The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-14
HISTORICAL RELICS.

The PiIlOw-Cass and Quilt Upon Which
President Lincoln Died.
There are a number of relics of the
President scattered here and there
about Washington. In the National
Museum there is pair of dove-coI-
ored chamois skin gloves whice were
made for the President just before he
was assassinated but which he never
wore. Here, too, is a model of his
patent for lifting vessels over shoals,
and in case near by you may see a
lock of his brown hair laid away with
that of the other Presidents A man
named Petersen, who was a son of the
man who owned the house in which
Lincoln died, has the pillow case and
quilt upon which he breathed his last
breath. They. are clotted and stained
with blood, but Petersen considers
them worth great deal and he would
hardly sell them for their weight in
silver.
There IS a tall, thin messenger at
the White House named Pendle who
has been there for nearly thirty years,
and who was on duty on the night
that the President was shot. He viii
tell you how he was affected by little
Tad Lincoln, sobbing and crying: s'Ohi
they have killed my papa! Ny poor
papa! Let me go to my papa" Pen
die worships the memory of little Tad
and his father. In tiny gold locket
he has little band of the Presidents
hair, and in a camphor-scented box he
keeps a fine black broadcloth coat, one
sleeve of which is badly cut 1t was
in this coat that the President died,
and Pendle treasures it as though it
was a veritable cloth of gold. A man
named Forbes, who lives in Washing
ton, has the shawl and black silk stock
worn by Lincoln when he was shot,
and he is also the owner of a beauti-
fully carved cane given to the Presi-
dent by Pennsylvania regiment, as
well as the pocket-knife of the. Presi-
dent. Forbes is said to have been IN
the box the night Lincoln was shot, as
one of his attendants.
The arms of John Wilkes Booth and
some relics connected with his death
are still kept here at Washington A
piece of Booths vertebr@ is shown in
the exhibition cases of the Medical
Museum, which is now kept in Ford s
Theater, where the assassination oc-
CURED. This theater has never been
used as place of amusement since the
| night of the great crime. A short time
after it Ford, the owner, who was some
thing of Southern sympathizer, at
tempted to open it, but Secretary Stan
ton forbade it, and the Government
bought it, paying, if my remembrance
is correct, one hundred thousand dollars
for 1t.
AS to the Medical Museum, it is filed
with all sorts of horrible things. Hun
dreds of cases with glass fronts are
shown full of all the horrible diseases
that flesh is heir to. All sorts of human
deformities look out of big bottles OF
alcohol, and a visit to the scene of Lin
coins assassination is disgusting be-
yond description. There are great
number of skeletons polished until they
shine like ivory and fastened together
with wires. In the top of the skull OF
each of these there is a brass ring and
by this skeleton hangs behind glasses
clear as crystal and grins at you most
horribly as you pass by. l am told
| that new building is being erected
for this Medical Museum It is GER
tainly not fitting that it should remain
| where it is.
All the semblance of the scenes OF
the assassination has been taken from
the interior of the theater. 1t has been
cut up into different floors and the only
thing left which they can show you to
/ remind You of the assassination is q
window looking out on the alley where
/ Booth got his horse and galloped away
down towards the Maryland Shores
/ Carp, IN Cleveland Leader.