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EUGENE CITY GUARD. X I CAMPBELL. . . Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Til eiic is eaid to be ne house in Chicago which maintains aeventy commercial traveler! in a single State, and whose yearly expenses were made 10,000 greater by the passage of the Interstate Commerce law. Or the 16,500 persons who have visited Shakspere's birthplace during the year, 5,000 were Americans, thirty nine nationalities being represented in all. The amount derived from visitors' fees is about 800 a year. A horse stolen from an Ohio farmer two years ago came come the other day by himself, having a saddle and bridle on. He was traced back over forty miles to the inn where he broke loose, but bo one came to claim him. The French have now discovered an annezable island in the Pacific, and have straightway proceeded to annex it. Their acquisition is R aia tonga, which has an area of possibly fifty square miles. The publication of a new paper, entitled the Temperance Magazine, was begun April 3rd, at Tokio, Japan. Mrs. Sasaki, Secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Tokio, is the editor. Paul Dehgrangks, of Philadelphia, has collected 1,000,000 canceled posUgs stamps. He has put them up in packages of 50,000 stamps each, the packages weighing over 6ve pounds apiece. It has taken him six years to make this useful collection. Berry Miller, of Dade City, Fla., killed an alligator fourteen feet long, weighing six hundred pounds. With in him was found an aligator six feet long. The vertebrae is is large as a four-year-old steer. The monster was very savage, and fought most viciously until killed. Mrs. Azubah F. Rydkk; of Orring ton, Maine, who is one hundred and four years old, was one of sixteen girls to scatter flowers in the open grave at a memorial service of George Washington. The has a large and in teresting corret pondence with young and old persons all over the United States. The finest private collection of al manacs in America is said to be owned by one of the Justicos of the Supreme Court of the United States. The . rarest almanac in the country, prob ably, is one published by Wm. Brad ford in 1080. It is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsyl vania, and is valuod at $ 550. A tornado that left bugs an inch deep all ovor the surface of the earth is the latest wonder from the solid South. It came near Ninety-Six in South Carolina, and the "varmints" were unknown species, black, pointed, , Tough-coated, yet evidontly not pre pared to be hutled through space at cyclone rales, as they were dead very aoen after touching the ground. A Philadelphia drummer aston ished the people of Omaha the other day by woaring a live chameleon us a watch charm. The curious little lis ard was attachod to a chain by a thin band of gold wound about its neck and nestled in the croass of the drummer's waistcoat with every indi cation of contentment. The story runs that kissing was in troduced into England by llowona, the daughter of Hengist, the Saxon. At a banquet which was given by the British monarch in honor of his allies Uie Princess, after pressing the brim ing beaker to her lips, saluted and as tonished and delighted Vortigern with a little kiss, after the manner of her own peoplo. Thkke was a very peculiar suicide in Laney Park, Elmira, N. Y., the other morning. A robin redbreast, deecrWd by its mate, sought to drown its misery in death. Taking a long string which he had picked up to put into its nest, he swung it around a bough, then wound it around his neck and expired. The body hung in the 'tree all day and many pedestrians gated at it curiously. Kussu leather is made in Connect icut; Bordeaux wine is manufactured in California; Italian marble is quar ried in Kentucky; French lace is woven in New York ; Marseilles linen is produced in Massachusetts ; Eng lish caasimsre is made in New Hamp shire; Parisian art work comes from a shop in Boston ; Spanish mackeral are caught on the New Jersey coast; and Havana cigars are rolled in Chicago. TELEGRAPHIC. A EriTONK or the Pkiucipal Eve EflTS New Attbactino Public Ihtkhkst The Berghoff brewery burned at Fort Wayne, Ind. Loss 9 IWfJW. The motor and car on the South Side Electric railway at PitUburg, Pa., ran away and was completely wrecked. Seven persons were seriously injured, one probably fatally. A boy at Salt Lake threw a lighted match into a coal oil can, causing an explosion, which resulted in the death of Cleo Qarner, aged 5, and Guy Jor don, aged 6 years, and the serious in jury of David Jordon. Charles W. Waldron,.'pne of the owners and managers of the Waldron bank of Detroit, Mich., has absconded, taking with him money and securities variously estimated at from $00,000 to $80,000. In a collision between a passenger and a construction train of the Bur lington road, near Krum, Iowa, an en gine and ten cars were totally wrecked. Itoadmaster Rose, Dennis Griffin and Patrick Beady, and a number of others were injured. A stock train, running at a high rate of speed ran into a herd of cattle near Fort Buford, Minn., on the Man itoba road, wrecking seventeen cars. Nearly 100 cattle were killed and five tram-men injured, three probably to tally. A collision occurred on the Dayton & Michigan road near Lima, Ohio, be tween a freight - and a special Irom Ottuwa with a military company on the way to Columbus. One or two cars were broken up and two passen gers, one engineer and the conductor received slight injuries. A barn on the Spring Valley stock farm, nine miles from Indianapolis, Ind., was burned, and eighteen head of fine horses perished. The fine stallion Brignoli Wilkes was lost; also Ina, valued at $ 0,000; Mary C.,$5,000 ; Vassar Girl, Madam Home wood and others. Charles Northey, a miner, a native of Cornwall, England, was precipi tated down the shaft of the Pollock mine at Butte, Mont, a distance of 100 feet, by falling off the cage through the carelessness of the engineer, and was instantly killed. He leaves a wife and two children. Mr. James Bell, a business man of Chicago, quietly stepped up to Mr. John Stevens, a "young man about town," dexterously sliced his ear off with a pen knife, placed the severed member in his vest pocket and walked away. Mr. Stevens, it is intimated, had too ardent an admiration for Mrs. Bell to suit Mr. Bell. A serious accident occurred on the Columbus, Springfield & Cincinnati Hallway, east ol bprwgfield, Ohio. A train, consisting of eight freight, two tiiiHHdiiL'er cars and two sleeners. struck i o w , a broken rail. The engine and every l mi l.i car were ueraneu. me sleepers, Doin carrvine DaneneerB. were thrown down the embankment. Four 'pas sengers were injured. The boiler of a locomotive attached to a Lehigh valley freight train ex ploded while going up the mountain near Wilkesbarre, Pa. A brakeman named Joseph Vanhorn, was blown from the engine into the woods, 200 feet away. Both of his legs and one arm wore broken, and his back was injured. He died before reaching homo. Mrs. Mulling, of Pittsburgh, was a witness against Mr. Scholler in a case which was to have been tried Tuesday afternoon, and Tuesday morning Mr. Scholler, in order to insure Mrs. Mul Una' absence from court, walked into her hause, and, seizing her by the hair, cut her throat from ear to ear. Mrs. Mullins being dead, and, Mr. Scholler being in jail, the case was not tried. The sheriff of St. Louis county, Mo., accompaniod by a posse of depu ties, went to St. Charles to arrest three men for stealing a ferry boat. A fight with revolvers resulted, in which one deputy was killed, and two others badly wounded. The sheriff himself disappeared, and it is not known whether he was captured by outlaws, or. is still running for his life. The false work for the super-structure of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail way bridgo over the Ohio, between Covington and Cincinnati was swept away by a great raft of driftwood that had accumulated at its base, and 350 feet of the iron bridge dropped a dis tance of 100 feet into the stream be low. The trestle went down the river ten or twelve miles, where some of it was anchoicd. The iron work lies in the river near shore. The com pany estimate their loss at $200,000. W. H. Lelaiid, brother-in-law of F, D. Adams, mine owner of Auburn, Cal., who is in Chicago to dispose of mining property, was drugged in a sa loon by a bartender and accomplices. When he recovered he was in the rear of the saloon, in an alley, and his watith and money were gone. His assailants were cutting the flesh off his finger to get a diamond ring oil. He resisted, when they beat him and got away. Leland has identified the men. Jacob Moxter, a piano dealer of St. Louis, Mo., committed suicide. He entered his warerooms and began tuninir a aiano. When the work was completed he sat down at the instru ment and played a "dead march." As the last note died sway the report of a pistol rang out wln a couple of work men rushing up found Moxter lying on the floor beside the piano, with a thin stream of blood running from a wound in Itis temple, lie died iu a few minutes. 1 COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washikoto Territory and California. Hampton D. Balcom died at Spo kane Falls, w. T., from an overdose ol morphine. George Lee was shot and killed by Charles H. Jackson at Alberquerque, N. M. A fire broke out at San Diego, Cal., on H street, and destroyed the entiie block. James Mitchell, a painter, engaged in painting a church at Sacramento, Cal., fell from the scaffolding and met with instant death. J. 8. Wheeler, a blacksmith, com mitted suicide at Saclo, Cal., shooting himself through the head with a pistol The 17-year-old son of Richard Smith, fell in a tub of boiling water and was terribly scalded, at Spokane Falls. W. T. Walla Walla will vote a tax for the purpose of building: a new brick schoolhouse, to cost $25,000, ihe pres ent school building being overcrowded. The body of Elmer Alford, who was drowned at Long Beach, Cal., came ashore at the place where he was bath ing when drowned. Herman Bostlem died at Los An geles, Cal., from opium taken for sup posed suicidal intent. Deceased was a new-comer, and nothing is known of his home or family connections. Joseph Brown, 9 years old, while oiling a wiudlas used in moving a school house, at San Jose, Cal., had his head drawn between a boom and a stanchion, and was crushed to death. Charles Parker, about 25 years old, was fatally injured at Chico, Cal. He was working on a hay press, when in some way the crank slipped and fell on him, crushing his skull. Two brothers named Schumsker, tried to swim across the river at Napa, Cal., with their clothes on, and George sank when about half way across. It is supposed they were under the in fluence of liquor. A young man named Einest SUysa was accidentally shot at Pasadena, Cal., by a rifle in his own hands while taking it out of a wagon. He died almost instantly. He was but 20 years ol age and single. A Chinaman named Why Geng ran amuck in the northern part of Fresno, Cal., scaring women and children, Cflicers chused him in a house writh ing on the floor in spasms. The man died while being removed, and at the inquest it was found he was a leper. John McMahon and Capt. Rowe woke up at Seattle, W. T., and found they were prisoners in their own rooms, and had been robbed during the night. McMahois clothes were all stolen, and Capt. Rowe was robbed of $200 in com. A. R. Walters and J. S. W. Banks, two campers at Bakerafieid, Cal., were preparing to retire when Walters, in attempting to take his riflo out of a wagon, discharged it, the bullet pass ing through his shirt bosom and strik ing Banks on the right temple, en tering the brain. Banks died. The dead body of a man was found lying along the railroad track at Bakersfield, Cal. Deceased had been feen around the depot intoxicated. Hs hat was found on too of the box car. He apparently had climbed on top of the car to steal a ride, and fell oft, death being caused by contussion of the brain. At Florin, near Sacramento, Cal., an unknown man was run over and killed by a freight train. The body was cut in two about the middle, the parts being held together ouly by a strip of skin. Judging from blood marks on the ties tb.i man was struck while crossing a trestle and was dragged some distance. Wm. Mei nin, aged 19, a bookkeeper in a livery stable at Nevada, Cal., left town, saying he would be back iu two hours. He did not return, however, and it was discovered that the pud- lock on an old-fashioned safe at the stable had been pried off and about $5,000 stolen. Hennessy, the loser of the money, is young Mermn s uncle and was very kind lo him. His nephew's ingratitude has made the old man almost broken hearted. A. Filletor, whose cabin is near Evansville, Cal., has been a cripple for for some years and was obliged to walk with the aid of two canes. His cabin wsb found burned down and on Bcarch being made for his body it was found some thirty or forty feet away, where it had been dragged and par tially eaten by mountain lions, lie had been so badly burnnd that he died from his injuries and the lions had dragged oil' the dead body to feed on. Dudley Ayres, A. Lenstein, George Ling, W. G. Steele and Walter Adams, were seated in the elevator of a build ing in San Francisco, when a rope gave way, precipitating the elevator and the occupauts to the bottom of the shaft. Lenstein, who was the worst injured, received a compound fracture of the left leg, besides being internally hurt. Adams had his left ankle broken. Steele received bruises on the head and body, and Ayres had one of his ankles twisted. Wm. Grigley was riddled with bul lets at James S. Copeland s ranch near Vina, Cal., by James Copeland, J r., and Mr. Hopper, whom he tried to kill. He first stole a watch and pistol from Copeland's house, and fired two shots at yonog Copeland and Hopper, missing his aim. Mrs. Copeland and son, and Hopper took refuge in the upper story of the Cook house, from which they opened fiie on Grigley, killing him instantly. The coroner's jury none rated them. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted tc the Intkrksts ok Farmers and Stockmen. Nothing pays as well on the farm as a good garden. The peach trees in Arkansas are so heavily laden with fruit this season that much shaking off will have to be done in order to preserve the trees. An English authority has computed that in the last three or four years more pigs have died in the United States of cholera than have been raised in the British Isles. Vermont's maple sugar crop this spring is in quantity and quality above the average, owing to recently introduced improvements in its man ufacture. The yield is estimated at fifteen million pounds. The nse of commercial fertilizers makes it possible to apply some ma nure to every crop, and in land that is constantly growing something, this means manuring every year. As the farmer sees the wealth of blossoms in his fruit orchard, he should be reminded that it requires an enormous amount of plant food of various kinds to make the fruit ma ture. Soaking seed corn in tar water is claimed to be an excellent remedy for protecting the plants against the ravages of both worms and crows. Some believe it to be quite us effec tive as soaking in copperas water. By far the best potato for late spring use is the Blue Imperial. It does not sprout readily, but remains comparatively solid until early planted potatoes are ready for use. Fire is the best preventive of disease in orchards and vineyards. If all the old wood be piled up and burned it will greatly lessen disease and insect attacks. It should be done early in the season. Do not force young pear trees too rapidly, as it has been demonstrated that the blight does not as readily at tack trees that grow slowly as it does those that grow quickly. A grass crop will soon ruin a peach orchard. Pick off all the blossoms that may appear on your young strawberry vines set out this spring. Do not al low any of the young plants to fruit. It will injure their growth and lessen their productiveness next season. To prevent the sparrows from driv ing the wrens away bore a round hole in the box one inch in diameter. The sparrow could not get into the box through so small an entrance, while the wren would be able to go in or out at will. The value of any kind of farm stock is very largely determined by its feeding the first year of its life. Breeding counts for much, though every successful breeder knows how greatly the character of a young ani mal is changed by innutritious or im proper food. A party of New Jersey gentlemen who rtturned from a recent visit to Florida, have decided to introduce the cocoanut tree into Florida, and have secured a long stretch of territory iu the southern portion of the State. On most farms the manure is too unequally distributed to give the best profit. Some parts are manured heavily annually. The garden is one such spot, and rs it requires more labor than ary other equal area, it is fairly entitled to a greater portion of manure. California farmers increased their acreage in prunes this year, but the unfavorable weather during the blos soming period diminished the yield considerably. It is, however, expected now that the quantity will be double that secured last year. Santa Clara county is the principal prune section. In planting out patches of the hermaphrodite strawberry plants to fertilize those that are only pistillate, it is important to have the two blos soms at exactly the same time. If there is not uniformity in blossoming, the earlier or later berries as the case may be, will be unfertilized. Have your supply of white helle bore on hand, and when the currant worm makes its appearance "go for him" at once. He has an appetite like a school-boy. and gets in his work in short order. Promptness in head ing off his depredations is the price of currants. Make a map of your orchard, mark ing the location of each tree and what variety it is, and you will have no need to depend upon labels, which are liable to be destroyed or injured. A glance at your diagram or map will show at once the character of any tree in your orchard. It is risky business taking small po tatoes for planting, if they are the leavings from a bin. They may make good seed, if well ripened and from strong, thrifty plants; but potatoes that grew small, because their growth was checked by blight or other de struction of their leaves, are worthless as seed. The sour currants are sure to be plagued with the currant worm. Look out for them. A little hellebore dusted on the leaves is an efficient protection. The worm never gets a second taste of this insect destroyer. Apply it early ia the morning, while dew is on the leaves of the bushes. The tomato is commonly grown in gardens on soils made much too rich. The vine attains remarkable vigor, but the fruit ripens slowly. If ouly moderately ferine sou were used for ripen earlier, and be lees subject to rot, though this disease is apt to take the first ripening fruit of some kinds of tomatoes on auy soil 1 MARKET REPORT. Reliable Quotations Carefbllt Re vised Kvery Week. WHEAT- Valley, $1 30$1 81 Walla Walla, $1 201 22J. BARLEY Whole, $1 101 12; ground, per ton, 325 00(327 60. OATS Milling, 3233o. ; feed, 44 45c. HAY Baled, f 10f 13. SEED Blue Grass, 14J16c.; Tim othy, 9J10c; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 18c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound, 25c; pickled, 2025c.; inferior grade, lo25j. CHEESE Eastern, 1620c.; Ore gon, 14(3 16c.; California, 14Jc. VEGETABLES Beets, per sack, $1 50; cabbage, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots, petsk., $1 25; lettuce, per doz. 20c; onions, $1 00 ; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 15 20c. ; rhubarb, per lb., 6c. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 6 gal. tins, per lb. 8Jc. POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $4 00(3)6 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00 7 00; geese, $6 008 00; turkeys, per lb., 12 Jc. PROVISIONS Oregon haws, 12Jc per lb.; Eastern, 1313k.; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12Je. per'lb.; Oregon 1012c; Eastern lard, 10lljc. per lb.; Oregon, lOJc GREEN FRUITS Apples, $ 60 85c; Sicily lemons, $6 006 50 California, $3 505 00; Naval oranges $6 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra nean, $4 25. DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap ples, 7Jc. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 lie; pitless plums, 13c,; Italian prunes, 10 14c. ; peaches, 12J14c.; raisins, $2 402 50. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon. 915c HIDES Dry beef hidee, 810c; culls, 67c; kip and calf, 810c; Murrain, 10 12o. ; tallow, 33Ac. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G. sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor ing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 ceiling, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 8, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 flooring, per M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M, $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50; stepping, per M, $2a 00; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, extra, $4 00; 1 lath, per M, $2 25; 1 lath, per M, $2 50. BEANS Quote email whites, $4 50; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Limas, $4 50 per cental. SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three sizes ; stock salt, $10. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c; Costa Rica, 18 20c; Rio, 1820c; Java, 27c ; Arbuckle's's roasted, 22c. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 2J3c; dressed, 6c; sheep, 3c; dresed, 6c; hogs, dressed, 89c; veal, 57c. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden C,6Jc; extra C, Ofc; dry granulated, 73c; crushed, hue crushed, cube and powdered, 7fc ; extra C, CJc; halves ana boxes, $c. higher. A SUMMERY EPISTLE. The Joyi of Life In the Country During the Hentetl Term. Elm Forks. I came to this country village to find the rest and coolness which was so widoly advertised. The only coolness I am able to find is that which belongs to the landlord of this hotel if I only possessed some of it! But it is not included in the emoluments. The oldest inhabitant is obliged to ad mit that the thermometer was never so high nor the sun so low. In fact, peo ple going to the hill tops have to duck their heads to avoid bumping against that inflammatory planet. There has been no atmosphere here : for a week, and even "See Saw" and "White Wings" have ceased to be airs. If Shndroch, Mesach & Co. would acci dentally come salamanderlng around here they would lose their reputation of centuries, and when you set out to take a buggy ride you feel sure you are going to come Elijah on it When you see people turning the thormometor upside down so the mer cury shows 148 degrees below zero, you can realize how they are depending on Imagination for life. The sunbeams strike into the ground and stick there, and fairly drive up the dust; they burn holes in your umbrella, and if you go out without one in two minutes your brains will be boiling and the steam coming out of your ears. "Hot meals" signs we see all around, but what we want are cold meals. Be tween your eyes and the paper the heat flickers so that you can't read, and peo ple go out and jerk the ice man in sud denly, or the cake would evaporate if he walked slowly. Polities are es chewed, as disputes would become too heated. You have to be quick in taking a drink of water or it will evaporate be fore you get it to your mouth. Sunday we hod no music at church, as they could get no air to put Into the organ. The water in the creek here is so dry it crumbles up and blows away. Hot is such a little bit of a word that it won't reach. I long for a bad cold. This letteret may seem to bo over heated, but so I am. A. lir. Leila w, in Detroit Free Press. Another use for doors has been found by a Newark citizen. He t-e one from its hinges and threw it at a man with whom he got into un altorca- ADVICE TO SMOKERS Cuy Small Doim n.i i, . - "inn. me cnunje u, has come Over the trade resrHjetit,, I Biniiuuru cigar ooxr asked a ltai dealer of a reporter recently very many years ago the standard held one hundred cigars. Xuw , standard holds but fifty, and the r smaller box holding but twenty-s," rupid'.y pushing to the front hi; not accounted for on the principle t' as nations become- more clvili coins in use become sub-divided meet the demands of a more dlven,i trade? May it not come fronu C ing towurds a fresh cigar? When man attempts to consume a bn ."' taining one hundred cigars he finds J M.w tnn fin., -.1 1 . . mkv vt ui j, aim uunce nis chaj t.n ttiA flftv ni tha tufnnfi. ... l " But," continued thedfaler, "if wholesale and retail tobacconist! 0' this country do not soon awuke fa. thoir long-sleep they will wake some fine morning and find that ij trade in costly Havana clears U i great peril and the work they are m refusing to do will bo many uV harder when the critical point I reached. Tho point in question ii ftj foolish freak of natur-o. the In... fashion for light-colored cigars, & without one word of comment or ei plantion the tobacconists have catering to that silly whim. Matter nave gone irom oaa to worse, uat:.i whole crops or tobacco have bt ruined in tho endeavor to supply som thing that nature would notproduw In the tobacco growing districts t Cuba tho crops have been cut long Ik fore maturity, and as a natural con, queneo very inferior tobacco wastl result. Tho consumer still asks l: light-colored cigars, and at tho sat tlmo condemns the inferior qualitv ' later-day tobacco, that, nine times'o often, has been spoiled in order!; sutisfy his craving for a pale cipir This is all wrong, and it is with; the power of the retailer to counterr this tendency on the part of the cot sumor and bring him to a realizing ., of his own danger. It is neud'.ess i lay down a set of rules for theguidsn of tobacconists. They know thattl: soil and climate of Cuba will not pr luce light cigar tobacco any Defo. than any other. When nature duces a tobacco light in color it h un suited for cigars, is a well-known Itt' the world over. This is the rule tb;.: nature herself has made, and whea r. get a pale color you may know tSat tl tobacco has been doctored and unfit I: richness and aroma for a delicto. smoke. The great crop of Havar , tobacco Is dark; the coming crop will, in all probability, be dark also; and :.' the dealers do not bestir themsehv and enter into the work of convertii: their misguided customers they ri'.', imperil their trade in the finer pic of cigars. The Havana tobacco ewv all other for cigars. The llcxicsr. and Manilla weeds are favorites (or cheroots. The Kentucky tobacco fait- termedinte in character. The tobac of Virginia is the best for pipe smok- Inir u-hlla fhiit. frnm Munlanj is ....... w used for tho cheaper grades ol cijars. I N- Y. Mail and Express.. . n HELPING THE POOR. An Eooentrio Khnile Inlander Wh Tf rent 1 1 omen to Worthy Xelclilxin. They say up in Newport that Gear:- B. Hazard, one of the wealthiest W Zens, is a crank. No one has ever cused him of being a fool. He mit a big fortune in business and he b it yet He appears to have m original ideas as to the proper employ ment' of the half-million dollars possesses. Hehas fcogim by givi for a nominal consideration dwellin: houses to several poor but wort residents of the city. Ho has piy clear deeds of the property, takL-: mortgages for the amount of wi the rents of tho property would con to in ten years, the parties having p mission to sell or otherwise dispose the property in the meantime if th find it to their advantage to do so, ai they can pay tho mortgage at any tit they see tit. Hazard has many ou houses to dispose of in the same wsj. and he doesn't propose to have tf. wrangling over his property 'lr death. He has been ia considerab legal and other difficulties, and recen--ly was sent to jail for six months for t sault, and, later on, he had a t thousand dollar judgment renders ngainst him in a civil suit for the sac assault, which ho refused to pay." was taken to jail, where he remain until ho decided to pay it Since his release the jailor lost Im position, and Hazard has now co& forward and provided him with !r? house free of rent Ho gave a vslw- hair,nua utn.w.tj tn Oil 6 01 "'' State Hoard of Charities and Corm tion, ex-Postmaster Thomas Cog' hall, without any consideration- cause Coggshall was kind to him prison. Hazard is nearly severty-fi years of ago and in poor health. 1". Graphic. Too Great a Risk. "Well, you seem to be in fir physical condition," said the inst ance medical examiner to an npp'C5"1. "I think you wiir do. Mr- (turninir to the asrent) I think I can .. V.i ..,J nniv 4)h. D? i way (to the applicant) do you nun iv fiuj "Why, certainly." "Do you think you knowA'W about it to umpire a game? " Yes, I could umpire a game; but- "Mr. Smith, take him away. (0; panv can't have anything to'lo liini." M.rdfint Irai.Ur.