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THE exercises of this institute will be resum
ed on Monday, August 18ih, 1873.
term, four months. Tuition, $2.50,
s3*so, and $5 per month, according to class—
payable half in advance.
Mrs. Hester will continqe in charge, of the
Musical Department.
Board in the best families can be obtained at
from $lO to sls per month.
For further information address the Principal
H, I>. SIMS.
THE GAZETTE.
ISTew Series.
WOMAN’S WITS AND LAWYER'S TRICKS.
• Old Walter Kilbome died, and left a
fortune that aggregated nearly a mil
lion. The gloomy old house had been
the family residence for many a year.—
It stood in one of the down-town streets
that had once been the site of fashiona
ble residences of New York city. But
the wealthy families had long since re
moved to the avenues, leaving the per
verse old millionaire to hold his own
among the growing business of the once
aristocratic thoroughfare. A bunch of
crape was hung on the door knob four
days after the funeral, when a bent wily
ly looking man pulled it. Being admit
ted he was shown into the dingy room
which Mr. Kilborne had in his life used
for an office. The bent and wily-looking
man was lawyer Whitternore, and he
was almost immediately joined by Rob
ert Kilborne, a grandchild of the dead
milliinaire, a young man who showed
plainly enough the marks of rough so
cial usage.
“Good morning,” said the lawyer as
Robert entered and extended his hand
rather listlessly.
“Good morning,” was the reply.—
“Well.”
“Well,” echoed the lawyer.
“You got my note f’ w
“Asking me to meet you here? Yes,
what do you want ?”
“T ou drew my grandfather’s will, I be
lieve?”
“I did, - just two days before he di
ed.”
“What are its contents?”
“I have no right to tell,” said Mr.
Whitternore, trying to look severe. It
is with the Surrogate now, and you will
know its contents on Thursday, when it
will be officially opened. You know
that I couldn’t think of violating my
official—”
“Not unless you arc well paid for it,”
interrupted the young man, “I under
stand that perfectly well, and will be
plain and brief with you. As you are
aware, my cousin Myra and myself are
the only too living relatives of my grand
father. We have both been brought up
in this house together, and each hates
the other as much as possible. Now I
have no idea how the property is left,
and I want to know. I’m willing to pay
for the knowledge in of the
opening of the will, and you have it to
sell.”
The lawyer assented with a cool nod
of the head.
“Then name your price,” continued
Robert.
• “One thousand dollars,” said the law
yer.
“I haven’t so much,” replied the young
man.
“A note for a month will do,” said
Whitternore.
The document was quickly written
out, signed, and transferred to the law
yer’s pocket.
“The will, then,” said Mr. Whitternore
“is a strange one—as strange as the man
who made it—but lie would listen to no
advice, and I had nothing to do but car-
ry out his wishes and his orders. lie
leaves all his property to Myra Kil
borne.”
“D—n him!" hissed the disappointed
young man.
“Hold,” said the lawyer, “untill you
hear the conditions. He leaves all his
property to Myra, as I said before, pro
vided she becomes your wife. If she
declines to fulfill this condition, the prop
erty goes to you. The only other point
is, that in case Myra is married when
the will is opened, she gets the property
the same as if she marries you. But
that provision, of course, is of no conse
quence, as she is not likely to marty be
fore day after to-morrow, which is Thurs
day, the day the document is to be open
ed.”
Here the lawyer stopped and looked
into his companion s face, as if expect
ing an expression of displeasure. He
was disappointed, however, for Robert
seemed rather more satisfied than other
wise.
“It pleases me well enough,” he said,
“for I half expected to be cut off uncon
ditionally. You see I’ve been rather
fast, and the old man disliked it, and
Myra’s gentle ways and attentions to his
wants won his regard. She is complete
ly bound up in her lover, Harry Perton,
who is hundreds of miles away just now,
and I don’t believe she’d give him up for
I the fortune a dozen times over. Even
I if she consents to marry me, I wouldn t
ELBERTON, GEORGIA. fEPTEAIBER 24, 1873.
be so badly off with the property under
my control.”
The lawyer then arose, bade his un
scrupulous patron good-day, and went
out. But as he did so, had his ears been
younger and sharper, he might have
heard the sound of rustling skirts flee
ing from the stairway—those same
skirts enveloping the pretty form of My
ra Kilborne, who had heard every word
of the interview by listening at the
door.
“So, so,” she mused, when she had
reached her own room, and thrown her
s elf in a chair, “I am to buy the fortune
by selling myself. I won’t do it. I
wouldn’t give up Harry for fifty times
a million. Cousin Robert can take all
the property, and much good it may do
him.”
Yet, notwith standing her conclusive
decision, Myra could not relinquish
without a pang the fortune to which she
hid always looked forward as her cer
tain portion. Her grandfather had al
ways seemed to regard her with much
affection, and she had not dreamed that
in his will he would impose such a dis
tasteful restriction.
Without a moment’s delay, she dress
ed herself for the street and went out.
She knew no lawyer, but walked until
she came to a building upon which she
had noticed an army of legal signs.—
Passing up stairs, and selecting a name
from the lot that chanced to strike her
the most favorably, she entered a well
fumished office. A middle-aged man
sat alone writing at a desk.
“Is Mr. Temple in ?” asked the young
lady.
“Yes,” said the man looking up at his
pretty visitor, and motioning her to a
seat, “that is my name.”
“I have come for some legal advice—
some advice on a matter of great impor
tance to me, and—”
“If-I am to aid you,” said the lawyer,
kindly, “you must speak freely and unre
servedly, which you may do in the ut-
most confidence.”
Thus encouraged, Myra told him the"
whole case of the will, the manner in
which she had obtained her information,
and how much she felt concerned in the
matter.
“Of course,” she continued, “I want
to retain ’the fortune, but not at the
price stipulated in the will. Can you
help me ?”
Mr. Temple sat for a while in deep
thought, so long, in fact that Myra got
fidgety with waiting. At last his face
brightened with an idea, and he at once
imparted it to his fair client. For an
horn - or two they were in close consulta
tion.
That clay and the next passed, and
Thursday came. The will was read in
the Surrogate’s at 12 o’clock. At eleven
o’clock a carriage drove up at the Kil
borne residence. In it were Mr. Temple
and two of his intimate friends. The
former entered the house. In a moment
he reappeared with Myra. She acted a
little nervous, but seemed reassurSd by
the presence of the lawyer, who helped
her in the carriage, and all were driven
away. They proceeded to the residence of
a clergyman, where they were evidently
expected, as they were promptly shown
into the parlor. The reverend gentle
man entered, and the lawyer stepped
forward with Myra.
“We are the couple, sir.”
The marriage ceremony of the Epis
copal church was performed, a certifi
cate made out, the two friends signed as
witnesses to the marriage, and the
quartette were soon again seated in the
carriage.
“Drive to the courthouse,” said Mr.
Temple.
The Surrogate, the clerk, Robert Kil
borne, Lawyer Whittemore, and a few
others were in the Surrogate’s office
when the wedding party entered. It
was just twelve o’clock. The will was
read, and Robert turned to Myra for her
decision.
“Will you sign the agreement to mar
ry me ?” he asked.
“No, I will not,” replied the young
girl.
“Then you resign the property to
me 1” and a gleam of triumph shot from
his eyes.
“No.”
“The will provides,” said Mr. Temple,
“that she shall take the fortune if marri
ed at the time of its opening. She is
married to me, and there is the certifi
cate. The ceremony was performed an
hour ago.”
I There was no question as to the valid
ity of the document, or the fact that, un
f der the circumstances, Myra was entitled
to the estate.
On the same day proceedings were in
stituted on behalf of Myra, by Mr. Tem
ple, to obtain for her a divorce from
himself, “abandonment” was the ground.
A few days later Harry returned, and
before the day appointed for his mar
riage to Myra, she had obtained her di
vorce from Air. Temple. The latter was
one of the j oiliest of the guests pres
ent.
“If it hadn’t been for you,” began the
blade.
“Stop,” interrupted Mr. Temple I
will put it all in the bill. For the will
suit, so many dollars ; for the divorce
suit so many dollars; so you see lam
the proper one to be grateful, after
all!”
But no bill for legal services was ever
paid with a better grace.
GENEKAT LONGSTREET.
A Letter of Defence From Him.
Lynchburg, Va., September 3, 1873.
R. W. Hughes, Esq.
Dear Sir: The Richmond Enquirer, of
the 26th of August, reports Col. Withers,
in his Warren ton speech, as having said,
“ in reference to Longstreet, he not only
accepted the issue, but went over for
money,” etc.
I hope that I am not asking too much
in appealing to you and your friends to
make known the-truth in this cause.
The charge of Col. Withers is so vague
and indefinite that I can find nothing in
reply except general denial and the rec
ord of my motives as announced by me
from time to time.
There has been no room at any time
for doubt as to my motives and wishes
in regard to our politics. When they
were first announced in the spring of
1862 [?], I stated expressly that I could
see no other way by which the southern
people could reinstate themselves in pro
-£■ r-p fl-.-mjmUiy- suul relations with the gen
eral government, and thus save them
selves greater losses and humiliation.
There commenced and ended all my rea
sons and motives in connection with this
mattter, and my letters have so plainly
expressed my views that no one can mis
construe them except they do so through
malice.
If Colonel Withers knows the record,
and he virtually claims to know it when
he makes grave allegations as matters of
fact, he knew when he made his charge
that it was not true. If he made them
in ignorance or reckless disregard of
facts, he is equally culpable.
In order, however, to place the matter
beyond question or doubt, I propose that
Colonel Withers give the names of the
parties to this transaction and the time
and place of its occurrence, so as to give
me something tangible. I think that I
can safely promise him, as soon as he
puts his charge in such shape as to ena
ble me to take hold of it, that I will
prove to the world that there is not a
word of truth in his allegations against
me, nor even a reason for them except in
malice.
Another Virginian, Rev. Mr. Pendle
ton, aiming to avail himself of the prej
udice gotten up on false statements, goes
back nine or ten years to attack my rec
ord as a soldier. I will say to him, as I
have said in reference to the other
charge, that it is too vague and indefinite
as it stands to be met by the evidence of
witnesses. But if he will give the names
of the staff officers of General Lee and
the general and staff officers of the first
corps of the Army of Northern Virginia
who are cognizant of facts, as he asserts
them, I will undertake to prove by his
own witnesses that his statement is also
false.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your most
obedient servant,
James Longstreet.
A Floating Island.— There is a singu
lar natural curiosity in a lake in Ver
mont, consisting of one hundred and
fifty acres of land floating on the Mir face
of the water. The tract is covered with
cranberries, and there are trees fifteen
feet high. When the water is raised or
lowered at the dam of the pond, the isl
and rises and falls with it. It affords a
fine shelter for fish, large numbers of
which are caught by boring a hole and
fishing down through as through the ice
in winter.
A barber was recently presented with
a “strapping big boy."
I I .-lN o. 22.
THE DANGER OP BETTING.
Some time ago, a clerk of a market
near our city, looked into the butter tub
of a market man, aad thought he discov
ered a small deficiency in the size of the
lumps. "Whereupon lie brought forth
his balances, with an air of justice, and
proceeded to weigh the whole by par
cels. Every lump was short of weight.
So that thirty pounds of butter [less the
illegal deficiency in each lump]] was con
fiscated.
A week or two afterwards, the clerk,
in the faithful discharge of his duty,
stopped at a butter tub, and tried a
pound in his scales—Lit was correct; he
tried another, and another. At length
the owner said: “You need not trouble
yourself-—you will find all my butter cor
rect.”
The clerk looked up, and discovered
his old friend of the light lumps. “Per
haps I shall,” said he—“but if I am not
mistaken, I took thirty pounds from you
last week.”
“You are mistaken,, it was not from
me.”
“It was,” said the clerk, “I know
you.”
“I’ll net five dollars you never took
thirty pounds of butler from me, at any
one time.”
“Done.”
The money was staked—the clerk told
his story. It looked blue for the coun
tryman.
“I admit the loss of thirty lumps of
butter ; but to have been thirty pounds
there must have been a pound in each
lump. Now, either the clerk did me in
justice by confiscating my butter for un
lawful weight, and I may claim back of
him thirty pounds, at 25 cents per
pound, which is seven dollars and a half;
or he did not take thirty pounds, and I
may claim my bet of five dollars, which
you owe me.”
The clerk was compelled to give up
the bet.
Moral, — Make no light lumps of but
ter —and no heavy five dollar bets.
A young .married friend irfln <* good
joke on himself, perpetrated by a little
three year old “pride of the family.’
She is the only pledge of love that has
twined itself around the heart and affec
tions of himself and wife. A few even
ings since a minister visited the family
and remained till after tea. At the ta-.
ble the reverend visitor asked the bless
ing, and the little one opened her eyes
to the widest extent in startled wonder
ment. She could not understand what
had been done, and it was with great
persuasion that her mother could keep
her quiet during the time they were at
the table. When they left it, she walked
up to the minister, for whom she had
formed a great friendship, and said;
“What did you say at the table before
we ate?”
“My little darling, I thanked God for
His goodness in giving us to eat, so that
we might be strong.”
“Papa don’t say that,” said the little
girl.
“What does your papa say?” asked
the preacher.
“Papa says, -Godlemighty, what a
supper? ”
•ANDY AT HIS OLD TRADE.
A southern gentleman who was at
Greenville, Tenn., a short time since,
tells the following:
“Andy Johnson is as big a demagogue
as ever. A countryman came into town
last week with a bundle of jeans to have
a suit of clothes made for his negro. He
saw Andy standing on the corner, and
said: ‘ Well, Andy, you used to be the
best tailor in these parts, and I wish
you’d cut out this suit of clothes for my
boy Jim here.’ ‘All right,’ says Andy,
and they stepped into a shop near by,
and in five minutes an ex-President
might have been seen swinging round
the circle of a dirty negro, taking his
latitude, longitude and bearings for a
suit of clothes. Andy is very ambitious,
but whether such tomfoolery as this will
get him into the Senate is more than
any one can tell.”
THE BEST LIQUOR.
“Give us a glass of your best liquor,”
said: a toper the other day, as he entered
a shop.
The keeper gave him a glass of pure
wale The toper without weakening it
dashed it down his throat at a swallow.
His taste, seemingly, was not exactly
satisfied,
“What’s the matter,” said the keeper
“wafn’t it the best liquor you ever
drank 1 ?”
“Yes, it was good, but it seems to me
it wasn’t very strong. What sort of
liquor was it ?”(
“It was cold water,” said the bar
keeper.
The toper was a temperance man ev
er afterwards.
BUCKNER’S GOOD FORTUNE.
The Homance of a Confederate General’s Suc
cess.
It would appear as if a kind Provi
dence bad specially intervened to protect
from poverty, misfortune, and the other
ills of life those true and gallant officers
who risked their all in the straggle for
independence of the southern States.
We know few of them who have not im
proved their worldly condition since the
war, or who are not now in better cir
cumstances than they were previous to
that event. It it an agreeable reflection
that in this, as in other acts of devotion
to duty and patriotism, honesty has
proved the best policy.
The instance of Gen. 8. B. Buckner is
a striking and cheerful one.
Gen. Buckner lived in a State which
never seceded, and a majority of its peo
ple were opposed to the movement. All
his own and his wife’s property must be
left to the tender mercies of the enemy,
in case he should join the Confederates.
It was a magnificent property, the large
income of which enabled the general to
live in a style suited to his refined and
elegant taste. And yet all this he risked
when impelled by liis sympathies and
convictions, he abandoned his beautiful
home, joined the Confederates, and
fought through the war with distin
guished gallantry and unflinching fideli
ity. At the close of the war General
Buckner found himself stripped of eve
rything.
Locating in this city, he sot to work
first as a journalist on the Crescent, and
afterwards engaged in the business of
life insurance, wherein he achieved a
brilliant success. He then took meas
ures to recover his property in Ken
tucky and his wife’s property in Chicago.
There were serious obstacles to the suc
cess of these efforts. Large suits had
been brought against him for damages
inflicted by the Confederate forces under
his command. On these suits his prop
erty had been attached and much of it
sold. It was a severe, tedious and ex
pensive litigation in which he became in
volved, but his efforts were finally
crowned with victory. His property was
restored to him, and the claims for dam
ages against him were all defeated.
Next he instituted proceedings to re
cover his wife’s property. And here was
a developed and intensely interesting ro
mance Mrs. Buckner had, before join
ing her husbrnd in the Confederacy, con
veyed her property to her brother under
a deed of tmst. The obligation rested
upon his honor to preserve and recon
vey the property to her after the war.
In the progress of the rrm- tbi brother
married and accepted a commission in
the Federal service. Further to compli
cate affairs he became a father. In case
lie should prove faithless to his obliga
tion to his sister this child would inher
it a large fortune.
Here was a great temptation to the
young man, whose natural affection for
his sister wore antagonized by his ardent
hostility to the cause with which she was
identified, and to his paternal instincts
and affections. It was for him alone to
determine whether this large property
should accrue to the wife of a rebel, in
preference to his own offspring. Honor
and brotherly affection, it is true, de
mand a certain course; but how rarely
in these selfish and materialistic times
do these principles control the acts of
men.
This young man, however, recognised
their obligation, and on the eve of battle
he made his will rcconveying to his sis
ter the property she had confided to him.
After making one of those wills he went
forth with the intrepidity of a man con
scious of an act of high self-control to
encounter the enemy, and met the fat©
of a brave soldier at the battle of Sharps
burg. The general of his corps knew
of the will he had made—all honor to
him that he kept the secret—and after
the war communicated to his old com
rade in amis—his recent foe, but now
his friend and brother—the [facts, and
gave every aid to recover the instrument.
This was General Burnside.
By his generous assistance, and tliro’
the indefatigable devotion and energies
of one of General Buckner’s staff, the
gallant and gifted Colonel Wooley, of
Lexington, Kentucky, the testamentary
proofs were procured, and title of Mrs.
Bucker to her patrimony was fully estab
lished, and after a legal contest she was
reinvested with the same, and now is in
full, undisturbed enjoyment of a mag
nificent estate, and no couple ever more
justly merited the happy fortune this
victory over the most formidable difficul
ties and perils which could arise in the
path of duty or honor, but which never
for a moment dismayed or swerved them
from the line which patriotism and con
science had marked out for them.
No man is free who cannot command
! himself.
i Chemists s.ay no matter is lost. Prill
i ters deny it.