Morris tribune., 1885-09-09

bring more than one-third of its value,
and at the request of the old ex-presi-
dent the Virginia legislature passed an
act permitting him to dispose of Month
cello by lottery. This fact was noised
about over the country, and so many
subscriptions came to his relief that the
idea was given up. New York raised
$500, Philadelphia sent $1,000, Balti-
more $4,000, and Jefferson, it is said,
received these moneys proudly, saying:
''No cent of this is wrung from the tax
payer. 1t is thep pure, unsolicited offer
ing of love-" He died at SO, believing
that his estate would support his chill
dren. He was mistaken. Continued
hard times caused increased depression,
and the mansion and the estate merely
paid the debts which hung over them.
Martha Jefferson, his daughter, lost her
home, and prepared to teach school,
but the legislatures of South Carolina
and Louisiana each voted her $4,000,
and this enabled her TO die in comfort.
Jefferson's only surviving granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. Mickleham, lives in poverty in
Georgetown, and congress has refused
to aid her.
have before me newspaper of 1926,
published just one month after Jeffer-
sons death. It contains an advertise
ment of theSale of Monticello by lot
terry in 1920, and represents it as valued
at 81, 900. Shadwell Mills, another
estate of Jefferson, is valued at $50, 900,
and the Albemarle estate at 1900,
making total of three prizes worth
S112,500. The tickets are $40 each,
and there are II, AIT blanks.
President Madison left some property
at the time of his death, but his widow,
the peerless Dolly, was for time de-
pendent upon the bread and meat fur
nished by an old negro servant, and her
last days were made easy only by con-
gress buying from her for $4,000 the
manuscript notes of the debates of the
constitutional convention which Madi-
son had taken.
President Monroe, though he declined,
it is said, 1858, 900 from the government
for his public services, died very poor
in New York, and it was twenty-seven
years before his body was removed to
Richmond, Va.
John Quincy Adams must have re-
ceived $500, 900 in government salaries,
and he is one of the few presidents who
again took up public life after he left
the white house. He remained in re-
tirement only about year, and then
entered the lower house of congress.
After about sixteen years of service
there, he died in the capital in 1913, ex-
claiming: "This is the end of earth; l
am content John Quincy Adams ac-
cumulated property, and the home in
which he lived in Washington is now
worth at least $50, 900, and was until a
few years ago in the hands of his de-
scendants. His family is wealthy, and
Charles Francis Adams is railroad ma
bob.
Andrew Jackson gained nothing in
wealth from his white house salary. 1t
cost him, he says, every cent of it to
pay his expenses, and the most of the
proceeds of his cotton crop in addition.
He returned from Washington at the
close of his second term with just 800
in his pocket, to find his farm going to
ruin and himself so deeply in debt that
he had to sell part of his lands to get
out. The panic of 1887 did not affect
him, but in 1912 he became involved
through the debts of his adopted
son, and he had to borrow $4,000
from Frank Blair. Congress relieved
him somewhat during. his.~latter years
by refunding the fine Of ST. 900 which
he had paid in New Orleans in 1915,
and this with the interest amounted in
1843, I think, to $1,000. Still, at the
time of Jackson's death he owed more
than SIG, 900, and now his heirs hold
only life estate in the Hermitage by
an act of the Tennessee Legislature.
Martin Van Buren, retired from the
Write house wealthy and ambitious. He
ran fort second term and was defeated.