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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1877.
oar Wa.hlngton Letter.
WAsHTNeToN, d. g. July GIT.

WASHINGTON, d. e. July GIT.
It has been thought that prompt
presentation of the government
bonds called in for redemption was
essential. But Mr.. Sherman rules
there is no limit whatever to pay
ment, and that the government is
unbound to pay them, there being
no difference in that respect be-
tween q matured bond and q green
back. 1t is singular that so many
bonds should not be presented for
payment. They are hardly lost and
thereby disappeared like millions of
greenbacEs and postal currency.
But the fact that n large portion of
the designated numbers have not
been surrendered shows that people
hold them who are Indifferent to
to the interest involved.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The army engineers who made
themselves ridiculous by their adj
verse report against the Washing
ton Monument have made amends
by withdrawing supplementary
report In which they state how the
foundation may be properly
strengthened at very slight cost so
as to permit erection of any desired
hight. The tower of Babel fell to
ruins because Of the confusion of
language. But our monument
came near failure through the
confusion of ideas. West Point
EngineeHs have much 20 learn when
brought IN contact with practical
matters, and civil engineers in this
instance have clearly shown how
practically ignorant men of ideas
only may be even though gradu-
ates Of West Point. Perhaps we
are unchsritable but we have seen
so much of West Point assumption
unwarranted by actual practical re-
suits that we wouldn't give a hg
for all their brass whether in their
cheeks or buttons. They condemn
ed the foundations Of this monu-
ment and when their error was
pointed out they let themselves
down gracefully by showing how
the foundations may be strength
ened, though 1T is patent that no
strengthening process is needed. 1t
is better we presume to spend $780,
coo needlessly rather than have
West Pointer acknowledge he was
In error. $
MEXICO.
Mr.. Blaine's spread-eagle effort
stands precisely as the ordinary 4th
OF July orations, meaning and say
ing nothing which any one heeds.
It is well enough to declaim against
Mexican aggression, but he fully
knows Mr.. Hayes has no intention
OF acquiring Mexican territory by
any act Of war, and that the whole
country is opposed to any policy at
all calculated to provoke q war
With anu natfou
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These greenbacks were with
drawn from circulation in compli-
ance with the act of January II,
1S75-the free banking law-which
requires so per cent. of the issues
to banks to be retired in green
backs; and $22,235,6 1858 will be
found to be exactly so per cent. of
$27, 794 ,5S5, the amount of notes
issued to new banks. The nation.
al bank notes, to the extent of
$64, 035, 1888, were retired under the
provisions of the act of June 20,
1874, which authorized any nation
al bank desiring to withdraw its
circulating notes, in whole or in
part, to deposit legal tenders with
the Treasurer of the United States,
in sums not less than $4,000.
and to withdraw a proportiOnate
amount of the bonds bonds pledged
as security for its notes. A balance
of $13,938,S02 deposited for this
purpose, is now in the custody of
the government, and practically re-
duces the volume of national bank
notes outstanding to S30l, 7S1, AS.
In this exhibit we have not
taken into consideration the ma
tional gold banks, of which there
are nine, all in California, with an
aggregate circulation, on Nov. l,
1876, Of$2, O90, 500. This forms part
of the circulating medium of the
Pacific States, but it has not suf-
fered any contraction.
1t is evident that the reduction
of the volume of the currency is
progressive and will continue. If
the resumption OF specie payments
should be carried out to the end,
it can have no practical meaning
unless the greenbacks are wiped
out Of existence by redemption in
coin. No greenback thus redeem
ed can be reissued without new
legislation to that effect, which is
q very improbable occurrence.
The necessities Of the bank to
sustain themselves will force them,
willing or unwilling, to present
greenbacks to the government for
payment in order to acquire spe-
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FVERYBODY to know that am prepared
IL to make Photographic Pictures from the
smallest locket size to life size, in any style
desired. and at prices as low as GOOD work
can be made. try first TO do GOOD WORK,
next to suit my customers. have q QUICK
WORKING LIGHT and CAMERA, and
therefore seldom fail in getting good pic
lures of the little folks, and do not get cross
if have extra trouble with them. Always
bring the babies and little children in the
forenoon of pleasant day, for then the light
works quickest, and they do not have to sit
so long. Babies take best in white or light
coiored clothing. Adults take best as a rule
in dark coIOred clothing. When you decide
to have your pictures taken, go as early in
the day as possible, and stay until you get
such pictures as you are satisfied to pay for.
If you have no good pictures Of yourself,
children, or friends, make haste and get them
before anything happens to prevent the pos
sibility. Old pictures copied and enlarged.
Parties having card negatives of themselves
or children, can get enlarged copies for
framing at any time.
H. A. HICKOX.
ayr PHOTOGRAPHIC
l62 COMMERCIAL ST PORIA, KAs.
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Every effect must have q cause; so Boils
Pimples, etc., are the result of poor blood
Purify the blood by using DR.. BULBS Mix.
ture and Danish such eruptIons as those
named.
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FARM FOR SALE.

OFFEk great bargain in the sale of r.
\ SHOWS farm, between the Cottonwood
ana Neosno rivers, six miles east Of Emporia
- " acres OF prairie, s acres Of timber, about
- 1SIes uncer cultivation; house and Gus
IDS Is chance for bargain. For further
information apply at the premises, or address
zo-u Il II. SNOW Emporia Kas.
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SECOND PRESBYTERIAN. (Welsh,-Cor-
ner Market street and 4rh Avenue. Preach
ing every Sunday at ~ and 65< p. m; Sum
day school at 10 8. m. JOHN JONES Pastor.
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K. L. A.

TMPORIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
IL Rooms over EmporiA National Bank.
open every afternoon from to Q; every eVenR
Ing except Friday, from 70 8. Life member
ship $26. Annual membership 81. Readin-
room free. d. e. MCAURFRIK, Pres't.
j. II. STEELE, sec'y.
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KNIGHTS OF PYrHIAs.

DAMASCUS LODGE meets In Odd FELL
- lows hall every Monday evening"
Members in good standing are cOrdiallyiin-
yited to attend. N RYNO C. G.
w. II MCCARTY, K. r. S.
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SECOND CONGREGATIONAL. (Welsh,-
Merchants street, between ID and Sd Avenues.
Preaching at 10k Q. m-s Sunday school at D.
PASTOR.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL ST..
the usual hours.
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ODD FELLOWs.

TEION LODGE, No. IS. Meets at Odd
~ Fellows hall, over Emporia Bank, every
Tuesday evening at O'Clock. Members IN
good standing invited TO attend.
r. w. HIRTH, Sec'y.
EAPORIA EECA MPMENT, No IT. Meets
- at Odd Fellows hall. list and Sd Tuesdays
each month. The following are the elected
omcers OF Emporia Encampment, No. IL, for
the ensuing term: =.
J. H. WARNKKK, G. p.
T. w. HIRTa, Scribe.
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GRANGE.

EMPORIA GRANGE, No. 61a, p. OH
re nSets az Grange nan saturday evening, Oct.
rons in good standing are cordially Invited
to attend. j. +. STRATTON, MAsrRRR.
MARY STRATToH, Sec'Y.
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EMPoRIA SOCIETIES.
MASONIC.

MASONIC.
TMPORIA COMMANDERY. No. 6. KIT
ia Meets on second Saturdays, after second
Friday Of each month at Masonic hall.
i. ID. JAB0Rs, e. G..
J.JAY BUCK Recorder.
ElMPORIA CHAPTER, Z. A. n. Meets at
IL Masonic hall, on the Second Friday
OF each month. Com panions In good stand
ing are cordially invited to attend.
I. o. DAVIDSON, ii. p.
NMPORIA LODGE, No. Il, A. r. q 4. n .
~ Meets at Masonic hall, on the lst FRI
day Of each month. Master MasonS in good
standing are cordially invited to attend.
J. JAZZ BUCK, Secretary.
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To AotherS:-Should the Baby be suf-
fering with any Of the disorders Of Baby
hood use DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup at once
for the trouble. % cents per bottle.
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TO Loan. 10 Loan. 70 Loan.

Il terms, call on GiIIett 4 Forde, Attorneys
At Law, front room (second foor) Eskrid9e
building, Emporia, KAs. They are also agents
Of the Northwestern Mutual Life InsuFance
Company. Give them call. 2s-n
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Legal Notice.

TI HE Theological Institute Of Connecticut
L is hereby notified that it, with George
been sued by William Claim and John A.
Allen, partners. as Clafin, Allen & Co., as
plaintiffs; that the petition has been filed in
the District Court of Lyon county, Kansas.
And the said Theological Institute Of Connec-
ticut is further notified, that it must answer
said petition on or before August I7th 1871
or the same will be taken as true and a mort,
gage. given by said George CIapp to said
plaintiff on lots a and ~ Merchants street,
Emporia, Kansas, decree1 to be prior and
superior to any lien or interest the said de-
PENDANT may have in said premises; and that
the interest Of said plaintiffs in and to said
the sum OF 81 COO, with interest thereon at
eight per cent from March 30th, 1876.
CUNNINGHAM B MCCARTHY,
2T-3t ATTORNEYS for Plaintiff.
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FOR SALE.

r WILL sell my residence, on corner Con-
Il stitution street and South avenue being
one-stcry and half high. containing i've very
nice rooms, Kitchen. pantry closet and cellar
with two lots well filed with choice Selection
OF fruit trees and shrubbery. Call and see me.
- mean business. ED MORRIS
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FIRST PERSEVERANCE 9Th Ave-
nue. and Commercial street. Preaching ct II
q m, and " p. m, every Sunday. Sunday
Thursday evening. J. II. CLARK, Pastor.
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL-Merchant sk
cor. 9Th Avenue. Preaching every SUNDAY N
Il q. m, and at the usual hours AZ nfght: Sun .
day school at ~ p. M; Prayer meesznG ever
Thursday evening. G. W. Px1, RaseoR.
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AFRICAN METHODIST - stata akreak
south Of railroad. Services every Sunday =.
y =. M, and - p: "a; Sunday school at p. y
] eYCaTteT, Pastor.
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CHURCH DaRECrORY.
'ards IA sAis Directory 90 Cents a Xas per ysGr
CHURCHES.

EPISCOPAL.-st. Andrews Church, cor
nef OF 9th avenue and Commercial street.
Service on the fret and third Sundays or each
month, at IL a. m and * p. m. Sunday
school every Sunday at ~ p. m.
Rev. A. BEATTY, RECTOR.
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Net contraction OF nationI bk notes .$S5 241 ,2l3
GREENBACKS RETIRED FOR NATIONAL
BANK NOTES ISSUED.
Jan. Il. 1875, to June 30,
1915. ..........:...- 6,22S, 40,
Year ending June 80, 1876 b,99g 296
Year ending June 50, 1877, O,235 .66S
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GOOD rEMPLARs.

DHOENIX LODGE. No. 149, 1. O. @. It.
Il Meets Wednesday nights of each week at
Grange hall. REV. j. H. CLARE, VIC.
e w. kINNAN, Recording Sec'y.
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Si * sad eoaa9
s. III. WHEELER. PlaNtif, )
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CATHOLIC-CottonW st. corner Sd Ave.
nue.. Services every fourth Sunday.

CHRISTIAN-Corner Exchange street and
7th Avenue. Services every Sunday at the
usual hours Sabbath School st o'clock p. m.
Ali are invited.
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o. b. aTERRY

A TTORNEY AT Law. Emporia. Kasaas
"A will practice in the Several CoUrfs Of
Lyon, Usage, Coney, Greenwood, Chase. Har-
yeys Marion ana Norris county, Kansas: In
the Supreme Court OF the State. and n ,fhe
Federal Courts for the District Of Kansas'
46-sf
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EWING SMITH 3 WI

HCULIST AND AURIST, Emporia, Kas.
" ONCE over whitley Il HenSOn's dry goods
store. u-tf
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J. 8. LAWRENCR. nd.

j. w. TRUSTWORTHY. NJ ID.
physician AND SURGEON, EmpOria
III Kansas. Aft
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Contraction Goes On.

According to official statements
to June 80, 1877, the amount of
national bank notes outstanding
was $315,62O,247, and of green
backs $359,828, 294, showing that
the former have been contracted
$50, 241, 203, and the latter $22,-
235, 66S since Jan. IA, 1875, or du-
ring a period of twenty-nine and a
half months, making an aggregate
contraction of $5S,47e,87l. This
is at the rate of very nearly $2,OOO,-
600 per month. The detailed state
ment, as given by the Comptroller
of the Currency, is as follows:
NATIONAL BANK NOTES RETIRED.
Jan: Il, 1875, to June 80.
Year ending june 50. 1876, as,sso,SJs
Year ending June 30, 1877, 25,U2l ,695
Total. $64 OBS .7ss
NOTES ISSUED TO NEW NATIONAL
BANKS.
Jan IA, 1875, to June 80.
year ending June so. 1876, 79ii'26O
Year ending June 80. 1877. l., 1853, $40
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NOTES ISSUED TO NEW NATIONAL
BANKS.
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Total

Jan Il, 1875, to june 30.
1875 $7,9I9,S25
Year ending June 80. 1876, 7.4Il,2GO
Year ending June 80. 1877. Il, 463, $50
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PHYSIClEMS

DIR. w. w. HIBREN,
OFFICE over Dunlap & Co.'S. bank.
lift
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-08-30
Division Of a Pig.

A Yankee and a Frenchman
owned pig in partnership. When
killing time came they wished to di-
vide the carcass. The Yankee was
anxious to divide so that he should
get both hind quarters, and per-
suaded the Frenchman that the
proper way to divide it was to cut
it across the back. The French
man agreed to it on condition that
the Yankee would turn his back,
and take choice of the pieces after
it was cut in two. The Yankee
turned his back and the Frenchman
asked, "Vich piece will you have;
&c piece wild re tail on him, or re
piece vat amt got no tail on him?"
"The piece with the tailr shouted
the Yankee instantly. "Den by gar
you take him, and 1 take re ODER"
said the Frenchman. Upon turning
round, the Yankee found that the
Frenchman hadEcut off the tail and
stuck it in the pigs mouth!
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Riches and Death.

The following from the New York
Sun, written Immediately after the
death of A. T. Stewart, will long be
remembered
A rich old man lay dying. The
full number of years allotted to man
had passed away since first his eyes
opened upon the light of day, and a
father and mother rejoiced that q
son was born unto them. The full
number of years allotted man-it
is a long time; and yet it had not
seemed long to them, so stealthily
do the days glide by. But It's long
enough to incur grave responsible
ties-which, if the preachers preach
truth, stretch out, in their conse.
quences, through all eternity.
The longest life has its close, and
his hour had come. The physi
clans who had healed him hereto
fore could not heal him now. He
was possessed of untold millions.
BY night and day his riches had in
creased; was 1t, alas that in the
moment of his dire necessity they
might press, with mountain weight
upon his own soul? His gold,
which had availed him so often,
would not avail him now. ALI his
vast wealth, if he were willing to
give it, would not purchase for him
one day more of life. He must die
Failing in all efforts for physical
relief, he turns to seek for spiritual
consolation He had lived a life
quite blameless in the estimation OF
men-a fair life; but livers of the
fairest lives grow anxious when they
stand face to face with Death, and
realize that they are about to enter
into the darkness which human Wis
ion cannot penetrate. Could he
find comfort in the word of Godi
He opens the Bible and reads:
GLOW hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the kingdom of Ged.n
"It is easier for camel to 60 through the
eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter
in the kingdom of God"
And he thought of his millions Of
money.
And he wondered what Jesus
Christ meant when he spake these
words.
And he died!
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People cannot help having been
born without tact, any more than
they can help having no ear for
music; but there are occasions when
it is almost impossible TO be quite
charitable To a tactless person. Yet
people who have 70 tact deserve
pity. They are almost always do
ing or saying something to get
themselves into disgrace, or which
does them an injury. They make
enemies where they desire friends,
and get a reputation for ill-naturo
which they do not deserve. They
are also continually doing other
people harm, treading on metaphor
ical corns, opening the cup boards
where family skeletons are kept.
angering people, shaming people,
saying and doing the most awkward
things, and apologizing for them
with a still more forcible bluntness.
If there is one social boon more TO
be desired than another, it is tact;
for without tact the career of the
richest and most beautiful is often
utterly marred.
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Revivals on Bradshaw.

EDITORS CITIZEN We have had
very interesting meeting at Mt.
Pleasant resulting in 15 accessions
to the Church. After resting a few
days our local brethren Brown and
Moore resumed the work at Gnat
Grove,protracting 10 days longer,re-
sultiting in about 40 more profes-
sions. The latter meeting was held
by the good people of Giles and
Marshall jointly, upon high ridge
dividing the waters of Bradshaw
and Richland. On Sabbath I'D OF
the meeting) there were about 600
people present. A sumptuous din
ner was provided and brought upon
the ground each day. We saw an
old gentleman over 80 years old
who has never looked upon the face
of dead person, notwithstanding
his wife is gone to the spirit world.
He was almost persuaded to be a
Christian. "Better to go the house
of mourning. A. NJ. E.
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The Reason why Money is 50 Scarce.

An exchange very truthfully and
sensibly remarks: The farmers are
the only producers, and it is through
their wheat, corn, cotton, &c, that
money is brought into the State
But on the other hand we have to
buy everything manufactured from
the North and West. We buy
everything from a thresher to an
axe-handle, and this takes our
money away, and leaves but little in
circulation. We manufacture moth
ing, except few wagons in town,
and most of the timber for them is
brought here in the shape of spokes,
felloes and hounds. If we wish to
keep our money at home we must
have manufactures. We have an
abundance of wood, but we make
nothing out of it. Our buckets,
pals, tubs and b-ooms, are made
where wood is scarce. We can never
be independent until we utilize the
raw material of all kinds that grow
spontaneous on our hands. We
must learn to be more reliant on
our own resources and make all we
need. even to our clothes out of the
cotton and wool we raise.
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Road Making.

The Farmers Friend says: The
condition of the roads in any local
ity is an index of the character of
its inhabitants. In new wild coun
tries poor roads are expected; in
prosperous countries good roads are
certain to prevail, and a variation
from bad to good is a test of the
civilization of the people. 1t needs
no labored argument to convince
any individual of common sense
that no county investment yields a
better return than the outlay in i'm
proving the roads, that good roads
increase the value of all lands bord-
ering on them, and add to the re-
turns of all the products of the soil
by diminishing the cost of transpor
tation. Good roads can never be
expected until our community is
thoroughly aroused to the fact that
they are cheaper than poor ones, the
rule which too often prevails being
to see how little can be done to con-
tinue the road passable for another
season. If the daily contribution
of teamsters and travellers on bad
roads in the form of broken wheels,
harness and wagons, sprained and
injured horses, lost tempers and
wicked oaths, could be aggregated
in one mass, they would form an un-
answerable argument in favor of the
economy and necessity of improve
ment in highways.
The improper construction and
repair of our country roads is due
in large degree, to faulty methods
of appointing highway surveyors or
road overseers. This important
Office is too often in rotation by
different citizens, who. without eX-
perience or previous training, are
propelled oy some peculiar hoby or
personal prejudice. Far better for
each county to appoint its most ac-
tive, capable and intelligent citizen
for term of five years, and let him
establish a permanent system of
utilizing the means at his command.
A divided responsibility invites fail
ure and unnecessary expense. A
well devised plan supported by the
pride and experience of a competent
individual would soon convince u
community of its superiority.
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Take Warning.

When burly youth betakes him
self to the vile habit of CARRYING
concealed weapons, he straightway
broods over the act of killing some
body as thing to give him high
standing in the community. The
current of his thoughts always in
this channel, wears away all moral
restraint, and then on slight provo
cation he becomes a murderer, hated
by God, Stunned by good men; per
haps hanged like a dog, or impris-
oned TO show a white face beyond
iron CRATES the balance OF his life.
Young man, start not down hill
thus; otherwise, let us s1rF farewell
to you as a feloueeas a wretch
whose damnatlon is certaini What !
will you go to Gods bar with the
red hands of a murderer? Will the
friends who applaud you as a bully
sOothe you in the death hour when
the mystery and helplessness of the
last dread change drapes the uni
verse in "the blackness of dark
ness?" What good will your pistol
do you then? Think!
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Russia and America.

The Herald's correspondent in
Russia says 'the mass of people in
that country like everything that is
American. American goods are IA
vorably received everywhere within
the Cars dominions. Over two
thousandAmerican sewing machines
are sold annually at Karkoff, a city
of about sixty thousand inhabi-
tants. Owing to the way in which
England has shown her sympathy
for the Turks it will be almost i'm
possible henceforth to sell English
goods or machinery of any kind in
Russia. Quite large trade has
been built in agricultural machin-
cry, but the present war will de-
stroy it. American manufactures
will replace the English beyond any
doubt, and American merchants
should wisely take advantage of the
present favorable opportunity to
send their goods to the Russian
markets.