Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-26

learned heap of history in my school days. kind without knowing that; it helps him to put value on the articles.
 "These suuffers are from the household of Lady Fairfax of colonial Virginia. Here is bible that went through the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and another that came over in the MayAower. And speaking of Bibles, here is one that had the back enten off by famishing woman in an open boat on the Pacific ocean. Her ship had been wrecked, and with six sailors she and two ether women dritted fourteen days, the last five without a particle of food. But she lived through 1t all and finally drifted to Chicago. She WAS living here on tho west side few years ago, and is yet for all know.
 "Did you ever hear of Henry Forbesa We'll, he was 8 murderer who killed a family of seven persons in little Ohio town. He first murdered the man in quarrel and then killed the rest for fear their testimony would duplicate him. He had not intended to run. But his nerve failed him when the last of his desperate work was down and he came to Chicago. He brought several valuable things with him and pawned them here in the city. I got this dagger and seabbard. The officers them, though they had me go to the jail to see Forbes after he was arrested. This belt and badge were owned end worn by Sir Hudson Lowe, Napoleon's keeper at St. He- lena. His valet got them in some manner and they descended to a son, who pawned them, am sure, to get money for drink. l confess to sort of pleasure in seeing him or any one connected with Napoleon's downfall or captivity going straight to the devil.
 won't help them specially, but I'll be shot if offer to hold them back.
 "Here's some ornaments whittled out of stone coal by rebel prisoners at Camp Doug
 las during the war, and some other curiosi-
 ties carved by Union prisoners in Anderson
 vile. I got them of @ little old man who
 used to keep cigar store on Madison street.
 He was an intense patriot, though he never
 dared to fight, and had made Q good collec-
 tion of military prison relics. This crown
 is made from Q leaking oanteen one of the
 prisoners had" The article was curiously sNrought imperial erown,z with ..eolored peb-
 bles set in tin flagree. Of course no solder-
 ing was used, the pieces being hold, in place by ingenious bending alone. A cross made from the brass buckle of an army belt sur- linent ntstaAl she 6eds where the lining had once beeIf q tfss;HF YTBG '''( sf
 s'This little box drifted ashore near Green Bay, Mich., from the Lady Egin, which was lost with so many lives some years ago. In it was gold watch and chain and . toilet | o0os 4A0 tuAHk9 bCCL4Cu eO AoSo bocA C1OWae ed into it in hurry. This old hat General Grant left in store in Cairo, H., after the
 battle of Shiloh, when he came north for e l short consultation with General Hallsck. He needed @ new one and left the old ono with orders to keep it until called for-like the box MT. Blackboy left with Barkis in the l story of David Copperfeld.' The dealer brought 1t up here at the time of the repub- lican convention of 1880. So many people for han, roy kbirI farv, that the Cairo man thought he could get 2 fancy price for the memento. But he could not and finally bought it of him for two dollars. guess it's all right, for it's full of afidavits that must have cost the Egyptian five dollars to procure. No, don't care to sell 1t. I'm starting . museum myself. This copy of Old Curiosity Shop was given by had encouraged him much in his earlier eff forts to write. See, it has an autograph note
 to her. She is now living in Evanston, . grandmother of the young man who brought
 the book here. If had any good way to get it to her without giving him away would certainly send it back and lose the loan-though would rather have the bool carried by an Irish soldier at the battle oi the Boyne, and his grandson, who was on tho Chicago police force two years ago, pawne6 l the gun the night of his appointment in or. der to raise some money to do some treating which seemed fitting to him. He never re- thing can be said of 1t: It helped fire the
 last shot for despotism in England.
 1 "Here is another piece of that apple Ire,
 at Appomattox under which General Lee
 surrendered to General Grant in 1865. Yor know that was the story long time, and fl
 was popularly believed for years after the l war, even when proofs were abundant thai 1 the surrender took place in house and moi under an apple tree at all. I bought that in good faith, but suppose if one had all the l timber said to have been taken from that tree he would own @ pretty good sized or-
 ohard. And here is piece of quartz from l Lookout mountain. The soldier who l pawned it said he was wounded and lying on the ground looking at the clouds rolling be- meath him and his command. when his eyes | were caught by the sunlight on this stone
 and he brought it away. Grant spoiled part | of the story by his 'Memoirs,' in which he
 says there was no fighting above the clouds, | and have since learned there is no quartz l on Lookout mountain. I have about made l up my mind that my customer was Q native
 of Hot Springs, Ark, where quartz and liars abound.
 "This knife, fork and tin plate went to the Mexican war with William Nelson Bailey, a 1 surgeon who was practicing medicine in an 4uiAOl6 clty bOmo years uSo. VAon eAIouA uo ate breakfast while Vera Cruz was falling, | dinner while Santa Anna was losing the pass
 of Cerro Gerdo, and supper as General Scott | marched into Mexico. He cold them to [ l speculator in these things, and tho specala- l tor pawned them along with his own watch ! and chain. Here is another Mexican wal | relic. It is Texan sabre broken in the l fight at Alamo. This beaded purse was giv-
 en by Brigham Young to farmer at Nau' l 700, H., in 1846. The farmers daughter | brought 1t here when she moved to Chicago
 and sold it for enough to buy bread for hel | children"