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March 5-The seat of Joshua B. Fitch in the house was declared vacant (yeas 67, nays 0) because of a constitutional disa- bility-which requires all collectors of pub- lic moneys to obtain a quietus at least 6 months before his election to the legisla- ture. [He had recently been sheriff.]
March 6-Gov. Stevenson concludes not to call a new election in John Young Brown's district, but to regard the action of the house of representatives of congress, in refusing to permit Mr. Brown to take his seat, as unconstitutional and illegal, and therefore creating no vacancy.
Mckenzie, Sam. I. M. Major, and Richard M. Spalding), appointed to prepare bio- graphical sketches of ex-Governors Laz- arus W. Powell and John L. Helin ; and the public printer ordered to print 3,800 copies of each, together with the speeches delivered on the passage of the resolutions in the senate and the house, in pamphlet form, accompanied with lithographie por- traits of the deceased, and mail the same (postage paid) to the members of the two houses.
March 6-Legislature directs $1,200 to be refunded to C. A. Duncan, late sheriff of Calloway co., being taxes collected by him in 1861, which he was forced, Jan. 12, 1862, by Confederate soldiers, to pay over to a commissioner of the Provisional Government of Ky., but which he after- wards also paid into the state treasury. The bill passed the house by 67 to 1, and the senate by 25 to 4. By a similar vote, $500 was refunded to the administator of J. T. Young, late sheriff of Lyon co., for taxes Young had collected, and although forced to pay to a collector for the Con- fedcrate States, had also paid into the state treasury.
March 7-Legislature passed an act re- funding to T. W. Pickering, of Caldwell co., $350, or whatever sum was paid into the treasury by him-because of an indict- ment for usurpation of office in accepting the office of sheriff of said county, in Jan., 1862, under the Provisional Government of Kentucky, and judgment for $500 fine. The house passed the bill, 73 to 7, and the senate 27 to 0.
March 9-Legislature orders an earnest "protest against the great constitutional wrong and manifest injustice done to the people of Ky. in refusing to admit their just representation on the floor of the U. S. house of representatives."
March - Death, at Toronto, Canada, of Maj. Chas. J. Helin, of Newport, Camp- bell co. - formerly U. S. consul to St. Thomas, and afterwards to Havana, under President Buchanan, and subsequently Confederate States' agent at Havana. Since the war, he has remained in exile from his home.
March 10-Lead mines discovered in Bath co., near Sharpsburg.
March 11-Death, in Clay co., aged 110, of Elder John Gilbert, a scout and soldier during the closing years of the Revolu- tionary war, and a Baptist minister for over 60 years.
March 11 -Immense droves of Texas cattle shipped from the South to Ky., by steamboat to Louisville, and thence to the interior. After brief feeding and pastur- age, they sell at a handsome advance.
March 12-Population of Lexington, by a census just taken, 20,941 : whites 10,196, blacks 10,745. In 1860, there were 6,241 whites and 3.280 blacks. There are 440 more white females than white males, and 247 black females than black males.
March 6-A committee of two in the senate ( Benj. J. Webb and Jos. M. Alex- March 18- Explosion, 9 miles above ander) and three in the house (Jas. A. | Cincinnati, of the Cincinnati and Mays-
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ville packet-steamer Magnolia; about 35 persons killed by the explosion, drowned in the river, or burned to death on the wreck, which ought fire, was blown up again by powder, and sunk two miles be- low ; a number of passengers crippled for life; among the lost were Capt. James Prather, Rev. F. W. Stone, Thos. K. Mc- Ilvain, Miss Retta French, and many other valuable citizens ; boat valued at $30,000, besides freight.
March 20-Banking house of N. Long & Co., at Russellville, Logan co., robbed in daylight of $12,000 ; four robbers keep- ing the citizens at bay, while the fifth se- cured the booty; they made good their escape.
March 29-Death, in Noble co., Ohio, aged 106, of John Gray, reputed to be the last surviving soldier of the American Revolution ; born at Fairfax Court-house, Va., Jan. 6, 1762, entered the army at 16 and served to the close of the war, became a citizen of Ohio before it was a state, and remained there until his death.
April 1-During the month of March, 1868, there were distilled in Bourbon and Nicholas counties 115,825 gallons of whis- ky, in Fayette and Clark 32,578, in Frank- lin 17,477, and in Scott, Woodford, Boyle, Lincoln, and Jessamine 80,565 gallons.
April 6-Death, at Greenville, Muhlen- burg co., of Edward Rumsey, a prominent lawyer, and representative in congress from 1837 to 1839.
April 9-Extraordinary fall of snow ; 6 inches deep at Maysville; at Paris, ice half an inch thick. April 8, 1808, snow fell at Louisville 6 inches deep. April 10, 1823, snow fell so thick and fast around Paris as to hide the corn as people dropped it in planting. April 8, 1837, it snowed, hailed, and rained at Paris. April 14, 1832, snow fell in Ky. 12 inches deep. April 19, 1855, at Harrodsburg, and again April 17, 1861, at Taylorsville, Spencer co., snow fell 4 inches deep.
April 15-Fourth high rise, this season, in the Kentucky river. On the first rise, in January, 80, and on the second, in Feb- ruary, 30 boat-loads of coal were brought down, and about as many are expected on this rise. The Red River Iron Company have sent down 19 boat-loads of their cele- brated iron, making 1,500 tons. Slack- water navigation would add immensely to such business, and make it permanent and regular.
April 17-Re-interment, with impres- sive ceremonies, at the cemetery in Lex- ington, (removed hither from Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va.,) of the remains of Gen. John H. Morgan. A large con- course of people from all parts of the state present, including several hundred who had followed in battle the varying fortunes of the dead hero.
April 25-Alex. H. Brand, of Lexing- ton, sells his trotting stallion, Brignoli, to a New Yorker, for $10,000.
April 29-Among the incomes, in 1867, now reported for U. S. taxation, in Bath
co., only two exceed $1,600, viz. $2,040 and $2,076 ; in Fleming co. only three ex- ceed $1,000, viz .: $1,817, $2,430, and $2,771; in Montgomery co. only four ex- ceed $1,S00, viz .: $2,022, $2,502, $3,533, and $14,000 (John W. Clay); in Bourbon co., 16 exceed $2,000 but are less than $5,000, 4 are between $5,000 and $10,000, and 4 are higher, viz .: Jeremiah Duncan $11,881, Samuel Clay $22,696, Wm. Tarr $24,425, and Geo. G. White $25,244. In Louisville, 8 report incomes over $20,000, viz .: Dr. John Bull $105,625, Benj. F. Avery $62,324, Ebenezer Bustard $46,744, Thos. T. Shreve $36,121, Richard Burge $30,859, Michael Kean $28,616, Wm.B. Bel- knap $26,127, Samuel S. Nicholas $20,162.
May 5 -Death, at Philadelphia, Pa., of Cominodore Daniel B. Ridgley, U. S. navy-a native of Ky., but a resident of Baltimore ; he entered the service in 1828, and was made commodore in 1866.
May 5-In 1793, Elder Ambrose Dudley emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, and settled in Fayette co., near Bryan's Sta- tion, becoming pastor of the Baptist church there. He died at the age of 73, and his wife at 72-leaving 14 children, 11 sons and 3 daughters, all living and married. The following are still living : Gen. James Dudley, aged 91 years ; Mrs. Polly Graves, 85; Dr. Benj. W. Dudley, 83; Gen. Peter Dudley, 81; Col. Ambrose Dudley, 79; and Elder Thomas P. Dudley, 76 years. Their united ages, 495 years.
May 9-The bail bond (for his appear- ance to be tried for treason ) of ex-Confed- erate-States-president Jefferson Davis re- newed, at Richmond, Va. The sureties are Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gerrit Smith, of New York, each for $25,000, and citizens of Richmond for $25,000 more.
May 9-City of Louisville votes to sub- scribe $1,000,000 to aid in the construc- tion of the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad.
May 12-Nicholas co., by a majority of 236 in a total vote of less than 1,400, sub- scribes three per cent. (one per cent. yearly until paid) of the valuation of her taxable property to the capital stock of the railroad from Maysville to Paris.
May 14-Death, at Paris, Bourbon co., aged 76, of Noah Spears, a native of that county. He developed so early in manly appearance, that at the age of thirteen he voted, being supposed to be a man ; when a young man he traded produce to New Orleans, in flatboats. and walked back.
May 18-Fenian state society in session at Louisville; large attendance and much enthusiasmn.
May 20-Republican national conven- tion, at Chicago, nominates Ulysses S. Grant for president, on the first ballot, unanimously-giving him 650 votes, and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, on the 5th ballot, for vice president -he receiving 522, Reuben E. Fenton 75, Benj. Wade 42, and Henry Wilson Il. Ky. on the Ist ballot votes for Jas. Speed, of Ky.
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May 20-In a sermon on the Passover, preached in the Jewish synagogue at Memphis, Tenn., Mr. J. J. Peres stated as a remarkable proof of the truth of the Bible prophecies about the Israelites, that " their number in the world, this day, is, in round figures, the same as it was 2,000 years ago;" so visibly were they under the in- fluence of the consequence of dispersion, and of the Divine predictions : " The land of your enemies shall not consume you," and "Although in the land of your ene- mies, I will not destroy you." They are not destroyed, nor do they increase. [The number of Jews in Ky. is probably less than 3,000, in the whole United States about 200,000, in the world between 5,000,- 000 and 6,000,000, scattered in every clime and nation.]
May 20-The number of Federal soldiers buried in cemeteries in Ky. is 14,060, as follows: At
Louisville 3,871
Covington 441
Camp Nelson ... 1,611
Lebanon 368
Perryville. .1,430
Danville. 355
Bowlinggreen ........ 1,090 Richmond. 211
London 219 Lexington .. 822
111 Logan's > Roads ... 701 Frankfort.
May 26 -- U.S. senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, by a vote of 35 to 19, acquits President Johnson of the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors as contained in the 2d and 3d charges, and then adjourns without day. The vote had already been taken, May 16, on the 11th article ; 35, all Republicans, voted Guilty, and 12 Democrats (including Garret Davis and Thos. C. McCreery, of Ky.) and 7 Repub- licans (Wm. Pitt Fessenden of Maine, J. S. Fowler of Tenn., Jas. W. Grimes of Iowa, John B. Henderson of Missouri, Edmund C. Ross of Kansas, Lyman Trum- bull of Illinois, and Peter G. Van Winkle of West Virginia) voted Not Guilty-thus acquitting the President on that article. [Two-thirds were required to impeach.]
May 26-The Radicals at Washington city, in their disappointment at failing to successfully impeach President Johnson. charge that by corrupt means some of the seven Republican senators were secured to vote for his acquittal. Among other spite- ful investigations, they arrest Chas. Wick- liffe Woolley, of Cincinnati, formerly of Lexington, Ky., who-refusing to explain what he did with a certain $20,000 repre- sented by his captured check, further than that none of it had been used in connection with the impeachment question-excited the ire and vengeance of the virtuous Ben. Butler. Woolley subsequently testified, and was released ; and it appeared that that money was designed to aid in contin- uing the tax on whisky at $2 per gallon.
May 30-Lee C. Smith, through Capt. Frank Bedford, of Bourbon co., presents to the representative in congress from that district, James B. Beck, in compliment to his distinguished services, a bottle of Bourbon whisky thirty-one years old !
June 1-Gen. Simon B. Buckner takes editorial charge of the Louisville Daily Courier.
June 5-Population of Georgetown, Scott co., by a census just taken, 1,687.
June 6-Death, in Louisville, aged 60, of Alex. C. Bullitt, a distinguished jour- nalist. From about 1834 to 1844, be was editor of the New Orleans Bee, from 1844 to 1849 of the New Orleans Picayune, and in 1849-50 of the Republic at Washington city ; after which he spent four years in European travel.
June 17-The Maysville Eagle, by re- quest, publishes a letter or statement of B. D. Nixon, dated April 11, 1868, which says :
"When the war broke out I was living near Owingsville, in Bath co. I entered into the Confederate service in 1862, and served for a time on the body guard of Gen. Humphrey Marshall. I afterwards joined Thos. Johnson's battalion. I was regularly enlisted ; never belonged to any band of guerrillas or partisans; and in what I did in furtherance of the Confed- erate cause, acted under the orders of my superiors.
" Late in the spring or early in the sum- mer of 1864, I entered the state of Ken- tucky with John Morgan's command- when he made his last raid into this state. I was at the battle of Cynthiana, and was there cut off and separated from my com- mand. The vigilance of the Federal sol- diers prevented me from immediately re- joining my command, or leaving the state ; and I spent several weeks in Scott and Owen counties while watching an opper- tunity of leaving the state. During this time I participated in no acts of hostility against the government, nor did I molest any private citizen, nor did I have any connection with any predatory bands. In July, an opportunity was afforded me for leaving the state; and, in going out, I stopped to see my family, whom I bad not seen for eleven months.
"I had been only two days at home, when I was captured by Lieut. Denton, taken to Mountsterling, and made to work on the fortifications for two weeks. I was then sent to Lexington, and placed in mil- itary prison No. 3. Afterwards, I was taken to prison No. 2. I had been in Lex- ington several days, when a soldier of a Michigan regiment entered the prison, measured my height, weighed me, and took down a general description of my appearance. On the same evening, an old gentleman from Franklin co. was placed in prison, who informed me that he had been before the provost marshal, and heard the names of myself and fifteen others read, as under sentence of death. On the saine evening I was ironed. The next morning I was taken before the provost marshal, Major Vance. He cursed me, and abused me as a thief and a robber, said I ought to be hung, and that he would have me shot in 36 hours. It was evi- dently the intention that I should be exe- cuted. I defended my character : and, see- ing Maj. Downey in the room, I discovered myself to him as a Free Mason ; be im-
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mediately clasped me by the hand, and in- | On the 21st ballot, Thos. A. Hendricks, terceded in my behalf. Through his in- tervention my life was saved.
" I was then transferred to prison No. 4, and kept handcuffed for five weeks. At this prison I met the fifteen men who were condemned. These men were kept ironed, and were taken from the prison in irons. They never returned to the prison. The guard told me they had been shot. I have never heard of any of them since, and my belief is that they were all executed. None of these men were guerrillas, but all belonged to the regular Confederate army. Some of them had been taken through some form of trial, and may have been sentenced as guerrillas ; but none of them were guerrillas. I remember the names of some of them : Two Lingenfelters, - Berry, and Lieut. Hamilton-all of whom I knew.
" I was released on the 15th of October, and sent north of the Ohio river-where I remained until I had obtained permis- sion from Gen. Burbridge to return to Kentucky."
June -McCracken co., by 1,065 in favor of and 629 against it, subscribes $500,000 to the Elizabethtown and Paducah rail- road ; the county-seat, Paducah, giving 889 votes for, and only 33 against it. Lyon co., by 62 majority, votes a subscrip- tion to the same road.
June 22-U. S. house of representatives admits Samuel McKee to the seat, from the Maysville district, to which John D. Young had been elected by a majority of 1,479 yotes over him.
June 27-Maj. Gen. John C. Breckin- ridge reaches Toronto, Canada, from a long sojourn in Europe, and a recent visit to Asia. Although in America, he is still an exile from Kentucky, the land of his birth and his home.
June 30-Samuel Davis, jr., confined on a charge of counterfeiting, stealing, &c., taken from jail at Harrodsburg, and hanged, by about 75 "regulators."
July 1-Death, in Clark co., aged 115 years, of Malinda, a colored woman, for- merly the property of Smallwood Ecton.
July 6-A negro enters the room of a young lady in Columbia, Adair co., in the night, and attempts to commit a rape. Her screams bring help, the negro is caught and committed to jail; but, before morn- ing, is taken from jail by a mob, and hung.
July 4, 6, 7, 8, 9- Democratic national convention, at New York, on the 22d bal- lot, and on the 5th day of the session, unanimously nominates Horatio Seymour, of N. Y., for president, giving him 317 votes. 1st ballot : Geo. HI. Pendleton, of Ohio (including the vote of Ky.) 105, An- drew Johnson of Tenn. 65, Gen. W. S. Hancock of Pa. 3312, Sanford E. Church of N. Y. 33, Asa Packer of Pa. 26, Joel Parker of N. J. 13, Jas. E. English of Conn. 16, Jas. R. Doolittle of Wis. 13, and for 3 others 1112. Pendleton has 156 on the 8th ballot, and is withdrawn on the 18th, when Gen. Hancock receives 14412.
of Ind., receives 132 votes. For vice pres- ident, several names proposed are with- drawn, and Gen. Frank P. Blair, jr., of Missouri (a native of Ky.) is nominated unanimously.
July 9-Rev. Lambert Young, the Ro- man Catholic priest at Frankfort, fined $50 for contempt of U. S. district court at Lou- lisville, in refusing to testify before the grand jury in regard to the riot at Frank- fort in which a negro named Jim Macklin, was lynched for ravishing a white girl and attempting to kill her by throwing her down the cliff. He was required to give $2,000 bonds for his appearance at the Oct. court to testify. About a month pre- vious, bail was proffered but refused, and Father Young still kept in jail ; although Jas. Welsh, David Haly, Edward Cum- mins, and Michael Parker, citizens of Frankfort, confined in the same jail upon a charge of participating in the same mob, were then released upon bail. Indict- ments were found against four others, and U. S. marshals sent out to arrest them.
July 10-Bourbon co., by 739 to 996 -- 257 majority, votes against a subscription of stock to the railroad from Paris to Maysville.
July 10-Geo. Rogers taken from his house, near Bradfordsville, Marion co., by a mob and hung.
July -Of the bonus of $500,000 re- quired to insure the building of a railroad from Cincinnati via Lexington and Dan- ville to Tennessee, the city of Lexington votes to give $50,000, Jessamine co. $25,- 000, east end of Mercer co. $25,000, east end of Boyle co. $150,000, Lincoln co. $50,000, Pulaski co. $100,000, and Wayne co. $50,000. Fayette co. alone refuses to vote the tax of $50,000.
July 13 to 18-Intensely hot weather throughout Ky., and occasional cases of sun-stroke and consequent death. In Cor- ington, 14 cases, of which 5 died ; fat cat- tle died in the pens, and draft horses at work, from the heat. Over 250 persons killed by heat in New York city, 9 in Philadelphia, about 50 in Cincinnati. In Montreal, Canada, July 16th, thermome- ter 106° in the shade ; 10 deaths from sun- stroke.
July 21-Gold in New York $1 43.
July 22-Death, near Owensboro, aged 70, of Mrs. Letitia Shelby Todd, wife of Col. Chas. S. Todd, and youngest and last surviving daughter of Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky.
July 26- Court house at Edmonton, Metcalfe co., destroyed by fire, with all the books and papers except the circuit court record.
July 29-Death, in Bullittsburgh, Boone co., aged 47, of Wm. G. Willis, supposed to be the largest man in Ky .; he weighed nearly 500 pounds.
Aug. 1 - At Big Bone Springa, Boone co., in digging to improve the facilities for barreling the water for sale, a wagon load of bones of the mammoth was discovered
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within a space of 15 feet-among them a tusk 10 inches thick and 12 feet long, a backbone of about equal dimensions, and a tooth 15 inches long, six inches thick, weighing 20 pounds.
Aug. 1-Ex-Gov. Charles S. Morehead visits Frankfort for the first time since the late war, and is enthusiastically wel- comed. In his speech, he said he had been incarcerated for seven weary months, but to this day had been unable to learn why. His lamented friend John J. Crit- tenden had called upon Wm. H. Seward. then secretary of state, to inquire the cause of his imprisonment; and upon learning that no charges were on file in his office, " denounced Mr. Seward as a scoundrel for imprisoning an innocent citizen in defiance of the law and Constitution."
Aug. 3-Turnpike tax defeated in Har- rison co., by 730 to 816.
Aug. 3- Vote for governor, (to fill a vacancy,) John W. Stevenson, Democrat, 115,560, R. Tarvin Baker, Republican, 26,605-maj. 88,965. Belville J. Peters was re-elected judge of the court of ap- peals from the 1st district. 16 circuit, and several other, judges were elected ; and circuit clerks and sheriffs in each county.
Aug. 3-A negro preacher, Francis Fred- erick, attacked by a mob of negroes, in Frankfort, who bruised, beat, choked, and would have killed him. The police rescued him, and lodged him in jail for protection. He is an intelligent and earnest mission- ary, well accredited, on his way to preach in Tennessee, and had preached very ac- ceptably in Frankfort until a report, with no other foundation than that he did not preach politics, was spread that he was a " rebel."'
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Aug. 4-Death, at Louisville, aged 56, of Very Rev. Benj. J. Spalding, Adininis- trator, since April, 1867, of that Catholic diocese ; he had been Vicar General of the diocese for many years, and had held other responsible and distinguished positions in the church. His death was caused by fire communicated accidentally to his musquito bar, and then to his clothes, while he was asleep.
Aug. 6-Death, in Clarksville, Pike co., Missouri, of Mrs. Elizabeth Crow, eldest daughter of Benj. Schooler ; she was born in Bourbon co., Ky., in 1788.
Aug. 15-Death, at St. Louis, Mo., aged 85, of Mrs. Polly Graves, last surviving daughter of the late Elder Ambrose Dud- ley, of Fayette co. Her husband, Maj. Graves, was either killed or taken prisoner by the Indians and massacred at the bat- tle of the River Raisin in 1814; he was never seen nor heard of after the battle. Mrs. G. removed to St. Louis 40 years ago.
Aug. 19-Two cousins, Wm. and John Gibson, hung by a mob, near the Wash- ington co. line, not far from Cornishville, Mercer co.
Aug. 29-In Lewis co., 4 negroes, Jack Foster, his wife Sallie, his son Richard, and his mother Lucy Armstrong, almost
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literally chopped to pieces with an axe by John Blyew, and Geo. Kennard. With- out awaiting their trial by the Lewis cir- cuit court, they are-under the (false) pre- tense that they could not be convicted there because the only witnesses were ne- groes-taken from the Lewis county jail to Louisville, for trial in the Federal court under the civil rights bill, which admits negro testimony.
Sept. 10-Population of Frankfort, by a census just taken, 4,478 - whites 2,584, blacks 1,894.
Sept. - Extraordinary (coal) rise in the Kentucky river and its sources ; in Powell co., Red river is higher than ever known.
Sept. 12-Gen. John M. Palmer, in 1865 military commandant of Ky., is now the Radical candidate for governor of Illinois. The excitement of the canvass has brought out a letter from one of his subordinates during his reign of terror in Ky., which says that "at the August election, in 1865, the officers under Palmer had orders to arrest any one they saw fit, who they thought would vote the Democratic ticket, and not to inquire into the charges against them."
Sept. 14-Death, in Louisville, aged 70, of Leonard Jones, a monomaniac exten- sively known as "Live-for-ever Jones." He was a native of Henderson co., and for 50 years wandered about, preaching the doctrine that by prayer and fasting a man would live always. He made fre- quent journeys to Washington city, being an aspirant for every high office, state and federal.
Sept. 15-Pure Chinese hemp grown in Bourbon co., 10 and 12, and some stalks 15%, feet high.
Sept. 29-Death, at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, aged 73, of Rev. Lorin Andrews, a missionary from Ky. [See sketch, under Mason co.]
Oct. 2-The Owensboro Monitor records the re-union, at a dinner, not far from Hartford, Ohio co., of two brothers and a sister-Jerry Bozarth, aged 81 years, John Bozarth 83, and Mrs. Sally Shaw S5- their united ages 249 years. Jerry and John have lived in two states, John has resided in six counties, and Jerry in five counties ; and yet neither has lived or moved out of the county in which he was born. They lived in Kentucky when it was a ¡ rtion of Virginia, and in Jefferson, Nelsr ., Hardin, Ohio, and other counties. Oct. 3-Death, at St. Louis, aged 62, of D Joseph Nash McDowell, the most emi- W nt surgeon in the West, a native of Lex- ington, Ky.
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