>From The Humboldt Times, Saturday, Jan 10, 1874, Eureka, California. DEATH OF WM. CDINGTON, ESQ. We received the following dispatch last evening: Arcata, Jan. 5th, 1874 To. J. E. WYMAN, Our Mutual Friend, Wm. Codington, died suddenly last night of congestion of the brain. His funeral takes place next Wednesday. A. BRIZARD The sad intelligence conveyed in the above announcement caused heart felt sorrow to the very many old and warm friends in Arcata and Eureka, as it must have every where else where he was known. His death occured, as will be seen from the dispatch, on Sunday night, January 4th. Mr. Codington was one of the earliest settlers on Humboldt Bay. He commenced business at Uniontown, since Arcata* with J. S. Bowles, deceased, some years since, under the firm name of Bowles & Codington, in 1850. He was born in Westchester county, New York, and came to California via Cape Horn, in 1849. The deceased possessed many excellent traits of character. He was a business man in every sense of the term, and though shrewd in his dealings, and possessing a remarkably sound judgment, he carried into all his transactions the highest sense of honor and integrity, thereby winning the confidence and esteem of the entire business community. Aside from this he was a social, genial gentleman, warm ! and firm in his friendships and universally respected by all who knew him. He is supposed to have left a large fortune, which no doubgt he has distributed by his will, to his brothers and sisers residing in the East. *meaning that Uniontown's name had been changed to Arcata. ACCIDENT. Quite a serious accident occurred at Vance's Mill yesterday. Hugh MAXWELL while cutting into a piece of timber, struck his axe against a knot, which caused it to glance downward, striking and passing through his boot and inflicting a severe wound on the great toe-joint. Dr. SCHENCK was summoned immediately and dressed the wound. GRADUATED. We notice among the list of graduates from Heald's Business College, San Francisco, the name of Edward EVERDING, son of Chas. Everding, of the firm of H. H. Buhne & Co., of this place. The class numbered twenty-one. To obtain a business education there is probably no insitutution in the State superior to Heald's Business College; a diploma from it in the hands of a young man is a recommendation worth possessing. We congratulate our young friend on his succcess.