Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — The Centennial of the Silver Dollar. [ARTICLE]

The Centennial of the Silver Dollar.

The silver dollar of Uncle Sam will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its birthday on Oct. 15 next. On July 18, 1794, the Bank of Maryland deposited at the Philade phia mint French coins of the value of $80,715 for coinage into silver dollars under the act of 1785. Tpe first lot of the finished coins was delivered on Oct. 15, 1794. There were 1,758 of them in all, and they were the precursors, the first waves of the vast fiocdtide of silver dollars that has poured out upon the country during the one hundred years that have elapsed. State Treasurer I. v. Stephens of Missouri is made defendant in a suit filed by W. H. Stevenson, who says he gave SIO,OOO to Stephens to pay off a mortgage and he failed to do so. He also tays Stephens failed to return the money. Seven thousand visitors aided the people of Grand Junction, Colo., to celebrate peach day. Specimens of astonishing size were exhibited.