Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 July 1885 — Page 4

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I- THURSDAY, JULY 23,1885

GOVERNOR HILL and ex-Mayor Cooper are said to have about equal chances for securing the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York.

WHEN our townsman Bayless W. Hanna reaches his mission in the Argentine Republic it will be midwinter there and the weather will be cool and pleasant.

BEECHES is chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment New York State Guards. Saturday he was photographed in his full regimentals. Brother B. belongs to the church militant

BOAT builders about the Ohio falls at Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville are encouraged to believe that some of the new 6teel cruisers of the government may be built in their yards. They have demonstrated that it will be very easy for the cruisers during high water to go down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the gulf and the sea.

THE Mahone Republican convention of Virginia, which nominated John S. Wise for Governor, among its other resolutions adopted one ."demanding pensions for Confederate soldiers." This is the first convention which ever asked for anything of the kind. Ani let it be understood that it is a Republican convention which makes the demand. What new piece of treason will this old party be guilty of now that it is the minority?

GORSUCH, the anarchist, in his bloody ^speech at Cleveland, said, among other things: "Defy the city authorities, defy your employers, and use weapons. The laborer must have his revenge, and f'the way to accomplish this is to murder the capitalist, murder his wife, murder =his child." Too much publicity cannot be given to these fiendish utterances. .Nothing else is needed to brand their author in the minds of American workingmen with unspeakable abhorrence.

THE opinion of the attorney general relative to the Dolphin is going to be tested in the courts. Mr. Roach has no mind to have a rejected gunboat on his hands and to disgorge the large sums already received. The opinion of Mr. Garland has already frightened intending government contractors from making bids on some contracts that were offered. If it will have the effect of making those who undertake government work find that it will no longer be a soft pap to obtain contracts, but that iV the government is to deal with business matters on busi ness principles, millions will be saved the oountry directly and the most fruitful source of corruption will be cut off.

THE prohibition laws of Iowa, according to statistics reported by city officials in the most considerable cities and towns of the state have been a conspicuous failure. In twenty-nine of the chief cities the number of saloons and groggeries has increased by 150. These abortive prohibitory efforts have had ni most places the effect of relieving saloonkeepers of the license tax without promoting the cause of temperance, and of depriving tSereby the state of no insignificant source of revenue. Naturally the deficit has to be made good heavier taxes laid elsewhere. Thus the main result of this legislation seems to be the exemption of dram-sellers. The current of Democratic sentiment in the state seems to be turning in favor of high license.

JOHN ROACH'S failure is very much of a surprise. But in view of the fact, stated with a great deal of confidence by his attorney, that he can pay two dollars for every dollar of his indebtedness, it would seem that Mr. Roach has pros pered a very great deal in his business during the last twenty years. Very few bankrupts can pay more than twenty-five cents on the dollar, so that when one can pay two hundred per cent' the natural inquiry is why an assignment was neccessary. With the execution of the four years when our townsman, Col. Thompson, was Secretary of the navy, the bulk of Roach's business has been in building and repairing ships for the U. S. navy. He is generally credited with having had a pretty "soft thing" of it Now, however, that the navy has passed for an indefinite period into hands from which Roacfi can expect nothing but justice and fair competition, with no favoritism and soft jobs, he probably realizes that his occupation is gone. Undoubtedly ships can be built in this country as staunch and as cheap as elswhere. But in order to do it the materials which enter into their construction must be permitted to enter the country free from all custom duties. And the time and the money spent in lobbying about Washington must be put in at the ship yards. A real ship yard ought now to arise at Chester on this wreck.

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OF all the nonsense afloat the very worst is the attempt to work up sympathy for John Roach as a martyr to the animosity of Secretary Whitney. Very properly Secretary Whitney refused to aocept the Dolphin until she was shown to be equal to the requirements of the contract. But even then that was only a "matter of about fifteen thousand dollars, for all the rest had been paid. But that aside, if John Roach cannot keep his business afloat, a matter by the way he has not always been successful with in his ships, except by a oontinuanoe of the rascally arrangements that existed between him and Secretaries Ohandler and Robeson, then the greatest possible blessing that could have befallen this country is his retirement from business. Inasmuch, however, as he fails full handed, with assets worth two or three times his liabilities, according to his own statement, it does not seem that he is an object of sympathy, especially at this time, when hundreds of abler and more honest men Are breaking up all over the country and breaking up empty handed. What John Roach needs is a sea voyage in one of his own boats if he wants to know what being really swamped means.

GOSSIP has been busy during the past week in arranging a policy for the President on the subject of official changes. First, says a Correspondent, it was announced that the President had ordered a practical halt in the old business of removing Republican officeholders on charges of offensive partisanship. This was quickly denied, and during the last day or two the gossips have been ringing the changes on anew rumor, saying with mysterious looks that the President has consented to let the bars down, so removals will be made wholesale during the next two weeks. It cannot be learned that there is any basis for this statement any more than there was for the earlier rumor which it has replaced. It is undeniable that there is lees oomplaining by the prominent Democrats who are in the city than there was, but that is not due to a change of policy by the President, but rather to the fact of his real policy being better understood, so that it iB now realized that there is after all small difference of opinion on this point between the President and the party leaders, who have b£en inclined to criticize him.

Secretary Lamont is a probable appointee to the Marshallship of the District of Columbia. As private secretary of President Cleveland, his salary is only S3,500, or $500 less than it was when he was secretary .to Governor Cleveland. The salary attached to the Marshallship is $8,000. The duties of the position require him to be at the White House a large portion of his time and as, Marshall he could give the President the benefit of his counsel and advice, upon which it is said President Cleveland greatly relies.

AND now your uncle Joseph E. McDonald is talked of as successor on the supreme bench to 8 to 7 Joseph E. Bradley, who becomes 70 years old next January and may then retire. McDonald would be a great improvement on Bradley. Waite, Miller and Field all reach the retiring age next year, so that President Cleveland will have an opportunity of infusing considerable new blood and brains into the Supreme Court

JOHN ROACH did not found the shippard at Chester, Pa. He bought it at sheriff's sale for $40C,000, when it was really worth $2,000,000. It had been built up by Rennie & Neafie, and Roach became rich on the ruin of these men. A fine opportunity is offered now for somebody else to make some money out of the misfortune of Roach, just as he did twenty years ttgo.

MARYLAND husbands are disgusted at the discovery that the law which punishes husbands with the whipping post for beating their wives has no reversible attachment, and that a wife can beat and scratch her husband to her heart's content without fear of the cat-o'-nine-tails.

THE Louisville Courier-Journal says: Roach has failed, but his creditors need not be alarmed. Among his assets is the Hon. Bill Chandler, who is worth a fortune in himself. Under the new system of government, when Congress, the Attorney General and the courts are abolished, and the duties thereof performed by this gentleman, the rent of the Hon. "Sill for this purpose will more than satisfy all their claims against Roach.

WASHINGTON bids fair to become the seat of a great Roman Catholic university. Already subscriptions to the amount of $5,000,000 have been raised.

AFTER all their worry it now transpires that President Cleveland did not

go fishing on Sunday. What will the vadioal press do (or an issue?

BY a recent decision of the Postoffice department a postmaster who uses postal funds as his own during the interval of his depositing them at the end of a month or of a quarter is to be deemed guilty of embezzlement.

CHICAGO mail carriers are permitted so wear straw hats. Nor is there any uniformity about the style, white hats with blaok bands being the only regulation, and within these limits one hundred styles are possible.

DR. KOBLY STEVENSON.

Welt Pleased With What He Has Seen of the Sioux Agency. The place to which Dr. Robly Stevenson has gone as surgeon in the Sioux agency to take the office lately filled by Dr. Melrath, has many difficulties to surmount. The Indians require a great deal of blffiung to keep them within bounds and they still cling to their medicine when superstitious. When he last wrote to his father, Rob said he found the plaoe not so rough as he had expected and thought he would take the position. Messrs. W. H. Armstrong & Co., recently received from Dr. Melrath some Indian tanned buckskins which are considered much stronger and better than those tanned by the whitea The doctor expects to be here before long.

Lockport Locals.

Barnum claims to have shot an ele pliant because it killed one of its keepers and now old Phineas is reaping his reward of gratuitous notices, of which this is a sample, Barnum's peculiar gift is in getting publishers into what may be called the nine hole, where they have to print about him to keep up with the news procession.

The funeral services were held on Monday evening, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Tyler, north Seventh street, the Rev. Mr. Kummer officiating, whence the remains were taken to Woodlawn cemetery and deposited in their la&t resting place.

Marshall man Gets

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

The Riley Normal Institute opened last Monday morning with an enrollment of fifteen. We are glad to see our boys and girls trying to rise in the scale of teaching.-—Some of our citizens visited the Clay City Lodge of F. and A. Masons last week. They report the lodge in good condition and loudly praise their work. The people of southern Riley and Pierson townships are somewhat excited over the prospect of getting a railroad from Lockport through those town* ships to the rich coal fields of Sullivan and Greene counties. Such a road would develop a vast amount of wealth in those counties which now lies buried -The board of health, recently organized in our village, has done much toward improving the sanitary condition here. The garbage and filth from the streets and alleys is rapidly disappearing.

MIBABILE DICTU.

OBITUARY.

MISS BESSIE STEWART.

On Sunday, July 19th, at high noon, Miss Bessie, the fourth daughter and sixth child of Wm. H. and Julia Stewart, died at their oountry home ten miles northeast of the city, after a short illness of typhoid fever. She was twentyfour years of age in the very flush and bloom and high hope of young womanhood. When the aged die there is a sense of fitness that softens the grief and dulls the pangs of separation, but to see the young and hopeful, who have set so much by the unfulfilled promises of life, wither and fade before our eyes, is more than Bad it is a calamity.

The deceased was of the most kind, entle and-loving disposition, ever stuious to soothe the sorrows of others and to conceal her own. She was vivacious and brilliant in conversation her companionship drove away all shadows her filial and sisterly love was unwavering in devoti.m her friendship earnest and strong, and without tiint of selfinterest. She knew no creed nor dogma, and valued no religion but uprightness of life and purity of heart and as she had lived without reproach she died without feur, but only with a pitiful regret that she must leave those whom she loved so dearly for as she was the first one-of the family whom death has claimed, she could not but feel that there were fewer dear ones to welcome her there than mourn her going hence. She was the life and light of the household, and her bereaved relatives share their sorrow with a large circle of friends who mourn her untimely death.

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MARSHALL, HI., July 22.—[GAZETTE special.]—Mr. H. C. Bell, of this place, has been appointed Chief of the Agents Division in the Pension Department. The salary is $2,000 per year. Mr. Bell was a private in Company K. 29th Indiana Vol. Infantry. He enlisted at Terre Haute, Ind., in Ooctober 1864 when he was only a little past fourteen years old. The appointment gives great satisfaction here to men of all parties.

Mr. Bell started for Washington today.

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PRESIDENT GEORGE P. BROWI^

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George P. Brown, ex-president of the Normal school has been appointed general western agent of Barnes &

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immense publishing house of New York

will make his headquarters at Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Brown went to Chicago this morning where the com pany has their principal branch house, to receive instructions from a member of the firm. Mr. Brown will arrive here about the middle of the week about the latter part will leave for Topeka. He has the agency for Kansas and Nebraska and it is a very fine thing as the house is one of the largest in the world. Mr. Brown's mother will go out there in September. A large number of Terre Hauteans are in Topeka which will make it very pleasant for Mr. Brown as a place of residence.

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I THE CLEVELAND STRIKE.

The Men Being Paid Off I oday CLEVELAND, O., July 18.—All is quiet and peaceful at the scene of the strike today. The day will be devoted to the payment of strikers' wages, an event that has anxiously been looked forward to in some quarters, but there are no indications of trouble. The men began to assemble early, but "have indulged in no fierce or warlike demonstrations. Those employed in the wire mills, about 1,500 in number, are being paid their stipends at the mill office. Only the men working in a single department are allowed in the works at a time. There are ten such departments in the wire mill, and the men after receiving their pay depart without any dissension. The 2,000 men employed in the other branches of the mill will receive their money this afternoon at the regular pay office on Jones avenue. The entire morning was spent in giving them their due bills. They also are quiet and orderly. The money required to pay the men was brought to the mills under a strong guard at 4 o'clock this morning. None of the men in the mill had checks, and their money was paid as usual. It is understood that the checks possessed by all the strikers will be taken from them when they aie paid their wages.

Telegraph Office Burns.

PHILADELPHIA, July 18.—Fire broke out about 2 o'clock this morning in the operating room of the Western Union Telegraph company, on the fourth floor of the Mutual Life Insurance building on Tenth and Chestnut streets. In a comparatively short time, the entire room was gutted, chairs, tables and instruments, including duplex and quadruple! instruments or considerable value being destroyed. A handsome and valuable switchboard was also destroyed. Only a few operators were on duty at the time, and after sending an alarm, they made a hasty escape from the room. The prospects at noon are that the company will be able in a few hours, ready to handle business The fire is supposed to have been caused by an electric spark carried into the office on a wire which had come in contact with an electric light wire. Many of the company's wires connecting with other cities do no enter the main office, but work directly from the principal branch offices at Third and Chestnut streets, and the business to that extent is therefore not interfered with.

Joliet Penitentiary on' Fire.

ST. LOUIS, July 18.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Joliet, Ills., says that a furious fire raged within the walls of the state penitentiary at that plaoe all night, originating in the cooper shop. It spread so rapidly that it soon threatened to eat up all the wooden structures in the enclosure. The fire got beyond the control of the prison fire department. The mayor was called upon and he promptly sent one steamer to the aid of the prison authorities. At a late hour this morning, the fire was subdued. The loss to the state is at least $25,000. J. W. Winterbotham & Sons, contractors, lose $75,000. The prisoners behaved heroically, and the trustees worked like Trojans in fighting the fire.

HOT WEATHER.

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NEW YORK, July 18.—The weather here today is sultry and close. The thermometer at noon was 90. Up to that hour today six cases of sunstroke were reported. The health board reports that this week there were 1019 deaths in the city against 870 in the corresponding week last year. Of this number 395 were from diarrhocal diseases 613 were children under five years of age.

At 3 p. m. the thermometer marked 93 in the shade. Two additional sunstroke cases were reported in this city and three on Long Island.

MARY BALDWIN'S MURDER

Coroner's Investigation ot the Case. ATCHIN30N, KS., July 18.—The coroner's jury in the Mary Baldwin murder case, after an investigation lasting since July 8th, returned a verdict at 3 o'clock this morning, charging William Baldwin, the dead girl's brother, with the crime. The murder was the most shocking, atrocious and cold blooded that ever occurred in this community.

The victim, who was temporarily occupying the family residence alone, having been surprised in her sleep by the murderer and overcome with chlroform. As it became evident at once that the object of the crime was not burglary, suspicion immediately attached to young Baldwin, who would be especially benefitted financially by the removal of his sister. The chain of evidence, however, is not complete, and unless some new circumstances develop before the final trial, he will hardly be convicted.

Wl "MEXIC0BILL.""

An Erratic Genius of the Rio Grande at tn& National House. Yesterday a tall, magnificently built man, with long black hair, and wearing abroad brimmed sombero and a blue flannel shirt open at the neck, registered at the National House as "Mexico Bill, Rio Grande. His strange attire and striking appearance immediately made him an object of attention. In the evening he was the center of a large circle of travelling men and guests of the hotel, and deeply interested them by his fine conversation.

Fa rringtort Items.

Married—On Thursday evening July

the hottest day of the season, the ther mometer registering 104 at 2 p. m. Farmers are right in the midst of oats and hay harvest.——Mr. and Mrs. Ches. Johnson, were visiting relatives at Jewett, HI., last week. John Taylor threshed 383 bushels of wheat last week from 20 acres of Clear Creek bottom land which yield is a trifle over 19 bushels per acre.

NEWS IN BRIf

W. C. Halley, drugs, Mt. Carmel, I1L, failed. Philadelphia is entertaining the Mexican editors.

Mrs. Emma Gaunt was murdered by her husband at Jersey City, N. J. The people of Holden, Mo., will indicate by vote, on August 1st, whom they want for postmaster.

The Mormons are indignant because the troops in Utah were not sent to the Indian territory.

The Senate territorial committee will report against the admission of New Mexioo as a state.

The troops defending the Kansas border are prepared to make short work of the Cheyennes.

Suits for injuries received by natural gas explosions in Pittsburg last spring have been begun.

M. M. Baker of Hamburg, Io., deserted his wife and five children and eloped with Mrs. Townsend.

John Howard was killed and Van Horn Bailey shot and cut in a family fight in Lee county, Kentucky.

H. T. White, of Jamestown, N. Y., has been arrested charged with the ruin of twenty young girls under 10 years of age.

Gov. Hubbard, of Minnesota, has issued a call for delegates from nates interested in river improvement to attend a convention in St. Paul, September 3d.

The Dublin press is divided in opinion as to the merits of the land purchase bill. has restriction

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The Ottawa Senate anti-Chinese amendment.

assed the without

bill,

Thirty thousand Russian Poles, of whom 4.000 are Jews, have been ordered to leave Eastern Prussia.

Eunis (Ireland) shareholders of the Munster Dank have come to its assistance with a call of 30s. per share.

A French aeronaut, who made an ascension on the 14th insl, on the French coast, is thought to be drowned.

The Freeman's Journal, Dublin, is elated over what it calls concessions to Ireland by the new British government.

The king of Bavaria wants "our Mary" to play "Pygmalion and Galetea,'' for his sole and only amusement in his theatre.

At a meeting of shareholders of the Munster bank in London, liquidation was opposed and action taken to reconstruct the bank.

The report that the German crown prince and his wife were not invited to Princess Beatrice's wedding is untrue. They are her special guests.

Baron de Staal had a conference with members of the English oabinet on the Afghan question at which Sir Peter Lumsden special courier was present.

At the inspection of Canadian volunteers at Wimbledon the Duke of Cambridge eulogized their proficiency and complimented them on their conduct in the Canadian Northwest.

Refrigerator Car.

P. J. Kaufman is having the Terre Baute Car Works build a refrigerator car in the rear of hie grocery: It is twenty feet long and resembles a regular car all but the wheels. His losses in warm weather have been serious and 88 he handles large quantities of perishable stuff the car will be a source of aaving. From 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of ice are put in at one time. Kaufman

roposes to keep watermelons on ice. the most desirable features about these cars is that the cold produced is dry, the only kind which will preserve fruit. A wet handkerchief placed in it will shortly become dry.

A Case of Destitution.

R. C. Childs, the head of the Childs family, mention of whose condition was made in the GAZETTE of yesterday, for the past month has been living in Topeka, Ks. He has been out cf work for several months past and his finances are at a low ebb, but he succeeded about a month ago in getting work at Topeka, Ks. He came home because of the drowning of his son. He expects to return to Kansas on Saturday. Since he has been there he has sent home considerable money to his family and expects to continue to do so until be brings them out to be with him. He is reported to the GAZETTE as being a hard working man, who is doing his best to lift himself and family out of the destitute condition to which they have' been reduced by his inability to get work.

John McCullough.

PHILDELPHIA, July 18.—The commission to decide the insanity of John McCullough met today. Monday they will formally declare him a lunatic. Property questions turn on the decision.

Denies the Courtship Story. James S. Foley says the romantic story of his courtship and marriage on the second meeting with his wife as printed in the GAZBTTE night before last, is a tissue of falsehoods. It was related by an attache of Foley's house who says he got it from Foley himself

Nat. Goodwin Visited by Burglars. BOSTON, July 18.—The cottage at Ocean Spray, of Nat Goodwin, the comedian, was entered by burglars last evening while the inmates were in the front part of the building. Property of considerable value was taken. A little later the Shirley House, at Point Shirley, was entered and robbed of valuables.

Splendid Oats.

Several heajs of oats raised on the farm of JamesT)enton, in Pierson Town-„

the 16th, Mr. Joe Rollins to Miss Ella I ship,were brought to the GAZETTE office Gore of Dennison. Last Sunday was!

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0ne of heads 18 19 mches

long ami all are nearly that length. The grains are full and plump and sound. It is the best oats seen so far this year. It is of the Russian variety. Can anybody beat it?

For

over a quarter of a century,

sicians have prescribed Nichols' Bark and Iron as a reliable and valuablerem -edy for dyspepsia andgeneral debility.

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VINCENNES.

Water Works—Love's Young Dream —A Fat Office—Minor Mention.

VnroawirM, Ind., July 18,1885. After a series of disastrous fires, our aldermanic statesmen have consented to submit a water works proposition to the voters of this place, the election to occur on the 25th inst It is thought the proposition will carry but there are? some old fogies who oppose it.

The Knox county court house cost about $285,000 and is a magnificent^ structure, bnt the aooonstic properties properties of the court room are miserable. To remedy this defect, the commissioners have appointed a committee, consisting of F. W. Viehe, George G. Reily and S. N. Chambers, three of our' prominent attorneys, to correspond with architects and devise some mwnw by which a man can hear hinmalf when speaking in this temple.

Mr. Joseph Roseman, for probably twenty years connected with the Vin-j cennee postoffice, has'been retained

Postmaster Kackley as distributing clerk. $ Mr. Shouse has been appointed special pension examiner at a salary of $1,600 a year. Mr. Shouse is a onearmed soldier who came out of the lata war us good a Democrat as any other1 man.

The rebuilding of the Vincennes manufacturing wofks and the foundry, lately destroyed by fire, will greatly depend upon the construction of water works.

Miss Ella Beillv, to the great disgust of her mother, feu in love with a handsome street car driver of thin city, by the name of Jere Vest, and the two were clandestinely married Wednesday evening, creating quite a flutter in the family circle. The bride is aged twentytwo years, and old enough to know what sheisdoing.

Capt. Wm. H. Watson, ot the Eightieth Indiana regiment, a brother 'of Bob Watson, of Terre Haute, is visiting-J his relatives here. Capt. W. has for many years been a resident of Peoria. HL

ALL persons afflicted with fits or convulsions are invited to call at my store,: northeast .corner of Sixth and Ohio: streets, and get a sample bottle of Dr. Lindley's fit cure free. This is the only reliable cure for this disease in the market and the afflicted now have an opportunity to try it free of cost.

J. E. Sons,

Corner Sixth and Ohio.

35000.

We call eBp€ci&l attention to the above figures and that there is no question in our mind that our of 35,000. Rolls of choicest

Wall Papers

In designs, patterns and coloring the most fastidious can be fully and satisfactorily suited. The stock embraces some very choice patterns from French, German and English manufacturers. We would respectfully offer the fellow*

Inducements:

The largest and choicest stock to se-iv lect from. Our thorough knowledge of the business thereby enables us to assist you in making wise selections.

Our very low prices. Fair and honest dealing with courteous treatment,

We have also secured the services of 1 v-

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Having purchased as assignee's sale last fall the stock of C. H. Traquair, win offer all that is left of the same at exceedingly low prices.

Thankful for tne large patronage ex tended to us in the past, would solicit and hope to merit a continuance of the same in our new quarters,

673 Main Street,

Five doors west of Seventh Street, south side.

THE W. ROBERTS C0J

TO CLOSE OUT STOCK.

Tte Dttatar Hardware Company

WILL SELL

Quaker City Lawn Mowers, 12 inch, at' $ 9:00" 14 inch, at 10:50 ARE GUARANTEED SUPERIOR TO

ALL OTHER CENTER CUT MACHINES.

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