The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-01
THE ORPHANS.
Report Oftbe Agent of the Tenn
essee Confederate Orpans'
EERnnR.

Home.
The public has been so generous and
manifcent in their support of the Tenn
essee orphans that l deem it meet and
proper to present what information I have
on the condition of the Home" l was
chosen agent on the Ist of FEBRUARY, 1870
and derte mined at once to adopt the plan
of giving concerts instead ofappealing alone
to individual subscriptions in raising funds
for the institution, and with what success
let the following facts attest: From sixteen
concerts, given in seven months, there was
realized the net sum of 81 ,267,70, as will
more fully appear from the subjOined state
ment of the Treasurer
Statement Of account Of settlement be.
tween A g. Morrow, agent, and the Treas
urer of Tennessee Orphan Asylum, for
seven months, beginning on the 1st day of
February 1870, and ending on the 1st day of
September, 1870:
Receipts in cash, provisions and clothing
S.. l42. 10. Due Mr. Morrow, according to
the contract, his salary for seven months at
1925 per month, and his expenses, his salary
would amount to 1915. Paid Mr. Morrow
to date $875i Mr. Morrow donating his
expenses for the time mentioned (seven
months). Net proceeds to Asylum, $4,267,
20.
The above settlement has been made in
full by order of the President and accord
ing to contract.
Mrs. A. G. MUNEoRD, Treas.
GAINESVILLE, Sept l, 1870.
The funds have not been idly or waste
fully employed, as will appear from the
Presidents annual report, in May last, viz
The institution has been conducted dur
ing the closing year, judiciOusly and econo-
mically. That a family, numbering
about seventy,fve soules, should
have been comfortably maintained,
including food, clothing and the salaries OF
all employees, with medical attention, and
adequate secular instruction, at an average
cost of $l38 81 per, each individual, is Of
itself a sufficient testimony to the practical
wisdom with which the asylum has been
administered.
The expenses from May l, 1869, to May
IL, l87Owere SS,3I8 CO. This year the
expenses will be greater owing to the fol-
lowing causes, viz;
The Institution was visited by measles
whooping-cough, and finally and recently
by typhoid fever. Yet, Notwithstanding
there were as many as eighteen little suff
erers, at one time, so constant, tender anC
skillfull was the attention by the physicians
and nurses that there has not been a soll
tary death, and even now there are but two
sick and neither seriously.
Two weeks ago, during vacation, schoO
room which was used alone for storing the
farming untensils and school furniture, Wal
burned. The cause of the fiji e could neVe
be ascertained.
The sixteen concerts, which were givel
in seven months, could have been 81 ven il
two with assistance from all the auxiliar.
societies. propose to give concerts through
out the State, and earnestly entreat the aiC
J of all auxiliary societies, and where there
: are none that the same may be organized
and that they secure all the amateur taien
: in their power for these entertainments, ant
notify me at Nashville, or Mrs. A. G. Nun
ford, Secretary and Treasurer. at Clarksvill
of the same whenever ready. While VI
give these entertainments for the Home W
propose to take every destitute Confederat
orphan in the State.
3 A G. MORROW, Agent.
Papers friendly to the cause arc reque'
J. ted to copy the above.