Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 56

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452


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Aug. 7-First locomotive put to work upon that portion of the Ky. and Great Eastern railroad now building, along the Ohio river between Maysville and a point opposite Portsmouth, O .; 350 hands at work.


Aug. 11-Kentucky Trotting-Horse Breeders' Association organized at Lex- ington.


Aug. 11-Geo. M. Bedford, of Bourbon co., sells, for $10,000, to go to Wisconsin, a thorough-bred bull, 11th Duke of Geneva, his cost, a year ago, $6,000.


Aug. 15-At Lexington, Judge C. B. Thomas refused to dissolve the injunction issued by him against the sheriffs, pend- ing proceedings under a mandamus ; and ordered the sheriff's of Fayette and Jessa- mine counties to give a certificate of elec- tion to nobody.


Aug. 20-City of Wheeling, West Va., by 1,114 to 89, votes aid to the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ky. railroad.


Aug. 25 -- Visitation of caterpillars to the shade trees in city and country ; more general and destructive than ever known in Ky.


Aug. 26-Death at Fincastle, Brown co., Ohio, of Mrs. Mary Sayres, aged 86. In 1790, when emigrating to Mason co., Ky., her parents and four children (of whom she was one, just 4 years old), together with two other fainilies, were captured in a periogue at the Three Islands, 11 miles above Limestone, now Maysville. The Indians sold the party to the British at Detroit, and after four months they were enabled to reach Ky., where they lived for many years.


Sept. 2-Several men from Montgomery co., with blackened faces, attempted to break into the house of -. Clemm, a farmer in Menifee co. One of them -. McLean, was killed by Clemm ; two oth- ers, John Tade and Geo. Casserly, fled to the mountains, but were captured, tried, and sentenced to 6 months in the peniten- tiary ; evidence entirely circumstantial.


Sept. 2 to Oct. 11 -- Second grand dis- play of arts, inventions, manufactures, and products. at Louisville, called the " Lou- isville Industrial Exposition ; " attended by many thousands of people, some of them from hundreds of miles in distance.


Sept. 7-Death at St. Louis, of Maj. Valentine J. Peers, aged 75 ; a citizen of Ky., mostly at Paris, 1803-23; held sev- eral local offices of high trust in Mo., and was judge of the recorder's court of St. Louis in 1861, when the Federal soldiers fired into the building, killing several cit- izens on the balcony -- one bullet passing through the judge's chair, on which the judge was sitting.


Sept. 9-About 60 deaths (12 white3, 48


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colored) from cholera at Millersburg, Bourbon co.


Sept. 10-Gov. Leslie advertises in New York city and Louisville that the state of Ky. is anxious to call in all her bonds, and prepared to promptly pay them, principal and interest, upon presentation at the treasury.


Sept: 10-Most wonderful sale of cattle ever held in the world, near Utica, N. Y. -the herd of Samuel Campbell, consisting of the Duchess and Oxford breeds and others close akin ; formerly the Samuel Thorne herd, and now the most celebrated in the world. Many distinguished Eng- lish breeders and nearly all American short-horn breeders of note were present, or represented.


Of the Duchess family, the 3-year old bull, 2d Duke of Oneida, sold to Thos. J. Megibben, Cynthiana, Ky., for $12,000.


The 4th Duchess of Oneida, red, year- ling, sold to same and E. G. Bedford, of Paris, Ky., for $25,000.


The 7th Duchess of Oneida, red and white, yearling, sold to A. J. Alexander, Woodford co., Ky., for $19,000.


The 10th Duchess of Oneida, red and white, calved April 7, 1873, sold to same for $27,000.


27 cows and heifers, and 2 bulls were bought by Kentuckians for $107,640. Excluding the four above, the lowest price was $250, the highest $3,200, the average $985.


Two cows were sold to English parties, price $40,600 and $35,000. 11 cows of the Duchess family sold for $238,800, an av- erage of $21,710 ; of which 6 went to Eng- land, at a cost of $147,100. In all, 111 animals were sold, for $380,890, averaging $3,431.


Sept. 10-At Millersburg, Bourbon co., 66 deaths from cholera to date, nearly all colored persons. At Paris, only 3 this sea- son, and they brought from Millersburg, 8 miles distant. At Lebanon, Marion co., to date, 24, and in the county 49; 73 in all, 41 whites and 32 colored. At Lancas- ter, Garrard co., 33 deaths foom cholera. At Columbia, Adair co., 22 deaths.


Sept. 10-At the Lexington races, in a dash of 114miles, Megibben's Stanford won in 2 : 11. The second horse was beaten by a bad start, but made 34ths of a mile in 1: 15-or at the rate of 2: 05 for the 114 miles, or 1 : 40 for a mile.


On Sept. 12 in the mile race for 2-year- olds, Astral, ran the quarter mile in 2612, the half mile in 57, three quarters in 1 : 171%, and the mile in 1 : 4434-which is by a 1/4 second the fastest race of 2-year- olds ever run in this country ; Hamburg's race being the fastest heretofore.


Sept. 11-Meeting at Lexington of the Alumni Association of Central University. Those only, it was decided, are members And entitled to vote, who subscribed to the endowment fund on or before the day of organization at Louisville. April 29, 1873. Jos. Chambers, DeWitt C. Collins, and Richard H. Collins, of Covington. appointed


a committee to receive bids for the location, send statement of the bids to the members, receive their votes and declare the result, and call a meeting for ratification at the place thus selected.


Sept. 11-Death at Anchorage, near Lou- isville, from apoplexy, of Dr. Geo. Wood Bayless, aged 57 years. He was born in 1816, at Washington, Mason co. ; gradua- ted at Augusta College ; attended lectures at the old Medical Institute in Louisville (now the Medical Department of the Uni- versity ) in its first year, 1837-8, and grad- uated at the University of Pa., in Phila- delphia. 1838-9; began the practice in Louisville ; was demonstrator of anatomy, for 8 years, and then professor of surgery, in the Louisville Medical Institute. A short time before his death, he was elected a professor in the new Central University.


Sept. 11-First number issued, at Mays- ville, of the Old Kentucky Flag-the 40th newspaper started (in Ohio, Indiana, Ky., Illinois, and West Va.) by the veteran ed- itor, Col. Samuel Pike, now just 70 years old.


Sept. 12, 13-Trial at Bedford, Trimble co. (by change of venue from Frankfort), of the libel suit of John Haley vs. Ambrose W. Dudley-the latter in a pamphlet reply to a pamphlet of the former, having charged Haley with frauds in the purchase of iron for the fire-proof public offices at Frank- fort ; the defendant averred that as chair- man of the committee superintending the erection of the public offices, as a state officer sworn and under bond, he had re- plied to plaintiff's pamphlet from a sense of duty, and without any personal feel- ing; judgment for defendant; damages claimed, $25,000.


Sept. 14-Broadway Hotel at Lexington burned.


Sept. 15-Thos. R. Botts, of Fleming co., has a bay horse, still nimble and ac- tive, which was foaled in 1838, and is now 3512 years old.


Sept. 15-Mass meeting of citizens at Owenton, Owen co. ; resolutions passed condemning all Kuklux movements, de- manding of the civil authorities a vigor- ous prosecution of all persons engaged in the heinous outrage in July last, when Lewis Wilson, of color, was murdered in Owen co. by desperadoes from another county, and "condemning the course of the Louisville Courier-Journal by its con- tinued editorials in advertising to the world a reign of Kuklux in Owen co .. which does not now and never did exist."


Sept. 15-A sharper named Norton, with forged letters of introduction from New York banks, victimizes two Louis- ville banks -- the Fariners' and Drovers' Bank, out of $6,500, and the German Sa- vings Bank, out of $4,500. He was cap- | tured with the latter sum upon his per- son ; his accomplice escaping with the other sum.


Sept. 15-The total deaths by cholera in Lebanon, recently, have been 26, and in Marion co. outside of Lebanon 58. Of


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55 cases treated by one physician, 13 died -indicating an average mortality of 25 per cent.


Sept. 18-Death at Washington, Mason co., aged 97, of Peyton Randolph Key ; he was born in Fauquier co., Va., Jan. 19, 1776.


Sept. 18-Beginning of the most remark- able financial "panic " in the history of American finances. Jay Cooke & Co.'s three banking houses, in New York, Phil- adelphia, and Washington city suspend, while their London banking house of Cooke, Mccullough & Co. continues per- fectly solvent. Other banks and banking firms involved in the crash. Reports about some Ky. railroads and banks being inci- dentally involved prove exaggerated or un- true. Border Ky. banks, like oysters, shut down tight upon discounts ; and announc- ing that they "must take care of them- selves," proceed to do so to the most posi- tive extent-thus, in many cases, visiting upon their customers the sin of Jay Cooke's bad banking. Kentucky banks generally had their N. Y. deposits in the old and staunch banks, and suffered but little in- convenience on that score.


At Elizabethtown, Shelbyville, and each of several other points, a bank or banking house. was compelled to suspend tempora- rily, because of the unlooked-for strin- gency in the money market.


Sept. 18-The Ky. system of live stock sales inaugurated at Nashville, Tenn .; several Kentuckians purchase freely of choice short-horns.


Sept. 22-Convention at Louisville of Ky. soldiers of the Mexican war.


Sept. 23-5 Kuklux arrested in Owen co. ; 4 of them in jail, and one out on $2,000 bail, to appear for trial at November court.


Sept. 23-Opening of the City High School building at Covington, the finest · building in Ky. for educational purposes except one.


Sept. 26-Trial, at Chicago, Ill., of the celebrated libel suit of Rev. Stuart Robin- son, D. D., of Louisville, Ky., vs. the Chi- cago Evening Post-for reproducing and republishing, Jan. 23, 1872, (while Dr. R. was expected to die from small-pox), the old and venomous charge that, "during the war, Dr. Robinson had advocated from the pulpit the shipping of yellow-fever in- fected clothing to Northern cities ; " adding that he "narrowly escaped death from small pox last week ; " damages claimed $100,000; judgment for $25,000; and $664 costs. By direction of Dr. R., (whose ob- ject was not money, but making the ref- utation of the villainous charge a matter of record, ) his attorneys, Samuel MI. Moore and Bernard G. Caulfield, remitted the damages ; the costs were paid.


Sept. 26-John Onan refused bail and sent on for trial before the circuit court, by Judge A. B. Roberts, charged with the murder of Lewis Wilson, colored, on July 26. He and -. Razor, previously com- mitted on the same charge, were sent to the Louisville jail for safe-keeping and


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protection. Two others were admitted to bail, $1,000 each.


Sept. 27-Death in Howard co., Mo., near Arrow Rock, aged 71, of Robert Car- son, a celebrated Indian mountain scout, brother of Kit Carson ; he was a native of Madison co., Ky., and emigrated to Mo. in 1811.


Sept. 27-John Willett, a young farm- hand, pursued on horseback, shot and killed, on the Winchester pike, 1036 miles E. of Lexington, by Montgomery H. Par- ker, an old and wealthy farmer. Bail re- fused. [March, 1874, at his trial, the jury failed to agree, and he was admitted to $15,000 bail.]


Oct. 1-The credit of the State of Ky. will not suffer by the financial panic. $90,000 of state bonds, which matured to- day, were paid in New York city.


Oct. 1-Death in Clark co., aged 97, of Mrs. Mary Cooper ; she was born July 30, 1776.


Oct. 1-Six Kentuckians are still living who were in congress from 34 to 56 years ago, viz : Judge Geo. Robertson, in 1817 -21; Dr. John F. Henry, 1826-27 ; Capt. Henry Daniel, 1827-33; Nicholas D. Cole- man, 1829-31; Judge Jos. R. Underwood, 1835-43 ; Judge Richard Hawes, 1837-41 ; Gen. Wm. O. Butler and Judge Landaff Watson Andrews, each 1839-43. Three other old Kentucky congressmen have died recently : John Kincaid, in congress from 1829-33; Judge Thos. A. Marshall, 1831-35; Garret Davis, 1839-47.


Oct. 1, 2-Commissioners (5 from each State bordering upon it) for the improve- ment of the Ohio river and its tributaries, in session at Louisville, An ably written memorial to the U. S. congress for the im- provement of the Tennessee river was adopted ; also, a resolution urging upon the U. S. engineer department the impor- tance of widening to 100 feet the cut pass down the Falls of the Ohio; also, other resolutions of a liberal and commercial character.


Oct. 2-4 men killed by the fall of a derrick, at the freestone quarry, 3 miles from Mt. Sterling, Montgomery co.


Oet. 2-The new volume, the " General Statutes of Kentucky," contains 935 pages, with side-notes throughout; 760 foot-notes, giving references to the decis- ions of the court of appeals ; and an analyt- ical index of 111 pages, in brevier type.


Oct. 2-A Kuklux or "regulating" party of negroes visit several houses near Beatty's Mill, 5 miles N. of Simpsonville, Shelby co .; they stone one white man's house, and take possession of property and demand money at several negroes' houses.


Oct. 4-A party of about 10 men, ono with blackened face and the others with rags (or cloths) over their faces, all with guns or pistols in their hands, visit the house of Mrs. Sally A. Bunton, on Ben- son creek, Franklin co., near llardins- ville, Shelby co., about midnight, and search it for a negro boy (who had gone, that day, to Anderson co.), clamoring


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" Bring out the boy George," and punch- ing their guns under the beds. Oct. 15- Four men, believed to be of the above Ku- klux party, arrested and tried before an examining court; but the witnesses were intimidated, and the evidence entirely cir- cumstantial, and they were discharged.


Oct. 5-At the Louisville Exposition are exhibited some beautiful specimens of lead ore from Livingston co., and of fluor spar from Caldwell co.


Oct. 5-Regent John B. Bowman, of Ky. University, sues Rev. Mr. Crutcher, in the Woodford court, and the same and R. McMichael, in the Fayette court, for libel, in procuring to be published a charge that he had bribed certain curators of the Uni- versity with Pacific R. R. stock ; damages claimed, $25,000 in each case.


Oct. 5-Death in Robertson co., aged 1061/3 years, of Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon, née Engles ; born June.5, 1767, at Frederick, Md. She distinctly remembered the first verbal accounts of Cornwallis' surrender, 150 miles distant-being then 14 years old.


Oct. 5-Death at Mt. Sterling, Mont- gomery co., aged 87, of Capt. Henry (or Harry ) Daniel ; a native of Va., but raised in Ky. ; a strong lawyer, with great natu- ral shrewdness ; a volunteer in the war of 1812, with rank of captain ; representative from Montgomery co. 1812, '19, and '26; in congress for six years, 1827-33, defeat- ing such competitors as David Trimble and. Amos Davis. While in congress, his en- counter with Tristam Burgess, of R. I., is remembered as one of the most racy and re- markable scenes in the history of that body.


Oct. 5-Both clerk's offices of Breathitt co., at Jackson, set on fire and burned ; only the records and a few of the papers of the circuit clerk's office saved.


Oct. 6-Deputy city-marshal Wm. A. Burton, murdered, in a drinking saloon at Paris, by Edward and Matthew Current, whom he was in the act of arresting for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Strong fears of lynching.


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Oct. 7-Alfred T. Pope, a member of the State senate from the city of Louis- ville, and one of the ablest and most dig- nified members of that body, resigns his seat; Thos. L. Jefferson elected to fill the vacancy.


Oct. 7-The first colored high school in Ky. dedicated at Louisville, corner York and 6th sts .; 3 stories high, of brick, with stone basement; built in the American renaissance style of architecture ; very neat and handsome ; 11 large, commodious school-rooms, arranged for 600 pupils, and a chapel 32 by 51 feet ; cost $25,000. Many of the most prominent citizens present- the mayor, clergymen, judges, lawyers, editors, merchants. It was erected by the city school board, at city expense ; the teachers and board of visitors are educated and intelligent colored people.


There are now, besides the High School above, three other public schools for col- ored children in Louisville, affording ex-


cellent school privileges to about 1,000 children, in the eight grades. The taxes paid by colored people into the school fund are less than $2,000 ; to which is added, in order to carry on their schools, more than $3,000 yearly, from the fund for white children.


Oct. 7-Destruction by fire, at Louis- ville, of the hemp bagging factory of Richardson, Henry & Co., the oldest in the United States ; manufacturing capac- ity, 4,500 yards of bagging and 4,500 pounds of bale rope per day ; 150 persons thrown out of employment .; los: $70,000, insurance $42,750.


Oct. 7-State auditor notifies the sheriffs that, owing to the difficulty of cashing drafts (caused by the financial panic), they must pay the State revenues only in currency.


Oct. 7-A lady dies in Estill co. whose hair measured 5 feet 8 inches in length.


Oct. 7-An apple-tree on the farm of David Hunter, near Washington, Mason co., which is known to have borne a full crop of June apples in 1795, bore a good crop also in 1873, when at least 85 years old; it looks green and vigorous still, al- though bereft of many of its branches by a storm on the 4th of July last.


Oct. 9-Railroad convention at Chicago to promote the building of the Chicago Air-Line and South Atlantic railroad, de- signed to cross the Ohio river at Vevay, Indiana, and pass through central Ky. toward Savannah, Ga.


Oct. 9-A body of armed men assault the house of Thos. J. Peniston, near Port Royal, Henry co., damage his property to a considerable extent, and declare their in- tention to kill him if they can get hold of him. Warrants have been issued for their arrest.


Oct. 10-Between 12 and 1, A. M., 5 men rode into Clayvillage, Shelby co., 6 miles E. of Shelbyville, and began stoning a house, near the center of the village, oc- cupied by a negro and his wife. They fled for protection to the residence of a white neighbor, Samuel Smith, who went to their assistance and was shot down in his tracks, dying two days after. Oct. 16, 17, six men had a preliminary trial, charged with being of the party, and one of them with having fired the shot which killed Smith ; 3 were held for further trial. The reign of terror made it difficult to get the witnesses to testify ; one of them being sent to jail twice for refusing to tell which two of the prisoners he recognized as having been present at the shooting. He was re- leased on telling the court privately as te the two men.


Oct. 10-At the sale of the estate of Samuel Cahill, dec'd., near Maysville, was sold a set of harness, which Wm. Senten- ey's team had used in army duty in the war of 1812, and which Mr. Cahill pur- chased after Mr. Senteney's death in 1833. The harness has been in constant but care- ful use for 60 years, and is still good for several years' wear.


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Oct. 10-At the meeting at Covington of | banks which suspended, some two weeks the Presbyterian Synod of Ky. ( North ), the ago, "to gather up their cash means," have already resumed. report on Centre College stated that by the robbery of the Falls City Tobacco Bank at Oct. 13-One-third of the coal now used in Louisville is from Ky. mines. Louisville, on March 10, 1873, " over $59,- 000 worth of the bonds of the college were Oct. 13-Bernard Macauley's new thea- tre at Louisville, just finished at a cost of $200,000, opened. stolen, leaving of the endowment fund only $33,000." Under " this appalling calam- ity ...... it was resolved to try to raise $100,- Oct. 14-Found in his boat 5 miles above Plaquemine, La., in an exhausted condition, Jos. Corwin Cloud, the cham- pion oarsman, who recently passed down the Ohio river on a trial to row, by canals and rivers, to New Orleans ; he died next day, having suffered with " heavy shakes " for 4 or 5 days. 000 to repair the losses sustained, and pro- vide other means for more successfully carrying forward the interests of the col- lege." The vice-president, Rev. John Lapsley McKee, D. D., was made the agent for that purpose, and reported that he had raised, in 6 months, about $106,- 000 in cash, notes, and promised legacies, Oct. 15-Hog cholera prevailing exten- sively in Shelby, Garrard, and other coun- ties. nearly all in Ky .; and his prospects for $50,- 000 more were better than the prospects were in the beginning for $100,000. The com- Oct. 15-Two deaths at Louisville from yellow fever, cases brought there from Memphis. mittee's report in reference to the " stolen bonds," stated that while the trustees " formally approved and ratified the action Oct. 15-Gov. Leslie's proclamation makes this day the last on which the State will pay for the keeping of lunatics by private individuals. Oct. 17-126 patients, 75 males and 51 females, already at the new lunatic asylum at Anchorage: (built for the State Reform school). of the bank in offering a reward of 25 per cent. of their face value for the recovery of the bonds," yet " there was no agreement, expressed or implied, not to prosecute the robbers, or to make no effort to secure their arrest or conviction." "The result of these efforts has been the securing and re- demption of $52,000 worth of stolen bonds, leaving $7,000 not yet secured ; " " so that we now have in possession of interest-bear- ing bonds $70,400, yielding $4,839- against $93,000 of endowment fund on band," one year ago.


Oct. 10-Chancellor Jno. W. Menzies sus- tains as constitutional the law under which the people of Augusta, Bracken co., voted to tax themselves to erect a school house.


Oct. 11-Ball by the Italian Brother- hood, at Louisville, in commemoration of the anniversary of the discovery of Amer- ica by Christopher Columbus in 1492.


Oct. 11-Death in Bullitt co., aged 83, of Mrs. Sarah Thomas, last surviving child of Gen. Henry Crist, one of the pioneers of Ky. in 1779.


Oct. 12-Wm. Johnson, a colored man, in jail at Irvine, Estill co., under sentence of court of 5 years in the penitentiary for shooting with intent to kill, is rescued by a mob. Gov. Leslie offers $300 reward for the capture of the convict, and $100 for the apprehension and conviction of each of the persons who unlawfully broke the jail and rescued the prisoner.


Oct. 12-At Rev. Dr. Hall's Presbyte- rian church in New York city, the com- munion service was administered by two distinguished ministers from Scotland and Prussia, and by the Episcopal Assistant Bishop Cummins of Ky. The latter re- marked that in all his ministry he had never before communed with his Presby- terian brethren, but that this should not be the last time.


Oct. 13-Cincinnati, O., banks resume currency payments, canceling to-day $165,- 000 of clearing. house certificates, $75,000 more to-tuorrow, and remaining $225,000 within 3 weeks. Those of the Louisville


! Oct. 15 -- Death at Washington city, aged 69, of Col. Wm. H. Russell ; he prac- ticed law, when a young man, in Nicholas co., Ky., and in 1830 represented it in the legislature. He was afterward a member of the legislature of Missouri, U. S. mar- shal for that State, 1841-45, and U. S. con- sul to Santiago, Cuba, 1861-65.


Oct. 15-At the Indianapolis (Ind.) Ex- position, Jas. Truitt, of Lewis co., Ky., was awarded 5 premiums ($95) and 6 di- plomas, for best display of fruits, of all kinds, best varieties of apples, best collec- tion of nursery stock, etc.


Oct. 16-At 714 P. M. a terrible gas ex- plosion at the N. w. corner of the City Hall, in Louisville, which upheaved the flag-stones (some of them 18 feet long, 3 feet wide, 11 inches thick ) for 50 feet along 6th st., and 150 feet along Congress alley -an aggregate weight of some 200 tons.


Oct. 18-445 students now in the two medical schools of Louisville-220 in the University and 225 in the Louisville Med- ical College ; in the former 111, and in the latter 63, are from Ky. ; the remainder are from 23 other States, except 1 from the Indian Territory and 2 from British Hon- duras.


Oct. 20-Lord Skelmersdale, of Lanca- shirc, England, who bought a cow for $30,000 at the recent great sale in New York, visits B. F. Vanmeter, of Clark co .. to take a look at the Rose of Sharon herd owned by Mr. V. and others. Several fine cattle froin Clark co. were shipped to England, last spring.


Oct. 20-It appears from the last audi- tor's report that there are 19 counties in Ky. in which there is no piano. The tax - able value of gold watches is only $290 in Powell co., but $90,365 in Jefferson co.


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Oct. 20-Death at Indianapolis, Ind., aged 75, of Valentine C. Githens. He was born in Nicholas co., Ky., Aug. 18, 1798, and removed to Indianapolis when there was but one house there; he assisted in building the second one.




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