Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-11
JOHN POTTS REWARD.
How He Was Repaid for Adopting and Edu
eating FriendlosS Girl.

How He Was Repaid for Adopting and Edu-
eating a Friendless Girl.
Thirty years ago a poor girl named Car
rie Roper, in garments tattered and torn,
wandered to the home of John Potts, a
village blacksmith, in what is now known
as Brooklyn, Pa, few miles from Car
bondale. Mr.. Potts took the girl in and
suggested to his wife that they adopt her,
they having no children of their own.
Mrs. Potts objected, feeling it her duty to
take one of four Of her sisters daughters,
if it was deemed expedient to adopt a
daughter. Mr.. Potts would not lis
ten to his wife's suggestions, and de-
termined to support the girl. He sent
her to a school in Bucks county, where
she took up the study of music with her
academic course, and graduated with high
honors. Two years after she graduated
His inquiries did not bring any tidings of
the girl, and he gave her up as dead. His
wife died in the spring of 1877, and he
lived alone. He still continued his busi-
ness as blacksmith, though unable to save
anything from his earnings with which to
pay off low mortgages on his property.
Two weeks ago strange lady appeared at
the post Office in Brooklyn, and introduced
herself as Mrs. James Rutledge of Pitts.
burg, wife of a millionaire. She inquired
for John Potts, and was escorted to his
home. The old gentleman recognized her
at sight, and was overcome with Joy at
her appearance. The lady had come to
take Potts to her home, where he was to
enjoy the freedom Of her home during his
remaining days. She paid off the mort
cages on the Potts property, purchased a
handsome monument for the grave of Mrs.
Potts, and started with her old friend for
her home in Pittsburgh. Soon after their
arrival she made Potts a gift of $50, 900 in
United States bonds.
What Wolfe VIII DO.
ESQ far as am personally concerned I
will take MIR. Rawle as tho candidate for
supreme judge of the Independents, said
Hon. Charles S. Wolfe to Record repor-
ter yesterday. "He is good man, and
will no doubt mako an excellent judge.
But I cannot say that We will have any
thing to do with the rest of tho ticket as
named by Mr.. Cameron. The Independ-
ents are stronger to-day than they were
last year, and we propose to name a ticket
of our own. Who the candidates will be
is something that caunot be told now.
But think they will feel kindly toward
Rawle. The situation is about this If
tho Democrats have horse sense and name
a good ticket, one that is progressive and
up with the times, they will defeat Beaver
and the rest of the Cameron men; but if
they do not place good ticket in the
field the Stalwarts will win, and the re-
suit will be tho disintegration of the
Democratic party and the formation of
new party in this state, composed of tho
best element of the two prominent parties
as they now stand. I ascertained in the
last campaign that plenty of well-known
Democrats in the state were ready to
break away from their party and come
out as Independents. The Democrats
could not do better than to name Judge
Turnkey as their candidate for governor.
and have already suggested Mr.. Pattison
as the candidate for lieutenant governor"