The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, August 03, 1887, Image 1
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VOL. XLIV. YVTNNSKORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1887. . NO. L
r TROPHIES OF THE WAR.
A OLANCK AT CAl'T! UF.I) CCM tOJiK- I [
ATS tXAGS X WASHINGTON. ! ,
fcr
r\ Ti e Story Told by These Mute Emblems j ,
^ of :? Lost C;:tusc?lUmaers ->! Silk ami .
JJanners of Tatters?How tiio Flags are j ]
K,ci>t in the *Var Department.
(I.ctU r to the New York v.'or'u.)
Wasui.s-c.tcn, July 2U.?Yesterday in j'
^ . . <
-ip walking through. the immense granite j:
?11^ : \ \ "V, r-> /I Vovw ; "J
Ui I U'J OUlwC) Mill ~.\u. i j i/vj^uiv | j
' m?nt.s, I was taken with the curiosity to !1
^ see the battle iiags which have set the ! \
country in an uproar. Turning to the ' ]
right from the main corridor of the i building
on the second floor, I entered
the commodious apartments of the Ad- .
jutant General's ollice, and found myself i
r 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 j
to his work, alternately mopping the
heat frora his forehead and signing or- >
i deiv-;. This individual looked as little as *
Il__ po' dble like kindling the memories of a J
wf . rebellion or starting the world on 1
feP* . in any quarter. The heat of the
aj seemed" ail sufficient for his energies. ! 1
A;' he same, it was General Drim, | '
Adjutant General of the United States j Army,
whose autograph on a slip of '
r paper addressed to Mr. Cleveland a few ;
weeks ago. and recommended the distri- 3
bution over the country of a variety of
tattered bunting in tUe garret of tiie j
' Wax Office, set the country by the ears j
and is likely to play a considerable role !
in a coming campaign for an American j .
President. I had been told that Adju
B taut General Drum was extremely sensi- 1
tive to the inquiries of visitors concern|
.ing this same bunting. I was agreeably )
surprised, thcrelore, on informing this
jaw - * gentleman that I had witnessed in the '
;||i* old days of the rebellion the spectacle of t
the arrival of many of these tlags in the ]
I War Department, fresh from the battle
fields on which they were captured, and
of my wish to again inspect them, at be- :
ing met with the blandest of smiles and |
promptly put in charge of an attendant '
with instructions to aid my mission.
mp Carried by an elevator five stories up, :
xl r A. W7? I
unaer itie rut>A vi i~ue ??a?
almost burning in this "Washington sum \
mer weather. the key being turned by
my guide in the door of an attic room, 1 s
stood an instant later in a little space
hardly more than ten feet square, nearly *
|$|k within reaching distance on all sides of :
these battered mementos of the war, the :
very mention of which has set afire the .
" hearts of sixty millions oi people?a fev,- ;
rags saturated with the explosive wash
of patriotism! But the first though; on c
seeing them in this pent np space ox !
attic is of the siaaiiacos of the. cause to :
the size of the effect. The fiags heaped 1
i of fJvo4- cirrof r\n ITT 'c
ttLHJlit IJJLC v-?j
a handful at the most, but counted sepa- j
rately there are 750 in al], over five hunr_
dred'of them being Confederate and the !
their captors. One half oi the entire 1
number are attached to their staves as ;
as they were originally taken, the tlags '
of the two sections being stacked in!
separate masses against two sides of the '
room, facing the other half folded and '
protruding from pigeon holes on the op-!
posit-e walls. The sight of the stars and j :
$t?ipes keeps always familiar. Hut the j1
first look at the dark red heap of the i1
banners oi rebellion, piled here against '
the side of the attic, blots out twenty- :
tnve years irom cue zneciury rnu uaatjs ,
back as if it were yesterday, the red years '
when tbey waved at the head of their
regiments. There is hardly a flag among
them ali thai has not its history record- !
ed in the book in the hands ' f the keeper
of the room. Nearly all are riddled j
with bullets, and many, like those car- ]
? ried through such battles as the Wilder- ]
ness and the second Bull Run, were shot '
literally into tatters and almost un- '
recognizable sprays of rag. :
The contrast in the appearance of the 1
Southern and Union standards is signii- j
cant of the history of the war. The iat- ;
terare rigged on clean polished poles
and are of firm, rich material, many of {
them of silk, showing an abundance iu J
the North of the fabrics of which they J
continued to be made. The majority of (
the Confederate hags are of the wretch- j
est shoddy bunting, miserable in color,
as in substance, while great numbers of!
them are mounted on rude, unbarked j;
and sat>liners, ha&tilv cut i'rom the
_| ? ~JT o v j
woous on the roarc-h?recalling the
blockade and the pinching days -when j
war aad fallen on a section * without j
S man" ' actures, and the intense, desperate [
^ .--e of a people forgot seemiiness j
Bp - sorbed every thought but the winof
their tights.
|?r 22any of the flags lying folded in the
boxes and taken out to be exhibited by
the guardian of the room recall still
more vividly the narrow straits of rebellion
on its last legs, being literally independent
of discrimination in color, and
made of patches from women's dresses
S . and underskirts of nearly every hue and
H. r material?pitiful reminders ox the Spurj|||;
tan poverty and courage that were still
to fail of their end. There are some ex??
ceptions, however, in this storeroom of
gw * battle trophies, to these mementos of
tie sterner days of the war for the
South. The attendant drew from the
pigeon holes on the walls and unfolded
for my inspection three or four magnitiMfeur
cent banners of heavy silk, fringed with
ffjfar tassels of gold and ornamented with
pictures in oil and rich embroiderings on
a held of blue. These flags represent
the early and halcyon days of the Lost
~ "l j-t t?J ~ i 1 ^
f Utilise,.wnen tliey were insut; uv
associations of ladies and presented to
tlie military organizations which carried
then:.. One of those flags belonged to
the Apalachicola Guard, whose name is
stitched in gold letters on its folds above
the exultant; mottoes: "In God is Our
Trust!" "Our Eights We Will 3iaintain!"
The finest of them ail is the
Norfolk Light Artillery, vith an oil
portrait of Washington in the centre of
its Held, the mottoes on the reverse side
I being the same as those of the flag just
described. The days when the Confederate
armies could afford such luxury in
ensigns quickly passed away, however,
as is evidenced by this collection, representing
every period cf the war. In the
beginning of the rebellion the design of j
the flag carried by the Southern regiments
was that of the Stars and .Cars?
two red bars and one white?changing
at a later period to a red field with the
[Southern Crom, resembling tlie JLintisn
Union Jack. A study of' the record
kept by the War Department of the
name and capture of each of these flags,
though a work of days, would be of intense
interest to the veteran soldier. It
would recall to him the episodes of triumph
on half the fields of the rebellion.
Tlie sight of the flags themselves would
do something more?quickening his
heart-beats with memories of ths great
fight. That not a few of these standards
have been the centres of deadly personal
encounter is evident from the numerous
fclood-stains still traceable upon them.
The staves, also, oi many of then are
ragged wkh the gnaw oi' buiiet3, ti?e
icad in some instances piercing their
sentres and remaining imi>odded in the
wood. Everything, in fact, in the appearance
of the whole collection, as it is i
piled here in the narrow garret, faded j
jnd soiled and tattered, shows that these
ire no banners ox holiday parade, bat
have passed through the arc and ex:remity
of actual war?the sorrowful
weeds blasted and fallen from its wrath.
Fur myself, not a soldicr, but a resident
yi Washington during the war period I
recalled the stirring incidents of their
presentation to the War Department as
;hey were brought straight from the
ields of their capture. On one of these j
occasions thirty of these standards, as I j
remember, were carried here two days j
uter the light at Winchester by a dele-1
ration of soldiers whose hands had acta-1
Uly seized them in the light, Custer,
ivith his long, yellow hair, at their head.
Stanton, the grim Secretary, unbent, '
oved results and these were the palpatio
evidences of triumph. Coming out
>f the lion's den of his office he took
iao-h soldier l>y the hand and welcomed
:hem as a bedv with a speech. As the
ittle group stood before his door listenng
to liis address, the captured standards
held above their heads in the narrow
hall of the old War Department
uade a picturesque cloud of color,
vhich, together with the entire scene, it
vas not easy to forget. When the affair
vas over the soldiers started again for
.he field, and Stanton, taking Custer's
trm, walked slowly down the steps of '
he War Oiliee. Such was his habit with :
tny of the brilliant leaders of the war
tiler a visit to ms aepartm-.ni-.
William Jackson* Akjistkong.
The Cotton Movement.
From tlie New York Financial Chron- i
cle's cotton article of July 2-3 the foilowng
figures are gathered relative to the
movement of the staple during the past
veek:
For the week ended -July 22 the total j
eeeipts reached 3,295 bales, against j
r, GOO bales last week, 1,261- bales the j i
)rev:ous week, anct 3,;j(J8 bales tnree
veeks since; making the total receipts .
,ince the 1st September, 1SS6, 5,202,093 ,
>ales,-against 5,280,012 bales for the same
period of 1885-0, showing a deer ;ase since :
September 1, 18815, of 87,51-1 bales.
The total sales fur forward delivery for
he week were 483,700 bales. For im
nediate delivery the total sales foot up ;
his week 8,800 bales, including 0,207
>ales for export and 2,053 for horae con- 1
ramption.
The exports for the week reach a total 1
>f 18,931 bales, of which 10,651 were to
.Treat Britain, 10 to Franco, and 2,237
0 the rest ot the continent.
The imports into continental ports i
luring the week were 20,000 bales, j:
these figures indicate an increase in the i;
:otton in sight of 73,466 bales as com- j
>ared with the same date of 1880, an;
ncrease of 33,392 bales as compared j
vith the corresponding date of 1885, and j
1 decrease of ol 0,023 bales as compared j
with 1884. j;
TMl/i TWWTIvfc -f Ti\rv\ flio Y%!on fo_ {
ions since 1st September, I-SStJ, are
>,183,220 bales; ie 188S-# -rttc 5."72
jaies; in 1864-5 vvere 4,726,410 bales.
\1 though the receipts at the outports for ;
:he past week were 3/205 bides, the actual
movement from the plantations v/as only
?? bales, the balance being taken 1'roru
:he stocks afc the interior towns. Last
ear the receipts from the plantations
'or the same week were 3,327 bales, and
ma for 1885 they 003 bales. | The decrease
in amount in sight to-night, as
lompared with last year, is 110,8-12 bales,
:he increase as compared with 1881 5 is
"15,312 bales, and the increase over
1883-i is 701,02-3 bales.
The Chronicle says that the speculaion
in cotton for future delivery at this
narket has been fairly active for the
;veek under review, but prices have
shown a good deal of variableness vnd
irregularity, influenced largely by manipulation
by the regular operators.
Saturday was rather firmer, but on Monlay
the announcement of the failure of
i house renorted to have been a leader i
in the effort to "comer" this crop caused
i sharp dccline in July and August opdons,
and weakened the whole position;
but on Tuesday a better report from Liv:-rpaol
and the repetition of reports from
the iSouth west that damage was being
lone by drouth, with some accounts o?
worms, caused an equally smart advance.
On Wednesday the early months opened
lower and the next crop dearer, when
the tone suddenly changed; there was
\in arvHva hnvin.c nf An/msf,. xrith t.lip
nest crop more freely sold, closing lower,
while this crop maintained a small advance.
Thursday an irregular opening
was followed by a general decline, attributed
to tne report of failures at New
Orleans, the effect of the recent sharp
decline. Friday the market was dull
and weak. Cotton on the spot has met
with a moderate demand for home consumption.
Quotations were reduced
1-1 Gc. on Tvlonday. On Thursday a large
business was done for export, and up- i
lands were advanced 1-16c. Friday
there was little doing, and middling uplands
nominal at 10;:c.
Vlouds and Sunshine.
Cioudless skies drop no rain. We may
bathe ourselves in the unclouded sunshine
fox days and weeks, thinking that
if the hiue of the heavens were never
more veiled bj the blackness of storm
we at least would be perfectly satisfied.
But as the unclouded days pass on, the
parched e: rth begins to gape to heaven
for water, the flowers fade, the grass is
burned up, and men and beasts droop in
the merciless heat which now seems no
longer the messenger of life, but the
angel of death. For need like that there
is :io help in cloudless skies. The sign
of deliverance.rather comes in the thun/-Jflooli
r\$ KrrVifr?inrr or?r?
v.: Ci UVUU, LI KUU
the pouring rain. There is a like need
of. the rain cloud, in the inner life.
There is a parching and deadening influence
even here in too much sunshine;
and the storm cloud of pain or of sorrow,
-which drenches our heart soil with
the rain of tears, alone makes possible
the continued growth of that which is
best in cur heart culture. We do ngiit
to thank God for cloudless days; but we
do wrong if we do not thank him for
days not cloudless. Tlie one gives sunshine,
and the other the rain; and without
either there would be no increase.? j
Sunday School Times. j
.V t'Tviv in the Lottery
(J- life which is usually unappreciated
until it is lost, perhaps never to return, is
health. What a priceless booa it is. and
how we ought to cherish it, that li?e may
not be a worthless blank to us. Many of
the diseases that flesh is heir to, and which
make life burdensome, such as consumption
(scrofula of the lungs), aud other scrofulous
and blood, diseases^ are completely cured
by Dr. R. V. Piercc's have failed.' Dr.
Pierce's treatise on consumption mailed for
LO cents in stamps. Address, World's
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 ^Iain
street, Buffalo, X. Y.
Indians never kiss one another, and no
one who has eycr seen an Indian can blame
them much.
COliliCi-SG XH K C!.liKGV.
Kxj>ericnccs of the Charleston Churches
After the OccH2>ation of i he City?liraiai
Order of thj Post Commander.
(from tht> fcucday Sews )
Having just read the interesting sketch
or "The Parish Church of St. Michael,"
by Mr. GeorgeS. Holmes, which forms
a part of the "Year Book" for 1886, and
having noticed a slight inaccuracy on
page 307 (in the extract from the chroncle
of the venerable A. E. Miller) I am
tempted to correct it while recalling J
other incidents of the times referred to. 0
Ths statement is;
"The Rev. Mr. Howe officiated at St.
Paul's, with others, until some time in s:
February, 1805, when he left the city in si
consequence of his objecting to read the v
prayer for the President of the United *
States. The same thing occurred to the a
Rev. Mr. Marshall, D. LV' g
The facts are: Rev. Mr. Howe did not ^
feave the city in February, and Dr.
Marshall never left at all. C1
The Rev. Mr. (now Bishop) Ilowe had la
been officiating at St. Paul's for some t!
time when, on the morning of the ISth ^
February, 1SG5, the United States troops
entered end, while the tire which burst a:
out at the Northeastern Railroad'depot ti
was sweeping before it the (then) well a
known residences in Chapel, Alexander
and Charlotte streets. In this day of 8,3
terror and distress the Rev. Mr. Howe J
brought comfort to many. On tjie fol
lowing Sundays those members of the i
Episcopal Church, who were still In the ^
'Sity, gathered-around him at St. Paul's
and, on the 19th and 26th of February, 0
(which days were Sundays,) amid all i ^
that was dark around them, haa, at least, .
the comfort of undisturbed religious 11
worship. ?;
In the beginning of March, however, ]l
Ool. Stewart L. Woodford, commander u
of the post, sent- for Mr.. Howe, and, ,ewhile
entirely courteous in his language 12
and manner, insisted that the prayer ?;
for the President of the United States ?:
should be used, or Mr. Howe must leave P;
the city. As Mr. Howe did not concede ?'
to an army officer the light to make
changes in the ritual of his church, Col. c.*
Woodford notified him that he would be 11
sent out of the city, with every facility 3
given him to reach his family; but, in -y
the meantime, corsented to his holding c'
services on tee otn 01 -uarcn. . .
On that day Mr. Howe spoke feelingly ?
to his congregation, explaining the posi- ?
tion and taking leave of us?none knew j1
tor how long. His. tones una bearing
were so impressive that, on his retiring ,
to the vestry-room, two officers of the C1
United States navy who had attended ^
the service hurried after him and oll'ered
to use their influence with Col. Woodford
to induce a recall of his orier.
They were unsuccessful, and the next ,
Jay, March G, the Rev. Mr. Howe was
sent by steamer to Georgetown, S. C. Sl
cf powl'e ttoc /*!/ * co/1 ci\t- p
vices of our church were still held in the e"
little St. John's Chapel, Hampsiead, l>y c
that venerable, godly man, Dr. Alex. f(
Marshall.
Here for weeks the saddened faces and u,
still sadder hearts of those who, pent up c:
in Charleston, saw the enemy's heel *!?
upon her reek,, ami r,A\ it thrrnsflvgtiflicrcd
from i&mday to Sandav to
pour out together their prayers and their
sorrows, their hopes a.id their fears. ^
This place of worship be:n.T remote from .
the great highways of the city, aud so
unpretending in itself it was hoped that ~
religious worship there at least would be ^
unmolested. These hopes, however, ,J
were rudely dispelled when on the 'Jth "
(1 tiimk) oi' April tlic ciiurcii was ciosea "
and l>r. Marshall given a week to decide Ll
whether he would take "the oath of alie- ^
glance" and use the prayer for the Pres- %v
ident of the United States or leave the n
city. Dr. Marshall wrote to Gen. Hatch ^
to expostulate. Here is the General's
reply:
' 'Headquarters Northern District, i ci
Department of the South. v b
Charleston*, April 25, 18G5; ) Q
General Orders No. 29.] ji
It has been reported- at these head- h
quarters that the lie v. Alex. W. Mar- S;
shall, missionary of St. John's Chapel, $
Hampstead, has, in the services of the c
said chapel, since the occupation of the b
city by the United States forces, omitted l*.
the prayers for the President of the a
United States. In a written communi- J
cation, addressed to the commander of Si
the post of Charleston, he styles the h
?iMTor t'nv flir> Prpsir?prif, of t.hp. TTrritpd +1
States a "political prayer." It is, there- r,
fore, ordered that he be sent beyond the
lines of the army, and be forbidden to t]
enter the city of Charleston during its ^
occupation by the United States troops c
without permission of the commander of c
the district or department, it is further v>
ordered that his personal property be y
confiscated to the use of the United t]
States Government. In punishing the a
head of the congregation worshipping at a
St. John's Chapel the brigadier-general
commanding desires it to be considered a
a warning to those who, attending the d
services for weeks, so far forgot their jj
duty to their county as not to inform p
the military authorities of the conduct 0
of this disloyal priest, with other words e
of warning added. t<
By command of I
Brig. Gen. Johx Hatch. Jj
Leonaei? B. Perry, t
Acting Adjutan t General.'' ?
Tins specimen of war literature, (et ^
mult. al.j. was taken down at the time.
In the helpless and almost hopeless t
condition of the times, in dread of being
left without a clergyman to bury our ^
dead, Dr. M.'s Iriends induced him to j3
submit. This tempered Hatch's anger, i:
and he revoked the order, but Dr. M. *
never used the prayer until there was no o
question as to the propriety ol using it. *
Before the next Sunday came round he r
f i -t - 1 -f
was run over oy a careiess driver, ana v
for months contined to a bed of suffering.
Jxo. Gadsden.
Summervillc, S. C., July 10, 1SS7. r
'There'* .\o Place Like Home."
A young man who went to the "\Yc:t J
filkd with enthusiasm and a desire to grow )
up with the country, surprised his friends i
by returning home after an absence of but s
three weeks. He Siid* that while he was i
out land-hunting in what he thought was 1
the garden-spot of America he came across '
a boarded-up shanty. On the boards nailed <
across the door he found this inscription, j
wh'.cii explained ms departure lor lue ivosi: ^
Fore miies from a nayber
s ixteen miles from a postofis
Twenty-five miies from a raleroad ,
A bum'red and atey frora,;iuibes. r.
2.10 feet from water? ' -t <-t .
There's no. pi ace like Lonic". 'TT eVc gone ,
to spend the viaierjwith my wife's I oiks. *
Pianos and Orpins.
All of the best makes. ' ?25 cash and 1
balance November 1, at spot cash prices :
~ t>: :-ia
ULL 14 ITiiUIU. CJ-V V^UT-U ttUU UUIOUUC *W j
vember 1, at spot cash prices oil an h
Organ. Delivered, freight free, at your j <
nearest depot. Fifteen days test 'trial
and freight both ways if not satisfactory.
Write lor circulars.
X. W. TRUMP,
'* Columbia; S. y.
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Youth looks at the possible, age at the
probable. '
pgrsrvrr-*i2 MBBB?HB ft M mi mmammtaaat
A LAUGHING FAMILY. 1
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l i- ASSl > 4 .STKAMiE STOUV i'ilOM 3
"I'KIV } KUSLY. j
L Family W itlv :: Peculiar Malady?-Laugh" ^
injj iu C'liurcJ: and :it Odd Times and ?
J'laees?Curiot/s Stories Told l?y l'eoplc t
l'assinjj By. 1
Xeav Yokk, Jnlj 28.?The story of *
'crsey's kughiug family is certainly one r
f the oddest that ever reached the ears i
f a correspondent. That a lamily with f
Qeh a peculiar malady, and one so j?
semingly interesting to uie meciicai
rofes:-jn, should iiave lived so long in 2
State pretty v.'ell populated without ~
etting into the newspapers, except in a c
riei and remote way years ago, is de- *
idedly strange. The family reside in a ?
irge, substantial bouse, not far from a
le Delaware river in Hunterdon coun- 'J
r. The father ant1 sons are farmers a
nd prosperous and well to do. The enre
family are chronic: laughers, having t
q afleotion of the muscles of the mouth ^
Q.d throat that compels them to give
ent- to apparent merriment at stated in- -j
ovals. The malady first appeared in
le father about a dozen years ago. He j.
as usually a very quiet man, enjoying J ^
m, bat manifesting his enjoyment with
'it much noise. Ho was seated at the t,
inner table one day in the spring of '
ic year, eating steadily and not engaglg
in any of the conversation which the ;
tlier "members of fclie family were carry- ^
ig on. Suddenly, without any cause, ^
o burst into a loud fit of laughter sp n
stremely different from his accustomed t]
.ngh that all were attracted by it at ,-c
tice. When asked what was the reason ^
E his sudden outburst he made no re
ly) out conns tieu. iiis meiTiraeui. oom?
t the boys thought he had hysterics, ^
ad pounded him 011 the back, but it ^
id no good. After a few moments lie gj
tade motions for pencil and pixper, and ^
rote that he was unable to control his ^
sibles, and asked them to send for a
octor. . i
The rural physician came, but could Q
ive no remedy that stopped the laugh- ^
:r. Peal after peal of what sounded ,,
ke the heartiest kind of fun came from ^
im, and nothing would avail to prevent. +,
. The doctor linallv came to the con- ?
usion that he was the victim of a '
ervous attack, and, leaving a nervine *
eparted. ^
A SINGULAR- TROUBLE.
The father continued laughing until
oout 'sundown, when he suddenly
;opped and fell on the floor completely
rostrated. He soon grew better, how- is
rer, ate a hearty supper, end spent the "
renin g much as usual. No signs of the ai
iturn of the trouble appearing, he went d
> bed and was soon fast asleep. Along o:
bout 2 o'clock, however, his was awak- b
oed by his laughter, and the fame ti
rmptoms as of the day before mani- v
isted themsdses. ilaieot Tmtii +-?>
o'clock, laughing loud and strong. At d?
o'clock the noise suddenly ceased and b
id not return again until dinner time, vi
hus it continued, recurring each day o:
2ortly after noon and in the night about is
o'clock, and has ever}- since. As the s(
eeks passed he grew .so accustomed to t!
>e disease that he was caused very little m
iconvenience by it. He did not get ii
red out, as at first, and soon was able ti
) go about his work?sowing seed and cl
lanting corn, digging vegetables and it
atering the cattle?while laughing im- p.
loderately. lie could not talk while ta
nder one of the spells, but carried a j o:
[ate ancf pencil around with him, after j 23
ie iasuiuii ui a. uetti iuiu uumu w.
The trouble was very regular in its bi
oming and going, and only occasionally k
roke forth at unlooked-for seasons, p
>nce the old man -was taken in church, ai
ist when the minister was exhorting his ti
earers in the most solemn strains, and a:
poilcd. the effect of the discourse, beides
disturbing the equilibrium of the s?
lergyman. Another time he was found di
y one of his neighbors along the road, n<
nir>n- KonMf}i o Wrr nf flnnr in.TlOrV?^nO', flf Jll
r > ???~0? ?
terrific rate. -He lias been taken while w
riving home from the mill, and the tl
uddenness of the sounds frightened the o:
orse, causing it to run away and dump p:
iie man and part of his load out in the fc
Dad. . c<
For eighteen months the father was a
Lie only one of the household afflicted n
-ith the malady. Several of tbem had ix
omplained from time to time of an in- b;
lination to join the father in the laugh, c:
ut none of them did so until nearly two d
ears after he was taken,, when Susie,
I""- "1m 1 <-1 /I /I Ar\ I *pt Vviiytf4 infft
UC V;iXJUU, auuutiiijr UlUOU X?A U\S
similar lit during one of her father's
ttacks.
From that time on she has laughed at a]
bout the same hours that her father
oes. One by one the remaining mem- Q
ers fell victims to the strange com- j
ilaint, until .two years ago there "was but ^
ne left free and that was Charles, the 0
ldpst. son. Hie; lr?nrr PYArrmtinn led him
o believe lie .would escape the malady.
Jut he was raistakerij and it is said he Q
ad his tirst attack while proposing for ^
he hand of a girl at Wilkesbarre, Pa. y
lo frightened was the maiden by ^
Charles's queer behavior that she ran K
rom the room, and it was a week before ^
he proper explanation could induce her ^
o see him again. She is now one of
he family and escaping the malady '
lever minds the hideous chorus of ^
iughter which twice a day resounds (1
hrougli tl'.'i ; house... It is' regarded as ~
idu tii?fc rioife.of "t&e neighbors should ?
iave ^igbi the aifection,. although
iiany Sem-piir^le coi^ntly. with ^
he family. ' ' ' " >' - j
Z&.y> -;v.
XO itEMEDY EXOWX. ;? g
Ejferything possible has been done to
emove or alleviate -the' malady, but
vithout any perceptible effect. Several c
iiainent physicians from this city and c
orn rm/3*i>?4r?nrw1 fr? ImvA ri
? bUV OUUMlJVVVVi VV ' w ?
risited the house and become interested p
n the case. They all;'" confessed them- J
selves baiiied and wanted some of the r
amily to come here to New York for c
;reatment. -This they refused to do. a
flieir noticeable misfortune has render- t
3d them very sensitive, and thejr will I
ictftrayel where they will be subjected L
public scrutiny and remark- -- a
They*go'to' church $r the store in -the |
riib.ge-c&se by and attend social 'gath- x
iiings occasionally in the neighborhood e
in the evenings, but only among life ^
long iriends. . People -within a radius of t
i few inhes are so aecustomed to the t
thing that they never mind it or men- a
tion-it.'; Consequently, wery few people t
Dutsiue ol the immediate vicinity, and l
Hie physicians who ha-e attended them,
ire cognizant of the circumstances.
People passing the house, especially in t
the summer time, have been filled with 1
curiosity by what they saw and heard,
and have carried accounts to distant *
places. These reports are very vague, tor
the passers-by have had no definite 2
idea of the m?*ter. They only know
that it looked remprkably strange to see (
- ? ? -? <* - J xi.. ,<!.n i
a Jtatner ana ins soiib out in me uejtu 11
plowing and sowing many rods apart, i (
yet each one laughing as though he had <
leard the best joke la the world. Cari?u?f3tories
are told of the travelers who
. eiit that way. Several years ago two
-onng men came from the interior of
he State to attend a party at Easton,
.'enusylvania.
it was a warm night and they did i>ot
tart until late. They drove past the
louse of the laughing family soon after
he regular nightly attack had begun.
Che windows .were all open, as it was
arfjsranmm&r. ar.d every sound could be
learly heard*. As die young men apiroadhed
they bcaru the most unearthly
loise their ears had ever received. It
eenied like pandemonium, and the
"ouths felt sure they had struck the enranae
to Sheol.
The horse took fright and nearly ran
way with them. Coming to the &minsion
that at least the place was hauntd,
they hurried home, and* the next
aorning spread the news. Parties were
urruV' to investigate the matter, but
lonc'Ai them solved the subject until
oforroed by a man in the village near'
,t hand as to the: ikt'ure-'of the case.
?hey were urged to remain reticent j
?^ /IAnn 'I
uuul 11.ic liiattci, &uu unit uvuu ow.
physical effects.
The years of incessant laughter- have
old somewhat on the faces of the faraiy,
but not so as t-o be very noticeable,
'here are scores of lines under the eyes
nd above the cheeks,' caused by the
rawing up of the skin. Then their
louths have become wider and they
eep them elosed with difficulty. The
lost marked result of the disease, howver,
is in the voice. The entire family
ilk in the .;ame tone, resembling as
early as anything the voice of the alto
inger. Males and females have the
mae inflection and intonation. Most of
iiexn have more or less trouble with
ieir eyes, several having become very
ear 'sighted. The pnpils' have conracted,
and the entire eyeball is dimin?hed
in size. This i3 accounted for by
ic contraction of the eyes while laughig,
and the effort required in working
r reading while undergoing an attack,
ery Mttle physical annoyance is caused
le laughers. They read* and write,
eep and work without any trouble,
he only thing they seem unable to do,
liil e attacked, is to eat, and that can be
?adily understood. Several grandliildren
have been born, and in ail but
ne instance, they were/taken, soon after
irtb, with stated attacks at the same
ours'.as their parents. Of course they
o not laugh as the older ones do, but
aey crow and express all the signs of
aby glee twice a day, and never cry
hilein that state. If the disease connnp
in the new veneration, the laugh
lg family may ultimately become a
raghing village.
The Tongue ain Xn3ex of Character.
\Yords weigh character. The tongue
; the tell-tale of the inner, the real life.
By thy words thou shalt be justified,
ail by thy words thou shalt be concmned."
We may judge, of the depth
r superficialness of a person's character
y the tone and trend of his conversaon.
Those who live in a narrow, enious,
selfish sphere, unmoved by high
riT-J mnfiroo fnVo ^ nl i p-Vi
eTirccifcting- tfm Tp-pnfotnnn of a neigh-.
or, in*giving a fresh Yeinrana-a ucv srsion
to some petty gossip designed
oly to annoy and irritate; if the rumor
against a minister of the gospel or
>me one in high standing in society,
le* indulgence of their low taste is the
tore keenly relished. Such busy-bodies
i their intermingling, not only reveal
xe secrets of the community, but dis.ose
to all tha hollovmes3 of thoir proissional
friendship, and the danger imlicd
in making them a coniidant. The
ittler is one of the pests of society. He
r she is a standing menace to all. Since
* - ^ - -3 ~ T.%^Ar. I
illCC tilt? UX IJLLC V O.UULCC j
lere is no record of any such having
sen cured of the evil. "For every
ind of beast and of birds and of serents,
arffl of things in the sea, is tamed,
id hath been tamed of man kind i but
le tongue can no man tame; it is an
aruly evil full of deadly poison."
"If any man offend not in -word, the
ime is a perfect man." Let it be our
aily aim to attain such a high and enabling
state of grace, "in ail talk
jout persons let it be their merits that
e hasten to disclose, their good deeds
lat we gladly unfold. In ail discussion
a character let the good come into
continence. In all our uttered hopes
>r the future let our highest ideal re
jive the empimsi3. -Let trutn ana not
Tor, light and not darkness, love and
ot bate, be our themes. So shall we
icrease and perpetuate all that is good
y frank utterance, while evil will derease
and disappear under the thick
rapery of silence."?Baptist Weekly.
Cleveland Mineral f?prin^?,
Near Shelby, N. C., are now open for
le reception of guests. These Springs
-a +TT71-1 -miloo f-rv-im Wlir>lhv. 54 mil PS west
E Charlotte, N. C., and witiiin one mile
t the C. C. Railroad. Hacks will be at
nation on arrival of every train. Paree
from Wilmington and along the line
f the Carolina Central Railroad can
jach this delightful resort before dark
n the same day. Within 12 hours ride
E Wilmington. The Cuisine is under
Ctotrol of a Chief equal to any in the
onth, and no expenre shall be spared
> provide the table with the best the
larket affords. Polite and attentive
jrvants in all departments. Gold and
arm baths. White and Red Sulphur
d Chalybeate Waters. A good string
and secured for the season. A Bowling
lley in good order. Livery accomruoations
attached to the hotel. Parties
an leave Charlotte each afternoon at
.oO o'clock, and reach the Springs be)re
dark, the'railroad schedule now be
ig better than it ever was before. Actress
S. McBbioe Postox, Proprietor,
helby, N. C. *
The stoky that Jay Gould has been
heated out of a cool million in the purhase
of ties for his Southwestern raiload
is rather ridiculed by the Philadelhia
Times. That paper remarks that
Ir. Gould is no noyice in the matter of
ailway ties. He knows what they should
ost as "well as ins iiumoiest suooramatu,
nd he is a man who does not pay more
han he knows an article to be worth,
t is not at all improbable that isome of
lis subordinates would glory in making
pretty penny at their employers excuse,
but the story will have to be quite
fell substantiated before it gains crednce.
That the man who can down the
,Vall street magnates every day in the
reek and keep the United States Treas- i
iry out of its just dues for a quarter of
. century or so lias been taKen in on a
ie contract will be believed when it is.
>roved, and not before.
Nothing so completely upsets a man as to
read upon a small spool'of cotton at the
cp of the it airs.
The first temperance camp meeting
jver held in Maryland commenced last
Chursday in the woods at Gflynden,
tboat twenty miles north of Baltimore.
At ?ey West, Fla., eleven new cases
>i yellow fever were reported by the
x>ard of health Thursday, and two
leatiis occurred, one a woman and the
)ther an infant.
1
,siCH<)?>U?OV i:KS.
i<ugii>(i ;w !>! (; t.-, taiyi.i :m?i it>
(From t:!i- YoJiths' Companion )
The sabjee; oi' schoolboys' biundcrs
has reueiiUy agitatod in venous di- |
ro/tH.-ms s T.hft ivsnlt in i>? i
ccedingly amusing. Seine of the very
best instances of- -inadvertently happy
phrasing come'from. English boys, and
are recorded in the Oornhill ^Magazine.
One youthful historian states, in examination,
that ':a constitutional monarch
is one-who has a good constitution."
Another seems a triile vague a'yout the
feudal system, and writes that '"it was a
law lhat every one should get up at S a.
m. to put out his lircs/' Perhaps a
philologist might think that the boy was
of Trench descent, from his referring
the v/ord feud to feu?fire.
Fas&ing 011 to the Bible history, we |
find versions of the Beantitades vrliich
dii'ier from fciioee generally received:
'Biesctd ars ye when men sbaliaay Slit?!
you, 'liaea,'" and "Bles- ed :uro the poor
in spite of it."
A certain passage in Xenophon tells
us that "on one occasion ail the soldiers
escaped unhurt, but one man on tiie ieit
wing was said to be shot." A translator,
by transposing the words, made tlie
Statement "thai one was said to be shot
on the left wing," whereupon a clever
boy aptly remarkeS: "He must have
been a gu ose."
"One nupil, who was asked to explain
the merning of the phrase, "the last iniirmity
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
grili instead of gridiron.
Another boy must have been suiltiring
from pangs of hunger, for he wrote, in
answer to the-question, "What makes
the tower oi Pisa lean?" "because there
was a sore famine in the land."
I.nl>cr 1'arties.
The political' labor movement is notra
transient phenomenon, destined to
speedily disappear, but a movement of
more permanent character, which will
continue m some iorw unm its objects,
so I'ar as possible, Lave been attained.
For tiiis ieason it behooves our statesmen,
ana the educated and thinkii g
class generally, to conquer \vhnt they
ought to do iu crier to guide the movement
aright. An exclusively workingmen's
party is an undesirable tLiag,
evtnif its aims are right; and no suoii
party can be maintained tor any length
oi time ii an honest attempt is made by
the educated people to help tlie working
people improve their lot. 1'hat much :
raay be accomplished, ii nil elates will
work together for this euu, there am l>e
no reasonable doubt. Moreover, the
duty cannot bo suirKed. ine question
of improving the iiie of the toiling
masses is the main political uud social
problem of the age, and v-iii remain so
until it is solved?ii solution be possible;
and it can only be solved by measures
-thiit arc just .tv?aiLother portions of
society. While American working men
ure-tieoirvas < >? aU?i eiids L.y
just means, they are iiuole tu be misled
' ' - - - * fKi.TY* e.' ".? w.cai ! it*
VJj L1HJ1X V/A ^U^'v/CCU xuterest,
or by designing m^n wiio pander
to both, it is the: day o'i the business
men among u.i to do ail tliey can to help
tiie working men iu their legitimise '
aspirations, and at the same time to
show them their errors and rebuke them
when they go wrong. With popular
leadership of tne right sort, parties made
up of laborers mainly would soon cease !.
to exist, and working men would attain .
their enda by means of parties composed
of all classes aud aiming at the good oi
all.?The Century.
A Mnnlodon Found in Alabama.
I)r. J. lluggias, of Hale county, Ala.',
lias just discovered a skeleton ot a mastodon,
which may prove of ntereslaud value ;
to men of science. It was found in Prairie
Creek, near the village of Newberne. The
parts are not petrified, but well preserved
in'the bone state. One piece, which i.s supposed
to be the upparbone oT a hind Jeg, is
;>G inches long, :J7 inches in circumference
at the top and 21 in the middle, and 2:} at
the lower end. and weighs 07 pounds. One
of the jaws measures 21 inches iu width
and has two sockets for tusks G inches in
diameter. A frairmeut of one of the tusks
is 23 inches long and 10 inches in circumference.
The jaw to >th consists of four
pairs of prominences ranged in two rows
and all joined in one solid piece, tiie top of
which is enamel of the color of tortoise
shell. The promii.encts arc worn as if
from long use. Tlie tuoth weighs Jive
pounds. A segment of the backbone is 23
inches in circumference and nearly 4 inches
thick. A rib, with 2 or ' ) inches broken
off, is 55 inches long and o'-} inches wide.
A short joint, supposed to belong to the
foot, is 12 inches long. Tf 36 inches be allowed
for the length cf v.r.h of the longer
joints, 12 inches for the short joint, 10
inches for I lie foot, and (><) for the body, the
animal myst have b-jen over 12 feet high.
A bone inches long, with a 6 inch cross- i
at mtf t-mi li iil :: hu-hv* in di.init t;-r !
at the other was found. No .;uo felt sure
to what position ii should be assigned. A
sm.nli deer bor.c was found :dong with the ;
bones ot the mastodon. Dr. Ilu^gihs h;:s
a collection of fossiis found in ttic alluvial i
district of Alabama. ?Ncio Orka ns Time*- j
Democrat.
'Vln* Soa:r.?-r:i Trip.
The details of the President's trip Lo Atl;uua
have been arranged. The special
train will' leave Washington on Sunday
night, lGtli October. and will reach Atlanta
Monday night. The President will spend
Tuesday and Wednesday in Atlanta. He
will be escorted through Virginia by Governor
Lee and his stall, through North
Carolina by Governor Scales and his staff,
and through South Carolina by Governor
Richardson and his staff, all of whom will
go with him to Atlanta. At the Georgia
line he will bo met by Governor Gordon
and staff. At Atlanta he will be met by
the Governors and United States Senators
ol the various Southern States. It is expected
that he will spend Tuesday looking
at the exposition, and on Wednesday will
hold a public reception and make a short
address.
At Knob Lick, Mo., a collision occurred
about 4 o'clock Thursday morning between
two freight trains, resulting in
the death of three men.
The commission sent by Governor
ivuotr, oi ivcniucty, 10 -uooreucaci, ine
seat of Lexington county, to consider
tbe advisability of sending the troops
tlicre to preserve order during the !
coming session of Court, 3ias reported
against the propriety or necessity of
sending the tiooos.
; Tiie Ohio Republican State Conversion
was called to order- at Toledo ua yesterday,
by Allen T. Brinsr.odo, Chairman of the
State Central Committee. A resolution
enduing John Sherman for the Presidency
: caused some little debate and w^s referred
to a committee. That committee, by a
vole of lb to afterwards made unanimous,
adopted the resolution embodying j
unqualified endorement?ignoring other [
resolutions milder in their tone and ten- j
dency. The platform denounces the Dem- [
| ocratic party in general and the present [
1 national administration in particular. ?
EL.ECT11IC I I UK BAT/LS.
Oaestiou liaised as to Whether They are
Not Optical Illusions.
(I*roni the New York ifun.)
In nearly all of tlie reports of personal
iujury by lightning strokes victims who
recover say they have seen balls of lire.
The lire ball seems to figure conspicuously
in all stories of prostration by
lightning, and it would be interesting to
stnr3v fc'nl<3 crip/?iql nlmcA r\i iilipiinmp.
La for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the fiery ball has any existence
except as the result of the bright Hash
upon the optic nerves. Almost invariably
the persona who arc close enough to
a iksh of lightning to see this ball have
declared that it. moved slowly, dancing
acd bounding through the room or
across the field, and in eases where men
and women have been prostrated and
subsequently recovered they have as
sorted tiiat tue oau uounuea siowiy toward
them and struck them full in the
"cl: est. i recently talked with a man who
was in a factory which was struck by
lightning, and he told me that two balls
of fire approached him from the end of
the room, slowly bounding along the
floor; and leapirg aimost to the ceiling.
When they reached him, he said, thc-y
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 recovered
in fifteen minutes and carefully
examined his clothes to see if they were
burned.
I firmly believe that the ball of lire 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'?
HOW To'">S AKE JET.
Wichita, a town in Kansas, is an ex
aciplo of what can be done by the en-1
ergy, the enterprise and the united public
spirit of citizens. In the course of a
year or two Wichita has grown from a
comparatively insignificant town to a
great trade and railroad centre. There
has been an increase of over one thousand
per cent, in the value of real estate,
and an increase <5f over 20,000 in population.
Lots in the town sell for more
than $2,000 a front foot. The secret of
tbis wonderful progress is disclosed by a
business man of Wichita after the fol
LsJ JLU^ i-LUAXXJU^X
"We organized. W e iieid almost nightly
meetings, and among the first things we
agreed upon was to nan? together and sta}r
by each other through thick and thin.
"We advertised by hundreds-of thou-,
sands of circulars. Wc set forth all our
:t?: vantages in such a manner that strangers
w:?o were led by our circulation to give us
:i call were not deceived, but. 011 Uie connury,
agreed that we had not put it as
strong as we might. .
"Every town in the east of notoriety was
n-?t only served with our circulars, out our
newspapers. And the newspaper advertising
did double duty. Our people made
it a rule to ask ail thur friends to advertise.
"We then subscribed for a large number
oi" copies, loaded with local advertising and
ir. eat advantages, and we found by conversin^ftith
parties wno finally came here
prospecting that the full advertising
Ci.;urun.s or our papers wmcu tucy ua;
5coil did more than all else to impress them
widi the growth and importance of the
^ 1 iCe.
'We found then we could not overdo
Hi is thing?that the more v.-e paid out for
t!r;se purposes the more were our profits.
Every new comer was a customer to most
o'i nur stores, and whiie their advertising
paid to them rich returns, il served the
double purpose to impress the Eastern man
w ho had an eye to business with the fact
li.it Wichita was a rising town, and thus
w<j have gone on until we have added pop
ulation since I came here of over 20,000
and property has increased in business
places more than a thousand-fold, and in
the country round about us the appreciation
has been over 400 per cent.
"I know as well as you can know thai
p: inter's ink is the 'oest capital !-j boom a
town. Had we not used it unsparingly
Wichita would not have been larger than
Uarthage. As it is, we will soon outrank
any town in the State."
- *
Further Inter-State Decision*.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
ins followed up its decision prohibiting rebates
to favored shipjlfs by two other decisions
based upun the srmc principle as
applied to the carrirge of passengeas.
These relate to the selling of mileage and
< an mutation tickets. The case as regarded
n.ileage tickets presented two features.
Oce road had been selling these tickets at
N?i) per thousand mil^j to drummers, chargi::g
the general public a higher race. In
the other case they were sold at *23 to all
persons alike. In the first ease the d iscrim
i:,ation in favor of the drummer is decided
by the commission a violation of the law.
In the other case, in which the drummers
petitioned for a lower rate than that accorded
the public, the railway was sustained
in denying such rate.
lieduced to plain English these decisions
s*:ite that railways may sell both mileage
and commutation tickeis at reduced rates?
11iat is, at rates lower than those charged
11.r single trip tickets. But in so doing all
applicants for such tickets must be placed
on ihc same level. The farmer or tlic lawr
is entitled to a mileage ticket at the
same rate as a drummer. And all resielects
.of surburban towns are entitled to
; hem at the same price. In other words,
tlx: Commission holds that the reduced ra?e
involved in tue saieoi euner cuts- 01 jckcis
must be available to all or none.
The decision in the case of the coal rebate
and tlie two regarding the mileage and
commutation tickets constitute the most
important conclusions vet reached jy < he
Commissi'n. They are based upon the
xime principle, that of treating all patrons
:t!ike, and accord not only with. the letter of
the law, but with common sense and equity
a? well.
Lincoln'** lioom In Kaunas.
Lincoln's Presidential boom is well de
lined in Kansas. Tiiev say iiiamebas been
defeated once, and that, too, after having
sDught that office for twenty-live years. and
now the Democratic party has the additional
help of the prestige and influence of
of SO.000 office-holders. With these stubbum
facts before them, why will his friends
continue to court defeat by urging him as
:: candidate? Then, again, the Mugwumps
re still defiant, and his friends know that
lie is satisfactory to the temperance element
of the party. "Docs history repeat
i'sclfIf so, then Blaine cannot be
elected. Sherman h^s .been a standing
candidate so long that a large element iu
the party!;:?.? become thoroughly disgusted.
These men are able and eapabU:. out not
available, because all clemeuis of the party
cannot he concentrates* upon them, which
will be absoluteiy necessary in ord.tr to
succeed. Now. as Robert. T. J^.-oIu ex:n;iiv
tills ' 1$ bill as to capability and avail;
i:.? l. .1 11 l li ...
iiouuv. i.t; Siiuuiu U_y ri:e<Uia IjC OUT Nominee.?Ex.
Alfred Krumm, manufacturer of noodles,
at Philadelphia, lias been arrested on the.
charge of mixing chrome yellow in his
dough instead of eggs for the purpose of
giving the noodles a yellow tint. Experts
testified that chrome yellow or chroinate of
lead was found in the noodles in ihc pro
portion of three grains to six ounces of
llour. Krumin admitted that he had used
the stuff for thirteen years -is a substitute
for eggs, hut had discontinued its use upon
being informed of its deadiy character.
He was held in bai). It is not known
that any deaths ha7e occurred from the
ejects c~f the poisonous coloring matter.
PINE iLEAF (STRAW.)
j Hon. A. P. BrxLEE, Commissioner of
Agriculture, Columbia, S. C.:
In compliance ^vitli your request,: and
for the benefit'of some of our farmers, I
will give you my experience, and that of
some of my neighbors, but more par
ticularly my own, as I can speak more
definitely, of the use of pine straw .as a
manure. I have been using it for sixteen
years, and for the most of this time
I have been using ten cords to the acre
for cotton, and with that amount of
straw and 100 lbs. acid phosphate, 100
lbs. kainit, and 18 buchels of cotton
seed, I make an average of a bale of cot
ten to tiie acre, and some years I get a
'Dale and a hall', on what was said, to be
old worn out land, but by the use of the
above I now have aiy knd in good heart.
It is said by some farmers that straw will
kill the cotton, but I have never had it
to lull my cotton, and jvould use double
the quantity that I uo if it were so that
I could get it to the land, as getting it
in the land is a small matter with; us.
We break the old beds down with six
farrows with a seven inch turn plough,
then open with an eight inch doHblewinged
straight hoe sixteen inches long;
thus it may be seen how I get in my ten
cords to the without trouble. It is said
by some that I claim foo much for pine
straw, but this is a mistake, as I only
claim what the analysis, I believe, gives
it, about S per cent, potash; but to take
it at much less, and still I am an advocate
i'or its us--, for I claim a good deal
for its percolating influence in the land
.?the same that yeast has in our bread?
for in this: it opens the soil and lets in
I ULUJ cu; I; 1 i 10 ULi.^ UUUI IUXW
rain, -winch, in close clay soil, is very
necessary, ancl, as I think, in all soils,
whether*ifc be clay or otherwise. There
arc many objections to the use of straw.
One adduced by men of intelligence is,
j that straw, when rotted, becomes sand,
which, according to my experience, is
both'false and true, for I claim that the
same soil that produces the growth, when
rotted it will be the same, either sand or
clay. I believe all the farmers know
that cotton grown on clay land has a
yellow tinge, produced by the clay; and
if our lint partakes of the soil, why not
pine straw?
But to give you other than my own
experience. Li speaking to a well-to-do
farmer on the subject, he said he would
quit the farm if he could not get pine
straw, as he is one that uses it largely.
But it may be itsked. how we are to get
in such quantities? I can only say how
t 3^ :i .l-l- :i_: t t j."u^
JL uu it as idiis >viiung. j. iutve in uic
woods fifteen hundred piles, four feet
high and four feet wide; these have been
raked when the weather was such that I
could not do other farm work; and when
we lay by our crop, which we usually do
about the 12th of July, then, between
that and the blade gathering, we get all
we use in the lot; and when .we first get
it in lot it is ten or twelve feet deep
away from the fence. If this is not done
we could never get it from the woods in
the spring, and, having it in the lot, it is
tramped by the stock, and though not
cut up, as this cannot be on account of
depth, it becomes compact, and, once
wet, docs not get dry until hauling or
trie roue lor piling. 1 may oe wrong,
but I tliink tiie reason why there is no
! mere straw used is because there is not
enough put in the land, for it takes a
large quantity, in bulk, to make a littlo
earth when rotted; and I will say this:
the more one uses the more phosphate
he may with paying results if he will
only be sure and get the straw well in
fl-in fnrvnT-c T tis/vI invf-T-.fiva law/*
piles to the acre for sweet potatoes, and
this alone, and made very line potatoes;
but I put two mules to the plough, and
got the straw well in the ground. There
is one fact about straw that may not be
generally known; it is this: very soon
after it is put in the ground it goes
through a sweat, and docs not get dry
any more until rotted, at which time I
nave taken it up from the bottom of the
plant furrow and found that the decom
posed straw was a network of fibre roots
that have been feeding there through
the season. Sut I must say, before I .
close, that the first year in the use of
straw it does not pay so largely, but each
succeeding year will pay more and more,
or this has been my experience, and Mr.
13. M. Pitts, of Sumter comity, gave me
the same as his experience, and he has
it broadcast with good results, which I
have never done. Now, in conclusion,
let me say, while the cotton plant is
made up of seven component parts, and
pine suraw win uiiu. uuca ujwuiiUM; uuu
of those parts, a little push and pluck
and we have that on hand in the barnyard
at no great cost.
Yours faithfully, Arc.,
Louis II. Deschajips.
Fulton, S. C., July 11, 1887.
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The Colored Vole and the Democracy.
If Senator Ingails will observe closely
he will continue to discover .evidence of
the unfitness of the negro, from a Republican
standpoint, for the exercise of
Eke right of suilrage. The latest example
c--.zn.cs from the State of Florida, where
a colored editor actually gives ios earnest
indorsement to a l)emocr tic Governor.
His paper, the >iouthe i Leader,
published at Jacksonville, says of the
(TnvPT-nrir of { bo Sfprs> "Hf olwftv.9
shows consideration fos the colored people
and if ever ready to speak words of
wisdom and encouragement to them..
We duly appreciate the Governor's
liberality in this regard, and he may
ieel assured that his efforts for increased
educational facilities for our people will,
be remembered. He shows that he appreciates
the fact that he is the Chief
.Magistrate of all the people of the State*
and not oi' any particular party or class
of people."?Galveston News.
A Tennessee I'ort Five Centuries Old.
If the concentric rings in trees are &
correct index oi' their age, that i^iysterious
structure near ilanchest-jr, Coffee
county, Term., called the Old Stone
tort, is of a very ancient, origin. The
trees growing on the iudc stone walla
| that surround the old structure show, by
j their rings, fully iivc hundred years
j growth. Those trees, now being cut
away, are the only witnesses to the age
of tlio stone work. Will their testimony
. be accepted by historians? Will the
antiquarians ever iind out who built that
old stone fort, and for what purpose? If
any investigators wish to examine these
trees, they should do so pretty soon, as
they are rapidly disappearing.-?Southern
Lumberman.
? Ka-U Iluiinin^.
1 When the incoming fast mail on the Air
' Line road reached Gastom'a, yesterday
afternoon, it was slightly behind lime, and
the engineer puiled o^n tlie throttle for a
lively home stretch. The run was made
from Gastoaia lo ( h.-triolle, a distance of
i twenty-one- nines, in mira-one mmuies,
) and two slops were made, one at Lowell
and one at lieimont. The fastest run was
beiwesa Steel Creek and Charlotte, when
>ix miles were covered in live minutes.?
Ol<arbtlc Chronicle.
Somebody wants to know a remedy for
had luck. H;;rd work ia the best thing wc
know of.
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