Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-27

terest on it would soon make s,i:mily like
that OF Gould saosorb the whole wealth
OF the country. A French banker named
TieiussoD, accumulated s fortune dur
ing the French revolution and lef. will
providing that his descendants to tie
third generation could not touch dollar
CT il beyond mere pittsnce The priE-
cipsl was invested and the interest was
to be annually Te-iEvested until il should
descend to an heir Of the third generation
when he had reached his majority. The
property amounted originally to shout
S2,000,0C0, and hsd the will been allowed
to stand some young man living ii France
st the present d.y would now be inherit
ing its accumulstioDSs These would
have amounted to about $500, 600, 900, or
one hundred times the original amount
Of the property left. II on the same bs
sis Gould's $500. 000,000 could be left TO
George Gould's oaby's grandson in about
1850 or 1860 the young msn would re-
ceiVe so, 0. 100000 an amount impos
sible to conceive and lsrge enough to Guy
up the greatest government on the face
OF the earth. Our laws are such that this
would be impossible, and the fact that
we have no entsiled eststes causes s
scattering of large fortunes every gene
ration or SO.
Speaking CT curious wills, rich Erg
nshmau gave some years Ggo ten pounds
Z year TO his monkey JackO; five pounds
70 his dog Shock and pension OF five
pounds Se.r 10 his we'll beloved cat
lib. Another rich E9glishman gave his
daughters their weight il one pound bank
notes aud the eldest daughter received
more, than 100000 and the younger
nearls $500, 000sf ON t.
Another Engiishman il 1885 bequea.hsd
$4,000 for e college which Should teach
wives aud hCusekeepers their duties. and
French advocate bequeethed loo. 0C0
francs to the local msd house saying:
81 earned this money from those VINO
passed their lives in litigation, and in be-
queathing it to the use Of lUnstics l only
make restitution" snd smother French
man named Ricsrd m.de will giving
SEQ livres as follows:
"This sum shall be divided into five
portions ard each portion shall be in
vested. The first st the end Of 100 years
will amount TO 10, 100 livres, and shall De
given in prizes for essays up9n the law
fitness Of putting money out st interest,
TIE second at the end Of two centuries
will amount TO l ZOO, 900 livres. and shall
and aTt. Tie third 81 the end OF three
centuries will amount to more than 226,
OCO, coo livres, and shall be used for the
establishment Of patriotic bsnks and mu
seums. The fourth at the end Of four
centuries will amount 10 &c, 600 900, COO
Of liyres. and snail be used TO build :
hundred towns IN France of so, 900 each;
and the ftlh at the end OF five centuries
will amount to four millions Of millions
of iivres, ard shall be used TO pay the
debt Of France and Great British and for
the building up the charities OF the world.
| Among the big wills OF recent date Was
thst of the Cubsn Terry, which left an
estate of $50, 900, 900. This Will is en-
tered into Jointly By Terry and his wife,
aud 1t is ''1e" and not "Ih which is used
as to the various provisions. Ii declares
that the two contracted marriage and
that they had Certain children, which are
named. II gives the amount that Senior
Terry brought into the family, and ends
by appointing the survivor Of the two *
ecutor Of the estate. By one clause OF
the will $500 600 in Spanish gold was TO
be given TO certain members vi the family
for q purpose which was secretly en-
trusted TO them. The heirs or their rep
resentstiVes must not dem.nd eXpleua-
tons as to the investment OF this sum,
and another clause provided that II any
one of the legatees contested the will he
should be deprived of the share which ne
was given in it.
viii suits have made fortunes for many
lawyers, and many an estate has been
swallowed no by the courts. Ole OF the
richest of the San Francisco millionaires,
named Phoebe, left fortune which has
been thus dissipsted, and the citation
of such suits in New York city would I'LL
columns; 81 100000 have been paid for lie
gal services in cases OF such contests, anC
this leads some rich men TO provide
against them.
z. T. Barnum lately says that he ha'
provided that il sny Of his legatees MAKE
s contest OF mis- will he shall 0Y that &C
forfeit his bequest, and he has left $500,
900 as fund for the executors 10 tigh
any contestant. He thinks there is to-
much contestipg of wil!s on the groun'
OF inc0mpetencY, and he has had tire
physicians witnes SIS his will and these hsv
al made oaths that ne is OF sound mind
His will contains 700 pages and il Wa
made several years ago l. gives $40, OOOi
600 o twenIy-eeven direct neirs and give
various sums to the charities his nativ
| to n Of Bridgeport. = is very sens1oi
) written and Baruum's precautions vii
I probably stave Of q number OF laWsulIs
There has oeen talk OF Conteetiug Til
den'5 will since his deLth and trouble
said to hsve now arisen between the wild
oW OF Alexander Mitchell snd his soD
Mitchell left his wife an annuity OF $50,
L coo duri. e ner natural life 10 De p2id he
> in monthly lnstalments from the date Q
{ his decease. He gave her S2G0, 600
{ cash and $500, 900 in stocks and also IL
y homestead during her lifetime. The bul
! OF the rest CT his property went TO nj
sep. aud the widow and son were mad
. the executors CT The sill. The son, WI
. Is forty-six years old, now manages th
-. Mitchell properly erd a report has bee
q published that Mrs. Mitchell is not sati:
j fed with his management, snd that she
! thinking Of going &c California TO live.
JOHN W. Garrett divided his proper
+ almost equally among his three chlldre
8 snd he left, il is said, somewhere DC
g tween 500. 000,000 and S37, 100000. Il
J.. tried TO keep Inc Baltimore and Ohi
. R,ilroad stock intact and provided tbs
= sc, 600 shares should be held for invent
: years from the date OF his death when
: should be divided among his ttree CT.
= dTeI.
n Joha Dubois, The Pennsylvania iumbt
IS king, left lis fortune Of $4,000. 900 20 q
e nephew with the idea that his big lumbt
g business would 60 on after his deetl
c' ua rad bujlt thia lurhpr busiOPsS q