Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-24
LOCAL NEWS.
Old Soldiers Reunion.

Aeavy Artillery Veterans KeUnite at
 Seaside Park, Bridgeport.
 The veterans of Companies B, and held their annual reunion at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, yesterday. About forty mem bers of Company r, which recruited in this city, took the 94O train. Among these were Fire Marshal Kennedy, Frederick H. Waldron, John H. Burton, Russell w. Will COX, John Rudd, Andrew Bodge, James P. Hall, Edwin C. Dow, Captain Nicholas S. Halenbeck, Frederick J. Hart George H. Rowland. James h. Downs, Theron Hull, George H. Dayton, Charles L. Morse, Will liam N. Thorpe, Robert Langdale, Daniel Sharpe, Martin L. Church and James D. Murray. On arriving at Bridgeport the visitors were met by Companies B and l. and headed by the old regimental band proceed ed to Grand Army Hall, where the formal reunion and attendant business was gone through with.
 While the business meeting was in progress the wives and children of the veterans were sent in 'busses and carriages to Seaside Park After the business meeting parade was made through the principal streets to Seaside Park. The dinner was the main thing on the programme for the afternoon, and it was a dinner that all the veterans en- joyed The subsequent order of exercises included brief addresses from the prominent veterans present, and this was succeeded by general talk in @ social vein, in which the veterans clustered together and recalled scenes on and of the battlefield during the days of the war.
 An nEnglishwOman's Eccentric Will.
 From the London Telegraph
 One of the most eccentric wills of modern times has just been quietly set aside by Vice Chancellor Beacon in the Chancery Division of the High Court ofJustice. Tho document in question was executed in May, 1868, by a Mrs. Anne Burdette of Gilmorton, in Leices- tershire and her leading testamentary dis positions were made in codicil, which d- rected certain appointed trustees. immediate ly after her funeral, to cause the windows and do 'rs of every room in her dwelling house to be bricked up in a solid manner and to continue the bricking up for twenty years
 The kitchen only was to remain unsealed and In this apartment some respectable ried couple were to be installed at pepper corn rent of one halfpenny per week, their duty being to take care of the premises, and, 1n particular, to see that no attempts were made to raise the brick blockade of the doors and windows. In order that her directions should be carried out to the letter, certain trustees, which benefits they were to forfeit if the house ceased to be in a strictly bricked- up and barricaded state.
 By another codicil the testatrix directed IudG LAc "luuoWS SuOuIO Do DOarQ6u up ana nailed with good long nails. bent down on the inside and then covered up with sheet iron and tin. Of the property thus hermeti- cally sealed up no effectual devise was made This extraordinary will was disputed in the Probate Court, but probate was eventually granted.
 Then the parties who were dissatisfied took ! the case into Chancery, and no fewer than eight counsel learned in the law appeared be. fore the Vice Chancellor on Wednesday, Aug. ?, those who supported the validity of the devise quoting Popes we'll known lines in which the poet says that testator may len dow college or a cat" and seeking to draw ! therefrom the inference that Mrs. Burdette was entitled to dispose of her own precisely as | she liked, even though her testamentary in I functions were of the most capriciously 1 grotesque nature. Sir James Bacon, how ever, very cogently pointed out that, in the 1 case before him, tke testator had endowed 1 neither cat nor a college; and he directed the trustees to unsesl and release all this hitherto useless property, which must be dis tributed as the undisposea residue of req 1 and personal estate
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