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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-20
Items.

Items.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE PANIC,
wages are still hire. g.r-
SUBURBAN RESIDENTS are putting
their ice-houses in ORDER
MOSES W. STAPLES, of this CITY. has
patented washing machine.
THE RICHMOND STORES have not vet
begun to show Christmas goods. Tba 50
ALL MEN who boil iron las they do at
the Tredegar) have cast in their eye. "
A PURsE-BEARING sCoUNDREL is
sometimes honored; moneyless one,
never. .t.f..,H ls
In RICHMOND everything is allowed
but happiness, and unalloyed happiness is
scarce. taIS
COLD, damp, and dsagreeable weather
is the prevalent sensation hereabout in
that line.
The SLEEK IRON CAPS of the coal
holes are proving the downfall Of many an
incautious pedestrian.
The TUG COMET, Captain English,
which lett Alexandria for Richmond sew
eral days ago, is yet between those two
points.
LEADING HoRTICULTURIsTs assert
that the roots of trees grow all winter, ex-
except when the ground becomes deeply
| frozen.
THERE WILL BE FOUR ECLIPSEs
two of the sun and two of the moon, and
a transit of Venus over the SUMS disc
during the year. Il
The CASE OF WILLIAM j. ANA.
BILE, on an appeal from conviction Of
forgery, had in the hustings court of this
city, is now being argued before the su.
preme court of appeals.
| ADOPTING THE SUGGESTIONS some.
time since made in this department OF THE
| STATE JOURNAL most of the benevolent
orders of the city are making arrangements
as far they have the means, not only to rem
der assistance when it is needed, but t
assist those who are out of work in pro
1 curing employment,
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CUBA LIBRE.-The Attucks Guard, o
this city, have determined to have say in
the Cuban question if it comes to blows.
The following letter was received to-day by
His Excellency Governor Walker:
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 90. 1873.
Governor G. c. Walker, commandsr-in. chfef:
! Your Excellency-I have the honor, in
behalf of the Attucks Guard, to tender
through you to the President of the Uni
ted States their services for duty in Cuba,
or elsewhere, in case of war being de-
clared. Very respectfully, &c.,
So Your obed' mt servant.
ROBERT L. HoBsoN, Captain.
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FOR SALE.
LAND FOR SALE.

Pursuant to decree of the District Court Of the
United States, Eastern District Of Virginia, I
will offer for sale at the Hague, Westmoreland
county, Va, on the SECOND SATURDAY IN
DECEMBER NEXT, at IL O'Clock M, the fol-
lowing property belonging to the estate of Sam.
uel r. Jackson. bankrupt to-wit:
/. FARM called Screen HILL" on Noming
river in said county, containing about 400
ACRES, with good DWELLING HOUSE,
Barns, Stables and all necessary outhouses.
2. A FARM containing about 200 ACRES,
near Montross in same county. This Farm is
almost entirely covered with very fine timber.
TERMS-0ne-fourth cash; balance In six,
twelve and eighteen months.
a..,.. ROBERT M. MAYO, gT
Assignee of S. r. Jackson, bankrupt.
no 4-2aw3w fyi.s.f ~
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PENNSYLVANIA.
The Centennial.

PHILADELPHIA, November 2O.-Hon.
Alfred Goshorn, director general of the
United States Centennial commission, YES
terday addressed circular communication
to the governors of every state and territory
in the Union, soliciting corporation in get
ting up state boards for the purpose of Sc
curing thorough representation in the ex-
hibition. Circulars were also issued con-
tanning carefully compiled instructions in
detail to those d.suing to become exhibi-
tors in the exposition. Director General
Goshorn tomorrow leaves for his home in
Ohio, where he will personally endeavor to
awaken an interest in the enterprise.
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STATE NEWS.

Among the United States patent
issued this week, was one to James s
French. of Alexandria. for locomotive
DIR. JOSEPH Jorgenson, collector o
customs at Petersburg, is extremely i'll
having relapsed from recent GONZALES
cence.
1t is said that all the telegraph posts
between Aqua creek and Richmond WERE
prostrated by the storm which prevailed
Monday night. go 800 ass
The Norfolk Landmark comes GU
against the Granger movement in Virginia
II thinks it will introduce women into the
political arena. >ia "a sTasa ag
--7Old Aunt Nelly, a colored woman
aged one hundred and five years, died on
the farm of Mr.. John O. Lewis, last week
,Scottspille Courier. ias ,A45o3
The trial Of Oscar P. Little. indicted
Jointly with Lycurgus Little for the murder
of Clinton Little, removed from Clarke
county to Winchester, has begun at the
latter place. ,,.1 sg,3a
~ r-A called conferences of the Young
Mems Christian association of Virginia,
West Virginia, Maryland and the District
of. Columbia will be held at Alexandra on
Thursday, the goth instant. 4q saH
: -On Saturday, near Callaghan's, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, negro man
who was cook on the regular freight train
fell between two cars, and had his left leg
badly fractured, and the bones broken from
the knee to the ankle.
General Myer, the chiel signal officer,
in his report recently published, says: A
line connecting the stations at life-savng
stations and lighthouses along the coast
from Norfolk, Va, to Cape Hatteras, N.
c., distance of one hundred and thirty
seven miles, and on one of the most dam
gerous coasts of the United States, is in
course of construction. qaH4r
y The Lynchburg News seems to doubt
that hail-stones fell in France in 1874 that
weighed eleven pounds. In June, 1884, q
severe hail storm occurred in Abingdon
and vicinity, in this state, which destroyed
crops, felled trees, killed cattle, sheep, &c, /,
and broke nearly all the glass in the
windows, and struck the houses like can
non balls. After the storm subsided, in
the enclosure of this locals then resi-.
dence, we picked up junks of ice of enor-
NOUS size. One of them measured four
teen inches in circumference. .-Jeferso-
',ian Republican. .
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MARYLAND.


BALTIMORE, November 20.-The mass
meeting at Maryland Institute last nigh of
citizens who favor free Cuba and national
intervention was the largest and most
enthusiastic held in Baltimore since
kossuth's reception. Every part of the
immense hall was crowded, and hundreds
were turned away unable to gain admit
tance. Colonel E. M. Yerger presided.
Speeches we're made by Colonel Yerger.
W. p. Preston, II. II. Hobbs, Charles A.
Evans and Colonel A. r. Stone, of
Louisiana.
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KANSAS.
several Miles of Prairie Fire-Iu,uens
Destruction of Property

severn! Miles of Prairie Fire-Inm ense
destruction of Property.
ATCIIIsoN, November 20 On Satur-
Day last destructive prairie fire swept
over large area of country about sixty
miles from A.chison, and continued during
Monday. About six miles of ties on the
central branch Of the railroad were burned,
ana several small bridges consumed The
destruction of fences, houses, &C., is inn
mense: Several houses near Corning were
burned, and alss large quantity of corn in
shocks.
Several disastrous fires have also oc
Cured along the line along the Atchison,
Iopeka and Santa Fe railroad. No trains
nave passed over the Central Branch rails
road since Saturday until to-day, when the
regular trains got through.
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HELMBoLD still lives, and has a card in
the London Cosmopolitan, dated Langham
hotel, in which he complains of the siurs
passed upon him by the New York Herald
in calling Jay Cooke q Go. and Henry
Clews & Co. ''Buchu Bankers.n Helm
bold says he ''has still name and a pro-
perty to protect" and that he has done a
good deal for the newspapers through his
advertising. The newspapers did a good
deal for him, per advertising, would be the
proper way to put it.
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Z CATHOLIC CHURCH IN VIRGINIA. -
The following are the latest Catholic church
statistics in the diocese of Virginia, over
which Bishop Gibbons presides Popula-
tion, $4,000; 25 churches and chapels
church in course of erection II stations
20 clergymen; 8 female academies; ld
parochial schools; hospital 2 orphan
asylums; III orphans; IL ecclesiastical
institutions A female religious institutions
! theological seminary; IL students 6
charitable institutions; 1900 pupils in
Catholic schools.
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.. " Hs H |-n y N
THE strength Of the Republican party
has always depended upon the fidelity
with which it represented the best impul-
ses Of the people. 1t is composed in the
main of the better elements, and they sup
port it because they believe it embodies
the soundest principles and the worthiest
purposes. When it fails in this respect, it
forfeits their confidence and favor. Nor
can it shield itself behind any derelictions
of its adversary. The people have estab-
lished q very high standard for it, and, no
matter what the Democracy do, the Repub-
lican party must come up to this measure.
Republicans will not tolerate in their party
what Democrats will in theirs, and the peo-
pie reprobate in the former what they
accept as matter of course in the latter.
Albany Epening Journal.
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I Met AFTER A SEPARATION OF FIF-
TY YEARs.-An affectionate meeting be-
tween brother and sister, after separa-
ton of fifty years, took place at Woon.
socket, Rhode Island, the other day. The
Springfield Republican says s"The parties
were Mrs. Oren Kelley, of Woonsocket,
and Henry Mellon Of Wilmington, Della
ware, the brother whom she left in Ireland
when she came to this country, fifty years
ago. Each had long thought the other dead,
but mutual friend and relative CHANGED,
recently, to see Mr.. MELONS, name on a
hotel register at Saratoga, and on inquiring
discovered him to be the very Mellon he
was the most delighted to see.
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The DELEGATE FROM RAPPAHAN.
mock CoUNTY.--Captain Thomas G.. Pop.
ham, who was elected from this county BY
an overwhelming majority, and who was
published as an independent, !, is declared
IN this mornings Enquirer to have been
nominated by one Of the wings of the Con.
servative convention that met in that county
to be an outspoken Conservative. :.
II says, HE was captain in Kemper's
old brigade, and at the close of the war had
been recommended for the colonelcy Of
kemper's regiment, the Seventh Virginia.,
though not then twenty years of age.n a
We regret to say that our information of
Captain Popham's political status agrees
with that Of The Enquirer, but we yet hope
his legislative career may be characterized
by the liberalitY becoming the conspciuors
soldier The Enquirer describes. /
lie is, we believe, a brother Of Colonel
Popham, of this city.
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NEW lIAMpsIEIRE.
Death Of Hon. John u. Hale

Death or Hon. John II. Hale.
DOVER, November 2O.-Hon. John P.
Hale died about o'clock last evening.
Mr.. Hale had reached his sixty-eighth
year. lie was q man of wonderful vigor
and brilliancy, and gave to his country
the best working days of an honest and
faithful life.
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TAKE NOTICE,

That on the sth day of December next shall
apply to the Second Auditor of the State Of vir-
ginia to renew certificates No 1865 and 1860,
each for $1,000 of state stock, issued to me under
the act of March so 1871, both dated July l. 1871,
the originals thereof being LOST.
l.. r. SPILMAN,
Guardian of John Currie's children.
no l7-3aM4M
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FUR-BEARINa ANIMALs.-The skins
used for fancy furs and robes are mostly
obtained from the carniverous or flesh
eating animals; as the sable, marten,
mink, ermine, seal, otter, bear, etc.; some
are obtained from the rodents or gnawers |;
as the beaver, coypou. or nutria, mnskrat,
rabbit, etc. and a few are obtained from
the ruminants, or those that chew the cud !;
as the bison, that supplies our buffalo
robes and the paseng or wild.goat of
Persia and the Caucasus, and the Assyrian
or Siberian sheep, from whose young kids
and lambs we obtain the much-used
Astrakhan.-From Popular Science Month
ly for December.
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-7ITI -AV"Vr Oi the maSsucrs
HAVANA, November 20.-A grand buI
light is to be given to-day in honor of tb
omcers and crew of the Tornado. Spanisl
colors are displayed in several streets q
Havana on account of the arrival of tn,
now so-called national steamer Virginiu,
at this port.
| CAPTAIN FRY'S LETTERS TO HIS
FRIENDS.
New YORK, November 2O.-A Herald
special, dated Havana, 10Th, says: Cap
tam Fry, previous to his execution, wrote
letters to PRESIDENT Grant, his wife, Father
Fry. ,ssrl ,,et-,1,4-- - ~
SIGNIFICANT PROPHEsY-No WAR
BUT FREE CUBA.
WASHINGTON, November 2O.-The
following. significant paragraph is furnished
from q reliable source.
Evidences accumulate that Cuban mat.
ters will require much correspondence and
aelay; NO complications need be feared as
Ms., ene administration sees its way clear and
~niie war viii be avoided, Cuba will be
THE ARREST OF SUSPECTED pAssEN-
o GERs-DIsCovERY OF SECRET COR
+. ESPONDENCE--MANY CUBANs I'M
PLICATED, &c.
NEW YORK, November 2O.-The Off
GERS OF the Moro Castle report that on ar
rlvai r at Havana the vessel was boarded.
Inc passengers, while aboard, were un-
moiested but were seized upon landing.
DIX out OF seventeen steer age passengers
were arrested but we're discharged after
being searched. The Spanish officers OK.
planned that they were Suspected of bear
ing dispatches. d 10 lla
The persons for whom they were search
ng came on the city of New York. She
was boarded upon arrival and the nassen.
gers seized and searched. Six were de-
clared guilty. Three of them were wo-
men. Extensive correspondence was
Found secreted about their persons, One
was the niece of Almada, who had at
ractea attentlon during the passage by |
ler great beauty and brilliant conversations |
u powers. The prisoners were confined |
the cabin, and their fate was unknown
vhen the Moro Castle left Havana. The |
3ombalier express agent attempted to
brow some papers out of the window, but
hey fell short. He was at once condemned
o death.
'UBAN PATRIOTS SHOT WITHOUT
. MERCY.
The extensive correspondence which had
een seized implicated many persons on
ne Island hitherto unsupported, and as the
aoro Castle left Havana they were being
hot without mercy.
II was estimated that about forty
atriots on various portions of tbe Island
ad met this late.
HE BUTCHER BURRIELL's s DISREGARD
Hig3 gis&2 OF ORDERS as
The following is an extract from a
rivate letter received from Cuba on Mon
ay:
"On the 9th instant at 8 p. M, Captain
'eneral Jovellar telegraphed to Burriell
nat the Spanish minister at Washington
dvised him not to shoot any more men.
aid telegram was received BY Burriell at
antiago de Cuba early on the Sth. On
,e 10Th he shot the fifty-seven men.
"General Jovellar says that he compre.
ended the necessity of saving the lives OF
aese men but was overruled."
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NEW YORK.
Financial.


NEW YORK, November 2o.-Stocks
strong and active for some. Gold 1851
Money Z bid. Exchange, long II; shoIt
OF, Governments strong. States quiet
New YORK, November 20.-Arr;ved
Australia, City of Galveston. Arrived
out, Anglia, Greece, City of New York.
New YORK, November 2O.-The clear
ing-house authorizes the statement that the
reported decrease of 5000, 900 legal ten.
ders yesterday should have been an increase
OF S43O, 600, and also gives the following
totals of legal tenders this week: Monday
SIS, 100000; Tuesday, s2s. .S15, 900. and
Wednesday, $50, ,475, 200.
The creditors of Hoyt, Sprague & Co,
nave appointed committee to confer
with the firm and report the course to be
pursued.
Suspecting something wrong, the drec-
tors OF the Mercantile national bank inst,-
tuted an investigation few days since. and
discovered that the president lily j, Blake)
had advanced the 100000 surplus sun.
posed to be on hand to relieve the embar.
rassments of the Domestic sewing ma
chine company, Incorporated by Blake and
.hree brothers in 1870. The only security
lor these sums advanced found in the
vaults were collaterals and notes of the
sewing machine company, which are prae-
ically worthless.
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SOME people are taking comfort to them

SOME people are taking comfort to them
selves that the crisis is over and nothing
more need be done, because money is
easier in New York. Vain delusion! Low
rates for call loans, with ample converti-
BILE securities, are not the conditions re.
quired to do business. Let no man rest
moment in the false hope that there is any
permanent safety except in a radical
change of our financial system. Every
man must be allowed to buy circulating
money who can pay the government for it.
This is to be done by giving conyertibility
to the bonds and currency. Let nothing
divert the people from this just demand!
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FOREIGN.
FRANCE.

seven Years Proclamation Agreed
UpOn-Paris Excited.
PARIS, November 20.-The session of
the assembly last evening was tumultuous.
The motion to prolong MacMahon's powers
for seven years, independent of the adop-
ton Of the constitution, was adopted by
sixty-six majority.
!. A motion to appoint a committee of
thirty to report constitutional bills was
also adopted by sixty-eight majority.
Paris is greatly excited over the re suit.
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STATE PROPERTY LAYING AROUND
LoosE.-At the last session of the gene
raj assembly the senate passed resolution
requesting the secretary of the common
wealth ITO ascertain from the clerks of
counties and corporations in this state
what, If any, records, documents, historic
papers and relics, maps, weights, meas.
ures, seals, &C.. the property Of the state,
are in their possession. aigs
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Dy- ALL SIZES OF WINDOW GLASS,
KEROSENE OIL, WHITE LEAD, LINsEED
OIL, SPIRITS TURPENTINE, &C., wholesale
retail. l.. WAGNER, Druggist,
oc 13-tf Sixth and Broad streets. !.
s~ H. MoO ORMICK, aa
AUOTIONEER AND COMMISSION MER-
CHANT, I414 MAIN STREET. E.t

On consignment, large and desirable stoch
of FURNITURE, CRoCKERY, GLASSWARE
DRY GOODS, HATS, CAPS. NOTIONS, CLOTH.
ING, &c. ;if9olta sn gg
Iwould respectfully call the attention of the
citizens of Richmond and public generally, to
this large and varied stock of the above named
goods, embracing as It does nearly every article
tolbe found in welstocked house. The most
of those goods have been purchased since the
great financial crisis, at greatly reduced prices,
which enables me to offer to the trade and con-
sumers, at private sale, greater inducements
than can be found elsewhere in the city. sa
AUCTION SALES DAILY. AEit1A
q Consignments solicited. Outdoor sales
promptly attended to.
bAeNa7sh II. MCCORMICK,
~ oc a Auctioneer and Com. Merchant q
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VICKsBURG, November 19.-The barge
Belle of Alton has been burned with
l.200 bales of cotton and 1000 packages of
sundres.
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RACING MATTERs.-David Mcdaniel,
the well-known turfman, is about to inter-
view Broad Rock and New Market race
pouranS
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Personal. Col. D. s. Curtiss, deputy
Of the National Grange, Patrons Of
Husbandry, of the state of Virginia, was
in the city to-day. 8JE
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SPEAKER OF THE House OF DELE
GATES To keep Robert A.. Coghill, esq.,,
of Amherst, from leading the members Of
the house round by the nose as he did last
year, it is now proposed to make him
speaker, and thus get rid Of him.
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3. s. HUTCHINSON. ESQ. condi-
ton of this gentleman, who attempted
!self-destruction yesterday by shooting
himself with pistol, we are pleased to
state, is more favorable. He is now under
treatment at the Medical College infirmarv,
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WORTHY OBJECT.-The mayor of the
city and the clergymen. of all denomina-
tons, adopting our suggestions heretofore
frequently made, will meet Friday evening
in the rooms Of the Young Mems Christian
association on Main street, 10 concert meas
ures for the relief Of the door.
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ANNUAL REPORT.-W have received a
copy of the annual report of Major R. f.
Walker, superintendent of public printing.
1t shows that the public interest has been
well looked after in this department. The
expenses for printing the fiscal year Just
ended were $26, ,232.46, q decrease of
$2,52l.25 over that of last year. The
superintendent recommends the appropria-
ton of $4,000 to this department for the
present fiscal year. This report will be
presented to the next general assembly of
Virginia.
KEEP YOUR GATES CLOSED When
the wind blows like it did on Monday
night, and the lights are all out, the be-
lated pedestrian, vending his way home,
has nothing worse to contend against than
open gates standing across the sidewalk.
Unable to see them, they strike him full in
| the face, and-make him say very uncvil
things. Remember this, and see that your
gates are closed every night.
POLICE CoURT.-Justice White dis
posed of the following cases in this. court
| to.day:
George Walcott, unlawful assault, fined
$500.
William II. Mitchell and Maggie Wade,
stealing, discharged.
Sarah j. Watts, unsound mind, ordered
to be returned to the Alms-house, from
| whence she came.
HELP THE PooR.-We greatly misln.
terpret the signs of the times, if the ensu-
| ing season does not develop more suffering
among the poorer classes than has beer
known here for years. scarcely excepting
the terrible period of the war. In view O
this probability, then, it behooves all who
have the means to make strenuous provis.
ions, in advance, for the relief of the indi
gent; and in this, too, the common coun
| Gil should unite.
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THE Hon. J. Amber Smith publishes a
letter in the Washington Star. endorsing
Colonel Ordway for sergeant-at-arms, and
pledging him two-thirds of the votes of the
Southern members. --tNiA
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DANGERoUs.-The western steps of
the Capitol are in dangerous condition.
They are partially covered with ice. A
fine opportunity is offered to persons de-
sirous of an easy descent.
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INDIA.

Fears OF q Famine at Bengal.
CALCUTTA, November 20.--The ft tars
OF a famine in Bengal are revived. he
press advise the importation of food fiom
America.
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CANADA.
Light-ship VIZ

Light-Shlp Wrecked.
QUEBEC, November 20.-The Red Island
lght-ship was wrecked by Tuesday storm.
Several vessels are ashore.
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yIRG INIA.
Naval Movements.

FORTRESS MONROE, November 90
The United States war vessel Ossipee, from
Newport for Norfolk, has passed in,
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ODD FELLOwsHIP.-Rev. J. A. Dun
can will lecture tonight, on the principles
and objects of Odd Fellowship, at Assembly
Hall,