Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 5, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1874 — Page 1

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Thursday, January 22,1874.

A SOLID, substantial man is Waite. He will bold tbe scales of justice even.

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WAITE for the Oiiief Justice is much better than "wait for the wa-t gon."

WEIOIITY reasons influenced Ibe President to bis third choice for a Chief Justice.

Sucir Is the confidence of our Councllmen one in another, that each believes every other one to be the center of a ring.

•AFTER nil the delay incident to tbe appointment of a Chief Justice, Waite is good. The country has h£d him in its mind all along.

THE A rap ilea has struck a rock in East river, and is now again in the dry dock being repaired. There is positively no rest for the wicked.

THE Swiss family of bell ringers are supposed to be (he best mediums that travel. Nobody, in the light or dark, can duplicate their perform-

(3RANT is going to take a tour through Europe after his term i9 out, and while 1I:H house in Washington Is being built. He ought to be muzzled.

THERE appears to be a desire upon the part of Congress, instead of reducing expenses, or increasing taxes, to make both ends meet by filling up the yawning chasm between receipts and expenditures with paper.

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CHICAGO lias concluded to go into the Mardi Gras celebration business. New Orleans and Memphis may now Buy a long farewell to all their greatness, and the big processions that make tomfoolery a virtue their occupation's gone.

CUB HI NO has received his com mi SHion, and will start forthwith for Spain. It would be a neat thing to engage a passage for him on ibe Kpanibh steamer Arapiles, which has developed unheard of and wholly extraordinary powers of running into things and getting stove up. Gushing might break the force of her shocks. ._ ... -1L .. -L'

THIS is the new spiritual philosophy Anything done by anybody, which cannot be duplicated by a second party, is dono through the agency of spirits, whether claimed to be performed through their agency or not. Alexander was a big medium. Ciosar wus another, and Washington was a third. The people who could duplicate their performances were not as plenty as blackberries.

THE many personal friends in Terre Haute of General Baez, President of Bunto Domingo, and chief negotiator for the sale of that nation to the United States, will bo pained to learn that hissoldieas have turned against him and driven him from the island, lie is now en route to this country. So it will be sten, Santo Domingo's loss may be our eternal gain. -"J"

EVERY township in the county lias been heard from, and as yet not a man lias been discovered who does not consider it a "demnition Bhame" that Col. Fred. Grant did not And Donn Piatt and get some straps on other parts of his body than shoulders. Donn could, would, and ought to liavo given Col. Fred, a General'B strapping. Fred, needs promotion.

THE article by "Bullion" In today's GAZETTE, contains some financial axiom*, familiarity with which would make the solution of the money problem with which Congress is struggling, much simpler. It is commended to the prayerful perusal of those philosophers who think the royal road to riches lies, not through increased labor and productive industry, but through the green fields of a plenteous paper currency.

A BRIEF sketch of the life of Hon. Morrison It. Waite, the President's third choice for Chief Justice, will be found in our news columns to-day. As President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, to which he was elected a delegate by the uuanimous vote of his constituents, both parties uuiting in ids support, he has sustained the high reputation lie has hitherto borne as a lawyer. His name has been referred to the Judiciary Committee. He will probably be confirmed.

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THE Duke of Edenburg, second sou of Queen Victoria, was married yesterday to the daughter of the Czar of all the Russias. This union of the English lion and the Russian bear may be attended with important political results. It is at least to be hoped that it will end the feud that has existed between these two rivals for control of Asia. As to the young couple, they start in life with an income of between three and four hundred thousand dollars. With it perhaps they will be able to keep the wolf from the door.

"IF lie, Cushiug, is rejected by the Senate, he will still be eligible for the next post Unit falls vacant. It would be aptly to deprive the President of tho ouly string to his bow." "Are we to understand that Mr. Conkling is prepared to support any and every nomination made by the

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inditlerent? Has he ceased to represent New York State, and is be henceforth to represent ouly the White Howe? Certainly, it seems desirable that he thould commuuicate to his verv patient constituents his state of mind on this important subject."

The above extracts, taken from two articles in the New York Times, would eecm to indicato a growing ditgust with Messrs. Grant and Conkling. In

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with the latter. There will l-a stupendous row in the Republican camp yet, and we that are rot of the faith can take a keen rclUh 1n U, not unlike that of the elderly lady who was the happy witness of ft struggle between her husband and the bear.

EX-MAYOR MEDILL, of Chicago, who Is now in Europe, and who is writing an admirable series of letters for tbe Tribune, Is going deeper into a discussion of the social customs and habits of life of the French people, than most writers care to or can. Having proven the immense wealth of France as a nation, be proceeds to give his reas:ms therefor. Conceding the great loss of productive labor in France, as compared with the Uuited Slates, from the locking up of so much brain and muscle in tbe army, he ascribes its wealth as a nation to the fact that tbe most rigid economy is practiced by all grades of society, apd that French women work much more than American women. In tbe cities nearly all the clerks are women, boarding-houses are managed by them, and they are engaged in all the lighter mechanical employments. Hundreds and thousands of positions in the cities that women could fill as well, If not better, than men, but which, through a false pride or a wrong social system women do not engage in here, are all filled by women. The tables are completely turned, and that species of labor it is not considered proper for men to engage in, in France. This, joined with the rigid economy we have spoken of, has succeeded in making France one of the fairest and wealthiest of nations.

SENATOR WRIGHT, of Iowa, favors an increase of currency in order to bring about business activity. The especial kind of business that inflation of currency stimulates into activity is speculation. Men engaged in productive industry or legitimate commerce soon become disgusted with this business when the best laid plans come to nought through some piece of legislation which deranges the value of the currency. They conclude that more money can be made by studying the fluctuations of the currency, and to that very valuable occupation they turn this attention. In this way, hundreds and thousands of men are really taken away from legitimate business enterprises. They Hawkeye Senator never saw with a vision HO unlike that of a hawk, as when he thought ho discovered the fact that ftu increase of currency stimulated business enterprise. It is tha liollowest of hollow mockeries.

THE speech of Councilman Hager, which we publish entire in the report of the Council's proceedings, seems to intimate that there is a ring somewhere in the Council. Mr. Milligan thought men ciied sewer, sower, when there was no sewer, they wanted no sewer, and would have no sewer. Smith thought there was a nigger in the wood pile, in fact, he was sure of it. Mr. Bridenthal told the members not to shake their gory locks at him he was not a nigger in, on, nor under a wood pile. They could not say he was a ring. Mr. Hay ward thought there was something rotten in the State of Denmark. Mr. Byers wanted the galled jade to wince, for his withers were unwruug. Mr. Otte wanted to know what tbe question is, and which side he was on. Mr. Seeburger's cry was still for sewer. Mr. Carter said nothing, but voted first, last and all the time for reletting the contract. His Honor the Mayor thought the Council wasn't equal to sewers.

A FORT WAYNE lawyer has been reading the Constitution of his country, and has come to the conclusion that the late increase of the President's Salary WHO uncuuntltUtTOnlll and void. He bases his opinion on article second, which declares that 'the President shall at stated times receive for his services a compensation, which shall not be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected." He interprets the word period as including any number of terms, whereas Congress evidently understood it as being synonymous with the word term. His view, the Fort Wayne attorney fortifies with extended quotations from the early debates of the framers of the Constitution. He makes a strong, and, indeed, we may say, an unanswerable argument. He is not, however, the first to broach the idea. The point was discussed in the GAZETTE some four or five months ago.

AMONG the Judges of the Supreme Court appointed by Washington, when the Court was first organized, was one William Cushlng, from Massachusetts. He was not a relative of Caleb's. At that time John Jay was Chief Justice. Seven years after the organization of the Court, Jay's place being vacant, Cushlng was nominated for the Chief Justiceship. This promotion he politely, but promptly, declined. He seemed to have an idea that bis opinions asa Justice depended fotfheir dignity and worth upon their correctness, and that they would be quite as valuable coming from him in the body of the bench as if he were at the head. He was comfortably situated and happy. He was tho 1'ast, as he was the best of his race, this hard-headed, sensible old Pushing.

Now THAT the whole question of sewer is brought back to the very beginning, the GAZETTE commends to tho prayerful consideration of the Council, the question of whether a sewer can be built at the expense of the whole city. Thtre is a section in the city charter, which declares that such work shall be paid for by asses-ments levied on the property benefitted. Moreover, the authority of tiie county to issue bouda is worth considering. There was a communication in the GAZETTE of day before yesterday which had some souud suggestions on these points. An extra edition of the Weekly GAZETTE will be issued to morrow, containing this article. We shall be glad to furnish copies to parties in uetd of information.

IF lh 8 howl continues through the land, j»tout the negro Elliott's speech having been written for him by some white man, a commission will have to be appointed to- hunt up the author. He ought to be put to work on the speeches of most of the members of Congress. JJv is ft "brick," ever he is.

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IT WAS a neat thjng upon the part of the bidders for the sewerage contracts and good for the city, that they—the embryo contractors—met together and opened the bids which the Council declined interfering with. Several things have been made plain which else might have remained in terrible obscurity. And first it has been found that a responsible firmwas willing to build tbe three sewers for $88,620, or just $21,930 less than Miller & Co.'s bid. This was Carrothers, Rutherford & Air, of Cincinnati. Second, by opening the bids a quietus has l?een put upon the assertion from every firm lint had put in a bid, that they would have built it for from fifty to one hundred, thousand dollars less than MUler & Co., or anybody else. The opening of the bids has on this account done unadulterated good. We should else have been tantalized the remainder of our days with the delusive phantom that had the Council only opened these bids and accepted the lowest, $100,000 at tbe least, would have been saved, and if the contract had been awarded to all of them, enough would have been saved to build a new market bouse and city ball, pay the city debt and establish a sinking fund. Now we know that only $21,930 less thau Miller's bid could have been snatched like a brand from the buruing.

WE very much fear that Governor William Allen made a fair promise of economicaf reform to the ear only, for it to be broken to the hope by his parly. Dispatches announce that neither.House of tbe Legislature was in session yesterday. Some few industrious members convened pursuant to adjournment of the previous day, but there was not enough of them to constitute a quorum, and though they sent out the Sergeants-at-Arms to drum up a few recruits, the attempt was a failure. The Governor must rebuke these idlers. This dillydallying is not that real practical economy he promised would characterize the advent of his party. This Is not that frugality in the future, for which a reason exists in the prodigality of the past. Rather is it the twin brother of that abortion. Let the whole brood be slaughtered. This is one of the things that the Governor was resurrected for. He might as well have continued buried in the privacy of his country home as to rise up and let these things be. It is a resurrection without any salvation.

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A SPECIAL dispatch from Richmond reports the sudden death, on Saturday last of the Siamese twins, at their residence, Mount Very, Surry county, North Carolina. This report, if true, gives the lie to the account published in the GAZETTE some time ago, that they had been eaten by some savage priuce in Central Africa, for aphilopeua. Chang, the first to die, bad been -addicted of late, to habits of intemperance,which hastened his demise. Eng, unable to stand the idea of being with a corpse, in two hours after his brother's death, followed him to the flowery kingdom. We speak thus lightly about the taking off of these amiable young gentlemen, because we don't believe the report of their death to be true.

THEY are wasting a great deal of valuable time in Congress talking about the smallness of our navy and the inadequacy of our coast defences. Some glowing patriot and ardent advocate of large expenditures has ventured the remark that a foreign fleet might sail right into New York harbor, and either levy tribute upon, or lay in ashes that metropolis. Now that Js .lust. what, wo see the blasted fleet of some effete dynasty attempt. If the experience of the Spanish ship Arapiles amounts to anything at all, such foreign fleet would have the saltiest of salty time9. We welcome them with bloody bands to watery graves.

IT was, to be sure, a little shabby in the Council to invite a distinguished party of gentlemen here to a prospective feast, and when their appetites were whetted to a high pitch of, ravenous expectancy, tell them we had concluded not to have the banquet at all. The dissappointed and hungry guests were entitled to the sympathy of the community. But when they met together and commenced distributing thanks and censures to their hosts that were to have been, they threw away all their claims to commiseration. Nobody in Terre Haute would now care if they had to walk home.

THERE is a difference of opinion in high mathematical circles as to whether Carrothers, Rutherford & Air's bid is really lower than Miller & Co.'s. Some Bay thatC., R. & A.'s bid is $21,930 lower than M. & Co.'s. Others say that Miller & Co.'s is the lower. There should be a joint high commission called to settle the question. In the meantime, we should be glad to hear from Engineer Strout upon the point.

UNDER tbe circumstances, it is pleasant to reflect that there are wet places in Indiauapolis clamoring to be made dry. Poor Indianapolitans, they know not what they aie doing. They had better get the measles, or whooping cough, or some other mildly disagreeable disease, but,avoid as they would a rattlesnake, the sewerage itch.

THE present attempt to revive the franking privilege, after the frantic eloquence by both parties, in the Presidential campaign, in favor of its repeal, will be received by the country as indubitable evidence of the rottenness of political platforms

The fraukiug privilege ought not to be restored. •wr——g-,

COUNCILMAN SKEBUROKK declares that he will introduce a resolution at the next meeting of the Council, pro poeing that the question of sewer, or no sewer, be submitted to a vote of the people. The will of the people cannot be taken too often.

OF ALL the 'inflationists and advocates of an elastic currency, not a single one has yet had the sagacity to suggest the introduction of hollow rubber money. And yet it can be demonstrated that for expansibility, .and elasticity it is unrivalled,

THERE is a certain lawyer in town who openly boasts that he holds the Council in the palm of his hand, and can have them accept or reject his propositions at will. Councilman Hager calls him a Mephlstophiles.

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Editorial Notes.

CONKLING is tbe coming man, it is said. He is the people's peacock. THE Terre Haute Opera company declares a dividend of five per cent, per annnm. Let Lafayette put this in her pipe and smoke it.

A PROMINENT member of the Paris press liquid-ated a little bill at Phil. May's,with postage stamps, Saturday evening. He was a leading light in tbe temperance cause at tliat.

WE learn from an exchange that -a hair dresser baa been sued for damage for having cut a customer's heir too short. Let an awful example be made of that haiF dresser.

A WONDERFUL discovery has just been made in Kentucky. A Louisville man, aged 65 years, has read the Courier-Journal since it was first established, and never played poker in his life.

Tate Terre Haute GAZETTE is charg ed with compiling its report of tbe pork packing statistics of that city irom the Chicago papc Dispatch.

Then tbe cbarg9 is groundless. Tbe Terre Haute GAZETTE did no such thing.

BEN. DODGE is in Marshall, selling charm bells manufactured from the court house bell that was melted in the Chicago fire. There have been as many of those bells sold as represent mills in the many millions of dollars that go to make up tbe National debt, and still the Suckers nibble at tbe bait.

A DISCIPLE of Baxter Bill who has been on bis travels, learns (from ex' perience) that in Wabash they sell cider with "winks" in it. This system is said to give snap to the eye. Our informant is visibly affected in that way yet.

THE Indianapolis Journal hasn't a sufficient stock of respect for old age, on hand. It objected to CuBhing as Chief Justice on that alleged account, and now it is sneering at Dlx as a prospective Democratic candidate for the Presidency.

Glieap Money.

Editors Evening Gazette Why have we not realized the dreams of childhood, and waking up some bright morning, found the trees blooming with gold dollars or festooned with beautiful greenbacks? Alas! year after year, these enchanting hopes have become less sanguine, until in mature age, vanishing altogether, we realize tbe ungrateful fact that an equivalent of labor must be given for its value in gold.

There doubtless was a time when there was no money, and when exchanges were madB" entirely by bartering one thing or commodity for another. This being very inconvenient, naturally suggested |jhe*Jadvantage of having some Intermediate representative of value, for %h'ich articles could be sold and things purchased, without loss to either party. Gold and silver and precious stones beiug comparatively rare and great labor being required to procure them, it was naturally suggested that tbey would make a convenient and reliable medium, of exchange. At various periods in tbe history of civilization, efforts have been made to cheapen the medium of exchange by the substitution of the baser metals or paper, and it was supposed a great saving would thus be effected. It was thought to be a useless waste to expend so much labor in procuring an article that served no other purpose than to represent values. Why not establish by decree or law, tbat an ounce of copper or iron should pay for the same number of days labor as an ounce of gold? All sueh efforts have signally failed, for the simple reason tbat the people will never believe that blue is yellow, or white

of the country. Under tbe most arbitrary government the people would, for a time, yield an unwilling obedience to such a decree or law, but feeling it all the time to be a falsehood and a fraud, they would soon begin to evade it, and finally come back to first principles and demand an equivalent for the products of their labor. It would be as reasonable and practicable, to fix by law, tbe prices of everything in use, as to attempt to give a fictitious value to the circulating medium. It never was feasible, even in the darkest ages of tbe world, and still less would it be possible now. A dollar should represent truly so much labor, and tlien it may be used to-mor-row, or laid by until next year, with confidence tbat no material change will be made in its value, either by natural circumstances or by legislation. If it were otherwise, no man would know whether the fruits of his labor in the vigor of health, would secure him the necessaries of life in old age, or protect his children from want. But it has been suggested that cheap money was necessary to give activity to the wheels of commerce and trade, and especially to the laboring classes. It can not be denied that a depreciating currency gives activity to trade and speculation, and seeming general prosperity. When the value of the circulating medium is going down, prices go up, and speculation is rife everywhere. Everybody wants to buy, for two reasons. First, they expect an advance in prices, and second, they want something more reliable than their cheap money. But it is to be observed that it is only during the fluctuation that these operations can be made, for as soon as the depreciated medium of exchange assumes a fixed value, the speculat6rs' occupation is gone. It is also to be observed that the commuuity at large is little, if any, benefited by these mere speculations.

What one gains, another loses, and the properly or articles bought and sold, are worth little more after they have changed hands several times than they were before these transactions were commenced.

Those who have tbe leisure and capacity to study the signs of the times, may and do profit largely by these, fluctnatious, afld they are not generally averse to them, but the great industrial classes, upon whose labors the foundations of society rest, and are supported, want nothing to do with a cheap fluctuating currency. TTicy need most-of all something repsesenting their labor that is unchangeable, at all times reliable, and possessed of the greatest purchasing power known to tne conunerce ot the world.. This numerous class have no time to be making these shifts and turns, and they want the fruits of their Hbor in manhood to be of full value to those in old age, and to their children, for whose bent lit they have been toiling.

It is quite time, I think, tbat this Utopian idea-of cheap money was abandoned, and the three functions of curreucy belter understood. It is to be hoped that newspapers and pe riodicais and scientific institutions throughout the country, will so enlighten the masses that politicians shall, in obedience to the"will' of the people, act upon souud pri ciples, and have done with the clap-trap 8onhistry of which we have heard so much, since the meeting of Con-

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of the Paris dames and actresses, and demi-nfonde and the foreign purchaser is charged for them one and a half to twice tbe original cost of the garment. The French purveyors of fashion never pretend to fill an order or sell an article to an American or Other foreign female at anything like the price charged to a French woman. The Americans are the favorite pray of the Parisian shopkeepers and dressmakers. They are supposed notrto know the actual value or price of an article in Paris, but to judge thereof by the New York price", which include 50 to 100 per cent, tariff, cost of transportation, insurance, and the liberal profits charged by two or three sets of middlemen, the object of the Paris dealers is to get from their American customers as nearly as possible tbe

NEW YORK RETAIL PRICE of everything. The same rule is followed in dealing with the natives of all other countries. They are charged substantially the home-price of the goods while the French customers are supplied at the real value, because they know what that is. The Paris shop-keepers have a very feeble and dim perception of what is called honesty or fair dealing. The rule is to extract all they can get, take any advantage, aud practice deceit and falshood at every opportunity.

An Exposure.

"Lord ,determined a short time ago to unmask a certain well known Spiritual Professor and his medium seance advertised to be held ome hall situated on Oxford t, London. Accordingly had constructed at Bryant & May's a match of huge proportions and instantaneous brilliancy, and, armed with this, he proceeded with two friendB to pay his respects to the •denizens of another world." After the usual prfilfminaries the room was suddenly darkened, n$cl, whilst the company held each other by the hands, violins and- tambourines were heard to play in company with less ical soundsj the Professor and his medium havlntr been securely fastened with ropes by one of the audience. At a given moment

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let go his companion's band, aud lit his match, or, more properly, torch, on a striker skillfully fixed to the sole of his boot. A great flare 1 and there stood the Professor hard at work on the violin, whilst the happy medium assisted the perfornaanco-hy alternate accompaniments on tbe tambourine with her hand, and on ffnalelSay' lae' better"imagfned tKan described suffice it to say that his lordship, on presenting himself at the door of a similar entertainment, a week after, was refused admission.

A FUNNY scene occured, the other night, in the Bowery Theater, New York. The scene was a bedroom at midnight, with an old gentleman reading a letter. To the Bound of slow music a villain entered the room, and with a cat-like tlfad aproacbed the old man, clutching in _iis hand a glittering knife. He approached slowly, and the excitement among the gamins in the gallery became intense. Just as the would-be murderer was about to make the deadly plunge at his unsuspecting victim, a boy, who was leaning far over the railing of the gallery, sung out, with frantic earnestness: 'Look behind yer, guv'ner. There's a feller goin' to stab yer I" The assassin-dropped his knife and roared with the audience, and the curtain went down without anybody being murdered.

Nilsson, Nelson and Nightingale Tongues. From the Cincinnati Commercial.

Nilsson has had a wonderful time at St. Louis. It became necessary that she and ber husband should take dinner in public, with -half a dozen Governors and their wives. She also had to have a speech made at her on the stage, when a floral harp was presented. Then she was told by a distinguished Columbain orator that she was BO sweet she must have lived on nightingales' tongues.

Cairo & Yincennes Railroad. Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean. SFRINGFIELD, III., Jan. 12.—BIuford WilsoD, Esq., as attorney for a stockholder of tbe Cairo & Vincennes Railway, made application before Judge Treat, of the United States Court, in this city to-day for a receiver for tbe said railway. General Green B. Kaum. as attorney for the company of which General Burnside is Presideut, resi ted tbe application.

Let Her Sail. 'A'li From the Inter-Occan

A lecture committee at Mil ford, Me., wrote to Boston inquiring what Mrs. Scott Siddons would charge to read for them. The agent answered "Three hundred dollars and expenses. Answer, as Mrs. Siddons will sail for Europe at once if yi don't want ber." The reply of the committee was brief but expressive "Let her sail."

Absolutely Necossary.

From the Washington Evening Btar. Lamartine was a3ked by a friend if he did not spend too much time in advertising. "No," was the reply, "advertisements are absolutely necessary. Even divine worship needs to be advertised. Else what is the

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Lore aud Lczengcrtu From the Detroit Free Press. The Philadelphia Star thinks that genuine love is played out. Humph Tbe old sinner ought, to travel through Michigan and see the spark le of tbe eyes as two lovers hold the same peppermint lozenger between their teeth.

a a "brick," who- propositions at will. Councilman much, since tie meeting or con- "spirits," say we. A Waamngton uispaicq puumueu

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There are some tricks of the fashion fefrmde in Paris not generally kno^n, yefvrell worth being mad» public.. For example, those gorgeous dresoesilieplaycd on the operatic and theatrical stage, what becomes of them Are they cast aside when the play ha* run out, or the opera piece has been performed? Nothing of tbe sort. Tbey are carefully takeu to tbe fashionable millinery shops in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, New York, Madrid, Reme, and other cities, temptingly displayed in the windows, and

SOLD TO THE BIRDS OF PARADI36 as ran-new and just out, for twice what tbey originally cost the manager. Those who have noticed tbe magnificent costumes worn on tbe stage must have observed that, the parts which trail are always faced up with white muslin, to keep tbe garment from getting soiled. This is stripped off when it is placed in the shop for sale as an adorable robe just in fashion. But this little confidence game is not restricted to the toilets of the Paris actresses, but extends to and includes tbe French ladies of the highest fashionable circles, who only wear a dress a few times. After tbey have taken the now out of it, uierobe is placed in the bands of one of tbe hundreds of dressmakers and sold to some American, Russian, Cuban, or Brazilian lady, or sent over to London and sold there to tl« aristocracy, or gentry. There are thousands of ladies in all parts of the world who get their dresses in Paris on order, so as to secure tbe very latest invention of Sardou, Worth, or other patentees of fashion and these orders are filled from

OVER one hundred guests reported at the poor asylum. '"THE cat that tells" is what they exclaim at the Buckeye.

RUGEB, tbe refetnuranter, is running a railroad eating house at Paris, THE Chief Justice's chair will not have a Cashing in it at preeent.

THE Banner has never doubted for a minute that the Grangers are ail Know Nothings. "r

THERE is a report curreut o« tbo street that a large furniture factory is to be started here soon.

MR.J.P. OSTRANDER,TerreHaute delegate to the Baltimore Bricklayers' Convention has returned

THE LaFayette belle wants to go to Congress. She says her good understanding will make her famous there.

MESSRS. DICK PATTON and Slierrie Isaac, whtt have been visiting in Terre Haute, have returned home to Vincennes.

MISS FANNIE JAURIET, who has been visiting with Miss Whitie Morris, of this city, has gone to Quincy, 1 1 1 is it

THERE was a large attendance at the teachers' meeting Saturday. Much interest was made manifest in the proceedings.

THE Meeunerchor mask ball will come off on the 17th of February. It promises to be the best entertainment ever given by tbe society.

THE firm of Knox & Berry, lawyers, has been dissolved. In future, Thomas knocks his opponents down, and Philip buries his dead on his own bark.

THE new Bronqon hotel is about ready for occupancy. Guests can get a good view of the city and surrounding country from the garret of the building.

PROF. LYON has some curious and fanciful views about the earth, matter, mind, spirit, etc., etc. However, the Arabian Nights tales beat him for fancy, and Newton for truth.

AUDITOR ROYSE paid a visit to Riley township, Monday, and reports that nothing is visible of that city except mud. It has been raining over there, and materially the grounds are rily.

THE esteemed Bister of Mr. John Paddock, City Treasurer, died yesterday, after a short but severe illness, aged 19 years. Ftfheral from family residence, near Middletown, to-morrow forenoon.

Mr. JOSEPH PARSONS is one of the most modest and unpretending citizens of our city, notwithstanding the wide celebrity bis remarkably little pamphlet, on the verbal law, and the pieces, etc., has given him.

JAS. JARREL, of Rockville, agent at that place for the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine, is dangerously ill. Small hopes are entertained for his recovery. This will be sad news to his many friends here and elsewhere.

THE boy who attempted to steal bis way into the Agnes Wallace performance, Saturday night, was promptly kicked down stairs by the door keeper. Light enough punishment for tin attempt to steal into such a show as that.

S. C. SCOTT, since he received that caning at the hands of-friends Monday night, has added three cubits to his stature, notwithstanding that this is declared an impossibility by JEsop's tables. This is none of your Express hoaxes. iwiiti_ it o* u'mt

EVERY bell boy and waiter at the Buntin House, and in fact everybody from tbe proprietor to the assistant scullion, is an accomplished spiritual medium. This comes from association with Piofessor Baldwin aud Manager Fisk.

INDIANAPOLIS has a Thomas H. Nelson who is going into the minis* try. Terre Haute has a Thomas H. Nelson wtohas just retired from that business. This item proves that Indianapolis is always behind Terre Haute—not with its foot, though.

A PROMINENT Terre Hautean is writing au article for the GAZETTE giving his views on the model girl. He has not yet decided whether she should be a blonde or brunette. His mind once made up on tbat point, tbe rest will follow with slight difficulty.

THE neutral Mail is at outs with the Express. When the relationship of kite and tail, existing between the Express and neutral Mail, according to a distinguished legal authority, Is remembered, the wonder grows what will now become of the tall. Echo answers, what will become of it..

D. N. FOSTER, formerly of this place, and a prominent member of the Congregational Church, now in Grand Rapids, Michigan, aud proprietor of the Post, has taken to swearing. That the circulation of his paper is greater than that of any other in the Rapid city, fa the object of his oath.

THE Mayor and City Council of Logansport have been tendered a complimentary car to Terre Haute and return, on the occasion of a test of the water works here. The Executive and Council of Crawfordsville, Peru, and other cities contemplating tbe construction of water works, will possibly beprcsenton the same occasion.

MR. L. M. PAHMEYER, of Honey C.etk, gave a reception on last Saturday night to his friends, both old and young, of that vicinity. About fifty were present and report a splendid time generally. Music and games, followed by an elegant supper, was the order of the evening. Mr. Pahmeyer is about to remove to Terre Haute, and this was a kind of a (are-, well jollification.

THE other evening, as Baldwin, tbe exposer of spirit shows,was passing quietly along tbe street, his progress was arrested by a blow on the bugle. Looking up, he first beheld a whole constellation of stars, and then a man ambling off, simulating druukennesss. He halloed to the fellow but be heeded him not, further than to straighten up and walk'off a sober man, with a sinister look. In tbe language of the true believers, •'spirits," say we.

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ROME, Jan. 20.—It is learned,* on the highest authority, that the Pope has, at. the instigation of the Jesuit Cardinal, Tarquin, resolved on an election of a successor to the Pontificate, by acclamation of the Cardinals present at his death. All opponents will be excluded from the conelave which is to take place after that event.

PARIS, Jan. 20.—Due DeCastes Minister of Foreign Affairs, acting under the influence and on the recommendation of Bismarck, ha* announced the determination of France to respect the existing order of things in ItaJ.v, and to suppress the violence of the French ultra Montauists.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 20.—The American Minister gave a brilliant ball last night, and was largely attended. The attendance iucluded a number of the aristocratic and elite of the city.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Tbe fog entirely cleared after midnight, aud the weather is clear and frosty and the streets dry.

The Herald, commenting upon the new nomination for Chief Justice, says it was somewhat of a wonder why Waite was seut to Geneva, but why is he nominated for Chief Justice? No other reason is apparent save that Grant is determined to nominate the man he considers the best, and not whom the country thinks best.

Tbe Times considers tbe nomina* tion a thoroughly respectable one, and likely to encounter but little opposition. Perhaps if the opinion of !Sew York could have dictated tbe nomination, either Evarts, Woodruff or Pierrepont would have received it.

The Tribune says, we have at last our Chief Justice. In all probability Waite will be promptly confirmed, as there is no reason why he should not be.

The World calls Mr. Waite a comaratively obscure Toledo lawyer, he nominee ought at least to have been a well-known lawyer. Every Senator must know tbat this appointment should not be confirmed.

The Sun does not consider the nomination satisfactory. Many sad cases of destitution and starvation are coming to light among tbe poorer classes of this city. Thousands of tbe unfortunates who have been out of work since tbe paniQ, are unable to obtain food or shelter. The supplies furnished by charitable institutions and private parties are utterly inadequate, and do not reach over one-half of the sufferers. A starving family was discovered yesterday at No. 12 Thompson street, Michael O'Counell and wife, and two children, O'Connelly literally dying of starvation. Nothing can save him. For several months, they have been living on short allowance of food, but for the last two weeks had not a single meal a day. Among the whole four no work could be obtained. In No. 12 Thompson street, opposite O'Connell's, Mrs. Sarah Obingdon, aged 62 years, and liviug in a back garret, was found dead. Her body was partly decomposed starvation is supposed to be the cause of her death. She was well connected. Her first husband was a clergyman. Three children were found freezing and starving at the village of Fordham, yesterday. The father lay dying of a fatal disease. They ate their last morsel of bread on Sunday night, aud had had no fire for several days. A handsome sum has been subscribed for tbem by charitable persons.

It is stated thatWm. T. Carleton, the defaulting Secretary of the Union Trust Company, who absconded with $400,000 has been seen in tbe city several times lately. The detectives say he will not be arrested unless the company offers a reward.

The liquor saloon on the corner of Grant street and South Fifth avenue, a well-known resort of a gang of Eighth Ward thieves, was raided by the police last night and twelve men and six women, all well-known thieves, were captured.

A special from Wilkesbarre says the President and Secretary of the Miners' National Union and L. B.A., arrived last night, to consglfe..y.UI? of a national association. A mass meeting will beheld hereon Wednesday.

Forty-one thousand miners near Shomakin are reported to have struck against a reduction. Riotous demonstrations are reported in the mountain towns.

The county court here, yesterday, found fifteen indictments against persons for homicide and kindred crimes.

CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Two destructive fires occurred about 3 o'clock

this morning, causing a loss of several hundred thousand dollars. The temporary passenger depot of the Michigan Central, Illinois Central and Burlington & Quincy Railroads, at the foot of Lake street, was destroyed, together with six or eight passenger coaches and Pullman cars, nearly all the baggage In the store rooms, and tbe contents of tbe ticket office. Loss, probably- $160,000.

About the same time a block of fine marble front stores, on State street, sooth of Van Buren, were destroyed, with the contents. Loss about $150,000.

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have prevented .sai.es, four of tbe largest jewelry firms here—Rodden & Hamilton, A. H. Miller, J. B. Mayo and Bigler & Co.—have beeir forced into bankruptcy.

A dispatch from Springfield says that John E. Harper, the defaulting Revenue Collector from that district, has returned from Canada, where he fled some time ago, and it is believed tbat he has received a promise of pardon, on condition of a full confession. It is thought tbat this will implicate many others, who are greatly alarmat the prospect.

A dispatch from St. Paul confirms the report tbat the Vermillion bands of Indians are starving, their annuities due last year not having been paid, and that several cases of cannibalism have occurred. ThePemberas, in the extreme northwest part of tbe State, are said- to be similarly destitute, except that they have received their annuities. The Chippewas, of this State, have been shamefully abused by tbe Indian Bureau officers.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 20.—A special from Greensboro, North Carolina, to the evening- News, says that the Siamese twins died on the 17ih inst., at Mount Airy, North Carolina, one

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LONDON, Jan. 21.—II is rumored tbat the King of Ashantees lias sent an embassy to General Wolsly, suing for peace and offering iudemnity.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—A special dispatch from Greensboro, North Carolina, gives additional details of the death of the Siamese twins.^ One of the sons who slept up stairs, heard a cry of alarm, and on going to the twins' sleeping room, found Eng greatly excited, his brother Chang having died during the night. He grew gradually worse, remarking, suppose I must die too. In two hours be expired. The family physician and other medical men, after the death of the twins, desired to cut the ligament that bound them, to examine in the interest of science, but were not allowed to do so. It is believed, however, tbat the relations may yet be persuaded to permit the examination.

Yesterday was tbe first day of the season for metropolitan skaters. Central park was crowded and the sport was excellent.

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this morning givos a full text of the report submitted to the House yesterday by the Committee on Railways and Canals. The report favors the Federal regulationg of freights, fares, tolls and charges^upon tbe inter-state railroads.

A slight snow fell early this morninf, aud still continues. The weather is mild.

A special from Washington says that Waite's confirmation as Chief Justice, has been delayed in the Senate, by Sumner objecting to him because he ran asminst Ashley for Concress in 1662. Objections thus far are trivial. No changes afieeling his character or. fitness for the position have appeared.

A Times Washington special says that Cu8hing lias definitely decided to take the Spauish mission, and is making active preparations to go to Madrid.

A speoial dispatch from Wilkesbarre says that 6,000 miners have struck for increased wages. It is reported that they have not received their pay for along time. Much apprehension of trouble prevails. Tbe news irom the coal regions is causing considerable excitement in commercial circles here, more especially among those parties immediately interested in the coal supply. At present tbe stock of coal held nere by the various companies'aggregates a million tons. The winter consumption so far has been very light this season, and as there is plenty on hand, an Increase in price is not anticipated.

Some of the Greek merchants doing business here are in receipt of private advices, stating tbat an impending famine in Bengal creates the gravest apprehension abroad. It is thought that the preparations made by the Indian government to avert it are entirely inadequate, and prompt assistance from Great Britain will be required to prevent a repetition of tbe Crisaa famine of 1865, when 700,000 peroons perished. If a famine takes place it will undoubtedly roduce a great stringency in the arket. fhe mer-

Ef English money market. chants referred to have advices stating that the money' market in Calcutta and Bombay is already very stringent, owing to the failure of the rice crops.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Manhattan Grange No. 17, of Patrons of Husbandry, has beeu organized here, being tbe first in this city.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The Chronicle, which opposed Waite's nomination yesterday, to-day hopes that he will be confirmed by the Senate.

In the Senate, a number of woman suffrage memorials were presented, and referred.

Mr. Frelinghuysen presented a oint resolution from the BW Jersey Legislature, asking Congress to make au appropriation in aid ot the centennial celebration also memorials from the Camden Board of Trade, against the repeal of the-bankruptcy law.

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Mr. Poland, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill in relation to the assignment of Judges In Territories passed. The bill agthorizes the Legislature of each Territory, except Utah, to make the assignment. The Judges of each

session, and in case the Legislature neglects to do so, the Judges shall make their own assignments, to hold good until the end of the next Legislative session.

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 22.—A terrible homicide occurred a few daysBince in the township of Readville, Hunterton county. A colored man named Theodore Cruise, lives in a small hut, on Sunderland mountain, in East Amerill township. His place is a resort of many negroes of the surrounding districts. One night last week a disturbance occurred, when Cruiss'B son ran to the door, armed with a huge club, and challenged any ono of the party to come out and fight him. Hts mother went out to quiet him, and he struck her a blow on the head, felling her instantly. He then fled. Israel Morroco, Cruise's half-brother, armed himself with a huge carving knife, and accompanied by another negro, Geo. Thompson, pursued the son, overtaking him and stabbing him fatally with tbe knife. Cruises' fWtf1 Thompson have been arrested.

JACKSON,Jan.21. -The Legislature convened to-day, with full attendance. The House elected J. D. Shodd, colored, as Speaker, and the Senate elected J. M. Little. No business of importance was transacted. The complexion of. both Houses is strongly Republican in color and in majority. In tbe appointment of committees but little is said of tbe contested case. Gov. Ames Will be inaugurated in tbe morning.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 21.—Yesterdav the oil stills in the yard of the Standard Oil Co., Tenth street, caught fire, but were extinguished before much damage was done. Three employees were badly burned. One is so frightfully scalded that he will probably die. 0

THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP.

How the News was Received at Mr. Waite's Home.

A Sketch ot Hia Life and Service*.

Special Telegram to the Ind. Journal. TOLEDO, OHIO,Jan.19. The news of the nomination of Hon. Morrison R. Waite, as Chief Justice, was received here this afternoon, by a private dipatch to the Commercial, and caused great reolclng among all our clttzens, by whom, regardless of party, he is Universally esteemed in fact, no man in the country enjoys the confidence and regard of tbe people here to a greater extent than Mr. Waite. The news was immediately telegraphed from here to Mr. Waite, who is in Cincinnati, as Peesident of tbe Constitutions! convention now in session there.

Mr. Waite has been kept as much in the dark as any of tbe citizens here in regard to the Cbief Justiceship, perhaps more so, since It was well known that the Representatives from this section were strenuously urging his name, though no communication was made with him. On Friday he received a telegram from Hon. Charles Foster, inquiring as to some facts in his personal history, and on Saturday afternoon telegrams from here were sent him stating that a dispatch had been received from General Shf rwood to the effect that tbe probabilities of bis nomination were excellent. He returned no rely to any of these except tbat of "on. Mr. Foster.

Mr. Waite was born at Lynne' Conn., November 29, 1816, bis father being Hon. Henry M. Waite, who was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, of Connecticut, in 1833, and subsequently became the Chief Justice of that State. Mr. Waite graduated at Yale, in 1837, iu the same class with Hon. Wm. M. Evarts and Judge Pierrepont, be tweeu the former of whom and bim self there sprung up a strong personal friendship, which still exists.

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had previously taken a course of law with bis father, and on coming to Maumee resumed bis studies and was admitted to practice at the Ohio bar. In 1845 he eutered into a partnership with Samuel M. Young, his law preceptor, which continued until it»4. He removed to Toledo in 1850 wjie'"e he has since resided. In 1858 he formed a partnership with his brother Richard, which still continues, under the style of M. R. & R. Waite.

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Tho only political office ever held by Mr. Waite was tbat of member of the General Assembly, to which he was elected in 1849, by the Whigs, the district then being Democratic. In 1662, he was induced to accept the nomination for Congress on the Republican ticket, in opposition to the regular nominee, James M. Ashley, but was defeated. In 1871, he was surprised by receiving an appointment as one of the counsel for the United Stites in the Geneva ar^bitration, and oubis return from that important mission was received with a grand, formal ovation from the citizens of Toledo, in which all the parties united to do him honor. Th# Mayor of the city, heading a delegation of all the prominent citizens, and escorted by the military and bands of music, met him at the depot, and conducted him to the Boody House, where a formal reception was held.

In 1873, Mr. Waite was placd on the tickes of both parties for delegate to the Constitutional ConvsntloQ,and unanimously elected. At the organisation of the convention he was elected Presiden, and still continues iu that position.

He was married In 1840 to Miss Amelia C. Warner, of Lynne, Connecticut, and is the father of several children. He is in good circumstances, owniug perhaps $100,000 worth of property, thougn with the large professional income he has enjoyed for manylyears, he could have been very wealthy had he so desired.

Solace for Second Lore.^ From tho Cln. Ev*. Star.

The widow of Henry Keep—tho once nabob of the New York Central* Railroad—has just married Judges Shelley, of Georgia. It is about fourw ,V years since Mr. Keep died, leaving an immense fortune to his wife anu daughter. Soon after his death Mrs. Keep sent an order to Italy for a monument to be placed over her husband's grave. In due time it arrived, and a little more than a year since was placed iu its position in the cemetery of Watertown, N. Y. at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. A remarkable feature of tha monument is that at its base is a room several feet square, enolosed ln W glass, and that withiu the room,8^ bending over the tomb, are the life- $8 size figures of Mrs. Keep and daughter, carved in the marble, each being an exact likeuessof the original. The attitudes are those, of the most of intense grief, and their countenances bespeak that their hearts cannot be consoled. Now it will bean interesting place to take tbe new husband to visit. If he admires statuary he will no doubt enjoy looking at the bowed figure of his wife gazing onthesilent tomb of her first loved. If the newly wedded pair are to reside In Georgia they will need to seek Northern breezes in the summer time and as Watertown is a delightful place of resort for the heated term, they will doubtless avail themselves of its invigorating air and at tho same time of enjoyiug frequent visits to tiiis master piece of Italian art. (Jenlus.

From the Brooklyn Argus.

Tbe St. Paul Press mendaciously declares that Qeorge Alfred Townsend exults iu tho downfall of Jay Cooke & Co., because he owes that firm over $500. We do not believe a word of this statement. Mr. Townsend is a man of too much genius even to think of owing Jay Cooke A Co. anything less than fifty or a hundred thousand dollars.

Tcrro Haute Markets.

Retail Market. TERMS IIAUTE, Jan. 22. barrel, Fancy 8,

FLOUR--Por 9.00. WHEAT—White, 1.45 to 1.50 ambor, 1.40 to 1.80 red, 1.30to 1.40.

FLOUIt-Fancy brauds, 8.00 to 8.25 choico family, 7.f0. POTATOES—Now, por bushel, 1.80.

CORN MEAL—Per buBhel, 75c. BUTTER—Per pound, 26@30o. EQGH—Per dozen, 20c. CHICKENS—Por dozen, 2.75. HAY—Por ton, 13.00.

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1IAM8—Per pound, 15o, SHOULDERS—Per pound, 10c. BREAKFAST BACON SIDES— Per pound, 14c.

GEESE—Per pound, 10c. DUCKS—Per pound, 8c. BROOM CORN—[email protected]. CORN SHUCKS—Per pound, 2XA

HTRAW—Common, per ton, 0,00 i|§ ryestraw, 10.00.

Wholesale Market. TERRK HAUTE, Jan. 22.

BUTTER—Choice yellow, 18@20c white and yellow, mixed 10@20c. BEESWAX—Yellow, 26c.

EGGS—Fresh, per dozen, 20@22j^c. FEATHERS—Live geese, 50c to 60c old. 10c to 80o.

RYE FLOUR—40c. CORN MEAL—50@60c. WHEAT—1.40 to 1.60 bu. BUCKWHEAT—70o. RYE—65o bu. CORN—86c to 40c bu. OATS—80 to 86o bu. HIDES AND FURS—Green trimmed, fl.j 9J^c green salted, lb., 10c dry flint, 17J^c sheep pelts, 15c to 1.00.

TURKEYS—Alive, lb., VAo to 5c. DUCKS-Per doz., 2.25. CHICKENS—Old, *dez., 2.25. GINSENG—Per lb., 75c., TALLOW—Per 7c. GREASE— Brown, lb. 5c white, 0C* POTATOES—Peach Blows, bu., 90c to 1.00.

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RAGS—Cotton, ft., 8c. COPPER—Per lb., 20c. BRASS—Per fl)., 12c. IRON—Wrought, cwt, 1.60 oast. 9 cwt.. 1.50.

LABD—Country, B., flc. HOGS—Gross, $3.35 net, 4.00.

Hide and Leather Market. TERKB HAUTE, Jan. 22. HIDES—Green cured, 8Jc green 7c do. heavy, 9 to 9%o do. kip, 12 to 14c dry flint bides, 17 to 18c 4o salt do!, 14 to 16c sheep skins, 1.00 to 1.75 shearlings 30 to 40c lambs, 40 75c.

RACCOON—Large, prime, good colors, 45c to 60c small, prime, 80o to 40c No. 2 kittens, 10c to 20c No. S kittens, 5c to 10c No. 4 kittens, 5c.

MINK—Large, dark, prime, 1.25 to 2.50 large, pale, and small, dark, 1.00 to 1.50 No. a and unsound prime, 50c to 75c No. 8 do., 25c to 50c No. 4 do., 10c to 25c.

MUSKRAT-Winter, 10c to 15c. RED FOX—No. 1, 75c to 1.00 No. 2, 30c to 40c.

GREY FOX—No. 1, 76c to 1.00 No. 2, 20e to 30c. OTTER—No. 1, 4.00 to 5.00 No, 2, 2.00 4.00 No. 3,1.50 to 2.00 No. 4, 60o to to 75c cubs, 20 to 50c.

WILD CAT—No. 1, 25 to 80c No.' 2, 10 to 20c. HOUSE CAT—No. 1, 10 to 15c No. 2, 5 to 10c.

SKUNK—Black eased, 50c to 75 and narrow stripe, 20 to 80c wide stripe white, 20 to 30c.

DEER SKINS—Red and blue to 16 30c.

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New York Market. NKW YORK, Jau. 21.

BREADSTUFFS—Opened dull. KLOUlt—Weak 5@10c lower. WHEAT—In better demand flrirer.

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LARD—Woaker. HOGS—Firm. 1$ CORN—Strong and Ligheiv OAT—Easy. RYE—Unchanged. Sv BARLEY-Higber. Others unchanged.

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