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The Snowfall Battle.

Meeting with one of the followers Of
General Lee yesterday, and while
watching the little college boys SNOWFALL
the passers, we asked if he ever saw any.
thing like it.
The old soldier said: "I was in the
army of Northern Virginia. You may
not believe it, but those that we're at
Guinea's station, near Fredericksburg, will
know that I tell the truth yhen I say I
hare seen ten thousand snowballs in the
air at one time. We were in camp at
Guinea's station, south of Fredericksburg,
in the winter of 1868. A great many
had built little huts to keep them warm,
but the majority depended on log fires to
keep Them from freezing. There came
on snow storm, and it was not many
hours before the earth was covered foot
deep. The poor boys would hug the fire
and wish they were back at home. DC.
casionally a song would break the
monotony while the snow was falling fast
and thick. Next morning the boys who
had only snatched few hours sleep, and
were ready for anything, even to marching
up to the:meuth Of a ten inch Columbiad,
commenced snowballing. 1t first started
in Company I'd, Georgia Regiment who
turned loose on the Cherokee Brown ri.
hemen. The fight with snowballs was
very desperate, and each one who en-.
gagged in it fought with the same vigor
that they fought the yankees. One of the
companies surrendered and then Joined
the victorious company, and the two
attacked the next company. This cap
tured, the balance of the regiment was
attacked and captured. Then the second
Georgia attacked the Fifteenth Georgia
which they captured and with this addi-
tional force the Seventeenth and Twen.
tieth had to succumb. These four regi.
ments next attacked Gen. Anderaon's
brigade with snowballs, and desperate
fight ensued. As the 7th and 9Th Geor-
gia had never been known to lower their
flag to the enemy, they had to lay down
their arms to the snowballers. They
were at last conquered, and joined with
Toombs' brigade, who started tho battle.
They next tackled two more brigades of
Gen. Longstreet's corps, and the fight
went on until the whole army of North
ern Virginia was more or less engaged.
Some of the parties engaged did not get
to the camp for two days.
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A White Man Sold.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. 21.-A,
Tines. Democrat special froga-Helena,
Ark, says: A rather novel proceeding
took place on the pssdc square of this
city. A white mani had been fined for
carrying concealed weapons, and he did
not desire to go tajail, and did not have
enough money to pay the fine and costs.
Under the Law, as it nay stands, and as
the county convict farm has been abol-
ished, the white man was putup for eale
by the constable Ia colored man) and sold.
He was bought at the rate of twenty-five
cents per day for as many days as it would
take the prisoner to work out the fine and
costs at the rate of seventy.6ve cents per
day.
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The Mysterious Signs.

CHARLESTON, s. O., February ia
strange story we'll authenticated comes
from Barnwell county. There is family
homestead in Joyce branch, in that
county, which seems to be haunted BY
fire, something out of the usual run of
ghost stories. There are strange distur.
Dances which intelligent and sober mind.
ed people tried to bring themselves to
believe atmospheric or electrical pheno-
mena, but this they never succeeded en-
tirely in doing. The mystery seems to
battle all attempts at q solution. The
latest manifestation occurred few nights
ago. A wagon load of negroes returning
from a meeting, passed the house at
midnight. They we're singing an old
camp meeting hymn, when as they passed
directly in front of the house, they were
deluged by an unearthly glamor that
shot from the windows and felled them
terror stricken from their board seats
into the bottom of the wagon. The mule
attached to the vehicle darted toward the
darkness, carrying his shrieking and
praying load swiftly from the scene.
The yells of the frightened negroes awoke
every one for a half mile around them,
and they tried to tell what they had seen
but were paralyzed with fear, and could
only gesticulate and talk incoherently.
a better explanation than they could
have given Was soon offered. A sheet of
fame shot skyward apparently from the
chimney Of the Frummond residence,
wavered for an instant and then vanish.
ed. The air was damp and the sky
cloudy, but no rain was falling and the
atmospherical conditions were not so
favorable for the ghostly fame as on
occasions when it had appeared in less
striking degree. The flame was intense
and rendered the smallest object in the
vicinity distinctly visible. No one ap.
preached the house that night. and the
inmates remained. The family we're
ignorant Of there having been ghostly
illumination OF more than usual brill
liancy. The house is an old two.story
building, built of cypress; the evidence
Of thrift everywhere apparent did not
give it the appearance of haunted
house. Two high chimneys rose from
the roof, and on two sides of the house
are broad piazzas. The whites and ne.
groes are very much alarmed, and are at
a. less to account for the phenomenon
Special to the atlanta Constitution.
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|I3Sl GaLINKSC Scales &=LANGsTON.

81
Government in q school is as essential
as government in the State, and tits the
plain. dictate Of common sense that the
people and the Trustees should sustain
the teacher in all of his rightful efforts
TO maintain authority. Rebellion, def;
.ance Of authority must be put down at
all hazards, or the&teacher may as we'll
close the doors and go home. In the
school room the teacher is in the place Of
the parent, as the law pitt it IN loot
parents. He makes, decides and exc;
cutes the Law. and he must do it impair:
tialIy;:and it, is the duty Of all to recog-
nize this. he should by no means be g.
tyrant, but just ruler in the best sense Of
the term, and that is just what the true
teacher is. He should be equally as
ready to repair 8 wrong as to demand
reparation of those under him. tt is
ennobling in him TO- own up to mistake,
and it is equally so in the pupil to make
apologies.
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We arrived at Carswell Institute an
hour before dismissal in the. afternoon.
we spent the remainde Of the time with
them, and then repaired to the home Of
our ,ul ccomrade in: arms, Col. Walters, and
sspant the honrs lin pleasant social con-
ssverge, fighting our battles Der 8gain. In
ssthpe morning gsWe repaired tosthe Institute:
again; and spent two more hours very
pIeassntly With the classes, and very
soon s,s, We were all, on good terms. The.
teacher, Mr. ". 2. Brown. has the
school we'll in hand, and is = acompetent
instructor, and it was q pleasure to us to
sFhear his classes. We witnessed two
novel, Sigh ts here. The irstzswas drill
son. the Cha I, conducted il part by the
sstt teacher and BY little Master Wal
stera, only iour years old. The second
81 Issas recitation id Language LESSONS by
aclass ranging from aix. to twelve Years.
The readiness of the class wss pleasant
trsat; a1d dproves that under a competent
instrrnator very young children can be
made Is grasp what are unusually consid.
sersd difficult studies: This school merits
sssks sappost and comic adenSe Of the people.
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Iabof.5a1fng systems In farming. The
fertility of soil must govern the width Of
rows, but my opinion is that rows shottld
never be placed closer than three and a
half or four feet.
Don't worry about planting. Wait till
the ground gets warm. Cotton planted
before April goth is liable to suffer, and
probably die, and nothing is more dis.
couragiug to a farmer than have only
half stand. A great many object to
late planting, because May is sometimes
a dry month. I have never failed to get
stand, however dry or late il planting,
In bedding field, which expect to
plant late, t use large plo3s in order to
make beds as high as possible. If the
ground is very dry at planting time I
board off the top of the beds, and thereby
get the seed where there is sufficient
moisture to bring them up.
I begin planting about the twentieth
Of April, and plant one-third; then. wait
ten days and plans another third, and
about the 10Th or 18th of May finish; (;
this gives the hoes time to get each
planting at the proper period, which is
very important.
The proper planter is one that opens
we'll, plants regularly, and covers from
two to two and q half inches.
As soon as my cotton is veil up Tor
before if considerable rain has fallen
since planting, and the ground is liable
to "bake.,), I take an iren.tooth harrow
aud run over it; this is q working that
should never. be neglected. Besides
being indispensable ss working, it COM
pletely destroys the coat of grass that
may be coming. Side batrows are
almost universally used, and I have
nothing against them, but I use forked
harrowg, because they save time.
When the cotton is putting its third
leaf I take short left hand twister and
run around it. Then it is ready for the
hoe, and hand with cotton in this con-
dition can hoe two acres q day.
I find it the best plan to thin the cot.
ton to a stand at the first hoeing. Be-
sides saving great deal Of time, the
desired distance can be better attained.
One of the greatest mistakes that most
farmers make, is leaving cotton too thick
in the drill. The peculiar character of
cotton requires distance. 1t is a plant
cultivated for its lint, aud it is ia plain
way to state that land is capable of pro-
ducing a certain number Of pounds;
including stalk, leaves and lint, and the
greater the product of stalk and leaf,
the less will be that of lint in pounds.
As soon as cotton is hoed 1 take a flat
sweep, or small plow and heel sweep
and run around it, throwing only little
dirt. Ifpossible I plow every two weeks
till lam sure tits time to lay by. A cot.
ton crop may be almost made, and then
twenty five per cent. lost, by laying it by
one planting too soon.
Respectfully,
B. P. MITCHELL.
february 25tb, 1889.
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Eczema, Itchy, scaly, skin Tortures.

The simple application of "swaynes
Ointment" without any internal medi-
cine, will cure any case of letter, Salt
Rheum, Ringworm, Piles. Itch, Sores
Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy Skin
Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long
standing. It is potent, effective, and costs
but q tri1o, 10
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H0w's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. J. CENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus.
mess transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligation made by their
firm.
WEST & TRuAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. O.
E. H.vAn HGsrS, Cashier, Toledo Ma.
tional Bank, Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucus
surfaces Of the system. Price 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
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Brunswick, sGa, is to have the
largest cotton press in. the Southern
States. It weighs 24O tons, stand on a
base 12x24 feet, connecting with four
links 38 feet long, each weighing nine
tons. Il required six mou.bs' .iile 10
h,1ild IL.
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HEw HAVEN, Feb. 21.--Harlow Gale,
'85, q post graduate student at Yale, is
the local agent of the American Society
for Physical research, and has for more
than year been making Investigations
among the students of condolences be.
tween real events and dreams or halluci.
nations. This society was formed in
1887, with headquarters in Boston. The
members believe that the coincidence Of
dreams and incidents are caused by the
trausference OF interchange of mind be.
tween the person affected by the incident
and the dreamer, and they are attempting
to theorize on the connecting link. The
psychologists hope to effect a complete
demonstration by comparing the phenom-
ena connected dreams with the phenom-
enon of mesmerism, and it is in that line
that the researches are nov being
made.
Last year Mr.. Gale received about 1000
answers. Thirteen per cent. of the per-
sons interviewed had dreams or halluci.
nations of remarkable viyidness, and Of
these six had coincided with actual occur
rences. Mr.. Gale says that this is very
good average. Most of the cases we're Of
painful incidents, which goes to substan.
-tiste the idea that trouble is the strongest
bond between kindred mines. MIR. Gale
gives as an illustration the case. of an
academic student who has brother in q
government position on an island off the
coast of China. The student wildly
dreamed that his brother was attacked by
the natives. Shortly afterward he receiv-
ed eablegram that his brother had taken
part in suppressing native insurrection
and vas severely wounded. The details
received later showed that the facts were
lust as the student had dreamed. a
theological student testified that he had
been greatly impressed by a dream that
friend had fallen and shot himself
while out hunting, and the next morning
he received despatch that the person Of
whom he dreamed aad been killed in ex-
actly those circumstances.
Another case which is noted by Mr..
Gale concerns q murder in the Eastern
part of Connecticut. A husband and
wife in a manufacturing town suddenly
disappeared, and nothing was known OF
their whereabouts. After a time the
wife's mother arrived at the village. She
had not known of her daughters disap.
pearance, but she dreamed that the
young woman had been drowned BY her
husband and buried in secluded part Of
the woods. She prevailed on the village
officers to- accompany her to the spot,
and there the buried body was found.
The time of the dream coincided with
the time of the disappearance, and though
the husband could not be convicted on
such evidence, public sentiment found
him guilty. Other cases investigated
by Mr.. Gale are given by prominent
New Haven people, whose testimony will
be undoubted, and they will be of value
to the society.
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= The church in Shaker Village, Can.
terbury, N. H., although built in 1892, has
never been reshingled. The shingles are
Of heart pine, and we're fastened on with
wooden pegs.
Almost miraculous are some of the
cures accomplished by the use of Ayers
sarsaparilla. In the case of R. L. King,
Richmond, Va, who suffered for ~ years
with an aggravated form of scrofula,
Ayers sarsaparilla effected astonishing
results;
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. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia

John Wanamaker, Of Philadelphia,
never drinks, smokes, drives fast horses,
goes catching nor plays billiards. he
never went to theatre or circus.
"A purgatiye medicine should possess
tonic and curative, as well as cathartic
properties. This combination Of fingre-
dients may be foundin Ayers Pills. They.
strengthen and stimulate the bowels,
causing natural action;
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Hot Springs.

Seven years ago my blood was badly
poisoned. Ulcers and boils breaking out
all over my body. The strong medicines
which I took brought on Rheumatism,
and j went to Hot Springs, Ark, for two
months, which seemed to cure the disease,
but it was only smothered, for on my re-.
turn the horrible disease appeared again
worse than ever. I then discarded the
other treatment and took Swifts Specific;
and its use cured me perfectly we'll. I
have been we'll about seven years, and no
return of the disease.
s.. l.. EDWARDS.
McC Cormick, s. O., Oct. 20, 1880.
* Boils.
s. s. s. is cure for boils, for it cured
me twelve months ago. i took only one
bottle. B. o. VERsELL.
Greenwood, s. O., Oct. 25, 1888.
During the early part Of the past spring
(1888,) my body was covered with boils.
at one time more than fifty were counted
on my body and limbs. MY face was not
exempt from the painful trouble. The
usual remedies would do ms no good.
Just why began taking S. 8. s. lido not
know, but almost Immediately I began to
improve. I took nearly three bottles,
and found myself entirely veil. It was
your medicine which effected the cure,
when everything else had failed.
Yours truly, ). "a. 5FoRDHAM.
Staunton, Va >, Aug. ], 1888,
Sw1Fr's SPECIFIC is entirely vegeta.
ble.remedy, and is the only medicine
which permanently cures Scrofula, Blood
.Humors, Cancer and contagious Blood
Poison. Send for books on Blood and
Skin Diseases, mailed free. .
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
81 z,5ii s5 DratYer 5, Atlanta; Ga.
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THE FoUR NEW STATES.
An Interesting study-The Growth OF the
Great NorthReat

The four new States-North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Washing.
ton-which have just been admitted to
the Union make very interesting
study.
No other government in any part Of
the world can have the experience which
we are now passing through. The sense
ofgrowth and increasing strength which
we enjoy is extremely exhilarating. One
by one these great stretches of territory
lying in the Northwest, the West and the
Southwest are being populated by pio-
neers of our OWN blood and nationality.
Physicians, tradesmen, lawyers, preachers
and artisans who found no outlet for
their energies in the crowded and sufo-
eating cities have poured over the mil
lions of acre, beyond the Mississippi,
formed governments, knocked at the door
of the republic and been admitted to
equal State privileges with ourselves.
Firat, as to area. The two Dakotas
cover very nearly fifty million acres each.
South Dakota is larger than New York,
New Hampshire aud Massachusetts.
There is enough more to make six or eight
Rhode Islands out Of.
. Montana is one of the gigantic States.
She is bigger than New York and the
whole of New England with New jersey,
Maryland and North Carolina thrown
in.
Washington is about the size ofeacho of
the two Dakotas, half the size Of Montana
and ha, an acreage that would cover
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Vermont and New Jersey.
at the end of the last century famous
Epglishman visited this country, and on
his return wrote book about US, as
nearly every foreigner does he declared
that the Allegheny Mountains would for
ever bar our progress. They were 8 wall
that would always keep our population
on the seaboard. The West, he declared,
would remain an undeveloped territory.
What would he say if he could return
again.
Second, as to population, Tidal waves
have been sweeping Westward, during
the last twenty years. In 1860 the two
Dakotas had 1887 inhabitants; in 1870
14,1Sl; in 1880, 135,l77; in..1SS7, 6oO,.
600. Such an increase is we'll nigh
incredible. Montana had within her
borders eight years ago 39,15s persons; !;
her estimated population at the present
time is 175,OOo. Washington had in
1880, 75.116, and eight years later l6O,.
600.
The West is clearly the field for enter
prise. With shrewdness, energy, genius,
hardihood, these four States have carved
out their own magnificent fortunes and
have not yet exhausted themselves
by any means. Their future is grander
than the prophets of earlier days ever
dared to dream.-Neso York Herald.
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6HE d D /: gIMIlN!,
AlfS Scornnunicatio tions ssintended Tor
this Column should be addressed to- :D.SH.
sRUsSELI.s Schoo1 Commissioner, Ander.;


fhei isshoo 81 Pleasant Grove is taught:
ofrow spent two.
shoursSthere, and found some bright little
boys boys and girls quick kssnd ready sin their
ssi responses, and with some original ideas
This school SIS small in numbers, and
needs saomeb body to- push things in the:
ay WAY 81. fixing up for business.
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"A man can hire house in Japan,
keep two servants and live on the fat
of the land all for over little over $50 q
yoonth
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Bethany Mss Ellen Crawford
Tss oldssthe Tor, 6, and wei udge from. the
aclltof hei eye that she means to hold it;
Shs s,, school is well up on the average, but
ls, sWlss,stEinE u shs Il little ones need ssto Be
pushed; ;aslittle inz the latter Of reading.
and and W Ne sasgglad 10 say that the teacher
sasrses With sns, and oposes to- do that
Hope doiaee;yol again, Misss ! Ellen, and.
slssi sslnaakgan encouraging word toEyon and!
80 the little folks 80.
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"On spiritual line the Mormon has
never had marked success with the ne.
gro" continued Mr.. Hutchins. "Thia
may have been because the Mormons did
not really care for the negro in Utah and
his conversion to their faith, and remain
ing here would initiate against their
SUCCESS among the whites. But within
the past two years chance has occurred,
aud am convinced the Mormons are
really at the bottom of the present exo-
dus of the blacks that is causing so much
discussion in the South at this moment,
Disguised as agents for contractors they
are quietly at work inculcating their
doctrines, yet making "a home in the
West the main plea. Last summer zoe
negroes in lot left Chattanooga for
California. 1 have since learned that
nearly every one is now a Mormon
Just two weeks ago I was at Union, S. O..
and saw six carloads Of negroes start for
Arkansas, their passage paid in advance
One of the most intelligent of the LOT
told me they we're going to work on a
railroad running west, and they were
promised good homes at the end of the
line. Some wa bout de Rocky Noun
tains.' This dosen't go for much, but ]
found that every fifth man had card
On which was printed the pretended pro
phecy of Joseph Smith, made in 1882. in
which the war of the rebellion was fore.
told. Iruspeuted something, The pro
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s. s. s. is q cure for boils, for it cured
me twelve months ago. i took only one
bottle. B. 0. VERsELL.
Green wood. s. O.. Oct. 25. 1888.
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ent varieties of soil. Loose land should
be, broken first, especially if there is an
abundance of grass or weed on it, and
there is generally great deal of rain
afterward, which is apt to settle and
cause it to become compact. 1fit is pos.
sible I break every foot of land, whether
stubble or stalk, sandy or stiff clay, for in
doing so bring back such properties as
are gradually sinking downward, and
mix them with the surface soil again. It
Is good plan to break stiff land rather
coarse, or in ridges. 1t prevents com.
pactness in case of heavy rains.
Deep breaking is recommended at all
times. I would rather have land broken
With two mules, but rarely do, owing to
the amount ofbreaking to be done. A
good mule can carry an ordinary subsoil
running six or seven inches deep.
After the land is broken, the next
thing is bedding. lay off rows four feet
wide with long subsoil. Then with q
large shovel open out for compost.
Compost should be put deep for two res-
sons-frst, to avoid being plowed up in
planting; secondly, it sustains the cotton
during drought. If manure isplaced
near the surface, and the early part of
summer is seasonable, the prospects are
fattering. The roots, Of course, are
where the manure is, and probably no
lower, hence it is plain that cotton in
this condition will not be able to stand
the drought that invariably comes.
The difficulty Of cultivating:: cotton in
narrow rows led me to put them wider,
and I find it to be the most reliable, and
at The 5stie time one of the greatest