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*“ k VOLT XXXI
h j THE time the doctor reported this
CAMP TO THE GOVERNOR.
C-d. Smilh Thinks Himsell the Victim ol Mal
ice and Persecution.
“l)r. Westmoreland saytfj on hare been
▼cry conspicuous in the newspapers with
your troubles.” - rfl • ,
“I think not. I have never gone into the
papers except once, and then in reply .to
Dr. Westmoreland. He forced it on me.
* prejudice in
inst me, but I
man of too much sense to
be used in that way. The governor, I
think will give me justice.”
“How are you and Nelms?’
four physicians certify th*t the
CAMP IS IN GOOD CONDITION.
Col. Towera on Deck.
Importer—Have you seen Dr. West
moreland’s interview in the Constitution
of th*‘ •'*«! inst?
Hun. .1. M. Smith—Yes.
}:—Have you anything to sayinre-
}•
•1. M. S.—I do not know that any re-
J ly i> needed. His talk is so loose, full
nf misstatements and errors that any in
i' ’ ligeiit reader ran see that the whole
. fit was prompted by malice. If 1 had
ti \, r incurred the personal hatred of
It. Westmoreland, it is likely there
unuld have been no trouble, besides I
...mpv the unpopular side of the ques
tion. l'r. Westmoreland is an officer,
thet-for** in power, lie is drawing a
l:tr'_«"alar\. his otfice consumes but lit-
th
■ hi- tu
, herce hi
has abundance
oncoct schemes
• -sees whom he
• rous fui me, as
him. He has
n <*f iris official
idle
and
about, and
mi assailed
iitv dodge.
to bring
and tro
ire of his charg
id tier governor
• i which is of r
•omt'ort-
i tin alter
v olhcials
buildings
er heard
>r. West-
buil.lv
i the rail-
not le aliliy.'
"N«< on. . \
manage.1 the
• half so good as mine."
buildings were not safe,” says
‘fin-.reland.
ne ever escaped from them."
V.-tmorelaiul says they were
•d m them as long as I
The
rub-
age the camp now?”
camp is managed by
the penitentiary offi
cial-. I'heeonvicts are fed according to
lio se rules. I have no discretion. The
a--isiant keeper visits the camp once a
month and investigates closely whether
I he rules have boon carried out. The boss
m in is charged with the duty of carrying
tie- rub s ..ut. If lie refuses to do it the
i lo\ernor discharges him and appoints
I have never written a word except in “I think Col. Melms is friendly to me.
self-defence.” While principal keeper • he treated me
self-defence
“l>r. Westmoreland says ycu dodge the
governor.”
“I always call to see the governor wheu
in Atlanta. Am on the best terms with
him as far as I know. I invited the gov
ernor to come to my house and camp and
see everything for himself. He promised
to do so and I Would be glad for him to
visit the camp and see for himself. There
is no dodge in this.”
“Dr. Westmoreland says you bully and
abuse.”
“Not a bit of it. He is the fellow who
bullies and abuses. Swears he is a young
man and wants to fight when a gentle
man disagrees with him. The proof of
this is at hand.”
“Dr. Westmoreland say’s you postpone
everything.”
“I do everything as quick as lean.
Can’t work any harder, not even to
please the Doctor. Have never been call
ed lazy before.”
“Has there been any complaint made
against your camp since last June, when
the governor decided in your favor?”
“None whatever. Dr. Westmoreland
was at my J camp a few weeks ago, and
expressed himself as being well pleased;
in fact he said 1 had thb best building
and camp in the state. A short
time since Col. ; Shuhrick wrote
me a note tn which be stated that
he was very much delighted with my
new building and camp.”
“That is pretty strong.”
“' es. That is exactly the facts. 1
ras surprised to hear the Doctor talk
therwise.”
hen the Doctor visited your camp
in May, 1885 aftd reported the camp in
bad condition, was he himself in the
proper condition to inspect a camp?”
*1 do not think he was.”
‘Have you any evidence from outside
ponsible as to his condition on that
of Mr. O
ling farm-
a gentle-
-1 Vrson-
ofht
i liis
•I - III.
ernor appoint all the
ha
and discharg
is the lessee
is them at will.”
got to do with
uliiin
ofih.
ccept he is entitled to the
nvicts.”
on camp run that way?”
you object to that way of running
fairly, and I had ‘no trouble whatever
with him. *
”1 do not know that 1 do. If the peni
tentiary officials arc fair men it is best
the lexers. If tie camp gets on well
th- y an- entitled to the credit of it, and if
'• i I- unhealthy and gets on badly, they
ou.-ht to bear the blame.”
hr. Westmoreland says you had scur-
y in your camp; that tin* convicts
w. re improperly f d and badly treated.”
"lie never said that till after he got
in. 1. 1‘i eviously he said they were well
\ and kir.-llv treat d. See hi* official
r- ports. hrs. Long, of Athens: Willing
ham, of Crawford., Carter, of Winterville, j
and Durham, of Atlanta, after examing 1
caretuilv every convict in camp, said on
oath that there \va- not a case of scurvev
in camp, there Were no traces of seur-
v ey. the convicts wore well fed and kind-
Iv treated. Cols. Mattox and Martin, of
Libert county, Hons. K. K. Heaves and
W. D. O’Farrell, Capt. James White,
1 '1 Larry Cantt and many others too
tedious ;o menti on corroborated that
statement. Are th. sd gentlemen relia
ble ' Dr. \V'estlimn;land said, after he
!o-t his case before the governor, that
they wefe all liars an<| scoundrels, and
that Judge Ervrin, (Tols. Meadow, and
llussell, my lawyers, were grand rascals.
This statement was about on a par with
the one he made in regard to the con
vict®. Neither will boar investigation.”
“Dr. Westmoreland says he reports all
cases of improper treatment to the gov
ernor?”
“He may, but I'douht it. I know of
many eases which he has never report
ed—if so there is no record of it. He
raises a great furor in one camp about
certain irregularities, and approves and
condones the same thing in others. In
'mme cases, where he is in partnership
in a certain way with the lessees, he goes
very slow in reporting. In others, when
ho is afraid of the political influence of
the lessee, he sings very small.* A cer
ium lessee, before a legislative commit
tee, denounced him, and 1 never heard of
bis resenting it in any way.”
“Hr. Westmoreland says he has order
ed you to build a new hospital?”
‘‘I have never received or heard of any
*ucli order from him. That i9 another
°ne of his cock and bull stories. Since I
h »ve put up a new building for the con-
v ict«, I think that a new hospital will
M,,t host—am going to build one as soon
as l can. I mentioned this to the gov
ernor, and he said it would be all right;
H‘at there was no pressing necessity for
lt> I have a very nice hospital now, but
u does not correspond with the new con«i
v * cl building. Dr. Westmoreland said,
his official report before hp got mad
"iii» me, that my presept hospital, was
amply sufficient. It is the same build-
now it was then.
Dr. VV estmoreland says you are mad.”
. * Sotvei 7* in the controversy Lhave
heid my temper much better than|the
1 ocU)T : Thi * the Doctor knows. } could
\ b i^t here a, very ludicrous exhibi-
■on of th. Doctor, temper, but forbear.
j ne p——**• -• *
Here is an affidavit
0. Dean, who is one of the \< :v
f Oglethorpe county, and
man well and favorably known
Oglethorpe county
ally appeared before me J. Power, a
ustice of the Peace in and for said
ounty, ( diver C. Dean, who being sworn
ays on oath that he was at the residence
of Hon. James M. Smith, in said county,
or about the doth of May, A. D. 1885.
when Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland was
there; that said Westmoreland took from
a little hand satchel, which he. Dr.
Westmoreland, had with him, a bottle of
whisky, and drank freely of the whisky;
that said Westmoreland poured into said
whisky something out of a vial which
looked like laudanum, and smelt like
laudanum, and which deponent took to
be laudanum, and that said Westmore
land drank said mixture of whisky and
laudanum as deponent took it to he; that
deponent took said Westmoreland to l>e
drunk before he saw him drinking, and
that after said drinking deponent saw
said Westmoreland heaving and vomit
ing profusely; that preparations were at
that time being made for said l)r. West
moreland to start to inspect the convict
camp of said James M. Smith, in said
county: that said camp is located about
one mile from said residence; that said
Dr. Westmoreland asked said deponent
to take a drink of whisky with him, that
this deponent refused not having drank
any whisky in four years; that before
•deponent left said residence said Dr.
Westmoreland was very drunk and utter
ly unfit to attend to any business; that
said Dr. Westmoreland was talking ai
random and silly. O. C. Dean.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this Feb. 11, IrtSrt.
James E. Power, J. P.
“Have you other affidavits showing Dr.
Westmoreland’s conditionV”
“Yes. quite a number. 1 select this
one of Mrsi Carter, as showing Dr. West
moreland's condition after he left the j and
camp:" and
Georgia, Oglethorpe County.—Person
ally came before me, W. T. Carter, a No
tary Public and ex-officio J. P. in and for
said county, Mrs. M. S. Carter, wife of
\\ . 1>. Carter, M. D.. who. being duly
sworn, says on oath that on or about
oUth May, lSt>f>, in the afternoon, an old
gentleman lying down in a buggy was
driven up to our house at Winterville by
a negTo boy. 1 went to the door. This
old man talked so incoherently at first I
did not understand him. The negro boy
driving said he was Dr. Westmoreland,
and had been to Col. James M. Smith’s
convict camp. The man scrambled out
of the buggy, with the assistance of the
boy driving, and reached the door steps
and succeeded in getting into the reran
dah, called for a chair first thing, which
was handed him, and he got seated on it.
I finally gathered from his talk he was
Dr. W. F. Westmoreland, physician of
the Georgia penitentiary, and that he was
on his way from Col. Smith’s convict
camp, and wanted to see my husband,
Dr. Carter, who was not at home at that
time. After staying a short time Dr.
Westmoreland left. % His conversation
was not polite or intelligible. He was
very drunk. M. S. £akter.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this Feb. 12th, 1880. \V. T. Carter,
N. P. and ex-officio J. P.
“From the two foregoing affidavits it is
plain that Dr. Westmoreland on ihatvis
it to that camp was wholly unable to
know anything from personal knowl-
ed£e.”
“Was this the visit he made upon
which he predicated his report that the
camp was in bad condition and from
which grew the case before the gover
nor?” \
“It was. From that visit all the trouble
started. It is strange that out of so many
visits and inspections of my camp by
grand jury committees, legislative com
mittees, penitentiary officials and private
individuals extending over a period of
six years, that it remained fora drunken
man, too drunk to tell his name, to dig*,
cover what no one else ever did. In & few
days be visited the camp again and reportd
everything all right.” g
“How did you get on with Colquitt?”
“Without the least trouble. Gov. Col
quitt, in one of his official reports, stated
that the death rate and escapes in my
camp were smaller than any prison in
the world. Col. Nelms said the same
thing.” »
“How about Col. Towers?”
“Col. Towers always treated ine well
till he got mixed up with Westmoreland.”
“What do you say of Dr. Westmore
land as a humanitarian?”
“Dr. Westmoreland has some good
traits and some bad ones. He is very
tyrannical and overbearing, and loves to
argue, quarrel and dispute. The way he
treated Bud Dunaway, a poor white man,
who accidentally got his skull fractured
and his arms and legs mangled by the
railroad, dries not show much humanity.
He refused to dress the poor fellow’s
wounds when brought to him, because
the poor man was not able to pay him.
This showed exactly where his heart
was locatetj. A thousand rows with les
sees can never obliterate this stain upon
his humanity. Here was a poor man
brought to him in a dying condition,
whom he absolutely refused to in anv
way help, on the ground that he was
afraid that he would get no pay for it.”
“When the governor decided the case
brought against you by Westmoreland in
your favor, how did Dr. Westmoreland
take it?”
‘•Dr. Westmoreland was very much
displeased, lie went off and cursed out,
to all intents and purposes the governor,
ine, all iny lawyers and witnesses. lie
wrote, or got another man to write to
the Charleston News & Courier the
most vindictive, bitter, lying document I
ever read. Among other things he said
he would never make another report to
the governor. Dr. Westmoreland shows
bad taste in going behind the decision of
the governor. All the charges he has
brought against me have been adjudi
cated and decided to be untrue by the
governor under whom he holds office. 1
have obeyed every order ever issued by
any penitentiary official. Why I am
persecuted and hounded from year to an
other I cannot tell. Why every little
irregularity which occurs in my camp is
advertised all over Georgia by Dr. West
moreland. is to me strange. I know of
many things in many of the other con
vict camps in Georgia, which, if
they occurred in mine, there
would be no end to the fuss and furor
created thereby. As a member of the
penitentiary committee of the last legis
lature, I visited many of the convict
camps in Georgia. Many of the meaner
class of convicts came before the com
mittee with all manner of complaints.
Some said they were not fed well, some
said the boss man was cruel, some showed
broken limbs which they charged had
been done by their bosses, some said
they were worked in the rain, and so on.
In every case an impartial investigation
showed that these complaints were made
to create a sympathy in behalf of the con
vict making them. One fellow who had
been in prison about six months said he
did not get half enough to eat. One of
the committee asked him how much he
weighed—he said 190 pounds. How
much did you weigh when you came to
this camp? 100 pounds, answered the
convict. I thought without saying any
thing. if the convicts in my camp were
to complain this way, Dr. Westmoreland
would write four columns against me and
have me before the governor. I only ask
to be treated fairly and honestly. Acci
dents. unfortunate things will occur in
any camp. The boss men are not per
fect, the guards often ignorant and care
less and the convicts themselves are the
worst elements of society. Many of the
convicts are murderers, thieves, rapists
men without principle
ould not hesitate to kill a boss man
or guard. In fact, many guards do get
killed. Convicts often kill one another
in camp. An official of the penitentiary
can. by a word, sign, or any unthoughted
act, demoralize a whole camp and make
it next to impossible for the bosses and
guards to manage it."
“Have you seen Col. Towers’ state
ment?”
“Yes, I ain surprised at Cel. Towers.
The cap, he acknowledges, did not fit
him. and why he wanted, to put it on and
wear it, 1 do not know.”
“Will you reply to him?”
“I guess so. So many of them are on
me I'will have to take them one at a'time.
ATHENS DOES NOT JOIN IN,
Northern Salaried Officers for Southern
Christian Associations.
Noticing in the Atlanta Constitution
and Savannah Times that there are com
plaints that all the salaried officers in the
Southern Christian Associations are be
ing filled by Northerq men, we inquired
of Mr. E. E. Jopes, the Secretary of our
home association, if the association here
bad any idea of following suit in this par
ticular.
“No, sir,” was the emphatic reply 1 .
“We have discussed this matter, and
while we are now badly in need of a gen
eral Secretary, to whom we can pay sal
ary enough to command his services for
the association, and while it is our in
tention also to employ a young man for
this purpose when our means will per
mit, we have decided when we do em
ploy one to get some deserving young
man in our own community. The North
ern associations have what they term
trained young men for Secretaries, but
we feel that if we have the money to pay
a young man, we can train him to attend
to the duties of our association as well as
to get one from the North. Since the
organization of our association we have
had visits from two of the Northern trav
eling Secretaries, and one from the state
Secretary, who is a Northern man, and
each of them were anxious to furnish us
a general Secretary, but we have given
them no encouragement that we shall
employ one, for the reason that I have
stated, that we intend, when we do em
ploy a Secretary, to get one at home.
We shall certainly not go out of this
state for one.”
“Are you not getting along pretty well
without this expense now?” we inquired.
“Yes, as well as it is possible to get
along, but in order to accomplish what
we desire, it is teo much of a demand
upon the officers of the association, who
are business men, and could not be con
sistently called upon to devote the time
necessary to attend to the details of the
management. We want to keep the
rooms open day and night, and cannot do
so unless we have a competent person to
see that the privileges of the rooms are
not abused, and that nothing is done that
would defeat the object for which the
association was organized, and also to
keep liefore the minds of the young men
visiting the rooms the great object of
the association. Do not understand me,”
said Mr. Jones, “as reflecting upon the.
Northern Secretaries, as it is presumable
that they are consistent Christian gen
tlemen. Neither in a cause like the one
for which the association is organized,
should there be any sectional prejudices,
but we consider that men of our own
section better understand the young
men who come into the association, and
would be better calculated to do the work
for which wo need them than one who is
a stranger to our people and their cus
toms. Our association, according to the
state Secretary, is the best organization
that he has visited, and while we consid
ered it an experiment at first, we are as
sured that it is permanent now, and
while yet in its infancy, and not fairly at
work, we hope to make it an institution,
the good influences of which will so en
list the co-operation of those who have
the good of the young men of the com
munity at heart, that any reasonable de
mand that may be made will be cheer
fully responded to m the future as it has
been since the organization of the asso
ciation.”
DIAMOND robbery.
Athens a PaYori4> Place for Those That
Lore the Sparkles.
The following notice appeared in the
Atlanta Constitution yesterday:
A dozen detectives are now trying to
make themselves famous by recovering
$3,000 worth of diamonds which were
stolen from the Southern Express com-
1'OWDF.hLY‘S WHISKEY SPEECH.
FASHION NOTES.
The Kntsnt. Pleased to Boycott Bum. Plain ribbons are few.
General planter Workman 1. F. Jet ornaments are abundant and
i owilerly has no love for the liquor J expensive.
panv.
The robbery occurred on the fifth or
sixth of the present month, and tiie de
tectives managed to keep the matter a
secret until yesterday.
The diamonds were shipped from Ath
ens over the Richmond & Danville rail
road to Charlotte, N. C„ but never reach
ed their destination. Just how they wore
stolen is not known, as the manager of
the express company and the detectives
all delined to talk when approached upon
the subject. It is not even known wheth
er the packages were taken from the
messenger by force at the point of a pis
tol or whether they disappeared in a mys
terious manner. The loss is said to have
occurred at Lula while the package was
en route to Charlotte. The jewelry lost
was one pair of gold bracelets, each set
with five diamonds, and each bracelet
valued at $450; six pairs of soltaire ear
rings, valued at $825; one diamond scarf
pin valued at $105; two diamond scarf
pins valued at $70each, and one diamond
scarf pin valued at $65.
Finding such a robbery from our own
city, it put the reporter of the B.-W. on
the jump to see if it was true and was it
possible that he had overlooked such an
itom.
C. K. Collins, a prominent jeweler, af
ter showing him the article said; 1 lost a
fine set of diamonds last November at the
fair grounds, but have not shipped any
lately that have been stolen.
Skiff, the jeweler, deals largely in dia
monds, and he had not shipped any.
Charles Scudder had not lost a ny in
tiie Express Co.
The reporter be gan to think that it was
all sensational until he handed the arti
cle to Mr. A. S. Mandeville and asked
him to report. Mr. Mandeville after ad
justing his gold spectacles, declined to
answer any questions, and said that he
was mum on the subject. Here was
something to start on, and Mr. Mande
ville was plied with questions thick and
fast. The reporter explained that it was
already out, and that all the jewelers in
Athens had denied shipping the dia
monds except him. After scanning tiie
article clipped from the Constitution he
said:
-This is about right, only there is a
little mistake about what they are worth.
The whole tiling is valued at $1,585, and
were shipped by me to Heller ft Bardell,
of 13 John street. New York. The dia
monds were nicely packed in a box. 1
did not put any value on the eentents of
the box, as I was instructed not to do so.
The diamonds have been stolen, hut fur
ther than this I cannot tell, as I do not
know at what place they were stolen, or
how the thief got into the express car.
It has been kept secret, and the detec
tives have been working up the case.
Heller & Bardel can only collect $50
from the Express Co., unless they can
prove negligence on the part of the com
pany, as the diamonds were not valued."
This is the second diamond robbery
that has happened in this section in the
past six months. Only last November
C. K. Collins was the victim, and lost
$1,600 worth at the fair grounds.
DOWN IN OGLETHORPE.
Editorial Correspondence to Banner-Watchmen
Lexington, Ga„ April 14.—Since Fri
day last I have been enjoying the hospi
tality of the noble-hearted people of old
Oglethorpe, and my time has been so
pleasantly passed that I could not even
spare an hour to write the promised
daily letter to the B.-W. My health has
greatly improved—in fact, I feel almost
as well as ever, and hope, by the latter
part of this week, to he recuperated suffi
ciently to stand the summer s campaign
I spent two days and nights with Dr.
Mark Willingham, at Crawford, where
kindness was unbounded. My time was
equally divided between chatting with
th* hoys down in Crawford, riding over
the country, anil fishing for carp in the
Doctor's ponds. Sunday I readied Lex
ington. and spent that day and night with
Mr. McWhorter, Monday night with Dr.
Boh Willingham. Tuesday I (lined at tiie
Roane House, and last night spent at Mg.
(i. W. Smith's. I hare now ahead
enough engagements to take three months
to fill.
Lexington is very quiet this week, the
only ripple in the monotony being the
progress of work on the new court-house.
The foundation is now built, the brick
ellers. They are one of the classes
prescribed by the constitution of the,
Knights of Labor, and just now
when attention has been attracted
to his ideas and opinions by the
publication of his circular, his views
and expressions upon that subject
are being extensively referred to and
quoted by the Knights. In his last
address made to the general conven
tion of Knights of Labor Mr. Pow-
derly said:
“The temperance question is an
important cfne, and I sometimes
think it is the main issue. The large
number of applications during the
past year to grant dispensations to
allow the initiation of rum sellers
was alarming. 1 have persistently
refused them, and will enjoin my
successor, if he values the future
success of the order, to shut the
doors with triple bars , against the
admission of the liquor ; dealer. His
path and that of the honest industri
ous workingman lie in opposite di
rections. The rumseller who seeks
admission into a labor society does
so with the object that he may en
tice its members into bis saloon
after the meetings close. ..o ques
tion of interest to labor has ever
been satisfactorily settled over a bar
in a rum hole. No labor society
ever admitted a rumseller that did
not die a drunkanKs death. No
workingman ever drank a glass of
rum who did not rob his family of
the price of it, and in so doing com
mitted a double crime, murder and
theft. He murders the intellect
with which the Maker hath endow
ed him. He steals from his family
the means of sustenance he has
earned for them. Turn to the annals
of every dead labor scciety, and
•you will see whole pages blurred
and destroyed by the accursed
footprints of rum. Scan the records
of a meeting at which a disturbance
took place andjyou will hear echoing
tiirough the hall the maudlin, fien
dish grunt of the drunken brute who
disturbed the
HARMONY OF THE MEETING.
In the whole English language I
can find no word that strikes more
terror to my soul than the one word
‘Rum.’ It was born in hell ere the
fiat of ‘no redemption,’ had gone
forth. Its life on earth has been one
of ruin to the hopes of youth and
the peace of old age. It has robbed
childhood of its delights. It has
stolen the laugh from the lips of
innocence; the bloom from the
cheeks of manhood. It has touched
the heart of old age like the tip of a
poisoned arrow. Its sound, as it
gurgles from the neck of a bottle,
echoes through many a desolate
household as the hissing of a thous
and serpents. You may deem me
too radical on this point. Yet I never
interfere with the rights ot a man
to drink if he so selects. 1 hold I have
a right to and do shun rum as
would an enraged tiger, neither
meddling with it nor allowing it to
meddle with me. So long as it keeps
its distance I am content to leave it
alone, hut the moment it attempts
to interfere with my rights by com
ing into the Knight ot Labor, then
my soul rises in arms against it, and
I can find no words too bitter, no
denunciation too scathing to hurl
against it."
TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
Mr. E. It. Hodgson, one of the commis
sioners of the technological school, in
forms us that the location of the school
will be put up to the highest bidder.
Macon has made a splendid offer. The
city owns sixteen acres of land in the heart
of the city which can be cut up into lots,
and those who are informed about real
estate in that city say it will bring fifty
or sixty thousand dollars. Besides this
they propose to give an annuity of three
thousand dollars. Atlanta has to raise
I ho amount that they give by private
subscription. 1’enfield is coming to the
front and will make a good bid. Athens
so far has done nothing and it is time
some of our public-spirited men should
do something to secure the school. Ath
ens can and ought to make as good hid as
any of the other cities, and taking the
healthy location we can get the school.
GAVE IT TO ROCKDALE.
Mr. Hoxle’s History.
Philadelphia Tln.es.
H. M. Iloxie, whose name has
appeared in newspapers so promi
nent during the last few days as the
manager ol Jay Gould’s Western
interest, as the first vice president of
the Wabash system, has had an in
teresting career. He was a poor
boy in Polk county, Iowa, at the
time when immigration was pour
ing into that state. A gentleman
by the name of Mitchell, who kept
a country hotel about ten miles from
Des Moines, became interested in
the boy, who showed himself bright,
active and intelligent. He became
the hostler in this establishment, and
as such was thrown into close con
tact with the many hundreds of
people who stopped at “Mitchell’s
Tavern” on their Western way.
About the beginning of the war the
boy thus trained had grown to man
hood, and by the assistance of his
employer had entered local politics,
being elected to a county office, and
in this, as in his previous employ
ment, showed himself to be a bright
The delegates to the last senatorial ] and capable man. He made him-
convention, wo learn, settled the ques-
| tion as to whether Rockdale or Oconee
county was entitled to the next senator,
and gave it to Rockdale. There are two
arc being made, and a number of hands
My private business is so urgent that I j are getting out the granite. Four pieces
j have rot the time to devote to writing.
Col. Towers made some insinuations and
charges which had all along believed him
to be incapable of. He must have been
over persuaded in some way.”
• point with- ora U for th* Doctor to
wil i L *' un,or > “d then everything
Wl U bettorIhope.”, .,,7.^1*
“V Ol Mug
CHRISTIAN CHURCH MEETINO.
The protracted meeting at the Chris
tian church is attracting attention and a
fine attendance. Rev. Thomas Mi Har
ris, pastor of the Christian church in At
lanta, who is now conducting the ser
vices, is one of the most distinguish
ed ministers in this denomination in
Georgia. He is an orator of marked
ability, of fine personal appearance and
splendid _ voice. His sermons will he
enjoyed by the people no Jess for their
fine delivery than thejr instructiveness
and forcibly logic.
STILL THERE'S HOPE.
We notice tha$ a citizen bf Atlanta, in
“Have you any other affidavits?”
“A great many. Some much more
damaging than those I have published,;
but 1 will not publish them. I did npt
wish to publish to the world those I have. 1
It has been forced on me.” ,
“Are you friendly to the governor and
hetovon?” „
“The governor has.- always treated mi
v«!|r loOdly and cleverly, and I mean n&
friends-while in
lose - two such
unjty.' The Ban-
ftljem well in
into. Mr. A.
_ u business at
- reflitftiofior Ik 1 ’ 3Tliy..lfBWg4W^|EiftrtPCWML!S3fl 5 14
•«fj-4iz-ifiii og <0NI$B ^Osobwo^ii;.4a«i£n*»
conversation with Mr. Heidekoper, of
fheJMchmond & Danville road, quotes
tbaf*gentleinan as saying fthatfthe Geor
gia. Hidjand,would Certainly he built, as
the mimes is already raised to build tho
road fr0mXolumb’-.s to the Georgia rail
road, and that Athens would, without
dbafefe he tiie terminus .of the road. We
hope that Mr. Heidekoper’g prediction
will be fulfilled. \ We shan see what we
shall see. ’ ; .i
of stone are now being polished that will
weigh -J,000 pounds each. The granite
quarried around Lexington is said to be
the best in the world, and is susceptible
to the finest polish. ’The new court
house, when completed, will be a mag
nificent structure—a credit indeed to the
county.
Court next week will he held in the
Masonic Hall, which is now being fitted
up for the purpose. The grand jury will
probably use Col. TV\ G. Johnson’s law
office. There is very little business be
fore court, and will probably not hold
longer than three days.
A friend has just called for me, and I
will close for to-day, and write up my
trip on return home. T. L. G.
self useful to the patty managers
and did good public service at the
same time. About the close of the
war he became chairman of the re-
, , , publican state central committee
candidates in the fii-ld from Rockdale, i when ; t w#g the f ash ion in Iowa
Judge A. C. McCalla and Hon. W. L.
Peek. Mr. Peek lias represented that j
to give majorities of from 30,000 to
50,000, and was rewarded for his
county in the legislature for several years, j services in this direction by an ap-
and made a good representative. Judge I pointment as United States marshal,
Twilled lace handkerchiefs are in
fashion again.
g Jef bonnets promise to be popular
fop spring wear. ^
, l’he_C?togan braid remains in
fashion for young ladies.
Cashmere and camel’s hair are
much combined in costumes.
New seersucker, in pale blue,pink
or ecre, is embroidered with edel-
wiss in white. 1
Cambric “all overs.” in all colors,
have narrow embroidery to cores
pond.
Children’s stockings when not
in black are of the darkest shades of
brown green or red.
Colored laces will combine with"
the silk foulards for stylish summer
costumes.
Mikado parasols have the points
turned upward and are made of
striped or embroidered silk.
Yum-yum, .parasols have 4 silk
foundation and are covered with col
ored silk, creped and loosely put
on.
Bridal slippers have a couple of
white ostrich tips,well curled,where
formerly was a spray of orange
blossoms.
Leghorn straw hats trimmed with
Japanese fleurs de fantasie and will
be much worn during the coming
season.
Chenile lace will be used as a rich
trimming for black costumes the
coming spring, and promises to be
very fashionable.
Ostrich leathers will be used in
connection with flowers in the dec
oration of summer millinery, and
both in lavish profusion.
Silk hose in bronze are finding
many friends among ybung ladies.
These will be very pretty with pink
dresses for watering places.
Plush will be used on stylish cos-
tumes.of all sorts of fabrics—wool,
silk and cotton—both as a garniture'
and for underdresses.
A navy blue straw turban is trim
med with folds of velvet of the same
color and a large bunch ot white
cherries placed directly in front.
White handkerchiefs are border
ed with hand-embroidered daisies
in blue, white and red. Handker
chiefs in mourning have the daisies
in black.
Marvelous are the designs for
summer ball dresses, where black
lace figures largely as a material and
the bead ornamentation is exquisite.
Hungarian chain-stitch makes
such effective trimming that is con
sidered very effective when used to
adorn house costumes or morning
gowns.
Butterfly bows, or. an aigrette of
feathers, makes an essential orna
ment for a full dress costume—vel
vet bows of ribbon,with picot edge,
are most stylish.
Black kid gloves are stitched and
bordered with tan, and tan-calored
gloves have the stitching and bor
ders of black. Long silk gloves
reach over the shoulder.
The simple turban shade for walk
ing hats trimmed with pom-poms
on the side will be the mbst stylish
hats for your girls this spring.
These are faced with velvet.
Nun’s veiling is great variety, it
has crinkled stripes, or has a bour-
ette or frise surface, the loops being
exceedingly fine. The plain sorts
are finer than those oi last season.
Narrow satin ribbon still makes
the prettiest possible trimming for
costumes for young girls and chil
dren. It is sewn on in many rows,
and tho effect is always pretty and
appropriately simple.
English chevoits make stylish cos
tumes for young girls and children,
and have the great advantage of be
ing washable. For rough wear they
are much better than “home spun”
or ordinary, woolen fabrics.
Entire overdresses of wool gui
pure, make up without lining, will
be worn over silk slips for semi-dress
occasions, and fine grade wool gui
pure net will be conspicous in
dresses prepared for summer resorts.
Some of the mantles are in gena-
dine with frise fringes,and light-col
ored grenadines trimmed with laces
of the same color, lined with self
color or silk, form most dainty man
tles for dressy occasions during the
warm weather.
Gold lace of elaborate design is
now uaed in the neck and sleeves
of costumes for ceromonious occa
sion where full.dress is de riguer.
This lace is sometimes sewn on to
velvet, making it more affective but
ldss becoming.
A new style of plastron is made
of plaited jetted net. It ends in a
point at the waist, fasted with loops'
of black satin ribon. It is edged
with arrow-head beads and is fin
ished with a turndown Byron collar
of jetted net.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Augusta defeated the Charleston
base ball nine.
The $35,000 forfeited bail of Geo.
O. Cannon was paid.
Interest increases as the naval ex
ercises at Pensacola continues.
The London Daily News believes
that the proposeu land purchase
loan has been reduced to £60,000,-
ooo i since Mr. Gladstone's scheme
was drafted.
William Blakeney shot and killed
Raber Perry at Lancaster, S. C., on
the nth.
Abb Miller and Jack Bailey fought
a draw of 100 rounds at Kansas
City, Mo., Sunday.
A delegation from Augusta goes
over to Charleston in the interest of
the Augusta and Chattanooga rail
road.
y<iijig/fnaiv named m> ou
was killed near Carrollton, Ga-,
his team running away; -
In the seventh *qpgre**ional dis-
r trick* meeting qf the district;, cony
mittee has been called for April
3°th.
the Baptist church house at
Statesboro was burned to the gro ind
by an incendiary on Tuesday n-ght
at is o’clock.
An Albany lady paid, during tlje
war, $20 for a spool of thread, $3°°
for. a pound of tea. and $400 for a
simple gingham dress.
The Ernestine go-.d mine com
pany, of Villa Rica, has soid out its
machinery, and it is being shipped
to Lordsburg. New Mexico.
It appears that Ellaville has been
shaken from centre to circumfer
ence bv the appearance in her midst
of one of those wilj creatures
kn'own as-a “blind tiger.”
Col. G. W: Bryan, of Henry
county, has one of the largest and
best kept .vineyards in the state.
He has now about nine thousand
vines, comprising the choicest and
most prolific varieties to be lound
anywhere. ■>
The Ellaville Enterprise says: Mr.
J. M. Murray informs us that while
out hunting a short time since that
he killed a partridge, its back nearly
whDe and the other parts natural
color. A strange freak of nature.
Col. Thomas Willis found a flint
rock on his plantation near Centre-
.-file which lias a square hole in it j'
inr h in rlpnth. and ner- ra
The President has viithdra wn tl?e
nominatiorv of Qrlaudq W. Powers,
ot Michigan, to be associate justice
of the supreme court of Utah.
Senator Chase yesterday reported
adversely the bill to increase -.he
rate ot postage on fourth class mat
ter to two cents per ounce. ’
The New York lower house has 1 intended to emigrate,
adopted resolutions tendering sym
pathy to the Irish and praising
Gladstone.
nearly one inch in depth, and per
fect i'Vproportions. It is supposed
to have been done by the Indians.
At Fort Gaines a day or two ago
a rabbit came floating down the
river on a lot of trash. He sat se- !
1 1
renely through the number of shots
fired at him, looking ahead, as if he
Fanueil hall, Boston, was packed
last night at a mass meeting to ex
press sympathy with Mr. Gladstone
and Mr. Parnell.
J. Stevens, a switchman in the
Louisville and Nashville railroad
yards, was caught between two cars
and badly meshed. It is thought he
will die.
Senator Colquitt spoke to an im
mense audience in the skating rink,
at Lynchburg, Va., on local option.
The fight is very hot and both sides
claim that victory is assured to them.
Secretary Lamar will leave Wash
ington this morning for Memphis,
Tenn.. Macon, Ga., and his home
at Oxford, Miss. He is not expected
to return to Washington for a week
or ten days.
President Watson Vanbenhuysen
testified before the telephone inves
tigation committee yesterday. The
investigation was lively at times and
“the liar” and “scoundrel” were
applied lavishly.
R. H. Harris, treasurer of the
Sag Harbor savings bank, was
discovered to be $S,000 short in his
accounts this morning. Harris,
who has heretotore borne an un
sullied reputation, is superintendent
of a Methodist Sunday school.
The President yesterday nomina
ted and the senate unanimously
confirmed Senator Howell E. Jack-
son, of Tennesse, to be circuit judge
of the United' States for the sixth
judicial district, vice John Baxter,
deceased.
BtRNED IN THEIR COFFINS.
Mr. Nettlotoa's Terrible Discovery—Wife
and Child, Consumed.
McCalla is a lawyer of prominence in I and as his district covered the entire
Conyers, and a braver soldier never | sidle gave him a prominence which
shouldered a musket. The members of I was m ° r e than local and made
him one ot the best known men in
the 3d Georgia regiment living in Clarke
county recollect Gus McCalla as one_ of
the brave soldiers who followed where
Gen. Wright led.
FARMERS COMING SOUTH.
AJgenUeman registered at the Commer
cial a few days ago named II. Hayden
fromCharlotte, Mich. Mr. H. immediate
ly commenced inspecting our city and the
surrounding country, and says that he
has been sent ont by Northern farmers
to look at the different parts of the coun
try South and report He is very much
pletsed with Athens and the surround
ing country, and says that Athens is a
progressive city. Whether any of the
Northern farmers trill come or not re
mains to be seen.
, . » DISSOLVED AND LEFT.
jn this issue appeu-s the dissolution
notice of Long & Co.; Messrs. Charlie- D.
ing and .Cosby E. Smith comprising the
m- ’ Hoth of these gentlemen leave this
their old home in Nevrnan.
firm
. n BASEBALL.
A meeting of the Athens baseball club
was held last evening at the rooms of the
Athletic Association on Clayton street
It was ascertained that the Lexington and
Harmony Grove baseball ciubs hare or
ganized, and that they ?ere anxious to
play games with the Athena club during
not heard from the Washington and Mad-
isorvclubs. The club. is also waiting to
ascertain if they can secure a battery.
Another meeting will be held in a few
AT THE CHURCH.
Rev. Thos. S. Harris' practical and in
structive sermon on Christian progres
sion at the Christian church, Tuesday
night, was listened to by a good audience
with intense interest, and those not in
attendance were the losers of some rich
and noble thoughts that emanated from
the lips of this highly educated Chris
tian divine. None should miss his lec
tures if they wish to be instructed in the
path of truth and right.
BALL FOR ATHENS.
Quite a large number.of the lovers of
base ball met in the rooms over Mr. An
derson’s store, on Clayton street, to or
ganize the Northeast Georgia League.
The meeting was largely attended and
liberal subscriptions made. The gentle
men who have the matter in hand arc
destined to make it a success and give
our citizens a round of sport this year.
The proceedings will be published in to
morrow’s paper.
JAMES R. LYLE.
The above named gentleman will be
put ferward by his friends in Oconee
county to represent the district composed
of the counties of Clarke, Oconee, Wal
ton, Newton and Rockdale. Mr. Lyle is
a brilliant and forcible speaker, and will
reflect credit on the district
-SW ,
DELEGATES ELECTED.
At the Quarterly Conference held at
the season. The committee as yet had- the FiretMethodist church Monday night
the following delegates were elected to
the district meeting to be held in Jefferson
in Jnty: Dr. J. A. Hunnicutt and J. R.-
Crane. Alternates, Cobb Lampkin and
Prof. I. G. Hudson.
the state.
Just after the reconstruction pe
riod he gave up politics and remov
ed to Palestine, Tex., where he be
came connected with the manage
ment of the International railroad.
Here the same qualities that' had
stood him in good stead as a boy
and man, in business and in politics,
brought him to the front and did
good work in developing this rail
road system in Texas, and soon
showed that he had in him the qual
ities of a gtcat railroad manager.
When Mr. Gould bought up a large
number of the railroads in the
Southwest and had consolidated
them in the general name of the
Wabash system, Mr. Hoxie was
chosen as one of his lieutenants and
went to St. Louis, where he became
first vice-president of this system.
He is a shrewd, quick-witted man,
of few words, but prompt in deci
sion and immovable when once he
has made up his mind.
A Cowboy Duel.
A cowboy duel with lassoes was
fought near Cheyenne, W. T., be
tween S. T. Batbour, “Texas Tom,”
Sam Little, “Coyote Sam,” The two
were mounted and carried lariat^ for
ty feet in length. They were placed
300 yards apart, and at the word
rode straight at each other Sam Lit
tle made his rope last to bis saddle
horn, while Barbour took a single
turn on his. As the men met, Little
threw his rope and missed and Bar-
hour- then put his lariat about -hts
adversary s neck, and could easily
have choked him to death. Little
fought to relese himself,but without
avail. Finally the tyo shook hajnds
and parted as friends. Barbour is
front Louisville,and is related to the
Mafiorys and Rodmtt^ds. He was
educated at Bard town. Li,ttle is from
Missouri. .
A TOURIST POCKETS $2,000.
A Mean Trick Practiced on an Unsuspecting
Orange Grower.
From the OcmU (Fix) Banner.
A report reaches us that an or
ange grower living not many miles
from Ocala, was the victim of two
shrewd sharpers not long since.
This gentleman feels like hiring
some man wearing No. izs to give
him a sound kicking, so we shall
not give him away, but for conven
ience will call him Mr. B. Early in
the fall he was visited by a tourist
who wanted to invest in a grove;
the price asked, was $5,000, which,
after some dallying, was agreed
upon. Five hundred dollars was
paid down to confirm the trade, and
both gentlemen were to meet in
Ocala some days afterwards to ex
amine the abstracts and pass the
deeds. But, before this was done, an-
otherstranger passed along, who was
ported to be extremely healthy. He
took a great fancy to the place and
wanted to buy it, and increased his
sum gradually until the sum of $8,-
0000 was reached. This was a bait'
too tempting to bo resisted, and the
owner said that he would try to beg
or buy off buyer No. 1. But buyer
No. 1 -bad too good a bargain and
had no ideS of relinquishing, his
hold. He would not listen to even
being bought off, so an offer of $500
was resisted, likewise $i t ooo, but
when the grower reached the sum
together with the $500 he hod paid
to bind the bargain, was paid over
to him, and the^. tourist returned to
Ocala, but he did not wait to buy
any more groves, but departed on
the first train, and tourist No. 2,
with the $3,000 has not yet put in
appearance) and will hardly do so
before the rose* bloom.
From the New York Herald,
Sandusky, O., April 9.—Singu
lar developments have crept out
to-day regarding, the burning of a
fine buffet baggage car on the Lake
Shore railroad yesterday between
Toledo and Oak Harbor. But little
was thought of the matter till Mr.
Nettleton returned from Cleveland
to look for the remains of his wife
and infant, which were in the car,
when the following facts came out:
James Gilroy, baggageman, says he
smelt smoke in the car for some
time, but singularly enough failed
to investigate the cause. He finally
informed the conductorpf his fears
and the train was stopped, but the
flames had then got a considerable
start, and it was clear that the car
was doomed. Mr. Nettleton was
in the sleeper, but was not fiotifieij
of the calamity, and he knew noth-;
ing about it till the train reached
Cleveland.
He was then told that it was use
less to return, as his wife’s and ba
by’s bodies were burned up. He
did go back, however, and found
the remains of his wife and child
partially consumed, soothing 're
mained of the former but the trunk;
the arms and legs were gone. He
procured a new casket and sent
them on to their destination. He
offered $1,000 reward for a diamond
ring which he had put on the finger
of this corpse. There was other
valuable jewelry in his trunks, be
sides a large sum of money, notes
and bonds, all of which were con
sumed. Not a piece of baggage
was saved. > .
Mr. Nettleton is indignant and
demands an investigation. He does
not accuse any particular person of
committing the robbery, which he
says was the first committed, and
that the car was subsequently fired
to hide the crime. On the other
hand it was asserted that no one
could have ente-ed the car without
being seen by the employees. The
body, of the baby was burned and
blackened beyond recognition.' Mr.
Nettleton was taking the remains of
mother and child from St. Paul to
.Connecticut.
Mr. H. W. J.' Ham, the well- 1 S
known journalist, will take charge
of the editorial department of the
Daily Official Centennial Bulletin,
published by Davis Bros., during
the week of the big drill at Savan
nah in May.
Judge Arthur Hood, of Cutnbert,
died on Saturday night, after a lin
gering illness of nearly six weeks.
Cuthbert loses one of her most
prominent citizens, and the legal
fraternity one of the brightest law-
years in the state. Mrs. Devlin and
Mrs. Dr. RiddIey,of Atlanta,are hir
daughters.
C. O. Lyle killed some kind of a
strange water fowl Tuesday, three
.miles south of Carrollton. When
killed it was in a little lagoon on a
branch. No one was able to say
what it was. It was 3 feet 4 inches
in height and 4 feet from tip to tip
of wing. It is presumed it was
some sort of a sea fowl.
A Lumpkin merchant who keeps
a cage of white rats at home, took a
nap one evening recently, and after
reaching his store felt something
moving around between his vest
and shirt. An investigation showed
that he had been carrying one of
his rats around in his bosom for an
hour or two without knowing it was
there.
Atlanta, Ga., April 9.—Presi
dent Linderman, of the Savannah,
Dublin and Western railroad made
affidavit ir. the executive office to
day that he was-on the Oregon re
turning from London and had the
original charter of the company
which sunk with the steamer. He
applied for a duplicate, which was
granted. He let the contracts to
day for sixty-five milds of road.
In Thomas county a few days
ago, Mr. James Knight met with a
serious accident while splitting
rails. A lodged limb fell, striking
him on his head, glanced, splitting
his hair, striking between his neck
and collar bone, breaking his collar
bone and dislocating his shoulder
and penetrating the hollow, splitting
his left •' lung. The limb weighs
about forty pounds; it seems unreas
onable neverthless it is true. Mr.
Knight is doiqg as well as could
possibly be expected.
This morning about 12 o’clock,
quite a crowd was congregated
about the cigar store ol Mr. Gazan,
under the Pulaski house, looking at
an eel that had passed through the
pipes into the hose used in watering
the street, where it lodged, as its
body was too big to come out of the
uozzle; Several advanced theopin-
ion that it was not an eel, but a
small mocassin. After considerable
trouble the eel was released from
its position in the pipe, and placed
in a basin of water, where it seemed
to be perfectly at home.—Savannah
Times.
GENERAL NEWS.
‘J
At Horton Gillis’ butter factory,
five miles north of Harvard, Illinois,'
a cream separator burst, killing Wm.
Johnson and wounding three oth-
^ra,-named Acton, Bourman and
.Blake* Acton’s injuries being, seri
ous.. 1 S /te ’, -i ,1 J, on, I
LILLIAN MADISON’S DEATH.
Alleged Evidence that she Died from Mal
practice. ’
Richmond,April,1 i-The question
of the hanging of T. J. Cluverius
for; thb murder of Fanny Lillian
Madison is now in the Hands of the
hiehest court of the state the con
demned man having asked for a new
trial on the ground.of newly discov
ered evidence
In the latter part of last summer
'Rachel Mb Donald, aged maiden
lady, living near the reservoir in
which the body of Lillian Madison
was discovered, was found dead in'
her yard with her throat cut. Appa
rently every effort was made to" dis
cover the means ot her death, but
without avail. Her property is in the
hands ot the court. Now comes the
startling news that witnesses have
been found to prove that Miss Mc
Donald was murdered and that they
will appear before the next grand’
jury nf the county (Henrico) with
more positive evidence.
Still more startling is the informa-
ion that Lillian Madjson,who it'was
thought was thro wn in the reservoir
by her cousin Cluverius died at the
house of Miss Me Donald from an at
tempt at malpractice and was thrown
into the water after death, All these
rumors have excited the greatest in
terest, and counsel for Cluverius was
not slow in doing alj in their power
to get the facts’of the death'Of Miss
McDonald out. -
The,local option question is turn
mg oyer-Virginia, so to spe^West
W went wet^e^.^ £ \
•'m3 hf.id-s-t »«lob to Smalt »d]
Four escaped convicts have been
seen near Birmingham.
Congress has passed a bill for the
erection of a national library build
ing.
A sturgeon seven feet long and
weighing 250 pounds was caught by
a small boy at Tacoma, Washington
Territory, recently.
James Dennis, 50 years old, an
inmate of the almshouse at Reading,
Pa., hanged himself because he was
ordered to move from the old hospi
tal to the new.
A dispatch from Decatur, Ala.,
says: Collector A. Flournoy, super
intendent of education of Colbert
county, has disappeared, leaving a
shortage in his accounts.
A “cent-a-mi!e” fare bill has pass
ed the New Jersey house, providing
for' fares on all railways within
twenty miles of New York at that
rate- between the hours of 5 and 7,
morning and evening.
General Sheridan will leave
Washington next week for Chicago,
and front there will go on a tour of
inspection of the department ot the
South before its command is deliv
ered to General Terry.
Peter Wilson, of Spring Mills.
P^nn., who died a week ago or so,
was said to be the oldest Sunday
school superintendent in the world.
So long ago as in 1828 he assisted
in organizing the Sabbath school of
which be was president at the time
of his death.
The trial of Burns, Hyndman,
Champion and Williams, the social
ist leaders on the charge of having
incited the Trafalgar Square and
IJyde Park riots, was concluded.
The jury reedered a verdict of not
guilty, and the defendants were all
discharged.
Andrew Canova. the 13-year-old
son of A. P. Canova, and the two
sons of J. Heston, aged about 12
znd 16 respectively, left Palatka in
a sail boat late Monday afternoon
for Deep Creek, near Federal Point,
where they went for the purpose
ot fishing. Nothing has been heard
t>f the boys by their parents since,
and they are ve^- anxious as to the
safety of them..
In Jhe yard connected with the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
road, at Lima, O., there is an old
four wheel locomotive that was the
first engine used oh the Cincinnati
and Hamilton railroad, which was
chartered in 1846 and opened in
engine is carried by the
four yvheels connected, and has in-
'clined c}lih'dei&, although there is
ho truck. 1 Th'e steam chest ’is on
top of the cylinders, as m modern
locomotives, and the valver' motion
is tbe>V hook.- , The, engine is: pre-
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