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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19

A young man by the name OF
Iyles, while out hunting near Shelton's,
in Fairfield County, shot and killed him
self on the 18th of June. His friends
think it was purely accidental, but others
take different view of the affair, and
claim that it was n deliberate suicide.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19

Beaufort Crescent. Isaac Washington,
whom we reported last wcok rs having
his leg crushed beneath the wheels OF
one of the rock cars Mt Pacific Mines,
died on Saturday morning.
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- Coffee growing has proved success
fnl with few. planters in southern Flor
ida, and its cultivation there. promises to
be extended. 81
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QUICK SALES
AND
SMALL PROFITS

S our motto, and we can make it to your
a interest to call anu see Us when you are
In need of anything. We will sell you
good Goods at low prices.
A. B. TOWERS & CO.,
No Granite Row.
April IL, 1870 40
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FEED CUTTERS, &c.

EEEH GU EEeS. sc.
WE have just received another lot of
w Brennan e Co.'s superior ma
chincs-such rs Dexter Feed utter, and
Corn Shelters, Grain Fans Cider and Sor-
ghum Mills. The very best.
April IL, 1870 10
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-29

surface in thick clusters almost from
shore to shore. The rise goes on four
inches or more daily and not much
swell is needed to make the water
reach the top Of the banks,
Things are gettinga little mixed.
The repeal of the charter, the motion
to have a receiver appointed and the
action of railroad bondholders to make
the roads responsible for amounts
they long since paid the State, in de-
preciated bonds of course, makes the
situation seem rather squally. Gener-
al bankruptcy stares us in the face.
The present owners of property are
likely to be forced to sell out and give
way TO a new set.
Choice VenisOn Hams,
Dressed Turkeys and Chickens.
Fine Prairie Chickens.
VICTOR ID. FUCHS,
80 and Al jefferson street.
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Miss Alma Ward, whom the Mem
phis Club have specially engaged to
personate the character of Juliet"
is in the city. The Memphis Club
Dramatic Company will positively
present Romeo and Juliet tonight,
with appropriate costumes, scenery,
etc. No postponement on account of
the weather. A rare treat is in store
for the members, Curtain rises at 8
o'clock.
Manager JOS. Brooks leaves to-mor-
row morning for the principal South
ern cities to make arrangements for
the famed tragedian, Mr.. John Nc
Cullough, who will include this city
IN his Southern tour.
Miss Glennie Smith, Of Glendale,
Miss, and Miss Nettie Carr, of Ey-
ansville, Ind, are visiting the family
of DR.. f. L. Sim, 128 fernando street.
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MRS. FOSTERS MURDERERs.
A Clear Case Against the s~ooundrsIs.

Through Maria Alexander, the mu.
latto servant employed by Mrs. Eos
ter, the guilty parties who perpetrated
the diabolical murder near the fail
grounds last Sunday night are now
fully known.
Maria says the man Charlie Woods,
who is now in Jail, objected to her
nine-year-old child going to Mrs. Fos-
ter's room on hal occasion, as was
her custom, SO she was put to bed in
her own room on the lower floor OF
the l., to the rear of the main house.
Mrs. Fosters room was up stairs.
Near 8 o'clock the man William, who
had been employed a day or two be-
fore to do some. job of work
about the premises, came to her
window and tapped on it, call
ing Woods out. The latter went
out and shortly afterward came back,
carrying the top maui, a sort of heavy
iron hammer used to drive spikes by
ship carpenters. He told Maria that
he feared William had done some in
jury to Mrs. Foster. She never saw
the mar William after that, and a few
minutes later the alarm was given.
Mrs. Foster was soon afterward found
with her skull crushed in and welter-
ing in her blood across the fireplace
in her sleeping room. 1t was her in
tention to have come to the city
on Monday morning, and she had given
Maria a teapot to make a cup of tea
for her use early next morning. 1t
was her intention for Maria to have
accompanied her to the city.
Old Ben Jones, a faithful darby liv-
ing near, had driven Mrs. Foster to
the city a few days before. 1t was he
that brought the maui to the
house, it being Mrs. Fosters property,
and he having borrowed it sometime
before. The maui had been used on
Saturday by William to drive stakes
about some vines in the yard.
Charles Woods and Maria, the wo-
man with whom he lived, were before
the grand jury at noon to-day. 1t is
the general belief that Maria was not
an accOmplice in the murder, and that
she knew nothing whatever regarding
it previous to its occurrence. She has.
however, been indicted for illegal CO.
habiting.
Charles Woods has a y|illainous look.
and is doubtless a blood thirsty scamp
of most approved style. A man
named VIM. Stacey has been under
arrest on supicion of being the man
William, but Maria failed to recognize
him, and there being no proof he wal
released.
No trace has so far been discovered
Of the missing William. The rest of
the prisoners, including Maria and her
nine year old child, together with
Charlie Woods, are in the custody of
Sheriff McGowan and his assistants.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

-
MEMPHIS THEATER.-0ur Bachel-
ors scored another triumph last night.
The audience, in spite of dripping
skies and muddy streets, was large ;
nearly as many attended as were there
the previous night. To say that all
were pleased is hardly doing justice to
the situation. They were more than
pleased indeed the audience were
kept in a constant state of hilarity
from the opening to the close of the
comedy. 1t is M of the most excru-
clatlngly funny constructions imagina-
BILE, and at the same time the story is
as interesting as any f~rst-class novel.
1t Is not often that we are privileged
to witness two talented comedians SO
complete and finished in their profess
sion as are Robson and Crane. The for
mer has been an actor fora dozen years
or more, having performed at the
popular New Orleans Varieties for two
or three winters. He also established
a tirst-class reputation at Wallack's
New York theater, where he won
high encomiums from all sorts of peo-
pie. Two years ago Mr. Robson paid
$1,000 to Brete Harte for a play, to be
written expressly to suit his peculiar
talents. The two men of Sandy Bar
was the result. Mr.. Robson appeared
as Colonel Starbottle," in this piece,
during the fall of 1876. 1t possessed
many good points calculated to inter
est, but on the whole it was loosely
constructed, and did not take. The
expected run failed, and Mr.. Robson
was money out. By mere accident,
as it were, the piece now performed
called Our Bachelors, was prepared
for Robson and Crane. 1t made
a hit, because it suits them both.
and they suit it. Throughout
the season wherever they have ap-
peared, Our Bachelors has been at
tended by delighted crowds, and they
have enjoyed unmeasured success.
Mr.. Crane, who has been here seve-
raj times in years gone by, first with
Mrs. Oates in her Burlesaue Opera
Troupe, is fully the equal of Mr..
Robson in artistic merit, and the two
combined make a capital combination.
Their company is ~irst-class, engaged
especially to suit the pieces presented,
andeach one plays well their respective
parts. The joint arrangement between
Robson and Crane will be likely to re-
suit in a fortune to both, and it is no
more than they deserve.
Our Bachelors will be presented for
the last time tonight. Tomorrow
night the Comedy of Errors will be
the bill. 1t has never been performed
here.
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Canary and MOeking Bird Cages
r.. J. TURNBULL1S,
l26f 33l Main street.
COurt-HOuse Items.

Judge Eldridge held a short session
of the Probate Court this forenoon.
The courthouse was afflicted by the
weather to day, it being a damp, bad,
dull place in nearlyall departments.
There was a slight breeze this morn
ing in the Criminal Courtroom be-
tween Attorney General Turner and
ex-Judge LogwOod. Sharp words,
nothing more.
The new cases recorded since yes
terday in the Circuit Court are John
ston and Vance VS.. 7. 7. Stratton, A.
G. McNutt VS.. D. Il. Parker and N.
B. Britt VS.. R. H. Spangler.
In the Circuit Court to-day a per-
emptory mandamus to levy a tax was
granted in the case of w. II. Wood
VS.. the City of Memphis, on account
Of sixteen past due coupons for thirty
dollars each.
A license was issued to-day for Jos.
Flynn to marry Mrs. Sarah Chapman.
Yesterday Mr.. S. T. Anthony was
licensed to marry Mrs. Z. D. Anthony.
Two cOlored couples were also favored
with matrimonial papers.
VIM. Bagby, for forgery, was con-
victed and sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary in the Criminal Court
to-day. Thomas Shayers is to have
his case set aside as soon as he pays a
fine Of $40 and the costs due.
John Miller, charged with keeping
a disorderly house on Beal street, was
acquitted in the Criminal Court to-
day. He will only have to pay costs.
Nellie Graham was pronounced not
on a charge of yagrancy.
In the county registers Office to-day
a trust deed was recorded from Daniel
Orange to F. NJ. White & Co.-farm
chattel mortgage. Also a warranty
deed from James Hayes to Washing
ton Nelson for a small piece of prop
erty on Dunlap street.
There was a rush of small tax payers
Mr.. Fleece's Office to-day.
An extra force of clerks were unable
to keep pace with the throng. 1t was
observed that all heavy b~ondholdefs
and large real estate owners were con-
spicuously absent from the crowd.
The Payne-0 Oliver patent right case
still drags its weary length in the
United States Court. The Ovens
Woodbridge bankruptcy case was oc-
cupying the attention of Judge Brown
1t involves the receivership
Of the defunct Southern Life Insur-
ance Company.
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Shertly after 10 o'clock last night a
fire broke out in an old unoccupied
grocery building, worth perhaps 800,
on fernando street, near South. The
fire was evidently the work Of incen-
diaries, as persons walking down Her
nando street at the time noticed the
flames for full fifteen minutes or more
before any alarm was sounded. 1t
seemed at first as if a bonfire was
burning in the open street, and the
neighborhood at the time appeared
to be in a state of profound
quietude. Finally, when the flames
Illuminated the entire neighborhood,
the alarm bells rang and the shout of
fire was spread. The building
was destroyed, however, before
the engines arrived at the
scene. The Hook and Ladder
companys truck stuck in the mire for
a couple of hours at the corner of
Vance and fernando. 1t was after
midnight when the boys got their APP
paratus home. The action Of the eng
CINE at the fire was delayed for want
of water in the boiler, and tho build
ing was destroyed before water was
thrown. The adjoining property was
not injured. The building was in
sured in the Peoples Insurance Com
pany of this city to the amount
Of $500. 1t belonged to Mrs.
NJ. A. Leonard. A man died of fever
in the house last summer and his
plumber was within it, no measures
ever having been taken to ventilate
the premises.
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Police News.

Thirty light offenders were before
Recorder Quigley this morning. OF
these q were for doing business with
out license. Seven being trivial cases
were discharged. Five hack and draw
drivers were arrested yesterday with
out licenses. Like other merchants,
they put up $40 as a forfeit, take out a
proper license, pay charges and are
released from further annoyance. The
best plan is to take out licenses in
time to save costs and trouble. Two
free dodgers only at the station house
last night. Their names were 10.
Martin and W. &. Bruce, both put
down as laborers.
Louis Williams and Hilliard Har-
ris, both colored aristocrats, were run
ming %riotously yesterday, and their
career was cut short by officer Ran
dolph. This morning, being in funds.
each paid s. for his fun.
Charles Blakemore, George Willis.
Thomas Miller and VIM. Caster Qess
aristocratic blacks) were fined s. each
for prowling. They had no money and
will work it out. John Chambers
(cOlored), for prowling and vagrancy,
was fined S25. This will be equal to
fifty days on the force, as he is out of
cash.
Manuel Boyd, a darby, was before
the recorder to-day for appropriating
a gold ring, the property of a girl he
had engaged to marry a year or two
since. Manuel has been out on bond
for the o%ffense.
Ben Nicely, a colored coat-stealer,
caught>in the act, was sent to jail in
default of bond.
James Sweeny, the tomahawk
slasher, was fined $40 for getting drunk
this morning by the recorder. His
assault on the officer yesterday was a
more serious affair, so he was sent to
jail to be tried before the Criminal
Court.
Samuel Law, a lawless rouster, had
a fine Of $40 charged up to him this
morning, on a charge of picking a
mans pocket on the river. Having
no money, he will do changing SER
vice.
Wash Goodman, on a charge of in
cest, was before Recorder Quigley to-
day. Wash is a darby laborer, whose
wife died some time since. Her TWEEN
~ty-year-old daughter, shortly after the
mothers death, gave birth to a child,
aud her step-father is the reputed
author of its being. Some time after
the villain turned both mother and
child into the street penniless, and APP
propriated all Of her mothers house
hold goods. The sister of the wretched
victim had Wash arrested.
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Chenn Frcirhfs 10 Enrnne-

Cotton is now shipped from this
port to Liverpool, England, by way of
the Mississippi river, Eads' %jetties, the
gulf and ocean route at AID, or 95c.,
per hundred pounds. Through bills
of lading are given here, and the
shipper has no concern or trouble after
it is placed on the vessel at our wharf.
Five lines of steamships ply regularly
between New Orleans and Europe.
Ere long arrangements will be per-
fected whereby a barge may be loaded
here by means Of a slide or shute on
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Captain EsIair,s Scotch Mate.

New York Telegram in Chicago Times.l
Captain Thomas Blair, of the Eff
teeRth United States infantry, is un-
dergOing solitary confinement at Gov
errors Island. Every morning the
wife of the imprisoned officer visits
her husband. She was formerly the
wife of General Gordon Granger, in
whose command Captain Blair served
at one time. She feels keenly the un-
Fortunate position of her present hus-
band, who was accused of bigamy and
forgery, Since his imprisonment Blair
has made a partial explanation to his
brother officers in reference to the
charge. He says Of bigamy that in
early life he assumed intimate relation
with a Scotch woman living in Eden
burg. Several children were born to
them. He supported these as well as
he could, for long time. Being de-
sirous ofpushing his fortunes, became
to America and enlisted in the army
as a private soldier. His income was
small and as the woman was not le-
gally his wife he ceased paying any at
tention to the family he had abandoned
in Scotland. This explanation has
lowered BlGr in the estimation of his
comrades, who had previously be-
lieved him innocent Of the charges.
1t is said that several prominent law
yers from Louisville are coming to
look after the interests of the widow
Of General Granger, the present Mrs.
Blair, who is a member Of a we'll
known Kentucky family.
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GROCERIES.
THE WHITE SWAN!
Loon Out for Bargains

Extra fine Oranges-fne for shipping.
Extra fine Apples-fne for shipping,
Extra layer Figs-in boxes.
Choice Malaga Grapes-in barrels
and kegs.
Larabee's Celebrated Crackers.
AtmOre's Plum Pudding.
AtmOre's Minee Meat-in barrels and
buckets.
Extra fine LeghOrn CitrOn.
Extra fine Deheisa Raisins.
Extra fine London Raisins.
Extr fine Seedless Raisins.
French Mixed and Stick Candy.
Extra fine French Prunes.
Choice Peach and Apple Butter.
Sweet Cider-barrels, halt-barrels, kegs.
Genuine Maple Syrup.
Genuine Maple Sugar.
Assorted Nuts, CurrantS, belly,
Preserves, COcOanuts, and the
WHITE SWAN FLOUR, which.
for making Cakes, Light Bread,
Light Rolls, etc, together with
the prices, has no equal i'm the
city.
nB-Having a large stock Of the above goods
on hand, and rather than risk carrying any of
them over, we are determined to meet the
hard times and sell at the lowest cash basis.
Close buyers and economists are invited to
call and see that we are prepared to make
good all we claim in our card. EEr Satisfac-
ton guaranteed in every instance or money
refunded. lBd
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just Received
A fresh lot of 1. q. Cigars
At HendersOn's,
3O3 Main, Under Peabody. rll9t

WHAT does it profit a man to have a
good business and to be making money if
he does not have health to enjoy it. Many
4 mans life is made a burden to him by
fever and ague when, if he would only
use Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic he would find
speedy relief. 1t restores the appetite.
stimulates the digestion and corrects and
gives tone to the stomach, and is awhole-
some, invigorating and unfailing remedy
in bilious and malarial fevers and fever
and ague.
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ALMOST LOOSE.
Efforts to Release Station House Pris-
Oners.

An effort was made to release the
prisoners, some forty in number, at
the station-house at a late hour last
night, William Thurston, the negro
cook, slipped quietly into the front
office, stole the keys of the inner cells
and proceeded to open them in detail.
He succeeded in opening cell No. 3, in
which were six white prisoners, in
Guiding Jim Sweeny, the man who as
saulted a police officer with a lathing
Ratchet, Turnkey Baker discovered
the r~ascals movements in time to
check further proceedings. Thurston
lodged behind a door of one of the
cells to hide, was pulled out by the
officer and locked up. This morning
he was fined $50 by Recorder Quigley.
He has no money and his chances are
good for a hundred days on the chain
gang. An impression prevails among
the officers that Thurston was put up
to the job by recently dismissed Of
ficers.
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Excellent shaving only
Toe
at IS Beal street.
ID. Jacob.

THE success which so frequently at
tends the investment of a couple of dol
lars in the Louisiana State Lottery is be-
coming the subject of general comment,
and everywhere the laudable ambition of
people to add to their wealth stimulates a
trial Of luck which can be accompanied
by no evil result, and oftentimes has a
very happy termination. Some one must
win, and the reader should see to it if he
is not the happy man. For information
address NJ. A. Dauphin, postotice box 692,
New Orleans, La.
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interesting Facts.

In looking over the statistics of cham
payne importations for the year just end
ed, we find the astonishing fact that, out
of an entire importation of l26,349 cases,
one brand, &. II. Mumm & Co, is repre-
sented by 1906 cases. exceeding its largest
competitor by over 10000 cases. This, in
a time when every one economies, is
astounding, and speaks volumes for the
quality of this fayorite brand.
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shore, the cargo to be transferred to
the ocean vessel at New Orleans by
placing the barge directly along side,
similar to the method adopted by bulk
grain loaded barges.
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Boots and Shoes.

Everybody can get bargains at the
c%losing-out sale Of the stock Of the late H.
Harder, 2l5 Main street, near the corner
of Jefferson. His manufacturing depart
ment, lasts, etc, is transferred to Voogeli
* Co.'S shop, No. 1886 Main street, corner
OF Union, where you can always get a
good fitting boot or shoe made to order.
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The Amer can neither read nor
write. What is the use Of reading
or writing ?" he asks, when one has
hundreds of people to do it for one ?0
He is, however, well up in history. the
result of conversations with learned
men, by whom he likes to be sur
rounded, as do most Of Indian princes.
In public he is frugal and sober. but
in private he is a drunkard.
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Fresh Spare-ribs and Tender
ioins at very low prices.
III. SEESSEL, SIR, a. SON,
1871 Cor. Second and Jefferson.

IN the LEDGER job office can be found
competent, skillhl and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display Of any job printing. 1887
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Mrs. Paran Ste IONS Nv H..
iStDao gL and q Mrs John Sherwood are are
among the ladies of social prominence
evening Inc fashion is a foreign
UgSI ana Its Introduction here has met
GiIh some opposition from those whose
clrc9mspect lives are understood to be
Graphic, lN' l.
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tew years ago the French govern.
memo bought seven small RAILWAYS
One management now takes the place
OF seven, the force is better organized
%sInecures have been abolished, and
the general expenses have been re-
duced by 100000 a year,
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Tyne for Sale.

A font of 500 pounds long primer, in
good condition, with all necessary " sorts /"
used about one year; suitable for a country
Office. For sale cheap by Immediate
application to this office. S9-t
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Extra select, 40c; select, 80c medium +,
De prime, Dc 25o extra on every dozen for
shipping at ]. A. Signaigo's, 278 Second. +
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STOVES TINwARE.
COTTON SEED.
THE MEMPHIS
Cotton Seed Assn

HAS decided 10 resume the furnishing If
Ill sacks to responsible cotton-seed SINNERS
10 a limited extent, for prime seed delivered
% Memphis, paying the old price, via: Seven
dollars per ton.
JOHN b. GALLAWAY, sec'y and IT..
January 20, 1879. l22-li7
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John Walsh, Undertaken,
Second street, next postofice. IA
Fire Lnsf Nighf.

RED and black cotton ink at G. w.
Jones q Co.'S, 27 Main, Memphis. l52
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A FRESH lot Of cheap gas fixtures at
Brownies, 258 Second street
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OdOrIess Excavating ComDany..

Vaults, cisterns and cellars emptied at
reduced rates. Offices 1872 Washington
and a Madison sts. Kit Williams Block.
1hl
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FOR SALE.

A 7 a reduced price. a lot in ElmWood Ce,-
n etery, l6xl6 feet, situated in South Grove
Apply 70 WIN. /. BERLIN Co,
1o-l5l 80 Madison street
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A FRIEND desires me to sell, at a bargain.
IL two hrst-class burial lots in Chanel Hill
section, ElmWood Cemetery.
EI-l2 E. H. WORD, q South Court ST.
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ONE GOOD HORSE, wagon and borne.s.
" price $50. The horse Is well worth ~
money asked for all, being a splendid rocka-
way or buggy horse. OF well adapted for heavy
work. Address JOHN BEHRING,
ID-I Care this office
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PERSONAL.

M l.. DUFF, attorney at law, % Poplar
w . street, near courthouse. I6f
NJ. COLEMAN, Justice of the Peaoe
e. Notary Public and CORNERSTONE nj
Deeds. Special attention given 10 coIlections
in the county. Office 29i Front NJ. ISL
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BOARDING.

EIRST- CLASS board, with furnished rooms.
u for families or single gentlemen AIso
day boarders, at l79 Second street. Refer.
enees exchanged. 195' isi