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Show SACRED RELICS SOLD AS JUNK. In the U. S. Senate a few days ago, Senator Gaines of Tennessee referred to the recent sale of articles arti-cles in use in the White House before it was remodeled. The sideboard side-board given to Mrs. Hayes by the W. C. T. U., he said, had been sold, and was now in a "Washington brewery, where, he said, he understood under-stood it had been identified by Col. Webb Hayes. Attempts to buy it, he said, had been unsuccessful. The man who had the sideboard, he said, had secured other sacred relics sold as junk and intended to fit up a White House saloon at the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Gaines said that other valuable mementoes of other days, including a mirror presented by Count Pochambeau, and bronzes by General Patterson to President Jackson, had been sold as junk. He declared that this sale was illegal and that these relics should be repurchased and placed in the Smithsonian institute. |