Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-13
THE ORPHANS.
Report of the Agent OF the reunes-.s
Confederate Orphana, Home

Report Of the Agent of the Tennessee
Confederate Orphans, Home
! The public has been so generous and
munifcent in their support of the Tennes-
see Confederate orphans that / deem it
meet and proper to present what informa-
ton l have on the condition of the
''Home. | was chosen agent on the Let
of February, 1870, and, determined at
once to adopt the plan of giving concerts
instead of appealing alone to individual
subscriptions in raising funds for the in
stitution, and with what success let the
J following facts attest: From sixteen con-
certs, given in seven months, there was
realized the net sum of 81, 267.70, as will
more fully appear from the subjoined
statement of the Treasurer:
Statement of account in settlement be-
tween A. G. Morrow, agent, and the
Treasurer of the Tennessee Orphan Asy-
hum, for seven months, beginning on the
lst day of February, 1870, and ending on
the 1st day of September, 1870:
Receipts in cash, provisions and cloth
ing, s., 1920. Due Mr. Morrow, ac-
eording to the contract, his salary for
seven months at $125 per month, and his
expenses, his salary would amount to
1915. Paid Mr.. Morrow to date 1915;
Mr. Morrow donating his expenses for the
time mentioned (seven months). Net
proceeds to Asylum, 4,267.70.
The above settlement has been made in
full by order of the President and accord
ing to contract.
Mrs. A. G. MUNFoRD, Treas.
Clarksville, Sept. !, 1870.
The funds have not been idly or waste
fully employed, as will appear from the
Presidents annual report, in May last.
viz: . a
The institution has been conducted,
during the closing year, judiciously and
economically. That family, numbering
about seventy-fiYe souls, should have been
comfortably maintained, including food, |
clothing and the salaries of all EMPLOYEES.
with medical attention, and adequate Sec
ular and religious instruction, at an aver
age cost of $138 81 per each individual,
is of itself sufficient testimony to the |
practical wisdom with which the asylum |
has been administered.
The expenses from May l, 1869, to May |
l, 1870, were IS, $1,000. This year the |
expenses will be greater, owing to the |
following causes, viz:
The institution was visited by measles, |
cough, and finally and recently |
by typhoid fever. Yet, notwithstanding |
there were as many as eighteen little suf- |
ferers at one time, so constant, tender and |
skllful was the attention by the ply
sicians and nurses that there has not been
a solitary death, and even now there are
but two sick and neither seriously.
Two weeks ago, during vacation, a
school room which was used alone for |
storing the farming utensils and school
furniture, was burned. The cause of the
fire could never be ascertained
The sixteen concerts, which were given
in seven months, could have been given in
two with assistance from all the auxiliary
societies. propose to give concerts
throughout the State, and earnestly entreat |
the aid of all auxiliary societies,
and where there are none that the |
same may be organized, and that /
they secure all the amateur |
talent in their power for these entertain
ments, and notify me at Nashville, or Mrs. |
A. G. Munford, Secretary and Treasurer,
at GAINESVILLE, of the same whenever ready. |
While we give these entertainments for the
Home we propose to take every destitute
Confederate Orpan in the State.
A. G. MoRBow, Agent.
Papers friendly to the cause are request
ed to copy the above.
DAMAGE SUITS.
Messrs. Woodward and Vaughn, pub
fishers of the SweetWater Enterprise,
were sued yesterday by Col. Baxter for
$50, 900 damages, on account of publish
ing speech purporting to have been de-
Iiyered by Gen. Joseph A. Mabry before
the Chancery Court of Knox county.