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Salvation Army. The account by the Signal Service observer, at 

 Charlotte, published in the Review, follows: 



"An unusual phenomenon was witnessed on the 2ist: having been 

 informed that, for some weeks prior to date, rain had been falling 

 daily, after 3 p. m., on a particular spot, near two trees, corner 

 of 9th and D streets, I visited the place, and saw precipitation in 

 the form of rain drops at 4.47 and 4.55 p. m., while the sun was 

 shining brightly. On the 22nd, I again visited the place, and from 

 4.05 to 4.25 p. m., a light shower of rain fell from a cloudless 

 sky. . . . Sometimes the precipitation falls over an area of half 

 an acre, but always appears to center at these two trees, and when 

 lightest occurs there only." 



