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Eccentricities Of A Will

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
June
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho ecccntrieities of Ihc late DrBroadhead, onco Controller of the Treasnry, are illustratod by his will, wli ie h was recently offered lor probate in Washington. The interest of $1,000, which is lefl in trust to Clirist Churoh, Navy Yard, is to bc oaed in keeping lus grave in the Conyrcssional Cernetery in order; theahrubbery nul llowers are to be dug about, weoded and dreased with compost every spring. It', as had been hls experienee in lii'e, the interest provea morí' thon suffloient fpt tliis purpose, the surplus is to be devotctt to embellishing tho rest of the eometery. The executors are directed to pu foliase au estato near South Newmarket, N. II., niul alter the house so as to innUe iwo eomioi laoie iciuMiiems, whicb are to be ocoupied by his cousId Olivo and uiece Cornelia, on tho íbllowing conditions : Tliey are each to set apart a garden sixty lcet square, whicli they are to plant witli currante, Btrawberries, thinobieborriea rasnberries, and otl'ier sultable tVuits. Harr'wt, the daughtev of Olive, "ia to post lierselfon the planting of fruits,"and t allow no weeda to grovr up in this plantation, "thaa corroctiag ooralossueason the part of lier ialhcr." One hundl-ed dollars is to be advaneed lor the purohase oi' plantSi

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