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CUHONICLE.
• MJOVftTA.
TcrsniT Monmn, Orrosan 24, 1820
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Accounts from forty counties, give the _
following HMurn for member* of Con
gm> at the late Election
Ahhnlt, ....... 8516
Blair, l»9l
Clark, 19-3
Cnhh, 7207
Cook, 2840
Cnthbcrt, 8729
Gilmer, ....... 7770
Itced, ........ 10187
Tntniill, 7659
Thompson, ...... 726.3
Walton 4913
SAVANNAH, Oct. 18.
Police Office.
The public must expect from me some
spolngy for »ny apparent neglect of duty.
Lust Tuesday, should have been a regular
session of the Mnyo>'» Court, and which
termi luted judicial functions of this de-'
parimeut. But, so precarious is the ten
urc iy which every individual now holds
his life, such the sorrow and despondency
winch pervade every breast, that, even
(if the present number of irhabitants could
liaVe. dtr.itted it,) I am convinced, not a
suito . Witness, or juror would have at
tended. Gther, and higher concerns oc
cupy die minds and reflections of us all
for my part, humbled and nfflict'ld as 1
am, by a dispensation of providence, which
has deprived ime of my host, temlerest and
bosom friend. Under this distressing and
almost insupportable state of feeling, (had
affairs been less dihaatcrous) I should
have been unfit to discharge the duties of
a Judge.
My fellow citizens, and companions in
affliction, will, I hope, pardon me in an
official communication, allusions, which
perhaps, can be only interesting to my
self,- hut believing, tlmi I have done and
suffered enough to entitle me to it, I so
licit their indulgence.
IHOS. U. P. CHARLTON.
Mayor,
SAVANNAH Oct. 19,
Police Office.
There is no diminution in our bill of
mortality} but the present cool weather
may he the herald of returning health, to
th< few remaining inhabitants of this af
flicted, desolated city. Our full popula
lion, including all classes of people, may
be estimated at 9000. This population is
composed of permanent residents, non
residents, those who remained here dur
ing the winter and spring months, tran
sient persons, and blacks, and the people
of colour.
if as conjectured, not more than 2000
or 2500 souls remain, the desertion, or
emigration occasioned by the prevailing
malady, and other causes, may be equal to
6000. Let the mortality be calculated
upon the basis then of the population
since August, and it is not to be paral
leled in the melancholy annals of any
Section of the world God grant that we
are now in the last scene of this deep St.
affecting tragedy. The Polite Guard is
in its full strength, and with other meas
ures adopted, my present and absent fel
low citizens, may entertain few appre
hensions as to the safety and protection of
the city;
TllO3. U. P. CHARLTON,
Mayor,
Number of death* 17th and 18th inst
inclusive, 17
T eal number from Ist to 18th instant,
-inclusive, 157.
We hope we shall not be accused of
prejudice when we declare we give a de
tid'd preference to the writings of our
■countryman, Mr. Irving, over any others
that have appeared for a long time. The
Sketch Rook, No. 7, comes upon us with
increased beauties, vnd the correctness of
the paintings are not to be questioned.
We gave our readers a specimen, the o
(her day, in his Stratford-upon-Avon—
here follows a description of Westmins
ter Abbey. On reading it, we fancy our
seWeA-wandering in that great charnel
house, among the chambers of the dead;
we paae on the tombs of the hero, the
statesman, and cry alas! does all human
giandeur eventuate in this ? nay, all those
hallowed sensations which a sensitive
mind would be presumed to feel in his
meditations among the tombs of illustri
ous ancestry, are engendered by reading
this delightful tale.
[Metropolitan.
11 At every turn 1 met with some illus
trious name, or the cognizance of some
powerful house renowned in history. As
the eye darts into these dusky chambers
of death, if catches glimpses of quaint
effigies; some kneeling in niches, as if in
devotion; others stretched upon the
tombs, with hands piously pressed toge-,
then warriors in armor, as if reposing
after battle; prelates with crozien and mi
tres; and nobles in robes and coronets,
lying, as it were, in state. In glancing o
▼er this scene, so strangely populous yet
where every form is so still and silent, it
seems almost as if we were treading a
mansion of that fabled city, where every
being had been suddenly transformed in
to stone,
• • • • •
** In the opposite transept to Poet’s
CiTtner, s'and* a monument which is a
mnug the moat renowned achievements
of modern ait; but which tome, appear
ed horrible rather than sublime. It is
the tomb of Mrs. Nightingale, by Hou-
Dinar. Ihe bottom of the monument is
represented as throwing open its marble
doors, and a sheeted skeleton is starling
forth The shroud is falling from his
tleshhu Irani' as lie launches his dart at
hia victim. Kite is sinking into her us
frighted husband's arms, who strives, with
vain and frantic effort, to avert ihe blow
The whole executed with terrible truth
tmUpl it; we almost fancy w< hear the
gibbering yell of tri impli, bursting fi.,n;
tin* distended jaws of the spectre p,..
why should we thus tevk to clothe lit
dead wn|» unnecessary tem rs, and tu
spread horrors tonnd the tomb of Urns*
wy h.vef Ihe gran should he surround,
sd by tier) thing that might umpire ten
U. rn, « *ud vaneraiiou tor the J«s l| or
that NM|hV wlu lltf lirii gts t Blue. *JR ;» ,
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tit
(he pW, not ot disgust and dismay, but i
of •arrow and meditation. i
“ While wandering about these gloomy I
Vaults and s tent aisles, studying the re- t
curds of the deed, the sound of busy ex- <
isici.ee from without occasionally reach- i
et the car:—the rumbling of the passing i
equippage; the muimnrsof the multitude;
or perhspa the light laugh of pleasure— (
■The contrast is striking with the death
like repose around; arm it has a strange
effect upon the feelings, thus to hear the
surges of active life, hurrying along and
beating against the very walla of the sep
ulchre.”
After describing the magnificence of
the Chspel of Henry the Seventh, he ob
serves .
“ There is a sad dearness in this mag
nificence—this strange mixture of tombs
and trophies —these emblems of living
and aspiring ambition, close beside me
mentos which show the dust and oblivion
in which all must sooner or later termin
ate. Noihing impresses the mind with a
deeper feeling of loneliness, than to tread
the silent and deserted scene of former
throng and pageant On looking round
on the vacant stalls of the knights and
their esquires, and on the rows of dusty,
but gorgeous banners that were once
borne before them, mv imagination con
jured up the scene when (his halt was
bright with the valor and beauty of the
land—glittering with the splendor of jew
elled rank and military array—alive with
the tread of many feet, and the hum of
an admiring multitude. All had passed a
way; the silence of death t ad settled up
on the place, interrupted only by the ca
sual chirping of birds, which had found
their aay into the chapel, and built their
nests among its friezes and pendants —
sure signs of solitariness and desertion."
“ The sound of casual footsteps had
ceased from the Abbey. I could only
hear now and then, ths distant voice at
■ the priest repeating the evening service,'
and the faint responses of the choir; these ;
l paused for a time, and all was hushed,
whe stilness, the desertion and sbscurity
that were gradually prevailing around,
gave a deeper and more solemn interest
to the place:
For in the silent grave, no conversation,
No joyful tread of friends, no voice of
lovers,
No careful father’s counsel—nothing’s
heard.
For nothing is, but all oblivion,
Dust, and an endless darkness.
“ Suddenly the notes of the deep’ la*
boring organ burst upon the ear, falling
with doubtful and redoubled intensity,
and rolling, as it were, huge billows of
sound.—How well do their volume and
grandeur accord with the mighty build
ing ! With what pomp do they swell
thro’ its vast vaults, and breathe their aw
ful harmony through these caves of death,
and make the silent sepulchre vocal! And
now they rise in triumphant acclamation,
heaving higher and higher their accord
ant notes, and piling sound on sound—
And now they pause, and the soft voices as
the choir break out into sweet gushes of
melody; they soar aloft, and waible a
long the roof, and seem to play about
these lofty vaults like the pure airs of
Heaven. Again the pealing organ heaves
its thrilling thunders, compressing air into
music, and rolling it forth upon
—What long-drawn r.adanoes! What so
lemn sweeping concords ! It grows more
and more dense and powerful—it fills the
vast pile, and seems to jar the very walls
—the ear is stunned—the senses are o
verwhelmed. And now it is winding up
m full jubilee—it is rising from the earth
to heaven—the very soul seems wrapt a
way, and floated upwards on this swelling
tide of harmony!’*
From the JVev/.York American.
Sir — You will oblige a subscriber by
giving an insertion to the following in
teresting report on the contagion of yel
low, lever.made to the National Institute
by Portal, Fine I, and Uumeril :
" We have been charged to give an ac
count of a memoir on the following ques
tion : “ Is the Yellow Fever contagious ?”
which Dr. Deveze presented at the last
sitting. We proceeded to discharge the
duty imposed upon us.
“U is contended by some physicians
that the jellow fever is always contagious
by others, that it is so only under parti
cular circumstances ; a third class deny
its contagiousness under any circumstan
ces whatever.
“ This last opinion was embraced b
Dr. Deveze, in 1783. It was founded up
on his observations in an extensive prac
tice during fifteen years at St. Domingo,
where it almost constantly prevailed spo
radically, that is, it appeared to attack in
sulated individuals. The seventy of the
epidemic which then ravaged in Philadel.
phia, gave further opportunities to Dr
Deve/e to observe this disease, and his ad
ditional experience during the years 1794-
95, 96, and especially in 1797, removed
every shadow of doubt upon the subject.
Since 1797 Dr Deveze has had no expe
rience in the yellow fever, but he has col
• lected, and attentively examined all that
has been written upon the subject, m
which he finds nothing to shake his opm
ion that the disease is not propagated by
contagion, but by infection.
“ Infection he defines to be “ a morbid
condition by which a mass of putrefac
tion creates in an individual submitted to
its influence a predisposition to contract
a disease of u particular kind, or which
occasions this disease in an individual al
ready predisposed.”
“ Infectious diseases arise in all places
under the influence of acou.se of putre.
faction, and never b-yond those places
attack a great number of persons at the
same time who have not had communica
tion with each other, or with others ill of
the same disease. Lastly, they really
change their chsrscters, and are under the
immediate influence of atmospheric heat,
and the relative action of the winds and
tides.
“ Contagion, on the other hand, is a
morbid condition by which an iiidi'idua'
aliened with disease eonimunicatea it ti
another, by mean* of a virus orpois-n si
larlted to aoliu bodies er floating in the
■‘t"|ll«jl|lere•
"If consider that the yellow fever
otiau only in hut clinudea, or during (In
hot season# uflemperutr countries, thai
K appears most commonly in low damp
siu-siient, and in places where time i« »
great cuttvrUun of men, and of animal
matttsr in a state ot dr enmposlUunt Ihm
d ci.uiOHiu.ya its ,(Stages ill ills U/wet
I
and most unhealthy .(pvl of cities; that bt
moreover, there is hot a single well an w
thenticated case in which the production ol
of fever has been proved to be the result fa
of contagion, it cannot be questioned, >•’
say a the author, that the yellow fever is y.
an infectious disease. tl
If to this it be added, that the yellow b
fever has been known to originate in air
particular spot, remain there some time,
ami to extend successively over the most
unhealthy parts of a city, stop at public
squares and open spaces, and teach the 0
opposite by a circuitous path—that it is | (
varied by the state of the atmosphere, Q
comrnencin •. with the most intense heat, v
and disappearing with it—that it abandons
last the must damp situations—and lastly,
that it differs in nothing but its violence 4
from other infections diseases; if we con
aider all this, the opinion acquires great
certainty.
“W'e will sum up the principal facts
which the author cites to prove that the
yellow fever can never become contagi
ous. y
“1. In all countries where the yellow s
fever habitually prevails, there are places t
in which it never appears, excoot among
persons who have been expose! in the
unhealthy situation.
“2. In temperate climates ,tlv, disease
hoes not extend to the country; the high
parts of cities are exempt, while this
pestilence ravages the low aid damp
streets.
“3. In well situated hospitals ihe yel- ,
low fever never, appears, except among -
individuals sick of it- when brought there. (
“4 Eighteen persons died of ihe yel- (
.ow fevor at A!cala, having contracted the ■
disease at Seville. None of the ihhabi ,
tants of Alcala were attacked wiw it.— i
Similar facts are adduced.
“ 5. Lastly, no one has ever been able
to produce the yellow fever by inocula
tion or voluntarily.
“ Your committee have been struck
■ with the tone of frankness and convic
tion with which Dr poveze has written.
Without agreeing to the definition he
gives ofinfectiofl, which wants precision,
it appears that the yellcw fever is not
at all contagious. PORTAL,
PINAL,
DUMEKIL.
“The Academy approves the Report,
and adopts the conclusions.
[ V true copy.]
“CUVIER, Perpetual Sec’ry &c.
Charleston, Oct. 18.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Certain information received from St-
John’s (Berkley) in this District, gives Mr-
Geddes 7i> votes, and Mr. Poinsett 27
Making Mr. Poinsett’s total majority in
the District, 99.
A letter received yesterday from
Georgetown, states that Thomas H. Mitch
all Esq. is elected to Congress from that
Distract, by a majority of five hundred
votes.
By the Shin Hunter, Capt. Davis, which
arrived at Philadelphia, in 26 days from
Bordeaux, accounts thence to Sth of Sep
tember, have been received. Nothing
new. Capt Davis is the bearer of dis
pa: ches for government frpm. the Amer
ican Minister at Madrid. The harvest in
France, is stated to have been very abun
dant. an-* •'intajfe more productive
nan usual.—-S. Pat
NEW SYSTEM OF B ANKING.
From an advertisement, signed “Lerot
Popb, President, of the Planters and Mer
chants Bank of Huntsville,” we learn that
the said Bank will receive cotton on con
signment; and ship the same on account
and risque of the owners to any port in
the United States, and will advance on
delivery of the cotton in Huntsville, ten.
cents per pound, and will pay the balance
of the net proceeds at the Huntsville
Bank as soon as the cotton is sold and the
money received.” This is the only in
stance in the United States where :» BANK
has become a Commission Merchant !
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Cah awba, (Alabama,) October 6.
Melancholy Occurrence. —lt becomes
our duty to record the particulars, as far
as they have came to our knowledge, rel
ative to the following tragical event;—
On the 30th ult. a young man by the
name of George Grover, took with him a
bottle of whiskey and went to the house
of Mr. Charles Carrol, an old man of about
75 years of age. He found Mr. and Mrs
Carrol and two Or three joung ladies of
the neighborhood quietly and peaceably
spending the day. Grover, after pa. ta
king ra'her freely of the “delicious sip”
gave the ladies, Mrs Carrol in particular,
very abusive and insolent language, Mr
Carrol remonstrated against his conduct;
told him it was true he was old and weak,
but that he could not suffer such indignity
and contempt cast upon his family; and
concluded by ordering him to quit the
house. Grover redoubled his impreca
tions on Mr. Carrol and his wife with re
peated threats of violence He was at
length persuaded to leave the house, and
started to go away, but shortly returned,
found Mr. Carrol in his yard, and re-com
menced his abusive language and threats
Mr. C. forbid his coming inside of his
lot; hut Grover, regardless o f his orders
followed him to the house, continuing his
opprobriums, particularly against Mrs
Carrol. Mr. Carrol went into the house,
took down his gun, which was bailed
with a ball and twelve or fourteen buck
diot, returned to the door, presented it
towards Grover in a position which indica
ted his fatal determination Grover saw
his apparent danger, and sat down in a
chair which stood near him; in the act of
taking Ids seat Mr. Carrol discharged hi.
gun, the contents of which lodged in Gro
ver’s breast. lie expired a few moments
after. Mr. Carrol gave himself up to the
mercy of the law, and is iuw in the cus
tody of the Sheriffawaiting the decision
of the court.
The Hon Judge Saffold has grunted a
Special Court for Instria', to he held in
this town on Monday, the 3'Jth ult.
There are different reports in circulu- i
(ion relative to the above circumstance,
•nd different oplnisni existing in regard 1
to the probable u suit, should judgment
’• P»«*vd against him, ami he lie execu
ted, the law a ill rob him of but • few mo
lten ts existence.
A Peer, oncoming .ml of the house of
laicjls, is as assaile d l*y (),«, mob w i t |,
I mil demands of a shout f, r the i|ueen.
le endeavored forsuiin lane to p u »h his
way through a*] to trade compliance.
m
ut at last, surrounded end threatened
dth violence, he stopped short and took \
iff his hat. “And must I cry the Queen
arever?” said he to Jiis persecutors.—
•Yes, yes. off with your hat.” You must
•ou shall!” exclaimed the mob. “Well f
hen;” said he, “if 1 must, here goes, my
»oys —Huzza! the Queen for ever! and c
nay all your wives be like her.”
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The Huntsville paper announces that \
.lie clerk of “ The Planters & Merchants c
as Huntsville,” has arrived from Ncw.Or- ’
leans, with §50,000 in Rpecic, for the use t
as that Bank. We understand its arrival I
was announced with a “ flourish of Trum- <
pets,” wind loud huzzas of the multitude-” i
POSTSCRIPT. 1
By Last Night's Mail.
We have received information via Ha
vanna.that the Cortes of Spain have ab
solutely refused to cede the Floridas in li
ny form to the United States.
Sav, itep.
SAVANNAH, Oct 21
\~
Saturday Evening.
T 6\\cc Office.
I have neither heard oft or had any new
cases of malignant fever reported to me
within the last two days. The? continu
ance of cool weather, lias probably con
tributed to check the march of the pre
vailing malady. It will be perceived, how
ever, that there is little or no diminution
in the number of deaths, (considering
the present population,) for the last 48
hours. A frorft, which ihe appearance
of the weather indicates, may soon enable
me to announce the annihilation of pesti
lence.
THOS U. P. CHARLTON.
Mayor, s
Number of deaths 19th and 20lh inst
inclusive, 19
Total number, from Ist to 20th inst. in
clusive, (exclusive of blacks and people
of colour.) 173
Died, in Warren county, on Wednesday
the 18th inst. William G. Andi\ ivs, aged
eighteen years.
*** The brethren of
Webb’s Lodge are hereby notified that an
extra meeting will be held this evening
and that a punctual attendance is requir
ed. By order of the Worshipful master.
Robert .Dillon,
i Secretary
_ Oct 24
removal.
TP HE subscriber respectfully informs his
customers and the public, that he has tak
en the brick store directly opposite his
former residence, where he offers for sale
A General Assortment of
HATS
And Military Goods ,
On the lowest ems, for Cash, or town
acceptances.
J. Barry.
October 24 6t
Copartnership.
J. HE Subscribers respectfully inform
their friends and the public, that they
have connected themselves for the pur
pose of transacting a
Commission Grocery
Business ,
under the firm of Dewab & Fotherino
ham. They have taken a commodious
stand at the upper end of Broad-Street
which is well calculated for the purchas
mg of produce; and as their attention will
be principally devoted to the Commission
Business, they beg leave to offer their
services in that line.
WILLIAM S. DEWAR
ROB'T. fotheringham
October. 24.——w3t.
Notice.
Zn answer to a piece in the Augusta
Ohronide, dated the 21 st September.
1820-.—application was wanted of about
1000 acres, in the up country; for which
cash would be paid,—The subscriber has
tor sale, a Plantation in the upper part of
Abbeville District -South Carolina, and on
Hockey River, that answers the descrip
■ion, as well (perhaps) as any other in the
District, a very Elevated, fertile, health
ful, and well improved plantation ofa
>out 800 acres, which he will sell a hur
jram, for cash paid down.—There is a
onsiderable plantation, excellent repairs,
and now in cultivation, and if more
Land is wanting; there is another tract
adjoining the above, and lying on the op
oosife side of the river of 400 acres, and
an excellent quality, unimproved,
known by the name of fort Independence
tract, now for sale.—The subscriber
would also sell the greater part of his
crop of ern and fodder, with the grea
ter pin of his stock of every kind—and
endeavor to give possession by the Ist of
January next—The premises ma> be seen
by applying to the Subscriber on them.
Stephen Crenshaw.
October 21— ts
For Rule,
& T (lie North end oft he B ridge, sfe# I
Likely Young Negroes.
oa. 34.—41 1
GEORGIA, i 1
W arren County. \ ■
Superior Court, OctoW I
Term, isse. I
THe undersigned, Grand Jurors f , 1
coiiiwy of aforesaid, derive nee..'? f<J!> th ® I
ficatmn from the circumstance s n Smi * E
any thingdemanding, their public „T ,lot ■
way of presentments has cim t u 'u 'f J - v I
cognizance during their pres,... r I
They feel it however their S ’ rv '*- ft
to call the attention of th e jalti£rf d, " J I
Interior Court, and also that of ,? ls I
citizens at large to the state an ,il
oT oor public boildm,., SSLCS? I
Court-House, and earnestly recommit I
our Senator and Representatives , U| ° V
suing General Assembly, to Use I
exertions to have an act passa i t ‘ r “ e « ■
5/.e our inferior conn t 0 Fevy an e “‘" or - I
for county purposes. ut « B
We also as a body, invested with K
authority of examining into the I
»n nds, do recommend that John Tor J, I
Solomon Lockett and Jack S. DwSS I
be a committee, appointed fop I
pose, notwithstanding that the clerk f I
the Inferior court is ready and wiIW I
ay a statement of the same before tM* I
body. , “ s I
As the organ of onr fellow citizens «. I
feel a conhdence that we do but cxn,e« I
their sentiments, when we tender his H„ I
nor J edge Dooly, our unfeigned appr„b».‘ B
tion of, the ability, impartiality, prlmmii I
ttide and dispatch winch characterizes hi, I
judirial proceedings. I
We request t!»at the foregoing he pub- I
lished in the Georgia Journal and Augusta I
Chronicle. “ I
Jeremiah Butt, Foreman. I
Ai thin .tenkins, Hubert Bonner, I
James Gray, jun’r. Randal'Johnson I
Thomas Maddux, Lewis Parham, * I
James H McFarlin, Samuel Torrence I
James Face, Joseph Ansley, I
Joshua Draper, Samuel Barron, I
Archelaus Butt, Vincent Johnson, I
Henry Brown, John Fontaine, A I
Benjamin Carr, Thomas Lockett. I
A true extract from the Minutes. I
Thomas Gibson, d’k. I
Oct. 23 It I
To Rent. j
T WO Tenement, on the KoHli side I
and upper end of Broad-streel gmd st uds I
for business, and’calculated for comfortable I
family residences, at present occupied by I
J. C. Morgan & Giles Griswold—for terms
apply to
Oliver Reed, or
James Myers
September 26 w4t
Lost or Stolen.
A COMMON PLACE BOOK, (Lockie’s
coniaining memorandums of a tour
through South Carolina, &c. Any per
son into whose hands this may have fallen
will be rewarded by returning it to the
subscriber.
Luke Clint.
Theatre, Augusta.
Oct 17 1 ft
WOOD / W0Ol)n~
i
Al CONSTANT supply of good Season
able Oak Wood for sale at the River.
Apply to
John or
Herijamin Hall.
October 21 3t
Notice.
A vw
/VgUEEARLE to an order ofthe Honor
able Court of Ordinary of Warren county,
WILL BE SOLI),
On the first Tuesday in November next
at the Court-House in ll'arrerton,
One House and Lot,
In said place, it being the real estate of
George H. Davidson, deceased, sold for
the benefit of the Heirs—Terms made
known on the day of Sale.
A. Muncrief, ad mV.
August 17——tds
W O O i)
For Sale.
subscriber has for sale from one
to five hundred Cords; which he ' , 'N '* e ‘
liver to purchasers, in any part of Augus
ta, at five dollars per cord.
Geo. W. Erans.
Sept. 2G w6t
removal.
SWIFT
RiESPECTPULLY inform their cup
lomers and the Public that they have re
moved their
Clothing Store,
To the house formerly occupied by Mr-
Mrs. Ilird, situated between Dr. White
Wm White Esq. brick building, ultere
they offer for sale a General assortmert
us Ready Made
Clothing ,
Consisting of gentlemens and youths clo
thing of every description, Ladies Shaw s
Scarfs and Felices, with Hosiery »'
Gloves, llt-urlh rugs of a Superior q |i* 1 J’
■Superfine Clothes and Cat si me res, L-*‘ ■*
do for Felices, Uc Me. Wliich they
sell on the very lowest terms for cW
Oct 10 "
Slit A W HON NETS
FIV y \
Straw Jfonucts and
Os the NeW*«' I’asLioni-
JUST SMW 1 “i
J.VO FO/l A.U.K l‘r
Pratt & Mutcuir.
ft until InU HrwuUhM'.
the Plantin' I fold.
October 14