The Washington critic., 1885-07-31

Ex-senator Chafleo Of Colorado, or
Joe Chaflee, as he was better known
in those days, delighted in plying po.
kcr but could never play the strength
OF the game. A writer In the Chicago
Herdtds say: "lle was a cunning old fox
on stocking mining properties aud selling
land claims, and could get away with
the best Of the md sharks In such deals;
but In poker playing he was the vcriost
tyro, although he laborcd under the de-
lusion that he understood the game.
The consequences was that the boys ate
Lin up, dividing him out few hut dred
apiece at every sitting. In fact, they
kept him wet nurscd for that purpose,
and the swag he mlde in outside
schemes paid largo percentage OF
tarc, trct and debpnturo at cards. Joe
was u godsend to the boys, and enabled
them to pay for many wine dinner at
Welkci's ,tsilors bills. opera tickets and
the like. But bless your soul, he did
not realize it--if he had he would have
given himself as big a lasling rs did
st. Simeon Stylites."
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The Presidents OF the United States
who arc dead are nearly all buried i'm
the neiglborhood of the homes which
they occupied. WaslingtOn'o tomb, at
Mount Vernon, is kno,n to all the
world. john Adams and John Quincy
Adams lie beneath the Unitarian
Church at Quincy, Mass. The collins
are of lead, placed IN cases hewn from
solid blocks Of granite. Their wives
are buried with them. john Adams
died OH the same day with Jellcr on, a
strange coincidence itself, but stranger
still, IT, was on the Fuui til of July, 1876,
just half century after the Drclara-
ion of Independence, which they had
joined in making, Jefferson, like his
compatriots, was buried in his family
burying ground, at his home in Monti-
cello. In the same part of Virginia,
in small inclosure near his home in
Montpeli r, lies the successor of Jeilur-
son, James Madison, fourth President
Beside him are buried his wife, who
died in 1910, surviving him almost
thirty years, aud two ucphcws. Two
other Virginia Presidcnts-Monroc aud
Tylcr-lie Within u few feet of each
other in the fine cemetery ,f II lly-
wood, AT Richmond. The three Ten
neSsCc Presidents were buried at their
homes. Jackson at tho Hermitage,
near Nashville, his wife beside him, A
massive monument of Tennessee gran
ite marks the place. Polk is buried
in Nashville at tie old family
homestead. Tic survived jackson
only four years, dying in 1919. An
drew Jackson's grave is at Grcenvillc,
on spot selected by himself. Martin
Van Burcn lies in the village cemetery
at KindcrhoOk, N. Y, in family lot,
his resting place marked by a modest
granite shaft. He died in the summer
OF 1868, when the civil war was at its
height. Ills successor, Harrison. was
buried at his old home at North Bend
on the Ohio, a few miles below Cincin-
natl. Al unfcnccd mound, over a
family vault, formerly neglected, but
more recently carefully kept, marks the
spot. The dust of Zachary Taylor i,
now buicd in the cemetery at Frank
fort, KY, after several removals. Mil,
lard Filmorc's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo,
aud that Of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, N. II. Buchanan is buried
at Woodward Hill Cemetery. The
most magnificent of all the memorials
to the dead Presidents is that over the
resting place of Lincoln, in the Oak
, Ridge Cemetery at Springfield, Ill. II
was dedcatedlin 1874 and cost $3.50, 900
Ga, field is buried in Lake View Gene
terry, at Cleveland, where grand maui
soleum has been erected in his honor
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"Telegraph operators and type
writer's" says the Minncapoli, Tribune
correspondent here, "would be inter
ested in seeing Ben Montgomery, the
telegraph operator at the White House
receiving the messages which come il
there over the wires during these days
when the thermometer Is dallyinl
around 100 degrees. The telegraph
service at the White House is very
heavy, and all the messages are takel
down on type writer. Mr.. Montgom
cry says he has not written line Of q
message for weeks; that he takes them
all down on the typewriter. Operators
at the ci Il Of lines direct to the White
House know of the fact of his L. ceiving
on the ly pc writer, and that he is an cX.
pert manipulator of that machine, and
almost every day there is race between
sender and receiver. 1t Is hardly neCes
sary to say that sender has not been
found who could make Montgomery
break. >"
The Anuka (Minnesota) Herald learns
that a brother of General Grant died in
that place No Dut twenty-five years ago.
1t appears that he was sick from con
sumption and was going West for his
health. This was before the days OF
railroads, and he came from st. Paul
in large covered wagon and stopped
at the Luikin House. There are some
discrepancies as TO the precise date, but
DR.. Perham, who attended the man In
his last illness, fays it was in Septem-
her, 1861. Mrs. Captain Cutter met
Grants father at Prairie du CHEN in
1865, who spoke OF his sons death at
Anoka, and Mr.. j. Eastman also heard
the particulars from General Grant
himself. Another fact which goes to
show that Grant always remembered
those who bcfricnded him or his, was
that some years afterwards when he
was President, Miss Lizzie Lufkin,
daughter of the hotel proprietor, who
had then removed to Sauk Center, was
a candidate for postmistress Of that vii
age. Although she had much opposi-
tion she had no difficulty i'm obtaining