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The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
philadelphia Trade Report:


Cotton is dull, with small sales Of mid,
dlings in lots at l1allMc for upland, and
llaac for New Orleaus:
With receipts amp offerings light, coffee
is firm. Sales of 700 bags Rio az i612alSc,
100 bags Laguayra at l7ac. and Is mats
Sugar-supplies are moderate. at 8Aa9c,
for fair and good refining Cuba. Refined
sugars are active, and prices have an up
ward tendency. We quote at llAc for cut
loaf 1lAc for crushed and powdered;l111sc for
granulated. and loMc for A.
quote molasses nominaliy at S2a34c for So
New Cloverseed is in light receipt, and Is
held at lO%allc; Timothy sells at 81 SOal w,
and Flaxseed Is firm at 81 35al 40.
The home trade is purchasing freely, and
are N f Arm in their demands. The stock OF
the better grades t Minnesotas is reduced
to a low figure, and holders are Indifferent
about selling at t current RACES eot SALES says 81
1000 barrels Western Extra at$4; Pennsyl-
yania do. do 81 5O@5; Minnesota Extra
Family at S6 so; Indiana new. wheat at
,6 Is; patent medium, 81 50, and choice At
" Brinton's Flour at s. l2}1, and Brandy
Buckwheat Meal-The new crop is arriv-
ing, and small sales sre reported at 81 SO per
barrel.
Wheat, influenced by the advance in the
West. and with receipts and offerings light,
is firm, and prices have decided upward
tendency. Sales of $500 bushels, including
Pennsylvania Red, at 81 o g western eribap;,, bao,
Amber at 81 26@ "; Pennsylv@nia 40. at
SI rs and Michigan White at 81 30; prices OF
Spring are nominal.
Rye1s in light receipt; we quote Southern
at 70c., aud Pennsylvania at 75@76c'
Corn is in limited request from the home
trade, but the export demand Is good anu
prices firm. Sales of 200 bushels, embrac-
ing Pennsylvania and southern Yellow at
57@50c.; Western Mixed ut 6@5Slae., and
sail corn at SIC. f. O b.
Oats-The receipts are larger, and the
market is Over.stOcked with mixed ana
Hight, which are not wanted, but choice new eEv
aud old White is in demand. Sales OF S'O0o
bushels, including dark and light mlxed,
at 33@36c.: fair and good White at S5@%c.;
choice and fancy at 3o@4Sc. and Ohio
White, old prime, at 4S@5oc. ',OOO bushels
of Barley sold at 81.
iron-bound barrels, with sales OF 100 barre Is
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
(TO BE CONTINUED.
Plant Trees.

There is In Massachusetts a society for
the promotion of agriculture which seems to
be going about its work in the right way
It has lately taken In hand the encourage
ment of tree planting, which is matter de-
serving of more attention than 1t is receiv-
ing from the tillers of tn soil. The annual
devastations Of our forests are going on at
a rate which excites the alarm Of the men
who have most carefully studied our supply
of timber. We find in the Springfield Re-
publican some interesting statistics on this
subject. Our railroads annually consume
for fuel alone quantity of forest trees rep
resenting twenty-five years growth on
$50, 900 acres. Railroad sleepers use up
thirty years growth on 10000 acres. Fences
to enclose the railroads clear as many acres
more. Telegraph poles for g., 900 miles ol
telegraph requires the telling of 2,6OO,Ool
trees, and the annual repairs $50, 900 more.
For matches alone there are annually sawed
up 900 cubic feet of wood. In 1870
SO 900 acres were stripped to brick making
Shoe pegs take 100, 900 cords of white birch
annually. In 1870. for pine packing boxes
and for wooden ware, vast quantities ol
valuable timber were used, and sawed logs
footed up in value to over $103 ,O0O, 900. Add
to this voracious demand that made for
ordinary fences and frewood, and to that
add the waDton destruction of forests for
mere clearing, when sometimes the timber
felled 'subserves no useful purpose, and we
begin to get some idea Of the rapidity with
which our forests are disappearing, and to
discover the reasons for the solicitude for
the future felt by those who have most care
fully studied the subject of the destruction
of our growing trees. To help to correct
this evil, and to encourage tree planting,
the Massachusetts Society offers prizes
ranging from 81, 900 to $400 for the best
five acre plrntation of trees in the State,
the prizes to be awarded in 1887, and the
trees to be planted on poor and worn-out
land. The money profit offer to tile tree
planter is large. If the 200, 600 acres of un-
improved land in Massachusetts should be
made to produce during the next fifty years
cue hundred cords of firewood to the acre,
at Sc a cord, the total yield would be $780,
900 900. If, however, the European larch
were planted, their net yield in fifty years,
after making allowances for contingencies,
would be $462, 1880, 900. These are big fig
ures, and we'll may they arrest attention.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
How q Cat Stole . Railroad Ride.
[From the Buffalo Express.

Last Friday, September 80, when the car
inspectors were examining the S.45 A. M.
train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at
Bethlehem, black cat was found compla-
Gently sitting on the rear platform truck
between the springs under one of the coach
es, It was evident she had come from
Philadelphia. The passengers all siding
with her, she had little trouble in remain
inp. and so rode peacefully to Waverly,
a distance of two hundred and forty-fve
miles. At each station numbers of the pas
sengers would get out, and with loiterers
around the depot, view the cat, while the
more charitable passed food to her, which
she ate with relish. At Waverly the cat
was removed from the truck, and put In
charge Of the drawing room car porter.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12

peen Drought nom the Ohlp dete1 ~ .
messenger who awaited an answer. It
contained . few hurried lines from Regi.
nald Irby, entreating Agnes to grant him
an interview Immediately.
With wonderful selcpossession and
promptitude she dismissed the attendant,
and before penninga a reply sat herself down
to consider what she had best do. Regi-
nald was here, from Miss Walsinghan's
representations, and for what purpose had
he come? Long and prayerfuliy Agnes
communed with her own heart: her reso.
luton was formed-she would see him
next morning. But oh what meetingl
they knew each other now-knew their
mutual love and truth; but did heacknowl-
edge the gulf between them?
Pass we over with light touch those
first agitating moments when the early
loved and parted again greeted each other
pass we over those moments, and hasten
onward to detail the sterner portions of
their interview.
II may not listen to such language,
Reginald" replied Agnes with faiterins
voice bul decision Of manner, as he vehe-
mently poured forth ardent protestations
Of unalterable affection; this is worse
tnan futile-.-it is siniul-addressed to one
so peculiarly and delicately situated as
myself"
"Are you mad, Agnes? What mean
you" exclaimed Beginald passionately.
For Heavens sake do not tamper with
me- or again 1 shall curse my false, cruel
sister, who has wrought our misery. You
love me, Agnes; ay, turn away; your
cheek may pale, and your eyes grow dim
with unshed tears but yon love me. And"
he continued, raising his voice and speak
ing with vehemence, twill you sacrifice me
and yourself a second time to false no.
~"- Of honor for scruples which the world
,.oa d laugh at? Are you not free, Aenes?
Are you not indeed free? Can you enter
tain doubt? Death has released you from
those VOWS which I alone had right to
claim. Think you that ocean will give up
its prey? Listen to reason, Agnes, for
mine you are by Heaven; no Helen has
power to separate us now"
"Reginald, approach me notr' said
Agnas decisively, for he essayed to clasp
ACI III lib dIuASj Uut BIG ScNIly tuOuSu
firmly warded off his embrace; "approaeh
me not; it may not be. Alas, alas! the
ocean does not give up its dead secrets,
and know not whether as wife or widow
l stand before you now. But as wife you
must regard meas a brave and good
mans wife you must treat me until the
certainty be established-a certainty be-
yond doubt-of Wilfred's death. And
the Searcher of Hearts knoweth that my
husbands life is dearer to me than my
own," she added in a tremulous voice,
turning very pale-"or than my own hap
piness."
Vainly did Reginald Irby combat with
her resolution; vainly strive to shake it
by every entreaty and argument devoted
love could point out; but when he found
that argument and entreaty were alike in
vain, then he turned fiercel y away, mutter-
ing wild and terrific imprecations on the
head of her whom he disclaimed-even
his only sister. Agnes pleaded much in
her extenuation; she argned that it was
Helen's love, her ambition for his welfare,
that had caused her to equivocate, and
that we must forgive if we hope to be for
given.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
70 A.esl q Ms0s.

hn.n We our eyes arc raising.
iutently gazing,
In the idle hope that we
Nav the spirit forms discover
Enat around our pathway hover
NAV our heavenly guardians see.
=. IN meet our earnest longing,
Eaver angel host comes throngtng
TN before our raptnred sight,
whilst our eyes are veiled from seeing
lome celestial, sanity being
ever near us, day and night.
nd her brow no halo beaming
orks her with angelic seeming
To our strangely earth-bound eyes,
she. bent on mission holy
1onost earth's suffering poor and lowly,
Moyes. an angel in disguise.
ps she is an angel. keepiug
oils lone when We are sleeping;
puarding with such tender care,
rough the night hours. long and dreary,
u,s that she is never weary
BEARING on her heart In prayer.
her eyes our path is scanning,
b,lst her busy brain is planning-
she sees the gathering haze
W. by softest spell, to charm us
I'm some hidden snare to harm us
life's dangerous mystic maze.
I'D the bright-wingeu hosts above us
th more pure devotion love us
18th more care our foo tsteps guide7
Ill our eyes be holde n ever,
II our hearts be .,ened never,
the seraph by our side2
en- ear'h's Or 4ghtest lights have faded,
en ws wa'p with brow unshaded.
cath the blue of heavens high deme,
shall now how earth-mist clouded
the spirit-beauty shrouded
II angel in our home,
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
RUGBY
Evening School.
DIR. SAML. w. MURPHY, A. N.
PRINCIPAL.
Assisted by an Able Corps Of
Teachers

This Evening Business School will open
on Monday. oct. 10th; at O'CLOCK: BOOK, BOOK;
Arithmetic, Spelling. Reading, and every
thing pertaining to business life will be
Special attention paid to Penmanship,
which is taught by Prof. J. ]. Peiree.
Afternoon session for Ladies in Penman.
ship. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
of each week, from 4.3O r. M. to $50 P. M.
PEN WORK.-Plain and ornamental,
embracing Lettering, Flourishing, Card
Writing, Engrossing. and everything per-
tanning 10 JOB Pen Work xecuted in every
j. j. Peirce, Penman at Rugby Academy.
Pewons desiring work Of this kind, or who
wish further Information ia regard to the
Rugby Evening School, will please addreas
DIR, SAML. w. MURPHY,
oct7-6t Principal of Rugby Academy.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
PHILADELPHIA MARK FITS.
stock Market.

PHILADELPHIA, October II, 1870,
cold 100 @l09h Pittsburg, IL
US 1881 ll6LMlI7 tusville and
" sos 1865 lllA@ Buffalo r. r 9A@9I
"July lS851llal@ Catiwissa llN@sales
" July 1857 ll5 @ GOLD VALUE. mn
"July 1868 ll6 q Eng Soy 4S4@4Sa
''l0-40s 114N@ll4N :" Silver 4SO@4Sl
New 5s ll4I4@sales 20 Reichsm 475@4SC
City6 sNewlH @sales Wfracs(Nap) 3SS@39I
u. Cos. .ofN.J. 1850 WKroners 53O@5S5
Penna R. K. 4SA04Sas Prus thal'rs 6S@N
Phila u Read Roubles, Gold 7O@75
RR, MN@24H
Dhila & Erie l4ss@l4H
Lehigh Va AZ @47A
: Nav Stock325s@32M
Hestonville27 q 27aS
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
II F: KUNKEL'S BITTER WINE OF
IRON.

u F: KUNKEL's BITTER WINE OF
IRON.
The great success and delight o. the peo-
pie. In fact, nothing of the kind has ever
been offered to the Am rican people wh1ch
has SO quickly found its way into their
good favor and hearty approval as N. F.
KUNKEL's BITTER WINE OF IRON. It does
all it proposes, and thus gives universal
satisfaction. It Is guaranteed to cure the
worst case Of dyspepsia or indigestion, kid.
ney or liver disease. weak ness, u nervousness,
constipation, acidity OF the stomach, &c.
Get the genuine. Only sold in 81 bottles.
Depot and Office 259 North Ninth st., Phila-
other. Sold b all druggist.
DYSPEPSIA. DYSPEPSIA. DYSPEPSIA
EFF. KUNK Els BITTER WINE OF IRON
a sure cure for this disease. 1T has been
prescribed daily for many years IN the
practice of eminent physicians with un-
parallelod success. Symptoms are loss or
appetite, wind and rising of food, dryness
in {, outh, headache, dizziness, ,sleeplessness
and low spirits. Get the genuine. Not sold
in bulk, only in 81 bottles: 259 North Ninth
A SIX for e. f. Kunkel's Bitter Wine Of Iron
and take no other.
TAPE WORM.
Entirely removed with purely vegetable
medicine. passing from the system alive.
fer to the patients treated. Dr.: K. 7. KUN
KEEL, No. $50 North Ninth Street. Philadel-
phia. Advice free. Seat, Pin, and stomach
Worms also removed. Ask your druggist
for KUNKRL's Worm SYRUP. Price 81 per
bottle. Send for circular.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-12
BOOTS 4 SHOES.
NHEAP SHOE STORE.

NHEAP SHOE STORE.
Having fitted up my shoe store, No. Gil
than ever befo.e, J. am ready to supply the
people in the eastern portion OF the city
with all kinds Of boots and SHOES, for
ladies, gentlemen and children, at prices
far below those heretofore charged. Ele-
promptly attended to
mar14-ly JAMES KANE.
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MIG REPORT.
WASHINGTON.


a fcTY 1fus0fee& 3fN
Washington, Aug. 21--Alarmed at
the advantage which the yaxious, sol
diers' organizations in giving the Re-
publicans, the Observation-Disclosures
have started a soldiers veteran ass0cia-
ton, with Gen. Hooker az its president
and Gen. Denver, Of this city, As chair
man Of the executive committee, Of
which Gen. r. b. Mitchell and Repze-
sentative A. s. Williams = also mem
bers. This committee are preparing An
address showing what the House has
done for the soldiers in way Of county
and pension bills, ETC., and have taken
steps to hunt up and gather into their
organizations all soldiers who have Til
denis election at heart i5.. an Ls51Sl
aHll1.A Reressue RetreachDaent gag
BY an act passed at the recent session
of Congress the services Of revenue
guagers at wholesale liquor store estab-
lishments will be dispensed with on and
after the 25th inst. Thereafter all pac-
ages Of distilled spirits fDed on the
the premises Of a wholesale dealer will
have to be stamped. The Internal
Revenue Department viii at once pro
vide the collectors Of Internal Revenue
with the required stamps to be used by
the dealers, accompanied by instruc-
tiOns. nf H
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VEST VIRGINIA.
Rape and Lynching.

Huntington, Aug. 2ls-I.ast Wednes-
day Sam. Cameron. a negro, raped an
eight year old daughter of MI. Hatfield,
a policeman. The negro was arrested
and Hatfield tried to shoot him in the
magistrates office. The prisoner was
removed to Barbersville jail, and
thirty masked men visited the jail early
this morning, overpowed the guards,
took the negro out and hung him to a
tree. A.
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The employees Of the New York Il
New Jersey r. X. have struck, and no
trains are running cause-non pay
ment Of wages
OTertures have been made 10 Seryia
by Tie diplomstic agents Of England,
Frsnte, Italy and three other great
powers, booking to negotiations for
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ELECTRIC

4 ~ A -
Gold closed yesterday atx110s and
l1Oa.
A 81, 900 fire at Rogers Park, near
Chicago, Sunday.
A fire at Brussels, Ont, Sunday,
caused a loss Of 300, 900. G
The Democrats of New York are
having a bitter fractional fight.
Eighty Chinese students left Hart
ford, Ct, Monday, to attend the Gem
tenniala H; .eitffs
Two young murderers were taken
from the Greensboro, KY, Jail and
lynched.
The Irish Democrats Of Massachu-
sets don't want Chas. Francis Adams
for governor.
John a.. Harris, publisher Of the
Cleveland Herald, and at one time
mayor Of the city, died Monday, aged SO.
Jas. Boweman, registry clerk Of the
San Francisco postof1ce, has been rob
bling the mails for years and Is now In
Jail.
Courtright, formerly treasurer Of
Lugerne Co. Pa, recently convicted oi
embezxlement, has refunded 420, 0oo.
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THE DEAD STATESMAN.


Washington, Aug. Alan under
taker was sent from this city to Rock
bridge, Alum Springs, Va. The body
was embalmed, is now en route to this
city, and will arrive in the morning. It
will lie in state here for q day, and Will
then be forwarded to New Albany, In
diana, with a suitable escort, where the
funeral will take place.
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~DEsTUoT1VE STORMS
In Missouri.

Kansas City, Aug. 21.-A terrible
wind and rail- stormpassed over aportion
of Western Missouri especially along the
Chicago, Rock Island s. Pacific R. R.,
Saturday evening. AT Edgerton depot
several dwelling houses and shops were
destroyed and two or three occupants
seriously injured. Several bridges on
the railroad were badly damaged, large
trees were uprooted or twisted on like
pipe stems, and crops, particularly
corn, laid fat on the ground. The
damage done within a space of about
thirty miles square. is estimated at over
S1OO.OO0
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a school mistro8s, name not given,
Of the town Of Glence, West Virgins,
was wnyIaid . few days since and out
ragged, after which the rufians cut out
her tongueand otherwise maltreated her
person,
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In Western Kansas.

Atchison, Aug. 21.-Reports from
west of here say great damage was done
by the storm of Saturday night last.
Bridges were swept away, fences blown
down, several buildings overturned and
growing corn much injured.
, 1876-05-17
new YORK qBLBGRAMS s.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, April

DUBLIN, April IL.
Great disturbances took place IN the city Of
Limerick to-day.
A home rule open air demonstration vas ar
ranged. The meeting was to be addressed by
Mr.. Isaac Butt, NJ. P, and Mr.. O'Shaughnessy,
NJ r representatives of the Limerick consti-
tuency.
Thess gentlemen arrived by railway. They
We're met and received by their friends. A
procession numbering 10000 men escorted
them from the railway station to the O'COnnell
monument, at the Crescent.
Arriving there, they found 100 men, headed
by John Daily, armed with heavy ~bludgeons,
loaded whip handles and other weapons.
The nationalist attacked the processionists.
They knocked down and dispersed the must.
cians, smashing their instruments. Many per.
sons were injured on both sides, and the ban.
ners of the processionists were torn.
The conflict ragged fifteen minutes, but the
home rulers succeeded in compelling the ma
t~iOnaliSts to retreat to the back streets, where
diminishing ensued, and was maintained during
a longer period.
Numbers of men we're found lying in the
streets, many of them dripping blood. These
we're conducted to different surgeries.
Quiet was restored at three O'Clock In the
afternoon.
Messrs. Butt and O'Shaughnessy delivered
brief addresses to a considerable gathering.
while some hundreds of their sympathizers
kept up a mslSe on the outskirts of the assem-
blage with the nationaIists, who continued their
Interruptions to the close.
The military were confined to barracks.
SPAIN.
ROME. April II.
Negotiations between Spain and the Vatican
have been suspended. The Spanish govern
ment has announced that it will accept the
Concordat of 1851, except the clause daOreeing
religious unity,
, 1876-05-17
T G. r A NJ s .
ST. THOMAS STATION.

0t' THOMAS STATION.
May l2.
NEW YORK, 1lth.-OVer one hundred thou.
sand spectators witnessed the opening Of the
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, at which
General Grant Officiated, assisted by all the
L. S. Cabinet Ministers and European Com.
missioners.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil and
suite and the Members of the Foreign Embas.
sizes were present,
The London Times Odessa correspondent
telegraphs that the Salonioa disturbances wers
pFemeditated, and that the C0nsuls had wa<ned
the Turkish Government of the b threatened
outbreak.
The French and German Governments have
issued a collective note to the Porte demanding
indemnidoatiOn for the families of the murdered
COnsuls, the execution of the murderers, strict
guarantees for future protection of the lives Of
foreigners and that the French and German
flags shall be saluted.
Lord Douglas Gordon has been elected NJ.
Z. for West Aberdeen in the liberal interest.
May IL.
New YORK, May 12th.-Sir Francis
Hincks, Ex-Governor of Barbados, has written
a letter to the Montreal papers relative TO the
Barbados riots, in which he blames the system
of Government and not the individuals con.
NNSN''S ~ "a dAO tuob tuSy udN0 Db6u
economical and deserving of every considera.
ton.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Ambassa.
dor at Washington entertained the Emperor Of
Brazil, General Grant, and two hundred dis
tinguished guests at dinner last evening, and In
the course of a speech declared that the Centpn.
NAL Exhibition was q majestic triumph for the
United States.
In the British House of Commons Sir Henry
James motion for a vote of oensure on the
Government relative to the Empress title pro.
clamation was rejected by one hundred and
eight majority.
The Prince of Wales has arrived at Ports.
mouth, in good health.
The British Ambassador at Constantinople
has telegraphed that the situation there is very
grave, and that a massacre of Christians is
anticipated, The British feet has been order
ed to proceed to the HelIespont Immediately.
The Sultan has dismissed Mahmoud Pasha.
the Grand Vizier, and summoned Hussin Aynl
Pasha, the head of the war party to succeed
him.
, 1876-05-17

that event, the hottest day being the
10th, when the acknowledgements
reached 1906, the coolest day being the
14th, when the same thermometer only
reached goo, and during the night OF that
day the minimum-thermometer showed
22o.6. The average daily difference be-
tween the maximum and the minimum
thermometers for this month is $780, the
least is 3o.4, the greatest 90,7.
The first 8 days of the month the wind
was, as at the end of last month,
E. N. E., on the 4th it became %southerly,
and very unsteady and weak. On the
10th it was, {. in, in Christiansted, at
6 o'clock A. M. calm, at 10 S. E., at 6
D. M. N. w. At Kingshill, on the 18th,
at 6 am. calm, at 12 S. at 6 P. m. N,
and then kept with a single exception
northerly or due E. until the 21st, when
it became ~southerly, keeping that dlrec-
ton to the last days of the month, when
it again was unsteady, veering between
E. S. E., and E. and E. N. E. During
the whole month it has been pretty weak.
, 1876-05-17

This month commenced as dry as March
ended, but about the middle of the
month 13th) the atmosphere began to be
more moist, and in the evening of that
day and the following days, a good, gene
raj rain fell. at an average, according to
a recorded measurements, 213 lines.
subsequently the air again became drier,
put now and again pretty good showers
10 25B, while for the last rs wears. il has
only been eO5 lines.
The temperature has been somewhat
higher than that of the corresponding
month OF last year, but the same as for
1916. viz. 1851, 1881, 26o1.
The average moisture of the atmosphere
has been exactly the same as last wear,
viz. 1000.
Before the rain fell the temperature
Yves considerably higher than after
, 1876-05-17
ST. CROIE
WEDNESDAY MAY I'm 1876.

From the Danish papers by last mail
we learn with much pleasure that His
Majesty the King has been most g~raciously
pleased, on his birthday. the sth of April
last to confer upon His Excellency the
Governor of these islands, Commander of
Dannebrog and Dannebrogsmand, the title
and honour of Chamberlain. His Excellen-
cy's Administration has been one ~ofindefati-
gable exertions to promote the best in
terests OF this island, and if these exertions
v not yet been crowned with the sue.
, 1876-05-17

cess they merit, His Excellency deserves
no part of the blame, if not all the praise,
and it is buc natural to conclude that His
Majesty has seized this opportunity to"
convey bis appreciation of the fact.