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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-25
IOWA ITEMS

There is to be grand Republican rally
at Muscatine on Thursday. Gen. Prentiss,
Senator Grimes, Hon. Robt. J. Ingersoll Of
Illinois, Hon. s. J. kirkwood and Hiram
Price are announced as speakers. Il e
Capt w. B. Brunton, of the Second
Iowa Cavalry, has been promoted to Lieu.
tenancy in the 9th United States Cavalry.
That regiment is now in Texas.
The Lyons Mirror gives the particulars
of murder occurring near Camanehe q
Sometime on fhe 18th man on Beaver Is
land. near Camanche, found a dead body
hanging to the projecting limb of willow
tree. The limb was about two and half
feet above the water, and the rope tied
around the neck with hard knot. He was
taken to Camanche and coroner's jury em-
paneled, who proceeded to hold IN inquest
An examination showed that there was bnl
let wound in the head, the ball having en-.
tered the left temple and coming out on the
top of the head. The body was supposed to
have been IN the water about two weeks, and
was past ell recognition. 1t was about Eve
feet and ten inches in height; had on knit
blouse and jean pants the pockets were
turned out, small key remaining in the
watch pocket. Tracks were discovered lend
ing to and from the river by the tree. The
jury returned a verdict that the deceased
came to his death by foul play. The banging
was perhaps done to create supposition that
the death Of the victim was the result Of a
suicide, but the preparation of the rope will
dIsprove that, while the wound from the bull
let was plainly the cause. Who was the muir
derer, or who the murdered, are entirely
matters of conjecture.
-The'Hark Eye says that $50 was stolen
Thursday night last from safe in the mill of
Lyman b Berdeu, New London, Henry
county.
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1T. Pill AS A nj, IOWA,
On October LIST, 1867.

EALkBIIuE NAH MEnbh, FTopffetof.
AroIPH SoHIoDrI, Agent, II. Pisessnt, Iowa
11Tcr any information in regard to the character
address Capt W. A. eInoEs, Chairman, Capt J. wsRfx
DAnrrI Roof, Committee, ". @. GHOST any citizen
of Mt Pleasant. Y
A1-ncksts can be procured 81 =. Hammers Music ard
Je~elry stsre Asin Street bet~ 4th and 9th aud
o. Hardwig voss, Keokak Bakery. Main STREET between
sih and 9TH ijyl1-dtooct1
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WASHINGTON.
More Cabinet Changes Rumored-
The Radicals and North Carolina
Southern Property-The Pres
ident's Message.

New YORK, November "a Washing
ton special says that excellent authority
states that the President has determined
to make changes in his Cabinet, and thai
Henry F. Smythe, of New York, has
been rendered the position of Postmaster
General or Secretary of the Treasury
either. 1t is said that Reyerdy Johnson
will be rendered the position of Secretary
OF State; also, that Assistant Secretary
Chandler will resign on the 3lst Of De-
cember, and there are host of appli-
cants for the place.
The Times special says the Postmaster
Generals report will this year show a
deficiency, instead of small surplus.
The indications are that the Republi-
cans will carry North Carolina in the
coming election.
General Grant has issued a circular,
stating that much property abandoned by
the rebels during the war has since been
occupied by them without making the
required application for IFS restoration !;
and all such property will be formally
taken possession of by the Government,
on the first of January next, and rented
to refugees and freedmen.
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PSs~ Col. McCardle, of the Vicksburg
Times, has been arrested for expressing
somewhat too freely his opinion of King
Ord, or of his subordinate at Vicksburg;
and is represented as being cruelty con-
fined in cell seven feet by nine. The
abuse of Col. McCardle, which we have
observed as directed to Ord himself,
whether deserved on the part of General
Ord or not, had personal reference to him
as an individual, and was susceptible of
personal redress. It had no effect TO
weaken or bring into contempt the office
which he held or the authority Of the
government under which he acted, and
was not intended to do 80 on the part of
McCarde. No one so understood it.
The arrest was a mere means Of obtain
ing personal satisfaction, and amounts
TO nothing more. And thus meanly is
the power of the government prostituted
TO the base purposes of private revenge.
The very offense which Gen. Ord pun
ished in the case Of the Camden Eagle
has been committed by his subordinate
at Vicksburg, and we shall see whether
he will now deal with this in the same
manner.
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Convention of white Mem Called.

A Charleston special says the follow
ing circular has been extensively circu.
lated throughout the various districts
in this State, addressed to the most
prominent citizens:
SIR: We respectfully invite you to
cooperate with the committee in secur
ing the attendance of delegates to a
meeting, to be held in this city on
Wednesday, at pm, on the 9th OF
November, to take into consideration
the object named To this end you are
earnestly requested to send the ablest
representative men in your district-say
five or ten in number, who you are
assured will act tremendously in behalf
of the interest of the white citizens of
South Carolina A correspondence with
influential public men at the North has
satisfied us that convention held for
the purpose of expressing the will of our
intelligent and respectable people. will
be Of incalculable benefit to the State,
and the call therefore has been advisedly
issued.
The chief business to be done by the
convention will be to issue an address to
the people of the State and country, ex-
pressive Of their opposition to the policy
which gives the negro the control of the
ballot-box ard the jury box; to memo
rialize Congress to reconsider the recon-
struction bills, aud remove the existing
obstacles TO q fall, true and harmonious
expression of the intelligent public
opinion of the people of the State; to
adopt such measures as will influence
all citizens to oppose, in a proper and
lawful manner, all schemes which are
calculated to result in negro domination
and the utter destruction of the best in.
5000. &c tba Ctata
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The works of the Company have been sus--
pended, by an injunction granted by the United
States District Court, at the instance OF the
Memphis Gas Light Company.
An appeal has been taken from the same to
the Supreme Court Of the United States, which
will meet next month. We are confident of our
ability to set the injunction aside. when the
works will be resumed with renewed energy
and rapidly pushed through to completion.
The, damages sustained by. you by this stop
page, the Memphis Gas Light Company will be
held strictly aecoun tabie for, and OF which you
will be participants;
You are aware large amount of work has
been executed. at considerable cost, and ac-
counts still outstanding which must be paid;
also in prosecuting the appeal. money 10 re-
quired it is therefore to be hoped the Stock
holders will promptly comply with the above
call. They are legally bound for their respect
i've amounts subscribed. Unpleasant as it may
be to us, we will be forced in the event of non
paymen. to place the aims in the hands Of
our Attorneys, with instructions to take imme-
diate legal stems for recovery fthe same.
Respectfully,
Gn John DONOVAN, President
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ALABA MA.
Procee dings OF the Reconstruction
Convention-More Disffanchise.
ment.

MONTGOMERY, November 9.-'rhe Re-
construction Convention, on test vote,
yesterday, tabled, by vote of 40 to AZ,
the proposition to abolish the present
Provisional Government within thirty
days.
An ordinance was introduced and re-
ferred, to organize a Provisional Gov
eminent for the State, vaeating all the
important State Offices on the first OF
January and Provisional Governor to
be appointed by the Convention who
shall fill all Offices by men who can sub
scribe to the test oath. A resolution
was also introduced and referred, to
disfranchise oil persons implicated in
the murder of Union men during the war
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Divorces Not So Rasily Obtained a. Sons
People Imagine.

A great many people imagine that oil
that is necessary to obtain a divorce in
the courts of Indiana, is TIE mere filing
of complaint, the necessary legal pub
lieation, and the payment OF costs. This
idea may be correct as regards some
parts Of the State, but it is quite an
erroneous one so far as the courts IN this
circuit and common pleas district is
concerned
Out Of sixteen applications for divorce
in the Common Pleas Court at the DC
tober term, but two we're granted. OF
the thirty two cases pending in the Cir.
cult Court, now in session, but two or
three DEGREES have 80 far been ordered.
Both Judge Jewett and Judge Bicknell
regard the marital relation as a holy one,
aud they require the most positive evil
dence that there is just cause for disco
luton Of this relation before they will
grant q decree annulling it.-Nel0 Al
bany Ledger, 5fh
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king. -nn the LIST Of November, 1871, oiyel
low fever. Sue y. King. daughter Of 4. and {!
II. Hiestand. aged - years, months and II
days.
The deceased possessed excclenelos which
greatly cndeared her to her family. the church
and large circle of friends. We have COM
mitted her beauteoua form to tho grave. amid
the falling Of the autumn leaf aud In the
spring time Of her life.
She has been taken from the pleasures oil
earth. from fond anticipations of happiness I;
yet we believe tho exchange has beon blessed
one TO her.
We mourn for the breach In The family circle
made by her removal, and for the bright hopes
Of her family and friends, now buried In an
early grave.
ALAS | wo all do fade as tho leaf"
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THE NEWS.

The Democrats in Washington are betting
on As 900 majority in New York.
The Presidents message will be withheld
until d December lst.
A Washington dispatch. abiding to military
organizations in that city and through the
South, says all are without warrant oflaw. An
old act of Congress provides that all military
volunteer organizations in the District Of
Columbia shall be under the control of the
President, who is authorized to commission
the officers, and is, in fact. clothed with ike
powers Of State Governors in the control OF
their local militia. These forces In Washing
ton, white and black. have been organizing
contrary TO this law. Their officers have not
been commissioned by the President, and
they are responsible to no one. hold drills
have public parades, etc. The President re-
CARDS these organizations rs dangerous in their
character, and they must be suppressed. His
order is directed against both whites and
blacks. He has also ordered the increase Of
the regulars garrisoniDg the various forts in
the Department Of Washington. This depart
ment embraces Maryland, Delaware, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and three counties in Vir-
ginia, and is un Ter the command of General
Emery. In answered. the Presidents inquiries.
General Emery states that he has only 1900
men under him, but 1879, Of whom are effective.
Our Washington dispatches contain more
rumos relative to changes in the cabinet. and
something more about the forthcoming mes
sage of the President.
Twenty persons we're led by boiler e1plo-
sion in Pitts aurg yesterday.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of prop
erty was destroyed by FIRE in Princeton, III.
yesterday.
The Alabama Reconstruction Convention
yesterday tabled proposition to abolish the
provisional government in that State in thirty
dave
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fa- In paper by W. L. Sargent, on
the vital statistics of Birmingham and
seven other large towns in England, re-
suits are arrived at, different in some
respects from those commonly received.
Thus, whilst admitting that there are
more male deaths on the whole than
female, the author states that in the
first five years OF life there is large ex-
cess of male deaths; that from five TO
ten years of age the male excess is very
small that from ten to fifteen the. male
excess is decided but at fifteen the tide
turns, and until twenty the female deaths
are largely in excess; that from twenty
TO thirty-fve the male aud female deaths
are equal, and thus after thirty-fye the
male deaths are again in excess" Mr..
Sargent adds in a note the singular
fact " obtained from Mr.. Mukeham, who
is such high authority in vital statistics,
THAT among the males Of the upper
classes, from the age of sixteen to that
of twenty.three, the annual rate of NOR
tality rises rapidly from about eight to a
maximum Of fifteen per one thousand,
after which it gradually diminishes."
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CASUALTIES.

PRNcEroN, ILL.,, November ga fire
occurred here to-day, which destroyed
$25O,OOO worth of property. Insurance,
100000.
PITTsBURG, PENN, November ga
terrible boiler explosion occurred here
to-day, in the mill of Reese, Graft u
Dull. Twenty persons were killed and
many wounded. The building was after
ward burned.
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DAINTs FOR FARMERS AND 0IHERt

DAINTS FOR FARMERS AND 0GHEBt
Il The Grafton Mineral Paint Co. are han :
manufacturing the Best. Cheapest and mos
Durable Paint in use; two coats well put OF
mixed with pure Linseed Oil, will last 70 or 1
late color, and can be changed to green, lead
stone, drab. olive or cream. 10 suit the taste o
the consumer. II /. valuable for Houses. Barr a.
Fences, Carriage and Car axe $, Pals a I'd
Wooden-ware, A Agricultural mpleme nts. Canal
Boats Vessels and ships Bottoms, CanVas
Metal and Shing Root it beng Fire and
Water proof, Floor Oil Cloths lone manufac-
turer having used 5000 bbis. the past Year,, apd
bodv, durabil ty. elasticity. and adhesivencss.
Price S. per bl of 800 lbs, which will supply
a farmer for years to come. Warranted in all
cases as above. Send Tor circular which gives
IN n psrficulars. None genuine unless branded
in a trade mark Grafton Mineral. Paint. adj
dress. DANIEL BIDWELL,
81 "a Pearl street. New York
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Latest 20 Noon To-day.
NEW YORK.
Gold ana Cotton Reports

Special to the Public LRDoKR.l
NEW YORK, November 8, IL m-Gold
opened at 1884, and declined to 1879 at i
am. and is now 1885, Cotton, demand
moderate and prices firm; quotations,
nominally unchanged; weeks receipts,
1880; weeks sales, 100000 exports,
10000; stock on hand, 10000 Ex-
change, steady.
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Notice 10 Tax-Payers.

VNHE TAX BOOKS, FOR THE YEAR 1867.
4 are now ready. and I shall Immediately
proceed 70 collect according 70 law. All tax
payers Who have PERSONAL PROPERTY
must come M nt once, OF they viii md their
taxes in the hands Of Consfabies. who arr an
thori1ed ~ distraiu q suiicieucy % pas all
taxes. PHILIP GAkNIN.
Tax Collector shelby county, ISL.
-Norfilresf.oor. Jefersoa and Ihird
Streets. -
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WHAT CHEER SALOON.


HAVING BOUGHT THE INTEREST OF
III Mr.. POINTER IN the above, sake plea
sure in returning thanks for the liberal pat
ronaee from their numerous friends We iske
pleasure ln introducing our esteemed trienu
RIM BARNETT 70 our patrons. who VIII m
failure conduct the Bar, where they will AWAY
find thebest Of Liquors, Ciears, etc, etc. lunch
every niFht from 10 % u O'Clock. 81 u
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Royal Havana LOtIery OF Cuba.

CONDUCTED BY THE SPANISH Gov
- eminent. $50 900. in Gold. drawn every
seventeen days. rrirrs cuhrd and iniarr a.
ton furnished. The highest rates paid for
DouELouSs and IN kinds Of Gold and S liver.
TAYLOR a CO.. Hankeu,
g $50 No. n Wall street, New York.
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WHEATON NURSERY
JOHN TRENT. wADDY THOMPSON,
JOHN TRENT ~ CO.,
PRoPRIEToRs.
Successors to DR.. s. M. WHEATON.
UTEARE PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS

UTEARE PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS
w for every description of Fruit, Flowers,
and Ornamental Trees, Grape aud Strawberry
Vines and Hot House Plants, Roses, etc, etc.
Our stock is made up Of the best selections
which can be gotten up in Europe or America.
We solicit correspondents from All VINO pur-
chase trees in large or small quantite', or any
who wish 20 adorn their places with choice and
rare Flowers and Shrubs.
~ First-class Landscape Gardener.
Flowers for Bouquets andWreaths always on
hand.
a. Descriptive Catalogues, with prices and
all necessary Information, viii be furnished by
apnlying personally or by letter n
57-lN JOHN TRENT a co.
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To the StOckhOld erS
OF THE
MEMPHIS GAY0SO GAS COMFY.

OFFICE MEMPHIS GAYoso GAS COMPANY,
MEMPHIS. TENN. Nov. Z, 1867.
AN ADDITIONAL CALL OF TWENTY
"A per cent. on the subscribed stock of the
Company is hereby, made payable at the Com
Jefferson sts., on OF before the 18th day Of No
yember. 1861. JOHN DONOVAN, Prest.
GARLAND P. WARE. Sec'y. GS
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WONDERFUL INVENTION
HERE 1T IS--.LOOK AT 1T.
THE INVALID AND PARLOR SPITTOON.
JNO. NJ. CAYCE'S PATENT.

FRANKLIN, TENN, Sept. II, 1867.
MO COMPLICATION ABOUT 1T. NOT
~ liable to get out of order. Only two nova.
Bic pieces in the operation Of using 1.-THE lid,
andthe lever that raises il. The lever is placed
in the handle. and when the handle is taken
hold Of the lid rises when released, the lid
closes, thereby excluding from view the entire
contents efthe tox. II Is an ornament for the
center table does away all the unpleasantness
from the casting of expectoTatiOn about the
sick bed. IL Is a. easily cleaned as an ordinary
tin cup. SEE one Of them and you will never
use any otherreceptacle for expectoraii n. lis
eheapness and superiority being so much supe-
Nor than anything ever before used for tn
purpofe, and adapted 10 al classes and condi-
tions Of our race. in all climates, at home or
abroad, BY land or BY sea. by day or by night,
in : ckness and IN health. 10 prosperity or adj
versity-alWays at your service ready 10 serve
you, aud almost for nothing only one dollar
and for much less IA wholesale customers.
No man Of energy need ever complain ofhard
times or fear o. starving u he can raise even five
dollars 10 begin with. One hundred AGENTS
WANTED IMMEDIATELY to aid in supply
ine the demand. County and State Rights Tor
sale. Come. and come quickly Delays are
dangerous. Disease Il IN the land. We say
again. every family on the globe should have
one or more.
Col. NJ. g. CAYCE,
OF MEMPHIS.
General AGENT for the United States: Head
uuarferr AZ the Arcade, ldi Main street.
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Attorneys
LOCKWOOD 4 PRYTON.
Directors

a. The Company is nov prepared 70 issue
Policies In al the various forms Of Life Insu-
rance. and respectfully solicit pubiie patron
aEe. VIII
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IT is said the only journalists connected
with the New York press Who get rich
on salaries. are the financial and com
mercial editors
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NORTH CAROLINA.

WILMINGTON, November s.--Thc re.
gistration for four days shows ss whites
and Is blncks.
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GREAT CLEARING SALE
ELSONS MAMMOTH CHEAP STORE,
No. go Main Street.

NOTICE-TO MY FRIENDS.-HAVING
~ returned from the country, will resume
my practice. and can be found at my residence,
NO. 224 WASHINGTON STREET.
at all hours of the day and night.
"a MARY RULEMAN.
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ms u X E ~
ONLY AGAINST LOSS OF LIFE.
Authorized Capital, . $500, 900
OETrCERs.

OFVfCERS,
M. ]. WICKS, President.
A. SEESSEL. Vice-Presidsnt.
w. +. BOYLE. Secretary.
w. @. MCCLURE. Treasurer.
J. II. EDMONDSON, General Agent.
e. WOODWARD, Regular Physician.
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A PATROFHANDsOMEM MATCH HORSES
"A and Fami y Carriage viii be exchanEcd for
CITY Scrip. al q bargain. 4 Application Z made
NJ orce 10 W. n DONOHO.
63s 81 Main street.
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Consulting Physicians;
B. W. AVANT. F. A. RAMSEY.
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BOARDING.

DOARDING.-IF YOU WANT A PLEAs-
ID ant home. with No. board. ct REASON
ABLE RATES. go to Ill Jefferson street;
Also, two nice family rooms. with hoard, u
called for soon. MRS. NJ. b. AUSTIN.
Formerly Mrs. Leland,
T9e III Jefferse sireci.
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I6r Since the resignation Of Judge
Handy, of the Court of Appeals of Mis-
sissppi, we see that Judge Cazabat,
Judge of the second judicial district Of
the State Of Louisiana, has also resigned.
The reason in both cases is military
interference, either actual or threatened,
with the independent exercise Of the
judicial functions. Courts ofjustiee are
mockery, whose decisions cannot be
enforced except at the will Of despot
No matter how benign the sway, despot-
ism and the republican Judiciary cannot
thrive together. The resignation ofthese
Gentlemen, so long as there is any room
for high-minded and honorable judges,
is great loss to their several States
M. An indignant member Of the
Maine Legislature says that when the
stringent liquor law was passed lately
By the body, Of which he is member,
more than iwo-thirds Of those voting
for it had four inches Of raw whisky in
their stomachs 2"
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. W. - IA n IN
op MTnrpUTg
City scrip! City scrip .

General Agent for the United States; Head
quarters AZ the Arcade, Bi Msin street.
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,JI3oHyN DONOVAN. President.
The Portland daily press., 1867-01-26
MEXICO.
The Catholic Church to Caxt
Loose from Rome.
Liberals FOrtifying TampicO.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Jan. "a.
Queretaro will be evacuated by Mejia as
soon as the Liberals advance Escobado left
Monterey for the interior on the 18th, at the
head OF the largest Liberal army ever got to-
gether. o
q Barriozabel raised several thousand dollars
from the merchants of Monterey, and sent il
to COrtina on the 18th, with orders to proceed
at once to Victoria. Cortina is still near Mat
amoras, and says he will pronounce for Ortega.
' New ORLEANS, Jan. a
The Matamoras Ranchero says a new and
great movement for the reformation of the
Roman Church is being inaugurated through.
out Mexico; Key Rafael Diez Martinez has
been elected Bishop of the new Catholic Apos-
tolic National Church of Mexico. The object
OF this movement is to break off from the old
Roman Church, for the reason, as charged. that
through Romish influences were sent the
French armies which invaded Mexico and del
uged the land with Republican blood. Rev.
Father Hernandez who was captured by the
Imperialists, was shot by them after suffering
unheard-of atrocities on the ground that he
was a Liberal, and inclined to break off from
the Church of Rome.
Escobado had arrived at San Luis. and
claimed that 1000 Liberals captured the city.
The whole OF Sierra Garda, including the old
Church party, had pronounced for the Repub-
icans.
The Liberals were certifying Tampico
TrevenO was in San Luis, recruiting.
Mejia had marched to the protection of the
City of Mexico
Eighteen thousand Liberals had surrounded
Cuernavaca and the City of Mexico, under
Alvarez.
1t is reported there will soon be conven-
ton of Republican Generals in Mexico, to
choose General-in-Cbief 1t is believed Or
tega will be chosen.