Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — He Gave Up His Teeth. [ARTICLE]

He Gave Up His Teeth.

Tlie richest man Virginia ever produced was Samuel Miller. His wealth, as popularly calculated, amqunted to about $3,000,000. When his State was invaded, during the war, Mr. Miller himself, though a Union man, had a visit from a roving band. “ His stocks, bonds, letters and account books,” says a coj-respontJeiit of the Philadelphia

Press, “were thrown around with a lavish hand, and hundreds of thousands of securities taken away. Fortunately for him, the ravagers did not know the full value of these papers; but one of them did recognize the glimmer of old gold in the artificial teeth of the Virginian. • Get out them teeth, ’ casually remarked the warrior, with a bayonet handy to back tho appeal. And Mr. Miller, like a prudent man, got out his teeth, and fared on soft diet for some time to come.”