Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-27
From the New York Herald.
The Lost Mother and Lost Boy Found
Another bit of Romantic Reality.

| AnOtnCt Dat OF Homantic Reality.
On Saturday morning last, at about ten o'clock
a boy Of fourteen years, small, but Smart 70,
one OF his age, called at the counting room Of
the Herald office, and through his apparently
truthfui representations there, procured from
the editor the insertion of the following adver-
tisement in the Herald of Sunday and Mon.
day:
"lnformation wanted Of Mrs. Emeline Cloot
who Is supposed to be at present in this city, and
married second time to some person whose
name is unknown. Her son Milton has re-
turned to the city from Ohio, where he was
sent about five years ago, and is anxious to find
his mother, or his uncles Albert and Franklin,
who are also in the city. Any information of
the above persons will be received at the des k
of the Herald Office, and the residence of the
boy Milton Cloot, who is friendless and desti-
tute, in the absence Of any knowledge of his
mother be given"
! The boy, it appears from his own statement,
had been living on farm in Ohio for the last
five or six years, but hearing from some source
that his widowed mother had married again, and
prcsuming that this fact would justify his return
to New York, he packed up his little old trunk,
and contrived to work his passage to Albany
Thence to this city, the clerk Of some steam
boat, the name of which he does not recollect,
passed him and his baggage free, upon the sim
pie merits Of his pilgrimage, and his courage in
undertaking it, 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 disap-
Ipeared with it, while they sent him into house
TO ask if certain man lived there. Without his
baggage, and scantily clad, the boy wandered
about till night and then found shelter in an
uninhabited house. He continued his explora.
tions on Saturday, having eaten nothing to speak
of, he says, for three DAYS. On that morning,
after his appearance at this office, four of the
young lads attached thereto. Jacob Cohen, John
N. Welmer, Thomas H. Bunting, and Charles
Wider, upon hearing the above narrative from
the poor farmer boy, resolved to meet the crisis
like good fellows, and they did.
They procured the young stranger first as
the prime necessity, something to stay his sto-
mach. When night came, they got him snug
berth in boarding house, and change of lin
en-. They still had him in charge ON Sunday
and on Monday, until about 2 o'clock, when,
having been sent out to inquire after situation,
the boy returned to the Herald office, entering at
one door, while his mother was entering at an.
other, face to face. The scene may be guessed
ny 1uc u lne WO-
man in black, was almost frantic. The boy was
delighted, but remarkably self-possessed. Their
mutual explanations occupied some time; and
then they went their way rejoicing. The moth
er, we undefNand, had been compelled as q
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 ar
arrangement, the meeting with the lad, under the
circumstances detailed, was rather calculated to
excite her feelings. She is now the wife of an
industrious ship-carpenter, and is enabled to
keep the enterprising lad at home, who will
doubtless be able to shift for himself.
The most beautiful feature of this fragment
of Milton in search of his mother is yet TO be told
Scarcely had they left this office, when carri-
age with four ladies inside, drove up and halted
at the door. One of the ladies then came out,
and placed in our hands the following note, with
a half eagle in gold enclosed;
"April 26.
"To ]. G. BENNETT:
Here the boys advertisement was pasted in