. Book of the Royal blue . keepers daugh-ter to preside at his receptions, which in-sured her recognition by the foreign repre-sentatives. Her husbands position as Sec-retary of War prevented the wives of thearmy officers of rank joining in the move-ment against her, and when the Presidentgave a dinner at the White House witliher as guest of honor, it became evidentthat no one desiring to stand well with theadministration could ignore Mrs. Cabinet then contained six members, of a cabinet member and Governor, and towhom the florid poem beginning: I fill this cup to one made up of love


. Book of the Royal blue . keepers daugh-ter to preside at his receptions, which in-sured her recognition by the foreign repre-sentatives. Her husbands position as Sec-retary of War prevented the wives of thearmy officers of rank joining in the move-ment against her, and when the Presidentgave a dinner at the White House witliher as guest of honor, it became evidentthat no one desiring to stand well with theadministration could ignore Mrs. Cabinet then contained six members, of a cabinet member and Governor, and towhom the florid poem beginning: I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone,A woman of her tender sexthe seerains paragon is said to have been dedicated, died herein obscurity and poverty about 1880. East of and opposite the granite Treas-ury building is the house built for his ownuse by Hoban, the architect of the WhiteHouse, but it will soon be removed to makeroom for an office building of the modorntype. The house in vyhich Jefferson Davislived while Secretary of War stood a block. ERE LINCOLN DIED. equally divided on the social question aswell as the political, three of them beingopen adherents of Calhoun, and their wivesonly recognizing Mrs. Eaton on state andformal occasions. President Jackson arranged with thosewho supported his views to resign, sendingVan Buren as Minister to England andmaking Eaton Governor of the Territory ofFlorida, and he then asked the others fortheir resignations as he wanted to startanew with a fresh body of advisers. after life was a clouded widowed, she married a man manyyears her junior, who soon deserted her,eloping with a younger woman, and shewho was the favorite of the President, wife east of this, but recently has shared thefate of many of the older dwellings whichstood in the line of advancing New York Avenue, near 13th, a brickhouse is pointed out as the place where theerratic genius, E. A. Poe lived for a timeand where several of his prose sketches andsome of his p


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