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THE ALBANY Journal says there 'sseems to
be no limit to the grasping rapacity of Tam
many Hall" What about the ''grasping
rapacity" of the radical land d-grabbers in Con-
gress?
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THE FASHIONABLE SEASON in Florida has not
been SO fourishing this season as formerly.
The alligator trade. however. is looking I'D.
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LIMA EDwIN's THEATRE. 720 Broadway.-HUNTE
Dows; Oh, THE Two LIVES MARY LEIGH.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

Volume XXxvI................. mo. 81
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.
LIMA EDwIN's THEATRE. 7so Broadway.-HuNTED
Down Oh, THE Two LIVES OF MARY LEIGH.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of sth av. ana sad st.
LA PkRioHoLK
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-rHE RIoaELrEu OF
TEE PERIOD.
BowERY THEATRE, Bowery.-PoMr; or, WAY DOWN
EoUrH-MAN AND TIaER.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty.foursS street.
6ARAroGA.
GLOBE rHRATRE. 7ss Broadway-vARIEry ESTEn.
rANNKSr. &c-GREEs BANNER
NEW YORK srADr THEATRE. IS Bowey.-Drn
BOOTHS THEATRE Esd ST.. between 5.h and ssn avs
RIoHHLIrU.
WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner sosh st-Perform.
ances ovsv afternoon and evening.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE trhea.rs Francais,-
RloHELmU.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth stree.-II rso-
vAroRK.
NIgLo's GARDEN. Broadway.-THs SPECTACLE cv
The BLACK CROOK.
.wALLAcK,s THEATRE. Bro.dway ana 18Th street,
MORNING CALL-WooDoocKs LITTLE GAME
MRS. ?. B. coHwAY's PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.-
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 2ol Bowery.-VA-
RIE1Y ENTERTAINMENT
THEATRE coMIoUE, sla Broadway.-co MO VOCAL
INs, NRoRo AOTe. &C.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. ss5 Broadway.-
Micro MISsTRKLsY, FARoEs, BUBLEsoUEs, 80.
BRYANrs NEW OPERA HOUSE, sd st., between 9Th
and 7th avs-SEGRo htSsTRELsY. EooENTRIoITIEs, go.
HOoIEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-HooLRY's AND
KKLLY LBoN's MINsTEELs
APOLLO HALL corner 2sth street and Broadway
DE- CoRRY'6 DIoRAMA IRELAND.
NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth street.-ScRNEs IN
THE RING AcRoBArs &c.
UNION LEAGUE HALL-Mrss GLYSS's SuAK-
6PEARIAN READINGs-
soMERvILLE ART GALLERY, 81 Fifth avenue-Ex-
HIBITIoN OF WoRks ART
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6ls Broadway
SCIENCE AIT.
DR. KAHN's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 7a Broadway.-
SCIENoK AND
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner of ssh av ana ed St.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway-rHK RIoaELrru OF
m
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GLOBE rHRATRE. 7ss Broadway.-vARrRry ENTRE.
rAIsNKST. &C.-0REES BANNER.
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BowERY THEATRE, Bowery-PoMr; or, WAY DOWN
EoUrH-MAN TIGER.
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NEW YORK sTApT THEATRE. IS Bowery.-DIz
GRILLE.
BOOTHS THEATRE. Esd ST.. between 5sn and 6tn avs
RICHRLIEU
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway corner SOth n.-Perforn
ances afternoon and evening.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

CURE FOR DIPTHERIA.-The TIA
liam journals publish a letter from
DR.. Giovanni Galligari, describing
the remarkable success which has
attended his treatment of diptheria
with picnic acid. He relates the
losses he formerly experienced among
his patients when treating them with
emollients, solvents, and cauteriza-
ton can no more eradicate the NOR
bid principle than tearing the leaves
off q plant will destroy the root. He
now simply uses gargle of picnic
acid and distilled water, with external
application of new flannel ; the food
and drink to be taken cold. After
the adoption of the treatment DR..
Galligari lost but one patient out of
fifty eight. He requested the italian
journals to publish the discovery.
Picnic acid is the agent now being
used in this country as remedy for
cancer, and seems likely to effect an
immense saving of lives formerly
hopelessly sacrificed to that disease.
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guns and disperse those lancers."
The gunners rushed to their pieces.
All the great cannons about Cbapul-
Itepec went to roaring. The battle
began anew. Worth was sweeping
up the acclivity, the lancers were
routed, and the next | saw of Nc
Clellan he was smoking a cigarette
in the palace of Santa Anna, his face
as black as a powder keg, and an
ugly wound in his arm.
What a book his life would make
in the hands of some men! He once
intended to write All autobiography.
Whether it was begun or not, we do
not knOw-most certainly it was
never finished.
The brave, fond heart is prlseless
now. The form of the sta1wart sol
dier is dust in it's far-away grave.
The 1aurels that he gathered and
wore so well are faded and gone.
Back from tire unknown land no
voice will come to tell of what rank
he takes in the spectral columns,
closed up and silent, waiting the
resurrection day. Yet God deals
gently with q soldier. When he is
brave and noble, and courteous and
merciful, he has those attributes
which assimilate heaven, and there
fore is he foreordained to happiness
after death. 1t may he late in com
ing; the biyouacs are right cold and
drcary, we know, for some, but after
the night the morning, and after the
judgment day the New Jerusalem.
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General Robert Anderson.
From the Savannah Register. I

From the Savannah Register
The writer Of this, by invitation of
Captain Hartsteine, who had com
mand of the evacuation ceremonies
at Sumter, was present on that in
teresting occasion, a jubilee on water
never before witnessed in this coun-
try. We came out of the fort with
it's commander, and subsequently in
the pilOthouse of the steamer General
Clincll, to which he and his command
were first transferred, had a long
and pleasant interview with the van
quished soldier. He sprung up be-
tween the government and his native
South. His situation as a Southern
man had been more trying, but he
considered the highest obligation
upon him was to do his duty as a
soldier without reference to his feel
ings. He declared to us that no cir
cumstance could have induced him
to fire upon his fellow -countrymen
except in defense.
The first shot came from them, and
was directed at the flag which he was
put there to protect; hence no alter
native was left him. We inquired
what would be his policy when he
reached Washington. He replied
that all his labors should be on the
side of peace. In any event he had
no heart, he said, for war upon his
own countrymen, and he never did
again enter the field. We inquired
of Major Anderson why he abandon
ed Fort Moultrie after his positive
engagement with a committee of
South CarOlinians not to leave it.
His reply was that mutual obliga-
tions were entered into-he to re
main, and the Carollnians not to dis
turb him while in possession of the
fort. He believed those who gave
the assurance acted in good faith,
but they could not control others.
He left Fort Moultrie under reliable
information that, without the con-
sent of the authorities of Carolina, a
plot had been formed in Charleston
by the more impulsive portion of the
population to attack the fort in the
rear. He had unquestionable eN-
dence that such an expedition was
ON foot, and, believing that the work
was not defensible, he evacuated it
and transferred his garrison to Fort
Sumter,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23
Advertising as a Business.

The difference between advertising g
as a necessary part of business and
advertising as a mere incident of
business is something that is not
generally understood. The few who
thoroughly comprehend this, show
how powerful a lever it may be made
by those who use it rightly. We are
informed by one Of our prominent
Fifth street dry goods merchants
that an advertisement inserted by
his house in the Sunday Republican,
of November IL, resulted in gross
sales of two thousand dollars in ex-
cess Of their ordinary daily sales.
The advertisement was an annOun-
cement of lot of low priced silks,
and the excess of sales over the Or
dinary daily business of the house
was clearly attributable to that Sun
day advertisement, which also drew
the attention of the silk purchasers
to the other stocks Of the enterpris-
inghouSe. Wecould name a large and
enterprising manufacturing house in
this city which in eight years has in
creased it's sales from a steady. flour
ishing business to proportions so
large that it can scarcely supply the
demand for it's manufactures
through system Of liberal but dis
erect advertising, which of itself re-
quires almost the exclusive attention
OF one OF theproprietors. This house,
too, makes advertising special part
of its business, no more to be neg
lected than the purchase of the ma
terials it consumes in its operations,
and it finds that even in dull times it
has its hands reasonably full. Ad-
vertising repayS careful study, and
when thoroughly mastered becomes
the most effective agency in bust
ness that the enterprising merchant
can employ. The public are becom-
ing more and more in the habit.
every day, Of looking into news
papers to find out what they want
and where to get it; and every per
son who has anything to sell must
conform to this popular habit if he
wants to succeed. A good news
paper is always the best directory to
the live enterprising firms. The
merchant who keeps progress with
the time would as soon neglect the
sign over his door as the ADVERTISE
ment in the leading papers. If the
reader doubts this, let him scan our
columns from day to day-look at
them to-day-and he will find GER
tain evidence of correctness.-[St.
Lollia Republican.
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A Terrible Tombstone.-The fol-
lowing can be found Oh a tombstone,
i'll q certain town in New Hamp-
shire, with the exception of names,
which are given in full:
"Caroline LII, wife of D. S.,
murdered by the Baptist ministry
and Baptist church, as follows:
"September %, 1888, aged 33.
"She was accused of lying in
church meetings by the Rev. L. +.
rand Deacon B. R; was
condemned by the Church un-
heard she was reduced to poverty
by Deacon w. M. When an
er pa,te council was asked of the
s. Baptist Church, by the adj
vice of their committee, G. R,
c. A-and B. T, they would
not receive any communication on
the subject. The Rev. NJ. c.
said he thought, as the good old
Deacon R said, 'We got s.
down, and it is best to keep him
down. The intentional and mali
ciOus destruction of her character
and happiness as above described
destroyed her life. Her last words
upon the subject were: "Tell the
truth, and the inquiry will come
Out.n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

Recently, in one of the North
Carolina courts, the Grand jury, as
is now usually the case, was com
posed partly of negroes. After being
" charged7 in the usual way by his
Honor, the jury retired to their
room, when one of the white jurors
ventured to ask a cOlored associate
if he understood the charge of the
judge. "GollX,' exclaimed the as
tonishcd amendment, ~ he don't
charge us muffin for dat, does he ?
Why, thought we was gwine to git
.pay.'
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Scene in a Mayors Court.

The following laughable affair is
said to have occurred at Warsaw,
Indiana:
Mayor-Jacob Smith YOU have
been charged with assault and bat
terry, what you have to say, guilty
or not guilty?
Prisoner--Vell, j. Mishter Mare
/ ish neider guilty or not guilty. |
never does eat salt, On de batter
kakes, and if you keep stllill a leedle
vile, ! tells you all about vat dat
pOle-lcsc prings me here and butts
me i'll der caboosc. Noust comes to
town on a leedlc pishness; dot
ish, [ bald some old longstanding
agounts vot dooll all der monish
vat | had, and den | makes some
piggef debts as | had pefore, as
desc town fellers. dreats you very
easy-but youst let dem town fellers
come to de country and dey find
Something's out. Veil, lIishter Mare
| was up stairs to dem Indiana fel-
lers to get de bapers, and ven come
to de top of de shtair shteps, [ got
leedle overpalance because ! youst
come-from dc grocery where | paid
a big old 'agonnt, and dat feller, he
make me drink leetle too much, d
more as | want, and l fell head over
backwards, more as seven shteps
und dere was a fellervot was shtand-
ing on der shteps, und L shtruck him
NIT my trOwser legs, und we youst
go long to gedder to der potion,
und [ was paddy hurt 'pout de trow-
sers, much padder as he. One of
my trowsers legs was .altogedder
gone. I did not know which way to
Coup shtreet Or down shtreet-und
[ vas afread dat fellow vat I trow
down shtair would lick me; so [
jump into de seller: und vat you
dinks? de seller shtep took off de
odder trowser leg, und ven [ gifts in
der seller, dere was feller yot was
shaven anodder man, und ven he
seen me nit all both trowser legs
gone, he laft SO much at me dat der
raser make a ship und cut blood off
de odder man, ven shu1Hp 1lp Won de
chair und dakes his foot away Won
dat shaving mans nose. My Good
ness! how he did pleed and holler;
und den one of dem pole lese he
comes down, und der first man vat
he looks at was me. | was paddy
'shamed; he looked like such quite
man, NIT brass coat and blue but
tons: he says to me, "Come along.D
Veil. | dond like to go NIT him on
de shtreet, as | knowed der poys
would laff at me. He say I must
come, und I pull back den he. got
der man vat makes der nose pleed
on der shavinghnan to help pring me
ont der seller. o, but did feel bad
ven he dakes me und locks me in.der
iron crate for nodding. Mare, isll
dis rite ? Und dis salt und batter is
not quite for me. t..a ......s.5f.
Mayor--Assault and batterymeans
to fight another man. Do You know
what the question is?
Prisoner.O, if dat ish vat YOU
wants to know, / never fights nobody
as dnow [ git licked in dis country.
No peoples here won't fight a dutch
fight, und, der man vat help fotch
me here is de feller, if salt and bat
! ter is maken blood cut of der nose.
Now, Mishter' Mare, / ish a good
dutclman, und all vot | wants you
to do is, fine me ulnd der coshts for
fallen. down shtairs ven | had no
pissness to do it, und ven comes
once more to town, | prings you
some batter and eggs, as dat always
lgoes so good as money any place,
q
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THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING
Many a business man is afraid of
the expense Of, advertising, and yet
will pay 'ligh rents for q prominent
store to exhibit his wares, and put
up expensive signs, and seems not
to know that both are expensive
methods of advertising.
The instances of men who have
made fortunes by advertising, are
too numerous to question; but how
have they done it9 By exercising
good judgment; by knowing how,
where, and when to advertise. The
whole secret is there. Advertising
has become q science-and unless
it's principles are adhered to, large
amounts of money may be expended
to no purpose. To advertise sue
cessfully, requires more knowledge
Of the means, than most business
men possess, and more thought than
they have time to bestow upon it.
Hence many large houses find it
proftable,'to employ competent men
who make it their speciality.
I venture the opinion, which every
person experienced in advertising
will bear me out in saying, that the
business man who controls the sale
of an article that supplies an actual
want, need not fear to invest large
ly in advertising, if he does it with
intelligent tact and discrimination
as to the use of the best means.
Under proper circumstances, lie
cannot fail Of realizing a fortune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

German women are fast getting
into business life. In Brussels the
Sisters Everbert have the most eX-
tensive house in the world for the
manufacture of fine lace. The wife
of DR.. De la Pierre, the chief of the
dental college of Belgium, is her
husbands partner and associate in
his professional labors. DR.. Hen
rietta Heieshield, of Berlin, is also
a we1l-known and successful mem
Der of the dental profession. All
through Getmany the wives Of pro
fessiona1bmen are book keepers for
their husbands.
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An old colored woman, in account
ing for lack of discipline among
youngsters, insist that it is because
their mothers wear CATERS. you
see, when we wore low shoes, and
the chilnn wanted whippin', we just
took off shoe mighty quick and
guy 'em good spankin'; but now,
how's body to git a gaiter off in
time. So the chilun gets no whip
pins at all a-dayS."
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How to Break Oneself of Bad Habits,

Understand clearly the reasons,
and all the reasons why the habit
is injurious. Study the subject till
there is no lingering doubt in your
mind. Avoid the places, the per
sons and the thoughts, that led to
the temptation. Keep busy; idle
ness is the strength of bad habits.
Do not give up the struggle when
you have broken your resolution
once, twice, ten times, or thousand
times. That only shows how much
need there is to strive. When you
have broken your resolution, just
think the matter over and endeavor
to understand why it was that you
failed, so that you may be upon
your guard against recurrence of
the same circumstances. Do not
think it q little or an easy thing
that you have undertaken. 1t is
folly to expect to break off bad hab-
its i'll a day, which have been
gathering strength in you for years.
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A MISTAKE.--A minister, not
many miles from here, retaliated on
SOME young people who were laugh
ing in the congregation in the fol-
lowing manner. He paused, looking
at the disturbcrs, and said: am
always afraid to reprove those who
misbehave in church. In the early
part of my ministry l made a great
mistake. AS | was preaching,
young man sitting just before me
was constantly laughing taking and
making uncouth grimaces. I paused
and administered a severe rebule.
After the close of the services one of
the official members came and said
to me Brother -, YOU made a
great mistake. That young man
whom you rebuked is an IDIOT
Since that [ have always been afraid
to reprove those who misbehave in
church lest should repeat that mis-
take, and reprove another idiot"
During the rest of that service, at
least. there was good order.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

A clergyman, in struggling to ex-
plain the warming, yivyfying influ-
ence of divine love in the heart of
man, at last said: I" Why, love is
the elementary principle of warmth
and life as may be Seen by the fact
that OH the coldest winter day low
ing young couple will be aslow in a
room in which a frosty old bachelor
would freeze to DEATH"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

Upon the subject of letter end
ings. the October number of the
British Quarterly Review says:
The II remain requires to be led
up to, and not to be added to the
letter without connection. There
is a large gamut of choice for end
ings, from the official "Your obe-
dient servant and high and nigh
ty "Your humble servant" to the
friendly "Yours truly" Yours sin
cerely," and "Yours affectionately.'
Some persons vary the form, and
slightly intensity the expression by
placing the world "yours' last as
Faithfully yours James Howell
used a great variety of endings,
such as "Yours inviolably," " Yours
entirely" "Your entire friend,"
"Yours verify and invariably
!" Yours really" Yours in no vul-
gar way of friendship "Yours to
dispose Of" Or d" Yours while J. H.
"Yours! Yours! Yours" Walpole
writes " Yours very much," }" Yours
most cordially" and to Hannah
More, in 1870, "Yours more and
more Mr.. Bright, some years ago,
ended a controversial letter in the
following biting terms: II am, sir,
with whatever respect is due to
you.n The old board of commission
ers of the navy used form of sub
scription very different from the Or
dinary official one. 1t was their
habit to subscribe their letters (even
letters Of reproon to such officers as
were not of noble families Or bore
titles, "Your affectlonate friends.'
1t is said that this practice was dis
continued in consequence of dis.
tinguished captain adding to his
letter to the board, "Your affection
ate friend" He was thereupon de-
sired to discontinue the expression,
when he replied, II am gentlemen,
no longer your affectionate friend /.
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" Nobody ever lost anything by
love,' said sage looking person.
"That's not true," said a lady, who
heard the remark, /" for l lost three
nights sleep.n
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+. When the Scotch minister told his
neighbor that he spoke two hours
and half the day previous, the
neighbor said, "Why, minister, were
you not tired to death 2" "Ah, no."
said he, II was fresh as a rose; but
it would have done your heart good
to see how tired the congregation
Was.r
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A Louisville physician, who ana
lyzed a sample of the scream candy
sold there, found that more than one
eighth of the entire bulk was terra
alba, which is not more deadly than
sand brick dust perhaps, and yet
may not be a pleasant thing to eat.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-23

In New York they call red hair
I" Schenectady colorn-Schenectady
being, as every one knows, a little
beyond " Auburn
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The Grave of s. 8. Prentiss.

"A little more than a mile from the
beautiful haunted streets of Natchez,
close by the roadside, is a sweet um-
brageous grove of Towering shrubs
and trees that bend over their pen
sive branches to the ground, as if
they overshadowed and guarded
some precious deposit. A paling
rencloses them, and although pal
ace-like mansion is near, a proudly
endowed domain, yet q sweet and
sacred stiffness is over the grove.
Birds of melodious songs and glori-
ous plumage pour out the most thrill
ing harmonies there, and well they
may! for beneath the boughs they
stand on, sleeps one whose voice
had the witchery of the choristers of
the fragrant forests of the South !!
And the thunder clouds that often
times roll above the place of 1owly
rest, solemnly rehearsing it's deep
toned attestations of it's Eternal Gre
ator's sovereignty and power, may
hush for a moment.its fearful growl.
He who sleeps there could thunder
like a Demosthenes, and the flash of
his intellect and the corruscations of
his wit were as dazzling as those
which leap from yonder over arching
canopy of the storm.
There sleeps Pentiss the boy from
Maine, who came in youth to Missis-
sippi to liye-to win immortal fame !;
and who came back in the high noon
of his manhood to die-and find so
sweet and quiet a grave.
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New Fall and Winter Goods

New Fall and Winter Goods.
DLOCH g. DUPRE have just received an
D immense new stock of
Dress Goods, Msrinos,
Alpacas Poplins Delaines,
Empress Clothes, Bombazines
Scotch Plaids, Cassimeres,
Kentucky Jeans.
Flannels Of all kinds,
Ready-.Mgde Clothing
for Men and Boys, Boots and Shoes, and
everything else to suit the season, the place
and the times. All of which they will sell,
both at wholesale and retail at
Very Low Prices.
Call and examine the stock at ...ss.
BLOCH & DUPRE'S,
Main Street, Opelousas
Nov, d.
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JOB PRINTING.
THE HUMORISTS' COLUMN.
A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wiscst men.

Why is a blush like little girl =
Because it becomes q woman.
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CHEAPEST and BEST Mems and Boys
v, Clothing, always on hand and made to
order at the Clothing Mandatory of
BLOCH d. DUPRE. i
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Why is a grain of sand in the eye
like schoolmasters cane BE
cause it hurts the pupil.
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rR0CKERY of all sorts, sold by the piece
~ and by the crate. to suit merchants,
at BLOCH 81 DUPRE'S.