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by foreigners from windows in some of those buildings, which killed or wounded Americans in the streets; this fact, with the exaggerated report that arms and pow- der were concealed there, excited to phrenzy a mob of Americans ( Know Nothings) al- ready crazed with similar excitement, shooting and bloodshed on both sides, at other points ; several persons who were concealed in the buildings, or fied to them for refuge from the mob, were burned to death ; several were shot as they attempted to escape from the flames ; Ambruster's large brick brewery and his dwelling, at the head of Jefferson, were burned ; also, two Irish cooper-shops on Main above Woodland garden; frame grocery, corner Madison and Shelby ; many houses were riddled or gutted. The mob which ranged through the streets and set fire to the houses was composed of Americans, part of them with a cannon at their head ; the foreigners fought from their houses, and lost life and property together. About 22 were killed or died of wounds, about three- fourths of them foreigners, one-fourth Americans ; many more were wounded but recovered. Mayor Barbee, Marshal Kidd, and a portion of the police, and the per- sonal efforts of Hon. Wm. P. Thomasson, Capt. L. H. Rousseau, Geo. D. Prentice, Col. Wm. Preston ( the anti-Know-Nothing candidate for congress), Joseph Burton, and others, at different times and places, stopped the effusion of blood, and saved the new Shelby street Catholic church and other valuable property from the rapacity and violence of the mob. Bad blood on both sides, aggravated and intensified for several days previous by distorted repre- sentations of preparations for serious work, culminated in a most terrible and disgrace- ful riot. For several days after, fears of a renewal of the desperate conflict and work of destruction hung like a funeral pall over the city. A card from Rt. Rev. Bishop Martin J. Spalding, and the steady efforts of many good citizens, gradually restored a feeling of quiet and security.
Aug. 18-Death of ex-Gov. Thos. Met- calfe, in Nicholas co., by cholera. Several other prominent citizens in different parts of the state, have died recently, of cholera.
Sept .- R. A. Alexander, of Woodford co., inakes another importation of 48 fine English cattle-Durhams, Alderneys, and Ayrshires-and 22 sheep.
Sept .- During this and next month, agricultural fairs are held at Crab Orchard, Lexington, Danville, Louisville, Emi- nence, Paris, Russellville, Owensboro, Bowling Green, Glasgow, near German- town, Mason co., and near Florence, Boone county.
Sept. 1-Apples grown in Boone and Kenton counties : Mammoth pippins weigh- ing 19 and 22 ounces, queens weighing 134 pounds, 1614 inches in circumference, and 214 pounds, 18 inches around, and Holland pippins weighing 11/2 pounds and measuring 141/2 inches.
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Oct. 25-Geo. W. Wells, of Mason co., has 20 acres of corn which will average 180 bushels to the acre.
Dec. 9-Destruction by fire of the Ky. Military Institute buildings, 6 miles from Frankfort.
1856, Jan. 1-Northern Bank of Ky. semi-annual dividend 5 per cent, and an extra dividend of 3 per cent out of the sur- plus fund ; Bank of Louisville 412, and 212 extra ; Bank of Ky. 6 per cent.
Jan. 10-At 6 A. M., thermometer 21° below zero ; Jan. 11, 7 A. M., 15º below.
Feb. 6-Thermometer 15° below zero.
Feb. 15-People's Bank of Ky. at Bowl- ing Green chartered, with $250,000 capital. . Bank of Ashland, capital $400,000, with branch at Shelbyville, capital $200,- 000, chartered. .23-Pay of members of the legislature, after the termination of this session, raised to $4 per day, and 15 cents per mile in going to and from Frank- fort ......... 27-Remains of Gov. Jas. Clark directed to be removed from Clark co. to the state cemetery at Frankfort, and a monument erected.
Feb. 22-In the national convention of the American party at Philadelphia, Mil- lard Fillmore, of New York, is nominated for president, and Andrew Jackson Donel- son, of Tennessee, for vice president. For president the vote stood: Fillmore 179, Geo. Law 24, Kenneth Rayner 14, Judge John McLean 13, Garret Davis 10, Gen. Sam. Houston 3.
Feb. 25-Breaking up of the ice-bridge in the Ohio river, which has been closed for 53 days.
March 3-$20,000 appropriated to finish buildings for the Ky. Institution for the education of the blind .... .... $5,000 appro- priated, annually, to the Ky. state coloni- zation society, to be applied to removing to Liberia in Africa Ky. negroes now free, or who may be born of such and be free. .7-$20,000 appropriated to extend- ing and prosecuting geological survey of the state, during next two years ... 10- Remains of Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark to be removed and re-interred in the military mound in the state cemetery, and a marble monument erected .. . Cities made liable for damages for destruction of property by mobs ......... Commissioners of the sinking fund authorized to loan any surplus moneys on hand ......... Ky. state agricultural so- ciety incorporated, and $5,000, annually, appropriated towards holding state fair, in rotation, in each of the three districts into which the law divides the state. Transylvania university re-organized and established as a school for teachers ... Time of stated biennial meeting of the legislature changed so as to commence on Ist Monday of Dec. . Resolutions in relation to the alleged claim of the U. S. to Wolf island, in the Mississippi river, opposite to and a part of Hickman county ; Virginia owned and claimed the island, and treasury warrants were located on it, Feb. 25, 1782.
March 10-Gov. Morehead vetoes the act
incorporating the Savings Institution of Harrodsburg, and the senate by ycas 10, nays 18, refused to pass the bill over the veto. Other bank projects, incorporating the bank of Stanford, Eastern bank of Ky., Farmers' and Miners' bank of Ky., Milton bank of Ky., Planters' bank of Ky., and Savings bank of Ky., failed to become laws. [The governor, in his annual mes- sage, Jan. 1, and again in a special mes- sage, Feb. 15, had urgently protested against an increase of banking privileges and the consequent expansion of the cur- rency.]
March 10-Death at Louisville of " Old Ben Duke," a negro, 110 years 8 months and 3 days old ; he saw the first tree felled in Beargrass valley.
April 1-7-In 7 days, the Scott street ferry-boats crossed the Ohio river 1,480 times, carrying 29,311 passengers over 12 years, 369 horses, 382 cattle, 1,566 drays, 627 buggies and 450 other 1-horse vehicles, 74 2-horse carriages, 230 omnibuses, 341 other 2-horse vehicles, 32 3-horse and 178 4-horse vehicles. This information was obtained as data for the probable business of the proposed bridge from Covington to Cincinnati.
April 12-At Williamstown, Grant co., 17 frame buildings (1 tavern, 4 stores, 12 dwellings) burnt, with a large portion of their contents ; loss $70,000. On the same day, 20 dwellings and other buildings, school house, and Methodist church, burnt, at Bardstown.
April 20-Louisville Bridge Co. organ- ized ; Thos. W. Gibson president, L. A. Whiteley secretary.
April 23-Maysville and Lexington rail- road sold, at Lexington, under a decree of the Fayette circuit court : purchased by the first mortgage bondholders for $105,- 000 ; passenger cars $900 to $1,200 each, freight cars $40 to $60 cach, iron rails $26 per ton.
May-Large fire in Hopkinsville, in the central business portion ; loss $45,000.
The Ky. colonization society sends to Liberia in Africa 67 emigrants, most of them set free for the purpose.
June 3-James Buchanan, of Penn., and John C. Breekinridge, of Ky., nominated for president and vice president by the Democratic national convention, at Cin- cinnati. On the 1st ballot, the vote for president stood : Buchanan 135, Franklin Pierce 12216, Stephen A. Douglas 33, Lewis Cass 5; on the 16th ballot: Buch- anan 168, Douglas 122, Cass 6; the Ky. delegation gave from 31% to 5% votes for Buchanan, the balance nearly equally divided between Pierce and Douglas ; on the 16th ballot, the entire vote, 11, for Douglas.
Ang. 4-Election for judges and other court officers. Alvin Duvall elected judge of the court of appeals: Duvall 16,595, Thos. A. Marshall 15,130-maj. 1,465.
Sept. 7-State normal school at Lexing- ton opened.
Oct .- Falls pilots, at Louisville, at their
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own expense, during the low water, en- gaged in deepening and widening a chan- nel over the falls.
Oct. 12-Cornwall & Bro., Louisville, make beautiful candles, of high illuminat- ing quality, from paraffine extracted from Breckinridge cannel coal, near Clover- port.
Oct. 13-Rain falls; end of a severe drouth.
Nov. 4-Vote of Ky. for president and vice president : Jas. Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (democrat) 69,509, Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson ( Ameri- can) 63,391, John C. Fremont and Wm. L. Dayton (republican) 314. Buchanan over Fillmore 6,118.
Nov. 9-Earthquake at Hickman and neighboring towns, at night ; lasts between 10 seconds and a minute ; accompanied by a heavy wind, and aronses the inhabitants from their slumbers; the 4th shock within . six weeks.
Nov. 18-Rev. Lewis W. Green, D.D., inaugurated president of the state normal school and Transylvania university, at Lexington.
Nov. 22-Celebrated English stallion, Scythian, imported by R. A. Alexander, Woodford co .; price 1,500 guineas ; he had won in England 7 prizes, amounting to £7,134.
Dec. 24-Ohio river gorged with ice at Maysville, and also between Cincinnati and Louisville. Between Maysville and Cincinnati, steamboats continue running until Jan. 7, when the river freezes over and remains closed until Feb. 6.
Dec. 31-Snow falls, 4 inches deep ; sev- eral light falls of snow, up to Jan. 19.
Dec. 31-Medical department of the uni- versity of Louisville destroyed by fire ; loss $100,000.
1857, Jan. 1-Kentucky bank semi-an- nual dividends : Bank of Ky. 5 per cent and an extra dividend of 1 per cent ; North- ern Bank 5 and an extra dividend of 3; Farmers', Southern, and Bank of Louis- ville each 5; Franklin Savings Institution of Louisville 412; Deposit Bank of Paris 6; Louisville Gas Co. 5 per cent. The Southern Bank has a surplus fund of $371,- 109, and the Farmers' Bank of $366,465.
Jan. 19-Thermometer at Louisville 10° below zero, at Frankfort 27°, at Paris 25°, at Millersburg 24°, at Carlisle 18°, at Maysville 17º.
Jan. 23-Thermometer at Maysville 23º below zero, at Ripley, Ohio, 26º. Cum- berland river frozen over, the first time for 21 years ; people crossing on the ice. Ohio river frozen over at New Albany-first time in 40 years ; teams crossing on the ice at Louisville.
Feb. 9-Burning of the block of 4 ware- houses and two other buildings on Main street, near the Galt House, in Louisville ; loss $250,000.
larger houses moved a few feet, and much other damage done.
March 29-Complimentary public dinner, at the Galt House, by citizens of Louis- ville, without distinction of party, to ex- Secretary of the Treasury, James Guthrie.
April 4-Thos. W. Lewis sells to M. W. Mays, of Maury co., Tenn., the Spanish jack Moro Castle, 8 years old, 15 hands high, imported by the Mason County Im- porting Co., for the extraordinary price of $5,000; the jack took the premium at the state fair at Paris, last fall.
April 5-Snow, in northern Ky:, one inch deep. Thermometer, next night, 22º above zero.
May 12-Edward Everett, of Mass., de- livers his great oration on the life and character of Washington, at Louisville ; also, May 14, at Lexington, and, May 15, at Maysville.
May 14-Four slaves, charged with mur- dering the Joyce family, near the mouth of Salt river, some time since, tried at Louisville, and acquitted. A mob, headed by a son of the Joyce family, attempted to force an entrance into the jail, but was kept off by the police and a force of 12 armed men stationed inside by Mayor Pilcher. After tea, the mob again assaults the jail, but the force inside, by firing into the air to intimidate, holds the crowd back. a little while. They retire, and soon re- turn with a cannon loaded to the muzzle, and pointing it at the jail door, compel the jailors to capitulate. One negro cut his throat, but the other three were taken out and hung to trees. The mayor was struck in the face with a brick, and it was feared the mob would vent their violence on Messrs. Rousseau, Wolfe and Mix, the at- torneys who defended the negroes. May 27, 2 of the rioters indicted by the grand jury, arrested and committed to jail.
May 21-General Assembly of the Pres- byterian Church of the United States (old school) in session at Lexington, for ten days ; 225 commissioners or delegates pres- ent.
June 10-Duel on the tapis for several days between Col. Samuel I. M. Major, Jr., editor of the Frankfort Yeoman, and Thos. M. Green, editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth. By the mediation of friends, the duel is prevented, after the parties had reached Louisville on their way to the dueling ground in Indiana.
June 15-Zachariah Wheat elected judge of the court of appeals from the 3d appel- late district, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Ben. Mills Crenshaw : Wheat 9,477, Joshua F. Bullitt 9,440- maj. 37.
July 4-Laying of the corner-stone of the Henry Clay monument in the cemetery at Lexington, with Masonic ceremonies- Dr. Theodore N. Wise, grand master of Ky., officiating. In the procession were companies of citizen soldiery : Falls City Guards from Louisville, Madison Guards from Richmond, Danville Artillery from
Feb. 20-Tornado in Bracken co., pass- ing, from 5 miles southwest, through Augusta, where it crossed the Ohio river ; several buildings and barns blown down, I Danville, National Guards from St. Louis,
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Mo., Baltimore City Guards from Balti- more, Md., Cleveland Light Artillery from Cleveland, O., Columbus Fencibles from Columbus, O., Fulton Guards of Liberty (dressed in "Continental " uniform) and Guthrie Greys from Cincinnati, O., Indian- apolis Guards from Indianapolis, Indiana, and, more observed than any, the Amos- keag Veterans from New Hampshire; Masons, Odd Fellows, fire companies, and citizens on foot, in carriages and on horse- back. Among the distinguished guests were the Vice President of the U. S., Heads of Departments of the U. S. and of Ky., Governor and Lieut. Governor of Ky., members of Congress and of the Ky. Leg- islature, officers and soldiers of the War of 1812, and many invited strangers. Orator of the day, Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D.D., LL.D. 40,000 people present, and a sumptuous dinner served up on 600 yards of tables. Military review by Gov. More- head, after dinner.
July 20-Editorial street rencounter in Louisville between Geo. D. Prentice, of the Journal, and Reuben T. Durrett, of the Courier; the former fired four times and the latter three times, with pistols ; neither hurt, bnt one shot from Mr. Prentice wounded G. D. Hinkle; the difficulty grew out of an editorial in the Courier, of a very personal character ; sharp correspondence preceded and followed the shooting.
Aug. 3-James H. Garrard (democrat) elected state treavirer : Garrard 65,590, Thos. L. Jones (American) 53,476-maj. 12,114; 8 democrats and 2 Americans (or Know Nothings) elected to congress, 61 democrats and 39 Americans to the house of representatives, and 13 democrats and 7 Americans to the senate; the new senate will stand 20 Americans to 18 democrats.
Aug. 5-Married, in Lexington, by Rev. Samuel B. Cheek, vice principal of the deaf and dumb asylum at Danville, John Blount, of Ala., to Miss Lucretia Ann Hoagland, daughter of Wm. Hoagland. The bride and groom, their attendants, and the bride's parents all deaf mutes ; 15 other, all educated, mutes present ; wed- ding ceremony in the sign language; a remarkably happy occasion, but very quiet.
Aug. 15-Census of Paducah, just taken, 5,058.
Aug. 16-Judge Wm. F. Bullock, of the Shelby circuit court, decides unconstitu- tional the act of the last legislature repeal- ing lotteries, so far as the Shelby college lottery grant is concerned.
Aug. 24-Failure of the Ohio Life Insur- ance and Trust Co. bank at Cincinnati, and its branch office in New York ; begin- ning of a great financial crash, all over the world.
Aug. 31-Annual exhibition of the U. S. Agricultural Society begins at Louisville- the first ever held west of the mountains. Among the distinguished visitors is Lord Napier, the British minister at Washing- ton. Magnificent display of stock.
Hog cholera prevalent and fatal.
Oct. 1-Suspension of several banking
houses in Louisville. Extensive bank
failures in other states. Kentneky banks refuse to lend their notes to parties who pay them out in Cincinnati, because the brokers there assort and send them home immediately for redemption in specie.
Prioress, a Ky. mare, taken to England by R. Ten Broeck, wins the cup at the Ce-> sarewith races.
Oct. 1-Ky. banks feel entire confidence in going through the financial storm, and at the same time do more for their custom- ers than they could do with & suspension of specie payments.
Oct. 8-Three distinct shocks of earth- quake, about 4 o'clock, A. M., in western Ky .; heavy rumbling, making substantial buildings tremble, and overturning small articles in dwellings.
Oct. 9, 10, 12-Tremendous run on banks in New York and Brooklyn ; numerous sus- pensions of banks, private bankers, mer- chants, manufacturers, there, and several railroad companies, in Boston, and in other places. Harper & Brothers' great publish- ing house, although with $1,000,000 surplus in property value, forced to suspend. Panic increased by the " sorting " houses, in Cin- cinnati and elsewhere in the west, who ex- change the notes of different banks so as to concentrate all of a kind, and then run on the banks for specie. 15th-Bank sus- pensions of specie payments, in all parts of the country ; many banks refuse to sus- pend. 23d-Money market more strin- gent ; many mercantile failures; other railroad companies embarrassed ; 11% to 3 and 5 per cent., and occasionally 7 per cent. per month paid for temporary loans, to avoid suspension. The Ky. banks refuse to suspend specie payments.
Dec. 7-Legislature meets. Gov. More- head's message states the state debt at $3,592,412, exclusive of a $600,000 bond for stock in the Southern Bank of Ky. (which the bank is bound to pay), and of the school debt $1,381,832, which is a per- petual debt to herself, the interest only to be paid. The state owns stock as follows : Ky. banks, (worth above par) .... $2,020,500 Turnpike roads. 2,694,239
Locks and dams on Ky. river ... 901,932 Locks and dams on Green river. S59,126
Lexington and Frankfort R. R.
stock 181,500
Louisville and Frankfort R. R., annuity on 74,519
The receipts into the state treasury for fiscal year ending Oet. 10, 1856, were $822,510, and for 1857 $088,444-the in- crease due to the recent three-cent school tax. The receipts of the school fund for 1856 were $133,977, and for 1857 $296,760 -the latter from the increased taxation.
Dec. 12-New York, Albany and New Haven, and, Dec. 14, Boston banks resume specie payments.
Dec. 16-Editorial convention at Frank- fort drafts a bill in regard to legal adver- tising, and requests the legislature to pass it. [Feb. 6, 1858, the bill is laid on the table, in the house, by a large majority.]
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Dec. 21-At a sale, in settling the estate of & decedent in Nicholas county, 12 slaves sold for $3,300 more than their appraised value ; 10 of them were between 5 and 17 years old.
The corn crop of 1857 the largest ever grown in Ky. The corn was very wet and immature at the time of an unusually hard freeze in November, which was followed by warm wet weather, causing fermentation, and greatly injuring if not destroying the germinating principle of the corn. To save as much as possible, it was fed to stock, or distilled. Sound dry corn, for seeding, was imported from Tennessee, and from Henderson, Boone, and several other counties in Ky. which escaped the freezing.
1858, Jan. 5-Lazarus W. Powell elected U. S. senator for six years from March 4, 1859: Powell 80, Garret Davis 54, John B. Thompson 1.
Ky. banks each declare semi-annual div- idends of 5 per cent.
Jan. 26-Circulation of bank notes un- der $5, other than those issued by Ky. banks, prohibited by the legislature.
Jan. 28-Explosion and burning of the steamer Fanny Fern, 16 miles below Cov- ington ; 13 killed or drowned.
Feb. 4-Explosion and burning of the steamer Col. Crossman, opposite New Mad- rid, Mo .; over 25 lives lost ; a number badly frozen.
Feb. 1-Legislature fixes term of serv- ice of keeper of penitentiary at 4 years, and $12,000 as the sum he is to pay the state annually .. 9-George W. Kouns authorized to sue the state, to settle a question of damages-the first act ever passed under the constitutional provision directing "in what manner, and in what courts suits may be brought against the commonwealth." .. Tax assessors re- quired hereafter to report the pounds of tobacco and hemp, the bushels of corn, wheat and barley, the tons of hay and of pig metal, blooms and bar iron, raised or manufactured during each preceding year ... .$5,000 annually, for two years, ap- propriated to the Ky. state agricultural society .. ..... 13-Act establishing the Nor- mal school, or school for teachers, as part of Transylvania University at Lexington, repealed by a vote of 23 to 12 in the Sen- ate, and 68 to 23 in the house ..... .13- Capital stock of Commercial Bank in- creased $600,000, with authority to estab- lish two additional branches ......... 15- Charters of Bank of Louisville, Bank of Ky. and Northern Bank extended for 20 years, and each required to establish an additional branch, with $150,000 capital, at Burksville, Columbus, and Glasgow, re- spectively .. . The Western lunatic asy- lum to receive 325 patients, from the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5tb, and 6th congressional districts, and the Eastern to receive 225, from the remainder of the state; when either full, patients to be sent to the other .. 16-Stringent law to prevent the loss of the public books in each county. 17-$3,500 appropriated to construct a fire-
proof room for the land office records. $25,000 appropriated to continue the geo- logical survey, and to print the reports ... Capital stock of Southern Bank may be filled up to $2,000,000 more, and a branch established at Lebanon.
Feb. 15-Legislature empowers the gov- ernor to raise a regiment of volunteer troops, to be tendered to the U. S. govern- ment, to aid in suppressing the rebellion in Utah.
Feb. 21-At Washington City, James B. Clay, of Ky., challenges Gen. Wm. Cul- lom, of Tenn., (the former a member and the latter recently a member of congress) to fight a duel-because Cullom struck Clay with his open hand, for a playful remark of Clay which Cullom deemed insulting notwithstanding Clay's disavowal of such intention. Feb. 24, after the parties had gone to the duelling ground, Messrs. John J. Crittenden and John C. Mason, of Ky., and Robert Toombs, of Ga., succeeded in effecting a settlement of the difficulty, without bloodshed ; Gen. Cullom apologiz- ing.
March 6-Gov. Morehead issues a proc- lamation, under the resolution of the last legislature, inviting companies-of 100 privates, 1 captain, 3 lieutenants, and 8 non-commissioned officers-desiring to vol- unteer for the expedition to Utah, to or- ganize and report to him until April 1st.
March 14-Collision, opposite Raleigh, Ky., about 5 miles above Shawneetown, Ill., between steamboats Great Western and Princess ; latter sunk, and 6 lives lost.
March 17-Great speech of John J. Crittenden, in the U. S. Senate, in opposi- tion to the admission of Kansas as a State, under the Lecompton constitution.
April 7-Ex-Gov. Lazarus W. Powell, of Ky., and Maj. Ben McCulloch, of Texas, sent as peace commissioners to Utah.
April 9-From the following 21 com- panies, Gov. Morehead selects by lot 10 (the first 10 below ) to compose the regiment to be tendered to the U. S. war department for service in Utah :
1 . Capt. Wales Louisville.
2. Capt. Hauks Anderson county.
3. Capt. Beard Lexington.
4. Capt. Trapnall Mercer county.
5. C'apt. Pierce. Trimble county.
6. Capt. McHenry Daviesa county.
7. Capt. Rogers
Louisville -
8. Capt. Moore
Pendleton county.
9. Capt. Adair
Union county.
.Covington.
II. Capt. Donan
Hart county.
12. Capt. Bacon
Franklin county.
13. Capt. Dear
14. Capt. Landrum
Gallatin countyz
Christian county.
16. C'apt. George W Gist .... Montgomery county.
17. Capt. Cowan Boyle county.
18. Capt. Holeman .Owen county.
19. C'apt. W. M. Booker Washington county.
20. Capt. Daniel Owsley county.
21. Capt. Forsyth Louisville.
Two other companies were reported, but without a roll of officers and men-one by W. M. Fulkerson, of Breathitt county, and the other by A. L. Saunders, of Carroll county.
April 10-Death, at Washington city, of Col. Thos. H. Benton, formerly U. S. senator from Missouri for 30 years ; during
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10. Capt. Rees
Shelby county.
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