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Show ' It is said the bouse public lands committee will report favorably the bill presented by Wright ol Peeusyl-vania, Peeusyl-vania, proposing to give any person who will live on it a farm, and leas him $500 with which to stock it. Such propositions to the ordinary individual seem a good deal like nonsense, but tbere are whole communities com-munities who will unite in earnest petitions for that kind of aid, and congressmen will actually endeavor with all their ability, to induce others to adopt auoh communistic measures. |