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Mohave County miner., 1886-09-12
News Of the Week.

News Of the Week.
GE.,EisAL NEWS OF INTEREST
IN CONDENSED FORM.
Toe,e was $4,000 Ere at Jersey
Giy
Z y. Bailey killed himself 3: Los
Aogcles.
A now csbips, has been formed in
Bulgaria.
Five person. dlsa from exposure in
Onxrleston.
The English force in Ireland Is be-
ing strengthened.
Austria is thought to bs quietly
preparing for war
Special Envoy Sedgwick has at last
gone 10 Chihuahua.
Ssyen carloads OF oil wsre burned
at San Diego lsst Sunday
Prince Alexander has snsouncsd
mis- intention Of sl,dicatiBg.
Prince Alexander signed deed OF
sbdication aud left Sophis.
The Mexican rsvolutioDists have
capt ared the town OF Psris.
Geronimo and Natchsz are in the
gusrd- house at Fort Bowie.
None OF the California horses were
successful at Prospect Park.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
Of Savannah and Macon, Ga.
Anothsr earthquake wss felt in
AAlA tDlnSGAA ~ esueiA
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Yet Not 0 Visitor Smiled.

An American gives us On instance of
his experience in Syria. He was Hout
to mount his mule amidst crowd of
Oriental visitors, and wished to give
them an exaggerated idea of American
agility. He jumped little too far, and
overshot the mark, coming down on the
other side like diver, with his hands and
nose in the mud, his feet caught in the
saddle, and his coatskirts cleverly rolled
over his head, to screen him from what
he supposed was laughing crowd.
Yet not soul smiled, not a sound was
heard save tender grunt of sympathy
and demure offers of aid. Now Turk in
America, with baggy breeches and tur-
baned head, taking a leap over mule in
the streets of an American city, and
getting stuck upside down, with his pro-
boscis in a rut and his heels in the saddle,
would be saluted with something more
than grunt of sympathy and demure
offers Of aid. We have more humor than
dignity; the Turks more dignity than
humor.-Youth's Companion
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Sale Under Mortgage.

Under and by virtue Of power contain
ed in mortgage executed and delivered to
the undersigned by D. P, Livingston on the
eighteenth day of January a. D. 1884, I
will sell at Orangeburg, Court House to the
highest bidder for cash, OH the 1st Monday
in April, 1886, the following described pro-
pertv to wit
All that PIECE, PARCEL OR TRACT
OF LAND situate, lying and being in He
bron Township, in the County of Orange
burg and State aforesaid, containing two
hundred and forty acres, more or less, and
bounded on the north by lands OF Frances
Livingston, on the east by lands Of N. 4;
Jcffcoat, south by lands Of r. y. Wolfe and
west by lands of II. J. Livingston, being q
partof a tract formerly belonging to Daniel
Livingston.
Terms Of sale Cash. Purchaser to pay
for titles. PAUL 5. FIELDER.
March 4-3t Morgagec.
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Sanitary improvements in Naples.


A correspondent gives in The Vienna
Fremdenblatt graphic account Of the
great improvements which arc about to
be commenced at Naples, and which will
completely renovate the city from a
sanitary point of view. One large main
thoroughfare will traverse the whole Of
the poor quarters, Porto, Fendino, Mer-
csto, and Vicaria, while regular cross
streets will run at fixed intervals. Some
sites considered to be too unhealthy will
not be allowed to be occupied. For the
large crowd of artisans, laborers, and
their families who will be dilodged by
these changes new and healthy quarters
win be; found in the Arenaccia; district,
beyond the railway station.
The entire drainage and sewer system
in the lower part Of the city will be re-
modelled, and will be made to discharge
beyond the harbor. The dye-works and
similar manufactures, the operations Of
which are calculated to pollute the water,
will be required to remove beyond the
city boundary. The state is contribut-
ing 100000 pound. sterling to carry
out these great works. When they have
been finished the Chiaja will, indeed. be
one of the most delightful, as well as
most wonderful, promenades in Europe.
-Exchange,
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Tho Farmer and Ris Blizzard Rope.

Tho Farmer and BIS Blizzard Rope.
NO one who has net been IN a -biifzzard
can form the faintest conception of ita
fearful character. Why, do you know
that every farmer in that country takes
the precaution when the first snow ap.
pears to provide himself with rope by
which he guides himself from his house
to his stock sheds or stable? He ties one
end of the rope to the door-knob of his
house and then walks to his barn-door.
At this point he ties stick into the rope,
and when the blizzard comes he simply
takes what he thinks is the right direc.
ton and follows the rope until he reaches
the stick. If he does not strike the barn.
door when he reaches the stick he knows
he has missed his bearings, and simply
starts off in circle holding the rope
taut untl he reaches the barn. When
he gets ready to start back he hauls him
self in hand over hand until he reaches
his door. If he looses his hold on the
rope the chances are that he will never
reach his door even though he might
wonder within five feet of it.-Chicago
Tribune Interview.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Training Dogs for Military Service.

The German minister of war has given
orders for a number of dogs to be trained
with view of testing the value of the
services they might render to sentincls
engaged keeping guard during the night.
This new departure in the German army
is understood to have been suggested by
an accident which occurred in the course
of last years operations among the Brit
ish forces in the Soudan.-EXchange.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
An Almost Inexhaustible Supply.

Now that the northern forests have
been greatly depleted attention is being
directed southwark where there is an al
most inexhaustible supply of just such
woods as have grown scarce in the north.
While the area of white and black wal
nut, especially the latter, is not large,
there is vast amount of yellow pine
which has recently become 30 popular as
an ornamental as well as useful timber;
and the sweet-gum, to which little atten-
ton has been directed until recently,
will take prominent place among the
ornamental woods. Il is very fine
grained, and therefore capable of high
finish, and from the fact of its being
plentiful and easily worked will be widely
utilized -Globe-Democrat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Through Mongolia and Thibet.

Col. Prejevalsky's facts throw Jules
yerne's fancies into the shade. This
famous Russian traveller has fought hif
way through Mongolia and Thibet with
a party of seventeen soldiers and host
of other attendants, spent $4,000 rubles,
killed 400 people who barred his way,
given number of Russian names to
places nominally in the dominions of the
empire of China, and shown the portrait
of the White Gar to enraptured crowds
of Mongolians longing to be taken under
his protection. Chicago Tribune.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
When Thers wore No Dentists.

II often think" wrote Olive Wendell
Holmes, in his letter declining an invita-
ton to dine with the New York Odonto-
logical society, @of the forlorn condition
Of some of the great personages Of history
in the days when there were no dentists,
or none who would be recognized as such
by the dental artists of to-day. Think ol
poor King David, O worn-out man Of 70,
probably without teeth, and certainly
without spectacles. Think of poor
George Washington, his teeth always
ready to drop like. a portcullis, and cut
sentence in two. See him in Stewart'a
admirable portrait, his thoughts evidently
divided between the cares of empire and
the maintenance of the status quo of his
terrific dental arrangements.
Think of Walter Savage L&udors
Smelancholy complaint that he did not
mind losing his intellectual faculties, but
the loss of his teeth he felt very great
calamity. I venture to propose, then,
the dental profession and their associa-
ton as its worthy representative. 1t has
established and prolonged the reign OF
beauty; it has added to the charms OF
social intercourse and lent perfection to
the accents of eloquence; it has taken
from old age its most unwelcome feature
and has heightened enjoyable human
life far beyond the limit of years when
the toothless and purblind patriarch
might well e1claim, y have no pleasure
in them '"-E1change.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Peculiar I1ysterioal Mania in China.

A form Of hvsterical disease or mania
e. sprevalent-- --annong.--adult"H-E1a
Changehow, China. The patient acquires
the impression that his abdomen is in
habited by some animal, often a rat,
whose excursions cause violent pain. Un-
heard-of efforts are made to expel the in
truder, and often the savings of a;whole
family for a lifetime are wasted on
BONES, sorcerers, doctors, and other
quacks in hope of obtaining relief for the
sufferer. 1t is reported that in many
cases death occurs from suffocation in
the course of a violent convulsive par
oxysm. The patient leads double life,
marked by the use of two voices of diff
ferent timbres. As rule his disposition
alters in correspondence with the change
of voice. Morally and mentally he is a
different being in the two states. What
ever occurs during the period betokened
by the unnatural voice is totally forgot
ten during the normal period.-Chicago
Times.
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BEYOND.

lIine eyes were holden, that I could nos go
How close before me stood, with out
stretched hand,
Gods messenger, the angel sent to beckon
me
Away from all the cruel thorns, the mlry
clay,
That ye1ed US IS we toiled along the way,
To follow bis sweet guidance to the land
Where none shall weep through all In
eternal day..
And knowing not how short the time would
be,
Dear heart, fretted sorely as we wens
along;
And made ths way more sad and drear for
thee,
Nor ever sought to cheer thee with song,
OLovei cen here in heaven there doth 70
main
Regret for all I added to thy pain!
Augusta D. Dunn.
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Packing Cut Flowers in Boxes.

The English florists have a peculiar
method of packing cut flowers in boxes.
The box is furnished with number of
hooks all around the sides, and the flow
ers are fastened to the hooks with strings,
thus rendering it impossible for the flow
ers to be crushed against the sides of the
box. Damp cotton wool is used in Eng.
land to protect cut flowers, but American
florists prefer tissue paper, exceptin the
coolest weather. Chicago Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
A Healthy Growth.

THE SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF
Il the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation is marvellous in the annals of life
insurance enterprise. Its name has be-
come tower Of strength, and has been
well earned by the untiring devotion of
President Harper and his associates. Its
astonishing prosperity has provoked attacks
which are best repeled by frank and full
exhibit of its greatly increasing line of
business. Up to July !, 1885, this shows q
gain of no less than S13 214, $50 over that
of the corresponding period last year.
In June alone its mortuary receipts eX-
ceeded $3.50, 900, Of which over $50, 900 went
into the Reserve Fund-that triple buttress.
upon which the association justly prides
itself. This reserve now amounts to S425,-
900, and is employed for three purposes
only-to pay death claims, if any should
occur in excess Of the American Experience
Mortality Tables; to make good any poss-
ible deficiency in the Death Fund Account,
and to be apportioned among those who
have been members Of the Association ff-
teen years, etc. AS the first and second
contingencies named are not likely to arise,
the third object is the one upon which the
fund is practically expended. It's full Of
other good points, among which may be
mentioned the economical salary list--less
than $50, 900 for carrying on the whole work
of the vast institution-and payments to
widews and orphans at the rate Of over
$4,000 cash cash day.-From the old and
conservative New York Daily Journal Of
Commerce, July 10, 1885.
With the Annual Report Of the above
Company is attached large number Of
Death claims paid from February 1882 to
February 1st 1886, representing all parts Of
the Union, amounting to 81, 6S5, 200 90 from,
this list we take claims in South Carolina
which have been paid:
Valentine R. Jordan, West Wateree. So
900. ...-..
Jno. S. Small, Grahams. 81 ,250.
Henry L. Krause, Port Royal, Si,250.,
j. E. Todd, Due West 800.
VIM. II. Whilden. Jacksonboro', $4,000.
E. Parker, Abbeville, $4,000.
A. S. Barns, WATERFORD, $4,000.
Emil Nehemiss, Beaufort. 1900.
j. S. ALBERGOTTI, Agent.
| Feb 25-6mS
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Administrators Sale.

IN PURSUANCE OF an ORDER
Il of the Judge Of Probate for Orangeburg
County, will sell at the Court House Of
said County, on Monday the fifth day Of
April, 1886, the following judgments and
chooses in actions Of the Estate of Joseph
johnson, deceased:
JUDGMENTS AGAINST
J. A. Cook and Eldridge Gunter for
$2G5.7o, interest from Feb. II, 1868.
Elias and Aug Holman for S720.75, inter-
est from Feb. II, 1868.
W. P. West and j. p. Cullum for S1SS. 80,
interest from Jan. 80, 1869.
j. D. II. Milestone for S162.1O, interest
from Jan. 80, 1869.
r. V. McMichael, Martin Livingston and.
R. V. Dannelley for S164.25, interest from
Jan. 80, 1869.
r. and T. +. Brolie for S419.27, interest
from Jan. 30, 1869.
E. Johnson, Administrative, for $4,000,
interest from April 49, 1867.
Jacob w. Salley for S39.13, interest from
April, 10, 1867.
j. II. Phillips, R. V. McMichael and R.
Y. Dannelley for S90.96, interest from
April, 20, 1868.
J. W. Boylston for s4715, interest from
Aril 20, 1868.
Jno. G. Tanning and J. F. Phillips for
S97.45 interest from April 90, 1868.
Jos. Cooper for SAT 90, interest from April
90, 1868.
Burke Able for s6sJ5, interest from
April 20, 1868.
:. Eldridge Gunter for s6s.so, interest from
April 20, 1868.
j. ". Philips for 5000, interest from
Jan. 80, 1869.
U. S. Corbitt for SS5.o5, interest from
Jan. 80, 1869.
And notes of the following parties:
S. W. and n. P. Jefcoat and j. D. 81,
Milestone, jointly, r. V. Dannelley, n,
P. Jefcoat and E. A. Price, Jointly, Jas. n.
Cook, Jas. G. Cooper, J. W. Boylston, A. j.
Williams, Jno. W. Horsey, W. II. and
Wilkcn Gunter and Jos. Myrundy, Larkin
and Wesley Garvln. Terms Cash.
L. II. WANNAMAKER,
Clerk of Court and Admr. dc bonis non.
March %
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Wonderful Cures.

". D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and
Retail Druggistst of Rome, Ga, say
We have been selling DR.. Kings New
Discovery, Electric Bitters and Buck
lens Arnica Salve for two years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as we'll,
oor such universal satisfaction.
There have been some wonderful cures
effected by these medicines in this city.
Several cases of pronounced Consump-
ton have been entirely cured by use of
few bottles of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, taken in connection with Elec-
trio Bitters. We guarantee them al
ways. Sold by Dr.. j. G. Wannamaker.
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ART STUDENTS RaRo At WORK.
Copying from q Life Notwithstanding
Motionless for Nine Hours.

Copying from Life Notwithstanding
Motionless for Nine hours.
Away up in the top story in a room
Uttered up with screens and plaques and
busts of Apollo Belvedere and Venus de
Milo, and Venus with one arm gone,
where plaster Of paris cast Of Socrates
lays over sideways against chrome OF
Gen. Grant, between 0 and 10 the other
evening were seated class of thirteen
young ladies and gentlemen with lap
boards in front of them, on which were
large sheets of paper, and in their right
hands they held crayons, or sticks OF
charcoal. A pendent gas-jet from the
ceiling above shed strong but SICILY
light on the pupils, who were arranged
in a circle around a nude model
Stretched upon a l0x12 foot table, only
eighteen inches from the floor, In re-
cining position, lay man hatless, coat
less, shoeless, painless, with nothing on
save short pair of bathing trunks.
There was not word spoken. The
pupils had all green shades over their
eyes. But the model7 He was as mo-
tonless as q statue. He looked steadily
at some object near the clock. Not q
muscle twitched. In his right hand he
held long pole, on the top of which
was fringe. His left hand lay on sort
Of pillow.
It was no easy job. It looked easy,
but not one in thousand could keep SO
everlasting quiet. The model poses for
oae hour, then rests fifteen minutes,
then takes the same position for another
hour. Yesterday the model had done
extra duty. He had remained motion
Less for nine hours on the hard wooden
table, with nothing but E. coarse sheet
between his bare flesh and the board.
The model was anely-Sormed, athletic
man, laborey by profession, glad to
earn dollar for two hours posturing for
the Art School life art class. There are
dozen others in the city who sit as
models, though, strictly speaking, there
are no professional models ia the city.
In answer to an inquiry concerning the
pupils, Professor Noble replied:
aThey are each and all earnest people,
who are studying for purpose. Yonder
is a man engaged at Strobridge's who
earns 800 week; others are already art
teachers; others are learning to be fresoo'
painters; there is one book-keeper who
wants to be professional artist, another
a decorator, and so on"
3Can any one 90 in the live classF"
3Oh, no. Our school is graded, not ac'
cording to the desire of the pupil, but to
his ability. When he applies here we
place the pupil in the department. that il
belongs to. Those in the live class are
all advanced pupils"
"How do they work7"
First they locate the different parts Of
the body-block out the form, as it were
secure the proper proportions; nex'
they begin at the head, and finish it In
detail. They do not begin at the head OF
any other part of the body and finish
chat first. .n-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Improvemont on the Alarm-cloek.

Alarm-clocks, as is well known, after
time lose their power over a sleeper
and fail to awake him, since he becomes
accustomed to the noise. To remedy this
defect an ingenious inventor has added
q cylinder, the base filed with COM
pressed air and the remaining space with
cold water. A perforated tin tube is at
tached, which is pointed in the direction
needed. When the alarm bell goes off
the pressure of air is relieved and the
water in the cylinder is driven out
through the perforated tube over the
head of the sleeper, who is sure to
be awakened by the shower-bath.
Chicago Times.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
An EnterprIsing, Reliable House.

DR.. J. G.. Wannamaker can always be
relied upon, not only to carry in stock
the best of everything, but to secure the
Agency for such articles as have we'll
known merits, and are popular with the
people, thereby sustaining the rcputa.
ton Of being always enterprlsing, ant
ever reliable. Having secured the
Agency for the celebrated Dr.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, will
sell it on a positive guarantee. 1t will
surely cure any and every affection d
Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to show
our confidence. we invite you to cal
and Get q Trial Bottle Free.
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A Chat ooaeorasne supo-assssono.

We were discussing superstitions the
other night. The mercurial De Vivo was
telling us about the Italians and theiz
superstitions. Brignoi, the tenor, was
a child of superstition. In Italy sheeE
are always supposed to bring bad luck.
and De Vivo says he has seen BrignoH
run away like the wind from a flock OF
sheep. On the other hand, he would
walk clean into herd of pigs and al
most embrace them. Humpbacked peo
pie are always supposed to be good luck
and Brignoi would rush across a street
and put his arms around humpbacked
man, it being necessary to touch the
hump to get the full benefit of the good
fortune. All the great singers nearly
are superstitious, Parepa-Rosa was e1'
cessively weak on this point, and al
ways carried as an amulet a coral horn,
which she Immediately touched when.
ever she came across anything unluclzy.
Cross-eyed people are always looked
upon as unlucky; why, nobody knows
Most cross-eyed people that I know are
rather lucky than otherwise. Thsre are
several very widespread superstitionS,
which take different shapes with differ.
ent people. Perhaps the most uni
versal oae is the thirteen one. In
theatres for instance, on salary day when
a man comes up to sign the payroll
that is, In the theatres whese they pay sal.
aries--be ALWAYS counts the number ahead
Of him, and If he Is the thirteenth he VIII
not sign. # you 30 to . theatre with q
pass and you are the first man there they
will not allow you to 60 in until some
body haa gone in on paid acket.-Sau
Francisco Chronicle "Undertones.
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ssTHE MOTHER OF CRIMINALS"

4 Psuper Child Left Adrft-Hundreda
Of yiciouh Descendants.
AS an illustration Of what unorganized
and indiscrirninate charity leads to, the
case Of Margaret, the Mother of Crimi-
mails, is quoted from an authority on the
subject:
@Margaret was q pauper child left
sdrift IN one of the villages on the upper
hudson, about ninety years ago. There
was DO altashcuse in the place, and she
was ,nads the subject Of outdoor relief,
receiving occasionally food and clothing
from She town officials, but was never
educated or sheltered In proper home.
She became the mother Of large race Of
criminals and paupers which has cursed
the county ever since. The county rec
osds show 200 Of her descendants who
have been criminals. In one generation
Of her unhappy line there were twenty
children, Of whom seventeen lived to
maturity. Nine served terms aggregat-
in ffty years in the state prison for high
crimes, and all the Others were frequent
inmates of iails and almshouses.
ut il said that, Of the 62S descendants
Of this outcast girl, 200 committed crimes
which brought them upon the court rec
ords and most of the others were idots,
drunkards, lunatics and paupers. The
cost to the county of this race Of Grim
inals and paupers is estimated as at least
100000, taking 70 account Of the dam
ago they inflicted upon property and the
degradation they caused to the-s."-
Brooklyn Eagle.
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a large demand for them throughout the
United States, and any lady who gives her
time and energy to canvassing for them
can soon build up permanent and pro-
fitable business. They are not sold by
merchants, nuS and we give exclusive territory
thereby giving the agent entire control Of
these superior corsets in the territory as
signed her. We have large number OF
AGENTS who are making a grand success
selling these goods, and we desire such in
every town. Address, MME. GR1SWOLl
d CO., 923 B'way, New York
March 25-1m.
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The Guarded Language Of Diplomacy.

The Hon. E. B. Washburne is an ex.
pert diplomatic. His experience as afor.
eign minister some years ago served him
to good purpose in this respect. He was
called as witness in the Storey will case
the other day, and, being asked whethe,
he considered Mrs. Storey ~ young
woman" he replied in the guarded Ian.
guage of diplomacy, @All women are sup
posed to be young."-Chicago Journal.