Show A blind mina beggar Beg gir fortune tune bvm york N Y juno julie II 11 today to day 1 francis patterson P a well ft ell know known n iia mira a chara ter and ony n j y 81 blind patterson received lj 13 3 22 back pension irom rom tile government men tand and hereafter will receive receive 72 per patterson rat tereon has ha bad had a r re marki mark ablo blo career at the tile ag age ve of 24 lie enlisted in the union armmand arin arm yand and wa was 9 a robust 1 ble healthy althy man with A ith good eight boned one day ty while on picket duty he was struck completely blind lie ile t tried r led to find it lua is vay A ay luck back to amp camp b but a t was a unable to do so and stud wandered air where win re ho lie doe does not know lie aloas was classed cl assed ais a a dc deserter e r but by chance escaped arrest IN I 1 1 e returned to elmira m where here his infirmity vi as lis lishco lied and from that time blind I ila liaa a roamed the streets of elndra a beggar lie ile was led around by 1 his son soil a few ye years irs but during the past 18 acara 5 eve lim his leader waa was a ell trained shepherd log tha thet blind soldiers 1 vi afo ufo ife left lum hill hisson lus eon abandoned hua him a and d lio lie becal n e helpless A ha h ind 0 org rna m ll 11 was w as boug boullit I 1 it for patterson but flat it alio to fi flarnt day lie u used soil it ho lie got drunk trunk and comp completely letey I 1 knocked the allu inirio ic out of it or r everall years care hie his counsel hae has bwy 11 1 0 u urging r ing his application for a pension but found much difficulty owing tharo charge of desertion lum 1 I iann the few da a the cli chargo was wag renu ned ed and today to day the pen pension gion the thal largest ever paid by t ho the govern mont avas tta revived reined an effort was made to appoint A guardian ove over r patterson but this vas was unsuccessful 1 11 wilfa lie on hearing of the old soldiers good fortune returned and is ie now liun etith him There arem aro bev v cral eral persons interested in th the e ol 01 old d nune mans alfairi affairs now who heretofore would not look at him and it ili feared that I 1 wind mil ull will grow brow beautifully less if not entirely dwindle aft away ay in in the near future |