George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities.
George P. Rowell and company, Ed.

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Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama

a city of 50,000 pop., on Mobile River, [126] near its entrance into Mobile Bay, extensively engaged in foreign and domestic commerce, and, next to New Orleans, the largest cotton market in the United States. Regular lines of steamboats run from here to the various points on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, and to New Orleans. The Southern terminus of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, which connects with the Illinois Central Railroad at Cairo, forming a continuous line from the Gulf to the Lakes. The Mobile & Great Northern Railroad connects with Montgomery and other points North and East. The largest city in the State.