Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — Bob Toombs’s Wrath. [ARTICLE]

Bob Toombs’s Wrath.

Atlanta (Ga.) Special. “I have no answer to make,” was the sententious reply of General Robert Toombs to a messenger who handed him a note from his granddaughter, Mrs. Galley, in which she asked the privilege of visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Toombs, who is likely to die at any moment. Mrs. Galley, nee Miss Camille Dubois, was the General’s favorite grandchild. Mr. Galley was raised in the same neighborhood in Wilkes county. Between him and Miss Camille love developed ending in an engagement Galley was poor, and this was a mortal sin in Toombs’ eyes, and he forbade communication between them. He read his will to Miss Camille,in which she was remembered to the extent of 860,000. “I will make it $90,000 if you will break off this engagement,” said General Toombs. The lady offered to remain single during her grandfather’s lifetime. Growing violent, he declared if she intended to throw herself away on a poor man he would give her forty-eight hours to leave his house. This brought matters to a crisis which Mr. Galley and Miss Dubois settled by getting married immediately, General Toombs at once disinherited her, and refuses all communication. The young couple are Applauded by the community. General Toombs is blind in one eye, and the other is almost out. An Atlanta oculist is to operate on him next week