DEVOTED TO THE HJTEEEST3 OF COUTXXPOXLT AUD BHUZ7DX7ICH COXJUTY.
VOL S. No. O.
SOLTHPOrTP, X. CV TIIUBSDAY. APltIL 2. 1811.
rittC'K FIVK CKXTS
THE CAPITAL CITY.
BALEIGIZ, ITS PUBLIC CUILDIKG3
AND FUTUHE PR0OTIISS3.
To the citizen of any State, his capi
tal city always appeals with a peculiar
fascinating charm, which no other
place has, however dear that place
tnav 1 Perchance, the awe which
usually jicrvades the corridors, and
fcccms to hauut the halls where the
State's law-makers have assembled has
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thinte to do with i:, whatever the I
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j, the visitor to his or her capital i
, r .
tome
reason
cttv cannot" bat tw a measure fed the
importance which attaches to the place.
The. North Carolinian who does not
take a pride in Raleigh, the capital
city of the great State of Xorth Caro
lina, cannot be true to the feelings
which a visit to that city inspires, or
le aladiever in the future importance
and rank, which must come to North
Carolina . if her citizens accept the!
advantage which are given them in
her great natural resource?. Raleigh
i a credit to North Carolina, both as
a Capital City, with so many State
Institutions, Capitol building, etc., and
in the lileral!ty and rrogrcssivetiess
of her citizens in all matters which
can advance the city's best interests
and welfare. In no better way is this
illustrated than the readiness with
i i . . : t t
wnicume rno.ev -""" !
the Southern Inter state Exposition, ;
cznl wf r-iihf ijiiiw lwinr in iin it I v forth '
coming as the object was known and
what U'liefits would come from having
Mich an exhibition.
Raleigh's fine water works system
tihows how seriously the question of
water, and in abundance, is regarded.
The record of losses from fires last
year, less than one thousand dollars,
indicates its effectiveness, a matter
most essential to every city.
The report of owe of the Savings
Ranks, with over 2,300 depositors, in
'two years, shows a 'thnftiness which
few cities of the same size can equal,
let alone excel.
The vearlv sales of some of tho
large retail houses run into the
hundreds of thousands, with constant
additions to stcn-k, both in juaiitity
and quality, the demand calling for an
ever-increasing line of "sjiecials." but
which soon become regular 'stock
articles.
Raleigh's publications, religious and
secular, outnumber those of all other
cities in the State and form an impor
tant factor in the city's growth and
advancement.
Among the many fine buildings, the
State Capitol building will be of great
est interest to the visitor. The erection
of this most imposing, structure was
commenced in 183.1, taking several
years to complete, yet to day, after so
many years of exposure, with the
architectural changes of over fifty
years, it loses ''none of its beauty, its
grandeur, when compared to other
State Capitols.
It is a structure which all must ad
mire, and can easily support the boasts
of its admirers, by its impressive gran
deur and size. The finely arranged
grounds which surround the building,
add o the, effectiveness of the massive
granite structure. The quarries, from
which the granite used in the construe
tjon of the building was dug, are near
the citv. At the Favetteville street
entrance to the grounds arc two im
mense shells, one on each side, which
were brought from Fort . Fisher, after
the first attack, and presented to Gov.
Vance. Above them, looking down
the street is a statue of tho Father of
his Country." The new Governor's
Mansion, on Rlount street, will claim
the at ton tion of every one. Tho Man
tion is iii tho center of a square, -
One very attractive feature of Raleigh
is its immense oak trees, which are
proudly si own to all visitors, the
?:Budiopa Oaks" being historical, and
the reader will probably recall them to
mind. 1 1
Standiugal tho Capitol, nd Jookiug
down Fayettevillo "street, the 'XviewTs
one which wijl attract the attention of
every person. The broad street m the
center, on each . side fine wide pave'
me 1 its, and the ?tore, office and other
buildings' rising above all, make the
view most attractive one. The many
fine residences, surrounded by large
gardens, is another charming feature
in Raleigh. Street improvements are
going on constantly, and the time -is
not distant when Raleigh will be
one of the best pared cities in
the South. As the Capital City of
Xorth Carolina, Raleigh is naturally
the center of all State politics, and in
a .sense 'sets the iace' for the balance
of the State. Raleigh's growth and
future importance are too well assured
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to be problematical, and its progress
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will be watched with interest by every
citizen'of 'North Carolina.
. Tli Income Tax.
An opinion on the same by State
Treasurer Rain as published in the
State Chronicle.
The provisions in the former Revenue
acts taxing incomes derived from sala
ries and fees, and allowing the tax
payer to deduct one thousand dollars
as necessary expenses for conducting
his business or for supporting his
family, have been amended by striking
out tho clause allowing the deduction
of one thousand dollars.
The .'"Machinery Act," section 17,
sub-division 8, requires the tax payer
to list "net income." It is necessary
therefore, to define the language "net
income.
The Treasurer has given
the suhjt-ct careful cosideration and
conferred Wlth officer!i
of the State Government. Without
rcjieating here the reasoning of the
opinion he states as follows: "The
word 'net' is allowed its ordinary
meaning of "Free from expenses" or
"To produce a clear profit," viz: "That
which remains af'cr the deduction of
all charges or outlay," especially fol
lowing the general course of legislation
and legislative definition, acted upon
for more than twenty years in previous
revenue statutes. The true interpre-j
tation of the act is to allow tho tax
payer to deduct from his gross income
the actual necessary e.xitises of his
business, or of supjiortiiig his family.
This construction, which has not leen
reached without some difficulty, call.,
for the utmost care on tho part of the
tux-payer in listing the true amount of
his net income. Me can deduct only
die actual expenses of his business or
ot supiorling his family, and such ex
penses should be allowed him by the
list taker.
XORTH CAROLINA.
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Nruii f'llppl From Valuable Kirhsncm
From the Old North Mtr.
The Richmond & Danville railroad
company pays out $10,00U monthly to
employees at Salisbury.
Maj. Wiley D. Jones, died 011 last
Friday morning at his. residence 111
Forest vilie, X. C, in his seventy-sec
oud vear.
Two disastr us landslides cause 1 a
discontinuance of all through traffic
on the Spartanburg branch of the
Richmond & Danville Kailroad on
Saturday last.
Farmers are cautioned by the agri
cultural d ej wirt men t against buying
any commercial fertilizer not bearing
the guaranteed claim and the tag as
required by law.
Mr. S, Barnes, of Wilson county
has been elected to succeed Mr. E. C.
IlcddingOeld as Secretary of the State
Alliance, Mr. Barnes is an editor and
has been supenntendent of public in
struction in Wilson county.
The Winston chamber of commerce
has decided to enter into a $10,000
contract with the Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore, for the purpose
of thoroughly advertising and writing
up the resources of Winston.
Tht largest mortgage ever iccorded
in Forsyth county, was made in Win
ston last Saturday. ' It was a transfer
of the Winston & Wilkesboro railroad
to the Richmond & Danville railroad
compauy for one mil Hon ami a half
The directors of the new Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, rhich the Legislature
estoblishod and located At Morgan ton,
held a meetuii-atiiat pUco on Monday
lat and organized, and are now ready
for bukineis. The . baiUuiirs it u ex-
mJ
pect?d will .be put np this summer.
WAsmnGToiT hews.
GATTJQED BY THE " LEADER'S "
AL COHHESPOXTDEZXT.
Wasbixgtox. D. C. March 30-
Somebody is going to lie disap
pointed about this reciprocity busi
ness between Canada and the United
States, and it will not be Mr.
Rlaiue. The Canadian officials have not ! total loss is estimated at $50,000.
helped their cause any by getting the j The funeral of Gen. Joseph K
Bntiah goverumeut to bring the reel- Johnston took place at Washington,
procity negotutions between thisjj). C. yesterday. At the request of
country and Newfoundland to an j tho deceased so'ldier thcio was no dis
abrupt clojie,.by declining to allow that j j,Uyf uniforms or Ijattle flags, flic
colony to negotiate a separate treaty. j wrvices being plain and simmV. :'
Mr. HUine knows that he has the j Merrimac river at
whip hand of Canada, and he has mti-, M M fc
mated verv plainlv, 1 understand, to ' ; . . .. -
- 1 . toint in vears, and is still rising.
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trving to pave the way for the Cana- f . 1 i 1 '
J . nmg ami over a thousand operators)
dian Commissioners to negotiate aarejtijc J
reciprocity treaty, that unless they can I t . ..... !
reciprocity treaty, that unless they can
come here prepared to negotiate from j
an American standpoint, they might
as well not come. "That is' just tho
point exactly," said a Western Senator,
Canada wants our market a good deal
worse than we do hers, and she must
calculate to take that fact into consid
eration, or there can be no dickering.
If Mr. Blaine doesn't get tho best of
the bargain he will simply decline to
make it at all, and then what will Miss
Canada do. Commercially speaking
Canada is in our power, and she must
accept such terms as we may be dis
posed to offer.
It is a tnistakeu idea, that many
teople have been led into from a lack
of trustworthy information, to suppose
that all the men elected to the Fifty
second Congress, by the Fanner's
Alliance, are uneducated. Just the
reverse is . true. Senator l'effer, of
Kansas, while not well up in the dead
languages and classical lore, is never
theless an educated man and as an
authority upom matters relating to the
United States Government, and its
domestic affairs, he has few superiors.
Representative John Davis from the
same State, will be one of the best
educated men that will sit in either
house of the Fifty second Congress.
Indeed lie is so close a student that he
hastarncd the title of ."crank." But
he is the kind of "crank" that the
country can always hud room for. He
is the originator of the idea of State
agricultural colleges, and the author
of the bill passed by the Illinois legis
lature establishing the first one of
those colleges in that State. He will
be heard from in the House, and any
member that tackles him unucr the
impression that he doesn't know beans
will 1mi get liadly left. .
Nearly all tho States entitled to pay
ments under the Direct tax act have
applied for and received their checks
from the Treasury dejwirtment.
Hayti, the black republic, accord
ing to private advices received here,
wants to get under Uncle Sam's pro
tective Wings, if tlte old geutlemau has
any such appurtenances. In return for
a coaling station upon the island, which
the United State has long been desi
rous of rMssossing, the naytians want
tho United States toassumo a protecto
rate over the Island. The impresRion
here is that the price is too high. "We
have quite enough trouble with the
blacks we al read have without at
tending to care for any molr, is tho
way a gentleman from tho South puts
it.
No more silver dollars will be coined
after July 1, owing to the fact that
the silver law enacted by the last
Congress authorized the Secretary of
the Treasury to discontinue the coin
age at that time, with discretionary
power to resume whenever it becomes
necessary to redeem the silver certifi-
cates. tlie 4,500,000 ounces ol silver
Knllinn niirrhajuwi earh month thpm-
terwmbepaidforiaTreaaixryiwte
Tho mint will put in a big part of its
time for quite while after the first of
July in recoining theutilated and
Aiti-ftjial fritmfial imner nor in
tho Treasury, which amounts to several j
millions of dollars. The total number j
of silver dollars now in exigence is
397,000,000, of which 67,000,000 are!
j in actual circulation, 300,000,000 are
represent by silver certificate in
j circulation, and 24,000.000 arc held by
the Treasunr for which no certificates
1
I have ever been issued.
WEEKLY HEWS 8UIIIlARY.finSIy- Theotrtlook for tbf coming
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HAPPS2IIZIG3 m THE COUHTET 1
FOB THE PAST T7EEJL.
Wednesday. Karen SS.
The main next of the business nor-
tion of Rnsaellville. AU was d I
stroyed by fire yesterday, including a
new hotel valued at $15,000. The
li;ilf Imm.1i nlihiTuil (n tuti ril ti- I
The business managers of Alliance'
: -l . t. c .1 . . t
were in session at Birmtn
ingham, Ala., !
Uters of inter
t
Vesterdav cohsiderins:"matters
est to the Alliance.
Anderson, (Jreen k. (., wholesale
fl..nl..j ftt ll. iri uut j ,..4Kife iitrt at .
v- 1 . mi rr". 1 , -i 1 -.1 !
X UWlll'l I lit I Oil II llfflfll iTllliwl
liabilities stated at $175,000. Asset:
thought to be sufficient to c ver that
amount.
A petition, t-igned by Rev. Joseph
Cook aud many other representatives
of the. Massachusetts Sabbath Union.
UdC SVllb IO IUU ljl-glMUlUIV".
Ii il j t . a . . ... . I . . . 1 ..... .1..... . I
against the preparation, printing, pub
lishin", sale and deliverv of news
papers on Sunday.
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Thursday. IlarchifS.
The British steamship St rait hairly, )
went ashore Tuesday morning on the
North Carolina coast, one mile siuth I
01 v mcamiconiico i.ue saving .-lauon.
Nineteen out of a crew oftwentv-six i
were iosi: luciuuui'r ail ino omcers
except the second mate. The rteam-
snip, uic as oounu irom .-amiago
ae 1 uoa to ikiitimore witn iron on,
will lie a total loss.
A collision occurred vt sterdav on i .
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
between a coal train and a traiiiofi
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empty cars, resulting 111 tlie Ueatn ol
two firemen. Cpnductjr Mosby had
an arm broken.
The Manpiis of Salisbury has for
mally notified Secretary Blaine that
(Ireat Britain accepts President Harri
son's invitation to take part in the
World's Fair in 1893.
Two thousand coal miners, it is said,
employed in the Iiurcl-Jellico district
Kentucky, will go out on a strike.
May 1st. They ask pay on coal before
it is screened and an eight hour day.
Friday, March 27.
A bill to pension ilisableil Conk-derate
sohliers and their indigent
widows ami to appropriate $1 0,000 for
a Soldiers Home at Little Rk, has
passed 'both houses of the Arkansas
legislature,
. A meeting of the Yellow Pine
loimber Association of Alabama, Geor
gia, Florida and Mississippi was held
in Montgomery, Alabama yesterday.
About fifty saw mills, with over ,0tHif
OUO feet per day were represented.
Theo. E. Allen lias brought suit in
tlie New York Supreme Court against
tlie Kinney Tobacco Company for A."0
000 which he alleges is due him for
service rendered the American T
baeou Comianyr or Cigarette Trust, in
1890.
The most severe snow storm ever
experienced in Kansas raged over the
entire State all day Wednesday . Rail-
roaa iramc is at a stana sun. 1,1 ve
ftock is suffenns severelv for want of
j foyj shelter.
A bill in the Arkansas S-nate aj.
prpriatiig r!5,000 for World's Fair
1 putposes has been defeated. '
j deaths in Chug.
'
Ut lo t pn vaU -no- vt
tlie grip. '
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S&tarday, XXarefc S3.
. rjun Co's wtrekl v review
th'LtnAt, . t ; 'u,,:.,,,,
j .
mi besiUUng,
as is natni al at this
; on. Money i fair and in iucr
crfps continues exceptionally good.
ttusines failures for th , week in the
tTnitd State and Canada, ":t a
; against 213 lor tlie rorrrjwitdiiig
) week last vear.
A hwavv snow stonn Mr ick Wash-
,l,Um- D "rlX vlerdar morning
jPl hJ "rth
wmu. iaier in iim uay 11 rainii 10
rain and the &trvets arc imw filial
with slush.
The Maine Uoueof lirrvientativji
yesterday paed the bill providing
for educational qualification for voters
it tftjuirvs that the voter, si tall U able
to read and write his name.
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i-n-.nle.liw tl,o Krr.lol .npn.rr
burjr and WiuclM-stiM-. Va., aud vwin jnj? of rt.nlwrVf )M wn in
ity for the past two days and is now jHnly for lark of funds, larlia-
fnim sixteen t -ighteeii inches dwp. j
This has-been tho
4"isoii.
KWhtcvn lni"i!
worst storm of tlie
Kightcen druggists 111 Iyun. Mas..
nave
been arrested, chatl'i'd with
vio,atln t,MMr ' ,i1,,ur ,kvn a'
i IWid.-mv. R.
ll.lt.. 1mh.I1 llll'1i.tiul a.f llliHnl w.llr
and !
1..
) have la-en convicted of illjral celling
of liquor.
Three, lives wen lost vesterdav
moriiiug at Austin, Pa., bv the Kuril-
j iiig of the Commercial hotel and the
loarlin house of R Hetitv. '
Sondaj. llaxch 23.
DisjtiitclK-s from different jioints ill
Viririnia sav that the late snow storm
was t,? wt ihn . m Ut.
places the snow fell until it reached a
depth of over two feet.
Within the last month the price of
beef on the hoof has advanced one
and a half cents at Cheyenne, Wyo-
iin jr. lVlces at Kansas City nmcheil
highest since, H$:i.
The Treasurv TViwrtiiu-nt is greatlv
exl.rcjH.d over the a.iNaranco of a ! ,
, cpuiuerieii iwo-uoiiar suver mrimcaie
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nun ii is auuiu in iiitaiii iiivu mc jw '
J i rnnM.ut Ilotes it b jjT.le to mak
lh eVefi u. tjItrsilk thrwi( ninning
through it.
New Vork ltanks now hold $M(S,
! lUl't in xcess of the nHiuireiuents of
the C.nt ruU.
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1 he socretarv of the Minnesota
Farmers' Alliance rej.orts that more
Uhau.J 1,000 memlicrs have lieeii en-
rolled sinco the election jn November
The pnsent nunilierof lolges is 1,3 1.
with a total memUrship of ."i,G0O.
Monday. MarchSO.
llie Joliet, 111., rolling ''mills. -have
closeil ilown. throwing J,.ino men out
of employment.
The din-ctors of the Mthaiiics and
Trailers' Bank of New York, offer a
reward of 5t00(l for evidence to con
vict jiersons who have la-en circulating j
groiindhiss rumois affi-cting the lank.
A jnic ensued on the steamer
Farmer, Saturdav night, while oil her!
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Wall H .NI illl !., I I ' Mil III IIIIKH It
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A hole was blown 111 her lairt boiler,
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several of them jutnjied overUianl.
Four of them were drowned.
Dr. Howard Crosby, whose N'riMis
illness has lieeii meiitioneil weml
times, died at his home in New York
last night.
Hie British steamship Bariqueti went
ashore Friday night, three mile outh
of Ocracoke Life-saving Station. She
was loaileil witht'o thousand bales of
cotton and two hundred tons of cotton
eed oil cake., from (lalveslon. Texax,
Tlte crew wero all saved ami cargo
and vessel will U; saved if the weather
continues favorable.
Tuesday , Uarch 31.
An attachment in favor of the Wet-
l ni National Bank of Key West, FTa.,
tiMji oet-n issued agaiui iaa. .a. au
dell, doing buinc4i a Jolin W bite
Bank, for $14i,599.
VAk Bra, k liu," tlie New Vork
houje of Folk 4 Som. whaWah-ileaUr9
in tucu's ,furnihing at Savannah,
fia., have failed. It is fa-lieVeil tliat
tlwir ajw-t are uffIi-M-nt U y alt
liabilities; tvi
Father Frauri M J.raft, tl
Indian missionarT-prrdkts a renewal
of Indian troubles, unless liU Indians
are placed onoVr the evntroi of the
FOREIGN NEWS BUDGET.
THE OLD CTOELirS HCV3 H7 A
O02TDE27SED rOTtttr
A lnd of aUmt lm crofters on
Iu'wis lUnd, off ibr w o,it uf
Scotland, who hd Iwu evictiij ftMii
tlteir houw-a by lh landlo.O that In
might omvtrrt Im f.n-t into a iinr
prrM-rve; hare taken eveKMrn of the
1 forot which they fortuerlv tYHliid
hv intrtMtctied i!k in vi-s tl Mv
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all comers. A Urgr fikrrof ikv i
now en route to tlw ol 0m
trtMibU. .
Till' MllHLljM fehili f 11 m 1 vl.L.K
mt.ut ke.l to irrant Uiwr
to the city of Manchester to raise suffi
cient itiotM-y u prtKnite tlim work In.
the finish.
Diamond in irg qiintitiNt hare
1 t.. 1 v 1 . 1
j k'iuki in .Mtnn 1 piano niMir
It he.-Norwegian ami Russian frimtiem.
and it is thought Tti)lai4e'' tluit g4d
will also U? dicovenl in the same
nyitn.
A cable from hiveqiool tuiys that
fire was disrovei v Friday night in
the hold of I In- luiiiaii IJne timhip
City of New York. The fin wi mn
extingitishml but not U;lon the Vmrpi
was great ly damaged by water. Th
st4tttner was only slightly damaged.
A Berlin disjiatch says that the
jioliiv i-urpriMil and ca4ured twcJre
outot ag.iugof couitterfeitemat Dobra
Fositii. yisunlayt and seizil "5,0110
roiiblex. One detect tve w killed
du ring the struggle.
Kuglaurs rotmastiT tieiieral has
forbidden the establishment of a cri
of messcnirer bovs in the citv of
Midori for tin reason h savs, that
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inoiiopJily of the postal aer'ici as they
would steal the nuaO. profitabh) rt of
the postal business, namely: the deliv
ery of short distance letters.
A meeting of Italian living in Ioti.
don, was held last Thursday evening,
pnitestingagaiiiol the lynching of their
com (ut riots in New Orleans.
, Portugal has dcclaied a state of
siege in Mauicalaud, SmiiIi Africa,
part of which territory is the Nat of
oerationsof the British South African
CotuHiiy, U-twe'n which com amy and
tho Portuguese atilhoriiivs thero is
much hostility. ..'
A mill capable if turning out I mi,.
000 ft-t of lumber every day, is to U
established ill Honduras by Chicago
rapiiali-its.. Thecomjiany pnwr-n J,0o
miles of water frontage, 10'J mili-s
being 011 thiv Atlantic coast. Tliey
have a capital, all ' jaid in, I of
i..iiKI,mMi.
A well-known merchant of Kitfftein.
a fortifnl town of the Tvrol on the
I . .11 r
I Inn ami near tint Bavarian f nuttier,
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while on tin-j-. int of entering a rail-
road carat that pLuij. maa tidietily
coiifrontctl bv an Italian, m ho plunged
a stilletto into the iin'n-hatii4 brint,
killing liim almort iuntautly. 'Tlie
Italian m as arntMd and it ni-iiu kil(el
thetneicliant in mistake for another
who hal in some way wrtmged tlw
Mafia tvjeiety.
Advices from Rusia miv that tho
winter wtM-al cnj in tlie ?Mmii 01
Ruia U very uupromUing. Small
farmeis art in a lielph.- condition in
cons4uetcll. "
Tlie lxmdon Standard Berlin cor
rviudetJt says that Minister Yon
Boetticlier has b-n granted a long
furlough, tenibly . for tlie benefit of
hi health, but that Im will eventually
f resign on account of th Ooelph fund
i irunui, wujvi 'im w
icept the MinUtcrV nml offer to n-tiro
I berau.!; be deirel to show hit fteiu
for the Minktrc
Whik the Jin Jm aJ samminf? no
the rvilenci in ' the Court IIooj at
Cork w Monday last, in the can of
M icfca-! rBri-n, lUltofi and i4-ry,
cliargd with nting, tliM 'otirt Hott)
was tH on fine and entirely destroy d.
Only cooloorf 00 th pert of the Judge
and police prevented a disastrous panic
as the bone was htmdly packed witk
petstcrf . " "