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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
T%ELEGRAPHIC
STOCKS n BONDS.

LONDON, July II, $3.50 p.m.-Consols
for money are 96 SIG; on account. -;
United States 6ve.twenties of 1861, 1862:
United States ~ive.twenties Of 1867, 1919;
United States ten.forties, ll03; United
States new four-and-a-halfs 1861; United
States new fves, l09
NEW YoRK, July IL, ll:20 a m.-Gold
1000; United States skies Of 1881, regis.
tered, l074@lO7y; United States skies Of
1881, coupons, -@l07f; Gve-twenties
of '65, registered, new issue. l028@l02k;
fve-twenties Of 81. 1880; Eve
tweoties of'68, lO8@l 1881 ;ten.forties, 1904
@l09t; coupons, 1880; new ives,
81, 1910; coupons. lO6s@l07; new
fourand-a-hRlfs, l04S@l044; coupons,
currency skies, l203@l203;
new Iours, l0O4@lOOs; coupons, 1901.
B~READsTUFFs
LrvERPooL, July III Flour, 22s 0d@.
Wheat, winter. 9s 6i@9s l0i;
Milwaukee red. IS 9d@9s ca. California
ehite, 81 lld@l0s I'd; California club.
l0s 3lt9I0 50. Germ, new. 22s 6d@
s39i. Pork, 49s 0d@- Cd. Beef, Us Oh.
long clear. 27s Cd; short clear,
Ga Lard, 36s 81. Tallow, 37s Cd.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
PUBLIC LEDGER.
MEMPHIS AND RAILROAD

MEMpnIS AND LOUISVILLE KAILhUADs
Arrives. Leaves.
an. Pm. AZ. Pm.
Express daily Except
Saturday .....-...........- AW LID
Mail Train. ......-....-. SD SUI -
Accommodation Sunday 4.40
Depot at head Of Main street.
Ticket once. &7 Main street. corner Of
Madison.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
RIVER INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVALS.
Steamer City Of Alton. New Orleans.
J. W. CAT, Cincinnati.
JohR Porter, Ohio river.
DEPARTURES
Steamer a. j. White, Arkansas City.
Coahoma, Friar's Point.
City Of Alton, St. Louis.
West Wind, 0sceola.
John Porter, New Orleans.
Belle Of Shreveport, n. 0.
BOATS IN Port.
Condition OF the Rivers.
The river here rose 2 inches in
the past "A hours ending at
noon and now stands 20 feet 4
inches above low water mark. AT
Cairo it declined 4 inches, with ri
feet 10 inches on the gauge; at St
Louis G inches, with % feet S
inches on the gauge; at Pittsbure
it rose l inch, with 2 feet 4
inches on the gauge; at Cincin.
natl it declined inches, with s feet
on the gauge; at Louisville 2 inches,
with 5 feet 10 inches in the canal
at Evansville it is stationary, with
s feet Z inches on the gauge. Cum
berland river declined 2 inches nj
Nashville, with 3 feet IL inches on
the gauge. The Arkansas river i:
falling at Little Rock, with IL feet
on the gauge. White river is fall.
ing, with a good stage of water from
JacksOnport to the mouth.
MIseeIIaneOus.
Another scOrcher.
No packets leaving to-day.
The crops in the bends are doing
finely.
The dullest day of the week on
the levee.
The Andy Baum left Cincinnati
last evening for Memphis.
The Cons Millar, from Memphis
arrived az Cincinnati this morning
The Maumelle leaves Little Rocl
on Saturday next for Memphis.
The Gold Dust left New Or
leans last evening for St. Iouis.
| Captain W. G. Hardwick returne,
home yesterday from New Orleans
|, Captain Tom Darragh left Pitts
bug yesterday for Memphis.
The local packets out last nigh
had fair trips of freight and people
/, The Mary Houston, for New Or
leans, passed V~icksburg last even
ing.
The Robert Mitchell, for Cincin
natl, passed Evansville last night =
0 o'clock.
The John Gilmore and BARGE
left Cairo yesterday afternoon 70
New Orleans.
The John Porter, with fou
barges in tow, passed down thi
morning,
The Coahoma is the Frida
packet for Friars Point and til
bends.
The new steamer W. 0. Johnso
leaves Evansville to-day for TenneI
see river.
The national board of stear
navigation meets at Cincinnati III
4th Of September next.
The John A. Scudder, from S
Louis, arrived at New Orleans YES
ierday and leaves there on Satur
day win q return trip.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
s WEEKLY
LEDGER.
S1.OO.@s sa
The Cheapest and Best News
q Medium in the South. y.

TT Is ENTERPR1sING. FEARLESS. RE
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events of importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at tho highest possible
standard, and to commend it in al! respects
to the confidence and approval of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being
strictly
Democratic and Conservative,
bat will not be unjustly partisan, aiming to be
fair and Just. as well as pronounced in its
political convictions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
MEMPHIs AND CHARLESTON R. r.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE r. R.
Arrives. Leaves.

An. Pm. Az. Pm.
N. o. Mail daily -.-,.~-.ll.& 2.l5
Sardis accommodation,
daily lex. Sunday)-~.-S.@ 4.N
Freight train. daily lex
cept Sunday ........---.- 4.lO lo.D
Depot at foot of Main street.
Ticket Office, 2S7 Main street. corner OF
Modison. NJ. BURKE, Cen. Sup't.
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A Book Agent VINO Never BOth ers.
Virginia City Enterprise.l

A Book Agent VINO Never BOIhe Fs.
Virginia City Enterprise.l
AS he made his appearance be-
fore rs a sort Of spasm passed over
his face, and it fell into the appear
ance Of a petrifed smile-a smile
that had nothing at all to do with
his thoughts, feelings or intentions.
Said he: 81 am a book agent, of
course-you can see that at once
by the samples l carry-but don't
allow yourself to become ruffied at
the mere sight Of me. l am, | may
truthfully say, one of the improved
order of book agents. l never
bother any one. | never importune
people to subscribe for my books.
They show for themselves and
speak for themselves. l don't be-
lieve in the style Of worrying people
adopted by some. l merely show
them what | have got. l am not
ashamed to show the books | carry;
on the contrary, l take pleasure in
showing them to everybody,whethe
or not those looking at them sub
scribe. | carry none but the best
Of books, and depend on the good
taste and good sense of people to
appreciate them. l never bother
anybody; | don't believe in it. |
merely show them what | have got,
and leave the rest to their good
taste. l don't go everywhere with
my boOks-it would not be worth
while. l find out the educated and
refined and 90 TO them. All l then
have to do is to show them my
works. If they don't subscribe it
is all right, and / always
take pleasure in showing what
| have, and am very careful to
bother no one. Those who carry
trashy books may find it necessary
to importune people to subscribe.
When something good and solid il
offered to a man of taste and iudg-
ment, he at once knows it is Just
what he wants without my telling
him that he must have it. Now
here is a book that / take pleasure
in showing you-"The State of the
Impenitent Dead There are many
places in which it would be useless
for me to go with a solid work Of
that kind. 1t is only among persons
Of taste and persons who are rea.
judges Of literary merit that l ex.
pect patronage. | go to them and
show them what l have and they
subscribe. / never bother anybody
don't ask people to subscribe,
merely allow them to see my works
| have in this way taken orders fol
5000 copies Of The State of the I'm.
penitent Dead in Nevada and G0OC
in Utah. For my Seeds anC
Sheaves,' "a Wreath Around tn,
Cross and 'The Better Land Al
many more. / never bother any
body. 1t is all useless. 1t onl,
worries people. always depend OF
the good sense and good taste 0
people after having shown them nv
works, never bother" here VI
were obliged to gently watt thi
book agent of the improved orde.
down the stalrs to the street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
Way Lotteries are Conducted
In Naples.

Padre Malta Salvatore won at
the last drawing Of the Neapolitan
lottery q prize of 2,110,0 900 lire
equivalent in round numbers to
$4,000. This was the largest
prize ever gained in that lottery.
AS Pail Mall describes the system
if a buyer speculates on a single
ticket he may win five times his
stake; an ambe 1.-TWO tickets which
must both come OUT will yield him
thirty-three times his stake; and if
he goes on a turna he may win 200
or 100 times his stake, according as
he chooses the simple terna or the
terna major. The simple terna is
equivalent to betting that three
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11

LTvKRP00t. July II, 2.90 p%.m.-Cotton Is
quiet and firm. Middling upisnas. 6s l6d;
middling Orleans, cid. Sales, IS 600 bales, OF
yhicb: 5000 were 'or export and speculation
Rsceips, $3.50 bales, Of which ali was
American. Futures steady.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MONEY
PEBLIo LKsexR OFFICE.
MENPHIs. IExx.. July II. 1873.

mEhPHIs. IESS.. Juiy II. laso.l
Financial matters are unchanged
about the banks this morning. While in
Memphis the money market remains
dull, there are signs Of more activity
elsewhere Exchange on New York was
at par buying. and premium
selling; on other eastern cities, par buy
ing, and ! premium selling for both de-
mand and sight. New Orleans oil
buying. and par selling. Gold opened
in New York to dsy st 1904 and closed
at 1901 Local stocks. bonds and secu-
rites are in better inquiry, and owners
are well satisfied with their property, and
E-,-, srrGna1 - ell
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
pApucAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.

PAUUUAH ANB MEMPHIS
Mail Train arrives....-..-....... ....--.. go an
saves : W PIX
The nail train leaves Coviagton for Mem
phis at $50 Am. and arrives at C~oVington at
Gas pm. Trains leaving Memphis will start
from the U~nderWriters' Warehouse. For
rates Of freight. etc. apply to c. Mensarrat,
General Agent. Memphis.
.MONSARRAT, Gent Manager.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
MEMPHIS AND LTTTLEROoK RAILROAD

--- -
Az. Pm. An. P.H
Mail Train daily.-.-~..- n.41 500
Rreight and Accommoda-
tiOa daily Tex. Sunday 5.&l $50
sleepig cars on mail train. Ticket ohces,
Louisville Depot. 2S7 Main loOr. Aadisoh
and as Main street.
W E. SMITH. Act'E G~sn'lsup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-11
few are Inclined 70 sell.
COTTON,

The market is steady aud unchanged.
The demand and offerings are light.
Sales, I25 bales.
corroN rvru.wav ouoTlrrore-
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27
Studies of the Antique.
From the Burlington Hawkeys.l J

II was the evening before. Hector's
last attack upon the Creek camp. and
there was a general gloom, as usual
after these matinees. over the oommuni-
ty. The son of peleus. yawning over
volume of the report of the Committee
ON the "Conduct Of the War." turned TO
Agamemnon. aud said:
why were there No Democratic pa
pers nj Cblished in Israel or Judeay,
The king of men chewed his tooth
nick for a few moments in deep retiec
lion and then be said he didn't know.
upless il was because the Mosaic laws
were so terribly down on all kinds OF
vice and immortality.
Rut the swift footed Achilles said that
wouldn't do at all. Patroclus, dearest
and most houored among the orazen-
coa,ad Achaians ia the war. said
mavbe il was because the lsrealites
were a commercial nation. and wouldn't
sell ink and paper on long time:
The son of .Eacus shook his head:
The silver tongued Odysseus suggested
that probably it was because there were
no railroads in the country. consequent
ly no editorial excursions or free passes
and therefore, no incentive to puo'isn
paper. But Achilles said;
who: because there is no letter I In
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27
Every Year.
BY ALBERT PIKE.

The spring has less of brightness
Every year,
And the snow ghastlier whiteness
Every year.
Nor do summer flowers quicken.
Nor autumn fruitage thicken,
As they once did. for they sicken
Every year.
1t is growing darker, colder
Every year.
As the heart and soul grow older,
Every year.
| care not now for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion glancing,
Love is less AMI less enhancing.
Every year.
Of the loves and sorrows blended
Every year.
OF the charms of friendship ended
Every year;
Of the ties that still might bind me.
Until time to death resigns me,
My intirmities remind me
Every year.
All, how sad to look before us
Every year
While the cloud grows darker DER Us
Every year,
When we see the blossoms faded,
That to bloom We might have ancd,
And immortal garlands braided
Every year
TO the past go more dead faces
Every year.
As the loved leave vacant places
Every year,
Everywhere the sad eyes meet US,
In tue evenings dusk they greet us,
And 10 come TO them entreat us
Every year.
You are growing DID, they tell us.
Every year;
You are more alone, they tell US,
Every year;
You can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection,
Every year
Yes the shores of life are shifting
Every year.
And we are seaward drifting
Every year;
Old places. changing. fret u;
The living more forget us.
There are fewer to regret us.
Every Year.
But the truer life draws higher
Every year;
Aud its morning star climbs higher
Every year;
Earth's hold on us grows slighter.
And the heavy burdens lighter.
And the dawn immortal brighter.
Every year.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27
A Prophecy.

From Nile Notes" written twenty-five years ago.
The sole hope of the East is Western
incubation The child must suckle
the age of the parent. and even
Medea's wondrous alchemy will not
restore its peculiar prime. If the East
awakens. it will be no longer in the
turban and red slippers but in hat and
boots The West is the sea that ad-
vances forever upon the shore; the shore
cannot stay it, but becomes the bottom
Of the ocean.
The Westerner who lives in the
Orient does not assume the kaftan and
the baggy breeches; and those OF his
Moslem neighbors shrink aud disap-
pear before his coat and pantaloons.
The Turkish army is clothed like the
armies of Europe. The Grand Turk
himself, Mohammed's vicar the Com
mander OF the faithful, has laid away
the magniticence Of Haroun Alraschid
and wears the simple red tarboosh and
stiff suit of military blue. Cairo is
an English station TO India and How
adj does not drink sherbet upon the
pyramids champagne. At this
moment the East is the FL Dorado of
European political hope. No single
power dares TO grasp it, but at last
England and Russia will meet there
face To face. and the lion and the polar
bear will shiver the desert silence with
the roar of their struggle. 1t will be
the retura of the children to claim the
birthplace. They may quarrel among
themselves, but whoever wins will in
troduce the life of the children not the
parent. 4 possession and province it
may be, but no more al independent
empire. Father Ishmael shall be y
sheik of honor, but of dominion no
longer. and sit turbsned in the chimney
corner while bis hated heirs rule the
house. The children will cluster
around him fascinated with his beauti-
ful traditions, and curiously compare
their little black shoes with his red
slippers.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

the Hebrew language Nothing to
make a Democratic paper. Nothing to
write about. Nothing to say. How
could they spell 'fraud' without an ~
And the willy Ulysses. who wasn't
very we'll read up in politics said that
was too deep for him. and nobody
laughed; aud soon after the Caucus
adjourned.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that q note given for a
church subscription does not carry with
it an obligation to pay. since it is given
without consideration.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

An Irishmsn who stood near the
third base watching a game of base
ball was sent to grass by foul, which
struck him under the fifth rib. a
fowl waz it, Begorra thought it wuz
a mule
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

The Danbury philosopher says that
tightening never strikes in the same
place because there is nothing to hit
the second time.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27
PUYALLUP ROAD TRAINS.

LEAVE ARRIVE
Tacoma. Gas A. II. Wilkeson ....9 900 A. VI
Wiikeson. =. 30 L. VI. Tacoma ...... 80 p. II
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

CONNECTIONS.
At TACOMA. with Pactic Mail Steamships for
Victoria aud San Francisco. aud with Sound
Steamers for Seattle. Steiacoom, Olympia, and
all points on Puget Sound.
At Lake View. with Stage for steilacoom.
At Tenino, with Stages for Olympia.
At Kalsms with o. =. y. Ccs boats for Port
land and all points on the Columbia river
At Portland, on Wednesday and Saturday Mt 6
A. ". with steamers for Port Townsend, Victoria,
Nanaimo. New Westminster and Fraser River
Through Tickets for sale at Principal Offices OF
the Company. and at the Office of the o. \. N Co.
Ia Portland, Oregon, to Victoria and Seattle, and
via p. VI. y. y. Co.'S Steamship from Tacoma,
and o. S. - Co and =. c. y. \. Co.'S steamships
from Portland TO San Francisco.
Through Tickets to Portland Oregon, for sale
at Victoria. Seattle, Tacoma and Tenino.
s. A. BLACK.
General Superintendent,
w WAYNE vOGDES,
General Ticket Agent.
W. II. HUMPHREY, Ticket Agent q, sest,le.
VT. oct3i
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-27

REFER BY PERMISSION To
L.yd Tcyis. Esq.. Pres't Wells. Fargo Co.'S
'"an . Valentine. Esq, General Superintendent
:, Wells, Fargo Co.'S Express.
". ". Colb". Esq. Pres't 0ranger's Bank Of Cal.
ifornia.
ihos. Flint, Esq, Pres't California Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Association.
!. u. Gardner. Esq, Vice Presi tent and Manager
Caiifornis Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance As.
eociation.
schwatachsr Bros. 4 Co.
Danhan-, carrtgan < Co.
Mussey. Nickel 4 Co.
Haas Brothers
Fabef Haehcr 4 On. ale-asvtf
The daily gazette., 1878-01-11
vIRGINIA's STATE DEBT.

Mr.. Barbour, chairman Of the finance
committee OF the Virginia House Of Dele
gates, and q leading "readjuster," has
presented a tax bill to that committee for
its action. The preamble to the bill
takes the ground that dfty cents on the
500 of the assessed value property is all
that the taxpayers of Virginia can pos
sibly stand, and the bill provides that the
amount raised by such taxation shall be
Appropriated as follows Twenty five
cents on the 500 for the exclusive pur-
pose Of defrayipg the necessary expenses
of maintaining the State government;
ten cents on the 500 for public free
school purposes, and which shall be used
for no other purpose whatsoever and
fifteen cents on the 500 for general pur-
poses and TO pay the interest on the pub
lie debt. The above is to be followed by
bill proposing to pay per cent. interest
Such bill now in course of preparation
by the subcommittee of Simonpures' bus
iness committee seeks to place all classes
ofcreditors on an equal footing, and pro-
vides for issuing three per cent. regis
tered bond with interest payable semi
annually at tie treasury in exchange fer
the peeler and consol bonds IN fact, for
all classes of the public debt. One third
of all the unfunded and old debt is to be
set apart for West Virginia. To make
these bonds more attractive, and to in
duce the exchange of outstanding bonds
for them, the bill will probably provide
that all the license tax, including the rev.
enue derived from the Moffett register,
shall be collected in money and set apart
for this purpose, and no other.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-11
OHIo's SENATOR.
pEsDLEros cARArrs THE CAUCUS.
CINCINNATI, January 10.

CINCINNATI, January 10.
Mr.. Pendleton was nominated on
the third ballot tonight for United
States Senator by 81 votes, four
more than was needed for a ma
jority. Every effort was made by
his opponents to break down his
strength, but without avail.
George II. Pendleton, son Of
Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, form
erly a member of Congress, was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 25, 1925.
Having studied law he was admitted
to the bar, and shortly thereafter
t1854) was elected q member of
the Ohio Senate. He represented
the First district Of Ohio in the Ma
tional House Of Representatives
from December, 1857, till March,
1865. In Congress he acted with the
Democrats who opposed the coer-
cion Of the secessionists and was
nominated as candidate for Vice
President, General Mcclellan being
the nominee for President, by the
Democratic Convention in August,
1864. He received twenty-one
electoral votes out of two hundred
and thirty-three. About 1867 he
began to advocate soft money and
the payment of the national debt in
this unresisting medium. As a
candidate for the Presidency he re-
ceived at the Democratic Conven-
ton, July, 1868, one hundred and
and one-half votes out of
three hundred and seventeen, on the
eight ballot. He was the Demo
cratic cadidate for Governor of
Ohio in 1869, but was not elected.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-11
RUGBY LITERARY SOCIETY

Yesterday afternoon at the regular meet.
ing of the Rugby Literary Society, an elec.
lon OF officers took place with the followinf
result:
President-John w, Leithead.
Vice President-Leoline K Bennett.
Secretary-G. Herbert Murphy.
Treasurer-George Lodge.
Librarian-L. heisler Bail.
Antiquarian-C. G. Phillips.
Critic-E. III. Peet
The daily gazette., 1878-01-11

Damage TO Wheat. early sown
wheat in ma ny parts of the Peninsula,
is suffering terrible ravages from tbs
Hessian Fly. The warm weather has
been 30 favorable to them that many
fields sown as usual with the view of es
Gaping this pest, have been attacked, and
the destruction has con inued almost up
to the present time. Some fields in Sus
sex have been almost Destroyed and in
Kent. Queen Anne's, Somerset; Dor
chester and alb yer the lower part of
the Peninsula, the injury inflicted Is
greater than ever before known.
Obttuary.-Sampson j. Cook, residing
at sos W. Third street, died this morn>
ing after lingering illness. Mr.. Cook
had been foreman for the past 10 years
IN the locomotive department of the p.
W. d b. X. r., Company. His demise
was caused by consumption. The flag
al the round house is at half mast, In
respect to his memory.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-11
A FOX HUNT IN NORTH CARO-
LIMA

Raleigh IN. C) Observer, January5
The fox chase is In this section a relic OF
days gone by, but still there are few in
this section who inherit from their ances.
tors iondness for this sport. and it is
still kept up. Mr.. Thomas Hill, living
near Carey, hasa splendid pack OF fox
hounds, and at the request of Mr.. G. T.
Stronach, who had suffered considerable
loss in poultry from an old and sly rey-
nard, came to Stronach farm at daylight
yesterday morning and the hunt was Or
ganized. Kinyen Jones was there, as
also George and Robert Jones. George
Stronach mounted his blooded mare
Beauty, and Tom Hill, as master of cere-
monies, led the hounds to the field, and
soon old Clipper Opened on good Grail.
Belle, Dash, Driver, Star, Sumter, Lee,
Bragg, Hancock and Tilden harked to
old Clipper. and in very few minutes
reynard was up. The chase was a very
exciting one, and lasted four hours. He
was captured by Mr.. Hill, and the brush
was sent to us.