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Calcutta oil is unchanged and still quoted
at "a cents.

Calcutta oil is unchanged and still quoted
at "a cents.
Experiments are now being made in man.
ufacturing beet sugar in Ohio, and If they
prove successful company will be formed
with $500, 900 capital to establish refinery.
+
It has been officially announced that
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., representing
the Northern Pacific reorganization syndi-
cate, have sold large block of Northern
Pacific IS. which practically cleans up the
syndicate's holdings of the bonds. The
amount of the block sold is said to be ST.
100000. and the price 60. with interest.
4 + \
The Glucose Sugar Refining Company
will have capital of s4o,0o 900; $4,000, 900
ferred, of which $1.714,O00 common and ST.
100000 preferred will be held in the COM
pany's treasury for purpose of buying up
additional plants.
The New York Stakeholder computes the
amount of September interest to be dis
bursed at s11, ,256, ,613 on bonds of par value
of s451, sos. The amount of divident pay
ments is placed at So, 795,977 on stock of a
par value of 44,96o,47S
+
The Boston & Albany Railroad will pay
it's regular quarterly divident Of per cent
on September 30.
1t is stated that the new refining mort
gage Of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke
Company, Chicago, will be authorized
shortly 1t will provide for total issue of
bonds about s1O,OOOOOO in excess of the
present outstanding bonded obligations of
all the companies which consolidated with
the Peoples Company.
The Canadian Department of Trade and
Commerce report shows that the imports
for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted
to Sill ,3S0,777, as against s110, 5S7,713 last
year. The exports show an increase from
Sis, ,14O, ,5O4 to $134, 1880. Taking imports
and exports together there is an increase
over last year of nearly $17OO0,O00.
+ + y
Attorney General Taylor of kentucky
has filed suit against the Pennsylvania Fire
for 81, 1872 for taxes due on premiums alleged
to have been collected by the company in
the state in 1895, and for penalties for fail
ure to report the amount of premiums col
lected. The company claims to have col
lected no premiums on which the tax may
be levied.
y \
The Northern Pacific Railway Company
reports the operations for June of it's en-
tire system, including the st. Paul and
Northern Pacific and other lines heretofore
leased but now owned:
June. Ten Months
Gross earnings ......$ ,556. 347 SIS. ia. AZ:
Operating expenses $50, 500 9,2SS,37s
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CHICAGO MARKETS
Yesterdays Transactions on the Board
of Trade

CHICAGO Sept. 11.-No matter what the
complexion of a government crop repor.
may be- the wheat market is almost in
variably weak after it's announcement
Todays market was no exception. Wheat
started at a decline of u to q cent, and with
the exception of two or three short spasms
of strength, the market was decidedly off
color all day. The market was influenced
more by what was learned yesterday of the
growing weakness, the most desirable ship
ping grade of winter wheat, No. 2 Kansas
hard, and decline of %@1d at Liverpool
than by the government estimate of the
crop. The government estimate, AGA, ,O0O 900
bushels was rather small in ITSELF but the
trade generally believed in a yield 10O-
100000 larger than that. The weeks clear
ances from the coasts were equal in wheat
and flour to 5,4G1, 500 bushels against $685.
600 bushels the corresponding week of 1896.
Chicago received today 265 cars against 1874
a year ago. Minneapolis and Duluth got
759 cars against 4SO Saturday last and 1855
cars year ago. Temporary firmness was
given to the market at about the price
trading commenced at when the export
clearances began to be made known, and
it was found that the shipments of wheat
from Philadelphia were 105, 900 bushels and
from New Orleans $4,000 bushels. Follow
ing that temporary encouragement the first
reasons for weakness returning were in
the doubted strength and much more ma
terial break took place. The total clear
ances of wheat and flour from Atlantic
ports for the week amounted to 800, 900
bushels, but that did not further interfere
with the weakness with which the market
had meantime become badly afflicted. AT
ter fluctuating for short time around the
lower edge of the opening range 1t gradual
ly increased in heaviness until about half
an hour from the end of the session when 1t
had got down to 96.
The weakest phase of the market was In
the last ten minutes Of the session, by
which time the general crowd had gained
the courage of their convictions and no
longer feared to sell the wheat they con-
sidered much too high. They battered the
price down to 951a, even to $685. for some of
it. but not wishing to go home short some
buying of that sort caused recovery to
96B at the close.
Corn was radically weak, made so by the
government crop report, heavy receipts
and a rather poor shipping demand.
Taking into consideration the weakness
in corn and wheat, oats were comparative
ly steady, although prices at the close were
from "A to IS cent lower.
In provisions stop-lOss orders were nu-
merous. A great deal of stuff was liquidat-
ed by New York and the selling at times
took on the appearance of an organized
raid.
The leading futures closed as follows:
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$5,S26.o44
42S,9
244,5se
$5,641,60O
$552,SS7
65,477
$e1S,315

Judge Nathan Goff, of the United States
circuit court, at Richmond, Va, has sus-
tained the Bell Telephone Company in its
fight with the city council. The council
refused to renew the company's charter
unless certain conditions were granted,
which the company refused to submit to-
An injunction was secured restraining the
city from interfering with its lines or works
till the case could be decided by Judge Goff.
One claim of the company was that the
streets 1t occupied were postal roads and
part Of the mail system. The court up
holds the company's contentious.
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LIVERPOOL Market

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 10.-Close: Wheat,
No. red winter, IS. Id; No. northern red
spring dull, SIS. sgd; spot quiet, demand
poor. Corn, American mixed spot new
quiet, 3s. 41ad.; old quiet, 3s. 3d.; Septem-
ber quiet, IS. 4d.; October quiet, IS. AID.
November quiet IS. SID.
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Money Quotations

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Money on call
nominally 1A@1h per cent; prime mercan-
tile paper, S1h@4 per cent; sterling ex-
change easy, with actual business in bank
ers bills at 4.S5A@4.S6 for demand and
4.S31s@4.s3A for sixty days; posted, rates,
4.S4@4.S5ls and 4.S6A@4s7A; commercial
bills, 4.S21a@4.S294.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.-Drafts,
sight, s; telegraphic, TX.
LONDON, Sept. n-Consols, 1114s.
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Exports and Imports

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE exports of
specie from the port of New York for the
week amounted to $4,000 in gold and s676, 3G1
in silver The imports for the week were: ::
Gold, $101, ,626; silver, s19,331: dry goods,
81 ,102, ,116; general merchandise, 81, ,416, 542.
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Silver Bullion

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Bar silver, 55;
Mexican dollars. 4234.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11-Bar silver.
544 Mexican dollars, 42ss6425s.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Bar silver, 251ad
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Dried Fruit Prices

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-California dried
fruits steady. Evaporated apples, prime,
wire tray, 6A per lb.; wood dried, prime.
6la; choice, 6A fancy, I. Prunes, 31a@71a
per lb., as to size and quality. Apricots,
Roya, 7GS; Moorpark, 9@11. Peaches, un-
peeled, 1910 peeled, 11@13
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Petroleum

NEW YORK. Sept. 11.-Petroleum-
United closed at 691a bid; Pennsylvania
crude, nominally S..
Copper-Fair; brokers', 11A.
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1ncorporation

The Ord Mountain Copper Mining and
Smelling Company incorporated today
with capital stock of 81 .0O0, 600 divided into
900 shares. The directors are: W. H.
Sowles, Santa Ana; s. W. Greene, w. 8.
Palmer, H. A. Priser. Ontario A. S. Long
ley. The full amount of stock has been SUBJ
scribed,
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sacks, $500; onions. sacks, 1888; bran. sacks,
500; middlings, sacks, 240; hay. tons, 1862;
straw tons, s. hops, bales, Al; wool, bales,
327 hides, number AIS: quicksilver. TASKS,
So; wine, gallons, IS, 700.
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California Fruit Sales

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Earl Fruit COM
pany sales: Grapes - Tokay, 1.25@1.5 .55.
Pears-Bartletts, 1.S012.
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Aliens Press Clipping Bureau
los East First Street, Los Angeles. Cal.

Furnish advance reports on all contract
work. such as sewers, reservoirs. irrigation and
pumping plants and pubic Duildingsn. ing n,i.as res
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Los Angeles Vifapathic Institute

BATHS, MASSAGE and ELECTRICITY of all
kinds. also Vacuum and the latest improved
methods of constitutional treatment. Fifteen
OF the best equipped treating rooms on the
coast. Inspection invited Visitors always
welcome. Correspondence solicited. Address
DIR. ]. A. HARTMAN,
534l5 s. Broadway, Hotel Delaware
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Mining Stocks

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE official
closing quotations for mining stocks today
mara az fnlInWa:
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90 pro. 10
Baltimore & o. ..18
Canada Pac ....73A
Canada South. .5SA
Central Pac. =. 1875
Chas & Ohio. .25%
Chicago & Az. .164
c B & @. .101
c & p I........ ..59
G G c & st l.. ..41M
do pfd. 81
Del & Hudson. .119ls
d L & w ....... .159
d & r G ........13
do pfd. .4S1a
Erie (new). 1875
do 1st pfd.. a
Fort Wayne .173
Great N pfd. HI
Hooking Val. -. 6
Illinois Cen .109
L E & w ...... 2014
do pfd. "A
Lake Shore ....176ik
Louis & Nash. .611s
Manhattan L. .111is
Met Traction. 1923
Michigan Cen. .10SsA
MINI & st L.. 27la
do 1st pfd.. Sta
Missouri Pac... 80
Mobile & Ohio. 81
M K & T. ..... 1914
do pfd. 80
N A & Chicago 11%
do pfd. 35A
N ] Gen.. -. .97
N Y Cen ......112i4
N Y G & st L. .161s
do 1st pfd.. SOla
do I'd pfd. :. 401h
Norfolk West. 16h
N m Co. 81
Northern Pas. 1873
do pfd. 54A
Northwestern. 127%
do pfd. .1841a
Ontario & w. .17s
o r & NJ. .9A1a
Ore Short Line 22'K
Pittsbug 1859
Reading ...... .27ss
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Closing Stocks

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE following
are the closing stock quotations:
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The leading futures closed as follows:
Cash quotations were as follows

Flour, barely steady; winter patents, 500
@520; straights. 4.T04490; spring specials
els; spring patents, 5.20d5.6O; straights,
4.7Oq5.1O; No. 2 spring wheat, 965s@97ss ;
No. spring wheat, 90@971s No. red, 97s
@9S1s No. corn, SOQSOA; No. oats. 19A
@2o No. white, +. o. b.. 221ka2SA; No. 8
barley, nominal; No. g. f. o. b., 32046; No.
A, f. o. b., 2S1aM9S; No. flaxseed, 1.O5@1. .071a ;
prime timothy seed, 2.6O@2.65; mess pork
per barrel, S.20@s25; lard, per 100 pounds
4.371s; short ribs sides Qoose), 5.10@5.4 .4O dry
salted shoulders (boxed), 51a@5%: short
clear sides iboxed), 55sQ524; whisky, dis
tillers' finished goods, per gallon. 1.22
sugars, cut loaf, 1.22; granulated, 521.
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Bond List

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE following
were the closing quotations on bonds to-
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cents per gallon on American oil. This
puts tho price at IS cents per gallon In lots
Of flve barrels or more and SO cents for less
than nvs-barrA lots and 10 cents for boiled
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Net operating in
come ...... ......
Other income, not in
cluding land sales.
Total net income.
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BY the provisions Of the German insur-
ance law, accident insurance is furnished
by the German government direct to $780,
1856 employees in the naval, military, postal,
railway transport. forest and building serv-
ices. Trade associations take care of Is, 400, :
21S Industrial and 12,2S9,415 agricultural
laborers. Fishermen, domestic servants
and all persons carrying on small indus
tries alone or with the assistance of few
apprentices only, do not come under the
operation OF the law.
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Net earnings ...... $595, ,7S7
Taxes ........ ........ 42,900
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Gross earnings ......$1, ,556, ,347
Operating expenses 960,609
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The Randsburg Districts KlOndike o. o.

In this famous district located the property of the
claims, 90 acres adjoining such famous mines the
MINES Shaft is now down 165 feet and we working
amount of stock "a per SHARE fully paid and
as this stock will advance development work goes
you fortune For further particulars address
| Member l. A. Mining Exchanged
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Light medium bacon is up " cent and
medium off a u cent. Salt clears are u of
a cent dearer. Holders of strictly fancy
eggs are striving to get 10 cents. The mar
ket is strong, but it is hard to go from IS
to 10 cents. as eggs must still be retailed
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-07
General Rivera Wounded and Ia.
ken Prisoner.

General Ruiz Rivera, who sue
ceeded to his command after the
death of General Maceo, was sur
plised by a Spanish column last
week near Penar Del Rio, was
wounded three times in the result
tant engagement and captured
1t is rumored that he will be trieu
by drum head court martial and
shot. Such a brutal disposition Of
a military antagonist high in an
thority, would be in violation OF
the rules of civilized warfare and
ought to briug down upon the
Spanish government, not only the
execration OF the christian nations
of the world, but at the same time
be considered by them sufficient
cause to intervene and arrest by
force of arms an unequal struggle,
in which a gallant and liberty low
ing people are being decimated,
because they cannot be crushed
without raising the "black flag
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Killed BY Lightning.

Mr.. james L. Lobdell, ex-Regis-
ter of the State Land Office, was
struck by lightning aud instantly
killed last Wednesday morning,
while riding through his planta-
ton in West Baton Rouge parish
and experimenting plantation
work. His horse was also killed,
while several of the hands were
severely shocked. The deceased
was thirty four years OF age and
was a member of one of the most
prominent families of that section
Of tie State. Upon the death OF
bis father 1886, he was appointed
by Governor McEnery to succeed
him as Register of the State Land
Office and continued to discharge
the duties of the Office with ability
and fidelity, until July It'll 1888,
when he was superseded by the
present incumbent, Col. John S.
Lanier, By appointment ofGovern-
or Nichols.
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During the winter Of 1893, F

During the winter Of 1893, F.
NJ. Martin, of Long Reach, West
Va, contracted Il severe cold which
left him with cough In speak
in of how be cured it he says: 81
used several kinds of cough syrup
but found no relief until | bought
a bottle Of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, which relieved me almost
instantly, and in short time
brought about a complete cure"
When troubled with a cough or
cold use this remedy and you will
not find it necessary to try several
kinds before you get relief. 1t las
been in the market for over TWEEN
ty years and constantly grown liz
favor and popularity. For sale at
% and 50 cents per bottle at the
Phoenix Drug Store, d. j. SnlIi.
van, Proprietor.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-07
Seems rs if all the things "

Seems rs if all the things We
like disagree with us, and all the
things we don't like, agree with
us. Dyspepsia turks in most of
the good things We eat, and indi-
gestion follows the qualification of
appetite. Of course. it isn't Ma
ture's fault. Nature does the best
she can, and if a man will only
help her a little bit at the right
time, he may eat what he likes
and as much as he likes. DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are for
people who are troubled with indi-
geslion. Particularly for those
in whom it maEifests itself in the
form of constipation. The opel
lets" ale quick and easy in their
action. They are i'll perfect har-
mony with Nature. They effect a
permanent cure. You need take
them regularly only a little while.
After that, use them occasionally
when you need them-when you
have eaten anything that disa-
grees with yon. They may be ia
ken Just as freely as you would
take water or any other necessity
of life. Ouce used they are al
ways in favor.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-07

ADAMS ON TRIAL.-.AS we ex-
pected Licnel Adams, the eminent
criminal lawyer of New Orleans,
against whom an action for disbar.
ment is pending in the civil Dis
trict Court, for alleged unprofes-
sional conduct in the prosecution
against Maurice j. Hart, has filed
an elaborate answer in which lie ex-
copied to the jurisdiction of the
Court land declared that the S3O00al
legged to have been received by hin
from Hart, had no connection what
ever with the prosecution against
him, but had reference to three
other cases in which lie had beer
retained by Hart, to wit: the Cock
erton. Burke, Rosetta gravel anG
Mcdonald cases. The plea to in
risdiction was overruled and tht
defendant forced to trial.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-04-07

"A Sodus, DeSoto parish, spec
ial to the Shreveport Times, in re-
ferring to the arrival of $50 barrels
of meal for distribution among the
drouth sufferers, makes this sug-
gestive remark: s'SOme of our far
mers who are in good circumstan-
ces, and can secure credit whelev
er known, are getting their shares
along with the needy States.
Well, that is generally the case
in the gratuitous distribution OF
provisions. 1t applies as well to
the drouth sufferers, as it does to
the victims of overflow. The IN.
deserving frequently come in for
their share, to the entire exclu
sion of their more unfortunate and
absolutely destitute neighbors.
The truth of the matter is, that
the trouth sufferers Bracket" has
been run for all it is worth, has
been grossly exaggerated aud
ought to be given qnietns for the
Abalance Of the year at least, as 1t
is time for these people to resume
agricultural operations and be-
come self sustaining, if they ever
intend to do SO. Besides, the dis
tribution of free provisions natu-
rally h IS a demoralzing tendency.
The b 3nefciaries accustom them
selves to look for such gratuities,
learn to rely upon the assistance
of others and refuse to work until
the benefactioD is withdrawn.
While this is not universally ap
plicable, it is yet unfortunately
trre IL too many Instances.
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Passage of the Dingley Tariff Bill.

The Dingley tariff bill-the prin
cipal object for which President
Mckinley convened Congress in
extra session passed the House
of Representatives, on the 31st of
March. The vote as announced
by Speaker Reed was, yeas 2O5,
nays 12l, answering present and
not voting 81. The affirmative
vote was composed of 1919 Repub-
licans and five Observation-Disclosures
Broussard, Davey and Meyer, Of
Louisiana, Kleberg aud Slayden,
of Texas, aud one Populist, Mr..
Howard, of Alabama. The mega
tive vote comprised LII Democrats
and four Populists aud Fusionists
--Messrs. Baker, of Illinois, Mar
shall, Simpson and Todd. While
the Republicans have been ella-
bled, with their large majority, to
railroad this inequitablr, If not ac
tually robber tariff through the
House, it is predicted that it
will not meet with such "plain
sailing" in the Senate, a more de.
Lucrative body, without an ac
knowledged Republican, majorit,
and where the inequities of each
clause will be closely scrutinized
and the phraseology of each so MA
terially changed as TO be unrecog
nizable by even the pntative par,
emf, Mr.. Nelson Dingley, who re
presents the Pine Tree State il
| the House.
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PARTITION SALE.
State of Louisiana-Parish of Rapi.les--
Tenth Judicial District
Court.
ELLA HAYES, TuTR1x,

ELLA HAYES, TUTRIx,
VS..
BETTE NJ. BUTLER EFT AL
For PARTITION.
10y VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF PAR
D tition and pursuant to commission
and order of sale therein issued from the
Honorable the Tenth Judicial District
Court, and to me directed, commanding
and authorizing me as Sheriff, to sell for
cash according to law and after due adj
yertisement, for the purposes of partition,
the hereinafter described property, be-
longing to plaintiff and defendants in the
above entitled and numbered suit, will
offer for sale at public auction, at the
front door of the Court House, in the
Town of Alexandria, La, between the
hours prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, MAY STH, A. D., 1897,
the following described property, to-
wit:
NV IA of NE Id, S 1-2of N E Ia Sec
26, S-W Ia of NV A, N 10 of S-W 4,
aud Sc la of S. w Ia of Sc IA of Sec
%, N 1-2 of NE Id and Sc Ia of NE
IA, Sec SO, all in N, ROW, S-W
District of Louisiana, and ip the Parish
of Rapides, La, and containing in all
442 05-100 acres, and also S-W Ia and
frac NV Ia of Sec..al, T3N, R w
in Rapides Parish, La, and con.
tanning 25O acres, more or less.
Terms Of Sale-Cash.
d. T. STAFFORD,
Apl Z, 1897. Sheriff.
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BY act of the Legislature OF
the session of 1896, the anniversa
~ of the battle of Shiloh, which
commenced on April 9th 1862 and
continued on the next two succeed
ing days, was designated as Il lie.
gal holiday throughout the limits
of Louisiana, in memory of the
Confederates, who sacrificed their
lives on that memorable occasion
in behalf of Southern independ
!. ence.
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years.

To say the least, the pardonins
of Desforges is a traves'y ON JUS
tice, a reflection on the State, an
outrage on the people, Shreve.
port Caucasian.
Well, as Desforges is no better,
nor worse, than the rest Of the
cOuncilmanic boodlers, all of whom
have been pardoned, we see no rea
son why executive clemency should
not also have been extended to
him,
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United Confederate Veterans.

The members of the jeff Davis
Camp, Confederate Veterans, are
hereby notified to meet i'll Alex
andria on Saturday, the 10 h inst,
for the purpose of recognizing
aud clecling officers OF the Camp
for the ensuing year, and also to
elect delegates to represent the
said Camp at tue Reunion ofthe
Veterans at Nashville, Tenn, on
the %, % and "a Of June, and also
to pay the small per capita to
ke' p our Camp i'll good standing
in the Association. Please give
your attention; it is intended fol
ever Confederate Veteran who is
IL member of the Camp.
FRED SEIP,
Commander.
w. w. WHITTINGTON,
Adjutant.