The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-03
THE "30G.n
acted on,

Some day ago Mr.. Z. O. Patier of this
city received postal card from st. Louis
notifying him that, as he was one of the
1905" who stood true 10 General U. S.
Grant as the nominee for president of the
United States Why the Republican
National convention at Chicago in 1880,
he would receive brouze medal
commemorative of the event. The
medals are being manufactured by
Mr.. J. NJ Kershaw, an engraver of the st.
Louis. There is to be one made for each
of the 300 and a few extra ones for special
friends of the general, or friends Of his
particular champions on that occasion.
The medals are of bronze, q of an inch
in diameter, and about a quarter of an inch
thick. On the centre of the face is pro-
file head of Gen. Grant, which is q perfect
likeness. Underneath and extending par.
TALLY around the head is a wreath of laurel
and oak. Around this is a slightly raised
circle, outside of which is the record OF the
Grant ballots arranged in complete circle
the number of each ballot and the vote cast
being set down in separate space. The
record begins at the exact centre Of the
bottom when the medal is held in its prop.
er position and reads as follows:
1st (ballot), 304 Votes; end, 305; Sd,
3O5 4th, 3O5; 9th, 305; 9Th, 305; 18th, 305;
Sth, 3O6; 9th, 30G; 10th, 305; 18th, 305;
18th, 3O4; 18th, 3O5; 14th, 305; 18th, BOG;
10Th, 306; nth, 1903; 18th, 305; 10th, 305;
goth, BOG; 21st, 305; 22d, 305; 23d, 304
gath, 304; Goth, 302; Goth, 303; 9th, 306;
2Sth, 3O7; Goth, 30j; Both, 307; 31st, 30S;
32d, 300; 33d, 300; Gath, 312; 35th, 313;
Seth, 306.
Between the first and thirty-sixth ballots,
which meet at the bottom Of the ring, a
star is engraved. After the seventeenth,
which reaches the point Numerically op.
posite the star, the numbers reverse. So
hat the figures can all be read without
turning the medal around. Outside the
record and along the rim wreath Of feur
de-lis is handsomely worked, completing
the face.
The reverse side is tasteful and chaste.
inscribed in the center circle are these
words: Commemorative Of the thirty six
ballots of the old guard for Ulysses s.
Grant for President. Republican National
Convention. Chicago, June, $780,"
All the lines are straight, save the first
and last, which curve gracefully in parallel
with the edge. Under the last the name of
amember Of "The Old Guard" is inscribed.
Surrounding the lettering is simple yet
handsome border, completing the reverse
side. At the center of the top is hole in
which to place ribbon.
tits understood that only $50 of them
will be made. Chauncey I. Filley, ]. d.
Cameron and Roscoe Conkling are the gen.
tlemen who have engaged the work to be
dene. Among the prominent gentlemen
whose breasts will be graccd by the medal,
as shown by the records Of the convention,
are: President Chester A.. Arthur, Roscoe
Conkling, Edwards Pierrepont G. Il. Cor.
nell, Rufus Ii. King, J.Donald Cameron
B. X. Bruce, the colored senator tor Missis
sippi; Cryus Bussey, John A. Logan, Emory
A Storris, Green B. Raum, ex-senator s. W
Dorsay, Of Arkansas; Powell Clayton, Hen
ry @. Robinson. p. b. s. Pinchback, W. Pit
Kellogg, Tom Murphy, of New York
Clement Studebaker, and others.