Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — GRAND ARMY BOYS. [ARTICLE]

GRAND ARMY BOYS.

General Phil. H. Sheridan weighs 184 pounds. - ■ . It is reported that the National Home at Milwaukee will soon have a beer hall of its own. Forty-five subordinate Relief Corps have been chartered in Indiana since April 30, 1887. The Minneapolis, Minn., Posts contemplate the organization of a central relief committee. The National Home at Dayton, Ohio, is full, with 1,340 applications oi> file for admission. There are twelve posts in Clermont county, Ohio, with a membership of 600 in good standing. ' Private Dilzel and his wi’e celebrated their crystal wedding anniversary at Caldwell, Ohio, Nov. 29. The Union Veteran Legion will hold its next annual National Encampment at Youngtown, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1888. A charity fair will be held at Ottawa, Kansas, commencing about Dec. 23, under the auspices of George H. Thomas Post No. 18. It is expected that there will be 100,000 comrades and 200,000 visitors in Columbus, Ohio, during National Encampment week in 1888. The Ladies’ Aid Society,an uxiliary to the Order of Sons of Veterans, now has seventy local organizations, sixty-five having been chartered since Jan. 1,1887. A Massachusetts man desiring to name two sons after distinguished military men, called one them “Army of the Potomac” and the other“ The Ninth Corps.”

Joseph Livermore, a veteran of the war ol 1812, died at Hartland, Vermont, Nov. 9, aged 98 years. He had lived in Hartland and on the same farm since he was four years old. Lieutenant Oharles Griffin claims the credit of capturing the first rebel flag. He captured it at the battle of Phillippi. It was presented by some Wheeling ladies in June, 1861, and is now in their possession. Colonel Loren Andrews, President of Kenyou College, Oijio, is given ths credit of the first Ohio volunteer in the war for the Union. The honor of being second is given, to Major A. O. Mitchell, of Columnus Ohio. The figure-head of the rebel steamer Star of the West was found near Greenwood, La , recently. It has been purhased of the finder, and will be pre .seated to the“ Confederate Monumental Association” of Richmond, Va. The board ot managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at a meeting held at Lis Vegas N. M. Dec. r 6, decided to locate the Pacific branch of the home near the town of San Monica, Los Angeles County, Cal., and is about fourteen miles from Los Angeles and connected with the lastnamed city by two lines of railway. The land consists of 300 acres, and is donated by Senator Jones and Mr. A. B. D. Baker. One hundred thousand dollars is also guaranteed to be paid in $20,000 installments,and is to be devoted to adornment of the grounds. The construction of the home will be commenced at once. The building to be erected will cost $150,000.