American Heirs to English Fortunes.
By Editor
It is a common thing to hear of an immense estate in England, which is waiting to be distributed among the heirs, many of whom are in this country, and which will be divided as soon as one missing heir is found, when each heir will receive half a million or so. In many cases, families in this country who supposed that they were heirs to whole cities in the old country, have gone to the expense of hiring a lawyer to go to England to look after their interests. We have even known Seventh-day Adventists to become infected by the craze, and to lay great plans of how much they were going to help the cause of God when they should receive their portion of some vast estate. Up to the present, no one has ever made anything out of these claims except the lawyers, and no one else is ever likely to. In view of these things, we think the following, which we take from the N. Y. Observer, is timely. We hope it will prove effectual in stopping a few persons from throwing away their money on an idle fancy:—