Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1877 Page: 2 of 4
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BLACK AND
CARPET-1
It was thought that Horace Greeley'
delineation of the moral features of tbe
carpet-bagger would live immortal in
eoag and atory lut Jere Black has
wrought oat the portrait with auch
elaborateness of art that we cannot re
frain from glring tbe inimitable skotcb
Tbe agricultural and commercial
wealth of Louisiana made her a strong
temptation to tbecarpet-bagRers. These
tu It ares snuffed the prey from afar
tad a soon as tbe war was over they
swooped down upon her In flocks that
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liTered onto their hands by the mili
. tarv authorities : but the oflicer U-i
noted some restraints upon their law-
less cupidity. They hailed with delight
tha advent of neiro sulTraee. localise
to them it was merely a legalized
method of stuflinc the ballot-bos an
they stuffed it. Thenceforth and down
to a verv recent period they gorge
themselves without let or hindrance
Thedeoredations they committed were
frightful. Tbey appropriated on one
pretense and another whatever they
u their hands on. and then
Dledgad to themselyea tVT.dYialnore.'
epublic securities ran down to haif
price and still they put their fraudu-
lent bonds on tho market and sold
them for what they would fetch. The
owners of best real estate in town or
country were utterly impoverished be-
cause tbe burdens upon it.wero heav-
ier than tbe rents would discharge.
During tbe last ten years tho city of
New Orleans paid in the form of direct
taxes more than the estimated value
Of all the property within her limits
and still has a debt of equal amount
nnpaid. It is not likely that other
parts of the State suffered less. The
extent of their spoliations can hardly
be calculated but the testimony of
the carpet-bangers themselves against
one another the reports of commit-
tees sent by Congress to investigate
the subject and other information
from sources entirely authentic make
it safe to say that a general conflagra-
tion sweeping over all the State from
one end to the other and destroying
every building and every article of
personal property would have been a
visitation of mercy in comparison to
the curse of such a government.
This may seem at first blush like
gToss exaggeration because it is worse
than anything that m'srule ever did
before. The greediest of Human pro-
consuls left something to the provinces
tbey wasted; tho Norman did not strip
tbe Saxon to the skin; the Puritans
under Cromwell did not utterly deso-
late Ireland. Their rapacity was con-
fined to the visible things which they
could presently handle and use. They
could not take what did not exist.
Hut the Ainciican carpet-bagger has an
invention unknown to those old fash-
ioned robbers which increases his
stealing power as much as the steam
' engine adds to the mechanical force of
mere natural niuncles. He makes ne-
gotiable bonds of tho State signs and
seals them "according to the forms of
law" soils them converts tho proceeds
to his own use and then defies jus-
tice "to go behind tho returns." By
this device his felonious lingers are
mado long enough to reach into the
Dockets ot posterity ; ho lavs his lion
ne coins the industry of future genera'
tions into cash and snatches the in
heritance from children whose fathers
are unborn. Projecting bis cheat for
ward by this contrivance and operating
literally at the samo timo he gatbets
an amount of plunder which no co.in
try in the world would have yielded
to tho Uota or tbe aniiai
Is there wonder that President
Hayes penetrated by a sense of justice
proposes to relieve the South of the
presence of these shameless scoundrels?
Warniotb the best of them gathered
in several millions and has taken
wife and s home in New Jersey. If
he were caught and hanged by the peo
ple hs impoverished Blaine would set
up an infernal uproar and they who
have now and then suffered at the
bands of outraged patience and pov
erty aro apotheosized by Blaine and
their slayers are deemed assassins.
Every year we have beard the Declara-
tion of Independence recited and car
pet-baggers denounced. Tbey are hate-
ful to every true American imbued with
the spirit of those who expelled
"strangers sent to eat out our sub-
stsnce" snd Jere Black has exagger-
ated in nothing the hideous hateful
features of the character defined by
the word carpet-bagger. They have
used tbe negro to gain office and
plaader counties and corporations and
there is a SBamelesness ia their con-
duct that passes comprehension. We
do not believe that there is a Southern
gentleman who could be induced if
by accident suddenly transferred to
Boston to become the master of the
city's fortunes. He would not accept
office at the hands of the ignorant and
incapable even it there were such a
rabbis ia Boston to crown impudence
with power and surely Warmoths and
Kellogg sad other thieves can be no
mors 'honored here than a aeccMioaUt
down East. -
WILL TUS SOL'TH MAKE CAR-
FIKLDSPIUKBUt
The Iowa Radicals have pronounced
gainst tbe generous and wise and just
policy of the President. The Caimron
politicians of Pennsylvania have de-
clared thfthey would transfer that
Stat to the Democracy. Tbe New
Jersey extremists have been convoked
aad declare that the President "in
lifting the South out of party politics
has destroyed tho Republican party."
There is confessed defection in Ohio
and Stanley Matthews and the- Presi-
dent will find it impossible to prevent
ths transfer of that Stat to the con
trol of the Democratic party. All this
our readers know results from the
President's concessions to the South.
To demonstrate hi confidence in our
asseverations of fidelity to the Union
fcs has absolutely placed an original
Democrat and rebel In bis cabinet.
Because pf bis justice to us be is aban-
doned by bis former adherents. In
Until he has sacrificed cunself as a
partisan to serve us. It is in view
of these facts that an excellent lawyer
aad correspondent asks us several
questions which we ara not yet pre-
pared to answer. He would know
i'tWJtti ye lor jutj mora Una'cTia h we ditcntr ia TtsU tUt
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justice and right and more loan we
.Uove ourselves and tbe Bootnc we
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are asked wbetner we snouia not give
tne rresineni as great irengw aa u
bits lost. The Booth; owes tbe law-
yer says the President everything; it
owe Hortnern Democracy nouuug.
True Logan and Butler and many like
them AA nrnmlM to Stand tY the
Southern Democracy and die far Stat1
rights and the negro; bit tbey lied and
sold out for spoils and o races. We
have voted solidly on all occasions for
these Northern Democrats ever since
the war and thus kept ourselves under
the heel of the negro and of the ne
gro's new master. We don't owe the
lortnern Democracy aayiaiog
far as we can see except good
wilt and we da owo the South
and those who st rve the South in toe
niidat of poverty and despotism every
thiup. The question is therefore
continues this writer should not tbe
Democrats ia Congress especially
those from the South come to the
practical support of tbe President and.
if he ak it place a friend of hta-in
the Speaker's chair t Hayes sacrifices
himself in each great Northern State
that the South may be free; will the
South requite the wisdom and justice
and confidence of the President and
stand by hiiu? or mast we still stand
by the party I Do wo love party more
tban truth and right and country t Our
correspondent makes this argument
and we present it and can only say
that the necessity for this proposed
abandonment of Randall or Cox and
support of Oarfleld Hayes's preferred
candidate can only be determined by
those who comprehend the ipr"-""?
sAd political friend in the Speaker's
chair. As we comprehend tbe facts
it signifies nothing to Mr. Hayes who
may be Speaker. Tbe House will al-
ways listen respectfully to bis sugges-
tions. Southern conservative Demo-
crats like Lamar Hill Gordon
Young Throckmorton John F. House
and Schleicher will not be chary of
votes or speeches defensive of an ad -ministration
to which tbe South owes
freedom and States their integrity and
the people local self-government.
BLAINE AND M17TH SCStN
UBBSSIHEN.
CON.
The speech of Mr. Blaine on the
Fourth of July was full of fir and en
thusiasm and well calculated to exas
perate New England and the last
against the administration and the
South. But the Southern question is
dead. Hayes if we be not greatly
mistaken has placed it beyond the
reach of the hand of resurrection.
Congress a now constituted cannot
revivify tbe reeking corpse. There
are too many Democratic vote in the
Senate and in' the House to suffer any
act ot Hayes to be undone and the
very essence of Radical solidity and
force and life has been finally destroyed
Blaine confesses this by his violence.
His own accession to the piesidency
depends upon the maintenance of the
solidity of an organization whose hv
iog soul was the crystalization of hatred
oi tne uoutn. Blaine may arouse
New England and revivify and exas-
perate New England prejudices but
now when Southern States have re
gained they cannot well be deprived
of rights of self-government and if
tbey may not bo remanded a Blaine
proposes to the mastery of Northern
satraps tho end of Radicalism has
j vvmpicu m pronouncing its funeral
eulogium tban in this effort to recru-
cify the South and subject us finally
and fatally to the absolute maaterv of
New England. Through its colleges
railways intelligence and tact New
England for fifty years ha absolutely
governod the continent at will. We
have paid taxes and tariffs and sub-
mitted to navigation acts (im-
ply to sggrandize New England.
The prospective alliance of the
West and South on question
of finance against Blaine and Tildtn
and New England demanding gold in-
stead of silver and paper frightens
Blaine. He see that the consumma-
tion of Hayes' policy is fatal to the
supremacy of New England in morals
and government and therefore tbe war
inaugurated against the administration
by the fierce and fanatical and furious
New Englander. To defeat Blaine we
must stand by Hayes. The freedom of
the South depends upon our adhesion
to the President and whatever South-
ern Congressmen may find it necessary
to do to thwart the purpose of Mr
Blame they will not fail in accomplish
wg.
If the number of murders in Louisi
ana and South Carolina were doubly
greater now tban before Mr. Hayes
liberated there States and a Chishelm
and child were put to death by barba
rians every month even in tbe coal
districts of Pennsylvania or ia a model
ku-klux town of Indiana-or Louisiana
if everything go wrong in tvery
Gulf State tbe only States for
tbe good conduct of which the Pres
ident can be responsible no one
could allege that he has caused ths
evils of which Mr. Blaine aad ths
New York Timet complain so bitterly.
What has Mr. Hsyes to do with that
depraved cowardice .whlnfc !
men to cany pistols and knivw; what
with family feuds like that of Gully
and Chisbolm f Moreover all shameful
events which Blaine designates to the
extent that they have political signifi-
cance were legacies of Grant's admin
istration and Grant himself before hs
retired from office had resolved
it is stated to change his course and
adopt the policy which Mr. Hayea has
pursued. W will soon see aad con
fess the advantage alike to the white
man and the negro and however true
it may be that murderers and thieve
do desperate deeds ia impoverished
communities governed for years
by remorseless knaves it does not
follow that Mr. Hsyes ia restoring
law and order and in obeying the
country's organic code has not dons
his duty. Eveu if war aad subsee.uent
bad government begat bad habits aad
noralt President Grant discovered
that the repressive military policy oaly
made bad worse and ths President in
violating the rights of States to repress
crime perjured himself and there
was no recourse left Mr. Rayss
uve that which ha hat adopted.
Very soon it will be foucd that the
course that was right Is also that whick!
is politic Tbtre will be frwsr devil-
ita deeds done each mosta aad year.
wherever prohibition is enioreeo
crimes are leas frequent and popular
industry and virtue are promoted. Tbe
immediate reform of communities long
subjected to lawless knaves is as im
possible as the immediate core of tbe
vices generated by whisky.
A gkxtlekak who recently traversed
Texas Capt. J. Harvey Matbee of the
Ltdger was asked whether a prosper
ous farmer in Tennessee should sell
out and go to Texas. Capt. M. ad
vise bis friend 'Ho go and see for
himself or be can consult any of the
gentlemen who lately visited Texas.
It i certainly a wonderful country
and immigration is pouring in there at
the rate of two or three hundred
thousand a year. Lands are cheap as
yet in the thinly settled counties
and bought soon must prove very
profitable as investments. Tbe people
out there are mostly generous and hos
pitable and give a most hearty wel
come to all of the right sort who come.
and especially to actual settlers. There
is some talk of a company forming
here to buy a large body of land and
form a Tennessee colony. This has
been kept very quiet however and we
know nothing about it except that the
i lea ia to lav off a town ia the mid
dle cut the land up into small farms
and give each actual settler a town lot
as an inducement to identify himself
with the community. Tbe scheme
looks rather attractive but we are not
advising any one to go until be has in
vsatigated for bimself."
Wi can undtrjtand why a good.hon
man almnlrt Ha vprv marl Wuu Til
. . ..wa uUl snd Hayes counted
ia. We caa see why Jere Black's argu
ment is admirable but we can't see why
it Jwas not fortunate for the country
that Jere Black was cheated since
Hayea has served the country as effect
ively as Tilden could have served Jere
and the ambitious party-leaders. Til
den might have given them all offices
and honors but Hayes has given free
dom to State which Tilden could not
have done and has so changed the
condition of the South that even Blaine
goes raving over New England de
aouncing even on the Fourth of July
the President because he ha freed the
South. Is it strange to hear Southern
men too deploring Tilden's exclusion
from office when we know that these
Southern people love spoils and offices
more than they love the South and
party more than country?
Wb publish to-day tbe remark of
Rev. R. K. Smoot D. D. on the ordi
nation of deacons delivered in his
church the Southern Presbyterian
on Sunday the first inst. Dr. Smoot.
has done a wonderful work since be
has been here. His church has been
thoroughly organized; some thirty
five members have been added to it.
and altogether he has proven a most
valuable pastor to his people. He is
not only beloved by hi congregation
but ia respected by the entire commu
nity.
We print to-day a letter from the
summit of Cumberland Mountains
written by an Austin woman. It has
as striking peculiarities as that tasteful
production of another Austin matron
which found a place in our columns
Sunday. It is a fact that the best
writers of the capital are women. .
When somebody was lauding Rhod
Island extravagantly the ether dav
down musingly at his feet and said he
"couldn't see it." We reekon this is
what he said.
Texas-Facta and Fancies.
Weatherford gave Brick Pomeroy
cold reception.
Tbe Dallas fire department costs
$4000 a year.
Piety with a Dallas lady is meas
ured by the amount of style in her lon
net.
Buffaloes are plentiful on tbe iron
tier and are being killed in great sum
Den.
Mr. Decker of Menardville is hav
ing a large atone building erected to be
used as a betel.
Warren Patterson a thrifty Granger
twelve miles from Waco raised SO 000
busnels oi oats on his farm this year.
Gus Ivey has bought the Honey
Grove Independent and distributes
sweets to the people of Fannin county
During the dull season the Dallas
compress is used by tbe T. M. C. A
for pressing souls into a blessed fu
turity.
The Bonham New claims authority
to say that Governor Hubbard will call
an extra session of tbe Legislature in
September.
Work on the McCulloch county court
house and jail is being pushed rapidly.
The jail ia needed most and will be the
first completed.
The Corsicaoa Index probably speaks
by ths card when it says that Hon. R.
Q. Mills will not become a candidate
for executive honors.
The commissioners of Grayson'county
increased the assessment of the Central
Railroad Company $100000 and tbe
Texas racioc f 20000.
Waco licenses bouses of prostitution.
It thus protects its peoDle in an evil.
which is an inevitable attachment to
every such community.
Thus far Bonham ha shipped more
wheat than all the other station on
the Trans-Continental Railroad com-
Dineo so says ins jxetc.
Ths Lsmpasaa DUpatck want a law
maarasT a crime to point a srua or
pistol at any person. Then sad acci
dents will be less numerous.
It is too hot In San Saba for people
to cultivate literary tastes and hence
its literary society has suspended. Dan
T. most be at the bottom of it.
Grayson county school lands lying
ia Clay and Wise counties are to be
sold and thua tbe county in ten years
la to loose nine dollars tor one.
At the Hood Brigade reunion in
Waco a letter was read from r resi-
des t Hayes expressing regret that pub
lic a u ties prevented Mis presence.
Doc Hollidsy a sporting man was
killed ia Breckenridge Stephens coun-
ty a few dsys since by a young man
named ueary &.ann formerly of Dallas.
Tbs Lrttt insists that mors cattle
have been shipped from Deniaon ia
one week than from Sherman ia thir-
ty years; aad th Crtet is noted for
veracity.
Houston baa shipped 500 car-loads of
Irish potatoes aad vegetables to other
cities during tbe present seaaen each
car load averaging the shipper about
ssovpront.
Ths Yr says: "Sheriff Doran of
San Saba has been making raids on
six-shooters during tho week aad has
capsnrsa several won tnair aaion-
nata own era."
Tha Stars of Dallas and the Blue
eiocktofi (Uh hall dabs) met it
Denison on the
perched on the
fourth and victory
shirt of the Dallas
boys.
The millers of orth Teias nave
made up a purse of $120 as a premium
for the best sample oi icias wt on
exhibition at tbe Dallas lair next uc -tober.
A Fort Wayne (Ind.) editor writes
to his oaper that Texas i over-stocked
with gentleman loafers and that tbevr
road is a bard oae to travel here as
elsewhere.
Ed. A. Labbaite walked out of ths
Tmnuu iail without any trouble and
ia now at large. He relieved one other
prisoner and took along witn mm uie
jailor's arm.
In Cooke county Mediterranean
wheat is turning out twenty-seven cr
twenty-eight bushels to the acre while
the May wheat make thirty to thirty-
tour bushels.
The Cres-et desires to know why
high rents prevail in Austin while
many houses are vaoanL We would
respectfully refer this matter to the
property-holders.
Tbe working men of Galveston beld
a meeting upon me suujevt ui nvv
labor the other day and be it related
that Tum Ochiltree was present as an
honored member.
The Galveston Xtit thinks the peo-
nle of Galveston may save time and
trouble an.1 make decree more bind
ing by applying for divorce at Austin
instead of in I. tan.
From all point come the statement
that farmers are in excellent spirits.
Throughout the broad State there will
1 nlentv and to spare at priees that
everybody can afford.
The Pittsburg Magnet tells it that
contract has been consummated h
k:k ths Tract T in Tfrrt will be bail
n a..a.u tw rtttsburg by the
ufteenth of Oetober next
J. Cljmer writes that the crop pro
pect in Backbone Valley can be put
down as follows: Wheat and- oats
very good ; cotton good but late ; corn
good but needing rain
Denton county ia going to vote upon
the hog lw and if adopted it is prob
able that Rutabaga J. may be placed
under such restrictions as to force him
out of tbe community
In a Sia Antonio church the colored
"sisterin" disputed on some point of
faith which resulted in a wool pulling
spree that reduced tbe price of curled
hair mattresses in market.
J. W. Throckmorton F. E. Piner
John J. Good J. M. Hurt and Cap'.
Silas Hare says the Monitor are epokeij
oi as prouauie canuiuates lor vungrena
in the summer ot next year.
Tbe completion oi a narrow gauge
railway from Columbia on the Brazos
to the town of Wharton on the Colo-
rado is regarded as a fixed fact. The
distance is thirty-eight miles.
All over Texas on tbe Fourth of
July the greatest patriotism was man
lfested. Let those of the North who
would doubt it read the local reports
of how this day was celebrated
Six columns of solid nonpariel adver
tisements of Harris county property to
be sold for taxes appears in the Hous
ton Telegram as much more appears in
the Age. twelve columns in all
The Dallas Mail ridicules a Sunday
law that would discriminate between
9 a. m. to 4 r. x. and let the devil be
turned loose during the other hour of
the day that should be kept holy
The section of country about Goliad
bas recently been blessed with an
abundance of rain. Grass is better than
at any other time this year and stock
on the prairie is in hue conditio
The four solid men of Brenham
weigh 1031' pounds. Their respective
weights were 284 260 259 and 22
Will the Waco Examiner tell the
weight of the solid man of its town?
The news from Gonzales DeWitt
Goliad and Victoria counties in rela
nor to anyming in lormer years.
The Bonham Netrg thinks that if
Col. Hmkle and Corporal Pomeroy
are samples ot men whom tbe railroad
companies select to write up our Htate
someoody is sadly dencient in judg
menc
If Tom Bowers will come over to
Austin we will engage to secure him
that gallon of "old peach" f ir which
he is spoiling; or name the next
Governor and prove it and we'll ship it
lastanter.
A case has just been decided before
a San Saba justice as to the ownership
of a cow. Tbe judgment of a jury
was $14 50 and the cause was on trial
for two days and cost probably ten
limes tins sum.
A four year old child of Mr. Mar
tin of Taylor county formerly a real
dent of Lampasas bad been lost at
last accounts for five days during
which time the most diligent search
nas been made.
There is a movement on foot in Llano
county to move the county seat from
the town of Llano to the land of Mr
James Johnston on a branch of the
Perdinales fifteen miles from the pres
en i county seat.
A squad of negro soldiers lately
raided into C joke county looking after
illicit distilleries and are reported to
nave acted mameruiiy and brutally.
Their conduct ;s being investigated by
tne grana jury.
Emigratitn from California to Texas
is noticeable. Lately numbers of peo-r
pie nave taKen this course and much
stock especially sheep is being moved
across tbe country to the east aide of
tbe luo Urande.
Bailey the desperado who killed
Deputy Marshal Greene in Comanche
county was discovered by hi pur
suer in Bell county and killed. This
news has been received at Marshal
Purnelrs office.
The irrigated farms on the Lcona Frio
and Sabinal in Uvalde county are
producing nne crops ot corn sugar
cane wheat barley oats and vege-
tables. Tbe drought causes a failure
on the lands not irrigated.
Mr. Walker living near Hutto sta
tion in Williamson county raised this
year an average of 102 bushel of oat
to tbe acre and thirty-six of wheat.
Tbe crops generally in bia neighbor-
nooa were near these ngures.
What's the matter with Hannah np
at Denison is that at a baby show on
tbe Fourth nine girls and thirteen boy
were entered sod Jennie Hanoa won
the prise at which the whole trios of
II an nas went into ecstsoies.
Brick Pomeroy has made a speech
at Fort Worth in which he charge
that Samuel J. Tilden is as corrnDt as
Tweed Sweeney or HalL He is in
favor or the ssme dollar for both ths
plowholder and the bondholder.
Brittoa Davis son of ex-Governor
Davis who was appointed as a cadet
to West Point by President Grant
failed ia his sxamination for admission
and was rejected by the board. Guy
Carle ton of Austin was successful.
The Fort Worth jail is pronounced a
humbug. Weaver tho hone thief
came near demoliihing a cell with his
naked hand in a few hours aad hs
say be will take a contract to get out
without assistance aad tools in six
boors. :
Hons ton has now had another bloody
affray this time between Toole a
printer aad Barton or Yankee Bill."
in which tha latter was well shot with
a 44-calibre pistol. This same Bortea
was tho cause of ths Erickson-Wood-liff
affair.
Tim wool wen quoted in tha Xsv
York market as follows: Fine East-
tern 30 to 33 tents; medium Eastern
S3 to 31 ceots; fine Western 84 to 23
cants ; medium Western 20 to 24 cent ;
inferior 18 to 20 cents. They are in
good demand.
Nine or ten of the pupils of the
Blind Asylum are traveling over the
State giving musical entertainments
for the benefit of some of the destitute
scholar! of the institution. They will
be in tho town of Pari on the six -teenth
instant.
The ComancKe Chief tells that Mr.
Jo. Reeves of Comanche county has I
shown at its office samples of loll' I
fornia teven headed wheat which is
very fii. Tbe average crop ot tins
variety in favorable sedsou is eighty
lmiheli per acre.
The "Sett Item says: Mwn county
has beai without an inmite for its j il
for ovtr four months pa?t until iU
deputy sheriff arrested a Mr. Oirins
and loceed him in it on a charge oi
fooling with a beef that did r ot belting
t ) him in Kimble county."
All ver tbe Suae the newspMpers
have bten suggesting the propriety of
more rin to inaks bountiful crops and
in repiy Pluvius has become moht
bountifal in favors. Everylody is
happy and this time tbe newspaper
men an ahead of the preachers.
The TUflector is a bran-new paper
just issied at Taylorsville Williamson
county. Mr. W. K. Foster an excel-
lent genleman and a good uewspaper
man coiducts this enterprise which
reflects cedit on Taylorville and its
commuoiy. Tbe Statesman wishes
it success
A report ha reached San Antonio
that a force of three hundred Ameri-
can filibuitets have crossed into Mex-
ico at Presidio Rio (JruiJa Uot thir-
ty miles oiu of Eagle Pass. It is
also said thM about twenty cannon
left that city for the Rio Grande on
Monday list.
They laye had a balloon ascension at
Gainesvile and it was a success. A
boy standing near the balloon when
it shot p got caught in oae of the
rope and was raised about ten feet
when he showed his fondness for
Mother Sarth by the way in which he
returned to it.
Dallashas a woolen mill in full blast
making fine cassimeres blankets etc.
Tbe proorietora are satisfied with the
trial and will add largely to thwir es-
tablishment before the end of the year.
In the meantime Austin docs nothing
and property-holders ure waiting for
the bottom to fall out.
The SUte meeting of the Christian
Cnurcu wiu be held in Waco on Wed-
nesday the twenty-fifth inst. Visitors
will be carried to and from that point
at one and one-fifth fare. Tickets
good till the thirty-first. The breth-
ren are warmly invited by the Waco
church to be present.
The Rtgister disparages the assem-
blage that gathered at Denison on tbe
Fourth while the Cresset asserts that
it Went beyond the auticipations of
.the people of Denison by about 2000.
There were present at tho celebration
5000 people a great many from all
parts 6f Northern Texas.
From Forster Ludlow & Co.'s cir-
cular we learn that Texas seven per
cent paid bonds are worth in New
York 107 1-2 to 110. They state that
capital is just now looking out for in-
vestment and that $50000000 will
seek employment during the coming
month and that Texas securities
should advance rapidly in value
Dr. Rainey superintendent of the
Blind Asylum takes a tour through
the State with eight or ten of tbe blind
pupils. They give musical entertain
ments for the benefit of the destitute
scholars of the institution and Dr.
Rainey thus has an opportunity to
make the objects of tbe institution
better known.
The Dallas Herald says that Tom
Scott's influences will control the next
State Democratic ..CnniranHn..
him an open road or they will go beg
gmg for all they may need aad now
we are puzzled to know whether the
Herald is for Tom Scott or for the
Democratic party.
Texas is now the sixth State in the
American Union in population. New
lork being first Pennsylvania second.
Ohio third Illinois fuiirth Indiana
fifth and Texas sixth. Tbe next cen
sus will place her side by side with
Ohio and the next after that will place
her above New York and make ber
the great imperial S.ate of the Auieri
can Union.
luose who w.ould encourage piety
should keep babies and dogs at home
on Bund ay. Many a sinner seeking
light is driven from his puriuit by the
presence oi such things in church.
But we were only going to tell bow
two poodles and a cat and a vestryman
who proposed to be peace-maker de
stroyed the effect of a mo-it excellent
sermon in the Episcopal church at
Seguin.
A party of Indians have penetrated
into the upper Nueces country and sue
ceeded in carrying off about 100 head
of horses. They were overtaken by
pursuers but their numbers made it
prudest not to attack them. A squad
of rangers with ten days' rations then
took up the trail and at last account.
were giving hot pursuit.
The Rock port Trantrrijit claims that
West Texas is well adapted to grape
culture. It says that in California
vineyards have become a source of im
mense revenue and Texas in addition
to her other great and varied advan
tages freely oilers this also. It only
needs a little more time and a little
more capital to make grape growing
oae of the best paying industries.
8. H. Morgan of Cedar creek Bas
trop county writes that tbe crops in
hi neighborhood are in fine growing
order. Cum looks well and promises
a good return for oar labor. The cot-
ton ia better than it ha been for sev
eral years and is growing fat. Plenty
of vegetables and a prospect for plenty
of good fruit which will soon be ripe.
Farmers are happy and hopeful.
Tbe Denton Monitor begins to think
as does tbe Dallas . Herald JimpUeuU
and Fort Worth IhmocmL that new
constitutional convention is necessary.
The Monitor bas gone back upon the
opinion of Rutabaga Johnson and no
longer thinks the instrument now in
force is a "good trick." It is down
on the school and j idiciary systems
and especially upon tbe double action
lore pump tax system.
Georgetown has severs! cases in
court for tbe violation of the prohibi-
tion law. One gentleman wss fined
$75 and cost. An artist purchased
alcohol to be used in his bi sines s snd
out of it grew a suit in which the jury
decided that this was no violation of
law a it only prohibited the sale of
it a a Beverage and that it never was
the intention of the law to deprive a
man of its use in his legitimate bun
as.
While tbe Supreme Court ia three
years behindhand with the business
now before it. the Court of Appeals
has about 200 cases on its docket not
yet disposed of. And still it is safe
to say that no judges ever performed
more arduous duties thsn those who
compose the two courts. JYhat a
crying necessity there is for reforma-
mos in our court syntem Ixom tne
biirhsst to tha lowest coartl
5xatzsah was mistaken as to
some of tbe facts regarding a late high-
way affair in Bell county. The Ueai-
UflU tells it that Mr. Joha J. Dimmitt
and Joseph Bobbins citizens of George-
town were attacked ia their camp be-
tween Corn Hill and Salado by two
highwaymen. Mr. Bobbins lost $3500
and. Mr. p.mmctt was forced to girt
ns hi arm or be instantly killed.
These knight of the road ware ia dis-
guise and unknown. 1
Brick Pomeroy says ths Gainesville
G unite dwells "long and loud on the
wrongs and injuries of the South by
the hands of the areneral government
and exerts himself to aroaso the un-
pleasant recollections of the paat in-
stead of trying to heal the gap occa-
sioned thereby. He is a demagogue of
tbe first water and the sooner tbe
people o! tbe South discard such 'rad-
ical' Democrats the better -ff we are."
The Brownsville Sentinel says tbe
dry fpell s" ill continues along the Ri
Grande frontier. The showers that
iiave falleu were so slight that tliey
di.l niore injrry tlian potxl. We ht-ar
no romo'.aint in regard to theyrowinf
cotton crop but the corn crop has bwi
f n v.ry sbvrt. Some ct our farmers
wili make a. Tup cut a larsie majority
'Lite l-ist kti-i are awaiting good rains
tu put in a late .tinting f..r tbr fall
to try and a. cure bread for the sea-
son." Tbe Methodist Church in Deuh.n hsa
ha! a revival aud lias gaiaed seven-
teru aeces&i.jus to its uiemtorsuip. Tbe
Muniior deserves a criwn for the fol
lowing pi. mis olijorvttion : "We hope
their transmutation from darkness to
light and from tbe devil to God will
prove permanent that they will at last
pass the pearly gales of tbe new Jeru-
salem and where'r they tread the
blubhing llower shall rise aad what-
e'er they see shall joy the laughing
eyes."
Tbe San Saba AWrhas been informed
that Dr. Owens who leased a mine in
Llano county from Lawrence ktiller
has taken from it at one blast one
hundred p. mads of ore which assayed
at the rat of seven hundred ounce of
popper ouo laiiadred and twenty dol-
lars worth of gold and twenty dollar
worth of silver to the ton. The lessee
has started off for machinery to work
the mine successfully. This mine is
situated ou one of the branches of
Hickory creek. .-
At Taylorsville there aro one restau-
rant one livery stable three dry good
houses three family groceries one sad
dler shop one drug store three lumber
yards one blacksmith shop one stove
and hardware house one attorney one
land agent one beer market one bar
ber shop one reboot house a thriving
Sunday school and preaching every
Sibbath by some one of the different
denominations. List but by no means
least cumes tbe Iteflector winch faith
fully reflects such facts to all parts of
tbe btate
Mr. J. R. L'joaey of nyes county.
was robbed in St. Louis in the follow-
ing manner: He was walkiBg up
fine street on bunday night about 11
o'clock when he was accosted by
man dressed in dark clothes who
said : "You have concealed weapons
about you" and immediately pro
ceeded to search Mr. Looney. Tbe
latter supposed that the stranger was a
detective and submitted to the search
ing process when the supposed detec
tive suddenly darted into an alleyway
and disappeared with tbe Texan's
pocket-book containing $100.
The Fort Worth Democrat published
the fashion item that the ladies of
Fort Worth had adopted green garters
Thereupon the Dallas Herald displayed
the greatest excitement and tbe Vemo
erat to pacify tbe Dallas editor had
to tell the unvarnished truth and ex
plain that he bad only seen the ladies
buying their garters. And then the
Democrat quotes the celebrated motto
which the pure and modest Edward III.
gave to tbe Order that he founded
and it is thus that Fort Worth virtue
gets away with Dallas assurance.
Tbe Denison Keies keeps up with
court proceedings at tbe State capital.
It says: " We find in tbe synopsis oi
decisions in the Court of Appeals re
ported in tbe statesman a tatber sin
gular case. A juiy in Hunt county
found defendant guilty of 'burger-
ally' and theft and assessed punish-
meat at four years in the peoitc.ays.EY
mat there is no tucb offensa as bur
gerally' in this State. Ravened and
remanded. 'Burglary' aud 'bur
gerally' are not ulem sonant in Texas
law. There is a verv srood uroiimrat
in the above in favor of public schools.'
The prisoners ia the Waco jail have
been attacked with scurvy. The
jailor will not feed them upon vege-
table diet and saya vinegar is too ex
pensive for him to give them. Doc-
tors have been called in and the bills
for prescriptions against the county are
greatly in excess of what would have
brought an abundance of vegetables
anu vinegar and tne county author!
ties say they will not pay those bills.
The result is the poor men languish
unaer the ravages of this fearful dis
ease not in mid ocean upon a long
voyage but in the midst of green field
and plenty. Forty prisoners are
crowded into one little loom. Tbe
heaminer properly makes a full expos
ure ui an oi li.
According to the financial circular
of Forster Ludlow & Co. the Western
Narrow Gauge R ui way enterprise is
an ugly affair. They state that the
road is utter y bankrupt. Judgments
on tne roiling stock have been obtained
and locomotives cars etc. sold under
execution. As far as we can learn.
bjt $15000 have ever been paid io by
me sioca flowers me city oi Hons
ton issued $100000 of city bond for
an equal amount ot stock which of
course is worthless. Siid bonds were
sold for S3 cents on tbe dollar.' L tnd
certificates to the amount of $237&were
also put in and tbe balance was ob-
tained by such financial legerdemain
as is now not uncmmon in railroad
circles. - First mortgage bondk for
$10000 per mile on a narrow gauge
road at 95 cents were hsued. an agent
appointed in New York at 9 1-2 per
cent commission circular and psmpb-
lets issued some papers bought np to
puff the thing the President's name
paraded wherever it would do tbe most
good and the result is now before us.
Unless the road is entirely remodeled
under different management it is use-
less to continue it; otherwhe tbe road
is to become very valuable property in-
ueea a it passes through the best
country in Texas.
Taxpayers should understand the
provisions of the law authorizing tbe
sale of property to pay taxes: Tbe col
lector manes reports and reraittancaa
quarterly ; tbe c jllector mast post lists
of delinquents at the court house door
and two other places in ths county;
uajrs auer waraa ne can seise upon
and sell lots and land or sufficient to
pay the taxes due thereon : before th
day of sale property most be adver
tised in a newspaper in the count for
mrce we as: u no newsnaoer. aotir
... t V r
must oe posted thirty days at tbe court
house door. If a city lot enough shall
be taken off the corners in a sonars ta
satisfy the claim; tb property caa be
parchased by individuals the Btate
coanty and city ; after the sale the col
lector is empowered to give deed.
wuicn auau be good; the owner of
city lot or lands ha two year from
me uay oi saie ia which to redeem
property by tendering to the purchaser
hi heirs assigns or representatives
double the amount bid and paid bv
him. The collector cannot distrain till
after the first of March succeeding tbs
assessment upon which tax slues art
claimed ; he cannot seize or sell lands
or lot for taxes dot for 1878 until af-
ter March 1 1877. The homestead
cannot be sold for taxes prior to tbe
date of tbe Constitution of Texas but
lean for ths tax of 1878. City collec-
tors have tha same dowsts. aad are
governed by the same rules ss county
collector. Owners may claim to pay
back taxes upon the aaseaameati of
187ft. . '
Tha threw tons of the Kbsdire of
Egypt are being eJucttsd ia Eorop.
ewthena Waterlac Flaes.
Fraa aa Occasional Oorretpotuleat.
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Tennessee July 6.
JSammer resorts of Southern people
will not be overcrowded. The season is
late and visitors few and for the rea-
son that the people are poor rather
tban forgetful of delights iccident to
sojourn in the midst of tbe mountains
of Tennessee and West Virginia. The
prosperous ia business life are very few
and the rich of former year are the
poverty-etneken of to-day. Those re-
lainicg wreck of estates once deemed
magnificent send wives and daughters
to thee uplifted resorts of idleness
while they thetuscltes remain on farms
or in counting turn. I-ew very
few yonu" rim Ireouent fashion's
banct t.f tr.e olden time and invalids
are denie.i ty universal poverty or
ransformed mhiI In. is advantages
iiciJrtil to u itui.ii.ii i-tiHuge of air
and scene and vtaiur. Then too
cllics of the h uih imvc twru ex
empt for soiue years past front thu rav-
avert of ilrsttuctive ermlt-uuc? aud
though we have beard that cholera was
leciuiatiBg Uie ranks of I uited Mates
troops near Ilrowcsville Trxa. lliere
is no such prevalent appieheosion of
danger as in former yeais sent Ritilti
tudea fromro:ton sugar and rice fields
of the 9outh to i bene salubrious
heights.
On the very summit ot !!. t uiuoer-
land Mountains niuety inilfs southeast
from Nashville sixty miles north f
Chattanooga and thirty -kix hundred
feet alcove tbe ea level is the choicest
Southern summer resort ot' Teuueesee
ans and of dwel'ers in the lowlau.ls of
the Mississippi. There is uonirh pi we
ai Keersbt ba in any oi its m . u ar
aspect. Virginian aud -Vw lork
watering places are in the midst.
but not. like rti-eisheba ou thr-
very summits of mountains. There are
health giving springs aa fr above the
sea level but none like this on the very
mountain top. At lUersbeba no ruiifd
boigbts lift themselves above our heads
to obstruct tbe breezes of summer-time
and only fifty feet Ik-Ihw this "Con
Kress II all" from the very midst of
m untain crags scattered by the light
nings of unnumlered centuries leup
as from Horeb's rock living water to
which invaluable medicinal virtues are
ascribed. From the lou" colonnade in
front of tbe imposing boti 1 one lo ks
down precipitous heights into the deep
valley between imrt'l'l in- u itain
ranges from ten to twenty niilt-s apart.
Farm house and grt eu lidos aud dcn-i
forests at d the -hadows of clou is uiov
lag above bkd oft.-u below us presi nt
aspects in na-t.r 's tanircapo paintin
as changeful a d Uautiful as arc co;.
templated iu the in dst ot Alpine soil
tudea. These parallel rauges extend
from east to west perhaps torty miUs
and trend awny Uie Boutin al on the
one han laud towards the t tting &un
on the other. hvea. while 1 wine
great white cloud moving southwardly
r. lis over the n tribern line of mouu
tains. It re; ts a moment on iheir very
crei-ts and tin n r jIIs do wn a dense muss
of heavy v por a dream of Niagara.
far down into tbe deep valley. 1 her
was a rbare of eublime beauty in tb
incident and yet it reminded me of
snowy rlouits of fleecy cotton that is
sue from a gin on a Southern plant'
tion falliug iu great broad snow
Bakes to bo gathered up HUd com
pressed and seut abroad to clothe and
civilize the nations uvvn as this cloud
will robe in deepest verdure t:.e pret
ty homes and farms in tbe valley at my
feet.
The mountain top is a perfectly
level plum crowned at intervals wit
farm houses and flourishing villages
Twelve miles away is the colony of two
hundred Swiss vine dressers; six miles
away is Altauiont named by its French
denizens; and at lrucy Uity oi per
haps 2500 inhabitants many coal pits
have been opened. Tbe strata ot these
coal measures vary in thickness from
three to six feet. Tbe coal is con
sumed in Nashville and used by tb
furnacesatCha.UgQO'i '"H'ortnern
ueorgia. iraina freighted at Tracy
uuy witn coal return troin Uhatta
nonga and Rome and Atlanta laden
I am told with iron to be used
rolling mills here. Not far from
Tracy City at Sewanee on the same
mountain's brow is the University of
tne ooutn the central seat of Kpisct
pai intelligence and power it was
feared that the untimely death of
Bishop Oeneral Polk would be fatal to
the institution but under the super
vision of Bishop Quintard and his as
sociate lecturers and professors it pros
pers as never oniore. Tho number o
resident nnder-graduates varies from
300 to 600. A few miles nearer Beer
sheba on the railway to Tracy City
building lias been reared of great
oeauty and costliness in which 00
young ladies are edu -ated. Here and
mere aiong tne roadside there aie
pretty cottages and gardens and orcb
ard laden with glowing fruit that
glistened in the mellowing sunlight.
Bat there are still many poor and illit
erate dwellers on this broad beautiful
plateau. They occupy wretched log
nuts and when 1 asked Dorcas Cran
dall a poor ruddy-taced unkempt
mountain lassie Low these people
lived she answered while twisting
her sunburnt nut-brown hair about ber
finger that ber "mammy made lot o
money seiua chickens in Tracv Citv.
Dorcas is sweet sixteen and bad never
worn a pair ot shoes tier eyes aie
brown and lustrous and devilish. She
was going home from Tracy City
seven miles on foot when tbe stage
driver pitying her weariness or won
1 was by ber charms gave her
seat on the coach. When we reached
the point on the highway at which tbe
path leading to Dorcas's little cabin
left tbe main road she leaped from the
top of the vehicle over tbe beads oi
passengers within and ran awav. Tbe
coaenman sought a kiss in Davment
ior tno nae. and Uorcaa's nnpina
laughter when she ecped was
a musical as if sLe were
daughter of opulence and her home a
orowa atone front. She told me she
bad never descended ths mountain and
that i racy City sle knew was ths
"Oiggest town in tbe world."
Tbe dry transparent atmosphere of
.1.:- r.j i - .
cicTaiea piaia nas cured many
consumptives especially from remote
northwestern States. These dare not
leave Tennessee. Thev own Drettv
kmwim uu Tine iru ana
cnarming "lankee" homes on the
broad level turnout of this mountain
range. Surely there is no local cause
mr disease snd death at Beerabeba.
Willingly one would never leave anch
a spot and if en route to abode of tbe
blest be would linger by tbe wayside
at Beeraheba. This morning before
the sun rose- standing on tbe verge c f
iue ucep precipice beside which is tbe
great hotel I was looking down into
tne oeep valley iu dept bs were filled
with grayish white cloud. Above
mem here and there came up tbe
crests or tbe mountains like giant
cliffs above tbe ocean. Tha deen val.
ley had become the sea its surface first
uogea wiin surorai light and shad-
ows of day-dawn was soon gilded by
mo giowing sunugnt and became a
veritable sea of indescribable splendor
auu giory.
There are sparkling stream and glit-
tering cascade aad dizzy prerapitoo
heights and stone towers and fearful
chasms and every wonder and beaaty
of mountain and dell in tbe vicinity of
Beershsba. No district of tbe South
proffers attractions to resistless not
oaly to those who would inhale re-
newed life from tbe lung of tbe trop-i
ice bat to those idle wanderers of summer-time
whose only pnrposo in life
consists in spending delightful dsy at
choicest watering places.
- aiixisJt.
Judge Lemuel D. vans who death
was nnnouncsd by telegraph from
WnUato wm Hxty-eipW yean old.
Rockdal I (ma.
We didn't hsve any Fourth of July
here.
We are beginning to need rain in
thlS IMtinn V..... ..K U .
suffered yet.
Borne of the new brck st.Mvt will be
ready for "biz" ;i . u lwo we-ka.
Tbe tinners are u . th(5 tin on
the roofs nod iSp l sv
patting "tit' ia u.i
crrthini; 'Vols."
c i-;i'Tcrs are
I'-VklT. Ev-
We are so g!ad here that Tuviorvilie
has a newMper. Ic 'nfl-ciV r?lit
on tbe place and we ail did littuj:m
Muir here but we wonder how the
gallant James rau bland local option.
The closing exhibition of Miss Mag
gie flail's school here on Friday even
ing June was one ot the most
creditable alTurs of the kind ever got
ten up anywhere. Miss Kiniua Cole
as queen presented a iuot royal ap
pearano and by her presence A mind
and easy w.nuing manner mio com
tuanded the aduiiiatiou of all as did
also the rest of the scholars in their
different capacities. To Miss Hall's
excellent management aud taste the
people of K K.k.lale are indebted for
must pleasant and mterestiu;' euler-
tainment.
On last Thursday eveuing an una
teur dramatic and nmsicM entertain
ment was given at the Union Church
for the benefit of the Sabbath school
It was a brilliant success the house
being crowded to overflowing. Tbe
stage was elegantly fitted up and all
performed their parts well. Miss' Ger
trude Wright Miss Klla Norton Misses
hmmi and Klla Jones Alias Lou C lark
Miss Katie Houghton and Messrs. I or
ter and Houghton deserve particular
mention. In tne musical department
Alias Alary llpes airs. W. l. Branch
Miss Claudia Bland aad Mrs. O. M.
Freeman assisted by Messrs. Branch
and Porter elicited much applausu.
two tableaux "the uume of Liu
and "lue bultanas Boudoir" were
well received. Rockdale has cause to
be proud of her home talent.
J. L.
Besides the more personal and crim
inal scandals about the Prince of
Wales high society in Eogland is dis
turbed because of tho Russian daugh-
ter in Itw. The British nobility and
lories are ignorantly and vulgarly auti
Ru8 an and their talk ripens into dis
courtesy to the wife of Pi inco Alfred
or the Duke of Edinburgh aud he ia
moiguant because of it. luo ultra
ehu ch people aro also icaloiis of al
lowing the little Edinburgbs to go to
at. retcrsmirg as tbe marriage treaty
provides that tbe children shall be
brought up in tbe Protcstunt faith
This can hardly jet be a material point
of difference and is not likely to dis-
turb the royal family none of whom
are distinguished by narrowness of re
ligiou convictions. There has been
aome talk of the retirement of the
Princess of Wales to Copenhagen on
account of her husband's infidelity
but such a step would give a great
shock to tbe dynasty. Times have
changed sinco George IV. rau his career
of indulgence and cruelty
Ex-Governor Bullock of Georgia
who left that State with a very unsa
vory reputation rituruL-d a few day
ago to stand trial ou som ; charges of
lailroad swindling but thong" his
counsel (-imong whom is lien Hi II)
pressed lor immediate actio;' the case
was postponed till August tout there
are hints thut prominent Democrats are
so mixed up in tho business that they
don t waut it thoroughly exposed.
The cottou worm iu numbers suffl
cient to cause alarm have appeared
Jasper county within the last ten days.
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IXSURATCE. STATISTIC and HISTORY.
Aran juit . .
Notice -in hrrtT riven to thvntlteh o-
dal infurwttion lis rwchxl thia Ueiwunmt
aoaucinc tb failure ir mioinmic.i .u-m-
Mico company of l I. "'.
of its eft eel for tha b ill of cnnMtr- I
la cou.eiuouco llr-.f. thi ty " '
rertiflrmia of m'ht.riiT b.-ret- for. Riant l totfce
Mid roapuj forttwenr mi y""- .
g(wU V. O. K1M1 Commissioner.
WALTER TIPS & CO. :
SOLE ACENT- KOI
VICTOR OANj3
MILL
COOK'S EVAP3RAT0P.
The Bert Sor rto Metalrrv 'a America. Ottt
FortvOntfit ld lwi season and Krrry une
gave KoUro Satisfaction. ; - . .
Illustrafled Circular Sent Frea. -
iAV
- ALSO AUBHT3.FOR
RUSSELL ENGiNJS ana THKESBER
ATLAS ENGINE
InvinciMo Vibrator Thresher
riitvniv Pratt and Gellett Gins
Simmons'd Brooks's aud Farmers'
COTTON PRESSES
---Mvtrfjrmick and '.Buckeye " "f"
HARVESTERS and REAPERS ;
Mitchell Farm & Spring Wagons
Etc Etc. Etc.
Wm hsvs the Lariimt Slock of Implement
an4 Miirliinry lothf Sfni...
Our Mr. P. M. Uiiilimulf. wlio lias ilir'f of
nor Mm hlncrr lciartincni will liku tiU-wura
iu showinx our stock of .Mu tiiLr..
mjr.-XKlAHlm
JOHN A. WEBB & BRO.
Itpil-I fully ell ih MViiHiin rf Ibr Irads i
llwlr stork of
IRON RTEEL
WAGO.; MATERIAL
COAL
Farm Implements-
Am on (at oilier goods lbs
Great Western Cane Miils 1
Scanllicr'a Seamlcs Eriporaton.
Thc mills work mi R... tl....4n. . u v
Piste (nil rre 4urante4 for on ru to ba as
GOOD AD TUK b&oT: M
WHUTTLEH. BAIN
COOI'KU
TCIKIUIEB aad
77" AGONS
Tb JU-tt Oond In the Tnloti.
AMES'S EXCISES
CANTON ENGINES
"- - " 4 - f
SELF-BINDING HARVESTERS
Skinner's Ganp; Plows.
Avcrj Southern Clipper
' ... aad llolijie Plows v
Malta Calllaiora anal
umkit bov
rUrKZrsTAKX TlIREJHtR.
Frier Lear Term Libertl. anl AukfoJIaa
li iIsEi!
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