Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-22

| TdelussOD, accumulated fortune dur
lag The French revolution and LET'S 9 will
providing that his descendants to ire
Enird generation could n05 tUnca G. GclIsr
of Il beyond mere pIttauce Tae prin-
clpsl WAS invested and the interest Vas
J to be annually re-iHyasted until Il should
descend TO an heir Of the third generation
when he hsd rescued his majority. Tle
property amounted originally 20 about
S2,C00,CC0, and 1sd the will been sllo Red
to stand some young man liviog in France
s. the present dsy would now DC Inherit
ing its Accommodations. These would
have smounted TO about $500, 000, 600 or
one hundred times the original amount
OF the property left. II on the same ba-
sis Gould's $500: GOO, GEO could be Left to
George Gould's Oaby's grandson in ABOUT
1850 or 1860 the young m.n would re-
celVe S2O,G 0,000, 0G0, an amount impos-
slole to conceive and large enough II GUY
up the greatest government on the face
OF the earth, Oar laws sre such tbs. this
would be impossible, aud TIE fac: that
we have 10 eatailed es+Ates causes 4
scattering Of large fortunes every gene
ration or So.
| speaking CT curious wills, rich Egg
NShman gave some years SO Tea p1u1ds
a year to his monkey Jacko; five pounds
10 his dog Shock aud s pension OF five
| pounds 5ear 10 his well beloved eat
! lib. Another rich Eagiisamzn gave his
| daughters their weight in one pound bank
| notes aud the eldest daughter T,ceiY. d
more han 100000 aad the younger
n1srl S30C,0l0Ef ON t
| Anothec EuglShman il 1885 g. Gss b ed
$4,000 f0r q college which should teach
| Wives AID h0usekeepeTs their duties. and
. Frerch sdyOCata btque&thsd leo OL0
frELc5 20 the LEGAL mad house sayire:
| 81 earned this money from those wao
| passed thair lives IN litigation, aUd in be
/ queathing il to the use Of IuGstics | only
| make restitution" ard another FreIch-
man named R!csrd mGde q will giving
$50 Iivres 20 follows:
"Thi5 sum shall be divided into hge
| Portions sad each portion shall be IL
vested The first ct the end Of 100 years
viii amount to IS, 100 livres, and s1ALl be
given II prizes fur essays upon the law
fdip9ss Of p1ttirg mOney out q interest
Tee second 1T TIE end oi two centuries
will amount to / zoo, 600 liyre and shall
be used as fund for prizes in literature
and at. The taigd st the end Of three
centuries will amount to more than 226,-
GC0,C00 iiVres, and shsu be used for the
estan iishmont of patriotic banks azd InU-
seGm3. TIE fourth 81 the end Ct four
centuries will 6mount to so, coo 600, 0C0
Of Lyres, and sh.ll be used 10 build
hundred towns II France OF $50, 900 Gkcl;
aUd the tt.h ct the end OF i've centuries
Will amount 20 TOUR millions Of millions
Of lives, SID shall be used 10 pGy The
debt Of France and Great Britain aud for
the building up the charities If the world
Among the big wills OF recent date WAS
that CT the Cuogn Terry, which Left su
estate Of S50,000,000. This Will is en-
tered INFO Jointly by Terry ana his vile,
and It is ''We" and not 81" which is used
as 10 the various provisions. l. dccIlres-
that the two contracted msrri4Ge aud
inst tdeY hsd certain children, which are
named. 1t gives the amount that Senior
Terry brought into the family, and ends
oy appointing the survivor Of the two tX-
scutCr Of the eststa. B. one clause of
TIE will $500 0c0 in Spanish sold WAS TO
be given TO certain members Of the family
fOi 3 purpose which was Eecretly Gu
trusted TO t1em. The heirs or their rep
resentatiVts aust not demsGd expIans-
lions as to the investment OF this sum,
and another clause provided taat II any
ore CT the legatees cOnte sted the Will he
should be deprived Of the share which he
YES given in it.
Will suits have made fortunes formsuT
lawyers, and many an esta1e has been |
swallowed up By the courts Que OF the |
richest OF the San Francis CO millionairee, |
named Phoebe, left @ fortune which has |
been thus dlssipsted, and the citation |
OF such suits in New York city would fill |
columns; 81 200, 900 have been paid for le-
gal services in cases Of such contests, and |
this leads some rich men TO provide |
against them.
2. t. Barnum lately Gays that he has |
provided that il any OF his lsgatees make
contest OF his ill he shall bY thst act |
forfeit his bequest, and he has left s3100,-
600 IS fund for the executors 10 fight
any contestant. He thinks there Is too
much contesting Of wills on the ground
of incompeteDcy, ind ne mas had three |.
physicians witness his will and these have
all made oat6s that he is of sound mind
His will contains 700 psges and 1t vas
made several years SGD 1t gives SO, 900, /
600 % twenty-seven direct neirs and Civ,
various enms to the charities Il his Istive
town OF Brldge port. It is very senslbly
written aud Baruum's precautions will !
probably stave off number of lawsuits.
There las beer talk of contesting Til
denis will since his death and trouble is
said TO have now arisen between the wild
ow CT Alexander Mitchell and his son
left his wife en- annuity Of $780,
900 duri. z her natural life TO be psid her
IN monthly instruments from the date of
his decessa. He gave her 5000, coo In
cash and $500, 900 in stocks and also the
homestead during her lifetime. The bulk
Of the rest CT his property went TO his
GOD. and the widow and son were made
The executors CT the will. The son, who
Is forty-six years old, now manages the
property and a report has been
published that Mrs. Mitchell is not salts
led with his management, and that she is
thinking of goicg to California to live.
John ". Garrett divided his property
almost equally smong Lis three children ,
md he LETT, it Is said, somewhere be !
.Ween $50. 10000 and S37, OC0,0O0. He 4
,ried to keep the Baltimore and OHIO
R.Drosd stock intact and provided that 1
80. 900 shares should be held for twenty .
years. from tie date of his death when it :
should be divided among his three chill
1ren.
John Dubois, the PeDnsVlvania lumber
King, left his fortune Of $4,000. 600 to his
lepheW with the ideo th.s his big lumber
business would go on after his death. S
de had built this lumber business up
rom nothing and though he was the only :
bachelor in q family of fourteen, ne CAV
III his property to one nephew who was :
IT'LL under Thirty end unmarried. This i
iepheW Was the Superintendent of his Z,