The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-09

in time brought to her . latter from an attorney living in st. Joseph, Mo-, and enciosing . clipping from . Ae- souri daily paper, Nhieh Ws rspro- duce below:
 From the date Of the battle of New Orleans. January s, isls. to the pre- sent 10 along cry, but the little old hand .made trunk h which Andrsw Jackson carried his extra suit Of heuie- spun during the battle has held to- gether, thanks to hand-hammerep brass hasps, and is new in St. Joseph. Joshua 4. Graham has the trunk in his possession. and brought it from Nashville. Tenn. last fall filled with cornnncaL such ss the attorney cisims can only be turned out by the Srist mills of his native state.
 The vicissitudes of the trunk are not known. but an echo of the stir ring times through which it has pass CT is voiced from it's interior, where pages of Nashville pepsr are pasted which tell of the bitter nght which waged at the times James K, Polk was running against Henry Clay tor the presidency. Polk. like Iafkson. naa many of his most bitter enemies resid- inr In Nashville. The old song of: .Get out of the way with your Polk
 stalk p-isin;
 You can't beat Clay and Frelinshuy- stin rings in the ears Of many old timers who recoiiect the efforts which were made to prove that Folks father was Tory and his attitude on the tariff question was seriously question: cd.
 The pages of the old Nashville pa per, in which Polk is seyeriy taken to task, are pasted in the interior of the trunk in lieu of the aimsy paper which first decorated "oid Hickory's" portmar,teau.
 of the Tennessee building at the world's fair n st. Louis. when it sas son was wont to stretch his nauscuIsr | limbs In siumbeE After the exposition the trunk was taken te the home oi | Mrs. Nathaniel Pope Yeatmen, In Nash I vile, by Miss Yeatman, one of tht hostesses of the Tennessee buiidinz during the fair. Shortly thereAftei
 Miss Yeatnian became Mrs. J. A Gre ham of this city. and the old trunl
 was left to repoee in the weodshes
 at the Nashville home of Mfa efa
 hams mother.
 T When on his visit to his old hon' last fall Mir. Graham. as already stat ed, concluded to bring back with hin
 some of the homeiy iuxuFies of th'
 rugged atate which he is proud {
 claim as his birthplace. The trunk VII remain in St. Joseph only . short time
 Mir. Graham recently received lette
 from ". T. sadler of Nashvilie. score tAfy of the Tennssee eornmissipn at thi
 tinae of the St. Louis exposition. n
 quiring as to the whereabouts or fhi
 trunk.
 I It Is the property of Mrs, Lucy Fewi
 CT King of Leighton. Ala. but just hov ii 1t came into her possession iH unknown
 She lent 1t to the Tenneasse commits
 sion. at the time of the fair. Mrs. Ra'
 chei Jackson Lawrence of Nashville a granddaughter of "Oid Hickory" re cognized her grandparent's ioekei
 when she saw if.
 The trunk is about two feet lon9
 twelve inches deep and fourtesn itcheI
 wide. The exterior is coverad wltI leather. thicIxly studded on tha top will hand wrought brass naile. The handles still bear the marks of the black
 smiths hammer which foreed them. q do the hingeb and haspe. Mir. Gra
 ham will start the little old relic q its Southern home In few day&