Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04

1ngs as a harness maker. In these details
Of dress she is intensely, ridiculously par
t1cular, and the tailOrs and shoemakers of
Washington, probably aided by lively
imagination, tell very interesting stories
Of this characteristic. A G street shoe
man, who claims to have made her shoes
during one of her previous stays in Wash
ington, tells with appropriate gestures and
convincing manner Of how she at one
time threw pair of shoes at his manly
form and refused to take them back be-
cause they were lined with light satin in
stead OF yellow satin, as she had ordered.
Many students of the morbid have visit
ed the cemetery at Lexington, KY, where
the dead members of Colonel Breckin-
ridges family are buried, and correspond
ent of the St. Louis Republic furnishes q
picture of the gravestones of the congress-
mans two dead wives, together with this
story:
Here are buried Lucretia Clay Brock
inridge and 1ssa Desha Breckin- idge the
first and second wives of the congressman.
The former was a granddaughter of Hen
ry Clay and died at the age of 81 years.
The latter died in Washington, July II,
1892
"Dr. William Breckenridge established
Mount Horeb Presbyterian church, near
the home Of his mother, which was eight
miles north of Lexington, KY, at which
place Congressman Breckenridge has to-
day and for many years has had his church
membership.
@At this church, at various times in
years past, Congressman breckenridge has
delivered the sermons and Sunday school
speeches for which he is so famous. His
habit was to go to the place near the pull
pit and listen to the preacher with great
earnestness and to compliment and say
kind words to the preachers after theirser
mons. Congressman Breckenridge was
preparing himself for the ministry in the
Presbyterian church when the war broke
out, having preached a number of sermons,
but had never been ordained. He gave up
into the Confederate army but he was &C
custOmed to conduct religious services for
his command.
to him and thought him an excellent man,
but it was kept as kind of half secret
among his men that he had a passion for
women that was surprising in view Of his
religious pretensions. When he came home
AIO1A OAA0 w al, O1CS0 oUOIAcS t1UOuU A1A1u WcI0
kept up, and others about his iaisons
about Lexington were common. Colo
mel Breckenridge was married three
times, counting that he was only married
to Mrs. Wing, his last wife, once. His first
wife was Miss Lucretia Clay, daughter of
Tom Clay, who was the son of Henry Clay
Of Ashland. She was a large and hand
some woman and died in her first child
birth, the child dying also. Colonel Brock
1nridge's second wife was Miss Issa Desha
Of g. prominent Kentucky family. The
greater part of their married life she was a
delicate looking lady, but only a year or
two before she died her appearance was so
much improved that she was hardly recog-
nizable by old friends.
''There is some impression here that
Miss Pollard is liable to shoot Colonel
Breckenridge, and many believe he will
never return to Kentucky.
"Judge Samuel Breckenridge of St.
Louis, first cousin of Congressman Breck-
inridge, was an exceedingly attractive man
and had a lovely character. He died while
making a speech against DR.. Briggs Of
PRESBYTERIAN heresy fame"