I copied this article from the link that was posted to this list for ALABAMA NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS...from the Huntsville Weekly Democrat from Sep 19, 1883...says source The Alabama Archives. Stella .''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''""""" Henry B. Miller, better known in the whisky trade as “Buffalo” Miller, owes the Chicago Hide and Leather Bank $9,500. In the usual stilted legal form, the bank said that it had “well hoped that the said defendant, Henry B. Miller,” would have paid the debt, “as in equity and good conscience he ought to have done.” To this bill Miller’s answer has been filed. Unlike most legal documents, it has upon it the name of no attorney, but is simply signed by Miller. He says it may be that the bank has recovered judgment against him, and that the judgment is still in full force. He admits that he never has paid it. “And it may be,” he cautiously continues, “that the said complainant ‘well hoped’ that this defendant would pay such judgment, because, as the post says, ‘Hope springs eternal in the human breast,’ but he thinks that it cannot be possible that the complainant had any expectation that this defendant would pay said judgment, because he is informed and believes the complainant well knew that it was utterly impossible for this defendant so to do.”