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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-06

MIR. BEEcHER's CHURCH. The cor
respondent of the Richmond Times
gives the following description of
what he saw at Beecher's church on
the Sunday before last:
Mr.. Beecher's application of the
foregoing" consisted of a large and
varied assortment of first-class anec-
dotes, happy hits, humorous sallies
and pulpit pungencies, which would
have made the fortune of first-class
stump-speaker. The Puritans grimlv
grinned, smiled morosely, and some
times laughed outright. The young
people of the congregation Uttered
and ''sniggered" at an awful rate.
The decorum Of the vast assemblace.
however, was upset by Il large red
faced, good-looking gentleman, few
feet from me, and looked very like q
Southern man. He laughed until the
tears rolled from his eyes, but ma
naged generally to pre- vent any very
loud explosion OF merriment. Sud
denly, however, Mr. Beecher let off
an anecdote of parson whose muir
der grieving gregation deplored,
because ''the bullet of the assassin
made hole in the defunct minister's
vestments, and otherwise greatly da-
mayed what might have otherwise
been useful to his successor
The anecdote did not strike me as
very good, but suddenly my neighbor
exploded with a ''haw, haw, haw,"
which might have been heard a mile.
1t reverberated through the church
like trumpet, and was, of course,
infectious, and a mighty laugh went
up from four thousand people. MIR.
Beecher waited for the merriment to
subside, and then let off Il number of
other funny things. The comic part
OF the entertainment lasted for at
least thirty minutes, and was intense
ly enjoyed. Every one felt that Mr..
Beecher had done liberal thing in
getting up first-class Sabbath come
dy: free OF all charge to its auditors.
[ was struck with the significant
fact that there was not Il negro in Il
church whose pastor and whose wor-
shippers are all afflicted with NEGRO
on the brain"
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News Items.

WASHINGTON, December 5.-The Sena-
tors and Representative elect from Ne
bSaSka have arrived They will soon pre-
e'NT their State Constitution and memorial,
asking for admission A bill willhave to
be passed for this purpose.
MONTREAL, December 5.-A private let
ter states that the only surviving descend
ant OF Columbus is shortly to visit Ame-
rica.
\ large number of French Canadians are
returning from the States, for w-nt OF en-
ployment.
1t is reported here that u secret Fenian
IN eeting has been held at st. Adams. but
n3thing serious is anticipated
TORONTO, December 5.-A man named
Jos; McDevitt, hailing from New Bruins
WICK, has been arrested here for using
'edltlous language the Govern
ment to hang the Fenians. &c. He will be
examined to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, December 5.-Colorado
Jewctt is out in q memorial to Congress,
representing that the Constitution re-
CURED each State to appoint electors; that
Lincoln and Hamlin wero duly elected; that
at the election of Lincoln and Johnson
eleven OF the States did not appoint elect
ors.-therefore, Lincoln and Hamlin consti-
tutlonauy hold over until the late rebel
States appoint electors, Abraham Lincoln
being President either as holding over for
want OF Il constitutional successor, or Pre-
sldcrt under declaration of Congress.
Without the Southern electoral votes. it
was quite unnecessary to question his po-
sitlon. at his death, however, the ques-
ton should have been, who is constitu-
tlonally President, Hannibal Hamlin or
Andrew Johnson-Hamlin under the hold
over right of Lincoln, or Johnson through
electoral votes of States incomplete?
therefore respectfully pray that Congress
will declare Hannibal Hamlin constitu-
tlonal President OF the United States, and
duly authorize him to act as such with
Congress.
NASHVILLE, December 5-The Grand
Lodge OF Masons elected officers to-day. A
larger assemblage of the fraternity was
never before seen at Il Grand Lodge meet
ing IN Tenn essee. The delegates unite in
reporting more prosperous condition Of the
order all over the State than ever before
known in the annals of Masonry
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Besides getting the ''nigger" out
of politics, there is one other thing
necessary to be done to cure the dis
sensions now troubling the country.
There must be keg of gun-powder
burned under Plymouth rock. We
never can have peace until that rock
IS hoisted in fragments into the
atmosphere. We should think there
was great deal of moonshine about
the story of the Upas, were there not
dali y afforded evidence that Plymouth
rock is more poisonous to the mind
than the Upas is alleged to be to the
body The first and worst cargo of
emigrants to New England inoculated
the rock with virus which seems to
constantly increase in strength and
capacity to infect men with mischief,
meddlesomeness and meanness.
Chicago Times.
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A petition is being circulated
through Canada, asking the Home
Government to settle the Alabama
claims in order to prevent another
Fenian raid.
The Louisville Democrat thinks the
election of contrabands in Massa-
chusetts exhibits niggardly disposi-
ton.
Two armed negroes robbed and
attemptedto murder two ladies named
McBryde, in Marion District, few
days ago.
An English clergyman recently
preached sermon in which he said
that the newspaper was a part of life's
earnest self-culture.
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ANAnGAN1ATIoN IN MASSACHUSETTS.
The Savannah, Ga, Herald records
the marriage, in Boston, recently, of
Georgia freedman, named Henry
Gwinne, to Miss Abby N. Pidge,
white spinster o. Massachusetts,
The Herald says.
Many of our citizens will recollect
him as having formerly belonged to
the Rev. Peyton L..Wade, of Scriven
County, and having worked for
Messrs. E. G. Wade & Co., of this
city. The celebrated proclamation
of the late President Lincoln set him
free, and he went North to see how
his so-called friends would meet and
treat him. We have heard, from
Savannah men during their summer
trips, that Henry thinks ''there is no
place like Georgia to live in, after
all, but as long as he can make any
thing out of the Yankees, he is going
to try it on As he has got married
to white woman, who possesses good
looks, is of a respectable family, and
has a fair supply of money, it is very
doubtful if he returns to his native
State.
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The Orangeburg Times says that
three men, giving their names as Ma
thaniel Livingston, Archibald Martin
and Edward Neese, hailing from Lex
ington District, were, after Z, severe
fight, arrested by some freedmen,
who charged them with robbery. The
white men were lodged IN Orangeburc
Jail. Q
Mr.. Pollard, late Of the Richmond
E.canainer, issues a prospectus for q
new paper to be published in that
city, called "7he Southern Opinion"
During the past year the postal
service in the eleven seeded States
has paid for itself, and netted 1921. :
900 profit
Earl Russell's brother has been
before police court in London upon
charges of maltreating his. horse.
From recent experiments made by
the London Pneumatic Company, it
appears that one hundred and twenty
tons of goods can be sent through
their eighteen miles of tubes every
hour, at a cost of less than one penny
1.-TWO cents) per mile.
Since last January, 1868, 39S
quarts of milk have been sent to New
York over the Erie, the Harlem, and
the Hudson River Railroads.
Three large whales were seen in the
harbor off Fortress Monroe, a few
days ago.
The Indians on the Upper Missouri,
are said to be getting troublesome.
Several boats have been fired into
recently, and number of their pas
sengers killed.
Official returns from all the Coun-
ties in New York State, give ma
jority for Governor Fenton of 13, 745.
At the rate of progress we have
made for forty years past, the popu-
lation of the United States will be
over one hundred millions in the year
1900
The editor of the Chicago Times
finds that, in the negro suffrage bust
ness, he has been dancing a regular
break own.
COOP SIT.-It is said that the Col
lector of Custom at New York makes
S4o,oO year out of his office.
1t was recently decided in the
Sheriff's Court, in London, that
printers are liable to authors for the
return, when required, of copy en-
trusted to them.
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The London Star says the Ameri-
cans are pre-eminently a cosmopoli-
tan people. There is not court or
capital in Europe in which they do
not muster in force. There is not
an obscure nook in the by-ways of
trrvel in which they may not be
found, making themselves rs much
at home as if they were in the Fifth
Avenue of New York, or on the
prairies of Illinois.
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EMIGRATION TO TExAs.-The Hous-
ton CTexas) Telegraph, commenting
upon the immense influx &C emil
grants to that State, says that one
gentleman alone has thousand
souls, white people altogether, on the
way from Georgia to his lands in
Trinity county, in that State. 1t says
also, that Southeastern Texas is be-
ing densely populated by emigr nts
from all the Atlantic and Gulf ST.. s.
The exodus from this State, if true,
must be confined to the Northern
portion, as we are not apprised of
the existence of the "Texas fever" in
either Middle or Southern Georgia.
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No QUARTER FOR FEN1ASs.-The
declaration by telegraph from Canada
that the black flag would be raised in
case of another Fenian invasion,
causes much indignation among the
brotherhood. They declare their in
tention of going to Canada, whether
the condemned Fenians are hung or
not. A movement is said to be on
foot in Buffalo, n. Y, to send expe-
rienced officers, who served in the
late war, to Ireland.
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DECISION IN TENNESSEE. A Knox
vile date says In the Supreme
Court of the State, an important de-
cision was made in the case Of T. E.
Champion against the State, in
which the Judges held that circuit
Judge could not exclude attorneys
from his court by prescribing politi-
cal test oaths- Gen. Champion was
an officer of the Union army, and
denied the right of the Judge to
force him to swear to support all the
acts Of the present State Legislature.
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EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES
Nearly 1000 Germans now leave
Europe every week for the United
States in the Bremen and Hamburg
mail steamers. A company is estab-
lished at Copenhagen to encourage
the emigration Of Danes, Norwe-
glans and Swedes to the United
States. The children of all these
emigrants are taught the English
language as their mother tongue.
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Man STRUCK BY a FALLING STAR
The London Morning Adoertiser re-
ports that one of the falling stars
struck waiter named Pike, at
Thompson's Coffee House, in Shoe
Lane. Pike came to the editor of
the -1deer1ise7, and said that, while
standing in the middle of the street,
between Shoe Lane and Salisbury
Court, with no one near him, and
gazing upward, he became aware of q
burning sensation in the neck, upon
which he tore at his neck cloth, and
the next moment the burning sub
stance passed down his left breast,
scorching the shirt in it's course and
infiicting three small, but severe,
burns on the flesh, with one large
wound
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WHOLESALE PRosECUTIoN.-At the
recent session of the United States
Circuit Court, held at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, the grand jury made
more than 1000 presentments against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, for violating the revenue
laws in failing to stamp receipts for
freight.-Richmond Dispatch.
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A statue of Sir John Franklin,
erected in London, was unveiled on
tho 10Th ult. On the pedestal,
which is polished granite, there are
two bas-reliefs, one representing the
burial of Sir John Franklin, and the
other chart of the Polar seas. On
the other side Of the pedestal all the
names OF the men who perished in
the expedient are cut.
POSTAL SERVICE IN THE SOUTH
Among the facts to be made public
IN the forth coming post Office report,
1T IS said will be the announcement
that during the past year the postal
service III the eleven seeded States
has netted the Government over
5000, 600 profit. Before the war the
service In these States did not pay
expenses.
Trade ON THE MIssIssIPPI.-Th
New Orlerns journals are highly de-
lighted at being able to record that
trade is beginning to return to the
channels in use before the war. They
state that large quantities of flour
and other Western produce are once
more coming down the Mississippi
on their way to the Atlantic States.
No DocToRs IN THE FRENCH Sc
NATE.-Napoleon having been inform
ed that every profession but that of
medicine was represented in the
French Senate, determined that this
anomaly should no longer exist, and
accordingly promoted his physician.
DIR. Conneau, to q seat in the IIuxem-
.bourg.
A prominent Republican memb er
of Congress stated to-day that he and
quite number of his party intend
calling on the President in d day or
two, to pay their respects and have q
friendly talk with Mr.. Johnson upon
the political situation.
Data, IN Baltimore SIN.
1t is reported, on pretty good au-
thority, that an arrangement has
been made betwe n the Government
of France and the Government of
the United States, by which % certain
tract of territory in Mexico shall be
donated for the French colonization.
MANUFAcToRIEs. Es.-The cotton fac
tory at Cumberland, Allegany Co.
Maryland, is nov in full operation,
giving employment to forty hands.
AT Oakland, in the same county, q
large woolen mill has been erected,
and is soon to commence work.
A collision has occurred on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
four miles beyond Corinth, between
a passenger and a freight train. Both
were total wreck -Four persons
were killed and many wounded
A Nashville paper says there will
be a great deficiency in Tennessee
pork this winter, the cholera having
killed off the live stock to an alarm
ing extent.
GENERAL LEE.-!A writer in the
Danville Register nominates General
r. E Lee for Governor of Virginia,
at the election to be held in May
next
2S5 gallons of sorghum molasses
were made from one acre of cane this
season by a Rockingham (Virginia)
farmer.
The Navy Register for 1867, will
show that of 600 vessels in the navy
at the close of the war, there are now
but 294, mounting 1858 guns
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Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris.

WE have in store, and shall keep con-
w stantly on hand. q full stock of the
above, and offer to contractors and build
ers, and those in want Of the above. great
inducements. Apply to
LEVIN & MIKELL.
Corner Richardson and Taylor sts
Dec
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Tenders, Andirons, &c.

NNHE undersigned have just received
4 handsome assortment of TENDERS,
SHOVELS and TONGS, Brass Andirons,
Common and Fancy Fire Dogs Sc. Of their
reasonable prices. J. & t. Il. AGNEW.
Dec 8
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Pure Peruvian Guano.

TNHE subscribers have been appointed
~ agents for the sale of the above FER
llLlAEE from the importers and will sell
at New York prices. with expenses added.
For further particulars. apply to
LEVIN q MIKELL,
Corner Richardson and Taylor sts.
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FOR SALE or LEASE

A LARGE STORE, rs by % feet, with
IN two comfortable ooms attached, suit
able for counting rooms or offices, and
conveniently located for any business. Ap-
ply at this office. Dec s a
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

COLUMBIA, December 5, 1866.
n compliance with resolution passed at
Il the last regular meeting of the City
lumbia is called, THIS (Thursdav) MORN
ING, the 9th inst, at 10 o'clock, in Gibbes'
Hall, 10 take into consideration the pro-
priety of issuing new bills OF the corpora
ton, not to exceed in amount S5O, 900, for
the purpose of redeeming the present cir
culatlon and for other purposes.
Dec THEO. STARK, Mayor.
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Ne'c Rice, Cheese, Liquo,.s, &c.
BY LEVIN & PETXOTTO.

ON FRIDAY MORNING, 7th inst. at 10
O'Clock, We viii sell, at our store, without
reserve,
tierces new Rice, direct from the mill.
10 boxes superior Cheese,
boxes very superior French Brandy,
~ boxes SeSars, various brands,
Tobacco, Pipes, Cutlery,
tancy Millinery Goods, Wooden Hose,
Shoes, Hair and Clothes Brushes, Sc
Sale positive. Dec >
HS- CdrOiifti0lt copy.
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FOR SALE.
FOUND,
HOUSE TO RENT.

dUUSE TO RENT,
~ ON Main street, five squares below
fiIss State House, containing six square
<2lArooms and two basement rooms, to-
gether with all necessary out buildings,
such as Carriage House, Stables, Kitchens,
&c. Apply at this office. Dec
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SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON, DEC. $

ARRIVED YESTERDAY
Steamship Quaker City, West, New York.
Schr. Lilly, Francis, New York.
WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY.
Steamship Lulu, Childs, Baltimore.
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7''07VVV '-V'VO y IIVH"tItVIT 'WfIftlNIt
By LEVIN & PEIXOTTO.

THIS Thursday MORNING, at Aalf-past
10 O'Clock, We will sell, at the late resi-
dence of DR.. r. W. Gib3es, ,leceas "a.
All the Household FURNITURE belong
ing to said estate, consisting of:
Tables, Chairs, SOFAS, Bureaus. Bed
steads, Washstands, Mattresses, Feather
Beds, Looking Glasses, Crockelv and
glassware, and general variety OF aiti-
cles useful to hoNse-keepcrs. Dec 6
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@alow.
MiIch Cors, Carriage, DC.
Bv LEVIN & PEIXOTTO

THIS MORNING, previous to the sale of
furniture, we will sell, at the late resi-
cence OF DR.. II. W. Gibbes, deceased
A Family Carriage,
3 good Mich Cows. Dec 6
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-19
The Uar,c Marker.

Probably at 10 previous time during the past ten
years have there been sale in TweHyourtb
ST. ,s at present The high prices horsesn the country the
heavy duty On Canadian stock which virtually rules them out
Of tue market and tia Anticipated dulness Of the Summer
enhs all contribute this scarcity The demand does not
warrant mech increase however for since tho heated term
commenced, days there has literally been DO
tradesave ca FOR and railroad horses 20 make good
the heavy losses during the extreme heat Inc mortay
among horses caused by oyerwork in such hot weather. mas
been prcnt during tho past week. Coming from the market
today he lsh) dead and Dying horses were encoonleIeI
In ne street The raj cad always PROVIDE an extra
sr,ply In sdylnce for the hot work on SUMMER,
Tley break them in gradually changing on win inc fghr
work Ing teams green span put TO constant work ID ss
hot weather would break down. 50 great have been the
during rff few days that they nave 10 Duf Hey
even now paying SJd $50 EACH the average oeng ABOUT
s4O Carmen Cxprrssmen also have TO purchase some
bn-se. 10 make good trgr losses and reqfing hei'e
s thev pas 20 to 500 each unless they take up witn
small ana srcundrlte hOrses few good saddle or hnto
horses are selling czens and others St SOO " tl-soe
superior STYLISH animals. high as 500 when
ia nbon. tue price Of fine coupe horses Iheh
Of shipping TO Cuban lnoTs at all tho way from ESQ 10
"a per span though fncy par II syllsh pays wei
matched ana OF good sz brought SOO and single horse
od IN three incte $500 Some OF tho stepping horses
are held much higher es slow during the present
hot weather. There Is s another class, VlAi rejected or
condemned army horses and Tesod by the Government
at the close Of the These are ow-preed shmaS ana
BRING { - a1d $50. ~
To ann up (he trade good could be expected unh
The h0 vetlhe. ou when SW persons nj lDclod 70
purchase compel TO- good business antc jlteu
IN tho Fail provided DO had There Is an evident
carcy ~ such folds even lower priced horses
for ged1lcr and deal Tegogt them hard 10 ma IN Tue
cOustIy.
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cu,e at 20 discount to par and changed lcsrio pre-
p.fn IA wien Trey sold.
W Z. Wnrht's circnlar per Cnba saysi

W. T.
The market in this city last week dull ord p'ces ,
o one to twO cents particularly the lover gfadH es
low also made fOun The dock ana u HF9 nd
hos ness chiefly domestic consumers e't "a
20 DIV there was more demand consequence OF Tie
ne som Europe Some l,'le has been done ior ;b
the market closes very firm ~ ~ annexed ly 70
ed from list week the decline having es 1te
covered The sales tnce nv last have been w p
exports fr the week have beer 20 LTorpOoL fop''''
81, Bareelnna IS. Total 545 baes , a.. ,eoor,, ara
SorrurgV NAHyrTs-As received ny mail, tIe Itlr ~
rivcn in detail, they show that dgrng the "en enuiF V
Tuv only small business cone and Eeho4'' ~
of ibont 90 Der H. There does not aiPeNr ~ W. =
SINGLE sale made Tor European account IHo ,.l's "ee
aen.d IN tb onorations Of Northern buyers IHs VII ~
sone measure account fot the small qnah OIL svoh hen
hv snpusr ut of toe Ner.YOfk narArt I the PSF WV
,ontbs Frerlts we're eyefyWhere duD AND nomluel 10
Io,a mailing of, ring; "a Northern puts the raNs were
90 80 By telegram have WEEKS later operations
- ma ia ~ 9ncc has occurred either m proe or extent OF
bns,ss We ere pow In the midst Of midsummer inactivity,
and there wi be scarcely anything Of Interest TO write aooa'
until after September 4, o.,
be week have 10000 bales The telegraph adyces Tor
week make certain that next week they vii De ever
smaller The quantity arriving In the ports Is BOW on SO snh
A scale that lite Is paid 10 the hsufc INC
export cunnucs on limited scale ir the week, Ony o1o
bales Of Which 800 bales 10 Great Britain Yesterday amer
n receipt Of Liverpool adyces " Jny there was some Ia
q1i for freight and IL is hke that We may export fa'nef
more freely Tor some weeks -, ,
The NEW CRoPThc weather has continued faVOraoe anu
far progress being made with the glowing crop Tue 1en
will help plant IN aud large sections me srOwa
but with al the advantages OF recent
weather be supposed The crop ~ mace OF even W
yOnd the reach Of many contingencies.
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ph;,ode,,hin Cnu,e marhct-JuLY IL.

The narks. for Beef cattle this week quite dali The
offerings amounted 10 only $50 head; sales were made at
from s6eSi7 = 100 u Er fair 10 god and from 81 200
: c Tor pane u stock. - l., -,
sHErP-Tas market was eetve ard sheep were IN good
demand at oraer rates, the amounted ~ 1900 head at
prices ranging from 6a6Ie. y ID gross. - , soo
IoGs-Ihesemand f,r Hogs rather bettor and LOUD
head we're soil al from 5fds4 80 v no net according 70
quality. . .od %
CoWs-This marker continues dull the sales amounted 20
300 head so SIS Spnges, and from sOSsS'
for Mich COws
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ably little sprung" dumped into The docT 70 yep
prie es M but sold for lie n, and veal az &c w
Thermometer at and Is almost Impossible 20 Aeep ne
meat Of heavy bullock fresh. In snch week os ~VyO
head tie and 5000 sheep end lamDs are I Guy
200 MANY and have Knocked the market higher tnap kite.
ard growers than bears Lambs are IT "a 81 70
81 20 lower beef t. q lower. and they were Ho al soa
steay and butchers think they shall he able 20 buy still
Cheaper before sunown One LOT Of 100 Vermont saeep gess
WEIGHT 525 10 was sold az ec n. smopnnus - 81 ~ per
nod Newfneand grass.fed and Young cattle AZ lc
20 2Ic We wers told that commission bmbs which stood At
20 without bar bill comronsee al " 20 as thej S'ooa
IN ct