News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-18
Grand Army Notes.

1t is now expected that the nation
al encampment, Grand Army of the
Republic, to be held at Detroit,
Mich, will be convened the week of
August B, 1891.
Commander-in-Chief Veazey at
tended the recent meeting ofthe coun-
ell of administration at Detroit
Mich, and wasroyally entertained by
Cormade R. A. Alger and other COM
rades.
1t is estimated that the average
age of the Union veteran is uow fifty
two years. The average life of the
Union veteran is fifty-seven years; so
the old heroes have only an average
of five years to remain on earth.
A ring which Brig. Gen. H. j. Hunt
lost near Fairfax Station, Va, dur
ing the war of the rebellion was re-
Gently found embedded in the hoof of
a COW owned by a dairy farmer of
that locality, and returned to its ow-
ner in Washington. 1t bore his
name.
The four drafts during the rebellion
We're: Total number drawn, 776,-
S29; total who failed to report
(ran away, 161 PA; total exempt
ed, 315, 500, total furnishing sub
stitutes, 73, 3,606; total discharged for
cause, 63,39S; total who paid com
mutation, SO, 6,724; total amount OF
commutation paid, $26, ,366,316.
Thaddeus Stevens Post, No. 255,
G. A R., received a gift of colors
Monday night at st. Marks church
III New York city. 1t is the first time
that a colored organization of the
old Union armey has received colors
from the G. A. r. Gen. Floyd Clark
son spoke of the good work done by
the colored men in the war. and the
presentation speech was made by Z.
W. Mckee.
Dept Commander Floyd Clark
son of the state Grand Army of the
Republic, in general orders No. 10,
issued last Friday, suspends from
office the commanders of Posts %,
81, 81, 30S, 460, and 49S for
disobedience of the rules and regula-
tions of the g. A. R., in neglecting to
forward to the department head
quarters at Albany the quarterly re-
ports from their respective posts.
The site of the old Andersonville
prison has been purchased by a
Grand Army post of Macon, Ca, and
is to be converted into park, while
each point of special interest will be
marked by a suitable monument or
building. There seems to be wide
desire to free all the famous spots
connected with a great national con-
fict from memories of sadness and
make them bright and beautiful.
Corporal James Tanner has cause
to bless the day when President
Harrison called for his resignation as
commissioner of pensions. A group
of gentlemen in Washington were
discussing Tanners remarkable ca
reer a few days ago, and all of them
seemed to have different opinion as
to his financial, political and business
status since he made way for Gen.
Raum One of the group said he
knew exactly Mr.. Tanners circum-
stances, because the corporal had
told him all about them himself, and
according to his statement, the
x-commissioner is in the way of be-
coming a rich man in a few years.
Immediately after leaving the pen
sion office Tanner opened a bureau
for the prosecution of pension claims
and business flowed in upon him so
fast from his old comrads that his
offices was soon flooded with cases.
They have now been so arranged
that the corporal gives them no per-
sonal attention, but turns them all
over to clerks, and his books show
that his income this year will not fall
short of $4,000. In addition to
this Tanner is under engagement to
deliver 100 lectures at 500 each,
with his eXpences paid. AS if this
were not enough, he recently signed a
contract to become editor of the new
soldier paper in Brooklyn at an
annual salary of $1,000. Tanner
will do little real work upon the
paper, as it is his name that is being
paid for and not his services. All this
comes to the man who when he was
removed from office a little over a
wear ago did not know which way to
turn to make "a living for himself and
family.