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Abercrombie & Co.'s Market Letter.

The undertone to the market was some what easier today values declining Il points for old crop months, about points on new crop arrivals. July selling off to 10.72c, October to 1022c. The third re- port, in piecemeal fashion by the New York Journal of Commerce. pictured the crop outlook in Arkansas as perfect. some correspondents claiming prospects to be the best ever known. dry weather having been favorable to cultivation, resulting In remarkably clean fields, and the plant, though small is generally strong and healthy Improvement is reported for Tennessee, although the cool weather checked growth, the plant being small and the season ten to twelve days late. Farm CTS have been able to keep well up with their work as result of dry weather the fields being clean, cultivation good and the plant healthy. Meanwhile, the above states have been relieved by bene- ficial rains. Thus far three states appear to have lower average condition than last month, and five states indicate some improvement-by tomorrow Texas and the territories will have been heard from as will the final average for the entire belt the latter, however, might be delayed for ment's monthly crop condition report, expected at noon. July 3, the New Orleans Times Democrat will publish the second of it's monthly crop reports next Monday and there is no doibt but that many reports from private sources will be issued in the interim.
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Fruits and Produce.

Lemons-Per box, extra fancy, s5. .5od6. Watermelons-15@25c. Cantaloupes-s2@2.5 per crate. Tomatoes-Per crate, $l .50d2. omatoes-Alabama, baske. crates. S1d1. .25.
 Alabama Beans-Per crate. green, 75qN. English Peas-sl.25. corn-25 and 30 cents per dozen. I.imes-Per 100, 90cG$1. Peanuts Fancy, per pound. Sc; No. bc. Cabbage-New crop Pc lb Pineappes-3O 36 and 40 sizes, B. Cucumbers-Per bu., 75cMH. Sauash-Per bu., 75c@sl .25. Peaches-Per crate, 75cM$l.I5. Egg Plant-$2d2.50. Cultivated Blackberries-$l 75d2. Raspberries, $3d4. Huckleberries, S2. .50d3. New Apples-$l41. 50 bushel. Onions-New crop, pound. 2RG3e, New Potatoes-Per bushel, 75d90c. Eggs-Per dozen, fresh. S15c; candled, l6@17.
 Hens-35c; broiers. 15M30c. Butter-Fresh SM10c; renovated, 21c; creamery 25c. Cheese-Full cream. per pound, 14815c.
 Hides and Wool. Green salt hldes No. 1, 1019M11c.
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Local Staple Groceries.

Sugar-Granulated 5c; T. C.. 41ac. Flour-Fancy patent, S575: standard patent, 30; straight, a.90
 Coffee-Green, 11Q13c; Arbuckle's. $15.55; Porto Rico, s15.55.
 Meat-Dry salted ribs, sac; dry salted rib bellies 10Ac; extra clear. 9Ac; hams. fancy, 15ssc; medium 1i2sc; bacon bellies, u1ac: California hams, sac.
 Iard-Leaf, 10c; compound lard, Sc. Molasses-Centrfugal 30935c; sugar house, 40c; Georgia cane 34c.
 White Peas-Per bushel, S2.
 Beans-Navy. s2.25 per bushel: hand picked Lima, 7c.
 Grits-92 pounds. SIPS.
 Meal-"Jim Dandy" SIPS.
 Macaroni, 6H2c.
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New York, June S.-Spot Rio coffee steady No. invoice. 77s mild steady.
 Futures opened steady at unchanged prices to an advance of points in sym pathy with rather better cables than due and there was also some buying on ex- pectations that the valorization plan would eventually be put into effect in Brazil. The general news, however. was hardly such as to encourage buying for investment accounts. and the market ruled very quiet around the initial fig ures until near the close, when local bull support was in evidence, and the market was finally firm at an advance of 10 points. Sales were reported of 37.0OO bags. including July 625, September 6.35@6. 40. October 6. 45, November 6. 55, December 6.6O ms. 65, January 67o, March 6s5, May, ca
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Interior Movement,

Houston-Qulet middling, Il: net re- ceipts, 529; gross receipts, 529; shipments, 1279; stock, 16,902.
 Augusta--Steady; mlddling. 11h: net re- ceipts, 73; gross receipts, 73; shipments, 596: sales. $50: stock, 28,314.
 mphis-Quiet; middling. 10%; net re- oepts. 24; gross receipts, GA; shipments, 397 sales, 150; stock, 12.s13.
 St. Louis-Quiet; middling. 107s; gross receipts. 652 shipments, 652; stock, 2S,419.
 Cincinnati-Quiet net receipts 43: gross receipts, 43; shipments, 49; stock 1390
 Louisvile-Firm: middling, 11h.
 Total today: Net receipts. 669; gross receipts, 1861; shipments, 2972; sales, 800; stock, 93,037.
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Bonds.
Money on Call.

New York, June 2s.-Money on call firm and higher, 3A@3ha; ruling rate, 4G4h; closing bid 31a: offered at A. time loans strong; sixty days. 41a per cent; ninety days. 4s4d5; six months, 5h.
 Prime mercantile paper, 5q51s per cent; sterling exchange weak at 4s4 6od4S4 .65 for demand and at 4S1 .9064s2 for sixty-day bills; posted rates, 4s21sd4s3, and 4s5R@ 4S6; commercial bills, 4S19s. Bar silver, 6Sl4. Mexican dollars, 5O5s. Government bonds steady; railroad bonds irregular.
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Feed Stuff.

Corn-No. 2 mixed 73c; white, 75c. Oats-No. mixed, i3c; No. white, 52c; white clip. 54c.
 Pure wheat bran, 80 or 100 s25
 Cotton seed feed meal. $25; prime, $2S. Corn chops, $1 .25.
 Corn hearts, $1.25
 Shorts-100 pound sack, $1.25 Hulls-S0-lb c. s., s9 ton; 20-lb. c. s., 4oc sack; 1O0-lb c. B.. go ton; 100-lb. c. s.. 45c sack; 75-lb sack huls, 5Oc.
 Hay-Choice timothy, SS; No. l timo- thy, s22; Johnson grass, sl5; clover mixed, s2O 50
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NOTICE OF REDEMPTION Birmingham Railway, Light
 & Power Company
First Consolidated Mortgage Pc
 Cent Gold Bonds.

The holders of the flrst consolidated mortgage per cent gold bonds of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company secured by its mortgage or in- denture of trust to the old Colony Trust company, dated July l. 1901, are hereby notified that in accordance with the pro visions of the said bonds and the said indenture of trust the said Birmingham Railway Light and Power company has exercised the option reserved to it in the said bonds to redeem the entire issue of the said bonds on July 7. 1906. by paying for each bond the principal thereof to- sgether with premium of 10 per cent and accrued interest, and you are fur ther notified that on July ?, 1906 all in- terest on the said bonds will cease.
 Such redemption will be made at the office of the old Colony Trust company, Boston, Mass, or at the office Of its agent. the Manhattan Trust company, 20 Wall street, New York.
 OLD COLONY TRUST CO. TRUSTEE. By JAMES A. PARKER, Vice President. Boston Mass, May 26. 19o6
 5-29-i0t-tu-fn
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour-Steady.
 Wheat-No. ? spring, S4QS6c; No. 3, 7SM SAC; No 2 red, S65s@S7%c.
 Corn-No. 2, 521ac; No. 3 yellow, 52a4c. Oats-No. ?, 39%c; No. 2 white, 401s@41c; No. 3 white, 3S1aQ40Ac.
 Rye-No. 2, 61c.
 Barley-Fair to choice malting, 46G53c. Flax Seed-No. l, sl l.07la; No. 1 north- western, $1 .11h.
 Timothy Seed-Prime $4.25. Clover--Contract grade, $11.2 Short Ribs Sides-Loose, $9. .25d9.30. Mess Pork-Per barrel, $17 .1Od17 .121a. Lard-Per 100 pounds, sS.75. Short Clear Sides-Boxed, $9 75@9 871a. Whisky-Bass of high wines, $1 .29. On the produce exchange today the butter market was steady; creameries, 15 @20c; dairies, 141a@1Sc.
 Eggs-Steady; at mark cases included, 12G15c; firsts, 15c; prime f1rsts. 16c; extras, 1Sc.
 Cheese-10s4d 4d111ac.
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change reported; lake, 1S 5od19: electroly- tic, IS. .25601S .621a; casting, 1S.12G1S.25.
 Lead dull 5.75@5.S .S5 locally. and also nn- changed in London at 916 12s Cd.
 Speter higher. e27 2s Sd In London. but eased off slightly locally, closing 6d6.1O
 Iron lower abroad. standard foundry, 49s Sd, and Cleveland warrants 49s 1012d To- cally, steady, at recent prices; No. 1 foun- dry, northern. SIS. .25@lS. .75; No. foundry, northern, s17.75071S. .25; No. i foundry, southern. s17. .5oa1s; No. foundry, south ern S17f117 50
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Cotton Seed OH,

Memphis. June 2s.-Cotton seed oil prime crude. 291sa30c; prime summer yellow, S3c; prime meal ssf; prime cake, s2G 50; lint CTS, nominally unchanged.
 New Orleans, June 2S.-Cotton seed oil prime 34c; crude, 29c
 New York, June 2s-Cotton seed oil steady prime. f. O. h., mills. 26l4c. nomi- nal. New crop do yellow, 36a3S1kc. Rosin firm; strained common to good $3.95.
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Dry Goods.

New York, June 2s-The dry goods mar
 ket was generally quiet today Further advances on some lines of bleached sheet ings were announced and fruit of the loom goods are reported sold for the season. Some revisions are noted on Canton fan nels. Fine ginghams for dress goods are being booked for selection that are now being shown, and the volume of business placed is as large as that done last year up to this time. Indications point toward
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Chicago Change.

Chicago June 2S.-sExcellent weather fol harvesting in the southwest induced free liquidation of wheat today and caused a weak tone in the local market At tho close wheat for September delivery was off Ac. Corn was down 1Ac. Oats were practically unchanged. Provisions were unchanged to 5c lower
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
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Dry flint hides. No. 1, 1e1lSc. Dry salt hides, No. 2, 14a1sc. Clear washed wool, 35q36c. Unwashed wool, 25426c. Burry wool. 14616c. Sheepskins. 15@75c. Tallow. 4a41zc. Reeswax, 25c.
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Treasury Statement.

Washington. June 2s.-Today's statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $15o, 100000 gold re- serve. shows: Available cash balance, SIP, 415, ,669; gold coin and bullion, s9O,6lO,- 967; gold certificates $40, 410.210.
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CIearinus and Exchange.

New Orleans, June 2S.-Clearings $2,179.- 662 New York exchange, 50c discount; commercial paper, per cent.
 Memphis. June 2s.-Clearings, s452,76o; balances S64 SS4.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures.

New Orleans. June 2S.-Spot cotton steady; sales, 1175; low ordinary 75s nomi- nal; ordinary. SIS; good ordinary, 7-l6; low middling. 104 mddling. l;,good mid ding. 1ih middling fair, Il 7-16 nominal; fair, 121k; receipts, 12Os; stock, 70,273.
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Notice.

At meeting of the board of directors of the American Trust and Savings bank held this afternoon the regular quarter ly dividend of per cent on the capital stock was declared and ordered payable July to stockholders of record.
 H. B. URQUHART, Cashier. Juno 27,, 1906
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

Showing the arrival and departure of passenger trains at the Union station, Brmingham:
 (EffectiVe June IL 1a07
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Live Stock Market.

Chicago, June 2S.-Cattle receipts. 5000; best. strong, others slow; common to prime steers. s4G6.10 cows, slM4.5o; heif- CTS, $2 275M5. .25: bulls. s2.75ai.25; calves, S5 .50a6 50: stockers and feeders vl .5M4.6
 Hog receipts. 22000 strong; choice to prime heavy. s6. 7O06. .75; medium to good heavy. s6. 65aIs 70: butcher weights, s6.65n s.75; good to choice heavy mixed, s6.soa 6.7O packing s6d6621a.
 Sheep receipts, 15,o0o; weak; lambs steady; sheep s4.5o@6. s5; yearlinss, s6. .5f M7; shorn lambs, g. 40M7.s5.
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Seaboard Air Line.
Coffee Market.

Baltimore, June 2S.-Seaboard Air Line, ommon and preferred, nothing doing.
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New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, June 2s.-Spot cottcn steady and unchanged; middling. He. Sales were 525 bales on the spot and 65 to ar rive a total of 1175. Futures opened quiet, l to points under yesterdays close. The market throughout the session was dull and narrow A slight decline was caused by good weather reports. The close was steady, with prices at the lowest and showing a net decline of 5 to points.
 New Orleans Cotton Futures
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Metal Market,

New York. June 2s.-Spot tin higher at el77 los in London. but futures un- changed, e176 5s; locally, about 10 points higher on tine average, closing. 3s. io1 @.
 Copper lower. es1 2s Sd for spot and fso Id for futures. In London. locally. no
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Birmingham Mineral Railroad.

Arrive from Depart to-
 Blocton .... .10:50 am Blocton .... s:20 am Blocton ..... 635 pin Blocton .... 2 100 pm 'Blocton .... 6:00 pm sBlocton .... 630 am Annston via Anniston via Gadsden ..10:25 am Gadsden .. 4:t0 pm Anniston via Anniston via
 Gadsden .. 6:35 pm Gadsden .. s:35 am
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Local Cotton Market.
Local Iron Market.
Local Securities.

Corrected by Citizens Savings Bank. Stock and Bond Department. Phones 94)
 Bid Asked
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Ware 6 LeIand's Market Letter.

a record gingham year. Linens are firm and high.
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Try the Gawk for half.tone and line illustrations. Aae-HeraId Building.
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sales l,leo7oo shares
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-08-17
Buenos Ayres.

The population Of the capital on
December 81, 1905, was 1,025, 653,
an increase of 74,762 in less than
fourteen months, showing that the
population is still rapidly growing.
In territorial extent the city sur
passes Berlin and Paris, but is ex.
ceeded by London and Vienna, the
latter being now the largest city in
area On the European mainland,
though its density of population is
less than in many of the larger cities.
There are in Buenos Ayres 81 inhabi.
tants to the hectare (2.47 acres) !,
while Paris has $40, London 145,
New York 202, Berlin 2S5, Vienna
50, Brussels 204 and st. Petersburg
1S5 inhabitants to the hectare. Over
one-third of the residents of Buenos
Ayres. or S20,5S9 persons, were born
in the city. Many of the inhabitants
since 1895 have moved out Of the
more crowded districts into the peri
pheral territory, to which electric
tram cars afford cheap ~transporta-
ton, while cheap lands, low rents
and purer air are attractive induce
ments. Persons of foreign birth
form a large majority Of the EN-.
ployes, foreigners numbering 49,951
and A~rgentines 20, 496.-Bulletin Of
the American Geographical Society.
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The Domestic Hen a Wonder.

Scratching d living here and there.
killing thousands of bugs and worms
which would cause much loss Of crops
II allowed to live. the ordinary BARN
yard hen is a wonderful combination OF
productive forces. In five years time
she will lay 700 eggs, each contain.
ing ESQ grains of water. 125 Of fat,
Jos ofAime. SO of albumen, &c of sugar
and ~ Of ash-the most condensed and
strengthening form of food offered to
maE Every person having a little
plof of ground is able to keep FROM
half n dozen to many dozen Of these
wonders and so add to the family In.
come. TO do this to the greatest adj
Vantage. one must know how to car
for his fowls-to guard against, de.
tect and cure disease; which fowls to
save for breeding purposes, etc. The
simplest and most satisfactory way Of
securing this knowledge is to buy 1t
from some person who has made q
success of fowl raising as a business.
Such a book. giving the experience Of
twenty-five years, Is obtainable for %
cents in stamps from the Book Pub.
fishing House, 1874 Leonard ST., New
York City. 1t is an Invaluable work.
The life Of one chicken saved would
pay for the book several times over.
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STARVED TO CHEAT GALLONS.
Samuel MOnich Hanged For Murder
of Mrs. Harriet Decker.

Morristown, n. WEAK and ema.
ciated, Samuel Monich, who shot
and killed IRIS. Harriet Decker,
daughter of Wilbur Kayhart, a
wealthy farmer of this city, on Jan
uary IS, was led to the gallows in
the Morris County Jail and hanged.
For two months Monich has re-
fused to take any solid food and it
was necessary for the prison off,
Gals to force whisky and milk down
his throat in order to keep life in his
body. So weak did Monich become
that Sheriff Shaw dispensed with the
death watch.
Monich was employed in the Cap
stick Mills at Monville, and although
he had a wife and three children liv-
ing in Hungary, became infatuated
with Mrs. Decker. She was sepa-
rated from her husband and lived on
her fathers larm, a short distance
from the boarding house of Monich.
He went to the Kayhart farm and
concealed himself behind Tome
bushes. When Mrs. Decker, hearing
a peculiar noise, went from the house
to investigate, Monich fired five shots
at her, all of which took effect. He
then reloaded the revolver and shot
himself four times.
Despite his wou~ DIS he managed to
reach his boarding house, where he
was arrested later.
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A WINNING START.
A Perfectly DigestedB Breakfast Makes
Nerve Force For the Day.

Everything goes wrong If the
breakfast lies in your stomach like a
mud pie. What you eat does harm
81 you can't digest tit turns to poi
son.
A bright lady teacher found this
TO be true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
Two years ago l contracted a
very annoying form of indigestion.
Ny stomach was in such condition
that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast
and egg gave me great distress.
Il was slow to believe that trouble
could ONE from such a simple diet,
but finally had to give it up, and
found a great change upon a cup of
hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with
cream, for my morning meal. Fol-
more than a year | have held to this
course, and have not suffered except
when injudiciously varying my diet.
81 have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest
cd breakfast means a saving of ner.
yous force for the entire day. Ny
gain of ten pounds in weight also
causes me to want to testify to the
value OF Grape-Nuts.
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank a
our table"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" Read the lit
tie book, The Road to Wellyille,"i
pigs.
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An Old Painters Ideas,

Tho Autumn season is coming
more and more to be recognized az a
most suitable time for house-paint-
ing.
There is no frost deep In the wood
TO make trouble for ever the best Job
OF painting, and the general season.
ing of the Summer has put the wood
irto good condition In every way.
The weather, moreover. is more like
ly to be settled for the necessary
length OF time 10 allow all the coats
TO thoroughly dry-a very important
pr~ecaution. e
An old and successful painter laid
Z TO the writer the other day:
House owners would get more
for their money IL they would allow
their painters to take more time, es-
pecially between coats. Instead OF
allowing barely time for the surface
TO get dry enough not to be 'tacky,'
several days weeks would not be
too much) should be allowed so that
the coat might set through and
through. II is ~inconvenient, Of
course, but, If one would suffer this
slight inconvenience, it would add
two or three years to the life of the
paint.
"All this is assuming, of course,
that the paint used is the very best
TO be had-the purest of white lead
and the purest of linseed oil. I'M
mixed with any cheapener. If the
cheap mixtures, often known as
White Lead and oil which has been
doctored with fish oil. benzine. corn
oil, or other of the adulterants
known to the trade. are used, all the
precautions of the skilled painter are
useless 10 prevent tho cracking and
peeling which make houses unsightly
in 4 year or so and, therefore, make
painting bills TOO frequent and costly.
THE house owner should have his
PAINTER bring the ingredients to the
premises sepaTately-white lead of
some well-known. reliable brand and
llnseed oil of oqaal quality and
mix the paint just before applying
it."
Painting need not be expensive and
unsatisfactory if the old painters
suggestions are followed.
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HIGH RECORD WHEAT YIELD
Prediction of a Crop of 772,264,-
600 Bushels.
Beats Production of 1901 by $4,000.
OOO-The Corn Estimate Exceeds
the Best Previous Year.

Washington, d. C.-The Govern
ment crop report estimates the win
ter wheat crop at 493,434, 600 bush
els, as compared with 429,534,000
bushels previously estimated. The
indicated spring wheat crop is 278,-
$4,000 bushels. This compares
with 293,221,0OO bushels estimated
last month, 2~S5,3S1,O0O bushels, the
estimated crop on August /, 1905,
and the final 1905 crop of 2~64,516,-
$50 bushels.
The total indicated wheat crop is
7~72,264,0OO bushels, which is great
er by 24,O00,000 bushels than that
OF 1901, the greatest on record. Last
months figures were 722,755,00S
bushels; 709,681,000 bushels were
estimated on August 1, 1905, and the
final total crop of 1905 was 692,979,-
4S9 bushels.
The report shows that the condi-
ton of Spring wheat as of August 1
was 500. This compares with ola
last month, S9.2 on August 1, 1905;
SIS on August /, 1904, and III on
August 1, 1908.
Inc condition of oats was SIS.
This compares with 81 last month,
sos on August /, 1905; S6.6 on Au-
gust 1, 1904, and 1915 on August i.
1903. The indicated oats crop is
S52,4S2,000 bushels. This COM
pares with S~74,625,OO0 bushels esti-
mated last month, 933, 900 bush
els estimated on August 1, 1905, and
final 1905 crop of 953,216,197 BUSH
els.
The condition of corn was ISL.
This compares with S7.5 last month,
SO on August /, 1905; S7.3 on Au.
gust 1, 1904, and 1877 on August /,
1903. The indicated corn crop is
2,71S,000,000 bushels. This COM
pares with 2,7O3,641, 900 bushels es-
timated last month, 200, 900
bushels estimated on August 1, 1905,
and the final 1905 crop of ,707,993,-
$40 bushels. The indicated crop as
compared with final totals in preced-
ing ear is greater by 100000
bushels than that of 1905, which was
the largest on record.
The following table shows for the
five principal spring wheat States the
condition on August l in each of the
last three years, with a ten-year ay-
erage:
"
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10-Year
LYNCHER GETS FIFTEEN YEARS.
First Conviction Tor OAense in His
tory of North Carolina.

Salisbury, N. C.-What is said to
be the first conviction for lynching in
the history of the State took place
here, when George Hall, a white ex-
convict of Montgomery County, who
was n of the party which lynched
three negros in jail here for the MUIR
der of the Lyerly family, was found
guilty of conspiracy in connection
with hat crime and was sentenced to
fifteen years in the pe~nitentiary.
The jury was out only t~hirty-fve
minutes. Judge B. F. Long sentenced
Hall to the maximum term provided
for by law. The evidence against
Hall was overwhelming.
The State sprung a surprise in the
trial when the offense against the
prisoner was changed from murder
to conspiracy. David w. Julian, a
deputy sheriff, testified that he saw
Hall leading a mob of about thirty
men, some of whom the witness
knew. The officer had in custody a
man he had arrested at the Jail.
Hall, said the witness, carried a ham
mer, and threatened to brain him il
he did not liberate the prisoner.
Other testimony was offered aud
the case speedily given to the jury.
Hall had been a cotton mill opera
tive.