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8Ô6 * PEDKBAIi BBPOBTBa. : �nnknown, whick said scheme and artifice was- by the said �Anseliû P. Brand intended to be effected by sending, by �means of the post-office establishment of the United States, �to the editora and publishers of the Malone Palladium, a �"weekly paper published in Malone, Franklin coanty, New �York, and within the northern district of New York, and �witbin the jurisdiction of this court, to-wit, one Frederick J. �Seaver and one Oscar P. Ames, who were, at the time �last aforesaid, the editors and publishers of the said Malone �Palladium, the following special notice and letter, to-wit : �'"Special Notice.— iPFawfed: A few good young men (those �from :the country preferred) to go on the road as traveling �salesmen, to sell a specialty to the grocery -trade. If we can �get the right ones, will pay them good wages. - Examine sam- �ples of our specialty. We want plain, temperate, ambitious �young men, who wiU not abuse our confidence, and who are �not afraid to carry a 4e-pound sample case and make 60»day �trips, wben circumstanees rô^uire it,.without gruïnbling. We �want youio travel by public conveyance. Enclose 25 cents �with your application, and we will forward you a sample, �.express paid, and we will say bere that we will pay no atten- �•tion to applicants who do notfeel interest enough to examine �sample fîrst, and be your own judge as to your fitness for the �work; others need not apply. Addresa A. B. Fritz & Co., �care Cumberland House, Plattsburgh, New York. August �6, 1878.' �'"Plattsbuegh, August 6, 1878. �•' ' Dbab Sib : Enclosed please find two dollars, as part pay- ment for publishing the witbin notice for two months. We ehall be in your place September Ist or 2d, and will call and see you and settle same. Please send us a paper, with above notice, to this place, care of Cumberland House, and oblige A. B. Feitz & Co.' �"And he, the said Anselm P. Brand, did then and tbere knowingly, wrongf uUy, and unlawf uUy send said special notice, by means of the post-ofiîce establishment of the United States, to the said Frederick J. Seaver and Oscar P. Ames, editors and publishers as aforesaid, by depositing in the post-office ����