Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-11
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. ONE WOMAN'S FORTUNE. Judged Heiress To Forty
 Millions.
 THE PLACE HUNTERS RAID. Southern Railroads Grip
 pied By Strikers. GENERAL GRANT MUCH BETTER. England and Russia Drifting Into War.
GENERAL GRANT MUCH BETTER.
HE1REss re FORTY MILLIONS.

HEIREss re FORTY MILLIONS. A Deaeon's Wife Legally Adjudged
 One of the Heirs to Vast Estates i'm
 England.
 BUFFALO, March 10.-The wife of Deacon Sidney S. Brown, of Bagdad near Gowanda, N. Y., has been acknowledged by the Court of Queens Bench an heiress to the Law rence-Townley estate in England valued at $1OO, 900, ,OOe, about $40, ,O00, ,000 of which is believed to be her due. Before the opening of the present century Lord Townley owned 0 fine establishment in England and was the parent of wilful but comedy lass named Mary, who despite her fathers protests be- came engaged to one John Lawrence, man of good family but of no considerable wealth. Failing to conciliate the 1ady's father the young people came to America and were married at Springfield, Mass. During much of the latter colonial period communication was but little carried on between the mother country and America and the father and daughter never became reconciled. Lord Townley died and the family in England be- came extinct. For over fifty years the estate was in the hands of the English authorities
 
 so up to the present time but for the late war. In 1860 James Jacques was 8 Metho- dist D. D. located in Illinois, but when the war broke out the following year he left the peaceful pursuit of the ministry and enlisted private, Promotion in the field soon followed for bravery, he being the individual who, unaided, arranged the meet ing between President Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, by means of which he hoped for set tlsment of the difficulties. At the close of thetwar Colonel Jacques went to Spring and while there accidentally ran across the record of the marriage of John Lawrence and Mary Townley. Being aware of the estate in England await ing claimants Colonel Jacques set about hunting up the heirs. His investigation brought him to Gowanda where he informed MT. Brown that his wife was 8 daughter of the late Judge Wilders of Springville, was direct descendant of Mary Lawrence and therefore one of the heirs to the vast estate. MT. Bl own executed bonds on the estate, raised sufficient money to prosecute the claim and sent Colonel Jacques to Europe, whither he went after declining the position of Secretary of the Treasury under the late President Garfield. Soon after he arrived in England the Court of Queens Bench decided that the claims of the Ameri- can heirs were valid and since that time Colonel Jacques has been engaged in com plying with the technicalities of English law Mr. Brown last week re- ceived letter from Colonel Jacques stat ing that he had given two members of the House of Lords an interest in the es- tate, for which they were to procure an act of Parliament directing the transfer of the pro- ceeds of the estate to the treasury of the United States. Colonel Jacques is to receive one-third of the estate fer his labors. Syl nf R4n60lnh chased bonds in the estate and is said to be very anxious to live until the final settle nsnt, when he expects $115,000. He is now over eighty years old and wants to round off useful career by endowing Hamilton college, from which he was graduated, with S40 060 and also placing $40, 900 to the credit of negro college in Tennessee. He was one of the original slavery agitators and takes deep interest in the colored race