A WINDFALL.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 124, 23 October 1874, Page 3

A WINDFALL.

The following story of a lucky servant girl, which may seem stranger than truth to many readers, is told by the Bellefonte (Penn.) •// e/mhlinan :—“ Ten or more years ago this girl—her name is Alice Anderson—was brought from the Orphans’ Home at Pittsburg by the late Judge Schaler. She was a domestic in his house up till the time of his death, when the family gave up housekeeping and left Bellefonte. Since that time—some six years—she has been doing house work in different families of the town. She had no knowledge of her parents, but remembered an elder brother who came to see her when she was a child in the Home. She had not he rd from him for fifteen years, and gave up all hopes of ever meeting him again. About a month ago she took a notion that she could earn more money in the city, and got a friend to write to an acquaintance of his in Pittsburg, asking him to secure her a situation there. In a short time a letter came informing her that a situation had been secured, and that she might come on immediately. It took her a week or more to make preparations for the final departure, and in the meantime she received another letter from her expected employer, asking about her history, which her friend immediately communicated. A few days more elapsed, and on the day preceding her departure for Pittsburg, she received a letter from her brother, Dennis Anderson. This letter contained some delightful information. Dennis informed her that he had been endeavouring to find her for many years; that he was accidentally told her name and whereabouts by the gentleman who had engaged her to come to Pittsburg ; that her reply to his enquiries placed beyond a doubt the fact that she was his long-lost and anxiously searched-for sister. He would meet her at the Union Depot and take her to his home. To make a long story short, she found her brother. He is a retired railroad contractor, and a wealthy man. This is not all. Four years ago her grandmother, Mrs Ruth Anderson, of Cincinnati died, leaving a fortune of 250,000 dollars to her grandchild, Alice Anderson, if she were ever found ; and if not Dennis should become the heir. Alice is now the possessor of that fortune. She is now twenty-two years of age, is not uncomely in appearance, hut can scarcely read or write. She has made arrangements to spend the nest two or three years at school.”