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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-02-06
\ WIFE TO HER HUSBAND IN THE
LEGISLATURE.
AIR" Father, Come Home"

ArR-"Father, Come Home"
Husband. dear husband, come home to me
From the city and State House so warm !;
It's lonely without you, why do you not
Ana see to the things on the farm?
You told me, when you were elected last
fall,
If would but once let you go.
You'd surely return before winter was past
And / really believed 'twould be so.
Come home, come home! come home !
Dear husband! kind husband! come
home.
Husband, dear husband, come home TO me
Come home ere the winter is through;
Tie old brindle COW has got white calf.
Ana the Young lambs are bleating for you
When viii you get through with bills and
resolves
stop talking of school funds and rum,
Oi railroad aud herd laws and such other
And tend to your business at home?
Husband. dear husband, don't write to me
more
OF tie theatre, lobby and club,
Nor dinners ~ you've eaten at Hodshin's
and Funk's,
But hurry away from the hub.
Yes. hurry back home. your Bessy is sad,
Her heart l. so honest and true;
All winter shes slept in the bed room alone,
And say, dearest husband, have y5u?
Husband, dearest husband come home to
me now,
Come home. ere the birds sing i'm May.
And let not The smiles in the gallery there
Distract You or tempt you to stay.
The vpjce Of your Bessie i calling you now.
Come homo. for you know what it means,
I'm getting quite nervous about you, come
home,
And we will have cowslips for greens!
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SOCIAL CHTr-CHAT.

From the n. Y. Mail
Silk gauze is the favorite material FIR
ball dresses this winter.
Silver and gold embroidery is a new
adornment for ball dresses.
Flowers are scarcely used at all in
bonnets this winter, feathers supplying
their place.
Talk about the modern falling off Of
home affections Our wives are becom-
ing dearer every day.
White jet sounds somewhat anomalous,
nevertheless, such an article exists, and
is a favorite garniture for evening dress.
Shades of blue silk, adorned with an
immense embroidered monogram, deco
rate the windows of one Of our fashiona-
BILE uptown residences.
The Greek fillet is much worn as
couture for demi-toilet; in full dress a
small erect aigrette, with a feather to
match the dress is worn.
A new absurdity in bonnet trimming
is a long black ostrich feather, which
droops from the top of the hat'and is
twisted round the neck like a boa
At the parties of the season two pecu-
liarities in dresses are very noticeable
the great number Of white silks worn
and the utter Punishment of very decollete
dresses.
Combs are to be again universally worn
in evening dress. The high Spanish
comb is the favorite. This was made
popular by one or two of the actresses in
Article Forty-seven."
The square dances have gone totally
and irremediably out of fashion; they
are not danced at all in good society.
We see them still at balls, but to those
all sorts of people go, and the programme
must suit all tastes.
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1AEE CONTRACTION SPREADING.
They are Seeing slOw ff II IIlem-
@elve~----Ehe Nations Wards
EmcrOachin= on -hs. E'r0OIy
E4uysRl
4 NEGEo nu g FoR RArE.

PHILADELPHIA, January 29.-William
Dennis, negro, twenty years of age,
was hung for committing an outrage upon
white woman named Mary Thompson.
in April last He lived in farmhouse
between Wilmington and New Castle,
and the crime was committed during the
absence Of her husband. Dennis had
also borne bad reputation, but was not
feared BY the woman. In the defence he
accused the husband of the woman of
having bribed him to the crime so that
he might have grounds ON which to bring
an action for divorce. On Monday he
exhonorated the husband from all blame.
and said he was guilty. The colored peo-
pie of the town are much excited over a
plot which they pretend to have discov-
cred OF the doctors to dig up the body.
Dennis was buried in the Potter's field,
and the negroes have chosen men to watch
the grave.
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In one of the rural districts of Ale
ghany county lives woman aged about
sixty-fve years, who, for the past five
wears has been an invalid, and whose pre-
sent condition is most remarkable. Dur
ing her previous life she has borne, by no
means, an enviable reputation, and
strange stories are rife in the community
concerning her former life. The most
current of those is one to the effect that
years ago she, with the aid of her brother
and mother, in order to conceal the birth
Of child, roasted it alive in an oven.
This and many others are circulated, and
gain credence from her present condition.
More than year ago, after having been
a helpless invalid for about four years,
she arose one day in her bed, and in a
firm voice said I'm this condition |
must remain for a thousand years, though
there come famine AID starvation, yet
will | neither live or die" With a spas
modic twitch and convulsive movement,
her limbs were doubled up in a most in
tricate manner, and she sank back upon
the bed, where she has since remained,
SPECIFICS, and unable tomove. Whether
her silence is to be attributable to a visi-
taIlon OF lONitteice OF 10 StuDoOFnHeSs
is not known. Her appearance is de-
scribed by visitors to be the most fearful
to behold. Her limbs are twisted about
her in a wonderful manner, and her facial
expression Is almost demoniacal. She re
fuses to take food in the presence Of
others, but as soon as they leave the room
devours with greatest avidity whatever i:
set before her. What renders the casG
still more remarkable are the facts tina
her brother, years ago, committed suicide
and that her mother fingered a helpless
invalid for nearly thirty years.-Pitts
burg Commercial.
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NINTH DAY.
JACKSON, Jan. 80, 1873

JACKSON, Jan. 80, 1873.
The Senate was opened with prayer by
Mr.. johnson. of Carroll.
By Mr.. Mcclure: Amendatory of the
several acts incorporating the Mississippi
Valley and Vicksburg Loan Company; re-
ferred.
5. B., No. 47--By Mr.. Mcclure: Requir-
ing county treasurers to keep their Offices
ut Ehe county seat of each county; referred.
Senate Bill to amend the rules of practice
in criminal cases, was taken up, and an an
nnated discussion arose on the presentation
of a substitute for substitute, in which
Senators Sullivan, Gibbs, Cassidy. Mcclure,
Duncan, Watts, Morgan and Warner par
ticipated-
Senate Bill authorizing the Auditor to
distribute the School Fund passed.
Senate Bill for relief of James i. Herbert,
was lost on its final passage.
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TENTH DAY.
JACKSON. January 81.

JACkSONs JanudEy 5l, 1919.
The deliberations of the Senate were
opened with prayer by Mr.. Watts, of New
ton.
The following message was received from
the Governor:
To the Senate
GENTLEMEN: herewith transmit the res
ignation of Hon. Thos. j. Hardy, Senator
from the Eighth District, for your intorma-
ton.
X. G. POWERS. Governor.
II. B., No. 50: To change time of holding
Circuit Court in Rankin county. Passed.
II. B., No. 80: To prevent sale ofliquor in
the town of Edwards. Passed.
BILLS INTRODUCED
S. B., No. 48: To locate permanently the
Seat of Justice of Pike county. Passed.
). B., No. 40: For relief of executors and
administrators. Referred.
s. B., No. 80: To extend time for meeting
of Supervisors of Warren county. Referred.
5. B.. No. 81: To incorporate the Mobile
and Little Rock Railroad Company. Re-
ferred.
S. B.. No. 81 For the relief of the Sheriff
of Jefferson county. Referred.
III. B., No. "a: To amend the charter of
town of Macon. Passed.
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MARRIAGE.-Leigh Hunt concludes

MARRIAGE.-Leigh Hunt concludes
an essay on marriage as follows: ''There
is no one thi.g more lovely in this life,
more full of the divine courage,
than. when a young maiden, from
her hast life, from her happy child
hood; when she rambled over every field
and moor around her home; when a
mother anticipated her wants and soothed
her little cares, when her brothers and
sisters grew from merry playmates to
loving, tFustful friends: from Christmas
gathering and romps, the summer fes-
tivals in flower or garden; from the rooms
sanctifed by the death of relatives; from
the secure back grounds of her child
hood and girlhood, and maidenhood,
looks out into the dark and unilIuminat,
ed future away from all that, and vet I'M
terrified, undaunted, leans her fair cheel
upon her lovers breast, and whispers
Dear heart cannot see, but I believe
The past was beautiful, but the future
can trnst--With fheel"
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a Model Husband.

a dispatch from Nadck, Macs. uud..
date OF Jan. ~, contains che following.
swiftly suggestive item.
The olopement Of Mrs $. O.. DmI.
a very handsome lady, with Alr a. W.
Cox, dancingmaster, create great scandal
here. Mrs Daniels husband has mH
her if she came 10 want to draw oH lIm.
Natick has heretofore been chiefly r..
markable as the place where meaa 0u.
gans were manufactured and WH.m
Hon. Henry Wilson abandoned -u0..
making for politics and the vIce-pre-l-
dency. 1t viii hereafter Doe memorable
as the residence Of the most amiable ma
philosOphic husband in the annals oi mar
tial infeicity.-EXchange.
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From the N Y Herald.
SambO Leaving Georgia for a
Life in Glover i'm ArIxanSaS

Political economists in the State of
Georgia have discovered new and novel
cause of alarm in regard to the industrial
element in the State 1t seems that
whole families, men, women and chill
dren. chiefly from Houston and adjoining
counties, numbering several hundreds,
are to be seen going West. Conductors
on the Central road state that several
thousand have passed over that road for
the same destination within the past three
weeks, and that the volume Of the ebb
tide was increasing rather than diminish
ing. Agents are employed by the Ar
kanses planters to drum up negro re-
crults in Georgia for their plantations, at
so much per capita, and highly colored
pictures are drawn and circulated to Sc
duce the backbone and sinew" of the
State from their plain hog and hominy to
enjoy living in high clover in what is re-
presented to be the Arcadia OF Sambo in
Arkansas.
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50 90 PER YEAR.
JOckO's TOI&e-The Spiritual Test
Ofthe DarWinian TeOry.

From the san ErausciseO Bulletin, Decem-
Der %
Thomas Findley, importer of blOoded
fowls, and proprietor ola saloOnon Leides-
dorff street, recently conceived the idea OF
augumenting the stock of curiosities i'm in
telligent monkeys. The animals arrived
| in the last steamer from the Orient. The
customers watched the antics of the two
strangers with eager interest, dubbed
them jim and Susie, and voted Jim a
fellow OF infinite jest, aud the monkeys
scampered to and fro the while and chat
tered r1errily. Susie went to bed at a
reasonable hour, and did not object TO
being locked in her cage, but Jim would
not tolerate the advances of any one,
when near his cage, and was left roosting
over a door when the time for closing the
saloon arrived.
Next morning the bar-keeper opened
the door, glanced around, saw something
flying through the air, and lodged his
head just in time TO escape a sound blow.
He peeped into the window and saw Jim
perched on tall ale cask, with pile of
boxes around ham, and looking like an
enraged gorilla, evidently waiting for the
temperance of the bar-kesper's head.
Now the bar-keeper, man of infiexible
will and a very Samson in physical
strength, is not a person who cares to
risk his life unnecessarily, and therefore
he reinforced his ranks and sought TO
overawe Jim. The monkey was evident
ly determined not to yield without a
struggle, for he gathered all the available
soda bottles and boxes and chunks of
wood about his stronghold, and, upon
the advance of the bar-keeper and his
command, hurled his missels toward the
enemy with great rapidity and precision,
and as long as his ammunition held out he
could not be dislodged. Finally Jim
was brushed with club and persuaded
to keep quiet The strong smell of
liquor caused the bar-keep9r to look
around with anxiety, aud well he might /
Jim had emptied whiskey and brandy
upon the floor, treated Susie to whiskey
until she succumbed to its effects and !
was in beastly state of intoxication, and |
had filled all the bottles with sawdust, |
the damage amounting to $40. Mr.. |
Finley no longer takes ony interest in /
quadrumanous animals of the class mann /
malia, but will cheerfully give informa-
ton OH the subject to persons of an IL
quiring turn of mind, or direct them to |
the tropical curiosity man" of Wash
ington street, with whom Susie and Jim |
ale residing.
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EIGHTH DAY.
JAcrsnN Janr,a~

JACKSON, January ~, 1875
Mr.. Chandler presented the following re-
port from the Judiciary Committee.
MIR. SPEAKER: The judiciary Committee
to whom was referred III. B., No. 35 an act
to abolish the death penalty, have consider
ed the same, aud instructed me 20 report the
same back to the House with the recommen-
dalton that it do not pass.
j. w. CHANDLER, Chairman.
Report received and agreed 70.
IA message was received from the Gev-
ernor vet0ing the Joint Resolution to ap-
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How the CarPeE-Bag Governor of
Texas Spends the Contingent
Fund.

EXTRACT FROM THE CONTROLLERS REPORT.
The present Governor received $4,000
per annum, and in addition thereto he
managed, through his supple carpet-bag
tools, to get an appropriation of 5000 per
annum for a gardner for the executive
grounds. Not satisfied with this UMPIRE
cedented innovation, the following is a
sample of the kind of expenditures made
by the executive out of an appropriation
to pay for repairs and additions to the
capital buildings, the property of the
State, approved August 18th, 1870, or
out of an appropriation to repair the
Governors mansion and furniture, and
to improve the grounds, approved May
10, 1871.
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The Credit SIobIIier bribery.
From the Chicago Tribube.

IV1A tIIp NHID"EV AIIuUUFs
Whether or not Ames ever meant to
bride Congressman, or thought they could
be corrupted, may be judged from the
conversation Durant swears to having had
with him. Ames at one time questioned
Durant about the items" of the expenses
of the Credit Mobilier, stating that he
wanted to know whether any money had
been paid to Congressman, because, if
there had been, he wanted them TO pay it
back, eff they did not 60 straight"
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vIennm Expo-ilIon

Minister Jay has written 10 tie Snp
Department, recommending that large
official map of the United States BE- pr.
pared for use at the Vienna Exposition
on the ground that foreigners have uoidea
Of the extent Of the country Do is rec
commended that the map show the area ol
the public domain, the roads, lines oi
steamers, the extent II population, with
an accurate comparative map OF Western
Europe The subject is now before One
Of the House committees.
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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS.
SEVENTH DAY.
JACKSON, January %, 1873.

SEVENTH DAY.
JACKSON, January %, 1873.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
BY Mr.. Watts; To ameLd an act in rela-
ton to registration of voters.
By Mr.. Cassidy: To authorize the sale of
reports of decisions of the High Court of
Errors and Appeals and the Supreme Court
of this State.
BY Mr.. Price: An act to enlarge the rights
of delinquent poll tax collectors.
BY Mr.. Sullivan: To incorporate the Uni
versity of Columbus.
CONSIDERATIONS OF BILLS.
H. B., to compel the New Orleans, Mobile
and Texas Railroad Company TO build
draw bridge. Passed.
S. B., for the relief of the Mississippi Luz
matte Asylum. Passed.
YEAs-Messrs. Alexander, Allen. Barrow,
Bennett, Caldwell. Campbell, Cassidy, Dun
can, Gray. johnson, Little, Lyles, Mcclure,
Mygatt, Packer, Price, Smythe, stone and
Warner-2l.
NAY5-Mr. Morgan-l.
). B., to authorize the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad Company TO extend their
line into the State of Mississippi.
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The Senate of Virginia has agreed to a
resolution inquiring into the expediency OF
amending the code so as TO allow any per-
son who has been tried and fully acquitted
OF criminal charge by any court In the
state, reasonable allowance in money for
fence; the amount of such allowances 10 be
determined by the judge of the court of the
county or corporation in which such case
was tried.
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THE GovERNoR's MANSION,
Bought of SAMPSON & HENRrcxs.
Grand total.

We give but few of the items, merely
to show what the Governor considered as
furniture.
Especial attention is called to the items
In the foregoing account. There are
other and similar outstanding accounts.
1t will be perceived that horse-brushes,
curry combs, cbamoise skins, etc., are
construed by his Excellency as legiti-
mate expenditures of the peoples money,
under the head of the appropriations re-
cited for the supplying of himself and
family with all manner of goods wares
and merchandise.
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EIGHTH DAY.
JACKSON, January %, 1873.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

INIKUDUCIIUN OF BIILSs
BY Mr.. Watts: 5. 3. No. 40 An act TO in
corporate the Pioneer Manufacturing Com
panV. Referred
amend section 270, article 3, of chapter 40,
OF the Revised ode of 1871. Referred.
by Mr.. Abbott: 5. b., No. 43. An act TO
correct AN error in the ..nrollment of an act
to provide for the election of State Printer,
and so forth. Referred.
BY Mr.. Giimer: S. B No. 40. An act to
authorize the Board of Supervisors of KEN
per county, to levy tax to pay outstanding
school warrants. Referred
Sundry House messages were considered.
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That fellow they call Judge" Durell
down in New Orleans was turned out by
the state of Vermont. IF the state of
Vermont ever intends to be ashamed of
herself, now is her time to do it.-Cou-
rier Journal.
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Lmnemngc Amona Auimui-.

NJ. Houzeau maintains Chat u.t only
does each group of animals possess. 30
language which is understood Uy otH..
members OF the same group, Du tUW
they can learn 10 understand tna lame
guage Of other groups. Ills dog lar u-
stance perfectly under TODD DIS poultry
Cocks and hen. have 1ne danger .aM
for the approach of bird OBJ prey. au.
other for that OIL terrestrial aum.. .r
for a man When lhe latter Wa. sound.
ed the dogs would rush 500. uI u.Is.
while 10 the tOrmc. they paid Do. au.u.
ton Whatever. He thcrf0ra conclude.
that fowls have tine power of exple Iu.
slightly different but cIo-eIy allied il.a.
and dogs can learn 60 understand tu..
differences. -Scrbuer's for February
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At the late Atlanta, Ca, Catholic Fair,
the lovely Miss Jennie Nance, of Columbus,
lady. She received ga votes. Her compel
itOr, Miss Maggie Gardner, received 455.
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There is a matron in HarrisonviIle, N.
H., whose cherub Billy Fisher by name,
weighed 100 pounds when he was only
one year old.
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Spotted Tail Is the man for the times. He
has disposed Of four mothers-in-law, and
whoOps for the scalp of the flfth. He will
lecture for So9 per plRhkag ,ent i
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Mr.. Bogy Is fully acquitted 0i tho charge
OF having secured bis election tO thc sennte
from Missouri by bribery. -WaahIunr0u
Chronicle
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NINTH DAY.

JACKSON, Jan. 80, 1873.
House Concurrent Resolution, No. 8. In
relation to the treatment of convicts, in
Penitentiary, with Senate amendment was
taken up, and
Mr. Street moved that the substitute be
referred back to the Senate, with the sug-
gestion that the Senate does not need the
consent of the House to obtain information
from the Governor. and further, that it Is
the opinion of the House that it is unparfl-
amentary for either House to substitute a
bill or resolution for a bill or resolution
passed by the other Honse. Carried.
YEAS AND NAYS on THE SOCIAL EQUALITY
BILL.
YEAs-Messrs. Andrews Avery, Barrett,
Bell. Bremen, Bufkin, Brooks, Bush, Car
ter. Cessor, Cooke, Corcoran, Dixon, Ever
EFT, Feemster, Fisher, Foley, French, Gayles.
Griggs. Green. Hill, Handy OF COpiah, Hall,
Haste, Howard, Holmes, Houston, johnson,
of Kinds, Johnson of DeSotO, Kendrick,
Landers, Lindsey, Mallory, Mauss, Mccain,
McInnis. Nettles, Piles, Reese, Shadd, Smith
of Tunica, Smith of Desoto, Stewart of
Holmes, Stewart of Noxubee, Stone, Spell
man, Smothers, Sullivan, Truehart, West
Webster, White, Wade and Mr.. Speaker.
NAYs-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Almstead,
ApplewhiLe. Baker, Benson, Bolton, Boyd,
Buchanan, Curlee, CurIIe, Evans, Ford, Cad
dis. Gaines. Goar, Hall. Hudnall. liver.
Jones, Kimbrough, Land, Leayell. Lopez,
Lowry, Martiniere, Nets. Mcintosh. Nc
Kenzie, McKie, Nisbett Potter, Reed. Roane.
Ross, Sessions. Streeter, Sawyer, Wroton,
Wharton and Walker.
Mr.. Foley moved to reconsider the vote
whereby the bill passed and TO table the
resolution to reconsider. Carried.
Mr.. liver offered the following explana-
ton of his vote on the bill:
vote against the bill because it Is in vio-l
lation of the Bill of Rights of the State of
Mississippi and will not be sustained by the
courts, aud cannot, therefore, accomplish
the end desired: also, that the indecent
haste manifested in its passage shows that
in the opinion of the friends of the bill it
would not bear the scrutiny of Inyestiga
ton and the chances of its failure to pass
would be increased by debate.
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Dress Goods, Ribbon, Embroidery, Lacea,
for less than cost, at G. j. Beck's.
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If Holsters claw is broken off below
the third joint, another will soon appear
in miniature at the end of the stump.
About the third year it will overtake in
size the one on the other side. At par
ticular season the males engage in a fe-
rocious combat, cutting each other and
often nipping off the sword arm of an OPP
ponent. When, by accident or other
wise, Brazilian lizards tail is missing,
another crops out Immediately, requiring
considerable time, however, to develop
into full proportions. 1t is to them in
dispensable in maintaining their centers
of gravity while racing through the tops
of trees in pursuit of prey. Some of the
nevis have a new eye generated, if
gouged out, which will ultimately exact
" correspond with the old one in color,
function, and visual perfection. All the
mammalia, including man, have some
thing of this remarkable regeneratine
property-particularly exhibited in the
reunion of broken bones
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A Paris correspondent argues that
married woman On the stage exercises
less magnetism than single woman
does; that the fact that she ibelongs to
another; that her brightest glances,
sweetest dimples, and most musical tones
are for him, unconsciously diminishes
her influence; and states in illustration
that there were offered In Paris what
were called Christine Nilsson watches,
which had a. great sale, but when she
took husband, their demand so eensibly
diminished that the proprietor changed
their name. kz2la $50 ssm
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point committee TO investigate the conduct
OF the Board of Inspectors in purchasing q
site for the Penitentiary.1
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The RegeneratinE Powers of
Nature.

adjourned until Monday next.