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The Weekly Democrat,
RUSSELL & JONES, Proprietors.
Ben. E. Russell,
- Editor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1873.
Assassination Whispered.
It. is rumored that the reason Presi
dent Grant reconsidered his purpose of
making a trip through the South this
spring, was that the Itadical leaders
whispered assassination in his ear, and
so wrought upon his mind an impres
sion that his life would be in danger in
the South that he determined not to
make the projected visit.
Vetoes from the Governor.
The Atlanta Constitution, of Wed
nesday. gives currency to a rumor that
Governor Smith had vetoed certain por
tions of the General Appropriation Act.
The sections reported to have met the
disapproval of the Executive are those
appropriating ten thousand dollars for
a printing fund, twelve hundred dollars
as a salary ibr a State Librarian, and
one thousand dollars as salary for the
Keeper of the Penitentiary. The print
ing fund is certainly ridiculously small,
r.nd it is difficult to discover upon what
estimate the Legislature based its fig
ures. The Governor probably thought*
that there was no reason for approving
aii appropriation which he knew was en
tirely too small.
~ LAST
thus gained and busied himself in put
ting his property in shape to femove it
at the shortest notice. His plans per
fected; at least, he purchases a fine wag
on and a pair of fleet mules, sends the
husband off on so-called important busi
ness, sends his own wife to Reidsville to
carry important papers, and makes ready
to elope. The woman, the object of his
affections, nothing loth, puts her twt>
children to sleep, takes the three born
out of wedlock, and leaves the house of
her husband with the spsiler for parts
unknown.
The children, thus deserted awaking
in the morning, missed the heartless
thing they called their mother. Being
interrogated, they reply that they left
their"mother in the house the night be
fore, and now they know not where she
is. A search is instituted, and the wife
and her wearing apparel gone; the
three children are gone, the mules are
gone, and the wagon and owner all gone.
Nor have their whereabouts been ascer
tained, but it is thought the fugitive
pair have emigrated to Texas.
Iu cool calculation and bold execu
tion, in shrewdness and secrecy, in
wickedness and audacity, this instance
of modem faithlessness on the part of
both husband and wife, out Hcrods
Herod, and challenges the chronicles of
Chicago to produce a parallel.
MRS.
WESTMORELAND’S
WORK.
“Clifford Troup ”
Not having read 3Irs. Westmoreland’s
last work yet, we cannot* tell what we
think of it. In the meantime, we print
the following from the New York Her
ald of 31onday :
Southern ladies seem to take natural
ly and easily to novel writing. The
latest work of this class is Mrs. West
moreland’s “Clifford Troup.” As “Nev
er Again” is a New York story. The
idea of the “unhappiness” is the same
in both—the business necessities of a
supposed millionaire and the desire of
the father to marry his child in order to
pay his debts and escape imprisonment
and reproach.
In the one Mr. Ledgcval wanted to
give his daughter to a count to whom he
owed money. In the other Clifford
Troup, Sr., desired his son to marry the
heiress of “Mossy Creek” to help him
to pay the mortgages on his estate. Love
of course, was to be sacrificed. Dr.
3Inyo could not defeat the young lov
ers, and so he unravelled his plot and
caviul il-> ou> Introtliipilnn of Mmo.
Steignitz, who gave old Ledgeval the
money lie required, and young Lans-
dalc the wifi? he loved. 3Irs. West
moreland sacrificed the lovers and left
the “3Ianor” for which they were sac
rificed to be lost after all. Her story is
a singular story of selfishness and dis
appointment, and while it is not what
can be cal’ed a great novel, it will find
readers because it deserves them.
CHICAGO ECLIPSED.
Tatnall County,Ga., Ahead and Should
be Awarded the Medal.
Chicago, it is generally conceded,
stands pre-eminent and alone in the fre
quency of its strange elopements and
its legal machinery for obtaining di
vorces. Indeed it is earning the repu
tation of a paradise for those whom the
yoke of wedlock chafes. It offers quick
release both to the oppressed husband
and the masculine wife. But Chicago,
with all its fecundity of invention, can
scarcely construct a story tliat will
eoual in its plot! a recent elopement that
occurred a few days ago in Tattnall
county.
There is a man living iu Tattnall who
had a beautiful wife, whom he married
before the war. When the call to arms
came from Richmond, the husband, the
father of a boy and girl, the latter now
seventeen, and the former fifteen, left
his home with many others, and took
the field. He was absent for .several
years. Meanwhile, a prominent citizen
of Tattnall, a mag of high position and
some ability, appointed by the govern
ment a cotton agent, spent much of his
time in the company of the soj-dier’s
wife, and eventually grew unduly inti
mate.
Himself a man of family, contrived
to send his own wife and children to
Uiuesville under pretext of educational
advantages, ar.u the coast thus cleared,
pursued his uuhvwful intimacies secure
trout interruption.
At the close of the war, the husband
j ‘turned. The disturber of his peace
i.attn j; a large amount of cotton on
hand, belonging to the Confederate Gov
ernment. converted it iuto gold. A rich
nan, now, he employed this unsuspect
ing < bstaele to his wishes from time to
;ime on special business which called
him uwaj from home. Meanwhile the
Fasting and its Influences.
Whilst the secular press has nothing
to do with the religious influences of
Lent, it is interesting to note how an
cient and general has been the custom
of religious fasting. It was in practice
among the ancient Egyptians by those
who devoted themselves to the worship
of Isis, and was common among the
oldest nations of the Orient. There
were periodical fasts among the Greeks
and Romans. The public fasts of the
Jews were numerous. The Lenten fast
is esteemed by the Greeks, Catholics
and some Protestant churches a tradi
tion from the age of the apostles. The
Catholic Church prohibits flesh but not
fish for food on fast days, and carries
out the duties and penalties of Lent to
the very letter. The Episcopal Church
also observes the forty days’ seasen by
unusual exercises of devotion and in
culcates self-denial. Whilst the press
has nothing to do with the religious sig
nificance of the season, it is impossible,
as the Brooklyn Eagle pertinently ob
serves, to overlook the fact that, in sec
ular interest, the season of Lent is more
important than any other.
Those churches which carry out the
duties and penalties of Lent strictly,
and those in which it is observed only to
a. n.fxliH.'il oxteat, tiro sufficiently nu
merous, even in this country, to have
the effect of their religious abstinence
felt in various employments and voca
tions, such as those of the butchers,
graziers, and theatrical managers. What
the butchers loge, however, the fishmon
gers gain—Lent, which is a fast to
others, being financially a feast to them.
If it be true that too much animal food
is eaten in this country, the abstinence
from it and the use of vegetables and
fish for a certain period may he a posi
tive benefit to the health of those ab
staining. Indeed, great multitudes of
the population of Asia, who are healthy,
strong and well developed, never touch
animal food at any time. It is only
used in Europe sparingly, at least, by
the mass of the laboring population ;
vet, on the whole, they are as robust
and long-lived as onr own people. At
any rate, forty days of temperate eating
and drinking can do no harm to any
one.—Sac. Advertiser.
with Hon. Turner H. Trippe, and also
with Hon. Charles Dougherty. He
was admitted to the bar in Rabun coun
ty, in 1840, and then went actively into
the practice of the law in Monroe coun
ty. Here he has since resided.
He was elected to the lower House of
the Legislature in 1849 and 1851." In
1855 he was elected to Congress, beat
ing the present governor ; and in 1857
he was re-elected. After the war broke
out, he was elected to the Confederate
measure was to he brought before the
Legislature, and would probably be suc
cessful, and he took advantage of this
knowledge to xealiae a few “dividends’
by speculating in sehool houses. Of
the two brothers, Oliver Ames is the
general favorite, and he is certainly
morally and intellectually the superior.
If you want a favor, go to Oliver; he
will grant it if it is within his power;
and if not, he will give you a courteous
refusal, which is more than.you will a!
ongress. Returning home from Con- 'ways get from Oakes, who is as rough
gress, after the close of the first session
he volunteered in a military company
commanded by the late Judge Cabaniss
and made a good soldier—obtaining
furlough and going to Richmond when
Congress convened, returning to camp
when it adjourned.
Since the war he has been practicing
his profession in Forsyth. He com
mands the highest respect from his co-
temporaries at the Bar, and is an ex
emplary member of the 3Iethodist
church. These particulars we learn
from a lengthy sketch of Judge Trippe
in the Atlanta Herald
THE SUPREME^ COURT OH THE
DOG LAW.
No Dog Tax.
The Washington, D. C., Republican
reports that the Supreme Court of that
District decided on Saturday the case
of R. J. Meigh vs. The Corporation of
Washington, a case which has been up
on the calendar for some time, and has
attracted no little attention, as well be
cause of the high character and ac
quirements of the appellant as of the
interest which grew of his denial of
the right of the city to tax dogs other
wise than as property. It will be re
membered that Mr. Meigs, on his refus
al to pay the dog tax, was arrested by
the police aud held for some time at the
station house. The arrest was made
some years ago, and the case has been
in court ever since. The court on Sat
urday decided that the arrest made in
such case was without authority, and
that the warrant issued for the appre
hension of 31 r 3Ieigs was null and void.
The court held also that dogs could be
taxed only as property, and in propor
tion to their value.
THE AMES FAMILY.
Something About ths Man who Occu
pies the Most Disgraceful Position
in the Union.
Stephens on his Democracy.
non. Alexarfder II. Stephens, recent
ly elected to Congress from the 8th
District of Georgia, “defines’’ his polit
ical principles as follows: “I am a
Democrat of the ‘straightest sect’ of the
Jeffersonian school of politics. In it I
was reared, and in it I expect to die.
In this school I imbibed a fixed faith in
the ‘capacity of man foe self-govern
ment’ and a firm belief that upon the
unswerving maintenance of the princi
ples of this great apostle of liberty rest
not only all future hopes for the preser
vation of our matchless system of free
institutions on this continent, hut all
sure hopos for the political redemption
of the down-tjodden and oppressed peo
ple in all climes and countries.”
JUD£E TRIJPPJS,
A SiographiagJ Sketch of Sou. R.P.
Trippe-
Hon. Robert P. Trippe, the -new
Juige of the Supreme Court, was borp
in Jasper county, Ga., 1819, and is
therefore now fifty-three years of age,
in full vigor of mind. When quite
young his father removed to Monroe,
where he was principally raised.
At the age of fifteen he entered Ran
dolph Macon College, of Virginia, and
afterwards entered Franklin College,
i»obt nii.l. ,, , . Georgia, where he graduated with the j
L ' u *° l ' time ; first honor of his class. He read law j
A correspondent of the Springfield
Republican writes of North East in, the
birth place and home of Oakes Ames—
LllC tuali tt liU J USL licnr otevudo in okj dio
graceful prominence before the Ameri
can public. The town lies midway be
tween Boston and Fall River, on the
line of the Old Colony and Newport
Railroad. In this place is the great
shovel manufactory of 0. Ames & Co
The number of hands employed in the
various departments of this factory
ranges from 300 to 400. In any ordi
nary season, each day’s work produces
3,GOO shovels. Oakes and Oliver Ames
are the senior partners of the firm, and
their sons comprise the company.
Oliver Ames, Sr., the father of Oakes
and Oliver, began the businessinavery
humble way, first as a manufacturer of
nails, and then of shovels, in a small
one-story building, with no machinery
The little shop gave way to a larger one
each succeding year saw a steady gain
over the preceeding, and when, ten
years ago, Oliver Ames died, his little
nail and shovel shops had grown to be
one of the leading industries of the na
tion, and Ames’ shovels were known and
used throughout the world. He died
at an advanced age, having lived to see
a flourishing town grow up around him,
which, in a large measure, owed to him
its existence and prosperity. He was
universally respected; a keen, energetic
man of business, yet singularly straight
forward and upright in his dealings.
The Ames family have always been
interested in the welfare of North Eas
ton. and every scheme for public im
provement meets their ready support
and receives from them substantial aid.
They have always been firm advocates
of the temperance cause, and have
waged relentless warfare against the li
quor traffic in their midst And this has
not been without its perceptible effect,
for I will venture to say that no other
town in the State, in which the foreign
element so largely predominates, can
show so good a temperance record as
does this place. Three or four years
ago Oakes Ames began building an ele
gant school house, with the intention of
presenting it to the district in which he
resides, but before its completion the
school district system was abolished, and
not caring to include the whole town in
his liberality, he offered to sell the build
ing at a slight advance on cost. After
much controversy upon the subjeet. the
town finally bought the house, and some
people have been so ungenerous as to
assert that 3Ir. Ames knew that this
and blunt as one of his own shovels.
The people of this village met the
“campaign slander,” at first, with indig
nant denial, then with attempted de
fense, which has given place to a feel
ing of almost personal shame and hu
miliation. The Ames family has been
held in such high esteem that the de
fection of Oakes is keenly felt.
Daily Life of the Pope.
The Roman correspondent of the Lon-
dm Tablet in his last writes:
“I saw the Holy Father a few days
ago. He was in excellent health and
spirits, every one who sees him remarks
upon his vigor and elasticity. A bright
ness surrounds his countenance which
some persons might fancy more than
natural. He rises early, makes his
meditation in the little chapel of the
Blessed Sacrament, just over his bed
room, and then goes to the larger chapel,
where he says his mass and hears an
other as thanksgiving. He took a per
son in his %little domestic chapel the
other day, and looking round at the
relies of the saints and the- Tabernacle,
he exclaimed: “What more do I want?
Here is Jesus Christ and his saints. Eero
un vero parudisoC He spends a great
deal of time at night and in the early
morning at prayer before the Blessed
Sacrament. He sleeps on a little iron
bed without curtails, and though he
sleeps well, he sleeps little and eats lit
tle. He is full of confidence and hope.
The Pope’s discourses and sermons from
the time of the seizure of Rome till last
Advent have been published in Rome-
They form an octavo volume of about
f >ur hundred pages. Another volume
will be out befor Ion".”
A. T. REID & COMPANY
COR. WEST & BROUGHTON STREETS, BAINBRIDGE, GA.
DRYGOODS & GRCOERIES.
THE LARGEST STOCK
THE CITY.
CLOTHING AND HATS.
A Large and Fashionable selection at a. T. REID & CO ’S
HOOTS AND SHOES.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Boys and Children’s at A. T. REID & CO.’S
I>ress Goods
A complete and handsome stock at
and Prints.
A. T. REID & CO.’S
Bacon, Bacon.
Sides, Hams, Shoulders and Bulk Meats at A. T. REID & CO.’S
Tlour, ETotit*.
One hundred bbls., different grades,
A. T. REID & CO.’S
Sugar and Coffee.
Fifty bbls. and sacks Sugar and Coffee at A. T. REfD & CO.’S
IVortliem Hay.
One hundred bales Morthern Hay at
The Bond Business.
Carey W. Styles says : “We do not
pretend to have mastered the subjeet.
nor do we assnme to know all the facts;
but, under the solemn sanction of an
oath, it was made our duty to devote
much time and labor and all our mental
f calties to an earnest, full and faithful
investigation of every question involved
in the discussion; and from the knowl
edge thus derived, imperfect though it
may be, eandor and just criticism con
strain us to the conclusion that onr re
spected contemporaries, who have been
and are still fighting the proposition for
an equitable adjustment of the bond
claims, either have not taken the trouble
to inform themselves or purposely ig
nore legitimate argument to ply error to
the passions arid prejudices of those less
informed.
Oats, Oats.
Five hundred bushels Black and Yellow Oats at
Cheeks, Stripes and
From Columbus, a choice selection at
Butter, Cheese and
All fresh and arriving weekly at
Enquire
For any goods you may want at
A. T. REID & CO/S
A. T. REID & CO.’S
Y arns,
A. T. REID & CO.’S
Eisli.
A. T. REID & CO.’S
fastTH
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CHANGE 0McHED DIe .
WESTERN AND ATLanti!
Railroad
OFFICE MASTER TRANSPORT^
Atlanta, Ga., Febru-n^f,
On and alter 9th instant
°utward Night Passenger Tra-
Through to New y ork .
Knoxville, * 8 *1
*V ill leave Atlanta I
Arrive at Chattanooga - * „ 9- *J
" leave Chattanooga -
Arrive at Atlanta °. ' ' y '"' P-1|
Outward Day Passe J e r S ''
Through from New York,
Leave Chattanooga
Arrive at Atlanta . ' 1 »
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■ fcBa,
l-:<)0 widsjjkl
Leave
Arrive at Dalton
Leave Dalton
Arrive at Atlanta
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ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD j
A. T. REID & CD ’S
Change of Schedule.
Gk.tkkai. SlTF.RIxtexdext’s OrFIOE 1
Atlantic anij Gi lf Railroad '
Savannah, Feb. 21.187:). ’ j
On and after Sunday, FehnuwK l*;-
Passenger trains on this toad ivill nin j$ I
follows -
EXPRESS PASSENGER.
Leave Savannah daily at -
Arrive at. Live Oak -
Arrive at Thomasville
Arrive at Bainbridge - -
Arrive ai AJbaay
Leave Albany -
Leave Bainbridge
Leave Thomasville
Leave Live Oak -
Arrive ** Savannah
Connect at
»nj_, P, & M. Railroad for and from Jatk-
sonville, TalTaliasso*, etc.
No change of cars at Live Oak; no rhnnpe
of cars between Savannah and Allianv.
4:10pm |
3:201
1: 55 i a, I
7:o0>m I
- 5:20pm
- 0:45 p a
- 10:00 p n
— - 11:40 p m I
- - 10:10 a
Live Oak with train* |
CITY MARSHALL’S SALES.
"Will be sold before the conrt house door
in the city of Bainbridge, Ga., between the
usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
April next, the following property, to-wit:
One Job Press in the possession of Russell &
Jones, Democrat office of the city of Bain
bridge: levied on as the property of Willis
M. Russell, to satisfy one tax fifa issued by
George W. Pearce, Clerk of Council, vs. said
Bussell; this March 6, 1873.
P. COLLIER,
Marshall City Bainbridge.
Cotton, Corn, Hides, Wool, and any country produce bought by
AT. REID & COMPANY.
FALL AND WINTER!
1872—-1873.
We are in the market with our usual stock of
FALX and WINTER GOODS.
Close connection at Albany with trains n
Southwestern Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Savannah, Sundays exe_, - 7:20am I
Arrive at Lawton, Sundays exc., - 3:115 pm I
Arrive at Live Oak, Sundays esc., 5:40 p a I
Arm* Jaiksonville, Ssntbtys
cxcc| irctf - 11:03 p ns I
Leave Jacksonville. Samdays esc.. 0:40am I
Leave Li ve Ottk, Sundays esc., - 11:40 a ns I
leave Lawton, Sundays ex<_ - 2:20pm I
Arrive at Savannah, Sun. tic.. - 10:00 pra I
No change between Savaiauh ami Jack-1
sonviffe.
ACCOM MOD AT! ON THAIX.
f WEsraiix mvtsttw.
I heave Lnvetnn, Shoulnjs excepted, 7:30am |
Arrive a* Valdosta. Sundays ta« T ‘.klftna
Arrive at QrntWSundays M - 1W?a ra I
Arrive at ThwmasviP.e, “ “ laltlpm
Anive at ARsiny, “ “ 7:40pa I
Leave Albany, Sundays excepted, 7:50am I
Leave Tlunuasvifle, Sun-lays “ 2:21)pm
Leave Quitman, Stirs lays “ 4:02 p
Leave Valdosta,Sundays “ 0358pa I
Arrive- at Lawton, Sundays “ 8:10pa [
Conrnrect at Albany with night trains on
Southwestern railroad, leaving ASeny Mb-
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, id
arriving at Albany Tuesday, Wedneshr.
Friday and Saturday.
Jh-riJ Steamer leaves Bainbridge wry
Wednesday at 9:00 a. m. for Apalachicola
H. S. HAINES. G«n’l Supt.
H. F. Abell. C. E. Hochstrasser
H. F. ABELL & CO.,
GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
And Dealers in
Plantation, Family, Steamboat
GROCERIES.
Consignments of Florida syrups solicited.
Particular attention paid to all orders and
consignments. [oct24 6m
116 Broad St., Columbus Ga.
lOO bbls. FLOUR, 8,000 pounds
BACON Sides Ac Shoulders,
J. P. Dickinson. C. W. Stegall.
DICKINSON & STEGALL,
H ANKERS
Bainbridge, Ga.,
DEALERS IN
Exchange,
Bonds, and
Stocks,
Coin.
Deposits received and Collec
tions made
And promptly remitted for at current rate t>f
exchange.
State nf Georgia Decatur eomnty :
The undersigned have this day entered
into copartnership for the purpose of doing
a Banking and Exchange business in the city
of Bainbridge, Ga., under the firm name and
style of Dickinson & Stegall.
John P. Dickinson and Calvin W. Stegall
are the general partners, and Arthur P.
Wright and Thomas C. Mitchell are th*
special partners, who have this day contrib
uted the sum of Five Thousand dollars each
to the capital stoA. Said copartnership to
commence this day and expire on the Sixth
day of August, A. D., 1873.
JOHN P. DICKINSON,
CALVIN W. STEGALL,
ARTHUR P. WRIGHT,
THOMAS C. MITCHELL.
August 6th, 1872-—tf
1,000 lbs. LABI),
3.00 yaud* BAGGING, lOO buns.
ARROW TIES.
PAINTING MATERIALS,
Of all kinds—White Lead, boiled and raw Oils,
colored Paints assorted.
10.000 YARDS OF PRINTS,
ALL GRADES AND PRICES.
5.000 yards Brown and Bleached
Shirtings and Sheetings.
25 pieces KENTUCKY JEANS.
And the usual assortment of DRY-GOODS and DRESS GOODS.
Petitios and Rule Hi Si to Foreclose
Mortgage.
Drury Rnmbo, Executor, cs. J. J. W 1 *-
Superior Court, Dcceshrr County Mty
Term, 1873.
STATE OF GEORG IA, DECATUR CO.
It being represented to the court by *“*
petition of Drury Rnmbo, ns executor of tte
last will and testament of Daniel Raw ■
deceased, that by deed of mortgage, dated!*
the first day of November, 1870, -L L j ,l? ,
conveyed to the said Drury Kambo a lot
land in the 20th district of .“aid “"W-
known in the plan of said district as lot :
372, for tiie purpose of securing die pa.™’’,
of a certain proniisory note made by the 3 '
J. J. Yates to the said Drury Kambo. due™
tiie first dny of November, 1871, for the
of seventeen dollars and fifty cents,
note is now due and unpaid : R w " r ,.
that the said J. J. Yates do pay into™,
court by the first day of the next term t er
the principal, interest and cost due on sa
note, or show cause if any he has to the "
trary; or in default thereof foreciosu
granted to the said Drury Rambo ° -
mortgage deed, and tiie equity of redeaip
of the said J. J. Yates therein
barred, and that service of this rule r
fected on said J. J. Yates by publics i" n
a month for four months, according ,0 ,
Witness the Hon. Peter J. Stroxier, Ju „
said Court, this January 2d, 1813.
T. F. HAMPTON, Herk
BABBIT & WARFIELD.
THOS. BRANCH * CO., BRANCH, »O xi *
Richmond, Va. Augusta,
BRANCH & SONS,
Commission
Savannah, Ga..
Market Prices corrected Weekly >
Branch & Sons-
Salt—By car-load, 1.50 per sack; l-«»*
small lots. „„ nl 0 t n j4etf.
Bacon—Clear rib sides, OOsOJ;
6Ja7; D. S. C. R. sides, . »5c-' 1
Sugar House Syrup—20c. in > ■'
lots of five bbls. * . jjfmw
Hay—Northern, T.80 from store. • ^
wharf; western, 1.80al.90 from store,
al-75 from wharf. white- 9'-
Cora—Yellow and mixed, "
Oats—70c. i. higher
Coffee—15a20Ic in 25-bng lot *
in ten bag lots; five bag lots c ? tjerc e3.
Rice—7;ja8} for fair togood ’n ^
Pearl Grits—6.00 perbbl. ofy 00 . 1 -^.#:
Flour—Superfine, 6.50; extra,
family, 9.50*10.50 bags or bbjs.
Potatoes—white, 4.2oa4.bo P/
Onions—6.50a8 00 per bbl. * hlt
Apples—4.00*5.00 per bbl. ^
Bagging—weighing 2.30 to y .
Tobacco-—40a75c according to fV
quality. 4