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Gin and cotton Forty.

--The Bolivar (Miss) Times, says:

‘ Between 8 until 9 o'clock on the evening of the 6th inst., the steam cotton gin on Gen. Clark's plantation, about four miles above this Clave, was discovered on fire and soon burned to the ground. A large of unbaled cotton, in the gin was burned, the principal part of the crop fortunately housed distance from the fire. The fire is supposed to have organised from the friction of the machinery, which had been running during the day. Lose about $20,000.

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