Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
,xaUEcArITAL NOTES 3



statement OF Rest-0nacs Revenues--8crs
-Reasiens- Grand Army Camp FlrS-op-
position % the Postal Tslegraph. - : -
April 1.-THE Third AS
sistafsf PostinasteraG General has prepared tho
following statement Of revenues Of the Postg
office Department for the present 6ssal year.
Returns for the first and second quarters ara
complete. The figures for the third quarter
are based upon the returns from offices re-
turning about one-half the total postal rev.
enue, and the estimate for the last quarter
is based upon the returns of the preceding
quarters: .n=Azsvrss.
Gross postal receipts for the
quarter ending SEPTEMBER ~, 1858,
Gross receipts for the quarter end.
ing December 81, 1888, ascertained u,l0s,oio
Gross receipts for the quarter end
ing March 81, 1883, estimated from
special returns received from lSl
large cities. ......,. . Io7essIl
Estimated gross revenue for the .,oa
quarter ending June 30, 1854. 10,13734s
june 70 issa. -" @ 45,5osese
Falling or in revenue the present ..
year. ....-..'.'. ~,@fos~sY
MORE PENSIONS. IL
Representative Warner reported from the
Pay q bill providing that every person
specified in the pension laws who served
for period of three months or more who
has an honorable discharge and is not re-
ceiyng 4 pension, or a greater pension than
that provided by the bill, and who Is now
disabled by reason OF wound, injury or
disease, which there is reason TO Deneve
originated In the service, shall be entitleu 10
receive pension during the continuance
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degree thereof. The bill further provides
that dependent parents shah only show by
competent evidence they are without other
present means of support than their own
manual labor or contributions of others NOV
legally bound for their support.
CAMP FIRE.
A special camp fire of the Department. OF
the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic,
was held in the Masonic Temple last night
In commemoration OF the operations against
Vicksburg. General Joseph H. Hawley
presided, and all the posts of the Grand
Army in the city were represented in thea
senblage, which numbered abont 1900 or
| 1900 persons Among the guests present
| and whU had seats upon the platform were
President Arthur, General Grant Secretary
Lincoln, Generals Logan, VanYlerts Yer
non, Ranm, Doubleday, William Mckee,
| Dunn Dudley and Hazen; Representative
| ohSiAunCys OuuSC lSuNiIiSO VhiiNiSs
General Grant, walking with the aid of a
crutch, entered the hall at the head of the
invited guests. He was greeted with the
widest applause, the assembly rising and
sending forth cheer after cheer, and con-
tinuing the ovation until the President had
taken his place on the platform.
IS s- NORyIN GREEN. .
Norvn Green made an argument before
the House Committee on Post-oftices and
POst-roads in opposition to the Postal Tele-
graph. If, however, the Government is dc
| termined to enter into the business, he
thought it ought to buy existing lines and
manage and work them exclusively IN its
own way. He also said If the Senate com
mittee bill became law the Western Un-
| ION company would not become bidder for
the contract for which that measure makes
provision, but that If the rates originally
proposed in the Hubbard bill, %, so and 20
cents, should be adopted then the Western
Union would bid. -