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MEssRs. FURcuGorr. BENEDICT & Co..
Charleston, S. O., offer to the public
and dealers in general an immense and
well-selected stock of dry goods, car
pets, oil-cloths, mattings, 60, at the
lowest prices. Herewith they annex
the prices of q few articles: Calicos,
from 6 to 1Oc.; longcloths. from 6 to
l5c.; brown homespunH, extra heavy,
from 71a to 10c.; jeans, from 1910.
upwards; cassimeres. from 40c. up
wards; fannels, from 20 to Soc; Ia
dies. misses and gents hose, 75c.,
Sl.l5. 50 per doz. aud upwards; sus-
penders, 81 40 per doz. and upwards; ;
ladies' and gents pocket handker-
chiefs, from Goo. per doz. and upwards; /;
black and colorcd alpacas, 2Oc. and
upwards; dress goods, from Csc. up
wards; ladies' and gents furnishing
goods, housekeeping goods fancy
goods, ribbons. notions. &C., from Is
to 70 per cent. cheaper than elsewhere.
Samples sent and orders promptly
hlled. All retail orders from Sl0up-
wards sent per express free of charge.
A liberal discount to Wholesale dealers
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S250, 600 70 be Given AWAY.
G.ooe CASH PRIZES. aggregating. $3.50, 90

PRICE OF TICKETS:
MhoiG &C. GIickcts.sl0 co Qr'ter T'kts..$ $50
hait iickets 90 IL Tickets. 100 90
NO INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS.
inns Concert ia strictly for MASONIC
purposes, and will be conducted will the
same ilberality, honesty and fairness which
characterized the first enterprise.
JOhN l.. ROPER, President.
for tickets and circulars, giving full
information. address
HENRY V. MOORE. Sec, Norfolk. Va.
RESPONSIBLE AGENTS WANTED.
Sept 4 +3o
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Y Wrapping Paper.

A FULL supply Of WRAPPING PAPER
~ just received from the Atlantic Paper
Mllls' ta for which we are solo agents. and Of
be delivered from the Northern oities. Oaii
and examine quality and prices at the store
OF JOHN AGNEW d SON.
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Ice! Ice! Ice!

AM now prepared to supply all orders
l. for The above article. The Ice manu-.
iactured at my establishment is made
from pure Spring Water, frozen at a tenn
perature OF thirty degrees below freezing
point Fahrenheit. and can be shipped a
long distance without much loss. Price
81 25 per 100 pounds, and good ight qua
rantecd. No ice shipped unless TIE money
accompanies The order
july 20 10. SEEGERS
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RCHARLEsToN TO THE FRONT. Among
our new advertisements, is that OF Que
OF the Oldest establishments in this
state. Established in 1882, it has
maintained the first place in its line of
business. With large experience and
unsurpassed facilities, Messrs. Walker.
Evans " Cogawell are prepared to sus-
Tain The reputation of their establish
ment. Like A. Il. Stewart, they be-
iieve in newspaper advertising, and
take this means to announce that thew
have, this season, added very largely
to their stock OF type and machinery,
and are better prepared than over to
please their customers. We wish them
every success. S4+
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Kerosene Mt Csc.

PEST quality KEROSENE, 10 fire test,
I'D at retail, ut 25c. per gallon, and whole
salo at 20c. per gallon, at the cash sto:e of
Aug lG JOHN AGNEW & SON.
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Now is the accepted, time! Now is
the time to advertise. if you want 20
anticipate the fall trade.
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'partanburg and AsbevilIe Railroad.
Natures Highway Across the Mountains.
LIoH1 GRADES, EASY CURVES, No TUNNEL1SG
LET 1T BE BUILT SPEEDILY.

link in the Air-Lino Road between the
cities OF Cincinnati, Lsuieville. st. Louis,
Chicago and Charleston. scvcnty-four
miles long, with I,ss tL;.u ,~.nty miles of
heavy work.
Shorter than III. limo from New York,
Phi!adclphia and baltimore to either o.
these cities, and many hundred miles
nearer to these centres OF Western trade
than any existing line to Charleston.
The Road that promises to ma Ike Charlee-
ton the market for the trade OF the great
North-west, the West Indies, South Anne
RIGA and Europe; also, An important EN-
grant station.
ECONOMICAL IN CONSTRUCTION,
SAFE IN MANAGEMENT AND
PROFITABLE IN RESULTS.
An Important enterprise for the develop
mont OF South Carolina.
Shares Fifty Dollars each, pay able in ten
installmcnts.
Every citizen OF this State should own Ht
least one Share
CHARLEsToS, with her magnificent Har-
Dor and genial climate; her immense unde-
vcloped back country, containing fertile
soil, fine pasture grounds and ine1hausti.
BILE water power; her contiguity to the
West Indies and South America, and her
unparalleled European ocean couree, ie
destined, upon the completion Of this I'M
PoRTAST TRUNK LINE, to emerge from her
prostrated condition and become what
nature has intended she should bs-the
GREAT COMMERCIAL METROPOLIS Of the
SOUTHERN SECTION OF the UNITED STATES.
LIMIT OF sTOCKHOLDERS'L LIABILITY.
The following clause in the charter is
published for tho information OF sub
scrbers:
SEC. 4. "That no Stakeholder OF said
Company shall be held liable for the debts.
contracts or acts OF said corpor alton.
beyond the amounts actually subs cribed to
the Capital Stock of said Company by such
Stakeholder"
DIRECTORS:
GEO. W. WILLIAMS, GABRIEL CASEoN.
Is. BoLLMANN, JOHN II Ey1Ss.
ALyA GAGE, Il. B. JETER.
THEo. D. JEnyEY, .. Il. DUNCAN.
IHEo u. BARKER, JAMES f. BLACK,
JOHN s. FAIRLY, JOHN 8. Wiley.
Principal Office and Address, 25 BrosS
street, Charleston, 9. G.
c. e. MEMMINGER, President.
A. G. KAUFMAN, Secretary and Treas.
July . 3mo
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KEROSENE OIL CHEAP

KEROSENE OIL CHEAP,
FCLL GO YER NMENT TEST,
At 20 Cents per Gnlicn.
TNHlS Is. the same quality OF. wo have
Il retailed tor nearly TEN YEA y in Co.
lumbia. NEITHER DEATH MOI, DESC.
LATlON has ever entered any family from
It's use, pulpit oratory to tho CO !, rary not
outstanding. At this price, it il a boon
To tho people. and our saics show that they
Know and appreciate il. For further par
ticulars, see GEORGE SYNMEkS
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Special Order, No. g.

All Smokers of Pressed Cigars will please
take notice that they can get bunch con.
tanning 20 Cigars tor H. and all other
popular brands at equally low prices, at the
CALIFORNIA CIGAR STORE.
lSign of the Indian Chief,)
3D. Door Below Wheeler House.
Jnne6
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IMPROVED
GEORGIA OTTON PRESS!
Patented March, 1870.

Df FENDLETUN q BOARDMAN,
AUGUSTA, Ga.
TN satisfaction this PRESS has given
Il in tho past, the great improvement
made on it, and tho fact OF it's being from
forty to fifty dollars cheaper than any other
good Press, should induce planters and
others to send for ono OF our new Circulars
before purchasing. We also manufacture
Irons for Water Power Presses and Screw
Presses. Address
PENDiETON & DOAiOnIif,
Foundry and Machine Works, Koilock
Street. Augusta. Ga. July wI4mo
Spartanburg and AsbevilIe Railroad.
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POSTPONEMENT.
SECOND AND LAST
GRAND GIFT CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
Relief Association
OF NORFOLK, VA,

Day Positively Fixed!
T u ii ny 10Th Nov III II er.
LAST CHANCE.
F!NHIS enterprise is conducted by tho MA
4 SONIC RELIEF ASSOCIATION OF
NDRFOLK. va, under authority of tho
Sirginla Legislature, (Act passed March
Sth, 1879
$4,000 TIckets-G 900 Cash Gifts.
$3.50, 900 TO be Given Away.
Ono Grand Cash Gift of. 30 00o
One Grand Cash Gilt or .. 25 i00
One Grand Cash Gift of. .. 90 000
OMc Grand Cash Gift Of .. 10 'uO0
Onc Grand Cash Gift Of 5'(,00
Ono Grand Cash Gift of. 2500
ohG HTand Cash CHIT OF. ........... 1000
90 90 Sash Giits OF 81, ,O00 cach..... $4,000
- , Cash G!its or 500 each. 80. $4,000
~ CASH Gifts OF $50 each ..... 1O,75O
~ Cash Gifts OF $50 each 80. 1850
:.n Cash G!its OF 100 each.... $4,000
~ ~ Cash Gifts OF so zach. h... 28,900
''''' CASH gifts OF 10 each..... $4,000
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Official Order, No. I

WAN all Smokers to know that there
l. are s,il plenty moro of the co,chratcd
. cent PAETAGAS OH hand. guarantee
that they contain more and II better unality
oi lnbacc" than any other cen; Cigar
sold III !iin city
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{
PRICES 70 SUIT TL!E TIMES.
Bed Rooms from 81 per month upwards;
Family Rooms from Sc per month upwards:
Law, ers Offices from &c pr montl. upwards.
WATER, GAS, WATER and WOOD CLIO.
SETS and other modern improvements in.
side building. No back rooms, all fronting
on the street. Good ventilation. a Janitor
in charge Of building. Apply ia Central
Bank, or to Meesrs. SEIBELS g. EZELL.
April2
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ECONOMICAL IN CONSTRUCTION,
SAFE IN MANAGEMENT AND
PROFITABLE IN RESULTS.

An Important enterprise for the develop
mont OF South Carolina.
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MUSICAL
Immense Success Of the German Sch
geFfest nt Cleveland, OhiO-Madame
Lucea's Movement

CLEVELAND, June 25.-The heavy
shower this evening somewhat lessened
the attendance at the SleageJest matt
nee; the hall was, however, comfortably
filled. The entertainment was very
fire. The singing of Madame Lucca
and of Mr.. A. Soht, of New York, was
excellent, and heartily applauded. The
former, in response to an encore, sang
Home, Si0eet Home, in touching mau-
ner. One of the most interesting and
enjoyable features of the entertainment
was the singing by one thousand five
hundred scholars of the public schools,
under the direction of Prof. n. Coe
Stewart. Their rendition of the Star
Spdngled Banner and the Watch on
tie Rh$ne, the latter in German, was
especially good. The second grand con-
cert Of the S6pge7Jest was given this
evening. The attendance was large,
fully ten thousand persons being pres
ent. The concert was a complete sue
cess. Madame Lucca concluted her
engagements in this country at this con-
cert, and win sail for Europe next Mon
day.
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THE COAL-MINERS' TROUBLES.
The Hooking Valley Disturbances Not
Yet Ended-Threats OF the Union
HzfueFs.

COLUMBUS, O., June 25.-The trouble
among the coal-miners in Hooking val
lev still continues, but it is transferred
from NelsOnville to New Straitsville. A
report comes from Straitsville tonight
that last night a number of union coal
miners captured some of the men who
had agreed to go to work, and placing
ropes around their necks threw the Op-
pcsite ends over tree limbs, compelling
the men to disclose the conversation be-
tween themselves and the operators,
under threat Of death by hanging. 1t
is thought it may yet be neces-
sary to call out the militia
to suppress and prevent further Demon
strations of this kind. J. D. Clarke, a
Straitville operator, is said to have told
the miners that he preferred giving EN-,
ployment to white men, IL they would
accept situations at five cents per ton,
and that seventyflve men had signed
contracts to work. He will, it is report
ed, start for Memphis tonight to secure
coIOred miners. About ninety cOlored
men have been put to work in Peter
Hayden's mines, at Haydenville, and
are doing good work.
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8. W. RHODE Observer.
By TELEGRAPH.
LITTLE Rock, June 25.-River rising, with
feet 10 inches by the gauge. Weather cloudy
local packets.
NEW ORLEANS, June 25.-weather warm
and rainy. Arrived: Bismarck, and Mollle
Moore, ST. Louis. Departed; Charles Bod
mann, Cincinnati.
EVANSVILLE, June 25.-Weather clear with
the mercury at 79s TO 92e. River risen inches.
Business light. No arrivals or departures ex-
cept local packets.
PIrrsBuRe, June 25.-River falling with
2 feet inches in the channel. Weather cloudy
and very warm. NO arrivals or departures
except local packets.
NASHVILLE, June 25-River falling slowly,
with / foot 9 inches on Harpeth shoals.
Weather cloudy and warm. No arrivals or de-
partures except local packets.
vIcKsBuRe, June 25.-Weather warm and
Up: City OF Alton, Mary Louise, Bee and
barges, City of Helena. Down: Atlantic
and barges, Belle Lee.
ST. LOUIS, June 25.-Weather clear and
warm. River falling slowly. Arrived: /:
Belle Memphis, Memphis, Mollie Ebert,
PittsbuIg. Departed: st. Geneveive, Vicks-
burg.
LOUISVILLE, June 25.-The river is falling
slowly, with feet 10 inches In the canal and
2 feet ID inches in Indiana chute. Weather
pleasant. Business dull. No arrivals or de-
partursI, except local packets.
CAIKo, June 25, NOon-weather cloudy and
warm. Arrived: Julia, 81. Louis, 10 pm. /;
G. Yaeger, New Orleans, 2 AN; James D.
Parker, Cincinnati City Of Vicksburg, Nicks-
burg 10 am. Departed Julia, Vieksburg, II
p.m.; Thomas Sherlock, cincinnati, mid
night; 81. @ Yseger, st. Louis, am; James
ID. Parker, Memphis, II m.......-.Night Ar
rived: Shannon, Cincinnati, pm; Grand
Tower, st. Louis, pm. Departed: City Of
Vicksb1rg, SC. Louis, Il m. River II feet
inch and falling. Weather clear. Mercury
94o.
weather Report.
wAsHINGroN, June 26, 1 am.-For New
England, generally cloudy weather and light
rain viii prevail, with southwest or northwest
winds, lower temperature and no decided
change in tho Darometer.
For the Middle states and lower lake re-
gion, partly cloudy weather and local rains,
With south or west winds, continued high
temperature and a slight change In .he ba-
romeber.
FOR t1se South Atlantic States, clear or
81 weather in the Interior, and light rains
coasts, with light OF genLle winds, high tenn
peratyire and continued high barometer in
the Gull States.
For the Ohio valley, Tennessee and the up
! per lake region, partly cloudy weather and
rain from Kentucky nOrthWaro 70 Lake SUI
perior, with fresh or brisk south or est
winds, high temperature and stationary or
failing barometer.
For the northwest, clear or fair weather, ex-
| cept in Minnesota, with high Temperature
and south or west winds,
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TEXAS.
From Ne mPhis e DRilas-The People
and the COuDtEy-The Prospects
Good Advice.

DALLAS, June 2I.-As 1 promised
YOU before / left, l will give you few
items in regard to this part of Texas. l
left Memphis Sunday evening, June
I4th, at twenty-five minutes past three
O'Clock, changed cars at Little Rock at
three o'clock that night, changed again
at Texarkana at ten O'Clock in the MORN
ing, and arrived here at twelve O'clock
Monday night. Daylight broke on us
when fifteen or twenty miles this side of
Little Rock, and from there to Red
river | saw about as poor country and
as poor crops as / ever saw anywhere in
my life; a large portion of the cotton
Just coming up and coming up badly at
that. Corn from three inches to knee
high, and | suppose from the condition
that it is in that the owners of it think
about like did, that it is hardly worth
working out. On this side of Red river
there is a belt OF some twenty miles of
very fine land and good crops. Then
again, from there on up to Jefferson
and even up to Marshall, the country is
poor and the crops are worse than poor.
Crops suffering for rain au the way.
After leaving Marshall I soon saw an
improvement in the lands and crops,
aud by the time we reached MinneOla l
ctulu STE uSSANCu III 1fAoNGuAFhb III
both lands and crops. Dark came on US
there and 7 saw nothing more from
there to this place. From what l have
seen and what learn from others, I
think that l am in as fine q
farming and stock-raising country as
there is in the Union. Cotton knee
high, and branching welfS Corn ten
feet high and in silk and tassel. They
have Just harvested, and are now haul
ing in, a wheat crop which they consider
rather short, ranging from twenty to
thirty bushels per acre, selling in the
city this morning st from one dollar to
one dollar and ten cents per bushel.
About fifty wagon loads of fine muslsite
hay are coming in from the prairies
every day, selling at eight dollars per
ton. Dallas hss population Of about
ten thousand, and is improving very
rapidly, but money-matters are awful
tight here as well as in Memphis. Busi-
ness is lively here to what it was in
Memphis when | left. Still they con-
slider it a dull season. This is a beauti-
full location for q city, and being sur
rounded uy such country it is bound to
be a considerable place. One thing l
VIII say, in the winding up of this letter,
for the benefit of those who think of
coming to this country, if they expect
to come here and live without work hey
had better stay where they are, and
save the expense and trouble Of the trip,
for the people here work, those that can
get work, and others would il they
could get work to do. l will write you
again af.er l see more of the county.
II T. PROP IT.
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TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.
Dawes declines the nomination to con-
o..rna f.r.ra ATnnnn. ,rnnnAtn

Dawes declines the nomination to con-
gress from Massachusetts,.
The President will be absent from
Washington a week or ten days.
Government gold went in New York
city yesterday at I11.07 to lll.26a.
The State temperance convention at
/ PittsbaFg is still In sessiOn,
A policeman named Stone shot him.
sell in San Francisco yesterday evening.
Dead.
The mining prospects throughout
Utah, says Salt Lake dispatch, were
never better.
A party of engineers left Omaha yes
teriay to survey the northern boundary
Of Nebraska.
A disastrous fire occurred at Madison,
Indiana, yesterday. Loss, twenty thou
sand dollars.
The Maine Uuiversalists have recog-
ni.Eed the eligibility of women to the
christian ministry.
The Young Mems christian associa-
ticn International convention is in ses-
sisn at Dayton, Ohio.
A dozen funerals of victims of the
ehareh disaster wiil take place In Syra-
cuseI New York, to-day.
The passage or POIauu's bill by vO.a-
gress caused no unusual excitement in
Mormon circles Of Salt Lake.
A coal-oil experiment in cooking
stove in st. Louis yesterday resulted in
the fatal burning OF Mrs. Miller.
st. Johns day was generally observed
by the Masonic fraternity throughout
the Union and Canadas yesterday.
Burnside's name still leads in the con-
test for United States senator now going
OH in the Rhode Island Legislature.
The coroner's Investigation into the
Baptist church catastrophe at Syracuse,
New York, began yesterday morning.
A dispatch from Calcutta yesterday
announced that the distress, in conse-
quence of the famine, is decreasing ev-
erywhere.
The postal convention between the
United States and France was ratified
by the French assembly yesterday with
out debate.
President Grant passed through Staun-
ten, Virginia, yesterday. The "Stone-
wall brigade band made music for him
during his stay.
Springbok won the hotel purse on the
Utica, New York, Park association
course yesterday, in l As and :424. Ar
tist was at his heels.
The Carlists have established their en-
Erenched lines before the Spanish town
of Esteils, the Outer lines being five
leagues from the city.
Fourteen dead bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins Of the Baptist
church in Syracuse, New York, which
fell with such terrible results during q
strawberry festival Tuesday. Several of
those seriously injured are not expect
ed to recover.
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HARMLESS N-IsTOLs.
An Editor ana q Mayors Sos Indulge
in a Fourth Sf July Celebration
-HShHdy Kurt

LEXINGTON, KY, June pa diff
Guilty occurred bet y cen DIR. r. ]. O'Ma-
hoDy, one of the editors Of the Press,
il which several shots were exchanged,
without serious injury to any one. The
difficulty originated in an article that
appeared in Sundays Press, giving a
Uer6dtin account Of scehe in the city
council, in which J. T. Frazer, mayor OF
the city, and father of jerome Frazer,
acted very ridiculous part. The article
enraged the mayor and bis son to such
an extent that they have been seeking
a difficulty ever since the article made
its appearance. A slight collision took
place on Monday, resulting in Frazer
being arrested and fined in the police
court of this city. This, however,
seemed to have the effect of making
matters worse, and resulted in the un-
fortunate affair of to-day. There is q
great deal Of Indignation among our cit
liens that the mayor OF the city should
have allowed this difficulty to have gone
%, aud he may possibly be removed
from Office
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-26

This comparison makes a very unfa-
vorable showing for the present condi-
ton of the crop, the cause of which is
thus well explained in the report:
Ihe season has been remarkable for
heavy and recent rains during the month
of April throughout the cotton States
In some sections the aggregate rainfall
reported exceeded sixteen inches. All
the rivers, creeks, and spring branches,
even, overhOwed their banks, DESTROYING
the plants, and prevented termination
in newly-planted lands. Ia the more
southern belt, replanting was general,
both in bottom and uplands. From the
first week in May to its close, drought
was almost universal. The soil was
packed and afterward baked by the sun,
retarding cultivation and preventing
growth. The stand is therefore very
poor, many plants not having made
their appearance on the first of June,
Since the last of May light showers have
been general, and the prospects are
much improved. Fields are much
cleaner than at this date last year, and
can easily be kept free from weeds.
With favorable weather rapid improve
ment is certain, and a fair comparison
with July is quite probable at the next
report:
The following comparison of acreage
planted with the actual crop, each yesr
since 1869, shows that the correspond
ence between the yield and the area
planted is by no means uniform:
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lowing teble

In the case of every State, except
Texas, there is material decrease, COM
pared with last year, in the area planted.
The total estimated acreage last year
was 8, ,S4S, 723; while this year, as shown
in the above statement, the returns of
the agricultural department indicate S.
TS5, 756 acres, or l, ,057, 1857 acres less than
in 1873, All other things being equal,
this decline of 1914 per cent. in the
area planted would imply correspond
ingly smaller crop than last year, or, to
be more explicit, a reduction OF about
$50 900 bales compared with the crop of
1873. But We cannot be by any means
certain that all the conditions affecting
the out-turn will be equal to those Of
last year. The conditions Of weather,
labor, state of soil, insects, etc., are all
at present undetermined, and we have
therefore no means of judging how far
the yield will correspond to the redGc-
ton in the acreage. The agricultural
report gives estimates as to the condi-
ton of the crop in June, the estimates
being expressed by regarding 100 as re-
presenting q normal or fair condition,
while the figures show the approxima-
ton to that standard. The following
are the estimates for each State, COM
pared with the like returns of condition
for June 1873.
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In 1870, when we had a crop of 4, $780,
600 bales, the acreage was only about
100000 above that of this year, and last
years crop was about $50, 900 bales less
than that of 1870, although about ], 600, :
600 acres more was planted than in the
latter year. In 1872, with $4,000 acres
more planted than this year, the crop
was 1880, 900 bales. The average area
planted Tor the last four years has
been s $50, l30 acres; and the average
crop for the same period, 3 664, ,294 bales;
the acreage is consequently about 81, 900
acres below the late average; and, there
fore, if the law of averages could be re-
lied upon as governing the crop, we
might anticipate yield Of about |, $780,
900 bales,