Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-21

1855 again rslnssa.sd The canal and 10 lS6S Il a.
risd 10 the market 5,377 S26 bushels of corn. The
Galsna Road carried ., ,70l ,6l9 bushels In 1855.
and 1857 ,36S In 1855. Of the 1l,SoS,sos bush
nearly o.000. 900 bushels were brought iy tho
Canal and 0alsna Company. which thai year In
eladsd oil the deliveries BY the Burlington line:
rhe Rock Island brought l. .ll4.3g7 bushels, and
the Illinois Central 1887, GA bushsls."
---s S>---~-- ~ Hss
Re-Union Of Man and wife Aftsr nspe-
ration Of Over Forty -soven Years
Some time during tho month Of February last,
Messrs. Shepard 4 Overtun, Attorneys Il Law Ia
this city. were applied to by 500 II Mfs. Oruii,
of Louisa ooausy in this State, 81. h possible. sb-
tain for her dowry in certain lands. supposed %
be . part Of the Military Tract In Illinois. This
tract Of land the reader will reooeet, embraces =
large portion Of the western portien Of this Seass,
and was set apart by the United States ~ part
compensation to the soldiers Of ths war Of lSl2.--
That her husband was soldier In that war, hav-
ing enlisted In the army while ona visit If besi-
ing fcw miles out Of the cty, aud in the Stats Of
ponnsylvaaa. Since his enlis,meat,. Mrs. crull
has heard nothing from bin, except mere rumor
that no was killed in an engagement near Lake
Champnin, and rs Mrs. Crull had never married
again. she would as his widow be snti,led toa
least dowry 10 any lands her husband might bs
entitled to as such soldier.
Messrs. 3. h 0. immediately set themselves To
iiod tho land 10 which her right Of dowry would
attach. After long aud tisoroash search among
Government. State, and county rsoords they A.
ocrtained that the land in question was situated
in Hancock county, Illinois, aud that Il had been
entered with land warrant by Mr.. Crall hlmself
in the year 1918, thus plainly showing that no
was not killed, ~ reported, and that pei haps he
might still b. slive. They consequently set shout
finding tho lost maa; but no-furthsr trace Of him
nould they make out from uoverumsnt or county
n his wifn al pther
Ind never heard from him further than the 70.
cords showed, IL sesned pretty clear that he was
,,ot alive. But his death WAs not suiAcisntly o.
tablished for thcir purpose. Messrs. 3. q. I'D.
"ressed lcttsrs 10 their numerous correspondents
in tho State Of Now York and Vsrmont; near
where Crull's company woald bc likely to have
been stationed during the wal, aud make inquiries
for him.
Among the many answers rsosivsd by them
WAS one from Irwin W. Near. Esq, Of Clayton,
jefferson county. N. T.. containing . latter from
the long lost man, stating that he was yss alive
and in good health, and was surprised and nearly
overooms with joy to learn that hs wife and chill
drcu were still alive. This sottled the question of
the dover, as wellas as the receiving by Messrs.
shepard Overton the fees for obtaining it for
Mrs. Crull, Although disappointed in thu. to n
luw. er best part Of good or bad caso-the re-
cepuon y! a snug tec--thoy ware determined not
to give it up, but vent to work in earnest To bring
about n reunion OF the ancient and long list oou
pletor lost they really tn each other. This
easily effected, a. neither Of the parties had mar
,ied n,althongh both sup ,ossd each other long
since dead. II seems tina, soon after the enlistment
of Mr. Crul finding il difficult to support herself
and Two small children, ,One n babe, she removed to
another part Of the State and there hearing that
her husband was killed, made further effort to
l,arn Of him.
And he after his discharges, returned to tho
town where he formerly resided, and was there
,,d Tint his vile and children had moved away,
nad .inoc died. Believing himself alone in the
world. he left forever his old residence and asso-
late-. and took up his abode in jefferson county,
N. Y. where he ha, since resided, ever eher-
shins in iond remcul branee his now. ~ him.
brewer lost family. Alter many years Of hard
Toll and successful effort, md tho marriage of
her only daughter, Mrs. Crull. in company with
her son aud son in.lnw, moved to this State,
and settled in Wnrello, Louisa couaty, Iowa.
where she has sincc resided in the family Of her
daughter
fow days since. MIR. Crull arrived OF Wapellu
eager to SEQ her whom he had mournod as dead.
nnd once again behold his children. But what
change forty.seyen years had brought aboutl A
formal introduction WINS needed to acquaint those
who should have spent their lives together. Bur-
Hnylon lioca) Howkew.
NIomr IN PiGEoN RosT. Just now tho
wild pigeons roost ia innumerabe numbers in tho
Chenaso swamp Crawford county, Pa, about
two miles east Of the Ohio line. The swamp il
about ten miles long by two or three wide, grawn
up with tamerack or larch trees md alder bushes.
The editor Of the Ashtabula Sentinel has been q.
nohg the Pigeons. lie says.
When within two miles Of the roostng. piacews
began to hear the Of the wings of the millions
II birds there eongregated. which Literally equal
led tho roar of Niagara But the sights and sounds
that greeted us as we noared the swamp. Lsggars
description. There were probably hundred hunt i
crs assembled and mt work. These were divided