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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-22
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FOR TIPTONVILLE.

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STEAMBOATS,.
Memphis & Cincinnati PIT Co.

Memphis a. Cincinnati P'k't Co.
FOR 90 DAYS ONLYI
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ne This Company will sell ROUND TRIP
TICKETS. FROM Memphis 20 Louisville,
Cincinnati, and all Eastern Cities, at
greatly Reduced Rates. ~.
CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL
Commencing May 18th, to 23d inclusive,
with Festival Chorus Of
800 Trained Voices and am Orchestra
OF over 100 Artists.
During the coming 20 days Cincinnati will
be very attractive to visitors.
nB- Tickets include Meals and State rooms.
Return tickets good on any boat In the line.
Zach boat carries Fine String Band.
BOATS LEAVE MEMPHIS
Mondays and Thursdays at 5 Pm.
For information inquire Of O. B. RUS
SELL, Agent, IL Madison street, Memphis,
Tenn. X. W. WISE, Supt.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-22
BREADsTUFFs.

Spot, g 10 asked May, So 10 asked ;
June, 81 10 asked; July, 81 10 asked.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-22
BANK STOCKS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

hlsCELLANEOU5.
NJ. and G. R.R. shares.,9O bid, e. asked
N. & T. R.R. shares 40 bid, &c. asked
NJ. & @. consols, 7s...1l6 bid, ... asked
NJ. & L. R. lat m. S.. ITO bid, &c. asked
Miss. &TR r. cs, ..l20 bid, 122 asked
Miss. & T.R, Rcs, b.. 100 bid, 10S asked
Tenn. WITS. ser. C...".97 bid, 9S4 asked
Tenn. WITS. ser. D to J..S2 bid, So asked
Shelby Co. 6s..."...106 bid, 107l asked
Tax. Dist. 4, 6s....,"..9S4 bid, "a asked
Tax. Dist. 6I,......102 bid, 1924 asked
Mem. Stor. Com. Co. 100 bid, JOS asked
Mem. Gas stock.........H bid, so asked
Mem. Gas bonds ..... los bid, ,.. asked
Mem. Water bonde.....96 bid, -. asked
Hsnauer Oil Works. &c. bid, 90 asked
Am. Cot. Oil trusts 30! hid, 81 J asked
D;n,aar No4fOr, Mile ~ b;I on aol-aI
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Cloth from the Mulberry Tree.

Two days later we reached Levuka Gn
island of Ovalau), the former capital OF
Fiji and principal European town, and
found what we had searched for vainly
in Suva-tapa, a cloth made out of the
bark of the mulberry tree. The process
of making it is by beating it out to the
required substance after the outer rind is
stripped off; it is then moistened and
pressed together to the size required, in
lengths varying from three to 100 feet.
It is then stained with natural dyes in
primitive. but artistic patterns.
from the island of Rotunah are so finely
marked that they give the impression OF
having been traced with an etching pen.
These fine specimens are perhaps less use
full for decoration than the bolder de-
signs, which are much used by the better
class of natives for their sulus. Those of
a cinnamon color fall in well with their
FURNISHED bronze skins and thick dark
hair, of which they are justly proud.
The ends of the bushy form it naturally
assumes-turned by the lime dressing to
the color of mdyed sealskin-give the
effect, in strong sunlight, of an aureole to
the head.-Belgravia.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
The Wonders of ChaIcedony Park.

The siiciied forest of Arizona, known
as Chalcedony park, is undoubtedly one
of the greatest of American wonders, re-
marks Mr.. George F. Kunz. This mar
velous deposit. eight miles south of Cor
RIA, covers thousand acres, and con-
sists of fallen trees which have become
buried and silicified into probably a mil
lion tons of agate and jasper. Some Of
the trunks are $50 feet long and ten feet
in diameter, and others are broken into
every conceivable shape. Silicified wood
is obtained from many parts of the
world, but nowhere else is it SO beauti-
fully colored as here, every imaginable
shade of red, brown and green being
presented.
The most remarkable feature of the
park, and phenomenon perhaps un-
paralleled, is the natural bridge Of aga
tized wood, spanning canon fifty-five
feet wide. The tree is from three to
four feet in diameter, and more than a
hundred feet of its length are in sight,
both ends being imbedded in the sand
stone at the sides of the canon.-Arkan-
saw Traveller.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
The Famous Chinese Rice Paper.

Eighteen hundred years ago the Chi
nese made paper from fibrous matter re-
duced toa pulp. Now each province
makes its own peculiar variety. The Gel
ebrated Chinese rice paper, that so re-
semblps woolen and silk fabrics, and on
which are painted quaint birds and flow
ers, is manufactured from compressed
pith, which is cut spirally by a. keen
knife into thin slices six inches wide and
twice as long. Funeral papers, or paper
limitations of earthly things which they
desire to bestow on departed friends, are
burned. over their graves. They use
paper window frames. paper sliding
doors, and paper visiting cards yard
long. 1t is related that when a distin-
guished representative of the British gov
ernment visited Pekin several servants
brought him huge roll, which, when
spread out OH the floor, proved to be
the visiting card of the emperor.-Phila-
delphia Call.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
How Dead Folks are Photographed.

Photographing dead people is com
moner thing nowadays than one would
suppose, when photographs from life
may be had SO cheaply; but folks go
along from day to day putting off the
taking of their pictures, or they forget it,
until sickness reaches out and gets them,
and the next thing their friends know
they are dead. A few hours before con-
signing their remains to the grave the
relatives recall the fact that there is no
picture Of the dead and they rush out for
for photographer.
A picture taken under such conditions
as those found in the corpse-room can
not be the best in the world. The casket
must be uprighted, and we have to do as
well as circumstances will permit in the
matter of light. Sometimes the eyes are
pushed open, but usually the remains are
photographed as they appear in death,
and from that picture life picture must
be worked out by our crayon artist. I
have made many portraits of dead peo-
pie in that.way, and, as rule, a photog-
rapher who knows his business gets q
good portrait. The charge usually made
for photographing corpse is $50, which
of course does not include the cost of the
crayon portrait. G. Strauss in Globe
namocrat
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Queen Victorin's Daughter-in-I.aw.

If reports be true, the princess of Wales
is an eminently clever nlilliner and gives
finishing touches to all her own bonnets
and hats, and Judging from the nldivid-
uality of her taste in the direction, it is
quite likely rumor may be safely cred
tied. A very pretty story has long been
current as to the royal lady's gift of art.
Not a member of the royal family, not a
person intimately attached to the court,
could venture to suggest that after long
years the queens mourning might with
advantage be lessened, whereupon the
princess of Wales gently took the matter
in Land.
Without word to anybody she re-
modelled the queens somber bonnet, re-
moving the ''weeds," and, with a few
artistic touches, relieved her majesty's
head-covering of its mournful aspect.
Silently the queen submitted to the
change, but all the court knew she did
SO for her daughter-in-law's sweet sake.
The Housewife.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Life on Board o Torpedo Boat.

The officers and men in charge of the
torpedo boats have no pleasant time OF
it. The steel plates of which frstrclass
torpedo boat is built are only an eighth
of an inch thick, some of the smaller
ones are only one-sixteenth of an inch,
and the consequent weakness OF
structure, with their great length in pro-
portion to breadth, makes the strain of
rising and falling in short sea apt to
break their backs. In such sea, there
fore, it is dangerous to drive them at
less than eight to ten miles an hour, when
they 20 through the waves instead OF
over them.
At about this speed in most boats the
vibrations of the engines and the vibra-
tions of the boat synchronize, and the
combined oscillations make the bow and
stern of the boat wave up and down till
they nod at each other. Men who are
standing on the deck astern jump up and
down like marionets. Even in absolutely
smooth water, when you sit in the small
cabin and try to eat, your knife and fork
clatter on your plate like castanets. The
water sweeps clean over the deck, which,
after awhile, the vibration makes to leak
like sieve, so that everything below
clothes, beds, etc.,-is wet through.
Truly service in a torpedo boat is not one
of pleasure.-All the Year Round.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
The Pictured Rocks Of virginia.

The famous Pictured Rocks on the
Evansville pike, about four miles from
this place, have been source of wonder
and SPECULATION for more than century,
and have attracted much attention
among the learned men of this country
and Europe. The cliff upon which these
drawings exist is of considerable size and
within a short distance of the highway
above mentioned.
The rock is a white sandstone which
wears little from exposure tn thewaather,
and upon its smooth surface are define
ated the outlines of at eleast fifty species
of animals, birds, reptiles and fish, en-
bracing in the number panthers, deer,
buffalo, otters, beavers, wildcats, foxes,
wolves, raccoons, opossums, bears, elk,
crows, eagles, turkeys, eels, various sorts
of fish large and small, snakes, erc. In
the midst of this silent nlenaeerie OF
specimens of the animal kingdom is the
full-length outline of female form,
beautiful and perfect in every respect.
Interspersed among the drawings of ami.
mails, etc., are limitations Of the foot
prints of each sort, the whole space oc-
cupied being $50 feet long by &c wide.
To what race the artist belonged, OF
what his purpose was in making these
rude portraits, must ever remain o
mystery, but the work ives evidently
done ages ago.-Morgantown CIV. Va
Letter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Simple Design for Heating by Gas.

A New York artist has produced sim
ple design for heating entirely Ivy gas at
a mere nominal expense. 1t is we'll
known fact that gas throws off no
smoke, SCOT, or dirt. The artist filled a
brazier with chunks of colored glass,
and placed several jets beneath. The
glass soon became heated sufficiently to
thoroughly warm room 10x3O feet in
size. This design does away with the
necessity for necessity for chimneys,
since there is no smoke; the ventilation
may be had at the window. The heat
may be raised or lowered by simply reg
ulating the flow of gas.
The colored glass gives all the appear
ance of fire; there black pieces to repre-
sent coal, red chunks for flames, yellow
ish white glass for white heat, blue glass
for blue flames, and hues for all the re-
manning colors of spectrum. Invention
already is displacing the present fuels
for furnaces and cooking ranges, and
glass doing away with delay and such
disagreeable objects as ashes, kindling
wood, etc.-Scientific American.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
col1eres State and DenominationaI.


Editor Times and Denocrdt::
AS the farmers at the next election
will decide by their ballots the dlhcT,
ence between these colleges 1t IS wen
that we discuss through your columns
their several merits. | suppose a Iar-
mer has the right to dabble IN politlcSS
a little. Let us see if we understand
the difference existing between them.
The denominational colleges complain
that free tuition to students able TO
pay, is unjust, unfair and unconstltu-
tional and through commltteerequesI-
ed that obiectional feature removed;
which the Trustees and the South Car
olina Legislature refused to do. Which
is in the right? 1t is the plain duty OF
the voter to decide at the next election.
Let us examine if the complaints are
well founded. What injustice IS 1T to
the UNCONVENTIONAL Colleges If the
State College grants tuition free? An
swer: It gives to the State College
student 40 or 50 dollars advantage over
the denominational student, and will
draw students that would otherwise
patronize Denonlinational Colleges. 1t
creates an unfair and unjust competl-
tion. When the friends of the college
asked the legislature for an approprla-
tion to reopen the institution, there
were q majority of staunch farmers
members at the time and paid particu-
lar attention to the arguments used,
pro and con. The arguments OF q
member who opposed the re-openlng OF
the institution was as follows. That
their was no necessity for South Caro-
lima in her embarrassed condition to
establish university. That there
were several Denomiuational Colleges
which educated her sons we'll during
the days of our depression. That if
we re-opened the State Institution 1t
would injure these institutions. Now,
Mr.. Editor, to my mind, this free tuition
is a thrust at the very vitals of these
colleges. The friends of the college
argued that there would be no unfair
competition. That the honest rivalry
created will build up the Denomlna-
tional Schools rather than detract from
them. There was nothing said about
free tuition in the discussion at the re-
opening of the institution. In my neXt
I will say something about this, L
hope some friend will discuss this
subject with me calmly. There is no
fight nor quarrel, neither am [ Till
.slnan man. 4 FARMER.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Strange visitors.

There was heavy fall of a strange
kind of a bug in Raleigh, Durham and
Wilmington, on Friday night OF last
week. They came down by the thousand,
and are represented as being ferocious
and poisonous, instantly killing fowls
that ate of them. And their size is
somewhat remarkable, being 219 inches
long and an inch wide, with SIX legs,
or four legs proper and two "feelers." )"
Their coming is thought to have been
induced by the electric light, which has
just been introduced in the places nam
ed. Prof. Atkinson, of Chapel Hill, has
examined one Of the strange creatures,
and pronounces it species Of "water
Scorpion" but he offers no explanation
Of the phenomenon of their sudden ap-
2earance in such large numbers.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
OUR NAVY DURING THE WAR.
One of the 1Iarvels Of tho Age-Ioney
Value Of Its Captures.

One of the Marvels Of tho Age-IIoney
Value Of Its Captures.
The growth of our navy was one OF
the marvels of the age. 1t cost the gov
ernmcnt, in round numbers, $3.50, ,0cO, 900,
or S12O, O,000,0 900 for each year of the war,
$40, 900, 900 per month, or nearly third
of million dollars for every day of the
war.
1t employed over 600 vessels of war
and over $4,000 men, which force greatly
exceeded that of any other nation IN the
world.
1t guarded over 1000 miles of. coast,
including bays, rivers, etc., ettectuaily
preventing the importation of arms and
munitions of war, and so compelling the
earlier exhaustion of the Confederate
forces.
1t captured the immense number OF
1, 165 blockade-runners, many OF which
were fine steamers ratio of nearly 300
captures per annum, or almost one each
day during the entire war. The money
value of it's captures was at least S6O,-
100000 or s15,OO0,0OO worth for each
year of the war and $1,250,0 900 in value
for each month of the war from first to
last.
1t co-operated with the army wherever
there was water enough to float gun
boat, while Oh the high seas our navy
covered itself with glory. The river
work Of the navy on the Potomac, the
York, the James and the mississippi,
with it's branches, the coast-line work
from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi,
and its work on the high seas totally
eclipse in martial valor and brilliant sue
cesses all other naval achievements of
the world. While history records
the names of Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Island Nc. 10, Vicksburg,
Port Hudson, Fort jackson, Fort St.
Philip, Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor,
Mobile bay, Hatteras inlet, New Orleans,
Port Royal and Fort Fisher, and score
more of such famous names, the Ameri-
can navy will be universally honored;
while such deeds as the sinking Of the
Alabama in square naval battle will ever
be named among the most brilliant
victories of the age.
1t opened the harbors by the perilous
work of removing distractions, torpedoes,
etc., and by utterly destroying the hostile
batteries which commanded them. 1t
held in check the hostile elements of
many city and rural section while a
dreaded gunboat quietly lay before it; in
short, it displayed heroism of the noblest
type and made our reputation ON the
seas equal that Of any nation.-Admiral
Porter's Book.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
4 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 q tower Of strength, and has been
we'll earned by the untiring devotion of
President Harper and his associates. Its
astonishing prosperity has provoked attacks
which are best repelled by frank and full
exhibit of its greatly increasing line of
business. Up to July l, 1885, this shows a
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, 1000, of which over $50, 900 went
into the Reserve Fund-thlt triple buttresS
upon which the association justly prldes
itself, This reserve now amounts to S425,-
600. 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 tlf-
teen years, etc. AS the first and second
contingencies named are not likely toarlSe,
the third object is the one upon which the
fund is practically expended. 1t is 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
50, 900 cash cash day.-From the old and
conservative New York Daily Journal of
Commerce, July 10, 1885. 49,.
with the Annual Report of the above
Company is attached a large number Of
Death claims paid from February 1882 to
February 1st 1856, representing all parts Of
the Union, amounting to 81 $50, zoo. 90 from,
this list we take claims in South Carolina
which have been paid:
Valentine r. Jordan, West Waterce, So
900.
Jno. S. Small, Grahams: $l,25o;
Henry l.. Krause, Port Royal, S1,25O.
j. Z. Todd, Due West s., 500.
VIM. II. Whilden. Jacksonborc', s., ,OOO
E. Parker, Abbeville, $1,000.
A. S. Barns, Waterford, $500.
Emil Nehemias, Beaufort loo:
Us. ALBERGOTT1, Agent.
Fol, oS-Gmc
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
yyiying Out the Color Line.

: For the two past campaigns the Ohio
Republicans have been in danger of
losing their colored allies. The color
lins in the schools is the cause of the
dissatisfaction. The House has passed
Mr.. Arnett's bill wiping out the color
line and making it legal hereafter for
whites and blacks to interlnarry. The
bill abolishes separate schools for white
and colored children. Mr.. Arnett,
author of the bill, is from Xenia,
Greene county. Five Democrats and
fifty-fve Republicans voted for the bill.
Friends of the measure say it will pass
the Senate and be law inside of a
week
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
The Bloodhound on the Trail.

The Georgia bloodhound does not
quarry his game, unless it is q rabbit-a
small rabbit. He is neither fierce nor
powerful a boy can hold pack of
with cornstalk But for trailing a
fugitive-for hugging him close as q
slls.dow-or for flying along his track
when even the grass has forgotten ita
impress and the wind has powdered il
over with dust heis as relentless as doath
itself.-At,ant:a Constitution.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Singers Do Not Trust to Luck.

Adelina Patti sang a new song, called
Darling Nine" in London recently,
with extraordinary effect. The author
of the song relates that after having
tried it over and over again some time
ago, she sang it on the morning of the
concert four times through, and in the
artists room, before going on the stage,
she studied every note and tioritura, as if
her fame depended on the performance.
She then turned around and asked him:
"Etes-vous content?"-are you satisfied?
Thus it is that great singers do not trust
to luck.-Chicago Times.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Hydrophobia.

BALTIMORE, Apri l6.-Dr. Brinton II.
Warner, a young physician of this city,
died to-day of hydrophobia. On Christ
mas day he was bitten by a small lap
dog which had been run over on the
street by q vehicle, and he made an eff
fort to taAe it to his home to nurse it.
He cauteriZed the wound, but several
days ago he exhibited the horrors of
that fell disease. DR.. Warner was the
son of DR.. J. E. Warner of Hartford
county, a retired physician formerly
surgeon in the United States army.
The deceased leaves widow and three
children.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
Introduction OF Cattle Into America.


The first herd Of cattle known on the
continent of America was brought by
Columbus on his second voyage. From
these, and from other small herds
brought by later Spanish navigators, the
wild cattle of South America descended.
In 1853 the Portuguese took cattle and
hogs 10 Ne~ ;...:ndland and Nova Scotia.
The Canadian cattle were introduced In
1908. IN 1920 Virginia had 500 head OF
cattle. The most stringent laws were
passed prohibiting the killing of any do
mestic animal. In New England cattle
were introduced in 1924. 1t is said that
for time price was regulated by color,
g. red calf being cheaper than a black
one because it was more likely to be mis-
taken BY the wolves for a deer and
:Iilled.- Chicago Times.