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Show FAMOUS OLD SOUTHERN HOTEL HAS BEEN SOLD LOUISVILLE, Ky, June 7. After serving as a hostelry for ever three quarter of a century, the old Gait house, famous in the history of the south, went under the auctioneer's hammer yeaterday, briaging only SM.-OOfl. SM.-OOfl. The original cost ef the building and ita contents ia aaid to have been more thaa l.t0.0io. It waa sold by order of a referee in bankruptcy. The purchaser wa the Mutual Life1 (air ance company of Newark, N. J. The old Oalt nnuse first otiened to the public pub-lic in 18.14 and waa the scene of inanv social events in antebellum davs. It ws destroyed bv Are shortly before the war and rebuilt. |