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Profits of a Fork butcher.

--Last week a pork butcher having a stall in the Savannah market purchased a hog for $185. From this hog he made the following sales: Lard, $450; hogs head cheese, $150; bones, $25. Total, $625. Profit, $440. At a public place in Savannah this Shylock made his boasts of his extortion.

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