Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-18
MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE.
More ELECTROMAGNETIC PaWning
Operations in ChfeagO-The Dress
Worn Bt the Observation-Disclosures
Sets, Cradle Quilts, etc.-A Negro
Servant Discharged for ssBIOWing."


Sets, Cradle Quilts, etc.-A Negro
Servant Discharged for ''BIOWing.''
From the Chicago Times. 10th.
The country has been talking about Mrs.
Lincoln's wardrobe for two weeks, and
forming various opinions as to the good
taste or policy Of advertising the same for
sale. Few persons are aware that she has,
for over year, been in the habit of visit
ing certain pawnbroker's shop in this
city, where she has sold from time to time
various articles of wearing apparel and
table furniture.
In dingy little shop at No. 80 South
Wells street. where hanging dresses suggest
capital punishment, and empty coat-sleeves
beat the. air TO notify passers by that clothes
are for sale there, may be found some of
the clothing of Mrs. Lincoln.
First, and most prominent, is said TO be
the dress she wore at Ford's theatre, on the
night of Mr.. Lincoln's assassination. Mrs.
Lincoln stated, when she pawned the dress,
that it cost S225. She received for il $50.
Besides this, there is common striped
chene silk dress, of gray lilac color,
which was pawned at the same time, and
a small canary colored plume filled with
= cluster of golden grapes, which she wore
in her hair on the night of the assassina-
ton.
These are all that now remain. A large
stock of goods, comprising cradle quilts,
china sets, dresses and other goods, for
which the volatile pawnbroker thinks he
| paid Mrs. Lincoln the sum of $1,000, have
| been sold
The dress worn by Mrs. Lincoln at the
| first Inauguration OF her husband white
| silk-was sold to a stage actress. A brown
satin dress, with golden crown, made, az
! Mrs. Lincoln informed the dealer, eX-
| pressly for a tour to Europe, was pawned
some time last winter and sold by the
broker for the sum Of SO. A lavender
| silk dress, with broeade flowers, also
pawned at this shop, is now at the dyer's
for the restoration of its color, damaged
| while on exhibition at the shop. Several
other dresses we're mentioned by the pawn
broker, Mr.. Doyle, as having been sold by
him, the description of which he could not
| give.
Mrs. Lincoln also, about a year ago,
pswned at this shop a set of china, which
She had brought from Washington. A few
pieces were broken, but the remaining ar
ticles were of the finest porcelain, and
were sold to grace a wedding party.
Mrs Lincoln in making this disposal of
a considerable portion of her wardrobe,
desired, and for time succeeded, in trans
acting the business connected with the sale
IN COO, so far as the dealer was concerned.
She always made the bargain herself, and
represented that she was a lady stopping al
the Clifton House, who, from some circum
stances unexplained, had large quantity
Of clothing that she should never use. 81
one time she stated that she had intended
to 90 10 Europe, but that some unfortunate
occurrence had prevented the tour.
On her first visit, in connection with
some articles Of clothing, she brought
pair Of old and faded cradle quilts, which
the pawnbroser says, he bought not be
cause Of their value, but to encourage III,
lady to deal with him more largely.
On one Of these visits, the colored dri
! | yer Of Mrs. LiRcoln's carriage meutione,
to the broker, incidentally, that Mrs. Lin
coin desired to see him. This was the frs
I intimation Mr.. Doyle had Of the position
f and character of his customer. The negr
| driver called at the shop a few days after
, wards and informed the proprietor that hi
e mistress had discharged him for the unfor
, tunate and unprecedented statement
: Mrs. Lincoln used 10 tell this man /
whom she sold her clothes that he was u
only one in the city with whom she coul