The decline was checked around the recent level by the appearance of a moderate demand from traders interested. However, there has been little or no Southern hedge selling reported, and prices at the close tonight showed rallies of several points from the lowest. Notwithstanding the unfavorable character of the weekly report of the Weather Bureau, the disposition has evidently been to discount an official condition figure, which has been up to the ten-year average, while there has also been a very general inclination to expect larger acreage figures from private authorities during the next few days than they published toward the end of April. One of these private reports, issued during the week, made the increase in area 12.7 percent, compared with an earlier season estimate of 5 percent, and placed the condition of the crop at 5 percent, compared with the official ten-year average of 79.5 percent. Scattered reports from the South have complained of delayed germination and a late season, owing to wet weather or low temperatures early in the month, but weather conditions recently have been more favorable, and the crop is supposed to have made good progress during the past few days. The scattered southern selling from New Orleans, Memphis, and Eastern belt sources is supposed to have been scattered, with scattered southern selling from New Orleans, Memphis, and Eastern belt sources is supposed to have been affected.  Based upon this improvement in crop prospects, while the decline has also reflected Wall Street inundation on the less favorable view of the political news. Advices from the dry goods trade, however, have indicated no diminution of activity and the buying encountered on a scale down is supposed to have been inspired by a feeling that the market was not influenced by the technical position would reflect the market very much to my security of unfavorable weather or to anything in the shape of more definite peace rumors. POLLARD FAVORS GLASS. 

Vincent Ills Position in Marietta: The Herald. 