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POST- -INGS. 31 Posts of the G. A. R. in Missouri.

Hartford, is organizing a Post. 287 Posts of the G. A. R. in Pennsylvania.

Louisburg, Miami Co. Ks. is organizing a Post with 84 applicants. The G. A.

R's. of Columbus, 0. have a "Relief Association," the object being to furnish cheap life insurance to members. The Department of Pennsylvania will observe their sixteenth anniversary in Philadelphia during the bi-centennial celebration. 10,000 members will participate.

Four members were mustered in for John Brown Post, No. 44, and five for Lincoln Post, No. 1, at the time of mustering Hiawatha, Post No. 130, in the State House at Topeka. The Department of California has organized a "Board of Relief," for the purpose of defraying the expenses of burial of any deceased soldier or sailor (not a member of the G.

A. who has neither friends nor means to pay necessary expenses. Reynolds Post, No. 43, purpose holding a monthly Camp Fire, at which, comrades will relate their experience in army life. Singing and recitations will also be given.

Special Post meetings will be held once a month on Satnrday afternoon for the convenience of members living at a distance. VETERANISMS. General Wm. T. Sherman will ask be placed on the retired list in November 1883.

Dr. B. F. Stephenson, the founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, died August, 30th. 1871.

Uncle Jerry Larkins, aged seventy years; of Mitchell County, carried the same knapsack to the Topeka reunion, that he used during the war. Hon. James G. Blaine, in his address to the veteran ex-prisoners in Topeka, Sept. 15th.

said, "To me, a survivor of Andersonville is a miracle. The English language does not record a paralel to the history of the sufferings of our men there." The 26th. Michigan Inf't. at Mason, Nov. 8.

The 98th Ohio Inf't. at Cadiz, 0. 5th. The 3rd. Penn.

Cav. at Oct. 27. Neillsville, Wis. will have a soldiers reunion, October 9th.

The 114th. Penn'a. at Burgettstown, Beaver Co. Pa. October 10th.

The 11th. Kansas, (Col. Plumb's numbered 400 at the Topeka reunion. The 6th. Maryland held a reunion Sept.

14. at Baltimore, at which 235 survivors met. The 94th. Ohio Infantry held their eleventh annual reunion at Springfield, O. 23.

The First N. Y. Veteran Cavalry will hold their third annual reunion at Elmira, Oct. 6. The Fifth Annual Reunion of the 111 Ohio Infantry will be held at Helena, Oct.

5th. 3,000 Veterans held a reunion recently at Weirs, N. H. General Sherman was present. The "Army of the Cumberland" has made membership in that body hereditary, which descends to the eldest son.

The survivors of the 49th. will meet at Huntington, Nov. 28th. They have a complete history of their organization. I.

Newton Ritter, Secretary. Garfield's old regiment, the 42 Ohio Inf't. held their annual reunion Sept. 6, at Akron, at which it was resolved that the office of President, out of respect to Garfield, be forever vacant. PENSIONINGS.

385 certificates for pension were issued during the week ending Sept. 27th. Maurice Welch of Norwich, is the man who refused to push his claim for pension. He wrote to the pension agent that as "the small sum of $4 a month was only an apology for a pension, he didn't think it worth while to fill out the papers." Jennie Wade was killed by a rebel- bullet at Gettysburg, July 3d. 1861, while engaged baking bread for Union soldiers.

A pension has been granted to her mother in consideration of her loss..