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600. United States 5s declined y per cent.
on the last call
The total sales of stocks to-day were
l'oSaS0O, including Atchison, % 100; Atch-
lson preferred, 1920; Baltimore and Ohio,
22,10O; Chesapeake and Ohio, II 800 Bur
iington, 2O,400; Rock Island, 1900; Della
ware and Hudson, 100; Erie, g. 100; Erie
hrst, CISCO; Iowa Central, 6100; Louisville
and Nashville 1900; Manhattan, 22700
Metropolitan, 1920; Missouri Pacific, H.
700; Missouri. Kansas and Texas pre-
ferred, H,l00; New York Central, 1900
Norfolk and Western, 800; Northern Pa
cific, 6l,SO0; Northern Pacific preferred
670J Ontario and Western. SO 700; Penn
sylvania, 5l,S0O; Reading, 1850; Reading
first preferred. $1,000; Reading Sec
ond preferred, 97,70O; ST. Louis
Southwestern, 1900; st. Louis
Southwestern preferred, $500; St
Paul, 1925; Southern Pacific, 81, 200;
Southern Railway, 1880; Southern Rail
way preferred, $500; Texas and Pacific,
10000; Union Pacific. $4,000; Union Pacific
preferred, 1900; Copper, $500; Steel Hoop,
800; Steel and Wire, 27,s0O; Tin Plate,
1860; Tobacco, 81 200; Brooklyn, 44,4O0;
Colorado Fuel. 1900; Continental Tobacco,
1880 Federal Steel 1920: National Steel,
1920; Peoples Gas. 1900; Pullman, 100;
Sugar, 800; Tennessee Coal and Iron,
$500; United States Leather, 1000; Rub
ber 5000
New York Jan. 2-standard Oil SO5@
$40.
New York, Jan. 2.-Consolidated Gas
closed at 1884,
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COTTON REVIEWS.

BY Atwood, Violet & Co., New York
The amount brought into sight of the
present American cotton crop, since sept.
last. to date has been, in round figures,
& AL 600 bales; and for the three remaining
davs of December we add 10000, making
total in sight at the end Of December
G,55l 900.
The percentage of the crop marketed to
Dec. 81. 1899. was the smallest in sixteen
vars. or CPL. and applying this percent
age to e551, 600, 1t would indicate crop
for the present season of lO446,5OO. Inc
largest percentage in any of the last SIX
teen years marketed at the end OF De-
6efnber was 1892. and applying that 10
6.551 900. the crop would be 100000
In order that this crop shall be lO'5oo'VN
bales. it means that there must come mo a.o
SIGHT from Jan. l, to Aug. 81, next, 1'4OO,OOO
bales more than came into sight from Jan.
10 Aug. 81. 1892. the crop of which season
was 9.OS5O0O bales: This seems an I'M
probability. 800 -,
The average percentage into sight dur
ing the past FIVE years, to Dec. 81 was
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COTTON FUTURES.
The Market Closed Steady With
Prices 0Q20 Points Higher.


Prices 0d20 Points Higher.
New York, Jan. 2.-The cotton market
to-day was decidedly more active than in
some months, while the session as a whole
reflected return of Old time investment
speculation. Sentiment in general was of
friendly character, and Wall street dis
played more interest of substantial sort
than since election day. The market
started steady In tone with prices to 6
points higher and for a time was compar-
atively quiet, though gathering strength
was clearly manifested. The early Eng
fish cables were considerably better than
looked for while domestic news from
nearly every point favored firmer mar
Asl Shorts were in hasty retreat at the
end of the first half hour in their effort
to reach cover were forcing values up
ward sharply. Later in the forenoon bun
speculation on fairly general lines came
TO the front, with the result that a net
rise OF 10 to IA points was apparent at
noon. Southern spot markets were report
ed higher with holders Offering little cot
ton of a grade suitable to the needs of
the domestic mills or exporters Receipts
were smaller. Early in the afternoon the
. market again gave a demonstration of
inherent strength by advancing even more
rapidly than in the forenoon on public
confirmation of the morning reports that
spot cotton was higher in the South.
Fears of a higher Liverpool market to-
morrow impelled shorts to reach cover.
Bull sentiment reached a high pitch and
investment buying in the last hour was
the feature of the days trading. The
March and May options were the center
OF attraction. Closed steady, 9 to 20 points
higher.
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HEISTER's STATEMENT.
Amount of Present Crop Brought
Into Sight to Date 100000 Over
Inst Year.

New Orleans, Jan. 2-Secretary Hester's
New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement
issued to-day covers the monthly move
ment to Dec 81.
Compared with last year 1t shows on
increase for the month in round figures
of $4,000 bales. The total. for December
was LILLE against 1897, us last year.
The amount of the crop brought into
sight for the three months from Septem-
Der to December inclusive is $4,000 over
last year.
The movement from the first of Sep
TENDER to Dec, 81, inclusive, shows re-
ceipts at all United States delivery ports
4,554, 692, against $3.50 514 Fast year; over
land across the Mississippi, Ohio and Po-
tomac rivers 1871 $50, against S12, 957 last
year; Southern mill talxings exclusive Of
quantity consumed at Southern outports,
$50 1888, against 59S, 2S7 last year. and inte-
rior stocks in excess of those held at he
commencement of the season, 729, 79S,
against 525, $40 last year.
Northern spinners took during Deem
Der 417,045 bales, against 49S,626 last year,
increasing their total for the four months
to 1,135,5OO, against 1885, 100 last year
Foreign exports for the first four months
of the season have been 3,1S1, 937 bales,
showing an Increase over last season Of
61S,J0 The gain in foreign exports dur
ing December compared with December
last year, has been 23S, 122.
Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty
nine leading Southern interior markets on
Dec. 81, were 1872, 1874, against 1898 939 the
same date last year
up to Dec. 81 last year. g. 71-1OO per
cent. of the cotton crop had been market
ed, and for the same four months in 1898
the percentage of the crop brought into
sight was IS 52-100, and for the same time
in 1887 the percentage marketed was 65 Is
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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, Jan. 2, 4 p. m-Spot cotton,
fair demand; prices 1-32d higher; Ameri-
can middling fair, 15-16d good middling
5-Sd; middling 1920; low middling
11-32d; good ordinary S-32d; ordinary
H-32d. The sales of the day were 5000
bales, of which 500 were for speculation,
and export and included 1900 American.
Receipts since last report $4,000 bales, in
Guiding $500 American. Futures opened
firm and closed steady; American mid
ding, low middling clause: January $3.50
5.29d. buyers; January February 525@5. 2sd,
buyers; February-March 5.22d. sellers;
March-April 5.19d. value; April-Ma 5.16d,
buyers; May-June slid. sellers; June-July
Slid, buyers; July-August 50S65.O9d sell
lers; August-Septembe 4.57q45Sd, sellers.
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FINANCIAL.

MoNEY-The demand keeps fairly up
with the supply.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE Market
steady. Commercial demand, S. SSis;
sixty days. A.79% ninety days, $47S;
francs Paris and Havre sixty days,
S.22k; Swiss, sixty days. $3.50; Belgian,
5.2Hs; marks, sixty days, SO 1916; ninety
days SO 7-16.
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE - Steady:
banks are buying at Il discount and
selling as follows; $25 and under. 1Oc pre-
MUM; S25 to $50. 15c premium; $50 to 500,
zoe premium; 800 to 5000, 25c premium
$780, and over par.
SECURITTES-Ou railroad sacurit,as
are all advancing.
Stocks.
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SQVQllQl BQDk Z trust 60.
CdDjtaI $3.50. 900.
OSEPH ID. WEED' President

JOSEPH d. WEED, President.
JOHN c. ROWLAND. Vice President
WIN. f. McCAULEY, Cashier.
A general Banking and Exchange bus
mess transacted.
Savings Department interest computed
quarterly.
Accounts of merchants, banks and cor
porations solicited.
American Express Company's letters or
credit issued available in all parts of the
world.
Collections carefully made and promptly
accounted for.
Safety deposit. boxes and storage vaults
for rent.
CorrespN ndence invited.
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MONEY MARKET

New York. Jan. money on call hrrn
at 4IbGf1O per cent. The last loan was at
& ner cent Prime mercantile paper, AAp
50 per cent. Sterling exchange strong
with actual business in bankers bllls az
"a $50. al. s57s for demand, and at $LSl74
4 S17s for sixty days; posted rates, 4.e-a
4.s2lS and $4S6la. Commercial bills @'0l
CASH. Silver certificates, 641sq65c. bar
silver. 64c. Mexican dollars. SOC Govern
ment bonds were weak, state bonds were
inactive. and railroad bonds were hrm'
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COTTON.

Few changes have developed recently to
influence the spot cotton market which
remained to-day about the same as it has
been for some time past. Holders did not
seem inclined to offer cotton from the in
terror, Notwithstanding the advance in
futures, and for this reason trading was
quiet and featureless. On the other hand.
there is little improvement in the demand
from spinners, who do not seem to have
yet been convinced that it is TO their in
terest to buy. Until there is consider
able rise in prices it is not probable there
win be much active trading Local spots
closed steady, with sales of 297. Good mid
ding f. o. b. rules steady at 97scd9 15-16c.
The receipts were 2, 799, against 7747 last
year, and 994S year before last.
The following were the official spot quo
tations at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
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inst S41sl int. ............ .1125s
f. w. & d. C. S. Rope & T. IS. II
lists ....... 80 T. & p. lists .1l5h
Gen, Electric $3.50 do ends '..'..'' !"
Iowa Cen. 1sts.1l6 Tn. Pa. As eN-
l.. & N. Uni.4s.lD int .''..'.'''''' i s.c33
9nds 77lhi do Ends bid los
do do 4s 90 w. s. As, ex-int114ls
N. Y. C. lists ..10612 Wis Gen. ISIS -,
N. ]. c. gen.5s.127ls ex-int. 49, 90
No. Pa. IS ~ Va. Gen. p'o'''' ~
do do As eX- a. r..
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DRY GOODS,

New York. Jan. 2-Business in dry
goods to-day has not recovered from its
holiday character. The demand in all di-
rections has been small and without dis
tinctive feature. There is no pressure to
sell cotton goods either plain lines or sta
pies and prices are unchanged Print
cloths inactive. Mems wear woolens and
wooden dress goods are slow and unchang-
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Wilmington, N. c., Jan. 2-Spirits tur-
pentine nothing doing; receipts IA casks.
Rosin firm, 81. 20a1.25; receipts, SS5.
Crude turpentine quiet. slSOQ2.3O; re-
ceipts 49,
Tar steady, $1.3S; receipts, s04
New Orleans. Jan. 2-Receipts: Rosin
$780, exports to Liverpool turpentine. 500
barrels.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

Note.-These quotations are revised
daily, and are kept as near as possible
in accord with the prevailing wholesale
prices. Official quotations are not used
when they disagree with the prices whole
salers ask.
Country aud Northern Produce.
PoULTRY-The market is steady. Quo
tations: Brollers. 30Gi35c per pair; half
grown 4505Oc; three-fourths grown, 55g
6Oc hens. 65d75c; ROSTERS, 4Oa50c; ducks,
5Oa75c; geese, 75cd$i.00.
EGGS-Fresh candled, 22a23c; cold stor-
age, 2lc.
BUTTER-The tone of the market Is
firm. Quotations: Cooking, 21c; imita-
tons, pc; New York state dairy, 24Iko;
extra Elgins, &c.
CHEESE-Market firm; fancy full
cream chez Sc, 1S94@1lc for 20 to 22-pound
average; 2SQS0-pound averages, 13hc.
Early Vegetables.
IRISH PoTATOES-Nor $2.OOa2. Is
sack
CABBAGE-sasc per head; crates s225
Q25O.
ONIoNS-Yellow. In barrels, 1925;
crates, SIPS; red. ss.25.
BreadstuG, Hay ana Grain.
FLCUR-Markct steady: patent, 81. 40.
strlight $3.50; fancy, $50; family $685.
MEAL-Pear per barrel $3.50; per
sack, $i15; city meal, per sack bolted,
s1O71k; water ground si.12is; city grlts,
sacks, &.i5; pear grits, Hudnuts per bar
rel, SEQ; per sack, sl20; sundry brands.
si.15.
coRN-Market firm; white, Job lots.
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Washington, Jan. 2.-The yearly com
age statement of the director OF the nllnl
shows that the total coinage OF tne ihi tII
- tba Irnited states was $137, 599, 4O1, as fol-
lows. Gold, 800, 272, 942; silver $S6' 30 Szl ;
r,iror coins S2O3l,1S7 OF the silver
coined. s24. $50 9l2 was in standard dollars
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FLUCTUATIONS IN FUTURES.

New York, Jan. 2.-Cotton futures open.
ed steady at the advance and closed
Prices as follows:
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seaboard,r sccuritier.


Baltimore, Jan. 2.-Seaboard common
101a preferred 277s; bonds, As, Y.
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Galveston-Holiday; net receipts, 1884;
gross 1896; stock, 242, 452.
New Orleans-Firm; middling 91a; net
receipts. 1870; gross, 1870; sales, $3.50;
stock 374,131.
Mobile-Steady; middling, 81; net re-
celpts, II; gross, II; sales, 200; stock, 3D.
Charleston-Firm; middling, 81; net re-
celpts 1,1S4; gross. 1,134; stock, %,
MISUNDERSTANDING; net receipts, 116;
gross receipts, 116; stock, 7.269.
Norfolk-Steady; middling. 91b: net re-
ceipts s29; gross, 929; sales, y; stock, 35,-
ATS.
MISUNDERSTANDING; middling, 10: net
receipts 5000; gross, $3.50; stock, 1887.
New York-Dull; middling, 1914: net re-
ceipts, 1885,; gross, 6,S79; stock, S5,5Ss.
Boston-Holiday; net receipts, 1885,
gross, 4152. Z
Philadelphia-Firm; middling, 1875; net
receipts. IT'S; gross, IT'S; stock, 4233.
Daily Movemnts at Interior Towns
Augusta 1.-TWO day9-Firm; middling.
ess; net receipts, 1856; gross 1856; sales, Sc;
stock, 50, 179.
Memphis-Holiday; net receipts, 54S;
gross, 54S stock, 1862, 5lS
st. Enthusiastically; middling 9-16: net
receipts, 9O4; gross. 5,917; stock 1888.
st. Louis-Steady; middling, 9-l6; net
receipts, 90i; gross, 5,9l7; stock, 72O56.
Cincinnati 1.-TWO days)-Firm; middllng.
w net receipts, 1,46i; gross. 1854 sales,
go; stock, S,101.
Houston-Holiday net receipts, 4.5S4:
gross, 1884; stock. 1859
Louisville-Firm: middling, 95S.
Exports Of cotton this day
Galveston-To the continent, 40.
New orleans-To Great Britain, $500;
eoastwise. 1888
Charleston-Coastw 525
Norfolk-Coastwise 81.
Baltimore-Coastw ise 25CO
New York-To Great Britain, $780, to the
continent, 600.
Boston-To Great Britain, 1851.
retail foreign exports from all ports this
gay; To Great Britain, 1881; to the con-
unent 1,010
Iotal foreign exports from all ports thus
lar mis- week: To Great Britain, 5s,019; to
rance So to the continent. 1891
- total foreign exports since Sept 1. 1900:
10 Great Britain. 1,677 O7s to France, s65
OSoi to the continent, 1,19S.2lS
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MURPHY & CO INC,

boaro of Trade Building, Savannah.
private leased wires direct TO New York.
Chicago and New Orleans.
COTTON, STOCKS AND GRAIN.
New York office. No. 81 Broadway.
Offlces in principal cities throughout the
south. Write for our Market Manual and
DOCK containing instructsonS for traders
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ant. ."....,...105 /
M. &c o. IS. $50. SS
N. Y. c. g. St.
L. Is .107I2
N. & w. iOOJ4
ore. Nav. lists. .l1O,a
do do Is .1Oih
ore. s. Line 6s. 1295s
do do con. IS,
ex-int. .........li5lg
Read. Gen. As.
( int. .."..".. 9iIs
r. G. w. lists
! ex-int. .....".. 90
81. l.. g. Ir. M.
con. IS .......114
st. l.. a. 8. +.
gen es, ex-
int. mann. ...12G4
st. J.. cons. ex-
int ...........1S2ls
st. r., c. e. =.
lists, cx-int. ...1i7a
do do o., ex-
int. ..........ii9ss
So. Pa. ~ ..... 1874
] 50. Ply. SIS. ex-
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ARRIVAL OF TRAINS

Magnificent Pullman buffet sleeping car
service to Washington, Baltimore. Phiia-
delphia and New York; also to Jackson
vile and Tampa.
Dining cars from Savannah to Hamlet
and Richmond to New York
Buffet parlor cars Savannah to Mout-
gomery
For additional information apply to
Ticket Office. Bull and Bryan streets
Phone g.
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u. 3. 2s, ref reg .l06
do cou. ex-
inst. ..... ....106
do Is, reg. -. .109li
do 3s, cou. ITO
do new As, reg 1873
do new As. 1888
do old 4s.reg.1i4
do old As, cou.l14
do IS. reg. ..1l2h
do IS, cou. lip.
ID. of c. 3 65s .125
Atch. gen. Is .102a,
do adjt. Is o." IS
c. OF @. con. IS. l00li
do LIST inc. -. 6zh
DO End inc. -. 20
Can. So. ends ..108ii
c. & o. 4lzs .10ih
do do IS ......12Oh
G. e. Nv. con.7s. l39
do do s. +.
Deb. IS ......l25
chi. Term. As p. 92h
Col. So. 4s ...- s.
ID. g. r. O.. A., .l02h
Erie Gents, ex-
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sArT-Demand is fair and the market
steady: carload lots, 10O-pound burlap
sacks. &c; 100-pound cotton sacks, 4Sc;
1iO-pound burlap sacks, size; u0-pound
cotton sacks, 52hc; 125-pound burlap
sacks, 5s1kc; 125-pound cotton sacks. 591kc;
2OO-pound burlap sacks Gle.
HIDES-Market firm; dry flint, 1sikc:
dry salt l1iac; green sailed &C.
WOOIs-Nominal; prime Georgia, free
of sand burs and black wool 19c: black,
1sc: bury, 10c. Wax, 25c; taliow, SIC.
Deer skins, zoe.
Dried and Evaporated Fruits.
APPLEs-Evaporate 6kq7c: sun dr.el,
5lkQ6c.
APRICoTs-E vaporated, 100 pound;
nectarlnes Zoe.
RAIsINs--L. L., $500; imperial cabinets
S275: loose 50-pound boxes SIC pound.
PEACHES-Evapora peeled, 17kc:
unpeeled, SAG9c
PEARS vaporated sac.
Hardware ana building Supplies.
LIME, CALCIUM, PLASTER AND
Cement-Ala bama ana Georgia lime In
fair demand and sell at 80 cents barrel,
Continued on Sixth Page.l
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Continued on Sixth Pagel
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-05-08
OUR FIELD EDITOR IN LAW
RENEE.

We are now in the Mt. Carmel
neighborhood and, speaking after the
manner of railroad men, we have a
few hours dead time. waiting for the
hour of service to arrive, when we will
go up to Antioch church and join Bro.
l.. d. Posey and his people in an old
fashioned Baptist Saturday meeting.
En- route to this point, we touched at
Fair River, Monticello, Arm, Silver
Creek and Blountville, but haven't
space to mention all we saw along the
way. Farmers are blue over the cot
ton situation. 1t takes them a long
time to learn that cotton is a hot
weather plant. Just at night fall we
arrived at Monticello and we're taken
charge of by Sheriff Arthur Fox and
his good wife. By the way, Art is
making our old native county good
sheriff. Next morning as we we're out
sightseeing on Pear Avenue, we heard
treasurer William Maxwell calling to
us from the court house. We knew
that Sheriff Fox had gone fishing and
no other living man in Monticello
could arrest us, so we sailed forth to
see what was wanted. "A couple wants
to marry" said Bro, Maxwell, as we
entered the court house, and In the
clerks office there sat son and daugh'
ter of Ham as black as forty black
cats in a wallet impatiently waiting
for Circuit Clerk Bass to issue the IL
cense. The knot was soon tied and
the happy couple we're making OIL
when we made a flank movement on
them and informed the blushine
groom that there was little matter OF
unfinished business that must be
looked after and that my constructor
of the law was that he was not really
married until he had paid us dollar
"Yes, sab, an Use gwine off an fer
gitin' it an | haint got hit"
go borrow it at once, or you are
without wife," we said. and Clerk
Bass kindly handed the fellow dol
lar and thus relieved us both OF a Sc
rious embarrassment.
Just what to do with the dollar was
the next thing to be considered. W.
thought of many needy objects witt
which we were perfectly famiiar,-th'
widow and the orphan, plague stricken
India, the Galveston restitution, The
Lawrence Co. Press,-and, deciding IL
favor of The Press, we walked straight
to the Press office and handed 10 Dale
the dollar. We mention this from
the fact that Bro Dale gave us favor
able mention in his paper relative tt
the manner by which we obtained
the dollar and we are anxious that Ia
know the facts in the case.
We purpose visiting Mt. Olive ant
returning home via Columbia and Ty
lertown.
j. A. s.
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B. T. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor.
J. A. SCARBOROUGH, Field Editor.
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COY. LONGINO.

We accept without doubt or reserva
ton the statement of Gov. LONGING
that in his careless remark to Major
McInnis he intended no disrespect to
President Davis, the Daughters of the
| Confederacy or eX-COnfederates. The
State has no more patriotic son, and a
man who had five brothers in the
Southern army, two of whom filled sol
diers' graves, could not have other
than warm sympathy for all associated
with cause he himself was too young
to serve.
Then again, he is a gentleman, and
could not under any circumstances
speak unexpectedly of ladies.
The following is Major McInnis' YER
sion of what he said upon the presen-
tation of the petition urging the lay
ing of the State House corner stone on
June 3rd:
81 don't want to see it. | have had
enough of this rot. The capitol com
mission would like to please the ladies,
but the business interests of the State
must be looked after"
In this there was no reference to
President Davis; no reference to Con-
federates; distinct disclaimer of dis
respect to the petitioners, and only an
in-elegant method of expressing his
determination to give business meth
DDS and duty precedence over sympa-
thy and sentinent.-Aberdeen Erdm-
iaer.
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The Merrill Railroad.

Brookhaven is clamoring for the 9th
er end of the Mobile, Jackson q Kansas
City railroad, but our friends over
there must remember that when the
road leaves Hattiesburg it will make q
bee line for the Mississippi river and
will not stop until it gets there. OF
course, it could go by Brookhaven, but
that town must be in line with the object
i've point on the river. A gentleman re-
marked to the Progress man yesterday
that the rumor was current that the
road would go to Natchez, but so far
as our observation goes, Natchez has
not sent it an invitation through its
press or otherwise. If Natchez will
work for the road she may get 10th
erwiseit will 90 to Vicksburg.-H atties
burg Progress,
The chan ces for Brookhaven and
Natchez securing the proposed rail
road from Hattiesburg to the Missis-
sippi river seem to be improving
Much interest is being taken in the
matter by the citizens OF Brookhaven,
and we are told large and enthus-
iastic meeting will soon be held in
Natchez and active means will be put
forth to secure what this section of
Mississippi has so long needed, and
that is railroad from the river to the
eastern part of the State.--Hdmburg
Gazette.
So says Brother Fitzhugh, of the
Hamburg Gazette. The large and en-
thusiastic" turnout is not materializ-
ing at present. Probably it is Matched
and is hidden away in some nook,
ready to spring up full grown and sur
prise us.-Ndtchez Bulletin.