HOLLY PONl).Mr. Editor:—Times are hard and worse coming. Some sickness in thisneighborhood, mostly among children.Crops are o dy “tolable.*’ Our potatoes are about as good a- they were last year;it took a pan full to make a mess then,and it takes a port lull to make a mess now. The boom struck our town early this season; it mounted the chi eh house on wheels, and as the Lord was not inhe matter, a goodly number of theboome specie, and the boomers, managed to get it about one huudted yards from where it was constructed, ^inee that time real estate has been changing hands. Mr. .1. .J. Davis has a large and handsome dwelling nearing completion —Martin Ilamcs have built one of the most substantial gin houses in the county, and are now read} to please their customers in the way of ginning cotton, etc. We think V. I.eanhorse's headis level on the road question. What sayye?Jute is not a little lamb,With fleece alt; white a now. And as there is no cotton flagging Jute is all the go.Yours, in the blues,Yank Ratio. !