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About 83 per cent. were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: Grocers 30, general stores 20, liquors 19, shoes 13, dry goods 9. manufacturers 9, books, stationery, etc., 8. hardware and implements 8, clothing 7, hotels and restaurants 7, drugs 6, lumber, etc., 6, tobacco and cigars 5, fancy goods 5. bakers and confectioners 4, carria. es 4, hats 4, jewelry 4, millinery 4, furniture 3, grain and millers 3. Among those reported embarrassed were Seth B. Robinson & Co., wholesale buttons, and R. W. Carman & Co., wholesale flowers and feathers, New York; Oscar F. Hawley, packingbox manufacturer, New York and Brooklyn; Sterling Paper Bag Manufacturing Company and William S. Stewart, commission dry goods, Philadelphia; Shelbyville Savings Bank and Moorman & Co., millers, Shelbyville, Tenn.: J. M. Ivy & Co., banking. and Ivy and Fewell, general store, Rock Hill, S. C.; Russell Harvesting Machine Company, Polo, 111. GEORGIA. Rome.-Lamar & Cutts, grocers, offer 50c. SOUTH CAROLINA. Rock Hill.-J. M. Ivy (& Co.), banker and cotton factor, assigned. Mr. Ivy has been in business many vears, and was a large landowner. Ivy & Fewell, general store, assigned. Mr. Ivy was also in the banking business alone.