KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

B V MA V E. BRY AN,

Author of " The Bayou Bride," " The

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XVI.

No wonder that; young Hill had no time and little sympathy to bestow on his mend, Max, in his distress at the loss of Kildee. Hazard was too full of plans and anxieties of his own. Three schemes seethed in his busy brain ; to win Honor Montcalm ; to trace the murderer of her uncle, and to bring about the iiomina.tioii and election of her father, thereby seeming future political influence to forward his own advancement. These were the enda which he determined to compass. Their accomplishment would have seemed an absurd dream to a less dar ing and sanguine- spirit. Strangely enough, the plans hung to gether by a chain of subtle sequence —the success of one depended upon the success of the other. If he could succeed in break ing off the engagement between Honor and HeathclilV, then General Montcalm would feel free to declare himself a candidate for the office he would be likely to win. Could he sift the murder of Captain Montcalm to the bottom and prove thatthe Mayor of Wall port was mixed up with it, then the con nection between HeathclifTand Miss Mont calm would be at once disrupted, and his rival in love and opposer in politics would be driven from either field.

But how dared he dream that the upright and honoured Ira Heathclift" had any con nection with that bloody drama—that this man who was president of various humane and Christian associations was the harbourer of a murderess? He had no ground for suspicion byond the declaration of the work man that he had seen Laura Montcalm enter the Mayor's preinise.s on the night of the murder—this, taken in connection with that mysterious note which he—Hazard — had read upon the Mayor's desk, and the ■writer of which he believed to be a secret inmate of the Red House—the abode of the Mayor's deformed client. Yes, there was a woman secreted there. It was her voice he had heard singing ; it was her graceful shape he had seen through the window, it was more than possible that this was Laura Montcalm—the woman upon whose head so large a price had been sot and for whom the police had searched in vain.

With his brain at fever heat, Hazard hurried through his office work each day that he might haunt the neighbourhood of the Red House. Once or twice he heard a note of the same sweet voice, but he saw no one to match the voice. Indeed, the position of the house baffled his efforts to see even its exterior, or what was going on in the grounds about it.

He resorted to stratagem to effect an en trance into the guarded precincts. Find ing that he could not bribe the vigilant negro watch-dog, he tried to obtain ad mission under various disguises and pre texts. He got himself up as a lace pedlar, a piano-tuner, a beggar in great distress, an old woman fortune-teller who had some thing of great importance to communicate. But none of £hese awful dodges moved the Cerberus to break his mistress's orders. He met every appeal with the same shake of his iron-grey head and the reply: "Missis, don't you see no company." At last Hazard resolved to storm the citadel more boldly.

He buttoned a double-breasted, long tailed coat over two others which he had on, in order to make his dimensions more imposing, donned a high silk bat, a pair of huge whiskeP?, glasSeSTTWll a"great watch chain and se"al-"ring, and, further equipped with a big blank-book under his arm and a gold-headed cane, he rang the gatebell of the Red House.

When the old negro appeared he cut short the functionary's usual formula by curtly demanding admission as an officer of the State —a taker of the census. The pom pous air, the big watch-chain, and the bold command carried the point. The gate swung- back, and Hazard presently found himself in the dim, musty-smelling, never used parlour of the Red House.

It was some time before the mistress of the house appeared. She came in at last with a slow, uncertain step, and, just bend ing her head, sank into a chair near tho door. It was evident that she wds painfully sensitive about her deformity. She wore the veil of. dark gauze fastened over her plentiful gray hair ; but Hazard could see through it the purple mark disfiguring one side of her face arid a portion of her neck, giving her a strangely repulsive look. Aside from this disfigurement, her hooked nose and wrinkled cheeks were not pleasant to look upon. She wore blue goggles over eyes whose lids had a trick of twitching aid drawing together, which might be owing to nervous shyness or to near sighted- Jiess. Her manner was Muttered and timid, yet not devoid of a certain dignity and rc rinement. She directed a penetrating look at Hazard from her queer, contracted eyes from behind the blue goggles, and he felt himself colouring under his sham whiskers ; but his native assurance came to his aid, and he bowed to her in a briskly dignified official way, and he informed her that he was engaged in estimating the population of the city and had called upon her in that capacity. Then, opening his great blank book with a flourish and poising hia pencil, he put to her customary questions of the census-taker—as her name, age, place of birth, and finally the number of persons in her family. As he put the last question he ]cept a searching eye fixed upon her. She replied : " The other persons on the premises be side myself are two negro servants—a man and a woman named—"

" The white inmates of your house first, if you please," interrupted Hazard. "I should prefer to see them. Indeed, it is my duty to put tho questions direct to all adult persons." "There is no white inmate of the house besides myself." "No member of your family, perhaps, but there is some other occupant—a visitor, or—"

" No, sir, there is rid one. I live alone."

"Is it so ? Pardon me, but I must be exact —it is my business to be ; and these questions—l need not inform a lady of your intelligence—must be answered as on oath. Do I then understand you to say that there is not, and has not lately been, any white person beside yourself living on these pre mises ?"

" It is what I said, Bir, and what I re peat," returned the lady, haughtily. She rose as though to end the interview ; her crooked figure seemed almost to straighten, and her drawn eyes emitted an indignant flash upon the intruder. "If you wish to see the two negroeSj I will send them to you in the yard,' she said, dismissing him with a wave of her small, black-mittened hand.

Chagrined and disappointed, Hazard yet determined to carry his stratagem aa far as he could. He might gain something by interrogating the negroes. But when he had them before them as he sab on a rustic bench under one of the trees, be found that his cross-questioning failed to elicit any thing but what he had beard from tfye mistress herself. The negro woman, a tidy, middle-aged person, bad been with Miss Faust nearly two years; the man bod been her factotum at the Red Houbo ever since she had been in Wallport—" Seven years, come next Christmas, he maid, It

was an easy place, only he wished "folks would quit worritting his mistress. She didn't want people to come staring afc her misformities. I never stares at her my self. She told me from de fust it hurt her feelin's, and I'se took care not to look her hard in the face ever since ; 1 jest glances at her sidelike." The pretended census taker departed but little wiser than when he came. Still, all he had heard had not done away with bin persistent belief that there was a secret inmate of the house. Through all Miss Faust's haughty decision, he had, as he thought, detected a certain perturbation and hesitancy that seemed to argue there was something wrong. But what step should he take next? There was the vacant building on the lot adjoining the Red House—the same into the yard of which he had made his way that night, and climbing into a fork of a tree had seen the lady's shape through the window-. This building was still "to let," as he caw by the green card upon the door. The idea came to him, as by a flash, to rent the house for awhile and make it the base of his detective operations. An end window near tho back of tho building would afford a view of the window in the Red House through which Hazard had seen the graceful vision. He went at once to the real estate agent whose name was on the card and rented the old out-of-repair house for two months. He did not, however, remove the sign " to let," nor did he occupy the building, only to slip in at odd times during the day and night, and make his way to the side window of the rear room, there to keep watch through the blinds upon the movements of the occupants ot the mysterious house. For awhile nothing rewarded his labours. Occasionally the blinds of the one window not hidden from him by intervening trees Were thrown open, and he had a view of a pretty interior —evidently a boudoir or private sitting-room, with a background of pale tinted wall, relieved by pictures, Howers.and a swinging bird's cage of silver wire. .Several times he had seen Miss Faust seated by the table reading, or standing beside the cage, feeding her birds. Only once had he seen her without the veil. Then she was evidently alone. As old Caleb had said, she shrank from fully exposing her disfigured face even to the servants.

But it was not the deformed old recluse that Hazard watched for with such stealthy intentness. And as yet no form but her misshapen.one and the rotund figure of her dusky maid, had appeared within the space framed by the long French window. Hazard's hope was beginning to falter, but he did not relax his vigilance—rather he increased it. And at last his patient watching was crowned with something akin to success. Oue evening, just at dusk, he saw the mayor enter the gate of the Red House. Hazard had followed Heathcliff at a little distance and seen him stop first at a book-store where he bought a new magazine, and then at a pretty stall, lighted with Chinese lanterns, where he purchased a basket of grapes arranged with their own fresh leaves. With the basket in his hand and the magazine in his coat pocket, he mounted the stone Btep3 of the terrace and unlocked the gate with a key he took from his pocket. No sooner was he inside the inclosure than Hazard hastened around the corner ahd made his way to the old house he had rented. Going round to the back entrance, he exchanged his boots for carpet slippers (a precaution he always took), and entered the dark empty house. He would light no lamp lest he should put the inmates of the Red House on their guard. Arrived at his post of observation, he saw to his chagrin that the blinds of the window were closed. But another look showed him that the slats were turned so as to admit the air, and this allowed him a partial view of any object that might come within the lighted parallelogram. The evening was so still that the slightest noise made itself heard. He caught the sound of a rap on the boudoir door, and immediately a figure passed across the lighted space, as though coming from an adjoining room. It passed with a swift, gliding motion, but, in spite of the inter vening slats, he saw that it was the same shapely, flexible form he had seen be fore. In another moment two figures were partially seen behind the turned blind. One seemed the mayor's stately, erect forms tine other Was the slender shape which had orossed the room. She seemed to bend and hold out her hands as though to receive something — doubtless the basket of grapes. Then she lifted her head ; the tall figure stooped, and Hazard could almost have sworn that a kiss had been given and received. They moved away from the window, and Hazard saw them no more together. But an hour later, he saw the female figure again cross the space behind the turned blinds, and said to himself :

" She has gone to her bed-chamber."

Hurrying out of the house, Hazard reached the corner of the street in time to see the maydr'3 unmistakable figure pass a gas-lamp some distance up the street. Next day Hazard said io General Mont calm :

'' Have you found that picture of your brother's wife ?"

" What, the miniature painted On ivory? No, the housekeeper has been looking for it. She picked it up when I threw it out of the window, and put it somewhere among her effects. I never thought of its being useful to trace her. I only wanted to put the face of the cursed traitress and murderess out of my sight." " Had she golden-brown hair ?" " Yes, and plenty of it. It was one of her most marked features. Why do you ask ? Have you found anyone you think may be she ? "I have found a—clue," said Hazard, slowly, bending once more over the article he was copying from one of the general's old files of political papers. " A rather important clue, I hope," he added, after a pause: " but the time is not yet ripe to disclose it. General, this old letter of Norton's will tell heavy agaitist him. He's forgotten he ever uttered such rash senti ments. Their republication will be a startling torpedo in his path. We have a bomb preparing for Heathcliff, too. We are clearing the field for our independent candidate. It is time he entered the lists. When shall the ' Rattler' announce you, general ?" '•Why. I supposed I had made it per fectly clear to your people that it was nut of the question for me to run when Heath clifF—" ; "Was your prospective son-in-law. Yes, I know you urged that objection, but you also said that if the engagement were broken up—" " But the engagement will not be broken up. They are to be married in a few weeks. It is fixed as fate, you understand." " Yea, I lindersband," Hazard repeated. But he smiled to himself as he thrust his note-book into his coat-pocket and lighted the cigar the general had just offered him. He did not understand that this marriage was something as siire as fate. As tho smoke ourled up in graceful wreaths he watohed it dreamily and built upon it a prophetic vision of Honor Montcalm, smil ing and holding out to him wreaths where with to crown his victorious brow.

To be Continued.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1887.

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Eailway TiiiieJTafolc. IVT B W ZEAL AND RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE. —On and after APRIL 1, 1887. AUCKLAND AND ONEHUNGA LINK. Auckland Week Dayb. Sats only. Sundays Okkhunqa. , _ j^ ■" v , -nl a niTjmT'D p.m. p.m.lp.m. p.m. n.in. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.in. p.m. Aucklnnd dmi 7 H V\\i li'lio'li 0 2.0 4.13 5.20 0.20 .. 10.0 1.10 11.40 9.0 2.3 C NcSSi*ri-et Jum 7"'2fl " 111 10.00^.10 2.10 4.25 5.30 0.30 .. 10.10 1.20 11.50 9.10 2.H Ramuera.. .. 7.30 .. H.iu 10.65J12.15 2.16 4.30 6.35 6.55 .. 10.15 l.ito 11.55 0.15 2.« *KnprHliln ano " 7h« " Ofi li'a 12.5» 2.25 4.40 6.45 6.45 " 10'L'5 1!.35 12.5 9.22 2.5. Sole Junction 7,15 8.5S JSjIUO 13.80 2.301.45 5.50 "6.52 7.3010.30 1.40 12.10 U. 26 2.55 OnehuSa?. arr. 7.55 9.5 tiJli'.W 12.40 2.40 4.85 6.0 7.0 j 7.4010.40 l!n IB.SO 9.35 3.7 ! Onega tn Auckl'd. a.m.LraJa.m. a.m. jwpjp'™' Ps^k^J^wJwSj ifc Van p «v OneJnuntfa ..dep. 7.5 1 8.20; 9.30 10.0 12.10 1.0 1 25 5,10 8.36 7.1610.50 2.0 10.0 5.3 C ! 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" T! " '.'. Z '1 8.1 1.26 3.47 Z ','. 8.18 Manurewa .. .. .... — .. 8.16 1.42 4.2 „ ~ Panatoitoi 8.30 2.0 4.15 . .. * Otahuliu .. fi.so 8.19 8-41 2.10 4.23 6.20 ".15 Penrosc Junction H7.15 tHS.SO 18.54 t2.30 ti.36 t6.30 t7.30 9.0 Ellerslie 7.20 8.35 8.53 2.35 6.35 7.35 * I^irucra an° '.'. 7. 7. 7 7.30 8.44 9.7 2.45 6.45 7.45 • Nowmarket June 7.35 8.49 9.19 2.55 t0.4 6.51 7.50 9.20 Auckland arr. 7.45 8.58 9.28 3.5 5.13 7.0 8.0 | 9.30 t Change for Onohunga. I! Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. j Change for Kaipara Branch Stations. S Change for Otahuhu. A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations between Auckland Onohunga. b Only Btops to pick up Passengers for South of Penrose Junction. O. Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. I). Runs on Mondays and Wednesdays only. K. Runs from Otorohanga on Tuesdays and Thursdayß only. The 9.15 a.m. Q-alh from Te Awamutu runa daily. r. Franktoa Junction for Cambridge, Te Aroha and Kotoma Lines. Cambridob—Te Aroha and Rotorua Links. South.-Week Dayb. North.-Week Days. .v • ' A. M. A. M. A a P M Auckland, dep. „ 8 01140 LfohfleW. dep. .. « .. ~6125 ■ •* ~—- *Putaruru Junction .. 7. " * ..pm. p. M. *laumangi * Frankton Jun., dep .-. .. 1 30c7 0 Oxford, dep. "19 <;n Hamilton AVest _ .. 138 710 *Okoroire *" " * ♦Hamilton East.. .. : ~ * * *Mansawhara " ** * Huakura Jun., arr. 152 722 Matamata '.. .-£ ... 7. 13) . 1 ~ *Waharoa _ " * " * Cambridge Br.— .. „ .. *Walton ...... Kuakura Jun., dep .. 2 0d730 *Kiwitahi!! !." * *Mongaonui .. .. „ _ .. * * Mori ins ville, arr. * " "' 2 m "Tamahoro ■ * « . " *' . *Kencourt .. * ♦ Te Aroha Br.— "Hautapu ♦ * Te Aroha, dep. „ '"8 20 CambiidKo, arr. 240 810 *Waihou .. .. 7. \\ • "* —— *Waitoa .. 7. 7 " * " Ruakura Jun., dop. 2 0&7 30 *TatuaoHaua« " * " *10uroka * * "Murray's " " * "" •Motumaoho * * Morrinsville, arr. " "95" Mornnsville, arr. .. 240 810 •• " ° - rr —; r ~ """ Morrinsville, dep. 9 w />9 si Tk Aroha Br.- *Motumaoho » f Momnsyille, dep .. a 255 815 *Euroka " " " * # •Murray s .. .. • * Ruakura Jun., arr. " "950 3qa *TatuaoHaua .. .. «.-...■.,. * * !_ ■ ' w6 M l}% a\l? a * * Cambridge Br.- MVaihou * ♦ Cambridge, dep. " SUM an To Aroha, arr. .. 3408 55 *Haßtapii.. .. " ••8i 5«250 ~z —f '~. — ~ — —~———— *Fcncourt ~ "" " » • Morrinsville, dep _ ..M6O ... *Tamahero • * •Kiw'tahi »....* .. *Mongaonul . " " * * : W aharnoa' f. ~ " I " *^ Xlt*^ B '#• ''. "v-j»» ®S 80 |»ara:: '7. jj j * .Jf J SSgtffc^ •;" - ».0-ii •Okoroire * ;•' Hamilton West.. "'lO "0 1 fis SSSLtf :: •■: " i - - FranktODjun-arr- - ::8S!1 A Runa on first Sundays in each month only. KAIPARA BRANCH—Attcklasd-Hknderson-Helensvilmc. AUCKLAND TO H«LEKBmM.-Wg DAYg^ nEL EN3 VI L tE TO AUCKLAND.-WEEg Da 7 9. A *~"« $%&!&**£& aal v§ If -grtv iif •? 4' W' '■•"• •SSsaSS"- "yB$"? 2P *S : : : :■• •AlornlngHido!! L' * * * * «§? ero?'-,-, •■ •• * * * " •JMonnt Albert Z * *. * * «y°ou£lll •• .. * * * .•££&& z i^kf, 6^ : rfSuk,- : : : : : •Waikomitl „ 7 * * • ,„ *,? umo'1. - •• 7-15 1.5 5.0 ~ *Honderßon Z . 8 0 1"5 645 w U<F*\ ki . " - * * * *HWanßon " . " * * " # Waitakerel „ .. 7.35 1.30 5.20 Waimkerei M ". &25 12 32 615 " Swajson .. .. * • # Taupakl Z * » • " *wni ers92 •• •• 8-° 2-5 5-*5 Kumou " I" 845 16 fi.33 " *Waikomiti „ « * • • iA •WoodhUi " . . . " *Monnt Albert .. • * • • •Paproa.. ~ • . . ;Mprniiigßide.. .. • • • « *Ohtrantfl * * • " .. ♦ * • • •HolenKville So(^ I: • • • " f \ d «i" .. 8.47 2.55 6.24 5.13 ....Hdmunrllto ~V urr.| 9.40 no tjm |" [ SgfltJmg |» gf| J. P. JIAXWKLL. Geairal Mwiasoi,



Business Notices. BY COMMUNICATING WITH US, tho above VANS will be in attendance at TRATN SHIP, or wherever wanted, to receive FURNITURE or other Goods, which will be forwarded as instructed, or (if required) stored and insured for any term. 'ON SALE, Taupiri, Wcstporb, and Newcastle Coal Firewood, Charcoal, Coke Bricks, Lime, Sand Pipes, Slates, Tanks Fencing of all kinds. W. AND 0. WINSTONE, CUSTOMS-STREET. HOME JEWEL WASHINC MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACE TO A COALSACK; CLEANS TrtOUSERS without wetting a finger or knocking off a button. It does away with wet feet, pains in the arms, back, and breast, and does a big day's washing in two hours. V HOME liill JEWEL // Ny£ (§|||| HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. M. M. LEVY, SOLE AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. Iron Curved for V eßandas \A.ii .. . . tUBN) £t BiiaiUinaA1 NOTICE. George 8¥S ccaul Manufacturing Plumber, AND IMPORTER OP ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), and BROWN &DAVST STREETS. I'HAMES. HAS FOR SALE— 200 Corrugated Galvanized Tanks (assorted) 500 Colonial Ovens (all sizes! 60.000 feet head Kri«e Ridge Cap (all sizes) 50 000 feet O.G. Spouting (all sizes) 50.000 feet Downpipes (all sizes) 50,000 feet Galvanized Water PipM (all sizes) Lead head Nails. Lead Washers. Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boilers, etc.. etc.. etc. Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines, at Auckland Agricultural Show. liargest' and best- selection of Gas Globes in Auckland. '•■■ ■-■*— "•!*:-. ***!■? ■"='*" As G. McCAUL is a direct Importer for cash, he is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to tbe trade. Country Orders cunctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUL y Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer of at Trade Requisites, Weilesley-st- Hast (opposite Now Library), and Brown and Davy-streets, Thames. IrtISHER & 00.- WHOLESALE SHIPPING AND FAMILY B UT O HE R S, Established 1864. 8y Special Appointment to Hi 3 Excellency tho Governor, Bir W. F. Jervois; His Excellency Sir James Ferguson; and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; also, Kosha Butchers to the Jews. QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z. Families waited on in Town or Suburbs. POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER. Dealers in Game Houie-cured Hams and Bacon Corned Beef in Large Quantity. Imports of Sausage Casings The Trade Supplied N.B.—Calves' Rennets. SSL Customers Supplied with Ice. Telephone No. 358. P.O. Bos No. 434 JfyJIRANDA COAL AND IRON COMPANY (limited). SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD AND STEAM COAL IS NOW BEING PUT OUT FROM THIS COMPANY'S MINE, AND AGENTS ARE WANTED FOR THE SALE OF IT. APPLICATIONS TO BE ADDREFSED TO THE UNDERSIGNED, AT THE COM PANY'S OFFICE, 14, VICTORIA ARCADE ORDERS FORWARDED TO THE SECRE TARY WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. BY ORDERS JOSEPH BAEBER, SECRETARY. Auckland, Auqcst, 23,1887, CORNirANTIip.-FreeßingOcV *8, ofaUuW-c'nanM.



__? ustaess SotiwT^ THE NEW ZEALAND BOMItV, COMPANY UrTUK(I Having purchased the above &ft REGISTERED THE SAME. notlfV ft T k ** private trade t^tthe^epSpSl^ SUPPLY THIS WELLTOWNB^ from TnetK CELLARS, IIAKKET PLACE QUEEN STREET (NEARANCHOR^ The largest and best stock in Ancki™,n choose from, nowinprimcS? 10 Deliveries as usual twice daily by our o^ N.8.-We bottle nothing bnt fiuneainilW Ales and Stouts, and guarantee theSS the BEST IN 'IMS MAKj£jj_ q a"tyto'» YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO wasteyour money on TRASHY LOW PRICED SOAPS. Practise Thrift an* study true ECONOMY by using only BuVsq Al SOAP, The effort mad* toiSth homes of New Zealand must fail to secure their full efieet unless they succeed ininducih?eve,, housekeeper to use «™«j; BUKNS'S Al SOAP. It is a simple but useful article. Thosewh6 foil to use it are still more simple, and not half v useful. rrrV- — —^i L USE oWIY You may have heard of it a THOUSAND TIMES without using it ONCE. If you will reverse the position and USEITOME You will praise it to others a THOUSAND TIMES.—I have spent hundreds of pounds in convincing the womeii of New Zealand that their labour can bo greatly lightened byMng BURNS'S Al SOAP (the Would KfiKotaii Ci.kanskkl), but I have fallen short of my am bition if 1 have failed to CONVINCE TOU. WHOLESALE AGENT- A. BUCHANAN CUSTOMS STREET BAST. MI S S ' S M I T.Hi CORSET & BANDAGE MAKER, Has always on hand a Good Supply Of Bwf Material. ,„,«.,„«,,' STAYS MADE TO ANY PATTERN., Riding Stays, Stays for Invalids, Bandages, and Shoulder Braoes on the most approrca , STAYS CLEANED° IAND Has been fitter for 12 years in tha MW establishment in Edinbumh, .: Tadies waited on by sondingMatertW^ ESKBANK CX)TTAGB, GUNte^STRBET, NEWTON, by New Epiphany Ohnrcn. pUJIS OtJNS GVti* EIFtE3 RIM.B REVOLVERS RETOLviM GUNPOWDER! Shot. Caps, Cartridges, Wadding, WIKE OABTBIDOES, LOADWO APPA^* AMMUNITION Op Evßßt • DescrifMiW Fishing Tackle, Cotleryj Fireworks, «& b. Eviirs, «i. gow*™* D. EVITT, GotmakEb, fl PRICE LISTS SENT TdANtAM^ m ) c a.;°"* °°.;°"* X» OPTICIAN, MATftEMATICAI- AXD NaCTIC-* 1- INSTRUMEKT MAKER, j B HOBHASP_ : !" 1I: 1! Always is Stock- a Afalic Lanterns wd Slides, o3(!op e 8 Stefcoscopes and Slideß, ura^ eta fl Steam Quages and Tubiae. =» JBWREOKIVJ^- _^ mi Settlers' Telescopes-power^ F., . Also, Steam and Eieotrow ■_ ftffc * arid Steamers. KINB bsp^ INSTBUMBNI-S OF BVBBTf » . , OPPOSITE S****"*'