Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1879 — How Lincoln Got His Pass Renewed. [ARTICLE]

How Lincoln Got His Pass Renewed.

Here’s a souvenir of the great Abraham Lincoln. It is a true copy of a letter on file among the archives of the Chicago and Alton road, at the Superintendent’s office in Bloomington, 111. It is a modest request for the renewal of a season pass on the Alton road: Springfield, Feb 13,1858. R. P. Morgan, Superintendent C. & A. Railroad: Deab Sir: Bays Sa:n to John: “ Here’s your old rotten wheelbarrow. I’ve broke it usin’ on it I wish you would take it and mend it, case I shall want to borrow it this afternoon.” Acting on this as a precedent, here’s your old “chalked hat.” I wish you would take it and send me a new one, case I shall want to use it the Ist of March. Yours truly, A Lincoln.

Miss Ada Gillette, a maidep lady of 92, lives in Torrington, Ct., in a house more than 100 years old, built by her father, It is her felicity to own a. complete file of the Hartford Courant from its first issue in 1764. They fill the whole ride of a room fifteen feet wide, and are-pjM up close so the ceiUpgfo '