Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-08
From the Lockport Union.
Truth Stranger than Fiction,

I From the LockpOrt Union.
truth Stranger than Fiction.
Over, twenty years since well>known
tnn prominent citizen Of Central New York
tchauncey Cue. Of Canandaigua,) died,
ieasing widow and q son aud daughter,
<itii moderate competence. The widow
retired to one Of the small beautiful vil-
snges "f that region, and devoted herself to
fhe education of her children.
In due time the daughter grew up and
married married worthy gentleman of the place.
The s.'n having a passion for the sea, in
duiged himself with Whaling voyage in
h's youth AID returned with vigorous health
and hardy constitution.
Upon becoming of age be invested his
pairimuny in a manufacturing business.
and continued so employed for several
Esears. But 10 1876. when the California
lever broke out with such violence, he was
fnduced "a leave bis business with bis part
ner and relative. and join party Of friends
in seeking his fortune in that region.
Soon after arriving in San Francisco, he
received information that his Factory had
been destroyed by fire and that he was left
penniess By this time be had discovered
that gold did not lie about the streets and
that he was untitled for the struggle of pro-
curiag It by the hard labor of digging it
from the bowels of the earth He became
Respondent and after some reflection Gecid
ed to once more trust his fortunes upon the
sea, determined never to return to his
friends until he had regained what he had
lost. Taking an opportunity when his
friends were temporarily absent, he sud-
denly disappeared with his effects and no
exertlons of his comrades could ascertain
his destination or mude of exit
From that time; for twelve long years,
nn udlngs OF the lost one has reached his
friends.
HIS well formed habits of industry and
sCbriety forbade the idea that any disrepu-
table act had induced him to conceal his
whereabouts, and his friends could ONLY
conjecture and fear that some accident had
betalen him, and that he must be dead
Meantime, some few years after his dis
appearance, a cblldless uncle, (Belah Cue,
OF Buffalo,) died, aud by will lett to him
and his sister, an ample property for life,
with reversIon to their children, but with
provision that in case of their death with
out issue, the reversiOn should 90 80 two
educational aud charitable institutions.
Under the will the sister has eninyed her
share Of he rents and profits, the share of
the lost one meantime, being under the di
| rection of the court, deposited in bank
Until after seven years having elapsed the
two reversIOnary institutions instituted pro
ceedings to secure his share of the proper.
| ty. The court upon full hearing decided
that alter this lapse of time, without his
| beng discovered. he must be juGicially
dead, and that one of the claimants should
enter upon the enjoyment or its portion Of
the rents and profits. As to the other, its
charter not permitting 1t to take rea, estate,
1t was thrown out altogether, and that
share not being legally conveyed by the
| will, reverted To the heirs at law uucondi>
t.Vaally, who are these Sc me children.
| During all this time the sister s husband
| with zeal and pertinacity worthy of all
! condemnation, has been .uuremitted in his
endeavors to find the lost one. After all
else had been compelled to believe him
! long sdead. Ia has.confisuea 70 spend-time
ndsmobey ID bis discovery. He has COM
municated with every American Consul of
the Islands of the Pacific. and Australia
lie has sent circulars, Offering large re-
ward, to California and Oregon lie has
advertised with Il reward in the papers of
! the shipping and whaling ports. Has re-
ceIved many communications fTum sea cap
taias and others protesting TO give inior-
nation, but which have always proved er-
roneou-. Untll at last, every endeavor hav-
! ing pr"ved iutile, and even a mothers hone
discouraged. whose locks have becume
white IN the long sleepless agony of waiting
Tor the return OF an only and beloved son,
within the last month, suddenly, aud wlth>
out the least precious notice, the truant
drives up to the mothers door. Alive and
well, with face burned and bronzed to parch.
ment, by exposure to sun and wind, be has
come back at last to that mother and that
sisier WIN have 50 long muurned him as
dead and lost tn them forever.
And there was joy in the house.
And where upon earth has the truant
been hidden. that mothers and a sister &
love could Dot find him? Why in about
the only part of the glJbe which has nc,
been searched for him.
South Africa, far up from The Cape, for
many years, and in China several times -
He was employed in the Caffre War. He
has hunted Elephants and Zebras He
has dealt in and drove cattle and traded
with the natives. He has met with losses
by wreck and fire. He has suffered from
levers and the accidents of wandering lie,
until al last In middle age, the yearning
t. once moro see his native land aud en-
brace his aged mother and his sister be-
came too strong to be resisted He sailed
tor Liverpool, and thence Ia New York, and
there | the first time heard tidings of his
family aud of his fortune, and that, of all
his letters written home, not one had been
received.
Truly truth is stranger than fiction.