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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-26
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COorER AYRNVA. Oot0ber 2

COOPER AYRhVA, OetODer -, leto'
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
With your permission, wish to have
q plain, practical talk with the citizens
Of Memphis.
1t is a good old saying, that truth
energies sooner from error than from con-
fusion, and before we can deal with
them we must class one from the other.
There was, at the last meeting Of the
medical board, a resolution recommend
ing hygienic improvements to better our
condition.
The first was to either pave with cobble
stone, or to gravel the streets. We
would say that St. Louis found out to
her cost and sorrow, that she committed
a great error By using gravel upon her
streets; so it was pulled up and replaced
with stone pavement at a great cost.
The next thing was to sewer oil the
streets, and cement all the privies. We
would ask that if the streets were sew
cred, why have the privies plastered
1t is for the benefit OF the privies as vel
as the yards and streets, that sewers are
built, and why should the drainage b
cut off by %cementing these subtle manu-
factories Of death2
But we pass on to the recommends
ton Of placing iron cylinders in thu
bayou. We would ask these disciples o
Hippocrates. in a kind and proper man
ner, what might be the diameter Of thesI
cylinders that would drain Bayou Gsyost
during a food Of say four hours contin
nance, at the rate of one inch OF waite
per hour2 The cylinder to contain thi
torrent would have to be at least thirt.
feet in diameter.
We will stop here to recommend th
cheapest and most practicable plan I
take with the bayou-it is, to put a goo
coat Of concrete upon it; that done, ru
q water main to it, TO wash it out wheI
ever it requires it at the low stages {
water. By doing this you have n {
the healthiest and best Of streams, an
a good outlet for the seWers. But wheI
is the cash2 that is the question. II
cylinders will cost one million Of dollar
gentlemen. Very respectfully,
THOMAS CUBBISs
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LEDGER LINES.


Central Baptist Church-services IL
a. m, by the pastor, DR.. Landrum.
The printing Office and bindery of S.
C. Toof & Co. is now open and ready for
all orders.
The Appeal Of this morning contained
the names Of only three persons in the
death list, not in yesterdays LEDGER
Divine service at Sixth street NJ. E.
Church, Fort Pickering, to morrow at II
am, By the pastor, Rev j. W. Regis.
ter.
Mr.. C. A. Harrison, one of the live
and rising young men Of the day, has
re opened Ryas's grocery store at 342
Main street.
C. Lorentz. le~tter.carrier, died at II
o'clock yesterday Of yellow fever, BE
was known, and thought well Of by all
who knew him.
Mr.. Ansley AFRAID has stood at bis
post, when be could stand at sll, through
Gu, tie epidemic, in charge Of Taylor &
Arneld's establishment, 2T2 Front street.
Mr.. W. 7. Wiggin, the well-knowu
halter under the Peabody Hotel, returned
to the city yesterday. He will reopen
with an entire new stock in a few days.
Our files for 1873 show that we had q
killing frost on the 18th of October
1873, which was rather earlier thar
usual. We are liable to have a freeze a
the next turn Of the wheel.
Esquire James Coleman. OF Raleigh
is considered out Of danger. Miss Lizzii
stoddard is considered somewhat better
James Rslston and the others in thI
King House are doing we'll. Mr.. OIL!
is recovering. Misc Nuckels is quit
sick yet.
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The Hhermnn Letter.

INDIANAPOLIS, October 25.-The Sat
urday Herald of tomorrow will contain
an interview with James E. Anderson,
now stopping in this city. Anderson
clears up the mystery surrounding the
Sherman letter, and exonerstes Secre-
tary Sherman from all completely in the
matter. He says: THE authorship of
the Sherman letter lies between Senator
Kellogg and II. Conquest Clarke, who
WAS his private secretary at the time;
that Mrs. jerks never saw it; that the
original is now in possession of a gentle
man OF Philadelphia, and car be pro.
duced at any time" He 'says that
Kellogg could exonerate Sherman at any
time, and will do so as soon as the
LouisiaHa appointments made in his
interest are confirmed. The interview
makes two coluuus and a half of the
Herald, and embodtes a racy history of
Louisiana politics, including some inter
esting facts not heretofore made public
Anderson says be was made the dupe oil
Sypher, his cousin, and compelled to GO
before the Potter committee; that Sypher
got a fee Of $500 by pretending that be
was Anderson go.between.
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Mr. Henry Hurst called to see Us last
evening. BE is enjoying the bss. Of
health.
Mr.. John c. Hook. eompositor on the
Appeal, returned from the far West yes
terday, where he vent early in August.
he left bis wife in st. Joseph, Mo.
Robert G. Pillow returned to the city
a few days ago to attend to some BUSH
ness. He returns in a few days 10 his
place in Arkansas.
Mr.. H. Lehman, the efficient masonic
visitor and esteemed old citizen, who
was injured seriously by a fall from his
buggy a week ago, is able to be out to-
day though looking weak and feeble.
His friends are rejoiced to see SO useful
a man spared.
Mr.. J, Rich Wray, n Of our old and
well-known citizens, is the only man
who has been continuously on duty al
the Howard headquarters ever since the
beginning Of the epidemic, Several
have died, oil the rest from General
Smith and President Langstaf have
been sick or away on some account. Mr..
Wray escaped himself and all his fami'
" got through aud are alive and we'll.
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lndioatiena.

W~AsHIseroN, October &c, l Am
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley, part
ly cloudy weather with rain areas, warm
southerly, shifting to colder northerly
winds, stationary or higher pressure.
For the lower lake region, colder,
cloudy and rainy weather, winds shift
ing to northwesterly, stationary or ris'
ing barometer.
For the upper lake region, upper Mis-
sissippi aud lower Missouri valleys, part
ly cloudy weather, possibly occasiOna.
light rain or snow. u~ortherly winds, fall
ing, followed by stationary or rising
temperature, and rising, followed by sta
tionary or falling barometer.
The rivers will remain nearly station
arv.
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LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY 20

This institution was regularly i~ncorperated
by tie Lerislaturo of the state for kduca-
tional and Charitable purposes in 1868, with a
Capital of 81 100000, to which L has since
added reserve fund Of SS9s qs Ip1r 4 FA MI
tsts nlace monthly on the second Tues
dsv. IT NEyER sCALRsO R P~0sTPoEEs. LOCK
~ the follewing Distribution:
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Novel Qaeaticns Raised ia u Suit
for Damages.

for Damages.
Rochester Special to the New York Timea.l
A singular suit has just been decided
here. Walter ]. Osborne brought suit
against Alexander Prentice, jr., allegirk
that the defendant sent him o tos.a.
card, directed in care Of his employers
containing, among other things, this
statement: You have collected bills due
US, and used the money, to the amount
of S27 81, so please call and settle and
a trouble The plaintiff held that
this was written to injure him 10 the eyes
of bis employers; that he was temporari-
" discharged on account thereof, and,
therefore demanded $4,000 damages, with
costs. The defense moved for a non.
suit, ON the following grounds: That q
postal card communication was q privi-
legged one; that a declaration or statement
written upon it not being necessarily q
publication, it was incumbent upon the
plaintiff to prove not only that malicious
publication had been made by the de-
iendant, but also that such publication
was not justified in fact that according
to law no one other than the person i'd
dressed had any right TO the wiring on
the back of a postal card, and that,
therefore, such communication must, in
its nature, be q private one. The court
refused a non.sui.. and the jury brought
in a verdict of $3.50 against the defend.
ant. A stay of sixty days was granted.
The case is a novel one, and without pre-
cedent in Supreme Court records Hon.
e. B. FenneT and ]. A. Stull conducted
the case for-the plaintiff, and John M,
Davy and j. L. Luckey for the defend
ant
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FROM WASHINGTON.

L@ZM
WAsH1NGroN, Oct. Ex-senator Nor
gen left this morning for Alabama,
where he will make speeches in the can
vass up to the time Of the election. he
will speak in Garth's and Shelley's dis
tricts, where there is an animated con-
test for congress.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-SurGeon j..
Winthrop Taylor has been appointed
surgeon general of the navy, in place
Of surgeon Grier, retired.
@The commissioner Of the general
land office has transmitted to the sec
rotary of the interior reduced estimates
OF The amounts needed by him during
the next fiscal year. They aggregate
about S 1885, 900, including $4,000 to
prevest de~predations on timber lands,
$500, 900 for surveying public lands, ETC.,
and for salaries and expenses of the
surveyor generals offices, and $470,OO0
for salaries OF registers and receivers,
and other expenses Of local land Offices
throughout the country.
The estimate for salaries Of employees
OF the general land Office is 1907, l49, Al
excess OF $50, 1870 over the amount up.
~proptiated for the current year. In ex-
PLANTATION of this increase, commissioner
Williamson states that the present cleri'
cal force is not half large enough, nor is
there half the necessary room in which
to transact the business OF the bureau in
a satisfactory manner.
Information has been received at the
mint bureau that the recent order for the
purchase Of gold bullion at Charlotte
N c., and Denver, Col, is a complett
success.
President Hays, accompanied By sec
rotary Sherman, will leave Washington
tomorrow night, to visit the Cumber
land md fair on Thursday, returning
that day.
The cabinet was in session to-day,
The heads Of several departments pre-
sented estimates for the fiscal year, whicl
we're reduced to the lowest figures pos
sible, in view Of the falling off in tn,
revenues. The aggregate amount r,
: CURED will not vary materially from tn
q appropriations made for the presen
FISCAL year, with the exception Of the dc
, f%ciency in the post'ofice department
q and increased expenditure in the India
office.
The President has appointed Charlie
|, II Talmadge postmaster at West Unior
Iowa.
The President has ~pardoned JGco
Carver, late postmaster at WARSAW
Ky. convicted of opening letters.
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John Walsh, Undertaken,
BAL Second st.. nextspostofice. l441
News Items.

The Democrats of the TWenty-ffth
district Of New York have selected as
their congressional candidate, John M.
Wieting, the nominee of the Greenback-
ers.
Joseph B. Follett, Greenback candi.
date for congress in the Second st.
Louis district has withdrawn, and John
Hogan has been substituted in his place.
Mr.. Hogan was o Democratic representa-.
tive in congress eight or ten years ago.
A telegram from Bosten says the
Denver and Rio Graude railroad was
leased, on Saturday. to the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Company.
An attempt was made to rob a grave
in Mt. 0livet Cemetery, at Nashville,
last Saturday night. The guard fred at
and wounded the esurrectionists, who
escaped in the darkness, leaving tracks
OF blood.
The boiler ofa raw mill. uear McLeans-
boro, ILL.,, exploded last Saturday, killing
r Dale, the proprietor, and another
man, named Warren, and fatally iDjuring
the engineer and two others,
An inspector of the health department
of the District of Columbia, reports that
he has found cows suffering from the
rinderpest on \ farm near Washington
He suggests an immediate and careful
inspection of the COW yards in the vicin.
Of that city.
In the United States Circuit Court al
Baltimore on Saturday, Judge Bond
Fl led his decision in the Cigar Partition
case" Diminishing the application for ar
injunction to prevent the execution O.
the order of the commissioner Of inter
nal revenue, requiring separate rooms
for the manufacture and sale of cigars
This decision Of Judge Bond, sustaining
the commissioner, virtually reverses {
decision Of Judge Giles in the Distric.
Court.
Austin C. Wellington, coal dealer o
Boston, has failed, with liabilities STATED
at STA, 900, and assets stated at $57, 900
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The Future City passed down last
night, having in tow six barges and one
elevator barge for points below.
The Grand Tower will pass down to-
day. She has a barge of freight for this
place. Go down and see Capt. Rice on
the Lee wharf beat, aud be will tell you
all about it.
The Bateville left Cincinnati yester-
day with all the freight and people she
could carry, for Helena and White
river.
The City OF Vicksburg will pass down
Monday for Vicksburg.
Wash Floyd has been engaged as chief
clerk of the Katie Hooper.
John A. Scudder will leave St, Louis
this evening for New Orleans.
Big Joe Flynn is in town. Go rlow
Joe.
The R. W. Dugan sank two miles be
low Dewitt, 10, on Monday last. Sh,
was owned by Cspts. j. B. Kinney anc
W. ]. Lewis. Valued at $4,000 %insure'
for $4,000, and will be a total loss.
CaptainsRice and Salisbury are over
hauling the Lee wbarfboat, and she wi
be as neat as a pin in a few days.
Capt. Ed. R. Thomas, chief clerk {
the Coahoms, bought half interest in tn
Katydid, at Evansville, on Tuesday las
He will put her 10 the trade betWee
Vicksburg and the mouth Of Whit
river, to carry the mails,
: The Geo. W. Cheek will leave St Lou.
on Monday full Of refugees for Memphi
Stack Lee in command.
' The Belle Memphis will be due up Il
morrow for 81. Louis,
s The John 0verton came in this NOR
ing from Mound City with % bales
cotton and 40 sacks cotton seed.
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X
Deaths from Noon Yesterday to
Noon To-Day.

Jacob Kraus, Is years, Y Vance.
HI Posey, 60 years, Poplar and bOu-
levard.
G. Lawrence, Richmond avenue,
Mrs Linda Myers, Jackson street
Mrs Matte Harris, Central avenue.
Mrs. Maggie Roper, 2ss Heruando
street.
Wm. Lucas, boulevard,
Ran Austin, boulevard. s1ud
Bessie E Brock, St Peters Asylum,
6 weeks.
Miss Katie Leonora Behn, fernando
road, age l6.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. Mike Cauale, ofD. Danale & Co..
is convalescent, Ls
The Howard Association reported for
yesterday only IL new cases. The board
of health reports for yesterday Is deaths.
Mrs. Bruutner wishes to return her
thanks to Mr., Staffor, Howard visitor,
for his kindness to her and child and
friends. May God ever bless himl
Mrs. Farley wishes to return her sim
cere thanks to Mr.. Waring, Howard
visitor, for his kindness to her and her
friends during their sickness. May God
bless himl
Mrs. Emma Esch, wife Of Il. Each,
one of our most successful business
men, died last Thursday on the Horn
Lake road. Surely death loves a shin
ing mark.
Hon. Jesse F. Brown and his entire
family had the fever very severely, bui
all survived. BE was taken on the go
of September and appeared, looking
very thin and weak, on the streets for tht
first time to-day.
DR.. VIM, son of our old townsman
Colonel X. J. B. L. VIM, has per
formed much successful aud gratefully
appreciated labor al Camp Father Mat
thew. he is one Of our bright and ria
ing young physicians.
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After this date, until further
notice, the LEDGER Will not
be delivered by carriers.
Parties desiring to subscribe
can obtain the paper at the
LEDGER counting room fer
TWO CENTS each by PUR.
CHASING TICKETS.
As soon as the epidemic il
ended, and the people return,
All our routes Will be re-estab.
Iished.
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San Francisco News Letter.l

San francisco News Letter.
Il am q yellow fever sufferer, and l
want a four.bit dinner said a red-nosed
specimen, stepping into a Clay street
restaurant. but there is no fever in
the city" objected the proprietor. "Ex-
sctly," blandly reJoiued the gentleman,
rubbing the aforementioned corner gro
Gerry sign with bis foreinger, exactly;
but my wife resides in Memphis. end she
is down sick with it, aud is therefore an.
able to support me as usual. Perhaps
your customers might like to club to.
gether," he continued, glanciDg around
pleasantly. When be picked himself
up from the car track he felt as it the
customers had indeed dubbed together
all together.
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Ireturn my sincerest thanks to Messrs.
], W. Cooper and W. l. Berlin, How
ard visitors, for their assistance during
the sickness Of my children. Also
to Miss E. NJ. Flanagan, a volunteer
nurse from Terre Hsuse. Ind, who
watched over their bedside day and
night. Had they been her " children
she could not have exhibited more ten.
derness toward them. Mrs. A. c. Smith,
of Houston, Texas, rendered valuable
assistance a portion Of the time. Now
that they are all convalescent, | fee
that with such q physician as DR.. Mara
BILE and such a nurse as Miss "Lyde"
Flanagan, yellow fever does notamouni
to much, anyhow. s. L. RENEAU.
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THERE is gloom and anxiety in Lon.
don among bankers, and throughout
England and Scotland among manufac.
%turers, who have been running for years
without profit, in the expectation Of bet.
ter times which have not come, and the
feeling among the most thoughtful is
never will return. Much of the capita.
now in mines and manufactures may
fad its way to the United States, anc
aid in developing our great resources,
aud make this the great manufacturing
center Of the world,
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rhs I.aIlan Damned CrIsia.

ROW, October 22.-Prime Minister
Carroll to-day informed King Humbert
that the whole cabinet had resigned.
The king protested warmly against this
action, and declared, ever II the cabinet
persiated in resigning, be would charge
Signor Carroll with the formation Of an
other. Signor Gfibpi publishes = letter
attacking the cabinet Tor humiliatinR
Italy 10 The eyes Of Europe. This in
cre0ses Cairolis difficulties,
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To Onr River Friends.

Two boats will leave St. Louis each
week, running as lew as Prentiss, by
which our friends can ship cotton to us
at St. Lsuis or Memphis, and we can
ship them supplies from St. Louis, till
Memphis packets can resume their trips.
Our cotton shed is always open, and
cotton we'll cared for.
Hill, FoSTAINE & Co,
September q, 1873. 24t
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LIviag irOm sm Acre of Ground.
gtoekton Tndependent.l

Stockton Independent
On the Cooper lane, about a mile or
so north OF Stsekton, California, there
lives an industrious Italian on an even
acre of ground lying in a triangular
shape between the road and the railroad
at the crossing point. He has a wifs
and five children, whom he supports in
comfort from the product Of his garden.
The little farm is planted in trees, vines
and vegetables, and is thoroughly we'll
titled. Occasionally he plants an early
crop on the railroad right of way adloin.
ing, which remains u"ndisturbed until the
pillow of the fire protectors comes along.
But this instance is e good illustration
Of "a little farm we'll titled"
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A dispatch from Omaha says that de
%structive prairie 1res are raging near
Kearpey, along the line Of the Omaha
and Republican Valley railroad, in Polk
county, and other sections Of Nebraska.
The northeast portion OF the State is
suffering most severely. The losses will
be immense to property. Seven persons
have been burned to death, and a con.
siderable number Of others were severely
burned. The particulars cannot be
learned yet.
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Election Law UncOnstltuuone,

Judge Brell, Of the District court Of
St. Paul, MINI, deeides that SO much Of
tho ELECTION law passed last winter as re.
qnires the numbering Of ballots to cor.
respond with a numbered poll lat, Is un-
constitutional, because opposed to the
principal Of secret ballot. The law is
peculiarly stringent, and has attracted
much attention.
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HENRY LuEHRMANN, SO Monroe street,
is receiving fresh oysters daily frsm
Norfolk aud New York. Also London
porter, Scotch ale and Milwaukee bot
tied lager beer. For sale, Wholesale and
retail. "a
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who wish
to renew will do us u favor
by ENDIN MONEY before
their time expires, as our
mail list is very large, and
our force TO do the work
small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS III THE
MONEY.
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Ben Butler says there never was such
athing as a gold dollar. "-Norr Herald.
It's O shame TO misquote a man that
way. Whet he "a really saying, when
he vas so rudely interrupted was:
"There never was such a thing rs a gold
dollar that l did not try TO get"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-26

Price, Jones & Co., No. u Jefferson
street, have roopened their bindery and
job printing office, and are prepared to
Gil all orders. Customers will please
take notice. 40
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MEssRs BoHLES, HusE 4 Co are now
running their ice wagons-one in North
and one South Memphis.
October 25, 1878. 40
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HOWARD Association.
To Refugees!

TT HAVING come to cur knowledge that
some parties who had fed the city at the out
broak of the &c have returned, cor
tracted the fever and died. it is my duty, by
resolution of tho Howard Association, to warn
all Refugees that, owing to the fact that We
have all we can do to nurse and care for those
who are here, If they come back to the city
before the epidemic has been officially declared
over, they will do SO at their own risk and
with almost the certainty Of having to provide
for themselves in case Of sickness. Our pres
ent obligations are as many and as weighty a
we can carry. and We cannot, without break
ing down. assume any more. REFUGEES
MUST NOT RETURN. The fate Of those
who have should be a warning TO all.
A. I'D. LANGsTAEF,
President Howard Association.
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In the LEDGER job Office can be found
competent, skillful and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display Of any job # printing. 1881
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Tohacco and Cigara.

We are daily receiving fresh goods
and are thereby enabled to sell them at
very low figures, All orders viii be
thankfully received, promptly and satis-
factorily filed. HARTMAN & BIO.
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,EnIIns Rnck,

matchmaker and jeweler, 791 Beal street,
has r%eopened his store. He is a practi.
cal matchmaker, and has an assortment
Of all kinds OF watches and jewelry which
be will sell very low. 81
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FRITZ g. GEORGE,
No. II Court Street.

have their ine saloon open all the time.
Have just received . very ine lot'of vi.
emma and F~rankfurter sausage; served
up rcd hot. at
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-26

THE type, material and workmen Of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, and hence we guarantee FIRST class
work and full satisfaction to oGr patrons
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"May your troubles only be little ones.
aud may you always have DR., Bulls
Baby Syrup handy, said au old batch
elor to a newly married couple.
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sCHRIBLER & CO,
aOa MaIn R1raef.

viii keep open from this date, aud pay
as usually the highest price for hides,
and sell leather Of all kinds ut Eastern
prices. 81