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--" .110h ~ r VO. In MANNN.('AtNIN(WNYS.XWD SIA.A WT3iK NO3. TIlki ES t )V 11- W- A 1. A 1GLANCE AT CAT' i CON 1 I' ATE !LA(! AT VA' IWNGTON. The Story Told by These Mute ta. of a Lost Caou--itaners of Sill. u:d Banners of Tatter--t-ow ie F1:1A -re iiepwt in the War Depart'aenit. SLtuer to the N.w York war'd.) WAImsNGTON, July 29.-Yesterdiy in walking through the immense granite pile of the State, War aund Navy Depart ments, I was iken with the curisi to see the battle flags whicii ha-ve s,- ,, country'in an uproar. Turning to the right from the maiu corridor t the building on the second floor, I e'tred the commodious apartments of the Ad jutant General's office, and found myself confronting at a corner desk in one of the rooms, a rather statured man, Of well-fed form and placid face, with his -coat off like an ordinary clerk, bending to his work, alternately mopping the heat from his forehead and signin. or ders. This individual looked as little as ] possible like kindling the memLoris of a great rebellion or starting the world on flame in any quarter. The heat c! the day seemed all sufficient for his energies. All the same, it was General Dtm, Adjutant General of the United States Army, whose autograph oi a sli: of paper addressed to Mr. Cleveland a few weeks ago, and recommended the di:tri bation over the country of a variety of tattered bunting in the garret of the, War Office, set the country by the ears and is likely to play a considerable role in a coming campaign for an Amencan 2resident. I had been told that Adju tant General Drum was extremely .asi tive to the inquiries of visitors con zern ing this same banting. 1 was agre-ably surprised, therefore, on mforMnas tms gentleman ihat I had witai;ss i the i old days of the rebcilion the speetaz' of the arrival of n-any of these Ilas : th War Department, fresh fro.1 tuie I tle fields on which they were C ca"uried, indu of my wish to again inspect thezm, a be ing met with the blandest of siles ud promptly put in charge of an att-.:n:ant vitt, instructions to aid my mission. Carried by an elevator live stories up, under the roof of the War Dei a-ue, almost burning in this Washingtou - n mer weather, the key bei:g turne; by my guide in the doer of an attic roa, .1 stood an instant later in a little ce hardly more than ten feet square, n~riy within reaching distance on ail these battered mementos of tbe var.h very mention of which has set air e the hearts of sixty millions of peop- 'ew 1 rags saturated with the cxplozive v of patxiotism! But the Lint ihogt on seeing them in this ncnt up spac- of attic is of the smallness of the eau!' to I the size of the effect. The flags -::ed 1 about the room appear at ihst sight ouly a handful at the most, but counted -pi t rately there are 750 in all, over iLve Iun- I dred of them being Confederate and the remainder Federal flags recatured kom 1 their captors. One half oA the cLtirek number are attached to their stava as as they were originally taken, the dags of the two sections being stacked in separate masses against two sides of the t room, facing the other half folded and . protrading from pigeon holes on th.' on-. L oosite walls. The sight of the stars and stripes keep; always familiar. But the| first look at the dark red heap of the ! Lanners of rebellion, piied here against 1 the side of the attic, blots ouit twe:>ty-| ;fve years from the memaory and brings back as if it were yesterday, the red years 3' when they waved at the head of their regiments. There is hardly a flag among them all that has not its history record ed in the book in the hands of the keep er of the r-oom. Nearly all are riddled with bullets, and many, like those car- I ried through such battles as the Wilder ness and the second Bull Run, we re shot literally into tatters and almost un recozia ble sprays of rag. Te contrast in the appeamnece of tue Southern and Union standards is signti cant of the history of the war. T"hilt ter are rigged on clean polishe dpoes and are of firm, rich material, many of them of silk, showing an abundance in the North of the fabrics of which they continued to be made. The majority of the Confederate flags are of the wretch est shoddy bunting, miserable in color,' as in substance, while great numbers of them are mounted on rude, nnba~rked gads and saplings, hastily cut from the wooda on the march-recalling the blockade and the pinching days when war had fallen on a section without manufactures, and the intense, desperate purpose of a people forgot seemiiness and absorbed every thought but the win ning of their fights. Many of the flags lying folded in the boxes and taken out to be exhibited by the guardian cf the room recall still more vividly the narrow straits of rebel lion on its last legs, being literally iude pendent of discrimination in color and made of patches from women's dresses and underskirts of nearly every hue and 1 material--pitiful retainders of the Spar tan poverty and courage that were still to fail of their end. There arc somec ex ceptions, however, in this storeroom of battle trophies, to these mementos or the sterner- aays of the war for the South. The attendant drew from the pigeon holes on the walls and unfolded for my inspectionl three or fzonr magmni cent banners of heavy silk, fringed with tassels of gold and ornamented with: pictures in oil and richlmabroiderings on a field of blue. These flags rcpr-esen the early and Lalec n days of the Los: C2ause, when they were made by locA associations of ladies and presc te dt tho military organizations which care them. On' of those 11ags belonged to the Apalacehicola Guard, whose namei stitched in gold letters on its ichus -ton the exultant mottees: *In God is Ut;m Trust '""Our Rlights We Wil "i tain:" The finest of themi all isti Norfolk Light irlillery, with an jyrtrait of Washington in the certre its ild, the mottoes on the revers. i being the same as those of the flag ju described. The days when the Co.f crate armies could afiord suchi luxury ensigns quickly passed away, howse as is evidenced by this conlection, repr, senting every period of the war. In ti I beginning of the rebellion the design o ~hfan aried by the Southern reg- l swas thit a th r and Uars two red bars and -ne- white-chngin at a later eriod !4 ar : with ,h( Southerrn Cro..ss, roebling the Uliih Union Jack. A study of the Te<Cd kept by the W.ar Deprtment of tli name and capture f ,1 of tl:-.- le though a work o day', would be of in tense interest to the vetcrau soldier. It would recall to hi the episodes of tri unmph on half the didlS of the rebellion. The sight of the flags themselves would do somethi'ng mure-tiikening his heart-beats w1ith m ori's of the great ti gt. Tat no.t . fe w ihese standards have beln thr. e-tres or i v versona the juncrous bL;od-tis il mabeupon themr. 'he g'atv0, a 1, of ray o inom are .g;al wvi: h the guwof bulets, the ad in some instances icrcing th.eir entres and remaiming inbedded iu the vood. Everything. iii fct, in the ap aearance of the whole collection, as it is iled here in the narrow garret, faded md suiled and tattered, shows that these Ire no. banners of holiday parade, but 1ave passed through the fire and ex remity of actual war-the sorrowful veeds blasted and fallen from its wrath. or Myself, ot a soldit r, but a residcnt > Washington during the war period I :ecalled the stirring inci nts of their )resentation to the War Department as :hty were brought straight from the lelds of their capture. On one of these >eeasions thirty of these standards, as I :emember, were carried here two days tfter the fight at Winchester by a (le :ation of soldiers whose hands had aetu illy sei::ed them in the fight, Custer, ith his long, yellow hair, at their head. Stanto, the grim Seretary, undnt, oved rcsults and these were the palpa xle evidences of triumph. Coming out >f the lion's den of his oilice he took ach soldier by the Land and welcomed aem as a bc ly with a speech. As the ttle group stood before his door listen rg to his aldress, the captured stand .rds held above their heads in the nar ow hall of the old War Department ade a pictures-ue cloud of c.>lr, 'hc, together with the entire scene. it -a no. easN to forget. Wien the :;tir vas o--er tie sA~ehers started again for he field n Sianton. taking Cast-r's trm, walked slov.ly down the stelp of h , War 0.2e. 6"uch1 was his hauit with nv of the irilliant leadeirs -f the war Liei- a visit to his denrtme ut. Wit m JA(SoxN A1mSr no'L. he conoilt o dIen llt. From the New York Financial Chron c's cotton article of July 2:3 the follow og upres are gathered relative to the movement of the stale da.Lng the poast vc.: For the weck cnded July 22 the total .c'ui:cs reachLed :3.23 hales, against ,000 b.les last week 1,261 bales the >revious wCeek, ami :*.4 bales three -Ccks smee; ma'-kng the total receipts inee the 1st September, 166, 5,2.098 )ales, against ,,t12 bales for the same .eriod of 1S85-G, showing a decrease since epteber 1, 1?0, of ST,51i bales. The total sales for forward delivery for he ween ex. -1, ToO 1les. For iw nediate delivery the total sales foot up his week ,SiGJ baics, inetuding ,;,2u7 ;ales for ex!-rt and 2,63. fer home con The export. for the week reach a total >f 18,t:n ba!cs, of which 16,654 were to ireat lritnin, 40 to France, and 2,237 o the rest of the continent. Thre imaports into continental ports luring the wcek wcre 20,000 b.des. .hese ilgures indicate an ingrense in the :otton in sight of ~3,iu0 bales as con >ared with the same date of 188G, an ncrease of :33,;3t 2 bales as compared vith the corresponding date of 1885, and .decrease of 31;,023 hales as compared vith 188~4. The total receipts from the planta ions since 1st Scotember, 1886, are i,18h3, 226 bales; in 1i8$6 were 5,:388,372 yales; in 1884 -5 were 4,726,410 bats. klthough the receipts at the outports for he past week were :t,2i)5 bales, the actual novement from the plantations was onl~y -bales, the balance being taken from he stocku e't the interior tow~ns. Last rear the receipts from: the- plantations or the same week were j,:32 b'ies, and md 'er 1885 they 9038 bales. The de ~rease in amount in sight to-night, as :ompar-ed with last year; is 110,8'2 b 'len he increase as complared with 1884 5 is 1l5,312 bales, and the increase over L8:3 is 701,025' bales. The Chronicle says that the specula :ion in cotton for future delivery at this narket has been fairly active for the reeck under review, but prices have ihown a good deal o'f variableness and rregularity, influenced largely by ma iipulation by the regular operators. -aurday: was rather firmer, but on Mon lay the annou:ncement of the failure of s house reported to have been a leader in the elfort to "corner" this crop caused a sharp decline in July and August op :iou.s, and weakened the whole position; but ou Tuesday a better report from Liv rpool and the repetition of reports from the SoJuthwest that damage was being lone by drouth, with some accounts of worms, caused an eqiually smart advance. O~n Wednesday the early months opened lower and the next crop dearer, when the tone suddecnly chauged; there war an active buying of .ugust, with the next crop umore freely sold closing lower, while this crop maintained a small ad vance. Thursday an irregular opening was followed by a general decline, attrib uted to therort~ of failures at New Orleans, the aket of tue :ecent shnre decline. Friday the nmarket was Jull and weak. Cotton on the spot has met with a moderate demnand for home con sumption(. Quo+ttons were reduced 1-16'. on Jond'y. Un~ Thursday a irg.. business was done for export, and up !as were advanced 1-10e. Friday ther'- was 1-11 ..inin and m~iddling up lo * Purd t, ehi. ihat liie m'. net 'a wot* 5 m s.Mn Youth loks at the possible age at the. nmi :hioc j Ex 4.eriences n i , non Ii n:re1m i After the Oce-pmntion of the (it-- rutal Order of t-e Post Co:naeiitlr. (,From- the urmdniy 'Nqws )I IHaviug just read the interesting sketch of "The Parish Church of St. Michael," by Mr. George S. Holmes, which forms a part of the "Year Book" for IS8, and having noticed a slight inaccuracy on page 307 (in the extract from the cbron-! cle of the venerable A. E. Miller) I am: tempted to correct it while recalling other incidents of the times referred to. Ts statement is; "The Rev. 1r. Howe oficiate;l at St. Paul'S, with others, until some time in February, S, when he left the city in consequence of his objeeting to read the prayer for the President of the United States. The same thing occurred to the Rev. 1r. Marshall, 1). 1)." The facts are: 1ev. Mr. Howe did not leave the city in February, and Dr. Marshal! never left at all. The Rev. Mr. (now Bishop) Howe had been ofiiciating at St. Paul's for sonI time when, on the morning of the 18th February, 1865, the United States troops entered end, while the tire which * burst out at the Northeastern Railroad depot was swecping before it the (then) well known residences in Chapel, Alexander and Charlotte streets. In this day of terror and distress the Rev. Mr. Howe brought comfort to many. On the fol lowing Sundays those members of the Episcopal Church, who were still in the city, gathered around him at St. Paul's and, on the 19th and 26th of February, (which days were Sundays,) amid al that was dark around them, had, at least, the comfort of undisturbed religious worship. In the beginning of March, however, Col. Stewart L. Woodford, commander of the post, eent for Mr. Howe, and, while cntirely courteous in his language and mianner, insisted that the prayer for the Prcsident of the United States should be used, or MIr. Howe must leave the city. As Mr. Howe did not concede to an army officer the right to make changes in the ritual of his church, Col. Woodford notiiled hin that he would be sent out of the city, with every facility giveu him to reach his family; but. in the Imean"iC, corseLted to his holding services on the 5th of March. On that day -Mr. Howe spoke feelirgly to his congregation, explaining the pos tion and taking leave of us-none knew for how long. His tones and beari ng. were so impressive that, on his retiring to the vestrr-room, two otlicers ci the: United Stat -s navy who had attended the service hurried'after Lim aud ofl'red to use their influence with Col. Woo ford to indaec a recall of his or.er. Thev were unsuccessful, and the next : day, 'larch G, the Rtev. 3r. Howe was sent by steaincr to (corgetown, S. C. St. Paul's was then closed, but the cr- i -iecs of our church were still held in thec little st John's Chatel, Ilampstead, by r that venerable, gouly man, i'r. AL. Mlarshal? . Here for weeks the saddened faces and e still sadder hearts of those who, petnt up s in Charleston, saw the enemy's :eel -1 upon her reek, and felt i themslves, gathered from Sunday to Sunda% to, pour out together their prayers and thc.ir sorrows, their hoipes and the.r :ars.' This place of worship being remot rms the great highways of the city, and so :, unpretending in itself it was hoped that v religious worship there at least would be t unmolested. Thee hopes, however, i werc rudely dispelled when on the 9th t I think) of April the church was closed i and Dr. Jarshall given a week to decide T whether he would take "the oath of alie giane" and use the prayer for the Pres- r ident of the United States or leave the city. Dr. Marshall wrote to Gen. Hatch j to expostulate. Here is the General's t reply: " HEADntraTEfls NoIRTHER~N DIsTICT, DEPA~RT31ENT OF THE SOUTH. CnamEsT'ON, April 25, 1865. General Orders No. 29.i1 It has been reported at these head qudarters that the Rev. Alex. WV. M1ar sh all, missionary of St. John's Chapel, Hampstead, has, in the Eervices of the said chapel, since the occupation of the city by the United States forces, omitted the prayers for the President of the U..nited States. In a writn communi eation, addressed to the commander of' the post of Charleston, he styles the'i praye~r for the President of the Un ted States a "political prayer." it is, there 'fore, ordered that he be sent beyond the! lines of the army, and be forbidden to i enter the city of Charlesto during its!~ occuipation by the United States troops i without permission of the commander of | 'the district or departnment. It is further | ordered that his personal property be;9 confiscated to the use of the United i States Governmaent. In punishing the no d of th e congregation worshipnping at St. John's Chapel the brigadier-general commanding desires it to te considereda a warning to those who, attending the' services for weeks, so far forgot their duty totheir country as not to informi the-military authorities of the conducet of this disloyal priest, with other words of warning added. By commnand of Brig. Gen. JorN HATer. LvoNAR &i U. PERRY, Acting Adjutant General." Tis.)1 specimen of war literature, <ct mult. 2l., was taken down at the time. In the helpless and almost hopeless t condition of the times, in dread of bi'' left withut a ciergymlan to bury or deadI Dr. 3.'s friends induced him tto submit. This tempered Hatch's anger. t a nd be revoked the order, but Dr.3. never used the pr'ayer until there was no question1 as to the propriety of using it. Befor the nert Sunday came round he was irun ov.er by a cureless driver, and' for months ceutined to 'n. bed of :ueg Suimmerville, S. C., .July 10, 1667. Al ftebd makes. 85 cash am 0.a1auc Novembe~r 1, at SPOt c::.sh priei on a P.iano. $10 cash and balauce N vembe 1, nt slot cash prices on at IOrgan. Delivered, freig ht free. atye nlearest deCpot. l'Afien days test tri1 and freight both ways if not satisfactory W\rite for circulars. N. W. TRUMIP, I Columbia. S. C. Indians never kisoe nhr ad:. one who has eyer seen an Indian can blanm' them much. a few miles are so accustomed to tihe thing that they never mind it or men tion it. Conseqnently, wery few pcople outside of the immediate vicinity, aind the physicians who have attended them, are cognizant of the circumstances. People passing the house, especially in the summer time, have been tilled N ith curiosity by what they saw and heard, and have carried accounts to distant places. These reports are very vague, for the passers-by have had no definite idea )f the matter. They only know that it looked remarkably strange to see a father and his sons out in the field plowing and sowing many rods apart, yet eacli one laughing as though he had heard the best joke in the world. Curi ous stories are told of the travelers who went that way. Several ye.irs ago two young men came from the interior of the State to attend a party at Easton, Pennsylvania. It was a warm night and they did not start until late. They drove past tLe house of the laughing family soon after the regular nightly attack had begun. The windows were all open, as it was early summer, and every sound could be clearly heard. As the young men ap-! proached they heard the most unearthly noise their ears had ever received. It seemed like pandemonium, and the youths felt sure they had struck the en trance to Sheol. The horse took fright and nearly ran away with them. Coming to the con elusion that at least the place was haunt ed, they hurried home, and the next morning spread the news. Parties were formed to investigate the matter, but none of them solved the subject until informed by a man in the village near at hand as to the nature of the case. They were urged to remain reticent about the matter, and have done so. rHYsIcAL 1ITEcTs. The years of incessant laughter have told somewhat on the faces of the fami ly, but'not so as to be very noticeable. There are scores of lines under the eyes and above the cheeks, caused by the drawing up of the skin. Then their mouths have become wider and they keep them closed with difliculty. The most marked result of the disease, how ever, is in the voice. The entire famiy i talk in the same tone, resembling as nearly as anything the voice of the alto singer. Males and females ha-ve tie' same inflection anid intonation. Mot of them have more or less trouble with their eyes, several having become ve-y near sighted. The pupils havo cou tracted, and the entire eyeball is dirin. ished in size. This is accounteu for by the contraction of the eyes while laugh ing, and the effort required in n or reading while undergoing an atmek. Very little physical annoyance is C1aued the laughers. They read and -write, sleep and work without any trouble. The only thing they seem unable to do, while attacked, is to cat, and th-.t can b readily understood. Se--cral grind -hildren have been born. and in all bIt one instance, they were taken, soon after birth, with stated attacks at the sane hours as their parents. Of course they do not laugh as the older ones do, but they crow and espress all the sigus of baby glee twice a diay, and never cry while in that state. If the disease con tinue in the new generation, the laugh ing family may ultimately become a laughing village. The Tongue an Index of Character. Nvords weigh character. The tulngue is the tell-tale of the inner, the real life. "y thy words thou shalt be justillie, and by thy words thou shalt be con demned." We may judge of the depth1 or superficialness of a person's characte by the tone and trend of his conversa tion. Those who live in a narrow, en vious, selfish sphere, unmoved by high aims and pure motives, take delight in depreciating the reputation of a neig bor, in giving a frealt vent and a new version to adme petty gossip designe~d only to annoy and irritate; if the rumr is against a minister of the gospel o some one in high standing in society, the indulgence of their low taste is t'e more keenly relished. Such busy-bodies~ < in their intermingling, not only revea the serets of the c'omunity, but dis close to all the hollowness of their ro fessional friendship, and the danger im-1 plied in making them a confidant. The tattler is one of the pests of society. le or she is a standing menace to all. Since] Since the days of the Apostle James there is no record of any such havingv been cured of the evil. "For every kind of beast and of birds and of ocr pents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind' but' the tongue can no man tame; it is a unruly evil full of deadly poison.'' "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perrect man." Let it be our daily aim to attain such a high andf en nobling state of grace. "In all tl about persons let it be thcir nseries that we hasten to disclote, their good deeds' that we gladly unfold. In all discussion on character let the good eome into' prominence. In all our uttered hopes for the future let our highest ideal re ceive the emphasis. Let trhL and not error, light and iot aarkness, love and not hate, ibe our themes. So shall w~e increase and perpetuate all that is good by frank utterance, while 7:1-i will de crease and Adizppear under the hiek dr.pery of silence."-B~aptiht Weekly. Near Shelby, N. C., are now~ opeu fo the reception of guests. TJhese Springs are two jilecs from Shelby, 54 miles wtt of Charlotte, N. C., and within one mile' of the C. C. Railroad. IHacks will be at' station on arrival of every train. i ties from WVilmington and along the ie of the Carolina Central IRailreadcn reach this delightful resort before dar on the samie day. Within 12 hours ride of Wilmington. The Cuisine is nuds control of a Chief equal to any in thI South, and no expenre shall 1.e spa':l 1 to provide the table with the best the market arlords. Polite and attentie servants in all departments. Col a'd warm baths. White and' Red Sulphu and Chalybeate Waters. A good sting band secured for the season. A Bcowlir Alley in good order. Livery aceomme dations attached to the hotel. Parti.. can leave Charlotte each afternoon a 4.30 o'clock, and reach the Springs be fore dark, the railroad schedule now 'e ing better than it ever was before. A dress S. McBm PosToN, Proprietor, Rhelby. N. 0.( A LAUG1lNl; FMIlLY. A S'.isi ST1tANGE STOI:Y FRO3: NEW JEiSEY. A Fam ily With; a PcVciiar 3Ialaly--Laugh ing in Church and iat Odd Thmes ani Place--Carius Stories Told by People NEw YoK, July 28.-The story of Jersey's laughing family is certainly one of the oddest that ever reached the cars of a eorrespondent. That a family wit such a p-.cidiar malady, and one sc Aeemingly intelestilg to the medica] ?rofession, should have lived so long ir i State prctty well populated withoul getting into the newspapers, except in a irief and remote way years ago, is de :idedly strange. The family reside in a arge, substantial house, not far from :he Delaware river in Hunterdon coun :v. The father and sons are farmers md prosperous and well to do. The en ire family are chronic laughers, having in afiection of the muscles of the mouth md throat that compels them to give rent to ap)arcut merriment at stated in ervals. The malady first appeared in he father about a dozen years ago. le vas usually a very (uiet man, enjoying ,un, but manitestiug his enjoyment with >ut much L-o: -e. lie was seated at the tinner table one day in the spring of he year, eat:ng teadily and not engag ng in any of the conversation which the >ther meibers of the family were carry ng on. Suddenly, without any cause, ic burst into at loud lit of laughter so :xtremely d'Iferent from his accustomed augh that all were attracted by it at mce. When atked what was the reason f his sudden outburst he made no re )lv, but continued his nerrimnent. Some ifithe boys thought he had hysterica, .nd pounded him on the back, but it id no good. After a few moments he ande motions for pencil and paper, and 6rote that he was una .e to control his isibles, and asked them to send for a loetor. The rural physician came, but could ,ive no remedy that stopped the laugh er. Peal after peal of what sounded ike the heartiest kind of fun came from im, and nothing would avail to prevent t. The doctor finally came to the con lusiun that he was the victim of a eivous attack, and, leaving a nervino lemrted. siNGULAn TuoUbLE. The father continued laughing until bout sundown, when he su Idenly toppCd and fell on the floor completely rostrated. He soon grew better, how ver, ate a .earty supper, and spent the veIing much as usual. No signs of the etarn of the trouble appcaring, he went L bed and was soou fazt asieep. Along bout " o'clock, however, his was awak ned by his laughter, and the same ymptoms as of the day before mani ested themselves. He kept it up until o'clock, laughing loud and strong. At o'clock the noise suddenly ceased and id not return again until dinner time. .us it continued, reerring each day hertly after noon and in the night about o'clock, and has every since. As the eek passed lie grew so accustomed to le disease that he was caused very little aconvenience by it. He did not get ired out, as at first, and soon was able o go about his work-sowing seed and lanting corn. digging vegetables and ratering the eattle--while laughing imi aoderately. Hie could not talk while nder one of the spells, but carried a tate and pencil around with him, after be fashion of a deaf and dumb person. The trouble was very regular in its oming and going, and only occaslonally >roke forth at unlooked-for seasons. )nce the old man was taken in church. ast when the minister was e>xhorting his carers in the most solemn strains, and poiled the ecleet of the discourse, be ides distur bing the equilibrium of the lergymana. Another time he was found y one of his neighbors along the road, ying beneath a bag of flour, laughing at terrific rate. He has been taken while triving home from' the mill, and the addennss of the sounds frightened the lorse, causing it to rim away and dump he man and part of his load out in the oad. For eighteen months the father was he only one of the household afflicted ~ith the malady. Several of them had omplained from time to time of an in lination to join the father in the laugh, 'nt none of them did so;-antil nearly two 'ears after he was taken, when Susie, he youngest child, suddenly burst into ,similar fit during one of her father's .ttacks. From that time on she has laughed at .bout the same hours that her father tocs. One by one the remaining mem crs fell victims to the strange conm )iaint, until two years ago there wa:. but ne left free and that was Charles, the 'idest son. His long exemption led him o believe he would escape the malady. lut he was mistaken, and it is said he aid his ilrst attack whIe proposing for he hand of a girl at WXJikesbbrre, 1'.. co frightained wae th maiden by Jharlens queer behavior that she run rom the room, and it was5 a week before he proper exla'nation could inducc her osee him agai". Sh.e is now onc of ie :amuiiy amd escaping the malady iever minds the hideous chorus of aughter which twvice a day iesounds brough the hose it is regarded as add that :wne of the neighbors should Lure caught the infection, although aany of them mingle constantly with he fataijly. KG 1:EMEld KNo WN. Every thing possible has been done t<) enmove or alleviate the malady, b)ut ~ithout any perceptible en'ect. Several miiieat physicians fror- this city and *hiadelphia are understood to have isited the house and become interested nm the case. They all confessed them elves baled and wanted some of the emily to come here to New York for ...,n. This they refuscd to do. [heir noticeable misfortune has render ~d them very sensitive, and they \;ill iot trmvel where they will be subjected o iunblie scrutiuy and remark. Th~ey go to chuirch or the store in th--~ rilage close by and attend social gath irings occasionally in th a neighborhood n the evenings, but o.'ily among life Ho . . Comasinr c Agriculture, Celubja, S. C. in coplianue with your request, an for the bene!lt of some of our farmer5, will give you my c xpel iecue, and that c some of my ntei"lbors, but more pa" tieularly Liy w1, as 1 can spcak mor delinitely, of the use of pine straw as : manure. I have ben using it for six teen years, iad for the riost of this tim I hiave bcn using tenU cords to the acr olr cotton, ani iith that amount ( :traw ai 10' li. ac';i phosphate, li' ibS. 1.kit, and i buchcls of cotto: seed, I nake a avemge of a ba!e of cot on to r', .nd some years I get 'ale andi a Lal, ou what was 'aid to ( old worn out land, but by the use of th( above I now have my hind in good heart It is said by some farmers that straw wii kill the cotton, but I have never had i to kill my cotton, and would use doubl the quantity that I do if it were so thal I could get it to the land, as getting i in the land is a small matter with us We break the old beds down with si: furrows with a seven inch turn plough then open with an eight inch double winged straight hoe sixteen inches long thus it may be seen how I get in my tel cords to the without trouble. It is said by some that I claim too much for pine straw, but this is a mistake, as I only claim what the analysis, I believe, give: it, about 8 per cent, potash; but to take it at much less, and still I am an advo cate for its use, for I elaim a good deal for its percolating influence in the lane -the samre that yeast has in our bread for in tLis: it opens the soil and lets ir the air and admits the gases from the rain, which, in close clay soil, is very necessary, and, as I think, in all soils, whether it be clav or otherwise. Ther are many obiections to the use of straw. One add"ced by men of intelligence is, thaL straw, when rotted, becomes sand, which, according to my experience, i. both false and true, for I claim that the same soil tiat prodicea the grovth, when rotted it w i ;e the sanac, eit;.er sand or eay. I belive all the farmers know that cult'n grown ou clay laud has a yellow tige, produe.d by the clay; and if our i eakes of the soil. uhy not p~ti '.w lt t- :e . .o )tier ian mi iy own i.r'inc'. 'a spe'kin to. a well-to-do farl on hl .'hject, he said he wouk! straw. L' a oe that use it largely. liat it ' um 'b a 1 1 ho we are to gtt i S.ch 'uati? I Ca. o'l' say how I do it at Ztis i", '' j. have in the ootr ' lles, four feet 'ig ad four i'5 a. wi, 'de have been rake i wh the tr '' as such that I b'. d 1 Oti A'a wrk; and when W i crop, wich ve usually do abut thle th (if July, u, betweeu that and the btle g:.th,::?ig, we get a!, weueL. h i: n ~e we lirSt gxt Si i ten twelve feet deen w :17 ro'l the iene If t__is is not done we could. ioeve get it from: the ;oods hi the sprin., ad.. Iming it in*e lot, it is ramped by t.e 1"kd thugh1 l no't aut " '5A n n->. b. i account cf 1.pI, it beco.:s e atC.nd. o:.:.ca etvo, does no'tg unti - i or eC tiruo for pnin . 1 uva. le wron; . but ' -hn 'ia r'Ao wy h:leisn Lor fa sdi ceuete is not outgi pat in Lh land, for it taeS a arge kPuntit, ia bulk, to nhe a little arth when rodAtte L!nd I ay this: Ile more o'. . 0 the more holsphate .1e =.y ith paying results Ii Le will >l-y be sure and get thke straw well in :he furrows. I have us d fr''y- cv larg >iles to tiie ac'' for sweet p- laes, and :his alone, anI mad;C very Ln, )otLatot s; >ut I put two mules to the plough, and ot the .straw well in the ground. Ther e one fact aboutt straw that ma'y no be enerally known; it is this: very soon fter it is put in the ground it goes :hrouigh a sweat, and does not get dry mny more until rotted, at which time t aave taken it up from the bottom of the ,lant furrow~ and foud that the decomt ')Osed straw was a network of fibre reoas :hat have been feediung there throrngh he season. Itat I naust say, b~fore [ :lose, that the iirst year in the use of straw '.t does net pay so largely, but caent mteceeinlg year will pay amore and more, r this has bee-n my experience, and Mr. 13. M. Pitis, of sumter enty, gave me he samie as J4:~ erienee, and he has i boadcat wi good results, whtichi I 2ave never done. Now, in conclusion, .et mte say, while the cotton panat is :nade up of seveu eomposzct parts, and )tne straw will and does constitute one f those pars, a litle push and pluel; ma y have that on hand in ti'.: turn yard at no great cost. Yours faith.lly, a ., .hom 11. Df l:scii.mr. .F ulton, S.., July 13,r1887. if txenator Jual e:ilo.:crve co~ 'o willCa.i cotinu to discover evidene: si euite-s eti th negro, froma al' -s- theS cati of .icridau, where ., inder emet to " a mora~tie Cio' riatr. ii pa'':, 1.. uthernl Leade:. ,overnIor of the S'tate- 'lie always~ a.hows conisideratit 'os the colored4 p-. 1'ie and es ae re""dy to sp e'nA wor'ds adun KuanOd e::conAgement1..i to) the. We ly :.pyr ,nt the .Governo.' *lb. r:-J.ti 1:a this regard, .d .e ay teei asared tha his ur.a Lor increasll ducational failities. for our poci>e W cc remaembered. 1i shows that le ' preciate.s the fac tat h1 ith Ch.. M~agistrate of all th ppl of the i:tat:. ma not of at:: opr'dicula party or cht:s af peo 'le. 0alvestn N ews. If t V 'cnetri rings 'n trees at0: .:rr " i1e of their age. that mysten .u...r...ur..near .aachester, Coii :ountyp1 TeA. cle theUd Sto' tort, iO ''f a' er :eie't origin. T*. resgrwn on th'e ru'd stone w: jar surrund'c the'ld structure show, b Leair ring. ully ive 'hundred y' rtowt. These treCs, tow being eK 3.way, ire the only wAitnesMs to the . :>it te ston" wor. W iti their testimao:; tiont'uari.mns ever land oat who bnult t.a: old stone fort, and for what purpose'. I any investigators wish to examine these. trees, they should do so pretty soon, a s they are rapidly disappearing.-South ern Tmmherman. SCIZOOLIIOY BLUNDERS. Engiih as She Is Taught and Written In England. (From the Youths' Companion.) The subject of schoolboys' blunders has recently been agitated in various di rections, and the collected result is ex ceedingly amusing. Some of the very best instances of inadvertently happy phrasing come from English boys, and are recorded in the Cornhill Magazine. One youthful historian states, in exami nation, that "a constitutlonal monarch is one who has a good constitution." Another seems a trifle vague about the feudal system, and writes that "it was a lat.v that every one should get up at 8 a. m. to put out his fires." Perhaps a philologist might think that the boy was of French descent, from his referring the word feud to feu-fire. Passing on to the Bible history, we find versions of the Beautitudes which differ from those genarally received: "Blessed are ye when men shall say unto you, 'Raca,"' and "Blessed are the poor in spite of it." A certain passage in Xenophon tells us that "on one occasion all the soldiers escaped unhurt, but one man on the left wing was said to be shot." A translator, by transposing the words, made the statement "that one was said to be shot on the left wing," whereupon a clever boy aptly remarked: "He must have been a goose." "One pupil, who was asked to explain the mrning of the phrase, "the last in firmity of noble minds," at once replied, "the disease you die of." Another youth defined "guerdon" as "a large flat thing that you broil on." This probably seems funnier to an Eng lishman than it does to an American, for the Englishman is apt to use the word grill instead of gridiron. Another boy must have been suffering from pangs of hunger, for he wrote, in answer to the question, "What makes the tower of Pisa lean?" "because there was a sore famine in the land." ELECTRIC FIRE BALLS. A QesLction Raised as to Whether They are Not Optical Ilusions. (From the New York Sun.) In nearly all of the reports of personal injury by lightning strokes victims who recover say they have seen balls of fire. The fire ball seems to figure conspica ously in all stories of prostration by lightning, and it would be interesting to study this special phase of the phenome na for the purpose of ascertaining whether the fiery ball has any existence except as the result of the bright flash upon the optic nerves. Almost invaria bly the persons who are close enough to a flash of lightnIng to see this ball have declared that it moved slowly, dancing and bounding through the room or across the field, aid in cases where men and women have been prostrated and subsecuently recovered they have as sarted that the ball bounded slowly to ward them and struck them full in the chest. I recently talked with a man who was in a factory which was struck by lightning, and he told me that two balls ol ure approached him from the end of the room, slowly bounding along the iloor; and leapirg almost to the ceiling. Wfhen they reached him, he said, they both struck him on the breast at the same instant, and he fell insensible. The factory chimney was struck on this occasion and partly demolished. He re covered in fifteen minutes and carefully examinred his clothes to see if they were !biurned. I tirmly believe that the ball of fire is merely an optical illusion, and that it is seen only by persons who are not in the direct line of the electric current. Has anybody investigated the matter? Labor Parties. The political labemr movement is not a transient phenomenon, destined to speedily disappear, but a movement of more permanent character, which will continue in some form until its objects, so far as possible, have been attained. lor this reason it behooves our states men, and the educated and thinkirg class generally, to consider what they ought to do in order to guide the move ment aright. An exclusively working men's party is an undesirable thing, even if its aims are right; and no such party can be maintained for any length of time if an honest attempt is made by the educated people to help the working people improvo their lot. That much may be accomplished, if all classes will work together for this end, there can be no reasonable, doubt. Moreover, the duty cannot beshirked. 'The question of improving the life of the toiling masses is the main political aid social problem of the age, and will remain so. until it is solved-if solution be possible; and it can only be solved by measures that are just to all other pcrtions of society. While American working men are desirous of attaining their ends by just means, they are liable to be misled ioy their passions or their supposed in terest, er by designing men who pander to both, It is the duty of the business men among us to do all they can to 1:elp the working men in their legitin.ace aspiraions, and at the same time to show them their errors and rebuke them whenc they go wrong. With. popular cadtership of the right sort, parties made up of laborers mainly would soon cease to. exist, and working men would attain their ends by means of parties composed of all classes and aiming at the good of all.-Te Century. *All. Men Are Liars," Said David of old, lie was probably promupted to make th~e above remarks after trylag some unreliable catarrh remedy. liad he been permitted to live until the preat day, and tried Dr. Saige's Remedy,. :.u might have had a better opmiion of mnan dind. We claim that :wo cases of catarrh ca I tititad the :magie 'eets of this rflmedicine. CUe trial of it wvill ou e u of its eilicacy. By druggists; Gra.shoppers are destroying crops in varios parits of Belgium. Th Massachusetts Riepublican State Co.nvention will be held in Boston on Setem.nber 27. A Lowell, Mass., dispatch says that bour girls were drowned Thursday at North Belerica, while bathing. At linob Lick, Mo., a collision occurred about 4 o'clock Thursday morning be tween two freight trains, resulting in~ the death of three men.