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VOLUME 18.
The New York Store
I« PACKED FROM
CELLAR TO GARRET
with one o! the choicest, most carefully selected sfcoek of Dry Goods ever
brought to Georgia. We have more capacity hence can and do carry a
much larger stoch than any other house in Griffin. As regards prices, sncli a.
glance at the partial list below will convince \0U that there is _ no
thing as competing with us.
HI* w. tnt_—-/
Blankets ! Blankets !
FOR EVERYBODY!
500 Pairs at 85c., ft, f 1.50 and up. These goods sire neither SHODDY
or OLD. We had only 5 pairs to take up in stock of last season.
100 pieces, extra heavy, unbleached Canton Flannel at 10c. and 12J|C. per
‘ V *AN IMMENSE line Tailor-made Walking $4.50 Jackets, for the all sizes, thing. from 32 eo 42
at at $3.00. $3.00. OTHER houses will ask you same
ONE case ca % “Real Indigo” Blue Penang, the patterns of which are beauti-
» 10c. by others. Don’t
ful beyond ond 'onrke'ves description, at 7c.; considered cheap with their at importunities to visit
allow y misled by street drummers blood-suck
this or that place, but drive them away as you would so many
ing vampires, and come square to headquarters,
The New York Store,
where you can get what you want at a lower price than they can put it in
their “stores.” Bring this advertisement with you, and see if we dont
make good every word in it.
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Look : At : This!
• 10 BALES EXTRA HEAVY Checked Homespun.
1000 YARDS STA NDARD CALICO at 6c. 7c.—worth
6000 yards Wamasutta Bleaching will go Monday morning at
12#c. Only one piece to each customer. 12J§c.—worth
If0 pieces English Tricots in Gray and Brown mixture, at
20c. anywhere else. and , . hall „
75 pieces single width Cashmeres, in all colors 10c not
125 pieces Henrietta, 38 inches wide, all colors for 25c. that formerly sold,
and do now, every where except the NEW YORK STORE for 40c.
75 pieces fine quality, all wool Henrietta at 40c., in all the new shades,
75 pieces all wool French Henrietta at 50c. This goods is 42 inches wide.
Comment is unnecessary. imaginable
35 pieces 50 inch Broad Cloth for Ladies Dresses, m every yard
shade. This is a bargain of a life time, as we only ASK you $1,00 per
for it, when formerly you paid $1.50. * will be slaughtered at
50 pieces Australian Crape, all desirable shades,
12e, pieces Handsome, doable width, Flannel Suiting which will close out
25 we
at 30c.; worth 50c.
Trimmings To Match Everything.
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Rugs ^ and ^ Carpets.
We have sold more Carpets thus far this season than were ever sold be¬
fore during an entire season. This is not to be wondered at when you see
them mm! and near them priced. The patterns are simply supurb, the prices as-
"fcAtM 4
r 12&c. Others can’t afford sell them
Will sell you handsome Carpet for to
for less than 25c. A better grade at 20c.
GOOD Carpet for 35c..40c., 60c., 75c. and $1.00 per yard.
BRUSSELS Carpets from 70e. to $1.50.
RUGS from 75c. to $8.00 Each.
* BEAUTIES EVERY ONE OF THEM I *
SHOES FOR THE POPULACE!
|Mr. Lyons madeatelling trip on Shoes this season, laying in THREE lots
manufactured for a large Boston shoe house, which failed prior to the de¬
livery of his orders. Our customer will get the benefit of the gain at the ex¬
pense of the of this unfortunatr merchant. These Shoes are Dry Sewed and
guaranteed, every stich! ...
THINK OF IT ! DON'T FORGET IT!
Infant Shoes fink quality 40c. Children Shoes 75c. and up. Spring worth Heel,
Kid-Button 90c. Misses and Ladies fine shoes, 12s to 2s, at $1.85,
any where else $1.75. Call for our Button Kids at $1.00. Better grade at
$1.25.
Clot£.ing
' . . -AN D—
In Clothing, every piece we offer is a bargain that cannot be equaled in
any store In Griffin, Macon or Alandta. For a limited time we will offer this
mammoth part of our stock at prices that 'will astonish other merchants,
and cheap cause them is to wonder where acustomed we Buy such beautiful to lines offering of Clothing bargains, so
1 It astonishing to as, as we are,
how cheap these goods are, yet its a fact and no man can gain say it, after
examining We will sell our stock. asuit for $6.00, for $7.50, for $10.00, for -' $12.50, for
$14.00. Other yon houses will ask you'25 cent, for these suits than
per more
we do, and consider them cheap at that.
Better Suits For More Money I -A ★
if it Boys and Childrens Clothing 1
Will sell you asuit forf 1.50; reduced from$8.00. A suit for $2.00; re¬
born $3.50. For $2.50; reduced from $4.00. SUNDAY Suit for $5.50; re¬
duced from $7.50. As
Yon can’t "Make a 8ilk Purse out of a Flip’s
Ear,” but you can keep a full purse
by buying at
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. SUN DA BER 20.1889.
AmmcanCoegress.
Program of the Coming Inter¬
national Conference. ,
INSTRUCTIONS TO DELEGATES.
They Will Meet la the Diplomatic Boom
at thn Department of State In Washing-
ton, a* Noon on Neat Wednesday for Or¬
ganisation — Other Washington D»»-
patche*.
Washington, Sept 97.—Letter* have
been mailed from the department of
State, informing the delegates to the In¬
tel afttfonal American congress that they
would be expected' to meet for organi-
zation in Die diplomatic room at the de¬
partment of state, at noon on Wednes¬
day, Oot 3. At this time they will be
received by Mr. Blaine, who will de¬
liver an address of weloome. They will
then organize by the election of a pres¬
ident, vice president and secretary, and
then proceed to the White House,
where they will bo formally understood presented that
to the president. It is
Mr. Blaine intends to give them a din¬
ner the same evening. officially in¬
The delegates were also
formed that the residence, 18011 street,
had been secured for the use of meetings the eon-
gress, would ba and held that there. subsequent They alio
were
invited to make where they their will headquarters find writing at
that house ready
reading and consultation rooms
■for their use. pub-
The state department has made
lie the itinerary of the tour of the dele,
gates to the International! American
congress. The delegates will leave
Washing ’ ngtonon elk, Thursday West Point, morning where of
next wee going to
they will -ill ’ witness the unveiling of por¬
traite ts of Gens. Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan by Gen. Horace Porter, on
behalf of George W. Childs. Prom
West Point they will go to New York
on the United States steamship York-
town, and then by the Fall River line
to Boston. of the
Among the features program
mapped the out for the excursionists are
visits to large manufacturing estab¬
lishments of banquets, New England and and other the enter¬ west,
receptions, tainments by state and municipal au¬
thorities. and an inspection of Harvard,
Yale, the Michigan university, the Uni-
yersitv of Notre Dame aud other coll©*
giate institutes, Hill, Governors of New Bulkley, York, attd of
Connecticut: and the of
Francis, of Missouri; Louis, Buffalo, Grand mayors Rap¬
Boston, Si Moss., and cities,
ids, Springfield, other
have already made preparations for
public receptions. The party will go
as far west as Omaha. No more than
two davs will be spent in any one oity, The
except where Sunday intervenes.
delegates will return to Washington
Nov. 12.
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Only •» Question of Law.
Wasm u,v>:;, Sept 27.— Customs offi¬
cers at the treasury department are in¬
cline 1 to differ with Coll eotor Erhardt
regarding the operations of the alien
contract law with respect to-the interna¬
tional e position. One of them, speak¬
ing of the matter, aaid foreign that the exhibitors impor¬
tation of workmen would by hardly be called
at violation the exposition of the spirit of the law, the
a unde-
object of which was competitors. to keep oat These
eirable foreign called
workmen ooald American hardly workmen, be and com¬ he
petitors of be arranged
thought the matter could
without action on the part of congress.
A Bis Lauii Dual,
Washisgtos, has Sept been 27 .—The officially depart¬ in¬
ment of state of
formed that the executive power the
Argentine Republic has laid before the
draft * ... ” . »»»-•
congress a of
000,000 acres Chu j
from territory of _ ,
.>00 to 1,000 acres each, and offer¬
ing the same for sale at from $1 to $3
National money per hectare, about two
and one-half wbole*area acres. It into it fen proposed seotions to
divide the settlers and
one allotted to ictively Argentine to the different
Il-lieil Out iHe Water*.
Washington, Sept. 37. — Almon
Haltzclaw, the man whose body was
found in the Ohio river, was a brother
of C« Taylor Haltzclaw and W. B.
Haltzclaw, and a nephew of t. J. Haltz¬
claw, the prominent builders and of this
city. He was 22 years of age was
born at Wnrrenton, Vo. W. JB. Haltz¬
claw said that he knew of no reason
why his brother should take l)is own
life unless it was despondency from
lack of employment. .
A \V. <-«h V « >.« to Piece,.
Atlantic Om, N. J„ Sept. aept. 97.—Tha 97 .—A
wrecked Gestemuude, ’ hailing M ‘‘ ~ fn
Stetten, Germany, and l which w.
ashore during the storm i on Sept.
went is to strewn pieces all yesterday, along the and beaoh. the wreck¬ The
oaptain, age Ferdinand Lento, her
saw go
have to pieces, only and been the able wreckage to small company
her fittings; small save a portion por¬ of
tion of a
tiie vessel only is left, and that has
drifted further down the beach and
nearer shore.
S 1 oat-eking for Wooden Men.
Gbxoaqo, Sept 37.—The examination
of veniremen in the Cronin aase was re¬
sumed at l p. m. The two men held over
from the Ten previous veniremen day were excused examined. for
same. were
Three were excused for cause two chal¬
lenged bv peremptorilv the state. Four by the defense temporal!. and
one were
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A Neurit Taken f>« f>|l n* Lynehed.
Memphis, Tenn., , o’clock Sept Sept 27.—This
morning at at 1:10 1:10 o’clock at mitered Wiona.
Miss., a mob of about 200 men
the jail and took SoL Burnell, a
and hanged him to the Illinois (
railroud trestle. Purnell
of assaulting the citizen 13-year-old of tl
of a psonanent
He confessed attempting the
'The IV kale Wamliy Deed.
named Odessa Sept committed 27.—A school i
Pause suicide ye
,
A CHA T A TOUT CHIU.
Ex-Mia later Hubert.' Good Words bt Ml*
ItoteeeXeur, Fatrtok Kffau.
Nnw Yobs, Sept 97.- William B.
Roberta, the United Statw minister to
Chili for the 1*
suooeeded Egan, arrived a fewj
iSELa
useless for a time.
SSL, through the oornttiy, risiti^^ por tio ns
£rS^ month b S^ri3. and the i 7S:
srsjWiSunifSX paraiao over a ago, ft sea
= War i AiEsftA"’ft‘
to the
w him to
has not 1
against! Chilian any feeling
dm fan
residents, and his
has aided him
says the Chilians are " over itliusi-
astic thei ..... onal al- al-
though i over < they have sent delegate. de congress, The
a a is
foot that their distance je from *r us so
great great and and theirinteresteinoommon theirinterestein c with
ours so small explains this, Mr. Roberts
thinks
iseed Senor the Alfonso, steamship tite Chilian which delegate, brought
Mr. Roberts from Valparaiso, and it
here can get
now.
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DEATH OF GEN. D. H. HILL.
An Eventful Ule Wrought to ■ Close at
Charlotte, North Carolina
Raleigh, N. 0., Sept 27.— Maj, Gen.
Daniel Harvey Hill, 0, S. A, died yes¬
terday home at Char¬ his
in
Veers. lotte, aged 68
He was
a native of South
Carolina, was
irraduated from
west est Point roini in
1848, served served with t
StftS otion
Mexican
war, be o a me
professor of
mathematics in
Washington col¬
obn. ». n. nu. 0., lege, ya, and
Davidson oollege, N. and superin¬ military
tendent of the North Carolina
institute, joined the Confederate army
at tiie outbreak of the war, and took a
gaged in the publication of Field and
Farm at Charlotte, N. 0.
Extent of the Johnstown Flood.
Johnstown, Pa., Sept 27.—The new
directory been placed compiled in the hands by C. of B. the dark public. has
The proof sheets for the directory were
ready and when the flood swept be the tht valley, fin¬
germarks. on every Mr. page Clark’s can estimate seen of the
dead is 3,500. Two more bodies
pioked refuse by piece diggero by in pieoe this city. from a pile i
Two Lake Schooner* hast.
Ohbbotgan, Mick, Sept 27.—Dur¬
ing Monday’s anchored blow north two small of Bow schooners Blanc
were
Island and got the entire sweep of the
storm. One of the uuu vessels remein was nise driven
ashore and literal! ally broken broken into inb kind-
ling wood. The other capsized at her
anchors of and traders’ sank, supplies supplies, They had ate., ate,, light lig all oar- of
goes which lost Both
were crews were
saved.
Baaatte* or Halos a B»«* Balll.t.
St. Louis, Sept 37.—The directors of
thwSt Louis base ball club met Yester¬
day and fined Latham $200 and King
$106 Chamberlain for bad playing, fined suspending $100 and Robin both.
was
son repnma It is thought play several
of the club refuse to ia the
game with the Louisvilles.
Tea Yeas* far Arnault.
WkstChestbb, Pa, Fredyffrin Sept. 27.- -John
Postley. colored, of town,
ship, and was six Tuesday months sentenced in the Eastern to ten
years penitentiary for oommitting felonious
s
assault upon dare WeOer, a white
woman, la st winte r,
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CONDKN 8EO TF.. RQPAM8.
Minor Event* aad Little Happening* at
Vorleut Fluee*.
An epidemic of typhoid fever it reported
in Knox county, O.
Twenty ot the Indiana mill tie are on trial
for disobedience on inomuasnt day.
Tha seventy-eighth annul mel on of the
Ohto conference opened at Marietta yester
day.
The Warren-Mnrphy prise light at Ban
Francisco was a force. The retiree became
disgusted and stopped It.
The name of Alfred Russell, of Detroit, is
the latest mentions 1 a: U'vhfuxton for the
tapreme court vacancy
A 15-year-old colored hay *t VTTlI
ia Virginia on the 27th iast„ for committing
aa outrage upon a 10-jear-oM,
Tha Window w Olas* urns* Me* namnasymarv earn,
station has ceased to Mist,
of a (tew 11 ""
Frank Holloway, wgo bad been married
only a few days, killed Maaaelf near Bis-
i* supposed that he was tem-
tBha Q. Skin, Fred. Foote m* Frank
Mask ware arrested at Wreater, o., oa a
in the affair.
The Cotton Hj Operatives'
at a meeting,
I the cotton comer.
fer the Bottor worth m-
bawbsreptefactod.
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Two Tr»
On« In Mississippi and th«
Other in Texa*.
ALL THE E0BBER8 ESCAPE.
Four Men Take Fart la tke HtMkdfSl
AStelr. WWlt klv» .Men 8*cor, Tom
Thniuand DulUr* i ram ska Saatx tee
Kxpreu—Wmlla Ity af the Two ikrint
Ala., Sept. 37. The Mobila
Southern mail and ----—
Wdeft by thtere* at!
. .WE, soveateou miles a<>‘Ui of
this city, yesterday morning. A* the
train was leaving that Htstion two men
mounted behind the tender and
crawled over into the cab of the locomo¬
tive. There they covered Engineer
Jaok Sherroll and Piremau Huat with
their revolvers.
The robbers, who were well masked,
ordered the engineer to stem the brain
at the bridge, two miles south ot Book-
atunna. This order was given at the
point of a led revolver, obey and it. the Arriving engineer
was coin) join pci to at
the engineer and fireman
. li the mail and express car
from the balance of the tram and to
pull these two the asm other across the At bridge that
away from care.
The point two other men joined the robbers.
express messenger was then forced
to dump the contents of a safe into a
canvas bog. The amount thus obtained
was about $2,700.
The robbers overlooked $70,000 of
government money on route tor Florida
The pouch mail filled oar with was registered then raided, mail matter and a
secured. This pouch was made up at
Meridian and the value of its contents
unknown. The robbers then fixed sev¬
eral shots ut the train men and disap¬
peared then proceeded in the undergrowth to Gitronell, The where train
a
posse was mode up tmd started in search
°*TTie MobihTand Ohio Railroad oom-
pany offers $1,000 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the men who robbed
the train at Buckatunna bridge. The
leader of the train robbers is believed to
be Babe Burrows, a derperado well
known in the northern put of the state.
The suspected parties have been oamp-
ing si in the vicinity of the bridge for aev-
ski? s
Sam they will be captured witnin a few
Ksprau on Ilia Santa Fa Robbod.
Fotrr o’clock Worn*, lost night, Tex., Sept the south-bound 37.—About
10 as
Santa Fa train was pulling out of Grow,
lay, ten boordod miles the south train of and this city, others three
men two
jumped on the locomotive. The two on
the engine placed pistols to the heads
of Engineer Monoban and Fireman
Croger When two and miles told from them Crowley " to pull the out
ea¬
gineer robbers was ordered the red engine, engii to to stop. Then mail the
and out from the the rest rest . baggage, at of the the train _______
and made express Monohan n pull half mile
a
farther.
Two of the robbers then entered the
express car and ordered the messenger
to show them the money. Then bags
of Mexican silver were pointed out
One of the men ripped open a sack and
shoveled the silver out of the door,
while the other one threw ont the other
sacks. contain They $5,000 took each, two packages but overlooked said to
tibree^pr four money paakages for Fort
and The engineer The was train then reached mode to here ooaple at
move.
midnight, aud a posse of twenty, men
storied in pursuit
Twalva Xn Injured ta a Wrtck.
to Philadelphia, The Record from Sept Wilmington, 27.—A special Dei,
says: A collision occurred this morn-
ing caboose between ween fllle fllle l l a a with with wild wild forte forty cat cat engine engine workmen workmen and and a a
i on on
the Philadelphia and Baltimore railway
jured near Claymont. follows: Twelve Joseph Hughes, men were John in¬
ns
O'Neill, George Phillips, Patrick
Sweeney, Kindless, John Daniel King, Mo N John iohoXHarry Kane, James Me-
engineer; Oavanangh, Frank ail laborers, F. Hawkins, James fireman, Legg,
and William Gibbs, trackman. Hughes
hi the most seriously injured, being
bust internally.
Ylotorr Asolo** a Tro*t Cootpoajr,
Majmbok, Wia, Sept 97.-TheWis.
oonsia supreme court Tuesday gave
John E. Burton, the ex-mining king, a
big viotery against the Central Trust
oornpuuy, of New York. The dTn^Um c
loaned Walworth Burton $890,050, and tried
oonnte deed court recently ly tried to to
fordone a trust for that amount
Burton the pleaded and usury the totter on the demurred part of
to company, The demurrer
answer. was over¬
ruled, and the oompony appealed. The
supreme oourt affirmed the decision of
the lower oourt and declined to appoint
a rereiver for the property.
> A Town In Po«« •Inn ef Tufkv
Huntington, W. Va, Sept 37. —
Word has juat been received from Fort
Gay, Cabell county, that that town ia in
poeaeasion of toughs. Nestor, They when atoned the
house of Elliott he fired
on them. They then made the mayor
issue a warrant for bis arrest He was
The mayor dismissed him, whereupon
the gang then beat the mayor, who re-
sierned. The marshal has also resigned. town!
The gang has terrorized the whole
PM In Hi* Chair.
Chicago, Sept 27.-The Rev, Fattier
Joseph P. Roles, for twelve years the
head of Si chair Mary's h« parish, was found
dead ia bis at this morning.' parsonage. It 543- to
Wabash avenue,
supposed his death was caused by heart
disease. Father Roles was t» yean of
age and m nch beloved in hi* p erish.
a. C. a. x.
Salkn, annual Mass., session Sept of 27. the -Tb« National forty-
third
council O. U. A M. was held here
Tuesday. National Commander W. O.
Staples' and presiding. $100,14* The has membership been paiif in to
22,099, daring the
benefits year.
WAR SHI P LILY W RECKED.
U„u SJ . .»a«l ».% 1 111* MemateSer
■ taaSee.
Halifax, N. B, tfept 37.-Her maj-
steamer Emerald has just arrived
hare witk tlm < ****
Lieut
of 1™. P
know "T3»e exactly vhat they I
- j
^ fta-
sailors then swatu ashore with °ab
and by this
■ “ '* L '
a ledge iff sharp rooks intervened i
very deep water between the rooks
the shore and over this ledge,
turned ont to be a perfect death trap,
hawser wastoassed. Four of the cr<
attempted to climb ashore by means
this rope, but they were dashed to des
on til* rocks beneath.
by “Finding there it impossible oredle to land
means a was an...
a^TSsiiUi named Sratey, who i acted
as mu
in the to cradle distress next signals day. Finally number in re- of
sponre from Port Armour, a and with
after the upsetting of of the boats, when it
was seen it^lteribip . it was to land, tl
cutter with ^ the ship’s money,
etc., sent ont to & papers, charge of
waa sea an
officer, and remained there all i
reef about a 1
•On the
«eS?po^r wreck itripped E of m%?^ h |ei
was *11 her sp
S' hwe^m^L HI "All '"tfi^sZlf
were i saved. saved. On ... the Thursday ____ fi
ing dieane the Dominion along steamer and it La Cannio- by her
came "‘-'"Hr waa
that the ■ • - “
vesrel's crew numbered 1(W.’
MEN OF MON EY.
Matting of tho Arearloan Bankora' Asm.
elation at Kansas City.
Kansas City, Sept. 87.-The Ameri-
can Banker*' aaaoototion met iu annual
convention hero yesterday. Fully 1,000
Pearsons, delegate* are present President Charles
oiHt. Louis, .
vention to order behalf at 11 o’a
8, Chick, on of tht
clearinghouse, the delegates. Mayor extended
corned them on behalf
Governor Frances
state. President 1
for opening the address, delegates,
of New fork, then read au at
cal paper on legal tender. He
liimseif as opposed to free col
outlined a plan for retiring
tender notes of the government
and without diminishing the sum at
money in circulation. A motion to rec¬
ommend to congress such action as was
outlined in Mr. 8t. John’s paper was
refereed to the H. appropriate committee.
Hon Logan Roote, of Little Rock,
Ark., moved that os the executive coun¬
cil had several amendments to the con¬
stitution to propose, the chairman of
the committee be heard and the amend¬
ments acted upon. The report was
mode the president by John of Jay the Knox, executive of New York,
couuoil
The for principal the provision changes of recommended article divid¬
were
ing the that executive one-third council it into might three
elected parte, so each the of of office be
year, tenn
being made three years, aud that the
different State Bankers' association be
given meeting one of delegate the National at each auunal ciation.
asso
The amend men's prevailed. ,. The xne a«o- asso¬
ciations were instructed to report n their
selection to tite president ;‘4SL?
o’clock, and the convention
for the day,
In ti» afternoon the delegates were
given a ride over the various cable lines
of the city, which pern most of the
ints of general interest In the even-
r a banquet was tendered to the defe¬
at and vising of Pallas. lamkers The at the Den of
i Priests banquet is
[ieved to be the largest ever served ia
the west, being laid toil' for * 3,000.
cover*
lll*n<>r, r vl.
New the Orleans, toss of about Sept k L", p.-I by
to l $1,000,000
fraudulent coupons, i now feared
that tha tfete ho* lost Pic^nne's large sums by Avion an-
frattd. The
drawn Rouge three special says four that a levee warrant for
or years ago over
$500 was recently presented tar pay¬
ment levee fund Suspicion ha* waa baen recused, a. and the
never short,
there rant uneashed was no room for for long. holding On inquiry a war¬
so
it was found that the warrant had been
presented end paid about (be time of its
data How it again became floated to
not known, such warrants Mid it to have supposed been paid that
many than
more once.____
Ska Love* EkUmhiO.
Parxkbsbubo, W. Va,
extreme innocence, many of the beet
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train on the!
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Major
•V Vy
under]
could t
i
the full and l
you and 1
beg leave t
TWO I
hisiHHB
in 1871, aud his w:
years after. She „
not signed it It 4
however, among the
set house, London
tfEr.
Cts*M BtaJters 1
New Yob*.
F 3
president;
iVkT
tixth vice
Evansville,
dent; James
moud, Va,- *
Westfl
tions
with^Jorm
ths matter.
CRBTmntn,
gal KU worl
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