tion for proper celebration of the quarto- centennial of the organization of this a«w der, April 6,1891. And Asking the passage of a service peaskMk bill. A Monument tor West Virginia. A bill has been introduced in the Woptk; Virginia House of Representatives asking for an appropriation to erect a mona- ment to the memory of the West Vir­ ginia troops who fell at Gettysburg. It is said that West Virginia is the only State having troops engaged there that has not erected a monument to thsir memory. ;M' . %•: REMARKABLE RKSClflB. 730,482 Leaving but 46,347 wh6 were actually held to pervice. Thus the Herald has simply magnified the number of drafted men in the army over 16 times, in order to make an offsct- ive slander on the veterans. It did this knowingly, too, for the figures regarding the drafted men are as accessible to it as to us. Another thing, the drafted men are as justly entitled to pensions as any ott­ er men. Most of them made excellent soldiers, and a pension m case they were disabled is part of theGoverninent'scom- pact with them?--.Vat. Tribune. ;#8i % ' Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plaiufield, III., makes the statement that tjhe caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was ^ treated for a mouth by her family physi­ cian, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and " ^ that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Dis­ covery for consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself ^ benefited from first dose. She continued & its use and after taking ten bottles, found herself sound and well, now does her own housework and is as well as she ever was. 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