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Show H Made Vandcrbilt Pay Price. BlBBl George II. Vandcrbilt has just add- H ed (o his estate at Ashcvillc, N. C, a small tract of land for which ho paid BBBB the owner, n negro named Johua H Moore, 2,1:50. The land would have H been dear at 50, but the negro re- B fused to sell at a less price than the B amount ho tlnally received. Moore's BBBB wlfo wns the real engineer of tho deal B with tho multimillionaire. The nine BBBB acres which the modern David covet- BBBB cd were deeded to her twenty years H ago by Erwln Hardy, a white man In BBBB whose employ she had been for many BBBB years. She had one child a girl be- BBBB loro she married Moore, aid tho land B was to go to her children. This daugh- BBBB tcr has Just become of ago and sho BBBB wanted the money. Moore would, no H doubt, have sold long ago If he could BBBB have made title. He says ho got only BBBB? a small portion of the money, his wlfo BBBBT and her daughter getting tho lion's BBBBl |