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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-12-21
There will be no reserve.

saf' Z .' ~s'"'
We now offer our entire stock representing over
~ 100000, ~ts 7ts
at lower prices than have been asked in this city.
Mems suits at SO, 50, $40, sl1, and upwards;
Mems overcoats at -, $5, &c. $3.50, and upwards
Youths overcoats at So, "a, IS, So, and upwards;
Boys overceats at $3.50; &c. 81. IS, and upwards
Children's overcoas at $50, 81 $3.50, SO, ,andup
wards .srs -s.. .@.s.'E,r s.l
Another reason why we are determined 10 close
ont the goods Is we have rented Of Franklin stears
Esq., the entire t., s.,1sscstt
49,. FOUR FLOORS ..t.s.s vs.
above our storerosm. The necessary alterations to
suit our purposes wi no doubt, cause many OF our
goods to suffer from the dust and sirt which win ne
cessarily arise. We sEe desirous or moving the
goods before operations commence ~ q 81
DO NOT ALLOW THIS CHANCE 70 PASS.
We are determined to sell the goods, and have
marked them down to the bare cost Of manufacture,
which cannot fail to suit the ideas Of al inclined to
purchase. 70 t..sfs sszis4 lfif.tIf 1f:f.;3 =
AS OUR GOODS ARE MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES
TIE REDUcrIoNS ARE BONA RLpE.s aitsts}
- A.hSAKs &C o., {
IT, g THE LARGEST ss5
CLOTHING HOUSE
s5 :. in Richmond, ss's
1013 Main street, opposite sost-ofiee.
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si JUsT TO HAND At LAfRD's Flower Garden,
large assortment OF Straw and Ntl1ow-Baskess
suitable for Christmas presents.
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DIRECT MPoRTATIoN.-W. D. BLAIR & CO.
have received another lot that really fne TABLE
SHERRY. which they offer at $40 per gallon. The
quality of this wine for The PRICE Is UNSURPASSED.
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The sale of Splendid CHRoNos, OIL-PAINTINGs.
and STEEL ESGRAvINGs will positively take place
THIS DAY at 10 O'Clock at the store 1911 Main
street. Special attention Is asked, as thesale is Pc
remptory. +. B. COOK, Auclioneer.
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G. ZIMMER, 1886 Main street. has the largest as.
sortment of Pound- Fruit, and Cltron-Cakes to be
found In the city, and his prices are the lowest.
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CALL EARLY and leave your Christmas orders
for flowers at ToLER & uOOPER's.
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PRICE, SIS CENTS. 81 4 YEAR.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND
NEWSDEALERS.
SCRIBNER s. CO.,
de 2l-1t 7i3 Broadway, New York.
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FLOWERS! FLOWERS! FLOWERS !-Camelias,
yIolets, Tuberoscs, Rosebuds, Carnations, Hello
tropes, Bouvardias, &C., &c. be seen and had at
ToLER & HoopEI's, adjoining Hollywood Gene
tary
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-12-21

PERsoSAL.-Dr. A. G. WoLLARD and LADY left
the city yesterday morning TO spend the Christmas
In Richmond county.
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I ARRIVAL OF, C0RREE. II he German brig.
Ida arrived direct from Rio Janeiro yester-;
day afternoon with cargo Of q, ,79D. bags OF
coffee, eonsighed TO Davenport u Moryis, II h:
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Don1SoEs from 10c. to $3.50 box st ELLysoN
& YAEcEY's, l1l2 Main street. .,..
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Go 10 ANroNrs before the rush.

FINE FRENCH CANDIES very cheap at c. I'm
MER's, 1886 Main street. s..., .... ..
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WHITE AND GILT WILLOW BASKETS, different
styles Of fancy straw and imported white wicker
hlskets, filed in the finest style. at ToLER q
HoOPERs, adjoining Hollywood Cemetery gate.
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DON'T FAIL 20 hear Or. P. s. HENsoS's lecture
TONIGHT, at the Second Baptist church, ut 6
O'Clock
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The WEATHER YESTERDAY was clear and
mild.
THERMOMETER YESTERDAY: 6 A. NJ, AZ;
9 a. NJ, as; noon, 65; 2. NJ, 66; p.
NJ, 65; midnight, 81.
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Ho, for ANToNI's the confectionerl

FINE ASSORTMENT Of writtng-desks ana work
boxes at lowest prices at ELLYsoS s. YANcEY'S,
1112 Main street.
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STUDY YOUR INTEREST, and 20 to ANToNI's and
,uy your good things. Main street.
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WHITE MOUNTAIN, Blnshing Pink, Spanish Bun,
and Orange Cake, ut BRlGGS'S.
7O7 SIaiu and 81 Broad street.
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ANToNI's is the headquarters

MALAGA GRAPES at PIZzINl'S only 80 cents
pound, and In larger lots at less rates.
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GOLDEN SHERRY.-A good table wine for 80 25
per gallon, at CHRISTIAN j. WHITES.
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CHILDREN's BOOKS AND GAMES In endless va.
riety at ELLYsoN & YAScEY's, 11l2 Mann street
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Thirty cents pound for Malaga Grapes at PIz-
y
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ALL YOUNG MEN who are undecided what to send
for a Christmas present will do well 10 call on
ToLER & HOOPER and get one Of those handsome
baskets Of GoMcIs = .--L -Lr.i - ! ~ ~.
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FRENCH CANDIES, Bon-Bons, Kisses, and every
kind Of Candy, at PIZZINI's.
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PIzzIN1 Is selling French candies az so cents, n
cents, 80 cents, 70 cents. and u psr pound I
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DOWN THEY Go.

, RAIsISs 10, 10, and 2oc.' per pound at G. ZIM-
MER's, 1886 Main street. aEg ~ 80
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FOB ORNAMENTAL CAKES, 80 to @. 2IAAEG's,
1886 Main street. he has Them as ali prices.
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PAMPAs-GRAss PLUMEs, all colors, at Jouu
MoRToy's, l101 west Main street.
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ALL THE NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON at JOHN
MoBTog's garden, l101 west Main street.
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ANgoSI win sell yon Raisins, Carran.s, Nuts
Figs, and Gitron at reduced pricee.
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FINE BASKETS and Bouquets sud Designs Of any
description fxed Of the sweetest howers ct ToLER
& HoOPERi6, & = 4
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BOUQUETS aud Baskets at ToLER HoorER's
corner Cherry aud Albemare streets, next to Holly
wood.
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ZrAMER had a rush yesterday for confccuoneries.
His p-ices arc to suit he times. Go and see him.
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ASToNI keeps pure confcctioneries.

Now Is the time to buy your Candles, Cakes, ,nd
good things at PIzZINI's.
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MORTON has large collection Of nowers for
baskets bouquets and designs suitable for Christ
mas presents-110I ives. Main street
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Go to ANToNI's and see his fine Candles at
duced prices.
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- The lateness Of the season,
The warm, unreasonable weather,
Prompts as in announcing an extraordinary sale.
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. GO TO PIzzINI's to-day and buy your Candies !,
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sIILEFNERY GOODS.

LAANACS, CALEN AIRS, AND
n :, s..s DIARIES, 1873. @t' .aEI q
k,nAa,NDOLPu Il ENGLISH, 1902 and 1904 Main
EsHst, nafe the VIRGINIA aud FARMERS AL
1aeaACs a. In any quantity.
s,,AaLENDARS with the only correct e-Alarms,
fse circulation. ECARTER'S CALENDARS,
{rTrue best Kind made. DIARIES for pocket and
Esa,ingg h, ny rooms. csc. TO 52. ss.' 500 =
st,pp4Shs for old and young, and many FANCY
Es,,nss Es,ns aud TOYs-s splendid assortment for pre-
~aon. dc 17-d&w
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WHAT Is nicer for Christmas present than
handsome basket OF Flowers7 which can be had at
LAIRD's Garuen. l2'ii i'..: E.i
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FRUIT-cAKES, plain cakes, and NIL kinds Of small
cakes at PIZzIyI's, suitable for Christmas.
Go to zDrMER's, 1885 Main street, and get nice
Currants at 10 and 12I4c. per pound.
r CAMELIAs at ToLER HoOPER's. .......
VIoLETS at ToLER & HooPER'S. ..
TUBRRosES at ToLER & HoOPER'S. ..
RosEBUDs at ToLER C HoopER'S.
CARNATIONS ut ToLER & HooPER's,
and Choice Flowers Of all otncr varieties at
... - ToLRR & HooPER's.
Call carly and see for yourselves.
ANTONI has put all prices down, down, dowE.
FIRE-CnAcKERs Of every description at PIzzr-
MS.
FI.pwERSi FLowERSHRoses, Camelias, .Vio-
let's &C.. in great profsion, at LAIRD's Garden, on
Grace street. .... .,.. ~
LOOK OUT FOR ANToSI's, the confcchoner, Main
street. ,a .a -.
RAIsINs,, Currants, Cttron, Nuts, Lemons,
Oranges. ut PIZZINI's, selling lew, ....
PIZzINI Is crowded every cay with buyers getting
their Christmas good things. -
FIREWORKS at ANToNI's, Main street.
WHAT is nicer for Christmas present than q
handsome basket OF Flowers7 which can be had al
LAInD's Garden. l'z'it 80.
MALAGA GRAPES, Bananas, Pears, Oranges, and
Figs at ANToSI's. c-sg -, gf.s..
ALL YOUNG MEN who are undecided what to send
for a Christmas present will do well 10 call on
ToLER & HOOPER and get one Of those handsome
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-12-21

FRENCH CANDY. 8 3Oc., at ANToSI's.
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MoHIoS's>!s the place TO get large straw designs
and fancy baskets-11ol west Main street.
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Major Courtney said be would Ike to
hear from Major Johnston, Mr. Whitcomb,
and the City Engineer, but as neither re-
-sponded he offered the following resolu-
tions: ssitesa Ia
This Board having had under considers
ton the preamble and resolution OF the
Common Council Of December 8, 1877, after
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-12-21

/ MALAGA GRAPES, Bananas, Pears, Oranges, AM
Figs at ANToNIs. .rM or
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We now offer our entire stock representing over
100000, -.!
at lower prices than have been asked in this city.
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ST. NICHOLAS.
| NOVELTY IN

4 NOVELTY IN
MAGAZINE LITERATURE
TWO CHRISTMAS NOS. OF ST. NICHOLAS.
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FIREWORKS at ANroN1's, Main street
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PIzzINI is crowded every Gay with buyers getting
their Christmas good things. - j;
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FRUIT-cAkEs, plain cakes, and nil kinds Of small
cakes at PIzzIyI's, suitable for Christmas.
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RAIsINs, Currants, Cttron, Nuts, Lemons,
Oranges. at PIZZINIs, selling lew, ,....
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1918 aialn street, opposite sos-ofiee.
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LOOK OUT FOR ANroN1's, the confechoner, Main
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. DIR. Talbot was very much inclined to
the opinion that the city was undertaking
that which she didn't have the money to do.
Even IL the road should be built, he was
satisfied when the company reached Clifton
Forge they would find a very formidable
competitor in the Chesapeake and Ohio
road. They wouldn't give them a pound OF
freight if they could help 1t, and there was
in; his mind great doubt asfto the amount
of freight to come over the road. In his
opinion the tow-path- isi not the proper bed,
but, according TO the opinion Of the best
engineers, it should be built on the south
side. II Richmond is abie;to build 1t, this
should be the route adopted. A road by
the James. River valley is some sixty miles
nearer than the Chesapeake and Ohio. blt
the latter road is built. He thought the re-
port OF the committee emiHently right and
proper.
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Another reason why we are determined 10 close
ont the goods Is have rented Of franklin stears,
Esq, the entire -, .-trsr.~tt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-08
The DOg-Star.

IN the mid southern sky during Febru-
airy, you will see the brightest star in the
whole heavens-Sirius, the famous Dog
star. The constellation CAMS Major, the
Greater Dog (Which might better be called
simply Canis), was one of Orion's hunt
ing, dogs, CAMS Minor being the other;
but we can hardly suppose Lepus was the
sole prey pursued by so great giant and
two such fine dogs. The constellation
CAMS Major is chiefly remarkable for
the Dogs In old times this star
was thought to bring pestilence. Homer
speaks of it (not by name, however, as
the star
Whose burning breath
Taints the red air with fevers, plaques, and
DEATH
Many among the ancients supposed that
this star was in reality as large as the SUM-
Thus Nautilus said:
& IT'S strongly credited this owns light
And runs course not than the SUMS less
bright:
But that remov'd from sight so great way,
1t seems to cast dim and weaker ray
1t has been shown in our own time, how
ever, that even this estimate, which was
by many thought too daring, falls far
short of the truth. 1t has been calculated
that Sirius gives out 800 times as much
light land doubtless 800 times as much
heaD as our sun. So that it would make
us rather uncomfortable if our sun were
removed and Sirius set in his place. Sir
W. Herschel says that when he turned his
large four-feet mirror on this star the
light was like that of the rising sun, and
it was impossible to look at the star with
out pain to the eye. Sirius is in reality in
rapid motion, though, owing to his enor-
nous distance, he seems at rest. He is
rushing through space at the rate of about
thirty miles in every secon1 of time! La
a year he traverses nearly six times the
distance which separates us from the sun.
But this enormous annual journey is only
about 1-170000th part Of the distance
which separates him from our earth; and
as he is travelling away from US, we need
not be greatly troubled on account of him.
He is so far from us that his light has
been no less than twenty years on its way
to US, so that in reality, instead OF saying
we see Sirius, we ought to say we see
where Sirius aoGs some twenty years ago.
Most Of the stars are even further away,
so that if every one of them were in a sim
gle instant destroyed, we should still see
them-that is, their light-for many years,
and probably the greater number of them
would still seem to be shining in the
heavens long after the youngest of US were
dead; perhaps even after our great grand
children had passed away. "-Prcf. r. Il.
Proctor, IN st. Nicholas for February.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-08
Modern PenmanShip.

WHEN you write an article for publica-
ton in a daily paper, never take any
pains to write plainly. 1t is an indica-
ton of mental weakness. All greatmen,
eminent in letters, or arms, or science,
have been, as a rule, miserable writers.
The great Napoleon was famous exam
pie of the combination of dazzling genius
and binding chirography. Byron wrote
scrawl that a schoolboy would be
ashamed Of Sidney Smith would have
been amazed if any one could have read
his manuscript without a struggle. Ru-
fus Choate's penmanship was as indeci-
pherable as his sentences were intermina-
bic. And everybody has heard of the
remark made by one of the New York
Tribune proof-readers, under the old re-
gIme, that if Horace Greeley's handwrit-
ing had appeared on the wall Belshazzar
would have been great deal more fright
ened than he was. We do not know if it
was the genius of these men that glim-
mered in their abominable writing. We
do not know that miserable writing is al
ways an unfailing indication of genius.
We know that if it is, the world is full of
genius. We do know that whether poor
writing is or is not the offspring of ee-
MUS, it certainly does make the intelligent
compositor dreadfully mad, and very
abusive. 1t is a marvel indeed that com
positors ever live to be old men. No one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-08

can blame them for dying young, when
they can never tell, if they live to see
another day, what manner of manuscript
they may be called upon to decipher For
the burden Of translating bad writing al
ways falls upon the compositor. When
the editor cannot tell whether a certain
long, wavy line in a contributed article
is meant for communion, commercial,
commencement, commoner or commute,
he sends it in and lets the compositor
growl and guess at it. And then when
the poet, who has poured out his soul in a
hieroglyphlcal effusion to " starlight in
the tropics" sees it come out into the
light of day as snake bite in the trou-
sers," he raves at the whole race of COM
positors as set of pitiless malignants.
There is, undoubtedly, kind of genius
in the worst class of writing that comes
to newspaper offices. No man, who is
not a genius for it, can initiate the pen
manship which would find its way to the
printers oftener did not the insatiate
waste basket yawn between the case and
the EDITORS table. Men must try, it seems
to disinterested observer, to write badly,
and to have some rare exceptional genius
for making cabalistic signs in order to at
tain such systematic excellence. We
have seen letters written by men who
must have sat up nights and practiced
making marks that should signify moth
ing to anybody but themselves. When a
man falls into this habit he is never bro
ken of it. He soon learns to take pride
in his blind writing. He loves to see you
puzzle and struggle and weep over it,
and then pick it up and read it off to you,
with readiness that makes you believe
he got his article by heart before he
spoiled the paper with his meaningless
scrawl. The vice is not confined eXclu-
sively to men. There are women who
take most unwomanly delight in little
flights of pen writing, In the range of
our own observation, however, woman
always reserves her blind writing for her
French quotations. This may be to con-
ceal the fact that she cannot spell the
French words, and thus, like the elitor,
adroitly throws the burden of correction
upon the much abused compositor. Or,
she may not be quite sure of her quota
ton in other respects. But whatever may
be the reason, whenever woman CORE
spondent or contributor drops into a
French quotation, she drops into the
worst spasm Of indecipherable writing
that can be found in all her letter, which,
as a rule, her womanly instinct for neat
ness generally leads her to write very
plain y.-BurlipQtOn HGaok-Eye.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-08
Growing Wheat.

1t would seem sensible, and only so.
that man who engages in farming and
undertakes wheat growing as his chief
speciality, that he would undertake it only
under the best methods and rules known
anywhere in the world. Wheat growing
IS regarded with great favor by all of the
farmers in the great Northwest, and they
would as soon cease trying to live as to
cease wheat growing. Not that is so very
profitable, taking one year with another.
but because it always brings the cash
when offered in any market of the coun-
try
English farmers, with their more thor
ough cultivation Of this cereal, get a far
greater yield per acre than we do. Labor
there is not as costly as with us, but the
commercial fertilizers which are there
employed without stint, are as expensive
as the same articles are here. With our i'm
proved machinery we ought to grow wheat
as cheaply as the English farmer does,
and we ought not to be satisfied with less
yield per acre
The constant variation in the special
characteristics of the different varieties of
wheat, and the substitution of new sorts for
old, render the supposition possible that
if the present system of culture is con-
tinued, with no change, we may find our
selves destitute, at some time, of profit
able variety. A variety rapidly deterio-
rates when grown on the same farm under
the conditions we SO generally follow. We
do not furnish enough of the elements of
starch, of gluten or Of oily matters of
the grain. And year after year the vitali-
ty of the kernel grows less and less. The
English WheatS are nOtsO prone to change
1t is not the straw that grows less as we
grow the same sort from year to year, but
the grain; and its quality, too, is constant
ly changing. The same degenerating
tendency is observed in potatoes When
our lands were new we heard little OF
tendency of wheat to grow poorer and
it is only lately that we have been forced
to give up old sorts for new.
The best fine flour contains seventy
pounds of starch in every 100; ten or
twelve pounds of gluten six to eight
pounds of sugar, and the balance water
and little oil. Wheat in the bury con-
tains about fifty to seventy per cent. of
starch, ten to twenty per cent. of gluten,
and three to five per cent. of fatty matter.
The oil lies near the skin as well as the
larger part of the gluten.
1t is evident that our lands are not rich
enough any longer in these rare elements
of the grain of wheat, and hence the con-
slant degeneracy which we wimess.-De
tTOEt Tribune.