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TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

A viruIent type of smallpox is pre-
vailing in London.
More revenue frauds are being un-
earJhed in New York.
A colored boy was drowned accident
ally at Little Rock yesterday.
A carload of Chinese strikers passed
through Pittsburg yesterday.
Governor Dix has signed the New
York industrial exhibition bill.
The Connecticut legislature has fixed
the interest rate at seven per cent
A heavy rain storm prevailed in
the southern portion of England to-day.
The Cincinnati college of medicine
graduated twenty-eight students yester-
day.
The village of MaysvilIe, Michigan,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire
yesterday.
In portions OF Michigan the forests
are on fire, and trains are stopped IN
consequence.
Late telegraphic advices from San
Francisco represent the Apaehes very
troublesome.
The Presidents visit to Washington
was of short duration. He VIII return
to Long Branch tomorrow
New York City's mercurial power yes
terday was ninety-four in the shade. A
number of sunstrokes were reported.
General Horatio G. Stevens, who
commanded the fort at Castle Garden,
in the war Of 1912, was buried at New
York yesterday.
The President, on the seventeenth in
stant, appointed Felix BFsnagan as
United States Marshal for the southern
district of Mississippi. b.
Mrs. Degeer, of Illinois, was one of
the speakers at the meeting of the
national division of SONS Of temperance,
at New York yesterday.
Lizzie and Lydia Tayler five years ago
entered the office of the Charlotte
lMichigan) Republican as compOsitors.
They afterWard went into the Battle
Greek Journal office, and since that
time they have earned from eight to
twenty dollars per week. From their
earnings they have supported their
mother: as hOusekeepers have lived
well, bought a piano, taken music
lessons, gave one hundred dollars to-
ward the building of the Baptist church
at Battle Creek, and have saved twelve
hundred dollars. They are unmarried.
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ADDITIONAL MARKETS.

GALVESTON, June I9.-Cotton
firm; good ordinary, 15c; net receipts
"a bales; exports coastwise, $50 bales;
sales 20 bales; stock %, ,639 bales.
SAVANNAH, June l9.-COttOn dull
middling, 1SBc; net receipts, 39e
bales; sales, 80 bales; stock, 1885
bales. exports cOastwise, 616. .--
CHARLESTON, June 19. : Cotton
higher for good grades; middling, 1870
l9c; low middlings, 1S91S4c; good or
dinary, lie; ordinary, 14@15c; net
receipts, 1873 bales; sales 400 bales;
stock, %, 755.
MOBILE, June 19.- Cotton firm
middling, 19c; net receipts, 26 bales;
exports coastwise, 423 bales; sales,
300 bales; stock, 1924 bales.
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ESTABLISHED 1910.

The wonderful story of wonderful ad-
ventures, of dangers and difficulties sur
mounted, such as mortal man never
before encountered. is given on our tele-
graphic page. There was never any
thing like it in the worlds history, and
the widest fiction is tame and common
place when contrasted with recitals Of
ice-voyagegs of the famed Polsris.
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strait, and extending in northeasterly
direction as far as can be seen from the
mountains by Polaris bay. We have
found that the country abounds in seals,
geese and ducks, musk cattle, rabbits,
wolves, foxes, bears, partridges, etc.
Our sailors have shot two seals in open
water. While at this encampment our
long arctic night commenced. This
dispatch to the Secretary of the navy
finish at this moment, S:23 in the even
ing, having written it in ink, in our
snow hut, the thermometer outside mi
nus twenty degrees to twenty-three de-
gTees-thatis twenty degrees minus to
twenty-three degrees minus Fahrenheit.
A copy of this dispatch was placed in a
pillar ct Breevort cape, October
81 1871
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within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tennes-
see, uO-WIt: ila
A certain lot or parcel OF land lying and
being n the city of Memphis, and being part
of LOT No. 3, in block No. Is commencing 100
feet east from the intersection Of BeaIe and
shelby streets, on the south side Of Beale
street; thence easEWardly on the south side OF
Beale street 20 feet TO a stake, that being the
corner Of a lot sold TO Duval, AlgeO q Co.;
thence sOuthward1y and parallel with shelby
street and with said Duval, AleeO & Co.'S line
laO feet, more or less, to an alley; thence west
Wardly with the north side or said alley 10
feet to q stake; thence nOrthwardly and paral-
lei with shelby street Us feet, more or less, 70
the beginning lf HrfU uors T3lr
Terms OF sale on 2 credit Of seven %
months Tor the ainOGnt OF Judgment herein,
Sll73 68, WtEh Interest from April Ig, lSsi, and
the taxes due SzrS g. makingi IN all lit5 =, for
which nOles with approved security wiii-0e
required, bearing interest; the balance On a
credit, for which nine l9J notes Will be re-
quired, with approved security, payable, re-
5pectiveiy, on the fst of December in eacn
year until the last note is paid il lSsl; lien re-
tanned TO further secure same, aud equity OF
redefnpt5oh barred.
Edmund =. COLE,
SSH sf f.. sG Clerk ana u aattl-
w MaS~fctr ssffoffOr- le1U.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

MARIEN-The friends and acquaintance
OF WM. MARIEN are invited to attend his
funeral this (FEIDAY) afternoon at three
o'clock, from his late residence, T73 Jefferson
street Carriages at Walsh's, 344 second street.
WACHrER- friends and acquaintance
of GEO. WAeHTER are respectfully invited TO
attend his funeral, from his late residence,
2SS1S Second street, this (FRIDAY) afternoon
at four o'clock.
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AFFLICK-Thursday morning. June 18th,
KATIE, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. II.
Affiick, aged eleven years and ten months.
AFFIICK--Thursday evening, June 18th,
REBEccA A., wife Of WM- II. AFFLICK.
Their friends and acquaintance are re-
speetfully invited to attend the funeral, al
the residence OF the family, No. Sc Monroe
street, tails CFRIDAY) afternoon at four
O'Clock.
DENLSOH-In this city, Thursday evening,
June lyth, at half-past eight o'clock, NARY c.,
daughter OF W L DenisOn- Aberdeen papers
please copy.l
The funeral viii take place this (FRIDAY)
morning, nom the resfdsnce OF John 3.
Horseiy, next door tt st. Peters Orphan Asy-
lum. Friends and acquaintance are respect
fully invited to attend.
REYNOLBS-At nine O'Clock Thursday
morning, June 18th, Of chOlera infantuui,
ANNE ELIZA REYNOLDs, infant daught er OF
Martin Reynolds, aged twelve moEths and
nineteen days.
The funeral viii take place from the resi-
dence, LA Front street, at three o'clock this
FRIDAY) afternoon. Carriages at J. J. Coo
ney q Bro s, S58 second street.
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l. .. OF. FUNERAL NOTICE.

THE officers and members OF ,ss.,s.
1 Memphis Lodge Mott, 1. 90. F., s t1lz=s.ssz
are hereby notified TO meet at their
hall this (FRIDAY) afternoon, at
%. o'clock, to pay the last tribute Of respect
TO our late Brother. GEO. WACHTER.
Members of Sister Lodges are earnestly in
vitcd TO attend.
By Onder-Of 81. GEO. ". AIATTHES, n. g.
JSo. W. WAYSEsBURG. Secretary. te20
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Notice to Tax Payers Of the Third
Ward.

HAVING removed my ONCE frOm No. 4615
Et North Court street to 260 second street
MADAM Vincent Block, L hope those persons
that L have waited on so patiently TO return
their assessments schedules, will DO 50 by the
sd inst, or I win be compelled, under the
law, 70 make an assessment and add . per
cent on the same.
D. T. NOCE, Assessor Third Ward.
Memphis, June Is, 1873. iel9
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
MASnNIC NnTTCR-

A SPECIAL communication OF South q
"A Memphis Lodge, No. lis, viii be held ~
this (FRIDAYl evening. June 10Th AVN
3 o'clock. for work in the F. c. degree.
Al f. C.'s are fra1ernally invited.
BY order BEN. K PULLEN- ". NJ
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.OMNIBUsss viii meet Iralns sl Naliolsr ~
u Cemetery fcr Raleigh spflngs-
nE- T5ekets rom Memphis TO Raleigh, and
retErn. 81 ., Inclusive OF Omnibus fare. e
- 7icl.ets can be obtained at No. 2S75S
Main street. and at the Memphis and Louis
vile depot. ]. T. FLYNN, Superintendent.
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IlGPGODIG'SPa
TIE DAILY APPEAL.

Hag- The MEMPHIS .APPEs4L is
thoroughly identified 10ith The
people of Tennessee, alabama,
mississippi and arkansas. 1t has
been in existence tl1irtgi-t10O years,
and popular as it has heretofore
been, the present PrOprietOrs are
determined to render it still more
tOortby of its past history, and of
the confidence J0Ietcb the public
repose in it. Its circulation and
general patronG6e is ROIC nearly
double that lchich 1t has enjoyed
at any time during its long ca
rser: bit 1Oe design to erteb9 It's
feJd and to increase its usefulness.
This 1Ce expect to do by publishing
a. newspaper equal to the best,
North or South, the representa-
tue journal of This section.
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MASONIC NOTICE.

THE semi-annual communication of .
i DeSOtO Lodge, No. 299, will be held ~
this (FRIDAY0 evening, June 30th, at 8/VN
O'Clock, tor dispatch Of business
BY order BUN. II. PRICE w N.
r. W GHuTTo~g- SacrpfarV leu
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OFFICE OF SOUTHERN LIFE INsU-
RANCE gtFaLPANT.

MEMPHIs, Tenn, June ?, 1873.
50 The Annual Meeting of the StOckhOId-
ers of this Company will be held at the office
of the Company, Tuesday, July 1st- PrOx,
at O'Clock pm. At this meeting Fifteen Di-
rectors for the ensuing year will be elected
ies BEN. MAY, Secretary.
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FOR SALE.
THREE VALUABLE
COTTON PLANTATIONS
FOR SALE,
An Pamela County, Mississfppi,
On Easy Terms and at Low Prices.

ONE tract, SEQ acres, 800 in cultivation; /;
Z y net income 500.
One other tract, 500 acres, 100 in cultiva-
ton; net income $500.
One other tract, 4Oo acres, l00in ltivatiOni :
income 800.
Good gins and cotton presses on each good
water, good buildings and good fencing 20
gether with good labor on each place
VIII be sold, one-haif paid hrst January
next and balance in twelve months, at sl2 Sd
per acre. Call On
CAPT. T. B. DILLARD, Memphis, or
CAPT. = d. POWELL. Batesville. Miss.
For fun particulars, or correspond with els her
~ any one desiring 10 look at said farms
Will cali on Capt. :. D Powell, az Batesviue,
Miss, who viii furnish cOnveyances and go
with parties 70 the plantations. lel5
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OFFICE De
CAROLINA. LIFE INSURANCE co.
No. AZ Madison street

NO. = HaaIisO. sIFeeI.
MEMPHIS, TENN, June 4, 1873.
Sc The Annual meeting Of the Stockholders
of the Carolina Life Insurance Company will
be held at the Office of the Company, No. AZ
Madison St, Memphis, Tenn, ON Monday,
June 23, 1873, between the hours Of 10 am.
and pm, for the purpose Of electing FffJeen
Directors for the ensuing year.
VIM. u. BROWNE. Secretary.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
TWenty-fOur Deaths from Cholera In
NaShVille-Susan b. AnthOny's
Sentenee-COnGensed
Miscellany.


NASHVILLE, June l9.-The deaths to-
day from cholera numbered twenty ne
gnOes and four whites. The weather Is
considered much more favorable to-day
than Wednesday.
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GRAND DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS
At the Picnic Grounds at 9p.m.
Chancery Sale Of Real Estate.

No. 76g, R.-First Chancery Court Of Shelby
COunty.-W. b. Greenlaw, Executor and sur
Vfying Partner, vs.. A. N. Ferguson.
ny virtue Of an interlocutory decree for sale
d entered in the above cause on the Eth day
OF May 1873, Z will sell at public auction, 70
the highest bidder, In front of the Clerk and
Masters office, GreenlaW OperahOuse build
ing. Second street, Memphis, Tennessee, on
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HASONIC NOTICE.

A SPECIAL communication Of Leila .
a scott Lodge, No. 2S9, viii be heldNSaY
this (FRIDAY) evening, June 10Th, at/WN
80 O'Clock, for work in the NJ. NJ. degree.
All NJ. NJ. 5 fraternaily invited
BY order A. r. DAVIS, W NJ
FnNEaRD GnLnsmrT4. Secretary. ie2O
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THE GREATEST NOVELTY OF THE AGE.
Money made easy and rapidly without
T. L. Full particulars and illustrated cafa-
lol.ne per mail on receipt Of % cents Address
Ut K SMITH = CO., % liberty ST. y y room ~
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Wednesday, the s5th day Of June, 1873,

for the purpose of considering or taking such
action on, and in reference to the form and
issuance OF the Consolidated Bonds, and the
form and stipulatiOns Of the mortgage TO Sc
cure the same, which under the contract Of
lease entered into between said Railroad Com
paDy and The southern Railway security
Company, on the firth day of March, 1877, 10 is
provided shall be made and executed by- said
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company
II is very desirable that a majority Of the
stock should be represented, and those stock
holders who cannot be present are earnestly
requested 70 send their proxies 70 some friend
VINO. will be present and represent them al
said meeting.
.- JOHN d. RATHER, President.
GEO. ROBERTSON, Secretary. my3l
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The Fourth National Bank Of
rl Memphis.

in the city of Memphis, In the county OF
Shelby, and State of Tennessee, has oeen duly
Organized under and according 70 the require
nnents of the act Of Congress entitled "An act
20 provide a National Currency secured by a
pledge OF United States Bonds, and to provide
for the circulation and redemption thereof, y
approved June 3, 1864, and has complied with
ali the provisions Of said act required 20 be
complied with before commencing the busi-
ness OF banking under said act.
Now, therefore, i, John jay Knox, Comp
trOller of the Currency, do hereby certify that
The F0U&rB NATIOHAI. BANK or ME1iFHls,
I'm the city Of Memphis, in the county %
shelby, and state Of Tennessee, is autiluilHeu
To com nlence the business OF banking under
the act Aforesaid.
In testimony whereof witness my hand aad
seal 0f ofice, ttia 3lsl day Of March, leli.
ss osmBtT I ebFrs6ag
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40 LOTS
WALNUT STREET
For Sale.

- have forty lots in the division Of my
home place, 30 by 80 feet. Also, my RESI-
DENCE, With two acres attached, on Walnut
street, which desire TO sell. Also, lots 'front.'
ing on the river, west Of the GayosO house.
Persons desiring to purchase can see me- al
ny OFFICE, No. s73 MAIN STREET,
JACKSON BLOCK, over sledge, Mckay & co.
myu GEORGE DIxON.
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BANKS.
CARD.

ps- The undersigned have been authorized
by Eastern Capitalists to propose . the people
of Memphis and vivinity the establish
ment Of
NEW NATIONAL BANK
with capital Of ssoO,OOO or 100000, con-
ditioned that they (the people Of MemPhis)
subscribe for one-third only Of the capital
stock.
We deem it unnecessary TO call the attention
of our business community to the great sd-
vantages 70 result nom this liberal PROPOSE
ton 70 bring capital to our city, and hope It
viii meet their prompt response.
Cf1zens and others win be called upon for
subscriptions Of stock, that the organization
may be completed without delay, as cur
friends are now ready to furnish their share
Of the capital.
subscriptions may also be made with either
of the undersigned. AMOS WOODRUFF.
-laa 10 ]. +. BUSBY.
-qs T. A. NELSON.
Memphis, May "A, 1873. myl5
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NOTICE.

HAVING been duly qualified as Admins
tratrix OF the estate Of ID. Z. Cochran,
deceased, all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified TO present the
same to me, or my agent, r. L. Cochran, 30
Front street. for payment, within the time
prescribed by law, or they viii be forever
barred, both in law and equity. All persons
indebted TO said estate will please settle their
Indebtedness forthwith.
MRS. 5. E. COCHRAN,
leu ADMINISTRATIVE.
MOrusns- No. I49.
y, 81, 4S, 50, s., 90, 2, 6s, 81, a, a, Ia,
EvenfBg-CIass No. I5O
81, 81, 50. %, s, 4S, "a, p, SO, 6S, 80. s.
Memphis, this 18Th day Of June, 1873.
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FORT MCPHERSON, NEB-, June IS
Professor Marsh, Of the Yale college ex-
qilOring party, left here to-day for the
the Mobrava river, where they viii
spend the next five weeks in geological
Investigations. Two companies of the
third cavalry, under the command Of
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IIlG Thomas Lots.

A BOUT THREE HUNDRED AND sixty
"a of these beautiful lots still on hand, and
we VIII keep them open at the present Low
PRIC s. and LIBERAL TERMS of payment
for a short time longer. All who would avail
themselves of the present advantages must
not delay closing negotiations, for when once
the prices are advanced we do not propose to
reduce them again. call and get plots and
make thorough inspection Of the property
without delay.
DONOHO & BULKLEY,
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NOTICE.
CaII Meeting of Stoekholders.

THE Stockholders in the Memphis and
Il Charleston Railroad Company are hereby
notified that the Board Of Directors of said
Company have ordered and called a meeting
of said stockholders, to be held AT Memphis,
Tor,paeena On
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TENNESSEE.

Thirty-five answers received from
twenty-six counties. Seven counties say
same area in cotton. From eighteen
the increase ranges from five to forty
five per cent. General average of in
creased acreage for the State, ten per
cent. Little or no fertilizers used. La
Dor represented as good, rather more nu-
merOus and efficient. Weather nearly
uniformly stated as unfavorable, heavy
and too frequent rains. An average
stand has, however, been obtained.
One-third of the reports represent the
condition as bad, the other two-thirds as
good. The complaints are principally
of the grass.
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QUESTION

whether a ship can make her way TO the
Danish settlement at the upper Navick
or Disco without steam, IL she gets free
rom Ice this season, suppOsing her to be
IN as good condition when rescued as
when the party was last on board, the
witnesses differ in their judgInent SO
far, but the opinion is that She viii need
assistance to bring her completely and
safely out. On board the Polaris are
specimens of dTiftwood picked up on or
near the shores of Newman's bay and
Polaris bay among which Myers thought
he recognized distinctly the walnut,
the ash, and the pine. Among the nu.
merous facts that appear to be elected
on examination we may mention AZ one
OF much interest that the dip of the nee
die amounted TO 450, and its deviation
9G0, being less than at Foulke's aud
Rennsellar's harbor, as gwen by DR..
Kane and pr, Hayes The rise aud tell
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE or COlIPTROLLEsR OF TEE CURRENCY
WAsHINGrON, March 81, 1873.
WHBREAs, by satisfactory evidsnes pre-
sented to the undersigned, il has been made to
ar,saaar that
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
GEORGIA.

One hundred communications reOetv-
ed from seyenty-nine counties. OF them
only three fsport a decrease Of acreage,
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Fifty-three reports from thirty-five
counties, eighteen Of which report same
area Of cotton; from the remaining sew
enteen the increase is variously estimat-
ed at from five to one hundred per cent.
(the latter from Searcy county only,
the general average of the increase in
the State being five per cent. Labor is
more plentiful, and no complaint is
made of its inefficiency. The weather
has been less favorable than last year,
rain and a cold spring causing the crop
to be late by fifteen days, though the
average stand seems to have been OBJ
tanned. Twenty-six reports complain of
the ''grass and weeds" the balance rep
resent the condition as being promising.
No fertilizers used in this State.
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ofthe tide were carefully observed, the
average being about five and half feet.
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ST. LOUIS, June I9.-The following
provision dealers failed yesterday
H2zTis & Thomas, liabilities three hun
GTcd and twenty-five thousand dollars;
Guthrie & Co., liabilities two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars; Cheatham,
Draughan & Co., liabilities three hun
dred and seve1ty-five thousand dollars.
The aggregate amount of meat on hand
aud bought for future delivery for which
these firms are liable is six million
pounds Of meat and twelve thousand
barrels of pork. The Indebtedness of
these firms IS in st. Louis, New Orleans,
Cincinnati, Louisville and Chicago.
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First Cotton Crop Report Of the
New Orleans Cotton
Exchange.
Returns Carefully Compiled from
the Cotton Belt, including
Ten States.
The Prospect : Rains, Grass,
Worms, Late Planting, Fer
tiliZers and Labor.

NEW ORLEANS, June Is, 1873.
To the President and Directors of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange:
GENTLEAIEN-We beg to submit the
following report of information, con-
densed from letters received by US, dating
from May 23d to June 7th, in answer to
our interrogatories sent out during the
month Of Nav.
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Fifty letters. Forty counties heard
from, Seven counties report same acre
age. In thirty-one the Increase is va
riously estimated from three to three
hundred per cent. The average of the
increase in the State is fully twenty-five
per cent. The labor has increased in
numbers and efficiency. The character
of the weather has been unfavorable,
heavy rains with cold spring. Stands
of cotton almost uniformly represented
as good, while the general tone of our
correspondence indicates fair condition
of the crop, though there are many COM
plants Of grass. No fertilizers used in
this State. Crop twenty-five days later.