The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-19
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Government Exhibit at Cot
ton States Exposition.
ATLANTA MAE GETS The APPOINTMENT
Tho Order of EIks lncorporated-vashin
ton Has N sensRtIon-AIahamA aud
Mississippi Land Commissioners.
Georgia Gets a Plum.

WAsHISeToN, July 15-Register J.
Fount Tillman, of the United States
treasury. will send from his bureau to
the Atlanta Exposition one of the most
interesting and attractive exhibits to be
furnished for that occasion by the Uni
ted States government. The exhibit
contains specimens OF treasury issues of
every form, made on account of the
various loans, since the foundation of
the government, grouped and arranged
in chronological order. Added to this
IS full and wcll-preserved collection
of colonial money, which is valuable
as well as interesting. The government
was compelled to purchase this collec-
ton by piecemeal from various persons
who were holding the money as SOU
venirs, and good price was paid for
the necessary pieces to complete the
collection. One of the features of the
exhibit is the continental money. All
the issues of the thirteen original states
are represented, embracing all dates,
denominations and conditions of pay
ment. The exhibit includes continen-
sal money, colonial money, specimens
of the issues of the late confederate
states, both currency and bonds, United
States bonds, United States currency,
national bank notes, bills of broken
wild cat banks in active operation be-
fore the civil war, and the check which
England made out in favor of this
country for depredations committed by
the steamer Alabama on the commerce
of the States
The loan office certificates" are prob
~ - r.
of this collection. Many have the in
terest figured out on the edge of the
note, showing that the holders had
puzzled their heads to find out what
Uncle Sam owed them. On one of the
colonial notes, issued in 1774, are in
scribed the words: ITO counterfeit is
death" Some severe penalty was nee
essary, for any ordinary school boy
with quill pen could have reproduced
the note exactly, so crude and rough
was its execution.
The collection is mounted on two
separate columns, each seven feet high.
Thirty-two frames are swung on hinges
TO these columns, and in these frames
the notes are mounted. They are well
arranged and are lettered and grouped
in an artistic manner.
J. NJ. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga, has
been appointed superintendent of the
government building of the Atlanta
exposition. The govern ment board of
management has decided to appoint
only Atlanta citizens as watchmen and
ianitors in the government building,
and that all of them must be uniform
ed and receive the prevailing Atlanta
wages.
A sensation was caused Saturday by
the announcement that Benjamin
Franklin Milliken, the private secreta-
ry of Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
had been indicted for breaking
and felonious assault. The complain
ant is Miss Gertrude Phillips, daughter
of ex-Solicitor- General Samuel F. Phil
lips, who lives with her father on
Rhode Island avenue, near the old
home of Gov. Morton.
Articles incorpora ting the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks of
the United States of America, were fill
ed here Saturday by Edwin B. Hay,
Joseph Y. Potts. JohnoC. Maxwell and
Tn omas J. King, of the District of Co
lumbia; Willard c. Van Derlip, of Bos-
ton; Peter J. Campbell, of Baltimore,
and Joseph w. Laube, of Richmond.
The objects of the association are stat
ed to be benevolent, social and in
trinsic.
The Secretary of the Interior yester-
day detailed VIM. J. McGee, chief of
the division of railroads; Geo. Nc
Corckle, chief of the division of pre-
emption, and Z. NJ. Rucl1er. Jr., an as
siStant attorney. all of the Interior
Department, to appraise certain lands
in Alabama and Mississippi, no longer
needed for naval purposes.
Geo. B. Grinnell, of New York; Wal
ter NJ. Clements, of Georgia, and VIII
liam c. Pollock, chief of the division of
Indian affairs, Office of the secretary,
have been appointed commissioners to
negotiate with the Belknap and Black
Feet Indians in Montana for the sur
render of portions of their reservation.