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The Watkinsville Advance.
W U. SFLUVAN,
Ed i tor, P u blishci A J oh Printer.
TERMS.—One Dollar per Year. Sixty
Cents fer Six Months.
IS PUBLISHED ON EVERY
Watkinsville, Gn., September 21, 1880
Kntcrcii at the Post Office at WaildmvitU
aa SECOND CLASS MATTER
National Democratic
FOR PRESIDENT,
GSR. V7. S. HAITCOCK.
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.,
4 v >• *« OF. Y7. H. ENGLISH.
OF INDIANA.
State Democratic Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR
ALEKED I I. CO L* JUITT,
I OR SENATOK, 27X11 DISTiilCT :
ll ic IiFDAFIEL.
FOR SECRETARY OF Si ATE :
N. C. BARNETT, of Baldwin.
for comi'trollkr-o e.n ku a l :
W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
FOR TREASURER :
1>. N. SPEER, of Troup.
FOR ATTO UN EY-1i E X K L A I,:
CLIFFORD ANDERSON', of Bibb.
PrF.SIDENT! A b ElK< TORS.
FOR TUB RTATE-.AT LARUE :
J. C. C. BLACK, J It. K kennon.
Alternates— L. J . Glenn, A.P. Adauu
DISTRICT ELECTORS ;
first District—Samuel D- Bnvdwell,
<4Liberty, Alcrnatc—J> .*cphus Cmnp,
id Emanuel,
Second District — W, M. Hammond,
of Thomas. Alternate—\Y M. Har¬
rison, of Quitman.
Third District—Smith, of Tel
fair. Alternate--Jatnc* Bishop, Jr.,
of Dodge.
fourth District—L. R. Rav, of
Coweta. of Ham*. Alternate—Ilehry C. C nine
run,
fifth DistrUt—Juo, L Hall, of
Fulton, Spacing. Altorunte— P. p. Hill, of
8ixtH District- -Reuben B. Nislmt,
of l’atnsm. Alternate- F. I), pubig
non, of Baldwin.
Scventb District—Tims. \V. Akin, of
Bartow. Alternate P. W Alexander,
of Cobb.
Hancock. Eighth District—Seaborn Reese, of
A Benin to—J. K. Mines, of
Washington.
Ninth District—W. E. Simmons, of
Gwinett. Alternate—M. G. Boyd, of
White.
( nnghttn a Hurrlvuue.
Tho steamship City of Brussels,
ot the Friday Inman Lino, which York, arrived
on at New experi¬
enced some frightful weather during
her voyage. She left Liverpool on
September the 9th 1st, and on the morning
of the vessel was caught
in lasting a hurricane, hut which, although
a few hours, was of
cueli violence that the tjnptain said
in all his experience he had never
known such another. The ship
win. not tossed, but hurled about
on the waves, which wore running
mountains high, and broke over
Lw with frightful fury. The pas¬
vessel sengers were panic-stricken, the ns the
tains rose up plunged on again foaming into moun¬
or the
never
up again. The greater number
the cabin passengers crowded the
saloon, and ii passeng-cr on the
Steamer told a reporter that he
should never forget the scene (here.
There was not a soul (hat thought
the ship could last in such n hurri
cane, and thev prepared lor the end.
Men and women cried aloud and
quarters, screaming and howling
;n despair, prayers and oaths ming
ong m strange contrast. Every
n.wimd then they made a nrsli
d minimiK taa o! lcors rc ; 1 *
n,l\ ,r cm , bdo 11 ‘. t!u h:ui
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ha\e oncenadetheirway been washed .i overboar up they , must
d,
The Southern JWarnL, published
in New York Citv savs; easv^ii
invites the emigrant to
ii5: Tl,is S,a{e ™
aeier in a better condition ,. than
m f£.v New /fork L r &l '"Vo, 81,22 An The timken 3 a T d
H«f!fc* Her public pe credit 4-? g0fG,0rgl surpasses ?t that IV8 of
•mdi! \ « V >ber f >VorU l’ T, ubl,c Ut; r
Thk I he bonds of nearly i all of her
^.A and n iSi steadih rising ‘ Wat m or be value. A V ® od „V. The ar
same may Be observed of the se
cureties, railways, lactones. ecL
Oue of Ole Bull’s tricks was. when
, hod dimuaiobed his tone
to a
Ivmaudahle pianissimo, to continue
entirely tbe ttir,and from the violin holding it in
while his producing audiance, no tone what
ever; in raptures
hands It
and bent forward, eager to
catch the sound which did not exist.
1 hen the violinist, as if suddenly
the awakening from a trance, bowed to
enraptured audience.
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A woolen mill has been established
** SatyewviUc, Ky
IT NOTES.
South Carolina has 200,000 dogs.
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East Florida has raised a fine rice
crop.
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Arkansas boasts of eighty-one
newspapers.
An immense crop of corn will be
made in Virginia.
Eighty firms, with a business capitol in of
87,000,000, do a canning
Baltimore.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of
sheep tucky,in were 1879. killed by dogs, in Ken¬
General J. E. Johonston, of Vir¬
ginia, lias been visiting in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts.
Dr. Tanner intends next time to
church-festival intensify his fust by daily eating
oyster-soup.
J. Ransom, of Aberdeen, Missis¬
sippi, is devoting much attention to
the breeding of Angora goats.
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General Hancock, referring to his
visitors, is heard to mutter: "Many
have called hut lew will he choscr.’,
From eleven acres, \V. Ilortopp, of
East Tennessee, has sold $2,691,90
worth of Norton’s Virginia grapes
this season.
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lion. Robert Toonqhs has been in¬
vited to deliver a lecture in Eufuula,
Ala., under the auspices of the
library society.
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Blest with many advantages, the
South will not he much longer kept
back. A few years more and she will
he the great attraction of the ago.
ming In Naples establishments the bathing and have swim¬ been
deserted because a shark, twenty
four feet long had been seen enter¬
ing the hay.
\V. flnyder, of Virginia, has pur¬
chased ten thousand acres of land
near the Ocean Springs, Mississippi,
and will established a full blood
Merino sheep ranch,
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Nine-tenth of so-called Southern
claims, of which so much is said by
the radical press and orators, arc
held by Republican speculators who
bought them up fora song years ago.
Ex-Senator Wm. II. Barnum,
who was nominated for congress by
the Democrats of the fourth cou
gres uonal district of Connecticut,
nomination. positively declines to accept the
Lady Stratford do ltedclilfe and
her unmarried daughters have te
cioved a pension of C500 from the
crown in consideration of tho late
Lord Stratford <le Rodcliffe’s long
and highly distinguished public
service.
President Hayes and Neal Dow
have noses so rubicund as to suggest
deep potations, and yet both" are
tempo rate nun. It Is a singular
inscrutability eminent of providence that
two such apostles should
keep is dry. up liquor signs when the bar
It has been definitely settled that
Senator Colliding is to make his
first speech during the campaign in
New York city next Friday evening
the 17th iust. The Academy of
Music has been engaged for the pur*
pose, ami Hamilton Fish has
consented Vo preside.
11 the cotton crop of I860 should
l v: h.UUO.tkJO hales, ns has l»eeii
l’fFdicteu, , it will require To.tKH)
“V, 1 1 *? oi hoo P to ,il ‘ 5t - Thvtv
vn!! , he required SO,000,of these
, ^ Cl t 0I .1S uu * "'cighing
:
, L-tK to tne , ton. i heir . total weight
",>■> l W 8o,lKXt,0tKt, tons, and their cost
25 SJ 1 - 2 J- r»....... »
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The papyrus manuscript recently
discovered in the cave of a hermit
near Jerusalem, and said to he
"'ork of St. Peter, has been
n it".l to a committee sent out bv
tin* Biblical society of London, and
have come to tho
lion that the papyrus is in reality
\ h ' work of tl * l ‘ « reat "P 0 * 11 ®* They
1 1 '" 0 „ for the
doemnen , t m v am.
Tho fatnoiss "piiinese” Gordon
with all his strange moral power, is
n °t ,l man of commanding presence,
Jlo j, a ,, m ll and modest and fair
aml L'ushy-headed; has quiet gray
eyes, and a stammering uncertainty
of W'-di as of oue brain-tied. He f.
a devout man. and deeply religious.
It is said of Colonel Gordon that
not two men in a dozen of
generations so strangely into" gifted as he
is inspire to compel! action obedience or
to hosts of savage or
halfMcl * im<Ki «yP lc y
L
The Oglethorpe a' Echo says:
c A white hack white n an was
olli M « ro ,iau,e “»-? d Larkin, *««. and, en- -
raged by some insolent remark,
jerked up his hoe and, striking Lar-
7* .” f
lbo open, hut did not. in
loa8< ’ 5 »jun-* the negro, who went
on working as before.”
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A train ©fears that ran over the
booled leg of an Arkansas man did
a heap of d It spoiled n re*
velvet and three pack* of cards,
Jitrrim Cemily S*wt “A ‘nigger’
by the natne of KGeorge Perkins,
who lives in Atlanta, passed throngh
this place to-day -on ids way to
Brunswick, and from there goes to
Savannah. Tlmsking he was talk¬
ing to a Norwood man heexhibited
his credentials, which bore the signa
turejof Howard Williams, Secretary
of the Norwood Club, and addressed
‘to all whom it may concern.’ His
business mainly is to distridute the
Norwood catechism on the conyict
lease. He tells the negroes at the
same time that Colquitt and Brown
are going to reduce the wages of the
colored people to five cents per day.
When asked what his instructions
were, he said that the commiteetold
him to tell anything to whip the
fight- He said lie told lies to the
country ‘niggers’ and used money
among those in the towns and cities.
He says he has brought the ‘nigger
preachers—Haskins, ntGriffin, and
Howard Bunts, in Dougherty—to
time and was then going to see Jim
Blue. From thence he would go to
Savannah for a supply of catechisms
and money, and then go in the di¬
rection of Thornasville. lie has a
personal interest in defeating Gov¬
ernor Colquitt, in .the fact that he
desires to drop Owen Smith—a
boy in the Governor’s em¬
ploy—a button holo ”
The Advertiser is in favor of
It the city subject: limits of Albany.
says en this “There is
not perhaps limits a city in of Georgia whose
are as small di¬
mensions as those of Albany. And
live of oar beyond leading city business men
therefore just debarred the the limits, privilege and
are
of having any Their voice business in the city gov¬
ernment. interests
are subservient to city laws and
regulations, yet they have no right
to say who .shall make those laws,
what they shall he, or to question
the equity of the manner in which
they are administered. Indeed,
they are as strangers, North,-south net citizens,
in their own home.
and west tho corporate limits of the
city extend nearly half a mile each
way from the court house. But
east they only extend three hundred
yards to the river, within these
limits Albany has a population
over twenty-nine hundred souls, and
by taking a quarter of a mile more
each way, her thousand population and her wouldrun xable
up to four ta
property he increased thousands
dollars. We say let the city’s cor¬
porate limits he extended, and we
oelieve evorv individual living just
outside, and doing business in Al¬
bany, will join us in this appeal for
annexation.”
A New aud Fatal Cattle Disease.
Louisville, Ky m September 9.—A
new and fatal disease has been pre¬
vailing Portland among cows in the vicinity
of for the pnst two Weeks.
Of five cows which have been at¬
tacked by the disease four died in
tldrtv-six the disease to made forty-eight hours after
its appearance.
The symptoms were peculiar. Ani¬
mals held tlu-ir heads near the
ground, ate and drank and very little,
became emaciated stopped giv¬
ing milk, showed symptoms ofhoad
trouble and some of them became
very weak in the loins. Another
owner lived reported davs after that being his own attacked, coti
ten
and gave milk up to two days be¬
fore she died. The symptoms were
identical with those above men¬
tioned. There is a difference of
opinion ns to tho cause of the dis¬
ease. It is the opinion of some of
the medical men that the cows have
been poisoned, while other attribute
the lars, malady to deposits of caterpil¬
which the cows have eaten
with grass from pastures in that
portion of the city.
Miss Flood gives Ulysses, Jr.,
the Mitten.
Society in this city i* agog over a
tolerably the well timed rumor that
engagement between Ulysses
Grant, Jr., and Miss Jennie 0. Flood,
daughter end. The of the bonanza king, that is at
an story goes some
weeks since Ulysses came out to
Ca ifornia ostensibly to visit his
sweetheart. On his arrival here, in¬
stead of repairing at once to the
Sierras, where Miss Jennie was
stopping with a number ol' friends.
Ulysses little settled time himself down for a
nice in San Francisco.
It is said that, his nice time consisted
principally with in a rather fair, but marked flir¬
tation some not over
nice, young damsel. Tlus high
strung Jennie heard about Ulysses’
goings on and in very brief order
gave him to understand that he
could go about his business. This
will no doubt prove a serious blow
to the young scion of the house of
Grant, for Miss Flood is the fortu¬
nate possessor of a nice little plum
of #2,500,060 of government 4 per
cents. vassed last The night affair was the openlv wedding can¬ of
at
K. of Crocker D. O. Mills, to Miss Mills, daugh¬ the
ter l’resident of
California Bank, at which several
hundred guests, all of the highest
bullion and railroad society, Were
present, and no doubts ns to the
correctness of the rumor were en
temined ,—San Lanehco DitfaftS
to Cktcasp 7lme».
Subscribe fo The Fhoe.ofi.iph
\ red hot anti-Colquitt paper, a
for the people. Fifty cent*
for 3 monte. Address,
W. T. Christopher A Bro.,
Atlanta. Ga
flT ?*h*etibc Now, tiulv Id
SU 8 SCHI 8 E NOW.
The Sunday Pfconegaph
Is a strong Norwood paper. Send
50 cents and get it three months.
Address, PHONOGRAPH.
Atlanta, Ga.
it. .It. White, .if. J- r
f RACTICIN Pf HSYICIA f'
WATKINSVIU.E, Ga.
XT" Will be found at bis office when
not called off. mar!7,’80- tf
/*■*• y. p.p ULLIVAN
Faabioatsle
I )eESSMAKEB ard MILLINE
Watkinsville, Ga.,
Begs leave to offer her services to the
ladies of Watkinsville and vicinity
as a dressmaker and milliner. Hats
and Bonnets re-trimmed aud renovated.
Dressmaking and fancy work neatly
cheaply executed. All the latest
zines and patterns always on hand.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices liberal.
Give her a trial. aug24
THE BICKFORD
AUTOMATIC 3 KNITTER
V
I! M" knit a pair of socks in
fifteen mhmta‘s 3 Every machine
warrnmed hcrfecl, and m ds jusl
us rcpmlcumd. buck acoumpanim A complctcxc in‘
slmctiv-n each
machine.
Knits all «izes of work, narrows anti wi¬
dens it; have, all sizes complete. Knits
over Mittens, 50 different Leggins, garments, Wristlets, Socks, Gloves, Stockings,
etc.
It knits every possible variety of
plain or fancy stitch. 75 per cent,
profit in manufacturi □ g knit goods.
a
wool, by converting it into knit
goods. wanted
Agents in every State,
County, City and Town, to whom
very low prices will be made.
For full particulars and lowest
prices send for the best Family Machine
to
BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE CO.,
lirattlchorro, Yt.
apr21,ISS0—1 v
r Jl, If. Ullen's
Horse and Mule
MILLINERY STORE.
Cor. Clayosi mid JacJssan sts..
ATHENS, GA.
I have in Store a good assortment of Sad
dies and Harness, Bridles, Collars, Whips,
Saddle Blntikets, Horse Covers, ,Xe.
You will find that my harness is made
of the best Western Leather, all hand
made. I cut and fit horse collars and
do all kinds of repairing at short notice.
hotter Buggy whips I make a specialty found and a
assortment cannot be in
the city. Saddles 'town at rock bottom.
M and y harness quality, canny* When be beat visit in the prices city
please honor you
mo with your presence.
Thanking you for past favors, 1 hope a
continuance in the future,
apr.7,1880,6111
r J{. 11 Jackson.
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AUrney jfc Coins elorata w
AND JUDGE OK THE
(Dtoait tl’nnntn i&onvi,
Watkinsville, Ga.
UA" Will jvractice in all Courts
except the County Court Oconee
County. mnrl7,’80-ly
ji. t. Thrasher,
ATTORNEY aT LAW,
Watkinsville, Ga.
O" Will practice in the Courts 0
Oconee and adjoining counties.
marl7,\80-ly
Ontm'c .Mortgage Sheriff’s Sale.
G EORt 11A — Oconee County.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
October, next, between the legal hours
of sale, before the Court House door, in
the town of Watkinsville; Oconee
county, to-wit: the following All described pro¬
perty that tract or parcel
of land situated, lying ; and being in
the County of Oconee, and State of
Georgia, ham home known as the Reuben T. Dur¬
George C. Thomas place, adjoining Saffold lands of
and Bar
wick on the North, Reuben T. Durham
on the West, Milledge S. Durham on
the South, and 11. T. Durham on the
East, Three miles South of the town
of Watkinsville on the Road from Wat*
kiwville to Scull Shoals Factory or
Powell’s Mills. Containing oue huu*
dred and thirty six acres more or less,
levied on to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from
Oconee Superior Court returnable to
January Reaves, term 1881 in favor of Marzie
vs. Reubcu T. Durham, Levied
011 as the nrooerty of Reubiu T. Dur¬
ham. Writon notice given tenant in
possession, A. L. Smith. Property
pointed out b v S. I*. Thurman plaintiffs
attorney. This 28th Aug. 1880.
R.E. OVERBY
Sheriff Oconee Co.
V* A r. HR HAM. 1>k W M DURHAM
Late of Sparta. late cf M*xc)-i,
5 n. A. 7 . a W. II. Earlnas,
SPECIALISTS,
'trgery, Chronic Discuses of Mule
•tut Pernaie, and Veneriak Operate
for Cross Eyes, Cataract, Stone in
the Bladder, Harelip or Cleft Pal
ates, Ac. Will visit patients in any
part of the State, in consultation in
t*> drewi, |>erform with surgical operations. Ad
stamp,
Hits, A, F. W. M. Dubiiam,
tnarlU/SO-tf Athens Gn
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BEST
SIMPLE.
DURABIJE, CHAEP,
R9..NEL‘F.SSAR\' SEWING in MACBINE. eve ' fsuw
Lly us .1
Harness Shop.
The undersigned wishes to inform
the public that work, he is now ready to do
all kinds of New Harness made
and repairing old Harness, are my
specialties. reikble. I Ail work found first-class shop aud
can be at my
ready to do all work, at any time.
Call on me and see. Satisfaction
guaranteed. June30,1880.3-m. W. E. HARRIS. Ga
Watkinsville,
John T. Under son \u
ATTORNEY AT LAW J
Watkinsville, Ga.
rr 2/ ~, Prompt T , . attention . given . to
business entrusted to his care. Office
in Lourt House. marR, SO-ly
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Jji ri Walker, Col,,
BERBER t
Watkinsville, Ga.
J&aT' Can be found at his Shop
nest door to H. C. Durham’s Con¬
fectionery, on Saturday -evenings,
and Sunday mornings until 10
o’clock, a. m. uiarlO’SO-tf
i iiirke County Agiicultrao
Fair Astiwciittiosi,
LEGAL NOTICE TO STOCKHOL¬
DERS.
Honorable By virture of an order of the
Superior Court of Clarke
S tic* U Judge n t 5w‘?;7 of the t vl Ii Northelieiu v i !?v 0 , r ^ Circuit Pot :
pic. idin . Notice is lieicby gi'en
to all who cla m to be Stockholders
in the original Clarke County Ag
ricu tural Fair Association,’' to fill
their claims ler a distributive shares
% SSSSL-I.'a A rttt
has been sold under and by virture
of a decree of said Court, Stockhold
ers davit, must and verify tile them their claims the by affi¬
in Clerk’s
Office of said Court on or before the
second Monday in November next, »
the first day of the next term cf
said Court.
John July I. Huggins, 23d, 1SS0.
Clerk, Clarke Superior Court.
Cr‘arriaae, 93110911 (Wagon, g
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at the old stand of 3
W . I3 Lm'lszford. o
\Vntkiusville, Ga. §-
The nndersigned having rented the
shops of Mr. Langford, we public take tbf this
method of informing the 11
wo are prepared to do all kinds ot
Wagon, Buggy and Plantation Work
in a first-class manner at short notice.
Give us a call, and be convinced.
ROBERT DAVIS,
WARREN* HILL.
sept, 14,’80 2m
G. C. Thomas,
ATTORNEY aT
Watkinsville, Ga.
marlO
James r R. Lyle,
AT FORNEY AT
Watkinsville, Ga.
Will practice in the
of < >conee and adjoining counties.
marSl,’SO-ly
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STOVES & TINWARE EVER OFFERED
Si^n the “Big IN Hud NO I (TI Opposite IF VST Beaves GFOHGI V
ot Stove,’ i\r XichoUon, Athens, Ga.
W. II. JOIVES^ 8«iperiuteiulent.
nib 1 "j9-6
WORK OF ALL KINDS.
Executed in the best manner.
ORDER YOUR
Mills, Grist & Cane Mills.
Machinery, Engines Boilers,
Screws, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers’ :ap
p i0Xe s, Mill Gearing, Gudeons, A
Water Wheels, Gin Gearing cheap, 0
Governors, Diston’s Circular Saws *- v’ :
Gummers and Files. Belting and Bab
bett Metal and Brass Fitting, Globe and
Check Valves and Whistles, Guages, Etc.,
from Iron and Brass Castings and Gin Bibs, t. fllSIilf'!
Geo. R. Lombard & Co., Siffi
FOREST CITY FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS
(Near Water Tower.) 1014 to 1024 Fenwick Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
5SU Repairing promptly done at lowest prices.
HURLEY & SMITH !
SUCCESSORS TOD. C. HURLEY AND HODGSON BROTHERS,
m r M 1 §M t -M
We manufacture and deal In fine vehicles of every y description. Hand-made
^ cf tho best lcather ‘
^ W Tr agOll CSD c HameSS .tv , epairillg
promptly done in the best manner at reasonable prices. A few of
* 28 “ *» **'**» <*«*&* tSMATOYBBOTC® Prices
Al1 ofour work 13 full y warrauted - ' ls ‘ t ^ aua ^“ T, Vell “^ S
, iaruCss T LLL\ T v & SMITH, Athens, Ga.
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NOTICE^
I have associated with me in business F. C. Smith a fine CARRIAGE
TRIMMER, of Atlanta, Ga., and am now well prepared to give my friends good
work soliciting at fair its prices. continuance, Thanking them for their liberal patronage in the past and
I am very truly, . D. C. HURLEY,
augl7,’SO-ly Athens, Ga.
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In 1S78 we sold 356,422 Machines.
“ 1879 431,1G7
Excess over any previous year, 74,745 Machines.
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14
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