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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-22
NEGRO oFFIcIousNEss IN WASH
INGToN

The Savannah News says the
following specimen of ofiicions i'm
pertinence, as reported by the WASH
ington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, shows the effect of
carpet>bag teaching and the ideas
which that teaching has engrafied in
the negro mind on the subject of
local State government, and the
relation of Federal TO the State
governments. The IriJantaS cor
respondent says;
The colored people of Georgia
are complaining to Congress that
they are unfairly treated by the
Democratic administration of their
State in the distribution of arms to
the State militia. Ia memorial
adopted by the colored Military Con-
vention, held in Savannah last Feb
ruary, and just presented to Con-
gress, these people say that although
they have formed military compa-
MES in accordance with the laws of
the State, and the State has receiv-
ed from the United States since the
close of the war 1880 breach. load
ing rifles, $40 zzle-loading rifles,
$50 pistols, 500 cavalry sabres, .
light twelve pound bronze guns and
fifty non commissioned officers
swords, ell of these arms but $50
breach,loading rifles have been dis
tributed to white companies. The
memorialists say that they are
alarmed at this and other circum-
stances, which convince them that
the Democratic rulers Of Georgia
intend so far as possible, to keep the
colored people of the State in ignor,
ance by neglecting to establish
schools for their education, and pre-
vent them from organizing military
companies, SO that they will be weak
while cunningly devised plans are
matured to control absolutely their
labor. Among other things of which
they complain is the Organization of
secret society or planters known
as Patrons of Husbandry," which
they fear intends to control the la
Dor ON the plantations OF the mem,
bers, to the injury of the colored
men. Thy therefore ask Congress
to provide "for organizing, armiug
aud distributing the militia of Geor-
gia. SO that military companies com-
posed q friends of the Union may
enjoy the same privileges that its late
opponents enjoy, and that in the or
ganization aud equipment of mill
tary companies no discrimination
shall be made between said compa-
nies on account of race, color or
former condition Of servit1de.
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cAusEs OF THE FAILURE.

We have fully indicated the true
cause Of the failure Of the Sc
cession movement, in the fact, as
Gen. BRAGG expressed it, that, I've
had the world to fght;" or as bet
ter understood, in the blundcr made
By leading secessionists in believing
leading abolitionists and going into
secession upon their assurance OF
peace. This was the cause OF fall
IRE. The result was inevitable up
on the adoption Of secession move
meut.
And yet Gen. JOHNSTON thinks it
was owing to financial mismanage>
ment, while others think that Johns
ston's retreat had something TO do
with it, and in apparent support OF
this supposition, Gen. HOOP comes
out asserting that in forty six days
defence of Atlanta he only lost 1924
men, while Gen. Johnston lost 25,-
900 men in his sixty,days retreat
We think the war would have been
sooner over if Gen. Hood had super
ceded Johnston at Dalton. But, i
is all very ridiculous to see these
military chieftains arraigning eact
other for inefIiciency in avertinl
the inevitable.
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TooMBs AND EMPIRE.
what Henry watterson Says on 1.-THE
Subject.

what Henry watterson Says on 1.-THE
Subject.
/ Mr.. Watterson, of the Courier
Journal, who has just been to Wash
ington, has sent this remark able let>
ter to his paper:
"The visit of Gen. Robert Toombs
to the President was doubtless meant
to be simple courtesy ard nothing
more. 1t was received in all like
lihoood in the way of a curious good
nature characteristic of General
Grant. But, when it is remember
ed that General Toombs is an earn
est and outspoken imperialist, who
does not claim allegiance to this
country, and seeks nothing so ar
IDENTIFY as a revolution which shall
give it a master, the cordially
which he met at the White House
and the pleasure which a call pro.
tracted much beyond the conven,
,ional limit gave to the occupant of
the White House, may be worth
making note of. 1t is a straw which
points Southwark, where it shows
the existence of a small, but, in
cases of emergency, a resolute body
of men, who, worn out and disgust
ed by partisan misgovernment and
malignity, regard third term as
the beginning of the end of BOTH
This class has no personal ill-will
toward General Grant. 1t recog-
nizes the many soldierly acts which
marked his conduct in the closing Of
the war, and the mauy accessible
and complacent features of his dis.
position as man. 1t thinks, mis-
takenly, that any change would be
for the better, not seeing that, under
the personal government it would
set up for Gen. Grant, the present
abuses would be magnifed.
Gen. Toombs is but the spokes-
man of this element. He is at once
a most intrepid and most brilliant
man, and however a sound and ra.
tional Republicanism may detest his
destructive tendencies, am not pre-
pared to set him down as the reck-
less person he is described to be-
During thirty years he has been as
rashly advanced in his opinions and
utterances as he is to-day. / hope
he is not now so dangerously pro-
phetic. He destroyed the Wing
party to make himself leader Of the
Democratic party. He destroyed
the Democratic party to make HIM
self a leader Of the Secession party.
His destructive predictions and
proves manifested themselves for
the third time just as the Confeder-
acy was on the eve of its inherent
destruction. He is by no means loo
old to come again to the front as a
destroyer of the republic which at
ter his failure to destroy the Union,
seems to be sort Of second choice
with him. He is perfectly logical
in his views and aims; and, if the
| fight for the old traditions of liberty
is lost in '76--for those sentimental
traditions whose extinction will be
the forerunncr of a practical and
progressive revolution in the gov
ernment--we may see Toombs once
more the leader of a party, support
ing court and squaring the old ac-
count at last by the agency of a
com d'etdt."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-22
Administrators Sale.

BY virtue Of an Order of the Court of Ordi-
nary of Cobb County, Ga. will be sold before
the Court House dol in Marietta, Ca, during
the legal hours of sale. on the first Tuesday in
Jure next, the following property belonging to
the Estate of Napoleon Il. Green, late of Cobb
County deceased, to-wis: Lot Of Land No, One
Hundred and Eighty, $50 and half of Lot Of
Land No. One Hundred and Sixty.three, 1853
in the Goth Dist and 2nd Section of Cobb Co.,
the same being II miles west of Big Shanty-
possession given next January. Also a lot con-
tanning Three Acres more or less, near the resi-
dance of Judge Van Wyck. Also one vacant
lot Immediately north and adjoining the Cobb
County Jail-all sold for the benefit Of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. Terms one-third
cash balance first day of January next with in
terest. Bonds given for titles, purchaser pay
ing for all papers.
CLOTILDA GREEN,
April 22d, 1874. Administrative.
Printers fee $40.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-22
GEORGIA NEWS.

Clarke county has a hog that gets
drunk.
Dalton has band of gypsies tell
ing and stealing fortunes.
| Peter Gashay, an escaped convict
is rampaging about the surburbs OF
Macon.
A boiler Of saw mill burst few
days since and killed a mule. That
was about the only thing that could
kill mule.
The Athens Georgian suggests to
all former slave-owners to preserve
a correct list of their slaves, and have
their names recorded in the clerks
Office of their respective Counties
He thinks the government will pay
for them some day.
1t is said there is an eccentric
Georgian in Texas who refuses to
return home and claim n fortune of
one hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.. William Sharpe, an employee
of the Macon and Brunswick Rail-
road, fell between the cars the other
day and was killed. He was horri-
bly, mangled.
M I namson ,,yoa rnn ouac ond
killed recently on the Athens Branch
railroad.
Lowndes county is excited over q
case of miscegenation-a white wo.
man and negro man. The we're
put in Jail.
Mr.. bred Griffin, the radical tax
collector Of Decatur county, is de-
faulter to the amount of $7,2lS.7l on
the State and county tax. He has
nothing to show for the deficit, and
his securities, one of which Whitley
is whom, will have to step forward
and face the music.
Newman was the scene OF :. most
fiendish murder on Wednesday of
last week. Stephen a. Brinkley
entered the business house Of his
wife, and after an angry alteration
between them, stabbed her to the
heart, killing her almost instantly. -
He then attempted to kill himself by
several knife cuts but failed. Mrs.
Brinkley left three little girls and a
baby six months old. Brinkley is
in Jail. He is represented to be in
temperate and abusive.
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; q DELI elsEI J:
BAD BLOOD !

"a corrupt tree, saith the Inspired Volume.
"bringeth forth not good fruit" nor can corrupt
blood impart health, beauty and good flesh or
spirits "The Blood is the Life" and health
can only be enjoyed in its full perfection where
the blood is kept in pure and uncorrupted
state, hence the necessity OF pure blood to give
health, beauty, buoyant spirits, long life and
happiness.
ANIMPURE CONDITION OFTHE BLOOD,
manfests itself in different forms of diseases,
sucl, as letter. Salt Rheum, Scald- Head, Ring
Worms, Pimples, Blotches, Spots, Eruptions,
Pustules, Bos, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes Rough
Skin, Scurf. ScrofulOus Sores and Swellings,
Fever Sores, White Swellings, Tumors, Old
Sores or Swellings, Syphilitic Affections of the
Skin. Throat and Bones, Ulcers of the Liver,
Stomach, Kidneys, Lungs and Uterus.
In this condition of things something is
needed AT ONCE ToCLEANsE THE BLOOD, and
nen,ralze the insidieps POISON that
BURNS LIKE A TERRIBLE FIRE,
ms il courses through the veins, sowing seeds Of
death with every pulsation.
Dr. Pemberton's Compound Extract of Stiln-
ga Tor Queen DelighO will positively effect
this desideratum, expelling every trace of
disease from the blood and system, and leaving
the skin
SOFT, FAIR AND BEAUTIFUL.
For all diseases Of the BLOOD, LIVER and
KIDNEYS, this Great Vegetable Alteratire is
without rival 1t will cure any CHRONIC
or LONG STANDING DISEASE whose real
or direct cause is BAD BLOOD. RHEUMA-
TISM, PAINS IN LIMBS or BONES, CON
STITUTIONS BROKEN DOWN by Mercurial
or other poisons, are all cured by il. For
SYPHILIS, or sYPHILICTIC faint, there
is nothing equal to it. a trial riH prore it
1t is a most useful Spring and Fall Purifier of
the Blood.
Its safety and innocence have been fully tes-
ted, so that it may be administered TO the most
tender infant.
fRe Beware of counterfeits and substitutes
Try the Genuine Extract QUEENS De
LIGHT, prepared by Ord S "..MhhkrON,
Atlanta, Ga.
For sale by WIN. ROOT and j. T. HALEY
& CO. MariettaG.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-22

FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE NEXT,
during the legal hours of sale, the following
property 10 wit: One House and Lot situated
ON Roswell street in the city OF Marietta, Cobb
county, Ga, being the place where James b.
Young now resides, containing twelve acres
more or less Levied on by virtue Of two tifas
from Justice Court s95th Dist G. NJ, one in ia
vor of Henderson & Dyson, mechanics &c, VS.
Jas j. Young aud Mrs. Sarah Brannon the
Their in favor Of ID. b. Parks for Use OF w. p.
Anderson & Son Va. James IL. Young, trustee
for wife and children. Property pointed out
by plaintiff. Levy made and returned 10 me
by W. B. Pilgrim, L. c.
printers fee $500
Also at the same time aud place, One Brick
Store house situated on the North east side OF
the public square in the city of Marietta, Cobb
county, Ga, and now occupied by Joseph FL
sas as dry goods store. Levied on by virtue
of two Tax ffas in favor of the State vs.. JAS. b.
Young, trustee for wife for State and county
tax for 1873. Levy made and returned 10 me
hy h. G. Robert, l.. C.
Printers fee $300.)
Also at the same time and place, One brick
store house situated on the Northeast side of
the public square in the city of Marietta, Cobb
county, Ga, and now occupied by Jos, Elsas as
dry goods store Levied ON by virtue of two
fitas from Noiary's court S9Sth Dist @. NJ, one
in favor OF Marietta Savings Bank VS. ID. Nj.
Young and James b. Young, trustee The
other in favor of r. A, Ballenger We. james b.
Young, trustee. Property pointed out by
plaintiffs. Levies made and returned TO me by
w. b Pilgrim and +. NJ. Mullins, l.. c's.
printers fee $3.50
Also at the same time and place the follow
ing property to-wit. Lots IF Land Nos. 3ll,
i..D anil q mat of ~ M 493 and a mart of lot
$40, all in the 18th dist aud 2d section Of cobb
county, Ga. containing 1875 acres more or ltss.
Levied on b. virtue of Tax tfa in favor OF
the State y, E. b. Barber, fer Taxes for the
year lS73 Property pointed ont Ivy Home.
stead Levy made and returned 10 me hy b
G.. Roberts /. {.
(Priuters fee $500
Also at the same time aud place. Lot of land
No. 30 in the Goth Dist aud 2d secs OF Cobb
county, Ga containing 100 acres more or less.
Levied on by virtue of fla from Justice court
| S5lst dist c, NJ as the property Of Joseph
Lacy in favor ct A. J. Gorham vs.. John Hill.
| Jr., and joseph Lacy Property pointed out
by Joseph Lacy. Levy made and returned TO
me by james NJ. Griggs. L. &.
! May ii. 1874.
! lPriaterS Zee 81 20
! Also a. the same time and pisre. Que house
and lol situated on Powder Spring street in the
1 city Of Marietta sud bounded east by Powder
1 Spring street. north hy street. Soaih By prep.
7 eriy 81 Ed. nsslneas containing aerss- and
I new escaped by jas, Nj. MEG Rlinoh- Levied
/ an a. ths aropeFsy OF Jas \ Has~esi by viFia'
at : fis inou. Cobb Superior Coari in fsEor .
| John h Wilder rs. Jas. \ Russell. PROPERTY
/ pointed oal ~ Plaintiffs Attorney. This MAY
: ist, lea. IPrinisxs zee $3.50 ]
Wy. P. STEPHENS SheEif
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BUSINESS FOR THE CHANGERS


The most practical and important
good to be accomplished by com
bination of Southern farmers is, the
establishment of Cotton and Wooden
factories in every neighborhood.-
This was the most prominent idea
advanced in the formation of the
Grange organizations, and intelli>
gent mon believed, that when these
organizations were perfected, the
farmers would build their own facto-
ries, paying Tor stock in them ac-
cording to the cotton they could
spare, and, that thus the good desir-
ed would be secured, in doubling
the productive values of the neigh>
borhood and rapidly increasing its
capital and population, resulting
from which the farmer would find a
remunerativo market at home for all
his surplus productions "a result
which would place the Southern
farmer in tho van of material and
social progress, The Oranges, how
ever, have made no move in this d.
rection and we beg leave to suggest
that, though they may otherwise do
some good for agriculture, until this
is done, the farmers of the South will
remain "hewers OF wood and draw,
ers water" for others.
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

BY virtue of an order of the Court of Ordi-
nary Of Cobb County, G, orgia, will be sold be-
fore the Court House door in Dallas, Pauldine
county, Ga. on the first Tuesday in June next
Town lois Nos. IL and ~ in Block A. and
Town lots n, :. % u, =; ~, %, % and % in
Block c. and lot No. l., ia Block c., and sold
as the property Of Napoleon H. Green late OF
Cobb county deceased for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of said deceased, Terms
one third cash and the balance first of January
next with interest from date bond for titles,
purchasers to pay for TIL" papers. This April
%, 1874.
CLOTILnA GREEN, Admr'x
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DENOUNCED AS FALSE.

The charges made by the N. y
Sun, Gen. Young says are ''malic'
ious and false, and when the Sian
derous accusations therein contain
ed are preferred by a responsible
person who can be reached, ! shall
make such response as becomes the
Representative of the honorable men
of my District"
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CLOTILnA GREEN, Admr'x


WILL be sold bef,fv The court house door
in the Town OF Canton Cherokee County, Ga,
within the legal hours nf sale, ON the LIST Tues
day in July next. Lots of Land Nos. $50, 933,
$3.50, $40, 1904. 1906, II Acres, more or less OF
GAL aud 20 Acrts, NOR less of 934, all in Bird
District aud 2nd Section # said County, as the
property of Nehtmiah Garrison, deceased-sold
under an agreement between he heirs at law,
of said Nehemiah Gan rison Terms cash.
Possession to be given L., January 1875. April
10Th. ls7l JOHN b. GARRISON,
Printers fee Ssi..,vl Admir-.
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Georgia. Cherokee County !:

Whereas, l.. L. Mason. Administrator OF
Lazarus Atkinson. represents 10 the Court, in
his petition duly filed, and entered on record,
that he has fully administered said estate
This is therefore TO cite all persons CO ncerned,
kindred and creditors, TO show cause, ii any
they can, why said Administrator, should not
be discharged from bis administration of said
Estate, and receive letters Of Dismission on the
first Monday in August next, this Maya 4, 1874.
W.R d. MOSS. Ordinary.
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Cherokee She III. Sales.

WILL be sold bef,.,s liz, Court House door
in the Town of Cant II, hrr"kee County, Ga,
within the legal hours at ~il- ava the
FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE NEXT,
the following propetiv y" VII
Lots of Lsl,0 No~ 4Gi nd ga, in 3rd Dist,
aud 2nd Section, l,.sie "a a The property OF
Hardy Strickland, 20 satisfy six Justice Court
Fihs from the S5isi Di-irr,. g n Cobb Co..
Ga, in favog ut Ii,-ls Strickland. Levied and
returned to me by = 4. White, l.. c. (Prin-
IRIS fee S3.00.l
ALSo--At the same lime and place, Lot oil
Land No. SIG, in tite 18th District and Cd Sec
ton levied on Is the .'sg'..vTiy OF h. X Chris-
tiap. TO satisfy tax MIA s.r his tax of 1873
Levied and returned a. me by Fl. G.. Daniel,
u c. May lst, Isl! Printers fee S2,50)
L. g. Granting, Sheriff.
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THE RESERVOIR HORROR.
Heartrending Details of the Flood.
SPRINGFIELD MASS, May II, 1874

SPRINGFIELD MASS, May II, 1874.
The Williamsburg reservoir,
which gave way yesterday morning,
precipitated the vast mass Of water
it contained three miles down the
steep and narrow valley into the
thriving manufacturing village Of
williamsburg, and thence further
down the valley through the Villages
of Haydenville, Leeds, and Florence,
into Northampton meadows. The
stream empties into the Connecticut
river. The huge torrent dashing
into Williamsburg with resistless
power, swept away in a moment the
manufacturing establishments, and
number of dwellings, causing enor-
nous destruction of property and
terrible loss of human life. The
latest figures of the loss of life make
a total of IA, divided as follows be-
tween the three places: Williams
burg, sixty; Leeds, forty nine |;
Haydeuville, thirty-fve.
These figures only represent per-
sons whose loss is positively known,
though bodies are constantly being
found, and in some cases those of
persons who were not supposed TO
be lost, so that it seems perfectly safe
to say that totalsloss OF life will ex-
coed $50, if, indeed, it does not
more nearly approach 200. 1t is
impossible yet to give detailed esti>
mate of the losses. Aside from the
buildings destroyed and damaged,
bridges have been carried away,
roads ruined and hundreds of acres
of meadow land rendered almost
valueless. The total loss must far
exceed a million dollars, and will
probably come near two million.
1t appears that serious doubts, as
to the safety of the reservoir, have
been entertained ever since it was
built, nine years ago, though less
during the last year or two than in
its earlier history. The gate keeper
has several times expressed his fears
to his employers, calling special at
ten,ion the point where the break
occurred, but the examiners always
reported everything safe.
WASHINGTON, May is, 1874.
The details of the flood are most
heartrending. 1t is feared that many
Canadians, who recently arrived to
work in the factories, have been
lost. A watchman discovered the
danger and rode down the valley,
making three miles in fifteen minutes,
shouting the alarm. Here milk
man, with feet horse, dashed ahead
of the flood some two minutes. He
beat it in crossing a bridge scarcely
twenty seconds, aud speeding on
screamed 1.-THE reservoir is coming. .
This heroic milkman saved hundreds
of persons, who fed their homes and
and breakfasts for the slopes, The
flood rushed by, carrying human
beings, houses, great iron boilers,
huge trees, cows, horses, poultry,
pianos aud bird cages upon its crest.
SrRINGFIELp, Mass, May Is, 1874.
All accounts attribute the disaster
of the food TO the weakness and
insecurity of The reservoir works.
The walls were not thick enough to
resis,s the pressure of l25 acres Of
water averaging thirty feet in depth.
BoSroN, May is, 1874.
, A later dispatch says i2o lives
were lost, and upwards of seven
million dollars in property here been
swept away by the food.
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THE ARKANsAs TROUBLES.

The President, at the request OF
the Arkansas Legislature, having
interposed and recognized Baxter
as the actual or rightful Governor,
peace and order is once more prom
ised to the people of Arkansas.
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Administrators Sale.
G eorgia Cobb County

UtWTSTd CUUU N(UUHty
BY virtue of an order Of the Court of 0rdi-
nary will be sold before the Court House door
on the first tuesday in June next, within the
legal hours OF sale the following property, to-
Wit One city hack. one lot Of cbairmaker's
machinery, one fire proof safe and one gold
watch. Sold as the property Of the late VIM.
L. Mansfield, deceased
w r. VIM. Administrator.
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GEN. GORDON has written an able
letter, just published, upon the cur
rency question. He contends thai
the Government ought either to re-
move the tax on State bank notes,
or il ought TO make its own issues,
aud not National bank notes, the
money of the nation. He opposes
contraction aud the national banking
system, arguing that no relief can
come under the latter system.
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Pix ms sheriff Sale.
viz De ~o,,i .--'e.r he cear' House door

viii t,e Sold i--sase IT, Cs..'r' House door III
sais, Ceaafy e. .eA~sss- "a the
FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE MKT,
Lots of Lar, ", al :.nd 2,s in the 9Th Dis
trict and "a >,,ii.,,,, EACH containing 100 acres
rrore or les Levied q. by virtue Of ffa Is
sued G,,,aa 4! oaperior C,,ast III Forsyth county
IN fator If Isaac Strickland. Jr., -. Tobert
strickland maker and Hardy Strickland Sc
euri;v. fropefiY no;a;s.i eur ky II. = Psgter-
son. Attorney taF Pl&ii.;;T Tbis. Msy l. ls74.
fI,rin,sr' Ess< sSsisi
i. ". DAVIS. Sheriff.
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Georgia. Cherokee County

Ordinarys Office Mayo, 1874.
Josiah Spears, has applied for exemption OF
personally, and setting apart and valuation Of
Homestead, and will pass upon the same at
10 o'clock, a. M, on the 25;h inst at my office
in Canton. Ga. w. X. ID. MOSS,
Ordinary
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Georgia. Cherokee County /:

Ordinary's Office May IL, le74.
a. J. Thompson has applied for exemption
Of Personality, and will pass upon the same at
10 o'clock, a. M, on the ed inst at my office
in Canton, Ga w. X. ID. MOSS.
Ordinary.