City merchants seem reluctant to admit' that any appreciable. busiest improvement has taken place; on the other hand they "are not, '8 yet, forefelting the opposite, "One. would gather that the clot lines of bust-fess. and endeavour are not. doing Gadly, to say. the least. No bans have "closed ately, nor" i any exe pected to. 'They "have been' very fateful, Ite said, in regard to their Lately prices for almost all nec ales, food ana fuel specially, "have been' increasing, in. some. instances {Orper cent, with the expectation of 2 continued Tnetease. People have Seen "advised to. lay" ina" stock before Tong. m MSMR, the snie ances "ak "ul, "nee la. possibility of nice
Dr. A.W. Wasson of Nashville, onnessee, foreign secretary of the Board of Mission "of the Mf. Chiureh, South, ie spending: a couple
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