Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-03
IN MEMORY OF LINCOLN.

The Queer Exhibition that Has Been
Opened in His Old Home at Spring
field.
The old curiosity shop which Capt. Old
rOyd has opened in the Lincoln residence,
at Springfield, Ohio, says a letter to the
New York Sun, is attracting a good deal
Of attention. Purporting to be a coIIec-
tion Of relics Of Abraham Lincoln, it is
rather an odd and almost bewildering as
sortment of articles, many of them of the
most trivial nature, which were in use or
came into existence during the war
period. Some of the Relics are entirely
valueless as such, but they are nearly all
interesting and must have been gathered
at great expense of time and money. Four
or five rooms of the Lincoln house are set
apart for the exhibition, and, tastefully
draped with flags and supplied with many
glass cases, they present the appearance
of a military museum, with a good many
foreign substances thrown in.
OF the 1000 different objects, the follow
ing are the more conspicuous: An old
hair-cloth sofa; an ancient cooking stove,
freshly BACKED; a primitive cradle:
cane; tiag-bottOmed chair; glass show
case, containing 100 campaign medals of
1860 and 1864; a large eagle-the one that
stood at the head of the catafalque on the
journey from Washington to Springfield:
a glass case containing hundreds of cam
paign songs; another with 600 pamphlet
sermons and eulOgies on Lincoln; another
with several hundred envelopes bearing
Illuminated cuts OF Lincoln, flags. shields,
soldiers and cannon; a large assortment of
music dedicated to Lincoln; several pieces
of statuary; a can of tomatoes OF the
"Lincoln' brand; package of "Old
Abe" smoking tobacco; photographs of
all the currency bearing Lincoln's Wig
nette; a strip of checked cloth, resem-
bling gingham, taken from one of Lin
coins old summer coats; all the postage
stamps of the war period; many
autograph letters; a series of field notes
made by Lincoln as a surveyor in 1886;
strip of red cloth taken from an old coun-
terpane; 100 newspapers containing ac-
counts of the assassination, with column
and other rules inverted; a fac smile of
the French Lincoln medal; a wreath of
evergreen taken from the funeral car:
hundreds of steel and wood engravings of
Lincoln and various incidents in bis ca
reer; nine medallions in china, iron.
bronze, and glass; many political car
tO0ns; a complete set of all the lives Of
Lincoln ever published; an endless vari-
ETY. of song am joke books; hundreds of
cards and photographs of military heroes;
nifty mourning badges; pieces OF the ropes
with which cOnspirators were hanged;
beer, whisky and cigar stamps; a shaving
from the coffin, shield bearing the in
scription, ''Oh, why should the spirit of
mortal be proud?" some of the last hard
tack issued by the government; all the
histories of the war ever published North,
South and foreign, comprising 1,100 vol
umes; several Union flags, photographs
and autographs of Confederate Generals;
lances carried by Northern and Southern
cayalrymen; relics gathered from the
battlefields; a score or more of sabres, a
Captains shoulder strap, a large variety
of swords, muskets and pistols, shells and
cannon balls, Confederate newspapers,
suffers passes and checks, and a cigar
box with hole in the top, used by the
troops before Nicksburg as a ballot-box.
The museum is now open to the public
at all reasonable hours. In the course of
a few months the owner will give it to the
State