Show conching ton ching story stranger than fiction we rave live just listened to the recital of a most I 1 itemus tale that were not flot the cir curns 9 already matters seem too strange range for credibility about ten tell i ears ago were resided in li Eti gland a sea beare captain his wife afe and an only child a boy of fe or six gears of age A difficulty haying arisen between an aun aunt ot of the boy and his parents paron ts the woman maliciously abducted it e ell child ia and escaped with mth him to this country and found found her way nay to provider ce here abel she soon eoon of her ill gotten charge and finally abandoned the little fellow to the tender mercies of the st streets of providence vi laile she left for the far west whence it is not known that she ever returned C ergish ah lad thus a left without b home or p ioco ion 0 of cc course ur a soon acon entered upon on a career C r lh thai 1 t b brought aught h him to the i ollee iodice P the h e barate and he was as sent to the reform zef r school cb the ile salutary training he received in that institution wrought an entire change in the boy and two years ye rs ago he bo was discharged as reformed since that time he las ins been constantly under the observation aaion of the and trustees trustee sp and in ili no particular has he be seemed to swerve from tile the right principles principle inculcated at the reform school ahe the aunt on oil leaving england b had ad assumed a false name but the boy had always treasured in ilia his lea heart r t the name and adar address as 0 of i lna ilia father and after his discharge from the reform school b by the advice or of mr cushman lie be wrote to his a parents parent 0 met ming them of his condition and circumstances circus circum stai ces he effect of that letter ml scarcely be naginey B described it cannot be it was as it if the grave had opened and their eldest lorn born hall had come forth to greet them thein the father was in the east cast indies in command of I a 10 ship of 1 which aich he was wisa a large owner when 11 ha lo distant 1 an t port he received tile the tidings that la Is son was alive be imme diat ly sold lis his Jn iri terest in the vessel resigned the commands command and embarked for england w tian g to ilia his son in a providence that god willing he be would soon on see him face to face after the captains Captain li a arrival in england I 1 and a hurried visit to his wife he re embark ea at 01 orce ce for this country to reclaim his long lost los t son to his heart and home alas long for or the futility or of all earthly hopes when hen th ree days out front from england a furious gale made ni ade havoc on the ship and a falling spar struck the fathers head causing almost i slant death slowly slowly arid and sadly the he storm aulk quicken kin ship t tolled oiled hack ack to the port of dl de I 1 and the tidings tiding n were viere sent to the other mother who was vas wearily counting the meeks that must elapse before her ber husband and her first born son would be restored to ter ler arms Alt although bough a sailors wife and accustomed cus rus tomed to look calmly on the perils of navi astion ga bons this sudden sud den dispelling of the pleasant vis ion quite overcame her she shewak was seized thith the pangs of premature labur labors ai aid d in a low hours joi jet ed cd her husband in the th world chere separations ne come not and storms and shi p wr cc cs are unknown the letter an bouncing noun cing the death of his father and mother as we have narrated I 1 leach each ed the boy in in this city on tuesday last and AS may well be supposed overa helmed him w ith grief and a sense of utter desolation let us hope that lie ile m who ho tempers the wind to the shorn lamb will so guide and support tins this youths youth so singularly and deehl afflicted that he may be enabled to recognize with filial love the band of a father who chasten eth whomsoever ile he loveth |