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When a Texas coroner wants a little
ready money all he has to do is to drive
his jury out to the nearest giove and cut
down one of the suspected horse thieves.
A Sioux City Justice of the Peace,
about to marry a couple, said: “Hold up
your right hands. Now, what do you
know about this^ase ?’*
The Covington (Ky.) editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial says some of the
citizens of that place are occasionally in
receipt of letters inquiring about the suc
cess of the Holly system of water-works,
and whether they would recommend its
adoption. The reply is usually very brief
—Don’t!
Continued.—We learn from the report
of the proceedings in the Federal Circuit
Court at Savannah, printed in the papers
of that city of Wednesday, that the cases
of the United States versus A. P. Collins,
George W. Gustin, and Solomon R. John
son, all of Macon—the so-called intimida-
tors”—have been continued until the
next term.
The Newburyport Herald has made
the following interesting philological dis
covery. It says : “A tinker’s dam is not
profanity, but simply an enclosure made
commonly of bread around the hole to be
mended, that the melted solder may be
retained till it cools off around the bread.
After being subjected to this process the
bread is burned and spoiled, and is a fit
ting type of utter worthlessness.”
Bloody Retaliation.—The New York
Sun, on the authority of a private letter,
says that the Cuban patriots under
Gomez, on receipt of the news of the Vir
ginias executions, assailed and captured
some fortified camps near Santiago de
Cuba, and taking 200 prisoners of war
shot them in sight of the town, by way of
retaliation for the butchery of the Vir-
ginius captives. There is no use of re
grets over so ill advised a proceeding, be
cause in all human probability it never
took place.
The Presidential Fight in 1876—
A Square Battle Between the Badi-
cals and Democrats Predicted.—The
Cincinnati Commercial of Saturday has
an elaborate review of the political life
and services of the Hon. Elihu B. Wash-
burne, of Illinois, the present minister
to Spain, and a member of the lower
House of Congress for sixteen years, and
in a leading editorial of the same issue
nominates him as its candidate for Con
gress in 1876. In the same editorial the
Commercial makes this prediction:
The political situation may be defined
in a few sentences. There have been
such Democratic victories this fall that
the Democratic party is already in the
field for the next Presidential campaign.
Third party movement* will be crowded, aside.
Our experience in Ohio six weeks ago settled
that. The contest, therefore, will be a
square one between the Eepublican and
Democratic parties.
Miss Warner, of Highgate, Vermont,
the girl who went to sleep on the 9th, and
wasn’t going to wake up til! the 21st, has
been interviewed, and she seems to sleep
on an entirely original plan. After two
days and nights of it, she appeared to
dream that she was a receiving warehouse
in the provision business, for she got up
and ate,—didn’t she eat! The lunch gave
her the nightmare, evidently, for she was
restless and would write detached words
on a slate, such as: “Pen and ink,” “Do
not force me to take anything,” "God
tells me, and you must do it,” “ It is not
my natural food," “ I’m going to see the
angels,” "Coming back Nov. 21st,” etc.
Those two days were the longest time she
has slept without that little lunch. Her
countenance is “smooth and placid,'
pulse natural, respiration ditto. If her
hand is hfted from the bed, it will remain
where it is left for a moment, then slowly
settle to its original position. The man
who interviewed her thinks the cause of
her slumber “a very obvious one,” but he
doesn’t choose to enlighten the public.
The Wonders of Telegraphy.
To get in Georgia on the 4th of Decem
ber, the comments of the London Press
on a President’s message delivered at
home on the 2nd, is one of the miracles
of the age. It involved the transmission
of the long document under the wide
waste of waters—then by overland to
London—its reprinting by the press on
the morning of the 3d, together with edi
torial reviews of it, and the transmission
of the latter by the same route back to
New York and to Georgia,
In the lights of the simnle processes
by which such results are effected they
are, it it true, no matter of wonder at the
present day, but twenty years ago they
would have been pronounced impossible
by any natural agencies. And if we re
flect upon such achievement now, we
shall better realize what extraordinary
changes it portends in the condition of
the world. London is now, for the pur
poses of mental inter-communication
much nearer to New York and Washing
ton, than Baltimore was when many of
us were children. And, in a few years,
distance as a barrier to intellectual com
munication all over the globe will be
practically annihilated, and human
thought and opinion circulate as freely
and as rapidly round the circle of the
earth as tne blood does in the human
system.
It requires study to appreciate the in
fluence of this great fact in assimilat
ing human opinions correcting errors—
dissipating prejudices — softening ani
mosities—inspiring sympathies—and, in
fine, bringing to the use and benefit of
all mankind the intelligence, information
and civilization of the more improved
races and communities. We begin to
see the effect of this electric chain of
communication already in the rapid dis
appearance of Oriental isolation and non-
intercourse, and the adoption of Western
ideas and improvements by half the hu
man race who two decades ago were
totally ignorant of and hostile to Euro
pean civilization.
We may say with truth in reference to
this great modem enginery of thought,
that it directs the opinion of the world
against peculiar institutions, usages and
dogmas like the concentrated fire of a
tremendous battery of artillery, with over
whelming effect, so that whatever local
offends the general sense of propriety
and fitness goes down before it. In re
spect to questions of morals and religions,
philosophical and scientific truth, it is
fast making but one community of the
world, and overleaping the boundaries of
great seas and mountains and deserts, in
spires common thoughts, sympathies, in
terests and affections all over the globe.
Who can say he is a stranger in any
respect to a place from which he gets
daily information before breakfast?
When he reads of their trade, their legis
lation, public meetings, speeches, acci
dents by fire and flood—their misfor
tunes, sorrows and rejoicings a great
deal sooner than he will ordinarily hear
of the health or sickness of a neighbor
living ten miles away? Their distances
may be computed by thousands of miles,
but practically for purposes of thought,
intelligence and sympathy, they are at
the next door, and who shall limit the
practical results of this grand and swiftly
augmenting agency on the future history
of the world?
Tlie Convention of Southern
Grangers at Atlanta.
The proceedings of this body, which
we consider of far more practical value
to the South than the President’s mes
sage, were printed simultaneously with
that document on Wednesday of' this
week.
From a member we learn that 250 del
egates were in attendance, and notwith
standing the prediction made by one of
the newspapers, that “ the concern would
be Tim by lawyers and preachers, not
more than a half-dozen members each, of
those professions were present.
It is impossible to disguise the fact
that the Convention was composed, to
great extent, of the very best and purest
citizens and producers of the country.
There were men there who would illus
trate their States in the Halls of Congress
or the Executive chair. Others, again,
who held high rank in scientific circles,
and whose opinions were entitled to great
weight in any assemblage. Skillful plant
ers of the old regime, who once dwelt in
lordly style upon their baronial estates
and counted their slaves by the hundred,
were to be seen, side by side with the
sturdy and sun-embrowned farmer.
In short, it was indeed a representative
gathering of the estates of the realm, and
they did their work calmly, and well.
Those who asserted that the Conven
tion would travel beyond its province and
recommend measures at variance with
law, .and opposed to the established max
ims of trade and commerce, were wofully
disappointed. There was nothing revo
lutionary proposed; not a scintilla of
violence crept into its proceedings; not
solitary motion or resolution was pressed,
which contravened any right or privilege
of the humblest citizen.
Wisely, and with steadfast purpose, that
peaceful assembly of patriots bent its en
ergies to the true interests of the country,
and the development of its material re-
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The story of the religious triumph in
Cuba, through which twenty of the con
demned filibusters, turned over at 8 a. h.
to the priests, were turned over, con
firmed Catholics, to the executioners at
4 p. m., a rate of conversion equal, as the
Bishop’s dispatch intimates, to 2} souls
per hour—is a worthy companion piece
to the story of the religious revival
conducted in a certain Yankee brig
ade during the war by a chaplain of more
than forty-parson power. Having revived
several of the regiments, he called one
morning on a New York Colonel. "Colo
nel,” said the enthusiastic dervish, “I
want to speak to your regiment. I have
had grace with other regiments, to con
vert many. There is that Hoosier regi
ment on the hill younder; I baptised
twenty-seven of them only last Sunday.”
“Stop,” said Colonel K. “How many men
do you tell me you baptised there, Chap-
ain ?” “Twenty-seven men. Colonel.”
"Adjutant E.” said the Colonel, turning
abruptly to that officer, "detail fifty men
or instant baptism. I’ll be — it this
regiment shall be outdone, while I com
mand it, by a Hoosier regiment, or any
other in the service!”
This is the caustic way James Parton
lectures on the church taxation question
Some of the churches are luxuries, and
all luxuries should be taxed. The costly
services of Trinity Church are a luxury,
without which the attendance would have
remained os it was a few years ago, when
“ it would have been possible to have
fired a pistol from one end to the other
without hitting a Christian.” Services
that cost $1,000 every Sunday should not
be degraded by being put on the free
list, leaving the burden to be borne by
others who disagreed with. them. The
speaker paid $200 last year on his prop
erty, and would have to do it this year,
while the massive pile known 03 St.
Goorge’s Church, near by, and worth
$500,000, paid and pays nothing; and
yet if a mob destroyed' it the people
would have to pay for it. It is proposed
to build a cathedral at a cost of $2,000,-
000, and it may cost $5,000,000. The
speaker asked if it was fair to the labor
ing men of the city to exempt such a
costly toy from taxation. If the State is
to receive nothing from this property, it
should aUo be exempt from the cost of
protecting it. The country is abolishing
dead-beads, such as the franking privi
lege, free passes on railroads, and free
lists generally, and the time is coming
h when exemption from taxes will also be
I abolished.
Piedmont and Arlington Life
Insurance Company.
The earnest attention of the reading
public is invited to' the very comprehen
sive and satisfactory exhibit of this com-
pany, as contained in its advertisement
to-day.
Tried by every test, whether of the most
rigid inquiry and investigation into all of
its business details and transactions; by
the number of its risks and the character
of its policies; by the probity and tact
of its managers, or the unexampled suc
cess of its operations, it stands forth with
out a superior in the country, North or
South.
In addition, also, to the usual life noli-
cies, the Piedmont and Arlington have
made arrangements with the Widows and
Orphans Friendly Society, of New Jersey,
to provide for its policyholders during
seasons of sickness and disability.
The capital of this association is
$25,000, and it is established upon the
safest and most permanent basis. In
connection with the life assurance a stip
ulated sum is guaranteed for every
week’s sickness of the policy holder, with
a handsome" provision likewise in the
event of the loss of sight, or any limb,
from accident or disease. Temporary
aid is also granted to the poor f or
burial expenses, to he deducted after
wards from the policy.
Thus any party twenty-one years old,
by the payment of $2 33 per month may
secure a life policy for $1,000, and receive
in addition, eight dollars per week in all
seasons of illness. The advantages thus
afforded to the indigent laborer, are in
deed inestimable. It is literally provid
ing/or the "rainy day;” for the hours
of sickness and distress, when honest in
dustry, with the best intentions, can
achieve nothing from physical weakness.
This is indeed a most salutary and at
tractive feature in the new schedule of
the Piedmont and Arlington, and will
tend vastly to increase its popularity and
usefulness. *
In the person of the General State
Agent also. Dr. T. Stanley Beckwith, a
brother of the Bishop of thi3 diocese, our
people have the best possible assurance
that they will be honorably and fairly
dealt with. Dr. B. is a native of Virginia
and a gentleman universally esteemed
and respected. In his hands, without
any special effort, the business of the
Company has signally prospered; and
wherever he is known, all canvassing is
superfluous. Those who wish to make
reliable and timely provision for depend
ant families, will seek him without solici
tation as the representative of the Pied
mont and Arlington.
His advertisement therefore, is mainly
designed to reach parties at remote points,
with whom he will he happy to correspond
and impart every - information needed in
the premises.
The Prize System op Advertising.
The New York correspondent of the Min,
neapolis Tribune says that Lorillard's
method of advertising their chewing to
bacco by putting money in the packages
has not proved effective; that the firm
expended sixty-five thousand dollars in
all, and one of the proprietors acknowl
edged to the correspondent that the same
amount expended in legitimate newspa
per advertising would have paid far bet
ter.
The suicidal policy of planting cotton
to the neglect of the supply of grain and
meat, was combated, and practical meas
ures token to abate the evil. The sacred
character of all just debts and obligations
were reiterated—the injustice of pro
tracted patents for inventions of general
utility denounced—the assistance of Con
gress earnestly invoked in the speedy
construction of that great internal artery
of commerce, the Allantic and Great
Western Canal—the cash system recom
mended, and the appointment of State
chemists for the intelligent survey of our
mineral lands, and to protect the plant
ers from spurious fertilizers—our mem
hers of Congress urged to advocate the
return of the iniquitous cotton tax—the
present onerous and unjust protective
tariff condemned, and iniatory steps
tokm, looking to the establishment of di
rect trade in cotton and other products
with the marts of Europe.
These were some of the measures con
sidered and adopted, and who will gain
say their wisdom, and the incalculable
benefits to be derived from them in prac
tice?
The Grangers though wielding an im
mense power in their own organization,
very properly kept entirely aloof from
politics. Pursuing the policy laid down
at Atlanta, their ability to do good will
only be measured by the population and
limits of the nation. In the matter too,
of refusing to appoint any special organ
from the press, they evinced their good
sense in an eminent degree. So long as
this great movement of the people ad
heres to its legitimate aims and purposes,
as set forth in the recent convention,
every newspaper in the land should, and
will sustain it. Why then belittle itself,
by constituting a single journal par ex
cellence as a mouth piece ?
If it departs from the right way, and
degenerating into mere partisan channels,
loses its identity with the great objects
which called it into existence, who then
would consent to become its advocate and
defender ? Not the Telegraph and Mbs
senger, at least.
The New Attorney General.
The Courier-Journal introducing Col.
Benjamin H. Bristow, before his appoint
ment, as the coming Attorney General of
the United States, to succeed Williams,
appointed Chief Justice, speaks very
highly of him. The Journal says he is a
native of Kentucky and at present a resi
dent of Louisville. He lived in Hopkins
ville up to the breaking out of the war,
and at its conclusion commenced the
practice of law in this city. Shortly af
terwards he was appointed District At
torney of Kentucky, and fulfilled the du
ties of that position with such signal
ability, that, some years since, the Presi
dent called him to Washington as the
special legal adviser of the Government.
The astute Ackerman was at that time
Attorney General, and there was doubt
less a reason why it was not advisable to
have him vacate that position. Howbeit,
a new and special office was created for
Col. Bristow, and he became the Solicitor
General of the Government—an office
which, we believe, has lapsed his since re
signation. The high talents and extensive
legal acquirements which had marked
Col. Bristow as one of foremost lawyers of
this State soon made for him a very en
viable reputation at the National capital.
He was recognized as the legal authority
of the Government; Ackerman served
only as a figure-head. It was about a
year ago, we believe, that General Bris
tow offered his resignation, which, after
great reluctance, was accepted by the
President. He resigned to accept a very
honorable and lucrative position connect
ed with the Southern Pacific railroad,
which he yet holds.
Some months since Gen. Bristow re
turned to this city from Philadelphia,
and is now, with his family, domiciled at
the Galt House. He is building a very
handsome residence on Broadway, which
he will be loth to leave, even to accept a
seat in the Cabinet. The new dignity,
however, will not add to the estimation
in which Gen. Bristow is held by his
friends and admirers in this city and
State. It has been remarked by a gen
tleman who has been most intimately as
sociated with him, “ That to he in Gen.
Bristow’s presence is to instinctively rec
ognize that one is brought in contact
with a great man.” He is doubtless the
most popular man in his party in this
section, and the appointment will give
entire satisfaction to the Bepublicans of
Kentucky and the South.
General Bristow is of a very striking
and handsome presence, a man of cul
ture and a thorough gentleman. He is
genial in his manners, a firm friend and
tho.se who know him best say] a pretty
good enemy. He will dignify and ele
vate the office which he is called upon to
fill, and will bring into the social life of
the national capital personal and family
relations which will adorn that society.
"We are not informed whether he will
accept the position tendered him, hut the
President, mindful of his past services in
the Cabient, will doubtless bring to
bear upon bis resolution a pressure which
1 he will find it hard to withstand.
The Whitesburg News is the latest con
tribution to Georgia newspaper literature.
Published by J. M. B. Kelley. Whites-
burg is the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama railway, twelve miles
west of Newnan, and has fourteen busi
ness houses, a cotton warehouse, hotel,
and a planing mill.
Would it be impertinent to enquire if
the outside of the Eastman Times is
printed at home ? It looks marvellously
like a “patent” abomination, to us
The Fort Talley Mirror will certainly
get itself into trouble. It says United
States Marshal Gillespie forgot to pay
his hotel bill at that place last week.
This remark smacks very strongly of
“disloyalty.”
The same paper relates a very extraor
dinary occurrence that took place in that
town a few days since. Two young men
—Democrats - were hauled up before a
Federal Commissioner on the charge of
conspiracy preferred by some loyal citi
zen or citizenessof the African persuasion,
and were actually discharged. What are
we coming to ? Shall “the life of the
nation” he thus imperilled by allowing
“rebels” to get off without even paying
“costs?”
Court-house Sales at Savannah.—
The Advertiser says these sales were not
as “flattering as many hoped they would
be. Although it is said ‘money is easier’
there appears to be no demand for real
estate, and much of that offered was
withdrawn for want of bidders. Some
Central and Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
stock was offered, but no bona fide sales
were made, bids being objectionable,”
Of the sales at Augusta, the Chronicle
and Sentinel say3:
Yesterday being legal sale day the
usual sales took place at the Market-
house. There was quite a large crowd in
attendance and the bidding was more ani
mated than it has been for some time
past. A large amount of properly was
offered, and a considerable portion of it
sold at fair figures.
At Columbus the sheriff withdrew all
property advertised by him for want of
bidders.
Several gay young bloods of Fort Val
ley, experienced a novel sensation last
Sunday. The preacher of one of the
churches addressed some such very per
sonal remoras to them for talking in
church that they actually blushed!
W. F. Ayer has been re-elected Mayor
of Rome, defeating D. S. Printup by a
vote of 128 to 56.
At Atlanta the municipal election re
sulted in the election of the Democratic
ticket for mayor—S. B. Spencer—and al
dermen without opposition.
At Athens the election for mayor was
closely contested—Dr. Wm. King de
feating J. D. Pittard, present incumbent,
only six votes. The University students
were not allowed to vote, though they
had paid their cify tax.
The Columbus Sun says:
Florida Oranges and Syrup.— A
good trade is being effected in these ar
ticles. The last boat brought up 22,000
oranges, which are being sold at 2} to 3
cents each by the box, which on the av
erage contain 250. One man at Neal’s
landing has a tree which yields 5,000
oranges. Florida syrup is largely in de
mand. Here itbrings 65 to 70 cents per
gallon, and the boats bring up consid
erable quantities at every arrival.
Why?—Under this head the Chronicle
and Sentinel says:
“If a change, or changes, in the Con
stitution be desired why not let the -Leg
islature make those amendments, as it
has a right to do, and save the people the
expense of a Convention ?” This is the
question triumphantly put by some of the
opponents of a Constitutional Conven
tion. We will answer it. The assem
blage of scalawags, carpet-baggers, jail
birds ond political adventurers which
met in Atlanta in 1868, anticipated and
provided against any such action. They
declared that the Constitution which they
framed should not be altered or amended
except by a two-thirds vote of two succes
sive Legislatures. An instilment adopted
by a majority of the people at one elec
tion can only he changed by a two-thirds
vote of the representatives of the people
in two successive elections. Let the
Legislature submit the question to a vote,
and the people—the sovereigns of the
State—will decide whether or not they
wish another Convention held, and a new
Constitution framed.
The same paper says:
One op the Victims op the Yille du
Havre Disaster.—Miss Lallie Bulkley,
one of the lost passengers of tho ill-fated
steamer Ville du Havre, was a grand
daughter of Mrs. John M. Adams and a
neice of Mrs. Joseph Ganahl and Mrs.
George McWhorter, of this city. She
was a lovely and accomplished young
lady, and possessed those sterling attri
butes of heart and character which never
fail to make their possessor beloved.
Miss Bulkley was just entering her
twenty-first year, and thus passed away
in all the bloom of youth and beauty.
Her relations in this city are deeply
shocked by the terrible occurrence, the
news of which reached them with such
startling suddenness. But a few months
since she was in Augusta, tho life and
certre of a circle of friends, and it seems
hard for them to realize that she is now
resting in the remorseless waters of the
ocean. A dispatch was received in this
city yesterday from Mrs. Bulkley, the
mother of the unfortunate young lady,
her only child, stating that the two were
together when the ship wont down, but
that they became separated in the seeth
ing waters and she alone was picked up,
Two attempts were made lost Monday
night, says the Augusta Constitutional
ist, to throw the up passenger train on
the Georgia Railroad, off the track, near
the 149th mile post. In one case one iron
rail was placed across the track, and in
the other two rails were used. The air
brake saved the train both times.
The Bamesville Gazette commends one
James McCray to the consideration of its
cotemporaries, who has been behaving
very much like a full blown loyl member
of the South Carolina Legislature. He
has been shipping cotton to Bates & Comer,
of Savannah, and after obtaining a large
amount of money from them suddenly
Bullocked. He is not a very handsome
youth as photographed by the artist of
the Gazette, being a low, “heavy built
man, sallow complexion, black hair and
beard, a round, fiat, full face, somewhat
flat nosed. His nose turns to one side, is
quick spoken, and, also, quick in his mo
tions. Says he came from Ohio.” With
such an extraordinary nose, we don’t see
how he can escape arrest. A man with a
talking proboscis can’t hide very long.
Tlie Kinff of Cuba.
Mr. Gallenega, a correspondent of the
London Times, who inspected Cuba and
the Cubans for that journal about a year
ago, says that the power behind the
shadowing him, is a Spanish millionaire,
one Don Julian de Zuluete, whose charao
ter and position are thus explained:
Don Julian is a most remarkable man
in every way. He is the fiton of a laborer
in the Basque provii cia. He landed in
Cuba penniless, and now the aggregate
of his wealth of all kinds is enormous
He is .the owner of four great sugar es^
tates; each of them valued at .£300,000,
besides many smaller ones. He ha3 a
great mercantile establishment in Ha
vana, is a chief shareholder in the princi
pal joint-stock undertakings, and has
placed money out on interest everywhere.
FTis influence is almost omnipotent. Mr.
Gallenga assures us tjjat he controls the
municipality, the Chamber of Commerce,
the hrfnfr, the Exchange, the hospitals,
while, a3 we said, the Captain-General
dare take no step of importance without
his approval or assent.
How that comes about is easily ex
plained. Don Julian is not only at once
the richest and the most resolute man in
the island, hut he is the chosen represen
tative of the system that has made the
island so rich and of the ruling caste,
who have strength, courage, and military
force on their side. The whites are di
vided into two great classes, the Penin
sular es or native born Spanish immi
grants, and the Creoles, or native Cubans.
The Peninsulares flourish by slavery, look
upon Cuba as a mere place to make
money in, and without the profits of
slave-grown produce it would not be
worth their while to remain in the West
Indies. They used to act with the gov
ernment and take their orders from the
Captain General, so long as there wa3 no
talk of-emancipation and the government
was content to share the profits of slavery.
Now that the Government has commit
ted itself to abolition they act for them
selves and their own interests, and take
their cQiers from Don Julian de Zulueta.
The machinery at his disposal is very
formidable. In Havana and each of the
other Cities there is a “Spanish Club, 1
where the local heads of the party hold
their consultations and whence they issue
their orders. The rank and file are all
enrolled in volunteer battalions, where
they are fairly drilled and well armed.
These volunteers' are said to number
some 60,000 men, and there is no other
force that can make head against them
They are prompt to act on occasion, and
as their ardor is quickened by the liveliest
self-interest it needs rather to be repress
ed than stimulated. If they have been
comparatively passive of late, except
when actually in the field against the in
surgents, it is only because their ene
mies art thoroughly cowed in the mean
time. It was the volunteer corps of Ha
vana who compelled that horrible judicial
massacre of the creole st udents charged
with outraging tombs in the cemetery
and that and similar atrocities have es
tablished a lasting terror. But they
make no secret of their intention of wag
ing a war to the knife should circum-
stances.render it desirable, nor do they
hesitate to avow their conviction that
strong enough to exterminate
es and blacks/'
A Story ot Eppingr Forest
London Daily News, Nov. 12.J
The right to cut fire-wood in one of the
Crown forests and carry it away without
payment of money and without reference
Captain-General of Cuba, and really over- to price, is, in view of the rates current
they
the cn
The Epizooty.
A Herald editor who has been inter
viewing one of the leading veterinary
surgeons of New York upon the reap
pearance of the epizooty in that city, got
the following from him:
A Paris correspondent writing of the
prevailing fashions says that the latest
style of opera cloaks are cut with sleeves.
The trimming is entirely of gold or silver
braid. The head covering is a simple
scarf of silk tulle, carelessly thrown over
Ihe head, and carried around the throat,
the long sweeping end falling gracefully
over the left shoulder; a cluster of buds
nestles in the boft folds at the right side,
and another hunch of flowers holds to
gether the ends of the scarf. This style
of opera head-gear is becoming to almost
every lady, and, although simple, it is
remarkably attractive.
I have uo doubt that with all things
equal we shall see this year a repetition
of the scenes of last among the horses,
and very likely when the first cold weath
er of the season begins each year the dis
ease many appear in its old form. We
have the advantage of knowing some
thing more about it than we did at first,
and almost all veterinary surgeons here
know how best to deal with it. But un
der the most favorable circumstances the
disease is one which takes much longer
to extirpate than it does to come, and
valuable time must be lost by the ap
pearance of the disease. There is no
doubt that what is known as the epizooty
is simply a very severe form of cold which
attacks the bronchial tubes and causes
them to inflame to such a degree that
respiration often becomes impossible.
This is accompanied by a species of run
ning catarrh which weakens tho animal,
and by withdrawing the best juices of the
body causes tho body to become weak
and emaciated in a very short space of
time. By the application of remedies the
disease, if taken in time, may be made to
yield and the horse may be put in a con
dition to work once more.
But I have much doubt if the disease
is ever completely extirpated from the
system of tho horse and upons light prov
ocation, each as standing in the cold
while perspiring, or not being housed
sufficiently warm, the malady may ap
pear with all ite first vigor, and the ani
mal will begin to droop and fall away as
before, subject to the same remedies if
it has not taken too fast a hold already,
I have been led to say this by the fact
that I have noticed that all those horses
which suffered most severely last season
have had more or less running from the
nostrils ever since, and would no doubt
be ready to yield to the distemper directly
it set in again with any virulence. The
cough has also remained more or less, and
every now and then you may hear it in
the streets. It is the old disease which
remains in every case.
Of course, the warm months of the
summer were antagonistic to the disease,
and there is never any danger of its be
coming widespread during that season.
But winter setting in the danger comes
back, and must be obviated as best we
can do it. I believe that the spread of
the disease will depend very much upon
the weather of the next few days. If the
weather remains hard, clear and dry as it
is at present, I have no doubt that we
shall escape without any severe attack of
the malady. But in case there should be
any sudden change the disease will break
out very badly, and we shall very likely
have the worst scenes of last year re
peated, and, very likely, with as much
violence. But better it should come
now than biter in the season, when the
snow impedes travel and makes the work
of tho horses two-fold. It is not likely,
however, that we shall have many deaths
from the disease, for, as I said before, it
will not take us by surprise as it did last
year, and we shall better know how to
treat it.
Birth of a new Church.
A New York telegram, of December 2,
to the Western Press, says:
A meeting of clergymen and others
was held to-day in Association Hall, in
response to a call issued by Bishop Cum
mins, to organize a church based upon
the principles of the prayer-bookof 1785.
Among the clergymen present were Rev.
Dr. Cheny, of Illinois, and Rev. Dr.
Prime.
A declaration of principles was adopted,
organizing those present into “ The Re
formed Episcopal Church,” and adopting
the prayer-book of 1785. The pith of the
declaration lies in the fourth article, as
follows:
This church condemns and rejects the
following erroneous and' strange doc
trines a3 contrary to God’s words:
“1. That the Church of Christ exists
only in one order or form of ecclesiasti
cal policy.
“2. That Christian ministers are priests
in any other sense than that in which all
believers are a royal priesthood.
“3. That the Lord’s table is an altar on
which an oblation of the body and blood
of Christ is offered anew to the Father.
4. That the presence of Christ in the
Lord’s Supper is a presence in the ele
ments of bread and wine.
'5. That regeneration is inseparably
connected with baptism.”
The body was then organized as the
first council of the church, and provisions
i made for its constitution and perpetuity.
ou the Coal Exchange, au exceedingly
precious privilege; and, independent
the prineiple involved, it is no wonder
that the residents of Epping-forest par
ish are at some pains to preserve it. That
in order to that end they shoulk remain
out of their beds long after the usual
hour of retiring, and should assemble on
Staple Hill to “lop” the trees as the
clock struck 12 on a November night, is
ceremonial for the necessity of which they
are told to thank Queen Elizabeth. That
sovereign had a residence within the
forest, near Cliingford, the ruins of which,
known as Quefcn Elizabeth’s Lodge, re
main to this day. It is alleged that, be
ing moved to compassion by the condi
tion of the poor in the neighborhood, the
good queen gave them permission to
lop and carry away for their domestic
use the branches of the trees that
then abundantly grew in the forest,
was part of the bargain that none were to
use for the removal of the faggots other
conveyance than a hand-sledge, or if a
larger cart were brought into requisition
it vas to be drawn by a mare, with hind
fe«t shoeless. Finally it was decreed
tl «t this gracious charter was to be en-
ji Ted upon the condition of the residents
ir the parishes commencing to lop the
ti »es on the first stroke of midnight on
the 11th of each November, which ac-
c ,mplished, they were to be at liberty to
cut and cany off wood throughout the
winter, and up to the 23d day of March.
The four parishes contiguous to the Royal
Lodge, to-wit: Loughton, Theydon, Bois ;
Waltham Abbey and Epping, were in
cluded in this charter; and whether the
donor was Queen Elizabeth, of which
there does not appear to be much trust
worthy evidence, or whether the custom
has a still older origin, it is certain that
for some time after the Elizabeth era the
the privilege described wa3 exercised in
each of these four parishes.
But the good queen had not been in her
grave half a century before the popular
right of estovers in Epping Forest began
to be successfully assailed by the greed
o? the manor. In the parish of Waltham
Abbey the poor were, according to the
venerable Pigbones, cheated in a remark
able maimer. On the evening, of the 11th
of November, 1641, the lord of the manor
sent out into all the byways of the forest,
and, with soft speech and friendly en
treaty, compelled all the poor of the par
ish to come in and sup with him. “There
never was such an exemplary community
as the poor of Waltham Abbey,” the willy
seigneur said, as he filled their cups and
heaped up their platters, and bid them
eat, drink and be merry. But when
the clock struck twelve, his manner
changed to one of mocking scorn, and
the people knew that they had been
tricked, and that they had irrevocably
sold their birthright for a mess of pottage.
In the parish of Epping the privilege
of lopping has been practiced within
living memory, and here the right was
lost in a way more in accordance with
later civilization. The lord of the manor
being grieved by the untidy appearance
of the forest consequent upon the irregu
lar lopping, proposed to his tenants that
he should cut the fire-wood for them, un
dertaking not only to do so without charge,
but to deliver the faggots at their doors.
The tenants accepted the proposal, and
for some years the bargain jvas fairly car
ried out. But in the process of time his
lordship grew lax in the delivery of wood;
next required those in need of it to come
and fetch it themselves, and finally re
fused to cut it himself or let the tenants
cut it. In Tlieydon Bois, the popular
privilege is still exercised, but in a timid,
secret manner, the tenants not feeling
strong enough openly to assert their
right. The fourth of the endowed par
ishes—Lough ten—nearly lost its right by
falling into a trap similar to that which
closed over their neighbors at Waltham
Abbey. They also were invited to a great
supper ou a certain 11th of November,
and, unable to resist the temptation of
unlimited beer and illimitable roast
beef, they entered the manorial hall and
ranged themselves around the seemingly
hospitable board. But ha. p ly there was
one among them who, to use the homely
words of Pigbones, “smelt a rat, and was
forewarned to put his foot heavily down
on the same.” About 11:30, the tenants
having well eaten and drunk, “an old man
rose, and giving the signal, the poor peo
ple rushed forth” out of the hall into the
forest, where, as the clock struck mid
night, they applied tl emselvesto lopping
with a lustiness whereto tho lord of the
manor’s beef and beer had in no small
degree contributed. When other sub
jects for historical painters fall short,
perhaps this incident at Epping forest
will do remembered. The sudden up-
rousing from the festive board of the
dissembling “old men,” the flight of the
guests, and the consternation that would
probably be manifest upon the counte
nance of the over-reaching lord of the
manor, when he found himself over
reached, would combine to furnish mate
rial for a deeply interesting tableau.
The custom thus preserved remains in
force in Loughton to this day, and the
earliest moments of yesterday morning
were ushered in on Staple Hill amid the
sharp sound of the falling ax. Some of
tho gentlemen who have banded them
selves together in the noble enterprise of
preserving the people’s heritage in Ep
ping Forest determined to be present at
the ceremony at midnight, on Tuesday,
and with that view met at supper, in tho
Crown Inn, Lighten. Sir Antonio Brady
filled the chaii*. Supper over, thick coats
were donned, leggings buttoned on, lan
terns lit, and a start made for the tryst-
ing-place in the forest, where the trees
were marked for lopping. It was at the
outset a dark, almost starless, night, with
a keen wind blowing promise of a frost.
But before half the brief journey had
been performed the stars came out, and
presently tho moon emerged from a bank
of clouds, shedding over hill and forest
glade a flood of silver light that put to
shame the lanterns. There was a spice
of excitement in tho midnight enterpris
ing, and there was also a great deal of
mud in the pathways, occasional-
culminating in tho small ditches
in the vicinity of the gates that had
to be passed through. As the pathways
neared the top of the hill there was less
mud, but there were more treacherous
stumps, relics of felled trees, over which
tho unwary occasionally came to grief.
Shouts from the top of the hill guided
the party to the appointed goal, where
were found assembled a considerable body
of the freeholders of Loughton, armed
with axes. It wanted three minutes to
12, hut all was ready for the signal. Just
as—twelve miles off—the clocks from the
steeples of London were chiming the first
notes of midnight, here, out on this bleak
hillside, a score of axes fell on the boughs
of as many trees, each stroke meaning a
protest against seignorial innovation, and
a declaration of a determination to main
tain to tho last the centuries-old rights
of the people. As the still green houghs
fell to the ground under the rapid strokes
of figures dimly seen up in the trees,
those below seized branches and waved
them about their heads, loudly cheering
the woodmen in their tasks. When the
work of “lopping” was done, those who had
been engaged in it joined the crowd be
low, and, each man carrying a green
bough ou his shoulder, an impromptu pro
cession round the cleared space was or
ganized, the mass of foliage moving in
the moonlight suggesting a fresh visit of
Bimam Wood to Dunsinane. Amid the
cheers there rose a cry of “Bonfire ! bon
fire!” and in a twinkling the lopped
branches were piled in a heap on the
ground, and, willing hands bringing heaps
of dried fern, a fire was lit, to which tho
green wood slowly yielded. As the fire
spread and grew stroqg, the boughs were
piled up higher and higher, and at 1
o’clock yesterday morning Staple Hill an
nounced to all residents in the surround
ing neighborhood who were awake and
chanced to look that way that the estov
ers right of the people of Loughton had
been preserved for another year.
Luke.
(In the Colorado Park, 1875.)
BY BRET HARTS.
Wot’s that you’re readin’f—a novel? A novel-
well, darn my skin!
You a man grown and bearded and histin’ such
stuff as that in—
Stuff about pals and their sweethearts! No won
der you’re thin ez a knife.
Look nt me—clsr two hundred—and never read
one in my life.
LIFE.
HEALTH.
Cheerfulness, good digestion, if
COMFORT.
produce
■WEALTH.
That’s my opinion o’ novels. And e* to their lyin
round here.
They belonged to the Jedge’s daughter—the Jedge
who came up last year
On account of bis lunars and the mountains and
the balsam o’ pine and fir;
And his daughter—well she read novels, and
that’s what’s the matter with her.
Tet she was sweet on the Jedge, and stack by
him day and night.
Alone in the cabin up yer—till she grew like
ghost, all white.
She wus only a slip of a thing, ez light and ez up
anl away
Ez ride smoke blown through the woods, but she
wasn’t my kind—no way!
.Liver Disease has afflicted mankind seven-Nu-
imcspast, but m the present fast genmt
atsrzursR
S,S ble by a Torpid "«* to a $t
Speakin o’ gals, d’ye mind that house ez you rise
on the hill,
A mile and a half from White’s, and jist above
Mattingly’s mill?
Youdo? Well now thar’s a gal 1 What, you saw
. her? O. come now, thar, quit 1
She was only bedevlin’ you boys, for to me she
don’t cotton one bit.
Now she’s what I call a gal—ez pretty and plump
ez a quail;
Teeth ez white ez a hound’s and they’d go through
a ten-penny nail;
Eyes that kin snap like a cap. So she asked to
know “whar I was hid."
She did! O, it’s jist like her sass, for she's peart
ez a Katy-ditt.
Tfce Bltssog »f tie Kineteestk Ctstorj.
-PREVSKTS-
But what was I talking of? 01 the Jedge and his
daughter—she read
Novels the whole day long, and I reckon she read
them abed.
And sometimes she read them out loud to the
Jedge on the porch where he sat,
And’twas how “Lord Augustus” said this, and
how "Lady Blanche” she said that.
But the sickest of all that I heerd, was a yam
thet they read ’bout a chap,
" Leather-stocking” by name, and a hunter chock
full o’ the greenest o’ sap;
And they asked me to hear, hut I says, "Hiss
Mabel, not any for me:
Mabel, not any for me:
When I likes I kin sling my own lies, and thet
chap and I shouldn’t agree."
SLEEPLESSNESS,
SUICIDE,
INTEMPERANCE,
DEBILITY,
RESTLESNESS,
COSTIVENESS,
DEPRESSION,
. ENVIOUS TEMPER.
NERVOUSNESS,
HEADACHE.
HEARTBURN,
JAUNDICE
FEVER AND AGUE
Are all caused by the Liver being out of order.
Yet somehow-or-other she was always sayin’ I
brought her to mind
Of folks about whom she had read, or suthin be
like of thet kind.
And thar wam’t no end o’ the names that she
give me thet summer up here,
" Robin Hood;” “Leather-stocking,” "Bob Boy”
—O, I tell you, the critter was queer.
REGULATE TIE EVER
And the whole system keeps time Hke
clock work.
Everywhere they are strong in the belief that a
constitutional invigorant, a preparation unitin,'
the properties of a gentle purgatives tonic »
blood purifier and a general regulator is the great
requisite in all diseases. °
verywhere they are coming to the conclusion
that Simmons* Liver Begulatons precisely sud.
And yet ef she hadn’t been spiled, she was harm
less enough in her way,
She could jabber in French to her dad, and they
said that she knew how to play, „
And she worked me that shot-pouch up thar, I Erarvwhere mothers find it
which the man doesn’t live ez kin use,
And slippers—you see ’em down yer—ez would
cradle an In jin’s pappoose.
a sure neutralise
of acidity of the stomach, indigestion and colic in
children.
Yet along o’ them novels, you see, she was wastin’
and mopin’ away,
And then she got shy withher tongue, and at last
had nothin’ to say;
And whenever I happened around, her face it was
hid by a book,
And it wam’t until she left that she give me ez
much ez a look.
Everywhere it is becoming the favorite home
remedy, having proven itself an unfailing ipecifie ■
in biUiousue89, constipation, colic, sick
bowel complaints, dyspepsia and fevers.
' I "' IT Liver Begulator, the
Take Simmons'
family medicine,purely vegetable. It is indeed
marvelous medicine.
great
And this was the way it was. It was night when
I kem np here
To say to ’em all "good bye,” for I reckoned to go
for deer
At “sun up” the day they left. So I shook ’em
all round by the hand,
’Cept Mabel, and she was sick; ez they give me to
understand.
Simmons’ liver Regulator
OB MEDICINE,
But jist ez I passed the house next morning at
dawn, some one.
Like a little waver o’ mist, got upon the MU with
the sun;
Miss Mabel it was, alone—aU wrapped in a man
tle o’ laoe—
And she stood there straight in the road, with a
touch of the sun in her face.
Is harmless,
Is no drastic, violent medicine.
Is sure to cure if taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage.
It is a great aid to the cause of Temperance.
Is a faultless family medicine.
Is the cheapest medicine in the world.
Is given with safety and the happiest results to
the most delicate infant.
Does not interfere with business,
Does not disarrange the system.
Takes the place of Quinine and Bitten of every
kind.
Contains the simplest and best remedies.
And she looked me right in the eye—I’d seen
suthin like it before
When I hunted a wounded doe to the edge o*
tho Clear Lake shore,
And I had my knee on its neck, and jist was rais
in’ my knife
When it give me a look like that, and—weU it got
off with its life.
Beware of Counterfeits and Imita
tions, and Preparations not In
our Original Packages.
■Wo are going to-day," she said, "and I thought
' ” ‘-goodby
I would say good bye
To you in your own house, Luke—these woods
and the bright blue sky!
You’ve always been kind to us, Luke, and papa
has found you still
As good as the air he breathes, and wholesome as
as Laurel Tree Hill.
Take care not to buy any article as “Simmem’'
Liver Begulator,” that has not oar genuine like!
and stamp upon it. Accept no imitation or sub
stitute, however plausibly recommended. Buy
the powder and prepare it vourself, or bur the-
liquid in bottles prepared only by J. H. ZEIT.IN.
PBICE ONE DOLLAR!
Manufactured only by
"And we’ll always tMnkof you, Luke, as the thing
we could not take away;
Tho balsam that dwells in the woods, the rainbow
that lives in the spray.
And you’ll sometimes think of me, Luke, as you
know you once used to say,
A rifle smoke blown through the woods, a mo
ment, but never to stay.”
J. H. ZEILIN & CO.,
MACON. GA.. and PHILADELPHIA..
TESTIMONIALS.
And then we shook hands. She turned, but a-sud-
dent she tottered and fell.
And I caught her sharp by the waist, and held
her a minit—well,
It was only a minit, you know, that ez cold and
ez white she lay
Ez a snowflake hero on my breast, and then—well,
she melted away—
"I have never seen or tried such a simple, effi
cacious, satisfactory and pleasant remedy in my
life.’’—H. Hainer, St. Louis, Mo.
"I have used the Begulator in my family for
the last seventeen years. I can safely recom
mend it to the world as the best medicine I ever
used for that class of diseases it purports to cure.’'
—M. F. Thigpen.
And was gone * * • And thar are her books; but
I says not any for me.
Good enough may be for some, but them and I
mightn't agree.
They spiled a decent gal ez might hev made some
chap a wife.
And look at me—clar two hundred—and never
read one in my life 1
"We have been acquainted with Dr. Simmons’”
Liver Mediciue for more than twenty years, and
know it to be the best Liver Begulator offered to
the public.”—M. B. Lyon and M. L. Lyon.Bell-
fontaine, Ga.
“Personals” m Oliio.
Some time ago a young man of this
city moved to “the little City of Tiffin.”
He was inclined to be a little fast, and,
finding the fair damsels of that place did
not come up to his ideas of feminine
beauty, style, etc., advertised in the Cm
cinnati papers for correspondents. TTia
application was answered, photos ex
changed, and the young man declared he
had met his “affinity." In fact, on the
strength of the photos and the charming
letters she wrote (now supposed to be
copied from the “Complete Letter
Writer,”) he sent her a magnificent gold
watch. Things went oil swimmingly
with the couple for some time. The
youngster, boasting to his acquaintances
of his good fortune, at length determined
to go to Cincinnati and bring back his
correspondent as his bride.. They met
by appointment, and if the young Tiffin
gent was formerly pleased, be was now
infatuated. She more than realized his
fondest expectations 1 What a swell they
would cut in the little city; how he would
astonish the natives hy the unspeakable
beauty of his bride! Of course to his
declaration of love and proposal of mar
riage she readily consented. Notwith
standing this was the first time he Mid
ever seen her, he advanced several hun
dred dollars for the bridal trosseau (?).
She then left him, saving that she would
meet him at the corner of Fourth and
Vine streets the following evening at
eight o'clock, and they would then leave
for Tiffin. The next night he was there
punctually, and, after waiting i>n the
post-office steps for some time, a man ap
proached and handed him a note. Hast
ily tearing it open, he almost swooned on
reading the contents. The note ran as
follows:
Cincinnati, Oct. —, 1873.
Dear : Go hack to Tiffin. I have
found another fellow who has more mon
ey than you possess.
Yours, affectionately,
The young man sadly returned to Tiffin,
hut for weeks he has not shown himself
more than is absolutely necessary, for
when lie does he is always, assailed with
“Cincinnati,” or other suggestive epi
thets, which he don’t like.—Toledo Blade.
* &
[trade hare registered.)
At a Ct&t »f $4 SO ptr Acr?, £
F ROM the results of the use of our Cotton and
Com Fertilizer the past three seasons, and
are induced to put up for sale our mixed cnenu-
cals for the Fall and 'Winter Crops. The Corn-
wind is made upof the same chemicals as our
Jotton and Com Fertilizer, but in different pro-
jortions, as winter crops will bear more stunn*
ating than those grown in summer.
The Compound Contains all the
Elements of Peruvian
Guano,
And will, we think, prove as rapid a forcer as tb*
best grades. The Wheat Crop is such an
tnnt one to our country that we are anxious to
have our planters use this Compound. It wm
seen that it is even cheaper than Cotton Seed, ana
is ol great permanent improvement to tne som-
Theso chemicals not only fast one season, but we
know of instances in which they havo been very
plainly perceptible on the
THIRD CROP.
The chemicals are all finely pulverized and well
mixed, having been run through a fine seive, ana
will readily permeate through the mass.
If it is not convenient to get dry stable orKt
manure, you can use ashes which have Deea
leached, or dry muck or rich loam. Sand should
not be mixed with the chemicals, whateveris
used should be moderately dry. The cheauw*
put up in good tight barrels, well coop«j*~
...... three (5) oarrelshold 800 pounds net weight-
The price is 825 50, delivered in the depot at Ji»*
con, for the SOO pounds of chemicals, cash. oai>
day drafts will be taken as cash. Orders may os
sent to us direct, or through any of our agents.
In our Fertilizer business we have associatea-
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and nartiea can lie sunnlied with his Fertilizer o
and parties can be supplied with his
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We can scpply a good article of soluble rhos
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Florida News.
The Live Oak Times says: “The orange
wherever it has been tried on the Suwanne,
has proved a complete success. It grows
well in any part of Lafayette and Taylor
counties, and also in Levy. The tree is
free from the depredations of insects, and
produces a much better fruit thanis raised
anywhere in the same latitude on the St.
Johns.”
There was a heavy frost and thin ice in
Marion county on last Saturday week.
Col. S. H. Owens, living at Millwood,
some 20 miles north of Ocala, grew on his
place this year a bunch of bananas weigh
ing over 127 pounds and containing
104 bananas. 'We wonder if the St. Johns
can heat that.
Growth of the Ancient City.—The
St. Augustine Examiner says : “Our city
is assuredly progressing rteadily, but
none tbe less certainly. Men of capital
from the North are daily investing in city
and suburban property. Many of the old
places ere changing hands, and from
present it lications the day is not far dis
tant when St. Augustine will be doubly
increased in size and population.”
seed and stable manure, makes a good manure
a cost of from 210 to $15 per ton of 2,000 lbs-
HUNT, RANKIN A LAMAB,
Wholesale Drug and Chemical Warehouse.
82 and 84 Cherry street, Macon. U*-
sepOtf —
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WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
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ron Warehouse, Corner Second
Streets. Macon, Georgia.
JJENEW the tender of their services
in tbs
Storage and Sale of Cotton.
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COTTON FACTORS
General Commission Merchants,
NOTICE.
TX> all whom it may concern: Notice ts hereby
A gi\ en to the members of Cool Spring Lodge
No. 186, F. A. M., that the Lodge has resumed
labor. Brethren will take notioe thereof and gov
ern themselves accordingly.
ootfiSvlK Q. L- HARVARD, gecroUty
Bay Street, Say annate, Ca
A GENTS for Bradley’s Super-Phosphate »
Lime, Jewell’s Mills Yarns and **>mesn ,
etc. Bagging, Rope and Iron Ties always on caiM*.
Usual facilities extended to customers,
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$10 “ $20 SS?S.4fS&»
free.
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