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 CUSTOM HOUSE AND POST OFFICE.

Rock has been one of continuous development. Even the period of Reconstruction, that strange saturnalia that constitutes one of the darkest spots in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon race, did not retard its growth. It is now a city of some forty thousand inhabitants, and its future has never been so bright. The mildness of its climate and the profusion of its flowers have won for it the name of "The City of Roses." The charm of its society, where Southern hospitality is so happily