Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30
but shaking his head solemnly now and
then wearing a troubled look.
Hadn't Got Over the War

then wearing q troubled look.
Hadn't Got Over the War.
There is down deep in good many
hearts a good deal of smoldering rebellion
! fires. One day last week Boulevard car
carried the usual proportion of aristocratic
residents of the Westside, but among them
was an aged colored woman. She nodded to
the conductor several times to stop the car,
but as she was nodding in a fashion nearly
all the time, that official didn't seem to no
tice it. A stalwart old gentleman in the
opposite corner did, however, and finally
roared out to the conductor:
why don't you let this woman off? Don't
you t see she wants to get orr stop the .n; car
to get on and off as anybody, If she Is
black"
The young man in blue pulled the bell
scared half to DEATH hobbled off, muttered
that he didd't see her motion to get off.
Yes you did-yes Won didr' retorted the
man, who had worked himself into a per-
spiration. 81 saw you looking right at her!
You belong to copperhead race that hung
people here in New York because they were
niggers. You burned orphan asylums be-
cause the children we're the children of Mig
gers! That's the trouble with your
To say that everybody was astonished at
this TRADE is putting it mildly. But the
young man, who must have been born some
years after the war, was the most astonished
OF all. If he had been an Eastside conduc-
tor, now-but he meekly went out on the
platform, remarking to a ssympathizer that
colored people in New YOrk-never.
Romancing About Dress.
A recent domestic difficulty between some
Keene, develops an interesting fact and an
equally interesting falsehood. The first is
that the dress which Laura Keene wore In
sour American Cousin on the night Presf-
Gent Lincoln was assassinated was cut into
small pieces and distributed among the
friends of the amiable old gentleman who
was holding the property in trust for his
daughter. The son-in-law, who was arrested
for running away and marrying that daugh-
ter, na1vely says that he could have sold the
garment for $1,000. The last is the statement
of both parties that the dress was stained
with the blood of the President.
What rot Laura Keene had nothing to do
with President Lincoln. He occupied an
upper box when he was shot and she was
back in the wings. She was nowhere near
tune again and again afterwards. and it is
needless to say, had these statements not
gone to the public unnoticed, that there was
no blood of the martyred Lincoln on it.
Hairs From Llncoln's Head.
Speaking of Laura Keene and the histor-
ical dress worn in "Our American Cousin"
that eventful night, reminds me that have
q lock of hair cut from Mr.. Lincoln's head
at the time of the assassination. was
in Washington shortly after the
of the President, and
formed the acquaintance of one of
the surgeons. who assisted in the examina-
tion of the wound received from the bullet
of j. Wilkes Booth. The scalp was barred in
the usual way in investigating the wound in
the head. Mr.. Lincoln's hair was not thin
and q considera BILE portion was cut away in
the first effort to ascertain the extent of the
injury. Several doctors who were in the
theater rushed at once to the Presidents
box and among them was this medical gen.
who afterward presented me with a
few hairs. He said the sentiment ran so
high at the time that every hair was recov-
cred and even q single hair was divided
among friends. He gave me five hairs
which have carefully preserved. They are
kept now with q piece of towel that served
as the white flag of surrender of the army
of Lee to General Grant at Appomattox.
The latter was given me by the officer COM
ceived the flag. The bulk of the towel was
afterward the property of the widow of Gen
eral Custer, the then commander of the |
of cavalry. have laid them away
together with a bullet torn section OF an
army overcoat worn at the battle of Stone
river in December, 1862, Confederate rifle
ball and o more recent memento of the same
character that plowed a hole through my
lungs while l was trying to run a western
1t is good foundation for
dime museum.
Wasn't Bit Reckless.
fin game of euchre the other night"
said club man at the Cafe Savarin, IL held
5he seven, eight, nine and ten, and one of the