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THE WEEKLY CONSlrfUTION. ATLANTA. GA*. TUESDAY AUGUST 26 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
WINTER AT THE POLE.
l*??f ??? Booths cf Twlllftbt Follow* by |M Dsys Md
SlClits of ???einohtoo???Rferosrr Pro*wi to tbo
lbrtnoinetcr for 10 Dors???Tbs Drsorjr
March ???outhward???Tha Btiout.
PcRTsMotTH, N. If., August 18.???Fof the
' pU(po??e of obtaining some idea of tho gcnaral
nature and probable value of the scientific ob-
conations made by Groely at Lady Franklin
boy, an associated prera agent visited him
Haturdsy. Greely first stated tha object of tho
Lady Franklin bay expedition, ria: to ??stab-
lirh o polar station, one of the thirteen sug
gested by Lieutenant Weiprect, of Aoitris,
vrbo discovered Fran* Joseph Land. Hiinul-
Igneous observations of all physical phenom
ena wero to be taken. A complete program mo
which was to be followed was arranged by ah
international polar congress, in which repre
sentatives of thirteen nations took part.* The
observations in whicn tho greatest possible
accuracy were to be had were those of dec in*???
tiou and deviation of the magnetic needle,
temperature ot the air and sea, height of the
barometer, and mean and maximum rise and
fall of tides. All explorations were incidental
to the main objects of the expedition. The
expedition was fitted out under authority of
??ougrf*s, aud was composed oi three officers
' of the army, ono acting surgeon and
nineteen enlisted men from tho
aimy. Rations for twenty-seven months
were | ut ui tho Proteus, which left fit. Johns,
July 7, 1881, with tho party. She touched nt
Disco Island and I'ppernavick to procure
sledges, dogs, skins ami dog food. Two K??*
quimtiux were added to tho party. Proven
landing was mado at Caroy Island, in tho
ncith water, and tho provisions, cached by
Narrs in 1876, in tho Alert, were found in
good condition. At Littleton Island Greely
pcrrrnally recovered the English Artie
mail, led by fiir Allan Young in
the Pandora in 1876. At Oar!
Jtiltcr I ny, in Kennedy Channel, a cacbo of
provisii i,*, for use on rctn-at, was made. It
wss the original intention to establish a p ilar
station nt Water Course bay, but heavy
masses of ieo rendered Water Course bay ex
ceedingly dangerous anchorage. Moving to
Disrosrty harbor, ,tlio station was there es
tablish! <1 mi tho site occupied by the English
exploring parly of 1876. The erection of a
bouse was at once commenced, and stores aud
equipments landed.
XVIKTKR IX Til SC ARCTIC.
On the 28th of August camo tha parting be
tween tho Greely party aud the ineu nt the
riotous. Tho little bond gathered on the
frozen shore and wutchud tho Proteus im sho
???teamed slowly down through Lady Franklin
bay. tin the evening of the same day the
temperature sank below freezing point, and
the icy Arctic wiuter was on them in ??arnnst.
Tlicir house was fluished about a weok after
tho Proteus left. It was named in honor of
fenator Conger, Fort Conger. During tho
first month the cold affected the men more
then at any subsequent time at Fort Conger.
Later <u in December the temperature
Mtik from 60 to 06 degrees below zero and
???o remained for days at a time, but even in
that weather tha cook's favorite amusement
was dancing bareheaded, barearmed and
with slippered foot on the top of a anow drift.
During the day tho mon drassad iu ordinary
outsido clothing, but thair tlannals ware very
heavy. Fivt man werx generally for a part of
tha day engaged In scientiflo work under Oreo-
ly'a direction, aud in the duties of the camp.
The remainder were employed generally
about oue hour a day. Thoy dovotod tho rest
of the time to amusemout. All slept In bunks.
Their quitters mere heated bya largo coal atovo,
the average beat maintained being 60?? above
Chickers, cards, chess and reading wore
Hit* j.Iuum uu nti uf the evening. Tho lita,
(freely soldi lar from a loucly one. Many
Of the n en said they never bau -passed two
happut year* thnh those spout at FortCougor.
lill'NIi.llT St'N AND NOO.NUAY PARK.
On the I ???????? li of October the sun left them for
136 days, aud u twilight, varying from half an
hour to twenty-four hours, succeeded. For
two months it was so dim Hint a dial of s
watch n.uld not be read by it. On April II,
tin* sun came above the horizon and rouuimni
tbrre 136 days, giving the party a groat
???uffirirncy of midnight. Duringthroo months
the stars wero visible constantly, the constel
lations of Orion's hell mid tho Grout Ildar being
brightest. Tho North star looked down from
almofet overhead. Standing atano outsido
the foil on one of these nights
the scene was weirdly grand. To tlio north
flaini ti the aurorn ImrcaiU, and tho bright con
stellations were set like Jewels around tho
north. Thia was about 500 miles directly I Messrs* toekwood and Rralnard reached was Cape
north of Lady Franklin Jtay, but to get there land they
hetraveled ovir 1,000 milea,open water,and I letweniltandlheinalnlandoIBrltannla.??????
broken pork, fMquantiycauring him to rotraoe Markham think, th* highest latitude
hi, *tep* 50 mile,. Lockwood Rounded theaea I reecb.d by the party wa, 12 degree, 55 ,ec-
bolh year, between Oano-Bryant and tape ondl . H e applaud, the admirable ze>l and
buteouldI not tou??h bottom with 1.15 I devotion dlapfayed by Lockwood and Brai-
???????????? 1 nard, and .ay.: -???Ignorane will u.ethodie-
Britannia,
fatboma of line. Markham, a few years be-
fore, about 100* miles to the west, got bottom at
72 fathoms. Lockwood found at his farthest
north about the same vegetation as at Lady
Franklin bay, but no signs of a polar current
or open polar sea. Iu 1883 he was stopped
near Cape Bryant, 126 miles from Lady Frank-
lip l ay, by an open channel, extending west
to the'eoast of Gnnnel Land. The width of
this channel varied from 260 yards to 6 miles,
but on the north the ice packs extended us
could be sesn with the
MISCELLANEOUS.
FACTS, FANCIES AND FIGURES OF
INTEREST.
??star which overtook the Greely party,??to dis-
courage'future research, but educatioa*will de
feat ignorance, and polar research will con
tinue until the work has been completed/'
New York, August 21.???The secretary of the
navy and the secretary of war having been in
consultation tp-duy at the navy yard, Brook
lyn, with Commander Schley, concerning tha
Greely relief expedition, from thorn the fol
lowing reliubjo statement relative to th? re-
1 cent reports of tha treatment of the bodies of
ghiu. With n supply of provisions, the fail- I the dead of the Greely polar expedition is de-
ureof which had caused his return the year I r : vrr ?. f r . r
the < nly ones found were the trunks of trees
ou the southwest coast of OrionoU's Lund. The
only sen animals seen by Lockwood st 83 dei
gn 1 ??? 26???, were walruses. Htrange to soy, the
or for toft for catching shrfp, tho following au-
tbcntic extract (him Conur-?????????- g2 - --
now being prepared for the
tLcntie extract from <>>nunander Schley's report,
now being prepared for the socreteryof the navy,
t fu.ws a portion of the mfeinnin* to have been so
ret a 26???, were walruses, htrange to say, the | treated, but that those of Licuteu-.
1I1 us is not to be found ot Lady Franklin I V.V*v??? 8cr 5ftE lt
IAt 8T decrees ???*7 the d-iliiHi'iii of the 1 ' Gvote fccbnciuo, hergeant Cress, aud the I.ijul-
u.y. At 8.1 degree?? atueciion ogm man* Christiansen, were absolutely whole and
agnatic net die was 104 degrees west, in ire I untouched.??? ???
c-fourth of a circle. As fur as Lock-
wood went, the north western . head
of the Greenland coast continued.
The maps of tin* regions
discovered are iu possession of Lieutenant
Greely. and are very carefully male. All
through the two years at Lady Fraukiiu bay
the magnetic nevdfr was never quiet except
during the storm in February, 188.1, Tbo
rRKrAMATIUXH mn hxyusat
were made by < utablishing a depot at Cape
Baird, twelve miles to the south. Day after
day the anxious men looked off over Lady
Franklin buy ex|??ectiiig the ice to open so that
they might commence their journey toward
home. At last, August 16, 1883, the welcome
news that the ice whs broken was brought.
All had been made ready, uml that very day
the narty embarked in a little steam lauuoli.
Behind them they left their dogs, as thoy
could not be taken. Four barrels of pork find
Foroe seal oil were li ft for tbo animals. Lady
Fraklin bay was crossed to Cape Baird, a dis
tance of 13 miles and then the western coast
ofGriuncJJ Land wus followed south in fur os
lTlT n??ok. tfuuuii, 11 was round
I that the bodies of six of them, f Lieutenant Kin-
Hliftbtiry, 8crgrsnt Jewell, I'riratoWhUUer.Tri-
vole Henry, Frivatc Kllia and Hergeant Ralston,)
The Survivor Lewis Noras Unable to Ae-
courit for Tlietn.
# 2f??WBtf??TPOBT, Mass., August' 20???Louis
Noras, in regard to tbo reported finding of
clotbing ana other articles supposed to have
belonged to the Jeannette expedition says:
**l know thoi none of our party were left be
hind in tho tent. I know that all tho tonts
were taken away hi our boats. I know that
no casks were taken from the ship and carriod
away by the party. I know that there woe
but one bear skin In the party, aud that was
left in a cache ou the Siberian -coast. I can
not tell whether or not tho articles found are
genuine without seeing them, and my theory
is that the articles found, if auy have been
found, were token by the natives from this
,, , _ .... ,, cache, ;??nd by some mosus, how I cannot con-
< hjo lii.wki rt. Largo quantities ol heavy ice I ceive, have gradually worked their war to
were met, end extreme whs Um danger every civilization.' 7
moment that the Uttlo launch would bo crush- I . *???
eil. Pc viral times nil tho boats were nearly ???Shot l*y Order of Lieutenant Greely.**
lost. The itifl'cring of tneinen was great. I Nkw Yobk. August 21.???Dr. Nagle, registrar of
They were now within 60 miles of G.tps
Nnltitit* Klrikiiuf fr.uu Hawkss dfr.ict I the navy department at Washington, a certified
Komrie, mrtaing irom uipe Jiawicaa airect ei py of Lieutenant Greely 4 * report 00 tho execti-
for Bate s illnmi, the party was caught on the I tion ol Private Henry. On tha authority of this
ic?? pack and froze in iu miles south of Gaps I report, tho record in tho bureau was changed to
Ilowkes. In 13 do vs they drifted south on tha ??*ad instead of ?????????tarvalipu,?????? which was assigned
n??, 25 mil. ., .(ulTcrlug Ic-rribly from th. | S! Or????? ? t???m ' ??ho uiS
registrarin the matter ceases.
Watson's Orimo and Death-Yet Birds???The Parti
load Vsee???Oregon Sktn Hunters???Seme Ca
rious Paste???Old-Tim* Hot Summer-
Earthquake* and Voleanoes. Bto<
cold. Bo they drifted to within 11 miles of |
t???opo Sabine, and were obliguiHo abandon the
, ??? horribly oppreMivu.that n mail alone
Is nln eil tempted to kill himself, so hmoly
does he ft-cl. The astronomer of tho party said
that willi thojmkcd eye a star of 0110 degree,
smaller magnitude than can be soon hero in
thornio way might be discerned. The moon
would r?? main iu sight from eleven to twelve
days at 11 time. The thermometer registered
on Juno 30 the highest temperature at
Lady Franklin bay which wo kuaw during
cur stay. It was 62 degrees above zero. Tho
lowest was in February. 1881, 65 degrees be-
low *ero. In this February our monury
trite, nnd remained solid for fifteen days.
The im nurv iu the thermometer invariably
rose during storms or light winds. Tho
highest baioniatsr was slightly above thirty-
five siii*l es, tlio lowcat slightly below twenty-
nine inches. Tho greatest variations were in
thowiiitir. The clot remoter, au instru*nont
used to ascertain the presence of elietrieitv,
was set up, but not the elighteat result* ob
tained 9
vna auroral luarLsr.
Tbc display ot the aurora was very good,
but not to bo rampart'd to those seen at Disco
island and l 7 p|wriravik. F???or'a valley nbierv-
er iu?? cracking aoumlacraritpnnied the display,
and the general shape was that of a ribbon.
The at nthweaterly horixou was the ??piartcr in
which the highest diaplnys wero seen. Nares
reported in 1876 that no shadow wo* ca*t by
the aurora, but Greely says he distinctly ob
served his shadow east by it. There wero no
electrical disturbances, save those maui^sted
by. rumbling thumb r, heard twice far away 11
the north. In the course of the trial
observations made, a very interesting
fact was discovered, that the tides nt
Lady Franklin bay came from the north,
while those at Melville hay uml Cape Sabiuo
rctne It* tn the south. Tho temperature of tha
north sidtswas two degre-g warmer than that
ft* in the south at Cape Sabine. Why this
was, Gi??<'.y would Hot venture to sUt/. He
need in measuring the fl ny of tides* fixed
gfct'ge, an iron nil pl^ed in th- mud. Tit *
rninti- rise of thy' ejuir.g tides ut Lady
Fm Urn Fay was fdrif.d to bo 8 frat*, at Ci;w
highest %U-?? rise 12 fret. S rf
was w*!y i>ha?? rwdiiu ice durii.r two rears.
A! lawv Franklin ithe averagv tem i*ra-
r tvievu the water degrees abovo'xero.
^S'aluia weigbiug ninety j-mmU were ktil *.l
anundjIVrt Conger. . Fish is ot wonderful
ScRicttw. Perhaps the * rent c??t surprise **r the
1 x|k tFt on was takine in 'u Lake Alexau Iris,
a tnsh-witer lake la tet above so* level, a
ftnr-j untd taJmon. From the hay, or *01,
fitly two very small t-h were taken daring
lw ??? two years, hi d iVw are found north
efCi)*FsUt*r. Vegglati
e U ut the 1
*??*ra ThebigheM
r??gisliird during a
n.jhs 1??. Liur.
mat Lady Frankliu
tit Capa
willows and t*xi-
itv of tlio wind Was
i.-ie snow-storm, 7U
ware pro
R.U:
ic. | <
tb, in and
1* m??*t valuable remits.
f Msy in <trh roar, where lliv *??
Cy stood, ataboat the >iuuv- time of
??^d, frau* M* elevation ef *,000 fret,
strangest glass . n UalFa haiiu aud
> cbanncl. couid discern nothiu^bit
ra* that Dr. llayea claim-
j**ii polar sea. On the
ached the ht???heu
2 w|>v cmmiiiv, nun n??i??uuii^un uuminuu tun
steam launch September It). Tho pack now
rimnincd motionless for three d??ys and sev
eral times tho party got within two or throe
miles of Capo fiahino, only to bo drifted back
by tho southwoMt gales. Five seals were killed
nnd eaten while the party wero drifting about.
Eventually a heavy northwest gale drove
them by Cano fiahino within n mile of Bra-
vcor???s islami, but they could not land. Sep
tember 22 there arose the moat terrific gale
they lisd yet seen on tho Arctic ocean. Their
icc lloe was driven hither and thither by the
teniptest end waves washed over thorn
again aud again the spray freusing to them and
causing them intense suffering. The night
came on, otto of inky blacknoss. The wind
threw the heavy Uoee together,and crash after
crash of ieo, breaking from their own lloe,
warned tho mon that iieath was near to them
No man knew what minute the floo might
break up uml tbe water engulf thorn, Tho
first faint light of dawn showed them that
little remained nf the Uoo on which thay were.
The sea washed another olose # to them jcloser it
canto, and at last the men euceoedod in get
ting upon it. Tho storm slowly subsided and
thoy gained land nt Ksnuiuiaux point, uear
Barrow inlet, September 20.
THRLART 8TAXU.
Hero winter quarters woro built nnd scouts
.wero sent (o Capo Isabella and Capa fiabine.
In tUrf tfnya tfioV returned. Their roports
sent a thrill of horror to ovdry ???heart. At
Con?? Isabella und" Cap# Sabin?? wero found
??my 1,800 rations, and from Gnrlington'a
1 ccords they learned tho fato of tho l???rotous.
Everyone knew that death must come to near
ly ftllNif th?? party long k??h>ro a ship of rescue
qpuld force its way into Mclvillu bay. Kifrrts
were made to sustain tlicir spirits
now by lectures nnd light reading.
October 16 tbo party removed tc
Capo finbine. January 18 Cross died of scurvy.
In April th?? rations issued daily hnd dwindled
t?? four ounces of meat mid six ounces of bread.
Man lifter iiirii died and All hope had tlod.
when on that day the blast of a whistle roused
the survivors from tho lethargy of approaching
druth. Lieutenant Greely, when asked ui to
his ideas uj>on the probable result of tho
Arctic explorations, said: ???l do not think tho
BLAINE'S FIRST BABE.
Its Gravo Dasscrntrd In a Curiflos Man
ner.
Aigusta,M??.,August 18.???Much feeling has
been excited in this community by a crime of
an extraordinary character. In the well-
known cemetery lot of Stanford Clay an infant
sou of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine lies buried. The
child died in July, 1861, and its resting place
is marked by n beautiful memorial of marble,
erected iu 1866, on which the dates of the
birth and death wero plainly inscribed in
raised letters.
THE VAXDALIHM DlflCOVRaiD.
About two weeks ago it was discovered that
the date of the child's birth ha?? boon careful
ly chiselled away. It was quickly discovered,
nnd an intimate friond of Blaine???s family put
a detective on the track of the perpetrator,who
has not yet been discovered, but it is bolioved
a clew lias been found in tho fact that directly-
after the mutilation of tho 'memorial ai
K rrou, whose name is knownn
d copies of the alleged record sent to nows-'
paper* in various ports of the country nntago-,
nistic to Blaine. Tha motive df the act of
vandalism is scarcely . apparent. There is!
ngall classes of people
great Indignation among
over the sacrilegious act.
Hhcrto found to be unfavora bio should
prove favorable . to the party attempting to
icgcli tho pole. If it is to he don?? nt ull
it must be don?? by way of Francis Joseph
laud. It could never be reached by the Jean-
nett?? route. That there is a polar sen 1 11m
well nigh certain. This is proved hy tho ico
drifting out of Muscle bay aud Spitbergeu iu
midwinter, aud the northern drift of tho polar
pack, nnd the experiments of 1???avy and Lock-
wood in 82 degrees 83 minutes. Men can stand
two winters very well at Lcdy Franklin bay,
but phyiseal strength rapidly deterioate*.
we had bad every supplv and tho necessary
feed we could, |ierheps, have lived eight
ten years at Lady Franklin bay.
The survivors of the Greely party are in the
city to-day unattended, but refuse to say any
thing of interest. They expect In depart for
their hornet some time this week. Sergeant
Praimud is auuouuccd to deliver a lecture at
Kiltcry to-night.
m The Ilcror.l of Henry's Death.
Nkw Yoi x, August 18.???A letter received nt
the sanitary heaiiipiorters to-day, from Colonel. I
Sutherland???, medical director of the division of
the Atlantic of the war department, iu which
lie stated that when he reported the death of
Private Henry, of the Groety party fa have
been caused by starvation, in applying for
transit pa|tcrs, lie was uot advised of the
facts in lb?? case, subsequently developed. He
docs not undertake to authorize a correction,
leaving that to the authorities at Washing
ton. w ho are vet to las heard from.
TLc 1 onain* cf l'rivato Whistler, of the
Guely expedition, will be exhumed to-mor
row morning.
Losnox, August 20.???Clements 11. Mark
ham, sicratary of the roval geographical so-
???iety, who served in the Arctic expedition in
i860, in search of fiir John Franklin, has
written a letter a prop's of the, recent charg.-s
made against tho Grtaly party. In
this he savd that tho accusation
of murder and eannihalisnt mule Against
the Oiitljr party is a disqmca to American
kuruals. Keeney would have suggoited si
ll nee until Lientec.ant Greely had submitted
liis rtp rt to the government. There may l*o
a rau.t unt of truth in the charge. It i* porai-
blc Put utilik??'!y that bravo u.cn, iu tho hut
extrasuity. should have succumbed. Mark
ham draws attention to th* f.i.???t
that a similar cruel &.vu*nlion was
made tgaiuM tho Sir Jo^n Franklin exp?-
HrnryWnttcrson ns lira. Blaine's Defender.!
Locistii.li, Augnst 18.???Henry Wattorsonl
returned from Virginia Beach .yesterday, ami]
in answer to a question as to the Blaiue scan-j
dal, said that he hnd long ago discredited and)
dismissed it from serious con.-dderation. Ho.
ension, some fifteen year* ago, to look
into the matter, and had found nothing whietv
could justify the impeachment of Mrs. Blaine's;
virtue. Tho Couricr-Jonrual of this morning
iu tbe course of nu editorial, says:
???To tho integrity of the good woman who, for-
thirty years, has presided over Mr. HI line???s house
hold, iccognizrd by all who know her to be tlio
I cut of wives and mothers, an entire generation ol
testimony may bs called, and will confidently atnl'
roidlally tiii.twer. Tho only ofioct
of the senseless and wicked lava*
Ion of tho homo Ilfs of the eminent,
and corrupt statesmen who heuds the republic nr
ticket iu icdccmiug tho failure of hla career, will
betofurnUh him on opportudlty to poao in the
character of ft defender of the fireside and hearth
Mono aud bin own honor nnd character, otl'erlui
(special opportunities fur historic display ami
driving dluctly at tbe most susoeptlbl# corner of
the popular heart. It ht beside the purpou to ad-
vaneo this wanton attempt to destroy au honest
domestic fabric, ns nn onset against tho porsma!
attacks wad?? l*y the republicans upon Governor
Cleveland. Two wrongs do uot make a right, nor
arc tbe rases In any wise alike. One case involv
ing 11cthin:: mon* than the chastity of a bachelor,
ord tho other of a foundation of the family.
BEN BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS.
of Admiral 8!icr-
idraloneo! the Frank-
???Why attempt to lift
ilition. BLu the m Lie
sid 0??U re,* ho cvmn:
lira sraich expeditions
ith which the All Merciful lias ba??i??
hut cut from mortal ken th?? s*<|
battling with firaiin
ntinuing say*.
???ve arac. hi
1tr2, Lorki
*c ever alts
??i. ?2 degrees, 22 minutes
Pleas* d to >hut cu
h?? -.??ss of brave
<ddi.ru/??.-' Markbi^H
Xbe AB???eilecn navy departme* t ??hjuld*... -
raitn-Hid sTidUe-i r^;H??asible forth?? eKp??-lt*
t> li. Tin* | city >LcuM never b *Va beau let
u iir.-ut a depet tlilp winteriua within an nc.*e^l-
t.eiii>l??uraof l! 1 la. TbedtBeultr of uavigiUtif
the * Lunin l north of 8:aitU sound w??* tqnarvt.
and pra.sLtt. li rm Bcwketed. hone* the catsstr.*-
pre for which there I* uo excuse. Lleutaaant
Girely???s ohuvitosj* work will l>im a valuable
>it| )d??uuut to tbo series of observations which
writ* taken by the ship Dt* *ov*ry in 197,w
1 he L-ieeiy expedition will bear the txt of
ib* trugh Kiutiuy. It* Brt&len ore abtak** >
however, tn fttsttug that Cape Itritanat* wa* vtu-
Me fr. to I.tucoin bay, on tbe we*t side of Kobo<)3
ml Butler, while in Fortland, Mo., drumming
up reeiuits to go south, said to a well known
citizen of that city, ???Come, go with mo to Now.
Orleans; the country lias goue to holl, and l'i
going to make all tlio money I can out of it."
A prominent gentleman of this city, readiug
this to-dnv, remarked:
???lhii Butler carried out his intention.
There is much that has never been told ot
that reign of terror in the unfortunate Cres
cent city. 80 n??cu|Jomod did pooplo become
to startling military (micro that at length
nothing astonished tlio people. The itioidenb
to which 1 refer is on?? in which Butler is do-
'land to have cleared for himself seveutv-five
thimsaud dollars. Ono of the most daring*
cotton speculators ???of that day
Captain Feloubot. Ono evening
lie called at the headquarters of General But
ler, and had a long private interview. Next
morning hy daylight the following proclama
tion was published in all papers aud posted up
in every wall*
???Troclamatlon.???General order 1AJ.???Il.ivtne
leant, on good authority, that it U th?? purpose 01
the citizens of New Orleans aud vicinity to sell
the ration now ou their bauds, with the intentof
minx the proceeds thereof for disloyal purpox*,
I reclamation ts made that the soldiery ore hereby
iiutt.orixrd to destroy alt ratton th.it can be fouti.1
iu the city or vicinity after ten o'clock this a. iu."
The consternation which followed this order
may well be immagined. Every means of
conveyance was matte to carry tho cotton out
??f reach; sonic threw it into tho river^ hoping
they might recover some portion of it later.
The wildest eohfti.don prevailed, aud it was
evident that much ???of the cotton would be
destroyed. At an opportuu?? moment Cap
tain Frier.bet appeared upon th?? street, and
ottered to pay five cents a pound anJtonuuaie
all risks. He was soon in {wssexsion of
L6.0VO bales of cotton, aud orders poured in'
upon him tester than he could aceonintod.it*
thim. At aluut half past u, when tho matter
l ad been worked for what it was worth, Gan-
nel Fuller rescinded general order No. Pi,
r>g that he had i*ccn waited U|wu by a
I tiller ??f the most iufiuer.tial citisens of New
*, who had pivcu their written pledge
that t o cciton would be sold or iu any wjy
nr. d for disloyal pnri** ???????.
TLVadul tb# greet s-*arc. Three h nira I
Watfox???s Cbimb axp Death.???Tho death of
the Rev. J. Selby Watson, in prison, at tbo ad
vanced age of 77, recalls oueof the saddest and
most perplexing stories of uolookod-for crime.
Mr. Watson was a man of undoubted learning.
He is best remembered in literature perhaps
for his versions of certain Latin authors. He
was the author not otfly of school books, but of
biographies of Poraoji and Warburtoii. These
exercises do not septq to have bropjjty???f him
much money, and probably he was uoL much
more fortunate tbau Goldsmith's ???poor Ned
Purdon" in his connection with literature.
Mr. Watson was also for more than 24 years
???ffitockwell grammar school. In the later
years of his mastership tho number of boys in
the school diminished so much that the. trus
tees deprive Mr. Watson of his oilice. This oc
curred in October, 1870. Mr. Watson went on
living in fitockweii. He kept but ono servant,
a girl who deposed that his relations with his
wife seemed to be friendly. On a certain Sun
day in October Mr. Watson committed tho
crime which hgs given his uaine a strange
psychological interest. We must remember
that, though he has ceased to lie au etlicieut,
or ut all ??vents a popular head maitcr, his
moral character was blameless, ami nothing
seems to have been said against his soundness
of iiiind. Hisserrant ???considered hi:n a kind-
hearted gentleman." She thought that ho and
Mrs. Watson ???lived very happily together."
No complaint had ever been made against him
(except the complaint that he was not a popu
lar teaelur) by the committee of the school in
which he tought. Tho vicar of his .parish
church said that no one could possess n higher
character for kindness and humanity. Boing
tuch a man, ho went to church with hia wife
'on Sunday, October 8,1871. The pair dined
early and hnd wine and dessert in tho library.
Whin the servant returned from her Sunday
half holiday Mr. Watson let her iu, and said
that Mrs. Watson had gone out. Ho also.dren
the girl's attention to a stain on the floor,
caused, he said, by port wine. Next day ho
otdered a packing caso of certain dimensions,
in w hich be concealed the remains of Mrs.
Watson. Tbe next day but one, after telling
his servant that he felt unwell, he attempted
to poison himself. The prussic acid which ho
administered to himself was diluted, and he
thus failed to commit suicide.
This is briefly, and nmittiug the more lior-
ribib details, tho story of the murderer of his
wife by Mr. Watson. Naturally the question
r rises, was he insane or did he strike down nnd
destroy his aged wife under an uncontrollable
homicidal impulse, which found him sano and
left him sane, though he was insane at tho
actual moment of the crime? This is tho view
of the case which the jury found thomielves
unable tb take. It is, indeed, a doctrine too
dangerous over to be accepted, we trust, in this
country. There may be such impulses. A
kind of dovil may enter into an elderly, kind
hearted man of letters and may make hirn
slay tho partner of his life, while it also coun
sels him to conceal her body, to account for
her absence, nnd to attempt suicide. But this
sort of possession or maduess or whatever it
may bo called, if it only becomes apparent iu
the homicidal act. and cannot be foreseen or
guarded against, is by no moans the sort of in
sanity which should carry with it irresponsi
bility. At the trial one witnessdeclared that
Mr. Watson bad spoken of previous bitter
quarrels with bis wire. Ou those occasions thqn
bo bad resisted tho homicidal impulse, or the
pcst siion of the murderous spirit with sucooss,
All tkat human puhishmcnband-Jaw* can do
is to add fresh motive (aud an miCommon
strong ou??) to tho other reason for resisting
homicidal impulses. People who know that if
they yield to temptation tuoy will certainly be
pmihdad with all legal severity find in them
selves a power of rcsistanoo which they would
lose it wo pardoned every murderer whose
character nun circumstances won our sympa
thy. To put tho matter shortly, Mr. Watson
was probably a man enfeebled and embittered
by a L -ng litc of obscure toil, and of struggling
with boys. No profession is more apt to en
courage temper and eccentricity thau that of
living among th?? irrcsjionsihlo and provoking
race of boys. Again, he probably hnd tho high
strung nerves and keen sensibility of tn??
scholar. Ilia moodiness (which was noticed in
him by some of his iutiuiutes) would bo iu-
or ??used by (Hivcrty aud failure, and it appears
that hts relutious with Mrs. Watson had some
times h??eu very disngrceuble, though on this
point tlio ??pinions of witnesses difi'erod. At all
ovents lie finally let himself bo goaded into ono
vioUut act, and, if anger bo n brief mftdnus,
was mad indeed for u moment. Then came
tlio attempts to conceal tho act and to ??soaps
from the eousequences by death. His own
death that at last has overtaken him was tho
result, not of freat ajjo or disease, but of ac
cident ; he fell from his hammock and suffered
fatal injuries. It have been impossible for u
jury to bring in any oilier verdict than thoy
ra tumed. Uur sense of pity inclines us to vei
such (h cds with the name of mildness, but,.i
very tiuth, the criminal la not more intrino
than such a murderer os Dickens??? BUI fiyk
He oirly yields to u passion not so frequently
victorious in bis rank of life.
The examination of the medical evidence in
this cose is not reassuring. Some of tho wit
nesses tried to show that tho dismissal from the
head mastership might have caused melan
cholia aud n person suffering from molaucholis
would be liable to uncontrollable outbursts of
passion. Wc cannot pronounce a tuan ma.l
btcapi?? be has iobt ono appointment nnd fears
he may not get another. No instance* of de
install in Mr. Watson seem to have b??en ob
served, and, without delusions, what is in
sanity? Again, if a man be ???perfectly
rational,??? as Mr. Watson waa uudeuiably, we
cannot accuse him of insanity became he is
???very morose." The superintendent of the
Colnsy Hatch asylum fouud Mr. Watson per
fectly???sane after his crime. Aunihcr doctor
from???tha same establishment came to precisely
the opposite conclusion. He detected midnc**
iu Mr. Watson???s remarks. Another physician
v ho heard the same remarks mad??, thought
them ???perfectly rational.??? and the prisoner
???remarkably self-posscMed.??? In short th?? ex
perts difiera???d ns much ns experts usually do:
pcfhaps their evidence is not worth much un
less it is all unh< sitatingly on tlf-s sania sid??.
The conclusion is that wa must not regard a
roan who commit* a ??rim?? aa insane merely be
cause he is tho Inst mau we should h*va ex
pected to b?? guilty of it. W?? can call no man
trappy till dtath and no nmn innocent till he
is oeyond nil temptation forever. Any other
rule would enable people with good anteo??-
deiitu to be wicked, for once, with comparative
impunity. ???Many a man pas*??# ** a saint ta-
enuse be never worked down to th?? boais of his
character," soya the professoral tbo breakfast
table. When the tasis i* reachedahdbvpoJed
by some sudden stroke it will not do tA ais'iiue
that tbe ainntr i* a lunatic.
A Mopri* Ghost 6tort.???A very singular
story which forms one of the sensational
social topics of the day is the best authenti
cated of the many stories of the supernatural
that hare beta la???teiv told. Only a short lima
ago r young and well known artist, Mr. A.,
w*%i*Ivited to pay a vi*it to bii distinguhhe 1
friend, Mr. Izxard. The house wat dl.'oi with
??ucets, but a large and handsome fiwm w~*
I ?>?????(???? ????
nul I'ltllcrlr.1 a c.plul miO'-.Uindln,, whlSi j??*rt??uUr.
mulled lu Mb ??h,u bW,r, bv | ???^*
nLiut a Lundnd thousamt
aliot unit Killed.
Toltoo, O., August IS.???Witbar Plumb, a
i tret t car driver, whil* ^ lh?? lo wer cud of tb)
read last night, was shot and killed by a rob-
l<r intent ??l> ??tcuring the money box. The
ii-indmr escajwd.
.
*, Le bad each night a b-urtble dream.
If?? drvrmed???or . was rcailjr??? m Itanly
awakened Ly some person entering his room,
aud in tacking around saw the room brilliant
ly Fghied, while at the window stood a lady
decant!r au ire-1, in tbo act ??f throwing some
thing cut. "hi* aceoinplishoJ, tbe turn??.! her
face tcvtrd the only ({wetator showing a
countenance so distorted by evil passions that
he was thrilled with horror. Boon the light
and tbe figure with the dreadfiil fate ???disap
peared, leaving the artist suffering from a
frightful nightmare. On returning to his city
home he was so haunted by tha fearful coun
tenance which had for three consecutive
nights troubled him, that be made a sketch of
it, and so real that the evil expreesion seemed
to horrify every one who saw it. Not a great
while after, the artist went to mako au eve
ning visit on Mr. Izcard; that gentleman in
vited him to his picture gallery, as he wished
to show him some remarkable, old family por
traits. What was Mr. A's surprise to recognize
among theta, iu the likeness of a stately,
well dreeicd lady, tbc oue who had so troubled
his slumbers on his previous visit, laeking,
however, the revolting, wicked expression.
Soon as he raw it he involuntarily exclaimed,
???Why, I have seen that lady!??? ???ludeedl".
said Mr. I., smiling, ???that is hardly pissihle,
as she died more than a hundred years ago.
She was the second wife of my great grand
father, and reflected anything but credit on
tbe family. She was strongly suspected of
having murdered her husband's son by a for
mer marriage, in order to make her own child
heir to the property. The unfortunate bey
broke his neck in a fall from, a window, and
there was every reason to believe that he was
precipitated from the triudow by his atop-
inother.??? The artist then told his host the
circumstance of his thrice-repeated experi
ence, or dream, aud sent for his sketch, whioh,
so far as the features were concerned, wa*
identical with the portrait in Mr. Iszard's
gallery. The sketch has since been photo-
grnphcd # Lut from its hideous expression is
lar from pleasant to look upon.
60MK Cf Riot s Facts.???Gold beaters by ham
mering can reduce gold leaves so thin that
282,000 must be laid upon each other to pro-
' cc the thickness of au inch, yet each leaf is
perfect and free from holes that ono of them
laid on auy surface, as in gilding, gives tho
appearance of solid gold. They ore so thin
that if formed into* book, 1,600 would only
occupy the space of a tiugle leaf of common
paper; and an octavo volume of an iuch thick
would have ns many pages as the books of a
well stocked library of 1,500 volumes, with 400
pages in each. Still thinner than this is tho
coating of gold upon tho silver wire of what is
called gold lace, ami w???e are not sure that such
coating is not of ouly ono atom thick. Plati
num and silver can be drawn into wire much
finer than human hair. A grain of blue vitriol
or carmine will tinge a gallon of water, so that
in every drop the color may be preceivcd. A
grain of mm*k will scent a room for twenty
years, nnd will at tho end cf that period bavo
lobt little of its weight. The carrion crow
smells its food many miles ofT. A burning ta
per uncovered for a single instant, during
which it does uot lose one thousandth of a
grain, would fill with light a sphore four miles
in diameter, so as to be visible in every part of
it. The thread of tho silkworm is so small
that many of them arc twisted together to form
our finest sewing thread; but that of th??spidor
is smeller still, for two drachms of it by weight
would reach from London to Edinburgh, or 400
miles. In the milt of a codfish or In water in
which vegetables have been infused the micro
scope discovers animalcules of which many
thousands together do not equal in bulk a grain
of sand; and yet nature, with a singular prod
igality, bos supplied many of tlieje with or
gans as complete as those of tho whale or the
elephant, and the bodies consist of tho same
substance, or ultimate atoms, as that of map
himself. In n single pound of such matter
there are more living creatures tliun of human
beings on tho face of the globe. What a sesno
has the microscope opened to tho admiration
of the philosophic inquirer. Water, mercury,
sulphur, or iu gcnoral any aulutauco when
sufficiently heated, rises an invisible vapor or
S n*; (that is, reduced to the aeriform state.
real heat, therefore, would cause tho wholo
of the material universe to disappear, aud tho
most solid bodies to become os invisible and
impalpable os tbe air we breathe. Few have
contemplated an annihilation of the world
more complete than this.
Orkgox Sk???x Huxtkb*.???John Dunphroy, an
engiueer on the west side road, who lain tho
habit of taking a yearly bunt for doer in the
mountains of southern Oregon, a few days
since received a letter from a friend at Grant's
LIBERTY AT LAST.
Pass, of which th?? following.!* an extract
expect you will bo out this fall to take your
annual hunt. You had better come as soon ns
you can if you want deer, as tho skin hunters
are kiljjng them off very fast. You will
hardly believe mo when 1 toll you that two of
these fellows, now encamped eight railos below
this place, brought in aud sold hero But week
130 sxins, all killed during ton days iu June.
Oiie of tbc hunters said that he killed twelve
deer in ono day, and iu two days caught
t< 11 fawns, which he marked. When *3knl
what ho did with tho venison, ho said he did
nothing with it. His name is Stonebroakor
and his partner's name is Ferriu. The/got
ninety eight do!hi s for their load of skin*. I
how tho skins and tlio blood was not dry on
some of them. I can prove every word of this.
Skin hunters have beou slaughtering door all
this summer, along the canon by the railroad.
The small mountain stream* ure dried up and
the deer nre obliged to gather along the larger
streams for water and there i* whoro they
catch them. Those scoundrels defy tho law
and say they have a perfect right to hunt on
government lands. It is high tune this bad
ness was stopped. Just think how many poor
littla fawns the rascals have mined to starve
and die." Tho above is front a responsible
person, and there is no doubt of it* truthful
ness. The authorities of that section must bs
very remits in their duties to allow such
wholesale violation of th?? gam?? law. The first
gome law passed iu Oregon was originated in
that part of the state, and was intended to pre
vent just such cdandalous slaughter of door
for their skins as is mentioned above. Those
skin hunters should bo in the penitentiary, or
better have tin ir hides made into drum heads;
tho hulkiug, lazy, useless brutes arc worse
than wolves or coyotes. Tl\o people of south
ern Oregon should combine and hunt them out
of the country.???Portland Oregonian.
PIERCED BY THREE BALLS.
Two Alleged ??? DeFoor Murderers Turned
Ont of Jail Yesterday.
Brown and Savinger, two k negroea who for
fourteen mouths have occupied a cell in Ful
ton county jail, a part of the time under sen
tence of death, for the noted DeFoor murder
were sitting on their bunks yesterday morning
about nine o???clock when their attorney, Mr.
Frank L. Haralson, entered with an order of
court signed hy Judge Hammond. Tho sub
stance of the order was that the men should
be released on signing bond (ot their appear
ance. Mr. Iloralson, who had not seen tbe pri
soners for sometime walked to their cell iu tho
rear of tbe jail,and lookiug through tho grated
window, asked:
???Boys, do you want to go home?" ??? .
The two men sprang to their feet an<f asked
in the same breath:
???What do you mean?" - ???
???You ore free, boys," answered tho attor
ney. f
???Thank, God!" said Brown, fervently.
???God wont let an innocent man sufferr??? -
The grated door was unlocked and the two
men walked out and each grasped a hand of
their lawyer fricud and shook it gratefully.
Brown's confinement hod told on him andjie
was qjiite weok and stiff. Sav-
ingcr was found to be fa
better health. As tbe tvro men walked out
they yelled good-byea to the other inmates of
tbc jail. qt
???I'll pray for every man in this jail," laid
Brown.
Among those they left behind was Johnson,
the Macon negro, who confessed tho crime
nearly a year and a half qgo, and on whose
confession the two negroes, Brown and Savin
ger, were arrested and convicted. His coun
tenance was pitiable to behold as he saw what
he claimed wero his companions in crimo
marching joyfully out from their confinement.
The negroes had been granted a new trial
on the grouud that tho evidence was not sufil-
cicnt to convict, and os other evidence has
failed to come up, they were ordered out of
jail.
In the jail office Brown and Savinger were
called on to sign their bonds. The bond* were
for ten thousand dollars and each negro made
his crocs mark.
Brown so id he was going out to Akers's mill
and see if they would not let him sack bran
until his health returned and he wo* able to
do harder work. Savinger has two or??? threo
little children, who were with his wife when
he was arrested. Since he has .been in jail,
however, his wife has died, and he came uait
of prison uot knowing where his chil
dren were. He he^rd on leaving the
jail that they were in tho poor
house nnd ho left for that place to see if he could
find them. As the two men walked into the
licait of the city they appeared to bo lost in
the midst of the changes that have taken place
in the last yenr And a half. Brown said ho
bad not had auy watermelon this year and he '
wanted some. Mr. Haralsou and Judge
Strong made him up a purse and he went off
to enjoy a melon. Air. Haralson has worked
faithfully for his clients nnd did thorn good
service. He believed that they wore innocent,
but he believes also that Johnson is guilty and
will aid the solicitor general in prosecuting
him.
THE SPORTING WORLD.
Mr. Vanderbilt Sells ???Mnnd 8." to Mr. Bon.
ner???Chlcngo Races.
New York, August 19.???Turf, Field and
Farm to-morrow will publish tho following:
Probably no prominent man ever paid another
prominent man so marked a compliment as W.
11. Vanderbilt has just paid Robert Bonner.
???Maud 8," as all Intelligent hone-
men know, has tha fastest record of any trotting
horse in tho world. 8be Is tho only
animal that has trotted a mil# In less??than 2:1V.
Her record Is 2:9% This figure, a few yean ago,
was deemed beyond the reach of n trotting horse.
' Vancrbilt was lately offered $100,000 for tho great
chestnut, but he declined It, preferring to sell her
for less than' half of that sum to
Bonner, who. he knew, would not
tret her In publlojaces. Last Friday Mr. Vander
bilt sent a friend cxprenly fromSaratoga to inform
Bonner of these facts, ana on Saturday Mr. Uounor
sent hit brother, David up to Saratoga to confer
with Mr. Vanderbilt. Tho result was that Mr.
Bonner purchased the mare on Monday evening,
paying 949,000 for her. Of the seven great trotter*
A Vermont Farmer SIonlerinMan of Whom
lie lYns Jealous.
AloXTPKLmt, Vt., Augukt 23.???One of the
most deliberate murders ever committed iu
this state occurred here this forenoon. Clark
V>\ Sanders, a farmer, aged about thjfty-ftvo
or forty years, residing in East Montpelier,
five miles distant, cume into town this morn-
iug, went to tlie gun shop of Blanchard Bro#.,
purchased a revolver, put three cartridges into
it and proceeded to the store of Dauiei
Carr. Tne latter was nt hi* desk doing
business with two ladies. When Sander* en
tered tbe store be drew the revolver.fired three
times, our bullet taking effect in the neck and
two others in the body. Carr died in a few
moment*. Sanders; after the shooting, put
the revolver iu his???pocket, walked ont of the
store, *ip tho street. The work-
in tho adjoining marble shop*,
who heard the shooting, ran out
nd captured him. The murderer said:
???1 shot him, aud hope he is dead, a* l in
tended to kill him. Get your officer and do
what you please with me."
On tbe way to jail the prisoner said to the
Beer that he intended to kill Carr, aud had
it three balls in hirn, but did not know Hut
* was dead. He asked the officer to tell him
if he hnd killed Carr. Sanders said he un-
derztcod tbe penalty and cxjtected to be
barged. Tbe cause of the shooting was jeal-
y ty Sanders of his wife,
fne murdered man was abrnt sixty years
old; did u provision aud auction bu*m??*$ in
.He left no family. Sauders ha* 01??
abort two months old, which he t??>j<
??woy from home yesterday and placed with
his bra ti.tr.
An Experiment With a U.vIIoon,
Pitir, Aoguti It.???M. Ucrre Mnrjon has
minted a raq*>rt'ta the academy of science
aptaramg th?? recent balioon ascension at
Mcnden. The balloon wa*. under the dtree-
ttau cf Captain Renard*. and although it
l ??gainst the wind it easily frliuwc t th?
along which it was steered. It wt*
then reefed???rround, and brought hack to th *
joint from which it sturted. M. M-tigm
mu Idtis it a n-tuarkal !e day in the history
f teresiat science.
Flora Temple, Dexter, Goldsmith-
Maid, Rarus, 8t.. Julien, Jay Kyo See,
and Maud 8.\ Bonner- now owns throo of thorn,
Dexter. Itarus, aud Maud 8. What a trio. Bonner
was asked:
???Suppose Jay-Eye-See should beat tho rccood of
Maud 8., what would you do thenf
Ills answer was characteristic:
???Buy him too, if I could, or put Maud 8. Into
training at some good truck like Charter Oak-at
Hartford, and glvo the public a free exhibition of
speed.???
MR. nOKXRR???a rURFOftIC.
Mr. Bonner Raid ho thought that
ho would keep ??? tho mare for a
few days for road purposes, nnd thetr-ho
would send her to one of his
farms and put her in traiuiug.
Then he would give a public exhibition
with her to show what sho
can do in beating her record
cf 2:09%. He said she could trot in 2:08 or
2:07 and ho intendod to sat
isfy himself as to her speed.
Ho would never allow Aloud 8 to
trot for money, or oven for a j??rlsc.
Juy-Eyc-fieo beat Aloud S???a
ho would try to beat him. Ho did not
enter into any formal agreement with
Vanderbilt to keep Maud 8^ out of
tbo matches for monoy, but
he presumed that Vanderbilt know his word
well enough to b# sure ha (Bonuer) would do
nothing of the kind.
Chicago, August 21.???Tho match raoo be
tween tho famous pacers Johnston, owned by
Commodore N. w. Kittson, and. Richbatl,
owned by J. 8. Campbell, for a wager of $6,009
a side, took placo hero this afternoon. Tho
weather was clear and cool and tho track fast,
except a portion of tho bock stretch, which
was soft. Five thousand persons were present. .
The Jonnston was tho??? favorite in the pools
before the opening of the raco at $25 to $10,
aud a largo amount of money \fj??*
wagered. The friends of llichball.
claiming that Johnston could uot go tlirba
fast heats. Tha^rcsult proved that they wera
mistaken, os he was never headed, pacing
very close to Little Browu Jug???s 2:11%, 2:11%
2:12js, which arc tho fastest three licaU ou
rccoid. It was the general opinion that John
ston, had ho been driven out in exercise bsforo
the hent,#ould have beaten this. ???Campbell,
tho ownoj of Richball, says hi* horse was out
of condition.
First heat???Johnston drew tho inside pasta
ticn. After both horses hod been warmed up
they camp down even, and os they wero going
veil got tho word ???gof" At tha
first turn, Johnston began to draw away
and increased his lead to two lengths ~
ot the quarter polo in 33%, and to two open
lengths along the stretch to one-balfln 1:06%.
Around the upper turn Richball drew up to
within an ojien length. The tbree-quartar
pole was reached in 1:30%. On the homo
Mretch Johnston began drawing away, and as
it bvcam?? evident that Richbailhad no chance
cf winning the heat he was pullci up insido
the dittance stand and Johnson W<m in a jog
in 2:13. ??? ,
S??ond heat???They went away mall together
ot the rectnd attempt nnd were at the
quarter ppst in 32% second*.??? Johnston
Icing en open kngth in front. The relative
positions were not changed tilUhe nolf was
1 <ached in 1:5%. At the end of five furlong*,
Johnston responded to the call of his driver,
quickly opening a gap of half a rfogeti lengths,
i.nd coming on,won in a jog by twenty lengths.
Time 2:11%.
Third heat???They were giren the smd jlF
at the fit it trials. ???Johnson shot 'Ane-half a
length iu tho lead, and he iucrer.sbd it steadi
ly* going to the quarter-post in At, to the half
ail
Rich-
in l:0Hi, to the three-quarter la JnU,
finished in 2:13%, ncorly distancing I
tall.
A Bad Place fur Ushtnlbf.
Frcm the LaGrangc, Ga., Reporter.
A week or two since, lightning struck a tree
in the yard cf Mr. 6??nkey Johnson, near lf*r-
rifonvflle. Glancing from the tree it followed
a wire clothes line fastened to it, jKsse-1 to tbe
house and split a sill, severely shocking Air*.
JcLtxu. This is th?? fifth or sixth time th??
chetrio bolt has struck tree* on Air. Johnson'*
jdace, and he is beginning to think it i* an
11healthy location. His system uf horizontal
icda will now probably be discontinued.
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