Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1852-05-21

some steamboat which ha docs not recollecl,
passed him and his baggage free, upon the sim.
pie merits OF his pilgrimage, aud his courage in
undertaking il without money. or any specific
information Of the object Of his journey. Ar.
rived here on Friday morning last. several
boys who had volunteered TO carry his trunk,
disappeared with il, while they sent him up 10.
to house TO ask if certain man lived there.
Without his baggage, and scNntily clad, the
boy wandered about I'LL night, and then found
shelter in an uninhabiled house. Tie conIin.
ued his explorations on Saturday, having eaten
nothing, he says, to speak Of for three days.
On that morning after his appearance aI this
office, four Of the young lads attached thereto,
Jacob Cohen, John N. Wollmer, Thomas II.
Bunting, and Charles Vide, upon hearing the
above narrative from the poor farmer boy, re.
solved TO meet the crisis like good fellows; and
they did They procured The young stranger
first, as the prime necessity, something 10 stay
his stomach; when night came, they got him in
snug berth in boarding house, and change
of linen.
They still had him in charge on Sunday and
on Monday, until about Two o'clock, when, hay.
ing been sent out TO inquire alier situation,
the boy returned to the Herald office, entering
at one door while his mother was entering an.
other, face 10 face. The scene may be CUES.
sed by the reader. The mother, fine looking
woman in black, was almost frantic. The boy
was delighted, but remarkably selfpossessed
Their mutual explanations occupied some time,
and then they went their way rejoicing, The
mother, we understand, had been compelled as
widow, to part with this boy TO some friend
in the West, who had volunteered to adopt him
and educate him as his own. In view Of this
arrangement, the meeting with the lad, under
The circumstances detailed, was rather calcula-
ted TO excite her feelings. She is now the wife
Of an industrious ship carpenter, and is able to
keep the enlerprisng lad at home, who will
doubtless soon be able TO shift for himself
The most beautiful feature Of this fragment
of Milton 10 search Of his mother is yet 10 be
told. Scarcely had they leh this office, when
a carriage with four ladies Inside, drove up aud
halted at the door, One Of The ladies then
came out, and placed in our hands the follow.
ing nJtc, with an half eagle in gold enclosed:
April 26.
To J. G. Bennett
Here The boys advertisement was pasted in
the note
lnclosed are five dollars for Milton Cloot, the
lriendless and destitute boy above mentioned,
TO aid him in his search for his mother and
friends. One whose tender merces are over
all His works, touched the feelings of u mother,
while reading the above, and bade her assist
The desolate.
The five dollars thus received was paid over
TO Milton Cloot on calling at the clerk s desk at
our ofi,e yesterday. A distinguished sculptor
also called during the day, to say that if the
boy should no, ind his mother, he would take
him and make an artist Of him. and chip Of
the old block by adoption. Let Milton be thank.
fu for the good genius that sent him to adver.
Iiso in the Herald.
There is more Of practical life. and its poetry,
pathos, and romance in our advertising col
unns, than in all other departments Of our pa.
per combined. And the case Of Milton CIoots
shows that our advertisements are read with the
key to their true Interpretation.