The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-25
NUMBER 10.

Al desire all posterity to know that Waliam
Hin was conscientious Trfnitarian Baptist
Ing to Be from from his bis Satanic % Majesty, the key
numbered terrible evilsl"F-T - : 1l'i'laa
He also put on record in the same
document solemn denunciation of
''the drinking customs in the world,
and, called upon Heaven to ''dash all
error, sin and the devil from the earth." !"
Nothing is more common than for the
wish of q testator to be frustrated by
his t0tll, and nc. doubt the time win
come when we shall be obliged to do
as the English people have done, insti-
| tute court for the express purpose OF
preventing this. A curious circum-
stance occurred many years ago, when
a testator left two thousand pounds to Q
friend. but with the condition that one
half the sum should be buried with him
in his coffin The legatee took advice
on this matter.
Whereas the money nowP'' asked
| his friend. su5 tss - 5Ha- -ffi.e
90 In the banlz,n was the reply.
All right" said the sage adviser,
"yoa write a check for q thousand
pounds, and put it into the old gentle.
mans coffin drawn to his order. Ne g
We should naturally suppose that Q
man in the act of making his viii would
not be in humor to crafty his resent
ments. Yindictiye wills, however, are
| by no means uncommon. One of the
old wills in the London collection Is of
q certain Earl of Pembroke who took
the opportunity of his will to deal in
suits and abuse among friends and foes.
He left to Oliver Cromwell zone of his
words, seeing that he hath never kept
any of his own" si'o
Many wills, too, leave property ham,
| pered with insulting conditions.
A sensible will was that of George
| Watts, a bachelor without relations,
whose properly consisted of number
of small cottages and tenements In an
English county town. He left each OF
these houses to its occupant
England is covered all over with Pc
culiar charities, for which there is now
no occasion, and some of which have
become both injurious and ridiculous.
The oldest church in London, called st.
Bartholomew the Great, has an endov-
ment that seems too absurd for belief.
Every Good Friday the rector is re-
quired to place twenty-one sixpences
In row on certain grave-stone, from
which they are to be picked up by
twenty-one widows, who shall come
|
by the side of the stone for the purpose.
Another old London church has fund
for giving on every Good Friday q
bunch of raisins and a new penny to
sixty boys of the Blue Coat School
Another Good Friday bequest presents
a loaf of bread TO certain number Of
the poor of the parish, and a bun and Q
penny or two to the school children.
Hundreds of these eccentric and OBJ
solete endowments could be mentioned,
g large number of which have been in
recent years abolished or changed by
the court alluded to above. It is ex-
tremely difficult, and perhaps impossi-
BILE, to leave money for permanent
endowment which will not at least re-
quire modification in one or two CEN
turies. Human society is progressive;
no mortal can foresee what men viii
need, or think, or do century hence.
Even in this young country, many en-
dowments have become useless, If not
obstructiye.-Janaes Parton, 10 N. p
| LEDGER