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Eugene City Guard. CAMPIIKIib 1IKOTHEBM rUBLISIIEKS. SATUIU)AY, FEBRUARY - 21, 1880, TELEGRAPHIC. EASTERN. Tha Albany City Hall Dcitroyrd. V. Y . Feb. 10. The city hall mom hnrnail this morning. When Ihe Anma fll seven flremeu were crushed ni named iCnllv ha since died, and two nar-tnd to die. Judgment records, chattel mortgages and records of the proceedings ot supervisors cro uu atroyed. Record of deeds, mortgages on real estate, the portrait or the ex-govern nnrl tha hooks and naners of ttie ofll cci were saved. The "(huh " Albany, Feb 10. The senate passed a bill declaring women eligible to serve as school trustees. Decline la Kana anil Pad Ac tock. Nkw York, Feb. 10. The Commercial says that nenr the close or tne I'.xcnunge to-day the Kansas and Texas sold down to 41 j per cent., which Is no doubt a sur prise to the numerous ioiiowihk ui juy V.n mnra nivnn "a IWliflt" tO bt)V at 47J per cent. There may bo a hitch in th armiiiiitirin of Dronertv and its release from trusteeship, out if so wo have not heard of it. Gould himself may ho ill, as rumored for a dny or two pant, but wo do not believe It Our private ai vires irom Hoston lead us to believe that tho Topeka and Santa Fe party nave the means ami ability, as well as determination, to put through the 1100 miles of tho Atlantic and Pacific road. An Outrage PollrH. lf,u....u k'.iK inAn usher in thfl St, Peter's Catholic Church, early this morn ing heard cries in the church, and went in just in time to provent a negro from ravishing a young white girl, who had gone to prayers. Jhe uegro escaped. A Hinmd Hone at Large. Nkw Yoiik, Feb. 10. Rove rend Edward Cowley, on trial for starving aud ill treat ing children under his care at tho Shop rd's Fold, was admitted to hail to-day in $7,600, his bondsmen being Reverend Dr. Mnriran Dix. of Trinity church, and Rev. llr. Robert 8. How land, of tho Church of Heavenly Rest. Sulfide. Nxw York. Feb. 10. Last month, Geo Heck buried his wife in the Lutheran cemetery. Queens county, Long Island. nd to-day went aud lav down on her grave ana commmeu tuiciue uy snooting niaiseir. EiWmlrr Fire. PiiiLADEi.riiiA, Feb. 10. The Chatham Mill, an extensive brick structure corner of Howard and Berks street, luirned this evening. 175,0110; mostly insured The principal loser sre Harp!, Mnta yueft Co., $S3,0iM); Isaac Sled. f'rIM""1 IKiInn Brothers, f.'j.lKKi, and Win. Top hsm, 15,fXK). Th Htw llanapahir Klrnit. MiNrneKTKK, Feb. 10. DillingliHin eon- fetes that he tirt shot and then out raged his aunt. The olliciaW have taken him to the Portsmouth J:iil. Mr. Dil lingham died to-night. Tha Mlar In Vaprr. w asiiim.ton, ron. it). l'apcr men re nciively righting Fort's hill. They say Hint it is true thst printing p ir h id ad vanced 40 to 50 per cent, in six to eight months. The causes they insist is, that the price ot domestic colored rugs has in creased from ono and three-fourths to three and three fourths cents per pound. Rags hud never been so low as (hey were six months ago when rags of the best quality could be purchased at one and a half cents per pound. This price was not Hitlicient to induce persons to save and sell rugs or puy for their collection. Con sequently the stock was very low, aud when tho business revival begun and paper wss demanded by all reviving in dustries, paper dealers were without any stock and the prico immediately ad vanced in this country and Europe. Ca blegrams hare been received from Euro pean dealers within a week, oidcring their agents here not to sell another pound of rags, as the price of paper is rap idly advancing there. Another cause is the rise in the price of bleaching powder. Eighteen months ago It could bo ptir chnccdat one cent per pound; now ft Is two cents. Tliosame is true of soda, ash and of caustic soda, the principal choini mis used in the manufacture of paper. Bleaching powder is on the free list, so thst it is not a question of turitf ns to that article. The price ofdomeHtic alum, an other imKrtant chemical ined in making faper, has not nuiriully advanced. abur baa also advanced soinew hat. Cenaiu Nnwr'Ui. Wamiinoko.v, Feb. 10. In executive session last evening the census committee rKrted adversely on certain nomina tions of census supervisors, including aotne southern ones. Major Keno' 'aar. Major Reno has sent a very urgent latter to the president asking permission to resign bis commission in thu army rather than sutler dismissal. Accom panying the decision of tho court was a recommendation for mercy, signed by all its menilwrs, and ns Keiio has been a gallant soldier, and as his otlenses have (teen attributed to intoxicating lienors, the president is deposed to give him the privilege of resigning in order to savo his record. The president is very tender hearted about these nutters. 'Not Img a jo he allowed Lieutenant Jerome, of the seventh cavalrv, to rigii, when he had been sentenced to dismissal by a court martial, and w ill probably do the same in the Reno case. Flra at Wan Jim. Ka Josb, California, Feb. 10. Soon after 2 o'clock this morning tho state normal school was discovered to be in flames. lire was first noticed in the cu pola, which Wore the engines arrived was a pyramid of (lame rising in the still night air. The fire gained rapid head way, and the water pressure was so weak that the firemen were delayed in gcttiug an efficient stream. Within fifteen min ntea after the flames were first seen pour ing from the cupola the whole interior of the central portion of the building was AIM with flames, roaring and cracking like an immense furnace. The south wing of the building rapidly became in olfeil, and the flames were soon sweep log through the entire building, except the north wing. The roof fell in w ith a tremendous crsth, and in a little while beams and girders began to drop from their resting placet and In a very brief pace ef time the whole building was to .u Tk hnililiinr waa of wood, and the inain'portion had a frontage of 68 feet and (depth of 100 feet. On each side of the central building waa an arm o. front by 70 deep. The height of the cen tral building waa 1)8 feet to the ridge, the wings bad mansard roofs, and were 67 feet in hoight to the cornice. The tower was 22 feet aquare and rose from the center to a height of 152 feet. The basement walla were of concrete and brick. The interior was divided into class and recitation rooms, music room, mu .om Uhnmtnrv and aonaratus room society rooms, gymnasium and lecture t Tim l.nililinir cost &80.000. IIM'UI, wv, .. m . , There is some reason to believe thai the fire was or incendiary origin. a hi ily residing In the rear of the achool, re port being awakened bv two explosions in quick succession, and upon getting up and looking out soeing me uuu iuri. in flames. Others assert thai me cummer i,.. rti. hnililiinr were defective from the lime they were put in, when the building was constructed, mere ... i : .. ,.f VirK0 nn tin house. divided into$2V)0 and $5000 risks among the principal insurance companies doing business in this state. The city market hall has been temporarily secured for the purposes of school. -I ha Shepherd's Fold. New York. Feb. 11. Reverend Edward Cowloy has sent in his resignation as annnrintondont of the Shepherd's Fold, ami it has teen accepicu. a tuiuumw of ladies have been appointed to take charge of the institution. The Iran Denver, Feb. 11. The Nrut ofllce here is occupies oy non-union men vu-uny. RlM la the Price or wagona. Cuwunn Feb. 11. Waeon makers from all parts or the country inei io-ciay anu decided to advance prices on wagons ten percent. Tho firms represented 150,000 wagons last year. Doail Proposa'a. r-ronosals to sell bonds to the govern- mpnt airim-irated nearly $12,000,000 to- ilnv. and nrices ranged from $103 to $100. Secretary Sherman accepted most of tho oilers or the Liu tea states oonus. Strike Kuded. Moi st Vernon. New Jersey. Feb. 11 The striking hands of Vernon Brothers' shirt factory, 100 in number, resumed work to-day, their de mind for an in crease of wages having been aeded to. Most of the strikers w ere Chinamen. Not at luereu. Chicago. Feb. 11. An exchange re cently started here for the purposo of tradiug in grain is not a very great suc cess. Oprra IIoum Damaged by Wind. Deaiiwooo. Feb. 11. While a concert and ball was in progress in the Opera House, Centrul City, last evening, a heavy wind curried the entire front of the build ing into tho street. A scene of the wild- cut confusion ensued, but fortunately no ives were lost. C hicago llotela Will Mot Advance Price Ciiica(K). Feb. 11. A thorough canvass of tho hotels clearlv reveals that the statement recently telegraphed hence to the elici t that prices were being raised I'liormoUKly for tho week of the Republi can natioual convention is entirely un founded. There will be no advance in prices whatever, at any Hotel. 1 tie pledge made to the national convention will be faithfully kept. Natioual Trotting 4uorlatlon New York. Fob. 11 Tho biennial meeting of tho National Trotting Aimo nation commenced to-day. The commit tee on tho revision rules reported and most of them were adopted. Section 4 of rule 3 was changed so thut confirmation of sentence for expulsson for fraudulent practice could not bo moUitleil by a board of review. An Kttranrtlluarjr Itlsr. ( Nkw York, Feb. 11. Wall street re ports suy that a subscription block for tho Sonora railroad, projected to run from Gnaymas on the Gulf of California, to tho southern extension of the Atchison, To- eka v Santa l o Katlroud svstem in New Mexico and Arizona, was recently sold in Boston for a bonus of S-'HHK). lho last salo was at $o50, and it may be interest ing to some to know that too same block was sold each time, lho lirsl thirty miles nf the road are to be constructed mmediately, beginning at Guayuias. ICallroad llalra. Kvert St. John, general passenger agent of tho Chicago, Rock I-dand it Fa ille lt.ulroud, notifies roa Is leading went from Chicago, thut siucu they are soiling tickets from Kansas City to Colorado points at usually and unreasonably low figures, the Rock Island will make no further attempts to restore rates, and will not be represented at to-morrow's meet ing, which was called for that purpose. A Charge of Patricide. Omaha. Feb. 10. n January 2!Uh there arrived nt Grand Island, C. Si. Lau rence, an old gentleman from liratlle lioro, Vermont, with bis son Frank, of liicago. 1 ho son dunned that the father had met with an accident in Iowa, caus ing insanity. On Thursday night last the Id gentleman died suddenly and mvster- iously. Suspicion of lout play being strong, tho son was arrested charged with poison- ng ins lather Oy admiutistertng pruxaic icid. The symptoms, cirjumstuuees and the finding of tho deadly drug in tho pos session of the son, go to prove that the Id man was poisoned. No cause is as signed other tian for lho insurance on the father s life, there being 1 l.OOO, ?,VHM) in theNcw York Knickertocker,uiHl''HW)in the Travelers, of Hartford. The sou is in jail waning an examination on the .tilt or February. Tho IrUh famine. Nkw Yoke, feb. IX The f.nid this morning saya: Wo regret lo say that as yet no returns have been tnadr by a largo umlter orgentlemea anil firms to whom the llrruU'i Irish famine blanks were in trusted. In a great many instances we now these blanks contain the names of ixr-ons who In the aggregate have subscribed a good deal of money nd we are aware that ihev are held bck in order that their custodians who are so generously co-operating with the Ihrulii may be able to make as good allow ing as possible in print, llieir mo tive is exceedingly creditable, but we are me they will not misinterpret our mean ing w lieu we say they are unwittingly put- lug hack the cause Ihev so heartily hope to advance. The ll,mll will esteem it great favor on the part of these gentle men if they will make the returns as early as possible to-morrow. The news paper editors ana other gentlemen In out- aide towns and ritiee who are so nobly iding the llrralil will also place us under obligations if thev will forward ua their subscriptions and subscription list at the same tune. Na doubt the telegraph com panies will In all case enable them to transmit their money without waiting fur t he alow proccae of mails. Kallroad OonaolMartan. Lm isrtLLx, Feb. 13. The intense ex citement was croated here by the an nouncement that a consolidation or con rar.t far flvK vears haa been entered in be i...n , Louisville & Nashville and Georgia Central roads. Each end of the combination is to conduct its affairs in its own way. Tne aim oi h la to give mrougn kin. nf la.linir from St, Louis to New York and Liverpool and from Louisville and Nashville to the same points. The com bination can carry freights that will be ruinous to northern trunk lines, it ex pects to have a large part of the gain that eoes from Chicago to New York and T.ltfarnool bvtbe worinern route to taae the southern route. It haa large steamers plying between Savannah and New York, aud ocean freights are not ouly cheaper than rail rates but cheaper than lake rates. It will be a striae lor a great pan nrii.a ouutern business, aud it will make rates that will bring it to a great part of tiie western business, indeed, neany every article that Louisvelle now imports will come by way of Savandab, Atlanta and Nashville. ' Railroad Matter, t i!irfin. Feb. 13. Tho eeneral passen gor agents of the principal western roads centering nere, met uern ivuav wim ioy resentatives of the Fort Wayne and Wabash roads to adjust rates. They had not arrived at any satisfactory conclusion, hut nc denta v the roilowing important correspondence under date of Omaha, 13th, transpired: "Mr. Geodraan of the Central Pacific R. R. telegraphs me that San Francisco is full of New York pas sengers awaiting the departure of the next steamer which sails February 20th. The P. M. S. S. Company is offering a through rate of $75 cabin and $35 steer age, and paying five dollars each com mission to hotels, etc. Shall I say to Ooodman that the Central Pacific may make such rates as may bo necessary to hold the business, and that you will share the reduction on t-e basis of the present proportion. T. L. KIMBALL. Uenerai rasscnger Ageni, u. r. n. r.. After a full discussion tho roads lead ing west from here sent tho following: The lines east of Lansas uty anu umaua will accept a pro rata per mile upon any rate w hich tho Central Pacific makes, to meet rates made by the Pacific Mail Com Danv to New York, provided the tickets are limited to one day beyond the actual schedule time, and to be sold at tariff rates with a drawback on New York to the amount of reduction." This answer was probably entirely satisfactory to the Central Pacific Under the rlcinrocal ar rangement tho Central Pacific proposed that the latter road would get a much larger tariff than under the one to which the answer refers. Syeteiuattc Hobbery. t .Mnvwi? Maaa VoK 1!tAni1l0W Smith, of North Andover, defaulting town treasurer, has acknowledged that yearly since his first election in 13(19 he had converted the money of the town to his own use. The amount of tho defalcation is $29,822. Smallest irregular town note, $400; largest, $5300. Death of Gov. Arnold of Rhode Ifland. Providence. Feb. 13. . G. Arnold died early this morning. Ho was thrice lieutenant-governor, served a short terra in the U.S. senate, and was author of the history of Rhode Island. DUattroua Wind Storm at ftaalivllle Nashville. Tenn. Feb. 13 A cyclone, accompanied by thunder, lightning an I heavy rain passed over the city at mid night. The wind blew at the rate of forty nulcsan hour. Tho spires of lho First Colored Baptist, St. J ihti's Colored and St. Paul's Colored Churches were blown down, also tho inside brick wall of the new custom house. 1 he roof of She Son's elevutor, containing 20,0"0 bushels of gram, was swept oil. the third story of the F.dgetiold Manufacturing Company, building was blown away. Tito roofs of a large number of private residences were blown olr, and the damage up to this hour cannot be estimated. fatal Mallroad Accident. Dayton. Ohio, Feb. 13. A bridge on the Dayton and Southeastern road, near Chilicothe, was washed away this morn ing. Tho engine and several cars were thrown into the hi ream, the engineer aud firemen being killed instantly. Passen ger coaches escaped und no other injuries wero sustained. PACIFIC COAST. Suicide of a Sailor. San Francisco, Feb. 11. Henry Hart- man, a Spanish Nitilor on tho Biitish ship I'lt'ion, committed suicide this morning by drinking carbolic acid. He swallowed tiie poison while lying on his bunk an t was observed in the net by his shipmates, who summoned assistance, but to no pur pose. A Hoodlum Hilled by a Policemwii. Shortly arter midnight, Officer Dwyer w hile attempting to arrest u suspicious character on West Mission street near Twelfth, was sot upon by a crowd of hood lums, knocked down and badly beaten. In the melee the officer dtew a pistol and tired, bringing down Michael Wynne with a bullet in the side. Ho was taken to the city hospital w here he died this morning. llurued lo Death. Cuico, Feb. 11. An Indian squaw, who married a Chinaman in Hod Bin lis threo or four weeks ago and who came to live at 1 hico, was this morning burned to death by the bursting of a kerosene lump in her room. Sulrlilr of a Convicted Murderer. San Francisco, Feb. 12 Bonifacio Nu- net confined in the county j til under con viction of the murder of William Frcv, last April, wits found hanging in his cell at alwut 1 tiiis morning. Ho had torn his shirt into strips which he soaked and twisted in a rope. A piece or broomstick set in the ventilator served for the gal lows. He made his preparations so quietly that his two cell mates knew nothing of the affair until on casuullv wukinc. one of them discovered the boIr. Nunex had been denied a new trial and was to have been sentenced Saturday next. He was a Spaniard and aged about 2ti years. (luarrel between. Kdltore. Hoi UJTKK, Feb. 12. A newspaper war rulminated this morning by IU4 fatul shooting of S. II. Burmtnett, editor of the r.nterpriK, bv ti. . Carlton, editor of the V.(jnii'i. 1 Ins morning s issue of the 7YvniiA calls Burmmeit a horse-thief. At 10 o'clock Burmmett met Carlton on the court house atens and asked him why he published those lies about him. it It - out speaking Carlton drew a pistol and shot liruiumctt, the ball penetrating his bead between the eyes. He fell lu his tracks and still lingers, but cannot live. Carlton waa arrested and locked up. Latkr. Brummett, shot by Carlton, this morning died at 1 P M. Trial between Htulog mpaatee. San Fbancmco, Feb, 12. The case of the North Noonday Mining Cointiany vs. Ihe Orient Mininr Company Is on trial before jury in the U. 8. circuit court. This is ripin.. nn .nm th ree bun- dred feet of mining ground in the iBodia district, valued at more than f 1,000,OLO. An injunction against the defendant wai granted pending the trial. Marina Dlaaators During; January. TV nnmhar nt vAsiiAlu twdnnfnnff to Or bound to or from port in the United States reported toiauy iosi auu mii during January ii 24. The list comprise! 1 steamer, 2 ships. 13 barks, 2 brigs and 0 schooners. Their total value, exclusive of cargoes, is estimated at $092,000. Found Dead. Emma L. Warren was found dead in the rear yard of her parent'a residence, ftn.'l Kaerumnntn atreet. at half- oast six o'clock this morning. She left the house to make a visit at 8 o'clock last evening, and her narents retired to sea at 10 o'clock. On coming down stairs this morning they found her dead as stated. FOREIGN. A Chance for Hanlau. London. Feb. 10. The StmUman an uounces that Christopher Barras has authorized the editor of that journal to re tain K) of the stakes in the Boyd-Elliott match and issuo a challenge to Hanlan, in behalf of Boyd, to row a race within a stipulated time for 200 a side, the cham pionship of England and the SiiorUman challenge trophy. Barras is willing to add 300 more to the stakes if Hanlan would like to row for 500 aside. Bcyd will row a race with Hawdon on the Tyno on Saturday for 200. In the match on the Tyne next Satur day, for 200, between Bobert W. Boyd, winner of the race with Elliott yesterday and John Hawdon, the former gives the latter a start of four lengths. The Theater Royal Fire. Diblin, Feb. 10. One woman and seven men were killed and thirteen work men and firemen seriously injured by the burning of the Theater Royal. Every thing iu the building was consumed in cluding a large and costly wardrobe. The theater took fire at about one o'clock from a light in the hands of a boy lighting the gas." Most of the employes were at dinner at the time, and the flames spread rap idly. Manager Egerton lost his life by remaining too long in the building in an effort to arrest the flames. Sentenced to Death. Madrid, Feb. 10. Gonzalez the would be regicide, has been sentenced to death, Terrible Accident. Constantinople, Feb. 10. During a fete a barrack three stories high near here, collapsed. Two hundred soldiers were killed and three hundred injured thereby. Which Is Best I "O.dear!" Little Nan opened her eyes and stretched out her arms with a sleepy yawn, as the summer morning, all rosy and sweet, peeped into her gairet cham ber. "I wish I didn't have to get up so soon ! I wish thu fire would make itself, and a Pitcher Fairy would bring the water from the spring, and a Broom Fairy would sweep the kitchen and grind the coffee, and a good Brownie would bring us a lovely breakfast already cooked! I'm tired nf sifting cindersand washing disnes. I wish 1 was a lady, like Miss Antasia!" But she wasn't a lady, and Pitcher Fairies and Brownies didn't grow in her neighborhood: so little Nun hud to shake off her sleepiness, and jump up to her work. 1 lie sun was just coming up over tho edges of the rosy clouds ; the robin and the orioles were singing with all their might; the morning glories bad hung out a thousand pink aud purple and speckled bells, to welcomo the sunshine, and the pinks und mignonette in the garden were sparkling with duwdrops. Una- sweet they smelled, and how lovely everything was in the cool, fresh, beautiful morning! Little Nan came back from the spring with her cheeks like roses and her eyes as bright hs stars. She danced about her work us lightly as any Broom Fairy ever did; and the tiro was made, tho breakfast cooked for grandmother, nd the dishes washed up ufterward, long before Miss Antasia raised her drowsy head from her great soft feather pillows. When she did the sun was streaming across her bed, hot and bright. The flowers on her dressing-tublo drooped in the heat; the dew was dried up on the roses outside. Mies Antasia yawned and stretched her- sell. ' (), dear, how hot it is! How tire some to have to get up and dress one's self! I won't do it. I'll have niv break fast in bed." And so she lounged amongst her pil lows, and drank her coffee, and nibbled at her toast, and had no appetite, and complained of the heat, and sighed nnd fretted like a person oppressed with eriel. She had nothing iu tin world to do but to amuse herself and take her ease, and now nothing umused her; and she tossed about in her fine bed, und did not find h.iirtlio rest there that little Nan took on her hard cot in tho garret. If only she hud some useful work to do, how much better she would iiave felt ! She missed all tho dew and freshness of tho morning; she loses all the purest of life, for no one can be happy that walks through the world with idle hands and a selfish heart. Little Nan had the best nf it: for hon est work brings a double blessing, and we serve God best when we do our duty to men. muUnt Hieklv. Two elegantly-dressed gentlemen met in Galveston. One of them asks how tho other fared this Christmas. "Oh, very well," he replied, "mv wife pre sented me with a beautiful silk dressing gown." "Of course you reciprocated," responded the other. "Of course; I always do that. I bought her a now ood saw. lho one buo has been using for the last five years was about worn out, and it took so long to get wood for breakfast in tho morning that I used to get hungry lying in bod. But that new saw will help matters along, I reckon." The wife ot Mr. Jonesmith had the misfortune to be more good than beauti ful. On tho San lUfael boat, tho other day, tho writer overheard this lot of con versation: Brownjones: "That fellow Jonesmith outrageously unfaithful to his wife." Sraithbrown: "For example?" Brownjones: "Oh, I don't know any liarticular instance." Hmithbrown: "Ah, are you a physiognomist you think he looks like it." Brownjones: "Never saw him; I think she looks like it." A man is just as much afraid of the the things in which bo doee not believe as he is of those in which he does be lieve. No one believes in ghosts, and yet everyone who gosa through a dark room alone firmly expecta one to catch htut and carry him off. Susie's Gift. The tlayt were growing dark for George Graham. Hia studious habits had re sulted in an affection of the eyes that threatened to grow senons. This was his last term of school and if he passed his examination creditably, lie was to have a place in Solomon Grant a store, with wages that would not only take can of himself, but greatly help hia mother. , ,, , His mother waa a widow, and George s love for her waa a sort of passion of devo- '"Se was very fond of Susio Hale but Susie was only a nice girl to him a dear, weet. good girl, such as any fellow would like; but his mother was the lady to whom was due his love, his care, his uttermost dnty. The plans he made in life were all for his mother's sake. What if this growing dizziness about him was to increase until all was dark? What if he must bo no help to his moth er, but only a burden on hor forever? His scholarship had been so fine that his tutor hesitated to reprove h's now continual failures; and George said noth ing of the increasing darkness around him to his mother, for ho felt that it would break her heart; nothing to teach er or achoolmutes, for it seemed to him that his grief would be nothing to them. But one afternoon the crisis came. No one who was present that day not even the smallest child will ever forget the look of wild despair that swept over George Graham's face, or the gesture of helpless anguish with which he stretched out his hands, as if to seek among them all some friend, as he cried: "God help me, I have been going blind, and now I cannot see one figure in my book!" There was a silence after this; and there came no sound but the audible beating of George Graham's tortured, despairing heart. Then the master sent away others, for school hours were nearly over, and tried his best to comfort his stricken pupil. The words of the teacher entered his ears, but they did not reach his heart or kindle his hope. As soon as lie could he went away. He did not go straight homo. How could he face his mother and tell her what he must toll her now? He sat down on a bank alittle removed from the roadside, a bank which over hung a swift, deep, yet narrow stream. An awful temptation came over him. To be sure, to die would be to leave his mother to fight her battle of life alone; but also it would rolieve her from the heavy burden he must needs be to her if he lived. The river rushing down there below invited him with his murmur. He bent forward over the stream. Then he drew back, for a longing came over him to go home first and soe his mother just once more. "Soe here! What am I talking about? Do I not know I shall never see her again?" And a girl's voice, soft and tender, an unexpected voice, answered him: "Yes, you will see her again. Surely you will soo her again!" llie boy turned las face toward the sound. "How did you come here! Susie Hale?" ho asked. "Don't be angry, George," the gentle voice entreated "I waited for von. I could not go home until I had told you how sorry I was, and tried to comfort you. i on must take heart and try to bo cured. I have known people who could not see at all to be hoi pet I. and why not you ? At least you must try." An evil mood was upon George Gra ham, and he answored harshly: "Whore is the money to como from. if you please? It has been all mother could do just to live, and she struggled on with the expectation of my being able soon to help hor. She has no money for experiments. Thoro is noth ing for it but for me to rest a dead weight upon her han Is or die." "lou believe in God, George Graham. and you will not defy him. If he means you to bear this, you will bear it like a man, and not try to get rid of the bur den. Just now, it seems to me, you ought to go home. Would you like your mother to hear this from some one else?" Ho rose slowly. "You are right," ho said, "and you are a good girl. Good-bye. Susio." buo did not try to eo with him: she followed him only with her eyes. ms nioiner met mm at tne gate. When she took his hand in hers tho poor fellow felt that she knew all. She was very quiet and self -controlled. "lour tutor has boon here, she said, "and has told me. My darline. why have you sat iu the darknoss, and Bhut your mother out from any share in your trouble?" "Oh, I couldn't tell you, mother," ho sobbed, "I couldn't. I thought it would break your heart." Meanwhile, Susio Hale had gone home full of an absorbing purpose. Somehow money must and should be raised to try what a skillful occulist could do for Gearge Graham. Susio was the orphan niece of Solomon Grant. Sho knew that she had a modest little fortune of hor own, but it was all in her unclo's hands, and without his consent she could not dispose oven of her small income. But would he not be persuadod to let her have enough of her own inonoy to accomplish her desiro? She asked him, using her utmost pow er of persuasion to touch his heart, but ho ref used with peremptory decision. Susio had in the world one treasure, a diamond ring, which had been her moth er's, wUh a stone, white and clear as a dewdrop. This must, she know, be worth hun dreds. It was her own. She had meant to keep it all her life, for her mother's sake, but surely this great need of George Grahani'a justified her in parting with it. She had one friend in whose good faith and judicious management she felt im plicit confidence, and to him she sent her mother's ring, with the request that he would ell it as speedily and on as good terms as possible, and remit her the price of it in bank notes, and keep for her the aecret that she had disposed of it. It was a week after George Oraham had given up hopo, when a most unex pected hope came to him. A neighbor, going by from the post othce, handed in at the door a letter ad dressed to him. Mrs. Graham . 'George," ehe cried, after. in an eager, trembling voice, "here one hundred dollars, and that is ths f ter that cornea with them : " "This money is from a true frien,i , George Graham's and is to be appljlj ?' taking him to an oculist, in the h0M a , his sight may be restored. The iri withholds his name, both because serves no thanks, and because he wis?" to make the return of the monev in,- sible." "" "It is from Heaven itself," the m0Ui cried. "George, I feel it in mysonioi!! you are to be cured. . The next day the mother and her Llinj son sought rooms at a quiet little hoB in the city, and the day after that were among the earliest patients of dJ torAnnosly. The first examination of Georgo'( eys were unpromising enough, and tie iW lor wuiiieu iu si-u mm uwijr. There were weary days and weeks thu ionoweu, anu u was curious that tu ii i l , .. uiuiuot W! mwujn uujn uii uuu. tug m, always despairing. At last it almost irritated him to htt her speak of hope to him, and one dayh, turned on her with the first burst of pu. sionate impatience she had ever expert, enced from him. "Mother," he said, "for the love of heaven do not talk to me as if it wait sure thing that I am going to tea again. I want to think it doubtful almost impossible. If you should make me expect a cure, and then it should not come, don't you see that I should go mad? I think I should dash m? head against the wall. I can only lire by expecting nothing." After that the mother held her nam but whenever Bho went out of thai darkened room, those who saw her marveled at the light of joy in h9 eyes. At last the time came; the bandagg was removed, there waa just one wild cry: "Mother, I see you!" and then Georp lay at the doctor's feet, swooning in his great joy. It was weeks bofore he went liomt again, but the good news preceded him. The mother wrote to Solomon Grant who had agreed to keep the place open while awaiting the result of the exper iment. Solomon read the letter in full fam ily conclave. He little knew how hit niece lon&ed to snatch the na er from his hand and read it for herself; nor did he heed the tears that swam is her dark eyes, tears of such deep, nn' selfish joy as only a loving woman knows. Another letter came afterwards to tell when the widow and her son wen to return. It was Susie who waked over early in the afternoon, carrying with her a baskot of dainties for the traveller! supper. Susie's black eyes danced, and the heart sank within her as slie set the table in the little parlor, and lighted a fire in the kitchen stove, ready to make a fresh cup of tea whenever the widow and her son should arrive. Aud at last the travelers came, as at last everything does come, if we wait long enough for it. They had expected to find an empty house, and they found instead warmth and brightness, good cheer and Susie Hale. Had George Graham grown through his trial into a man's perception of a girl's charms, or had his eyes been holden bofore that he conld not see? I only know that that night, for the first time in his life, it dawned upon him that another woman might some day dispute with his mother the em pire of his heart. But it was not until five years af terwards, when Mr. Grant hud taken him into partnership, and Mr. Grant's niece, Susie, had become his wife, thut George Graham ever guessed from whose tender hands had como the gift by means of which he had been re stored to hope and happiness. Bonaparte Di'king the Conslla te. Bonaparte's costume at this period is worthy of record. On ordinary days he wore ono of the uniforms of bis guards but be bad decreed, for himself und his two colleagues, that on all occasions of grand ceremonial each should wear a ni coat, made in Winter of velvet, in Sum mer of some other material, and em broidered in gold. The two consuls, Cambaceres and Lebrun, elderly, pow dered and well set up, wore this gorgeous coat with lace, rullles and a sword, after the old fashion of full dress; but Bona parte, who detested all such adornmenls, got rid of them as much as possible His hair was cut short, smoothed down, and generally ill arranged. VVith hiscrinison-aud-gold coat he would wear a black cra vat, a lace frill to bis shirt, but no sleeves rutlles. Sometimes he wore a white vest embroidered in silver, but more fre quently his uniforn wait-tcoat, his uniform sword, breeches, silk stockings and boots. This extraordinary costume and his small stature gavs him the oddest possible ap pearance, which, however, no oue ven tured to ridicule. When he became Em peror, he wore a richly-laced coat, w ith a short cloak and a plumed hat; and this costume became him very well. A Harlem boy was heard telling why he didn't go to Sabbath-school. "I weut most a year," he said, "expecting to gef a reward, or be in at a Christmas-tree picking, anyhow. There was nary a re reward or nary Christmas tree. It was too thin. I shook her." Professor In philology a staid D. D.: "Mr., can yon give ns an example containing a conjunction co-ordinate?" Mr. B (brightening up): "Tom and Jerry." Professor: "That's good, let us see what we will have next." Voice in the rear: "Beer." A little girl observed her mother measuring it up to her nose with one hand and reaching it out arm's length with the other. She assumed a thought ful aspect, and, after cogigating a few moments, asked: "How can yon measure cloth that way? Can von smell a yard?" J 3 Advices from Rome give a sitkeniog account of the ravage of an epidemic fev?r in the old kingdom of Naples. In a section now numbering some GO.OOO souls, there are now 30,000 siik and as many have died in the kingdom during the year.
