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the next day an Inspector Of police, Accom-
panied by two detectives, presented him.
self at the house of Mr.. BrowAlow with q
warrant of arrest. The prisoner made no
resistance and no observation. In conform
ity with the law he was taken within TWEEN
ty four fours to the Tombs and submitted
to first interrogatory.
Asked as to whether he wished to answer
thu complaint, the prisoner declared that
thu warrant of arrest had modified the stu
alton. So far he had been citizen acting
In she fullness of his liberty; he had de-
eImined not to be forced to answer ques-
tons which no one had right to ask HIM;
he had become ang ry at his visitors. Now,
as he was in the hands Of the law, he had
no reason for refusing to answer. He did
not consider himself when before the Judge
as man in the presence of an equal, but as
aprisoner standing before the representa-
tive OF the law, and he was disposed to
answer the questions that might be ad-
dressed to him in so far as they bore di-
rectly upon the accusation.
Consequently he told his name, first
name, age, profession, his address and
place of birth. He affirmed to the Judge
who questioned him that he could read and
write, and that he had never been arrested
before, and that he had satisfied his obliga-
tons as citizen. But when the magistrate
asked him if he had killed his wife he sim
ply answered.
"Non
"Where is shea"
81 do not know"
'When did she go awayg'
son Tuesday, the 14th, between seven
and half-past seven o'clock"
"What circumstances have caused her
departures"
GAS to that, I do not owe any account to
any one.''
The judge remarked to him that this sys.
tematic refusal to answer singularly aggra-
waited his case, and even constituted, to tell
the truth, the only serious charge against
him. He replied with an imperturbable
GOODNESS that he could not be prosecuted for
the simple fact that his wife had left his
house and that was the only fact he &C
knowledged.
"You accuse me of having killed nv
wife" said he ~ deny it. 1t is for you to
furnish the proof. Show me her body. l
can not prove that I.have not killed my
wife. Prove to me that have killed herr
"But what reasons have you to refuse the
explanations which would save you from
thing of delicate nature concerning the
honor of your name you must have con-
fidence enough in the justice OF your coun-
try to know that it will not be divulged. The
personal duty of the magistrate, as well as
his professional honor, is guarantee to you.
Il you o not answer it is because you have
something to hide. 1t is in your own inter-
est to speak, for whatever you have to hide
could never be as grave as that Of which
you are accused"
81 shall answer no question which has
not direct bearing ON the acto which am
accused. State your proofs; shall discuss
their value. My wife's disappearance Is not
proof that have killed herr
After this interrogatory the judge made
out warrant of arrest against Brownlow,
who was committed to prison.
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y tnelr return from
the theater the serv-
ants of Mr.. and Mrs.
Brownlow saw with
the greatest aston
ishment that neither
Of them was at home.
IL a bitu ally, when
their master and mis-
tress dined out, they
re turn ed towards
eleven o'clock. On
this particular even
ing the lady's maid
sat up waiting for
their return. At three
o,plock in tho yoorp
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ihe Ancient Superstition still Holds Good
Among Seamrn.

Among Seamrn.
If any one tells you that superstition
has died out among sailors and that
the cid prejudice against going to sea
Friday no longer exists, don't believe
him. The superstition, prejudice, call
it what you will, is as strong as ever
and lives in quarters where one would
least expect to find it. None of our
big ocean steamers leave the port of
New York Friday. 1t would be con-
sidered unlucky by every one of the
crew from the captain to the cabin
boy. The Cunard Line steamers sail
from here Saturdays and from Boston
Thursdays, the White Star Wednes-
days, the Anchor Line Wednesdays
and Saturdays, the French Line Satur-
days. the German Lloyd Saturdays and
Wednesdays, the Hamburg Line Thurs
days, the Pacific Mail Mondays and
Thursdays, and so on all down the list
of the big companies that ferry the
Atlantic Not vessel belonging to
any of them is allowed to commence a
voyage on a Friday.
Speaking of Friday being an unlucky
day, last evening asked Commander
Rockwell, who commands the United
States steamship Yantic, if it is con-
sidered unlucky in the navy to sail on
Friday. Certainty it is" was the
response. Every few officers want to
sail on a Friday if it can be avoided 1
am certain that / do not. Why, the
first time / ever put to sea on Friday
we were near having one of the great
est tragedies that the United States
navy has experienced in fifty years It
was while was serving on the Oneida
that we left Norfolk, Va, that day,
and we were hardly at sea when fire
broke out close to the magazine, and,
before it could be extinguished, the
powder bans were so hot that we ex-
pected the ship to blow up at almost
any moment. No, sir, if l can get
ready I will leave the navy yard April
l, but if / am ready Friday shall
certainly wait over until Saturday."
Captain Rockwell is a typical officer
of the school which is giving us our
new navy. When men of his stamp
think Friday unlucky, is it a wonder
that Poor Jack should fight shy of the
unlucky day?-N. Y. STAR
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The Mail Service in I775.

When Benjamin Franklin was APP
pointed Postmaster General of the Col
onies in 1875 he went down to the Office
in Philadelphia, hung his coat on d
peg behind the only door of the one
room which constituted the depart
ment, and went to work. He procured
a small book of fifty-three pages, in
which he opened an account with each
postmaster for the forty odd post
Offices in the thirteen colonies, and
kept it himself. Unlike the present
Postmaster-General, the old Pennsyl-
vapian was not bothered to appoint
assistants, and as for clerks, he did not
have any, AT odd times, and when he
was feeling lonesome because some
of the neighbors did not come in to
bore him to appoint John Smith post
master at Juniperville, Franklin would
go down to the city post-office and as
sists to make up the mail which LETT
by stage coach every week. In glass
case in the Post-office Department the
curiosity seeker can see the old leath-
ern bound book in which Franklin kept
the accounts of the Government. Inc
transactions for three years-from l|9o
to 1878, inclusive-are included IN us
fifty-three pages. and the mail trans
actions seem to have cut but an In
significant figure. You can also see
the record of the uncalled for or mis-
directed letters that were returned lor
the eleven years from 1777 to 100.
The book covers forty-fOur pages, anu
during that time 365 letters were re-
ceived. The number OF letters re-
turned to the Dead Letter Office daily
now averages $4,000 - washington
Vost-
The ..hireling ministry IS no
longer so obnoxious as in former days
to the Friends. 1t is said that there
are in New Yo k State at least teh
located pastors, who are wholly sup
ported by Friends churches.
The largest congregation IN the
world, numbering 4,5OO members -
on the island OF Hawaii. Over 9o,ooo
Feejians gather regularly for CHRISTIAN
worship. Madagascar, with its Queen
and zoe. 900 of her subjects, is rangea
On the side of the Cross. In the Frienu-
" Islands there are $4,000 Chrlstlaps'
who contribute $4,000 a year 70 re
ligious objects.
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agree that the house should be most thor.
oughly searched, it IS highly important that
we should look after all the hack-drivers in
the neighborhood, if not all in the city and
vicinity"
The next day the search was begun as
Ketcham had suggested. Almost all the
detectives were confident that in the
thorough search men of their calling know
how to make they should find some direct
clew to the crime in the house. For al
though a hackman might have been in COM
plicity with Mr.. Brownlow in the terrible
affair. every thing pointed to generalization,
inasmuch as he had arranged matters so
that he could be alone with his wife for
several hours.
The police searched not only every corner,
every armoire and cupboard, from cellar to
garnet, and all the barrels and boxes and
packages; they sounded the walls; they
dug up the stones of the cellar that seemed
to be loose; they ripped up the floors and
the steps of the stairs; for three days they
devoted themselves to systematic and
unremitting search, and literally left no
stone unturned that might by any possibili-
ty conceal cleW to the CRIME. They
found nothing.
They had to come back to the first hypothe-
sis that Mr.. Brownlow had induced his wife
to leave the house and had led her to some
out-of-th e-way spot and there murdered
her, where eventually they would find the
body in such a state of decomposition that
its identity could not be established. It
would only be one more body to add to
those which are found daily in the river and
by the docks and in out-of-the-way places.
Another consultation was held in the chiefs
Office, in fact, they were held every day,
but at this one new theory was suggested,
this time also by Ketcham.
sit seems probable now" he said, ''that
this deed could not have been committed
in New York at all. Brownlow must have
known how difficult it is to hide for any
length of time the traces of murder upon
ground which is traversed daily in all direc-
tons and watched over by police whose
effective force is the standing admiration
Of the entire country. He had plenty OF
time not only to get out of the city but to go
for long distance. There are great many
railroads running from New York with fire.
quent trains in the early evening. He could
have taken any one of those aud gone out as
far as from fifty to one hundred miles and
vet have had two hours or more in which to
carry out his purpose and return to the city
by the last train and reach his home, as the
servants will testify that he did, at three
o'clock in the morning. 1t will be necessary,
then, to have the search proceed until all
ground is covered within a radius Of one
ta.A,red miles from NeY.Xork."
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pare possibility, however, that ne may have
planned this thing deliberately, Tor you will
remember that he permitted his own coach
man to go to the theater of his own free
win, and it looks as If he had dismissed him
for the evening with special purpose. 1t
certainly follows that his coachman was
not the one who conspired with him to dis
pose OF the body. Therefore, although ]
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BY ROBERT HOTE.

CHAPTER 1.
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New YORK MINING stocks.

NEW YORK, Feb, IA, 1859.-The following are
to-day's closing quotat ons Of mining stocks:
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BOSTON, Feb.I4 1869.-The following are 10
DAYS ouorations Of PROVISIONS. &C.;
Perk- Long cuts 10 5O@17 90; backs at IL 90
S,17 EO lean ends II 6011S 90; pork tongues at
III 90; prime mess II OOal7 so: -.
Lard-Choice at 81 @shc Stb N YES and a tubs
1o-ib pals 10 cases ssl gee; e-ib pals sasAci
III Hams Al ii !: pressed hams 12c.
Hogs-Choice city dressed hogs at71ac v 10;
country do at 6tsc, eaooo. s~st.
BurJer. Western extra creamery Ssoy, ~ DC
az aot1S2c: do seconds at i7a19ej choice factory,
Ia02Ic = New York and Vermont extra GRIN g
2sc; do ext hrsts at 26@25c; rev rOIk 80 s1 ~
Vermont dairy, good TO choice az zugSoc ,.a ~ "
good lSa19c; Eastern orm gep ra ~ prices
for strictly wholesale lots. Jobbine prices iezc
cneese-Nortn choice 11s 91211 ;lower grades
as TO quality; Western at lin 9l2c; sage at i&o'
'G segs1R Easter extras at iea17c; fancy nearby
stock nlgher: Eastern frsts at l4dl DC: extrS
and N II 166l7c; fresh Western 1bglbLtci Ga ~
ada 14a15c; Michigan choice at 15gloc. Jop-
Pouitry~Turkeys, Northern choice at 1ea17c;
fair to good at 19Gl6c; chickens, choice Nortn,
ern 15Gl7c; fair 70 good I0Dl3; fowls, choice az
llgl2c; common to good 9GlQi ducks, Young
1904 Western turkeys, choice 1b9lb 1Sc JAN 70
g gSe s9htc; chickens choice at = siso' iow'S'
Beans-Cholce small hand picked pea az
o0g2 0b,P bush; choice New York large hand
picked do 8o@1 20; small Vermont hand pick
60 GS sSSs 4S choice yellow eyes S s ,s ~ 70
good at GIT o0aS18 90; Eastern fine sf4dsl7 ;
poor 70 ordinary s14asl7; East swale ioaSll
Rye straw; choice, at sls Boyle 90; Dat straw
Porstoes- Houlton Rose -.asoc y bush, Hebron
soc; Aroostook Hebrons SOC 10 ;Rarbanks : @
4Oc
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TIE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. Is.
the PRESS


May be obtained at the Periodical Depots OF OH
q. Fessenden, Horse Railroad Station MaIq m
76 Exchange ST.; Chisholm Bros, UNION s 1o
pot; Hodgs0n, 961a Portland Sti Jonn H 2 vvo
Congress ST.; Costello, EXCHANGE St PeteT,,
son,2 Exchange ST.. Goold, corner Congress any
Chestnut Sts Chisholm, lO9 CongrS55sS "a ropp
kins Commercial corner Park MOTH, 40
gress ST. Ross, 1913 SongI essnS o. 81 Barter. 190
PracEatt 81 Elliott. 243 York St.: and OF ems.
holm Bros agents on all trains runu'ns ous Vi
the city.
Auburn, Haskell & Reynolds.
Bath j. o. shaw.
Bddeford, II. M. Burnham.
A. L. Jefferson.
Boothbay, c. f. Kcnniston;
Boston, Mass, American House.
Brunswick b. l.. Dennison.
Cumberland Mills, X. s. Raymond.
DamaTfscotta, Z. w. Dunbar.
DeeriDg, @. M. Record.
FreepoTf, W. A. Mitchell.
FryeburR, ]. G. Gerry.
Fairfield, e. II. Evans.
Pennington, b. c, White & Co.
Gardiner Palmer g. Co.
Gorham, Jas. ii. Irish & Co.
Lewiston, Chandler Estes.
Long Island T. nj. Glendenning.
Mechanic Falls, Merrill & DennIng.
Norway, 8. L. Crockett, A. o. Noyes.
Old Orchard, Geo. K. Fogg.
Richmond, G. A. Beale.
Rockland, o.s. Andrews R. II. Burnnam A
j. Huston.
saccarappa, w. B. Boothby.
saco, H. b. Kendrick & Co., VIM. Stackpole.
So. Paris, A. NJ. Gerry.
skowhegan- 8 Buck, Geo. Gushing.
Thomaston, K. Walsh.
Vinalhaven, A. B. Vinal.
Waldoboro, G. Bliss.
Wateryille, @. H. Hayes.
Wo0dfords, H. A. Leighton.
Yarmouth. w. F. Bennett.
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MALE HELP.

WANTED A foreman for general wood
w working and moulding mill. Address,
stating age, Q experience, wages wanted, etc. K.
RUT0N, Deering, Me. 121
w wholesale department emf" Of large epf business is
in New England; will manage branch stores,
finances, correspondence, shipping, and have
goods must make $500; cash deposit (no bonds
accepted salary $1,000. Reference. Address
WEBSTER, Box ~, Station ID, New York.
"ANTED-Me TO collect small pictures TO
w copy and enlarge In crayon, india ink and
water color; salary paid and outfit free. Address
with references for particulars EASTERN COPY
ING CO., 81 Main St., Bangor. Me. 14-u
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Weary, worn and discouraged.
Heartsick and hopeless and sad /;
Longing for help and comfort


When none can be had
describes the condition of those persons who are
said to be "going down hill" or "going into de-
cline" There is an indescribable weakness Of
the system, general lack Of vitality. They can
not tell what is the matter with them. They only
know that they feel miserable In mind and body.
They are gloomy and respondent. They have
tried this and that remedy prescribed by their
friends or the doctors. They have failed to re-
ceiye any benefit from them. They reach the
conclusion that there is no help for them and that
they must die. Now the fact is that the trouble
originates, in nine cases out Of ten, in impure
blood. There is poisonous, effete matter in it
that ought to be got rid of. But how can this be
done7 Simply by taking DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, which acts on the blood and
various organs OF the body IN such way that the
man or woman using it seems to be made over,-
reconstructed. It is guaranteed to benefit or
cure all cases Of disease for which it is recon-
mended or money pal for 1t will be refunded.
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domestic Markets.
n Tolau-anhl


NEW YORK. Feb. ii. l8ss.-FIour market
receipts 9065 packages; exports $3.50 bbls ana nd
15,342 sacks; sales 1s,100 bbls; low extras 20
9S e5 :-city mills extra 06@5 20 city mills pa
tents 75ll7 10; winter wheat. low grades 29
IS fair to fancy at 1905 20 patents at b 10
MI ne osas se Y aHs So
lures at 4 355 25; superfne at 6od3 So; fine at
1908 90; Southern -four is dull and weak; COM
mon to fair extra at 20G3 60; good to,choice do
AZ 75G8 IS. Rye -four is dull. Buckwheat -four
is quiet: State 0O62 10. Wheat receipts :
push exports 81 600 bush sales SeHo bush dull
Ne No l Red 1t 81 I 10 white at $50 Rye quiet
ports 81. 500 hush. sales 2O4, 900 hush: weaker
and fairly active; No 2 at 431a@43s4c elev 44%
.sss Sa NJ M3e %afs 49, 70 s. aos
S SSsS ;anst and Weaker No at SOC White do at
ssss at sss 81 Mite sq a. w ass Ct
Mixed Western 2S1s@s3c; White do at 32a40c I;
White State a4@39c; No 2 Chicago 32c. Coffee
Cd si0 s aeisi i1I Eatra Waite
Extra 61sa6 3-16; Yellow at ga 95ssc; off A
at eager: i6c; Mould A Z; standard A at 6ssc I;
Cubes 1sc; cut loaf and crushed at ga. Petro-
Ieum stronger; united at 9lsse. Pork is more
extra eStis' BRINE At 70 6oSia rs. Beef dull Lard
is steady better export; Western steam z 00@
05; closed 90; city at 8 IS; refined qnieter;
moderate demand; crm at 16@291sc: Egins at
81 a SO; Penn crm at sic. Chcess dull.
Ereishts TO Liverpool easier.
CaIoAG0; Feb. 4, lsss B. s Flour market r
osS : NO , Red at / os1s 81 osit. Corn quiet
and steady; No at sac. Oats stronger; No at
quiet and lower IL 90. Lard steady and lower at
8 571sa6 so, Dry sailed shoulders 6o95 67as ;
ssss oU US
corn 139 600 bus oats lO6 ,o0Ibus. barley, 10000
bush. rye 1000 bush, 40 aoo -. .. 700 ooo
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Chicago Cattle Marker.
BY Telegraph.1

CHICAGO. Feb. a. 1889-Cattle marEet-re
eeipts $4,000; shipments 1000; slow ana weak
"a 10; stockers and feeders at 30@3 So; cows
bulls and mixed 45@3 10; Texas :.
Hogs-receipts 26,0 600; shipments 10000 bush
weak and lower; mixed 1904 so: heavy A 40g
ass; light at 5094 70; pigs oo95 co..
Sheep-reeeipts 1000 shipments 4OOO:slow and
lower; natives 50G5 10; Western corn fed al
1Oa4 65; Texans :; lambs 90@6 20.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

A celebrated criminal lawyer having Just de-
Tended noted assassin So brilliantly tnat the
wretch was acquitted in the face Of oyerwheim-
ing evidence, steps up to the judge. ,er Ft
"a word in your ear, your honor"
"What is TYP said the judge. e
al would ask that the prisoner be detained In
jail until tomorrow morning. have to cross a
lonely field op my way home, and the rascal knows
have money about me-"
"Oh, certainly" replied the judge.
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Spoken.

Jan 20. lat 1e Do N, Ion 121 40 w, an Am shir
with signal letters JTSJ probably the Geo stet
ton, from San Francisco for Queenstown.
San Francisco for Queenstown.
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WHITE MOUNTAINS LINE.
PORTLAND & WORCESTER LINE
Portland & Rochester IL. Re
STATION. FOOT OF pBEBLE STREET.


On and after Monday, Oct. ~, Gsss,
Passenger Trains win Leave Psrtiandi
Fer Worcester, Ciintsns AVER Junesisn,
Nashua, Windh@m and Epping AZ T.30
q. mn. and 1859 m.
fer Manchesisr, Csacsrd, and points ESrtA
at 1870 y. IN.
Ser Rschesler, spring vale, Alfred, Waters
bore, and SAGE River at $50 n. ma, 1880
and $50 y. mn.
Fer Gorham at s.30 a. M, 1850, 500,
$50, and $40 p.
Fer saeearappa, Dam berlnnd Mills Wee
brock junction and Weodferd's at Use
and 1890 a. ma, 1850, 500, $50 and
$40 y. mn.
Fer Forrest A venue Deerisg) Gao y. m.
The 1880 y. m. train from Portland connects
Aver Junet. with "Hessae Tunnel ksute"
for the West, and at Uaien STATEN, Werces-
ser, for Providence and New Rsrk via
providence Line for Norwich and New
York, via "Norwieh Line, with He.tsn a
Albany n. n. for the West and New Work,
all rail- via sspringneId', also with N. n. a
n. X. %. n. ("Steanner Maryland ROute') for
Philadelphia BaIfimore, Washinstsa,
AND the south.
Through Tickets TO all points West and South
may be had Of 8. Il. HELEN, 7 lcket Agent, Port.
land.
oct19dtf j. W. PETERS suDt.
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european MARKETS.

LONDON. Feb. IA 1sss.-U. s. Ans, 1l01x,
-ex-coup. y ~ t9si' sie
I LIVERPOOL. Feb. IA Quotations. Win
Ter at rs I'd; Spring wheat at rs Sd; Club Wheat
rs 101sd. Corn mixed American Is Id. Peas az
rs SID. Provisions, &,.,--p TX, prime East at
CTS cd Bacon 33s Sd for short clear and S0s Cd
Tor long clear. Cheese at 57s Cd. Lard at 34s Cd.
Tallow 30s e8r
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 14-The Cotton market is
quiet with fair inquiry: mddling at 81 Cd; sales
10000 bates; speculation and export 1000 bales;
receipts 90 400 bales g
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Foreign Exports.

LIVERPOOL, ENG. Steamship Oregon-S666
do beef do tongues /, LIE, 200 ms bacon 368. 4bo
do lard Sc, $40 do oatmeal rs, 120 do copper ore
107, 940 do cheese II 300 do butter 81 cs mat
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PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.

PORTLAND, Feb. IA 1888
The demand for Flour continues good and the
market is strong with actual sales here at from
Is to Soc advance. Corn steady and unchanged
Sugars are firm. Hog products are rather weak
at the recent decline. Eggs fduI with sales of
Fresh stock at about 14e
rhe following are to-day's closing quotations of
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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

ea FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
ROCKP0RT, Feb 12-Sld, sch William Mason,
Pierce. Baltimore.
Feb l3-Sld, sch Woodward Abrahams Snow
Baltimore.
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'1PlaY BALL."

The most enthusiastic patrons of base ball are
PROBABLY the men who sit on the sbieaching
boards But anyone who occupies a seat there
Is naDle 10 catch cold; aud managers should pre-
sent every patron thus exposed with bottle ~
Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam.
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Railroad Receipts.

| PORTLAND Feb. IA, 1859.
Receipts by Maine Central Railroad-For Port
| land "a observation-disclosures merchandise; for con-
| Meeting roads cars 112 miscellaneous merchaD-