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woh pronounced the case a fatal one as soon as
he examined it, and yet at this stage of the disease
he bled him, and he died the tuesday following- this
withh a small child 8 months old which died the first
of Decr of bowel complaints constitutes the losses
by death during the two years past.
I shall not hire the boy to get turpentine any longer.
I have been endeavoring to rent some land this year,
but as yet I have not succeeded, if I can get none
I shall have to hire out some of them in the neighborhood.
Our crop is better than the preceeding one, though
not a full one; the overseer says it was cuttoff
25 bales by a heavy rain that fell in the month of
June. There will be between 170 & 175 bales, the whole
of it is not yet packed out. I have sold only a small
quantity and have an ideo of holding a while
hoping the spring sales will be better.
The fair prices for Cotton with average Crops have
given a great impules to the value of property, and
there is a perfect mania on the subject of land,
negroes and mules. Although it has been only 12
months since there was a great financial crises in
the country, yet property of this character is higher now
than ever before known.
I stated to you the seasons which induced ?
to desire disposing of my interest here, and I now
submit a proposation according to your requests.
I makke a rough estimate as follows-