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The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

LIONS Tipping his half-doar didn't elect him
although it did nominate him. The next time
he had better get the people to endorse such
an arrangement if he wants to go to the I.egisla-
The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

There has been much money spent IN the sys-
tematic development of this mine, and now, we
guess, they are going for the pay.
The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

ELECTION day passed off without much noise,
sAnough candidate whisky was plenty. We
counted something less than 991I drunken men,
Out the greater part Of them kept rather quiet.
nS was rather an unusual thing for this place,
IS our candidate forty rods round the corner "
generally put the majority Of the voters of this
peecnct on their muscle But majority Of
WEN voted the Independent ticket this time,
.aa ta1s becarne civilized AND of course behaved
themselves like gentlemen.
The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

nicHER YEr.-The Crater Hill mine, owned
|0y the st Patrick Company, is undoubtedly,
! lar as Developments have yet proved, the
Oea quartz mine in this district The ore, thus
u from this mine has yielded on an average
'"~ forty-two dollars per ton, and what is
-l0s' hst4eriug. the deeper they get the richer
.ac more offensive the ledge becomes. The
. Sn Shaft is now xbout 215 feet deep. and in
ts re sottf m the ledge is about % or 20 inches
csS.. and yields more gold per ton than at any
sr. point. The st Patrick Company have
IN, psn, treely y.of their immense means IN thor
saiy and systematically developing the quartz
"es OF this section, and it is with much pleas
m.t we chronicle their success. Fer such
s%1;Iaols ~. 1 energy and perseverance, as they
Gsplsyed througe their able Foreman and
<01otendiDg officers deserves success.
The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

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The Placer herald., 1873-09-06

Commencing on MONDAY, the 18th, and
closing on SATURDAY, the Goth of September.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Humorous.

A DOOR belle-A pretty housemaid.
INTELLECTUAh farming a
mans feelings. 5
Why is mouse like load of hay
Because the catH eat it. sF
SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed "I WI Help ATay Man"
WHAT is the difference between a
jailer and jeweler? One watches cells
and the other sells watches.
A WESTERN editor informs a corre-
spondent that the words ''No cards"
accompanying marriage notice signify
that the welded pair don't play poker.
A STRANGER, young man. from the
country, after having gazed at the ebananas
at the eating house in the Union Depot
in Kansas City, the other day, wanted
to know what "them ere sweet potatoes
were 'wuth, and why SO much pains
was taken to string 'em." He couldn't
see that he was wrong when the by
ISLANDERS laughed.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Miscellaneous.

SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 'tL IVdU Help A'ay Man. y
PLASTER oF-pARIs, mixed with thick
solution of gum arabic. makes perma-
nent cement for china.
THE great religious and benevolent So
cieties make encouraging exhibits at
their anniversary meetings this year..
QUARTZ flower is deemed one of the
best articles for polishing knives. It is
used largely in the manufacture of stone
china.
THE Atlanta Herald asserts that three
fourths of the twenty criminals now un-
der sentence of death in Georgia are
colored.
THE foxes have holes, but William B.
Astor doesn't know where to lay his head,
for he has 1000 houses in New York city
to choose from.
THE smelling of Utah and Colorado
lead and silver ores is now successfully
duced is equal in every respect for all
purposes to the best English and Ger
man brands.
A MACHINE is employed in cleaning the
old bricks in the burnt district of Bos-
ton which removes the mortar, ETC., from
them at the rate of thirty-five or forty a
minute, or about as fast as they can be
placed in position.
Mr.. CHASE was three times married.
His first wife was Catherine Carniss, his
second, Sarah Smith, and his third, Belle
Ludlow. He occasionally contributed
to the North american IceUieoO, and was
the author of some good verses.
PHILADELPHIA has the largest light
ning-rod manufactory in the world.
Fifty thousand feet of rods arc manu-
factured daily. 1t is impossible to COM
pute the misery which this single estab-
ishment will infict, through it's travel
ing agents.
A LAWRENCE man allows his wife S. a
week for pin money, with the under
standing that she shall forfeit ten cents
for each absent button, and the same
amount for each cup of poor coffee.
This arrangement has been going on for
two years, and the day has not yet come
when he could claim ten cents.
APRoPos to the discussion of the free
seat system, the Clturcltnaaaa gives the
following figures concerning Episcopal
churches in New York city Number OF
congregations, IA number of pewed
churches, 80; number of pewed churches
self-supporting, 25; number of free
churches, So; number of free churches
self-supporting, 6.
THERE is in the library of the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington vol
ume on the history of paper, which was
published in Bavaria in 1765. The pc
culiar feature of this work is that the
pages are interleaved with specimens OF
paper made from the following SUBJ
stances Hornet's-nests, sawdust, moss,
beech, willow, aspen, mulberry, climatis,
pine, hop-vine, grapevine Feelings,
hemp, leaves of aloes and lilies of the
valley, mothworth, barley-straw, cab
bage-stumps, thistle-stalks, burdock,
peat.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Purity of Character.

Over the beauty of the plum and the
apricot there grows a beauty more ex-
quisite than the fruit itself-a soft, del
icate plush, that overspreads its blush
ing cheek. Now, if you strike your
hand over that, and it is once gone, it
is gone forever, for it never grows but
once. Take the flower that hangs in the
morning, impearled with dew, arrayed
as no queenly woman ever was arrayed
with jewels. Once shake it, SO that the
drops roll off, and you may sprinkle
water over it as carefully as you please,
yet it can never be made again what it
was when the dew fell silently upon it
from heaven. On frosty morning,
you may see the panes of glass covered
with landscapes lakes, trees,
blendid into beautiful, fantastic pic
ture. Now lay your hand upon the glass,
and by the scratch of your finger, or by
the warmth of your palm, all the deli
cate tracery viii be obliterated. So
there is in youth beauty and purity of
character which, when once touched and
defiled, can never be restored fringe
more delicate than frostwork, and which,
when torn and broken, will never be re-
embroidered. A man who has soiled
and spotted his moral garments in youth,
though he may seek to make them white
again, can never wholly do it, even were
he to wash them with his tears. When
young man leaves his fathers house,
with the blessing of his mothers tears
still wet upon his forehead, if he once
loses that early purity of character, it
is loss he can never make whole again.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
The Presbyter1ans.

The unanimous vote by which the
Presbyterian Assembly at Baltimore
adopted the recommendation that two
committees be appointed to confer with
the Old School Synod of Missouri aud
the Southern General Assembly, for the
purpose of reunion with those branches
of the church, probably marks the be-
ginning of the end of the political schism
which has divided the Presbyterian
Church of America since 1861. The
Presbyterian Church North and South
divided in that year, on account of the
action of the General Assembly at Pitts
burgh, which declared that the allegi-
ance of citizens was due to the United
States, thereby denying the doctrine of
State allegiance and State rights. The
Missouri Synod has not been associated
with either branch since 1866. Its
separation was the result of the adoption
of resolution by the General Assembly,
in 1866, that every church session and
every Presbytery in connection with the
Presbyterian Church North should ex-
anime every person who came from a
Southern State asking for admission
into any of their churches or Presby-
teries touching his relations to the Fed
eral Government and touching his views
on the slavery question I; and insisting
upon " confession of sin" if the appli-
can't had been guilty of disloyalty.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
An Epicurean Feast.

A pleasant Partisan gentleman named
Decroire, who appears to have been
wholly given up to the delights of science,
recently prepared banquet for his fell
low-scientists which, Judging from the
bill of fare, could not have been of a
peculiarly appetizing character. The
meats furnished consisted of the flesh of
horses which had died of the glanders,
of COWS which had perished from rinder-
pest, and of a donkey just dead from
hydrophboia. It was, emphatically, a
'Ftest" banquet, and proved the devotion
of its partakers to the cause of science
as it was the intention to demonstrate to
the world that the flesh of animals was
not affected as human food by the worst
diseases, but that the cooking effectually
purges it from all infectious matter.
Undoubtedly M. Decroire is a very esti-
mable gentleman in private life, but we
should hardly like to trust oursef in a
boarding-house of his keeping.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05

The following figures show the ex-
treme summer heat in the various coun-
tries of the world Bengal and the
African desert, $50 degrees Fahrenheit !;
Senegal and Gaudaleupe, 130 deg; Per-
sia, 125 deg; Calcutta and Central
America, 12O deg; Afghanistan and the
African deserts, ITO deg; Cape of Good
Hope and Utah, 1O5 deg; Greece, 104
deg; Montreal, 103 deg; New York,
1O2 deg.;. Spain, India, China and
Jamaica, 100 deg; Sierra Leone, "a
deg; France, Denmark, st. Petersburg,
Shanghai, the Burman Empire, Buenos
Ayres and the Sandwich Islands, 100
deg; Great Britain, Siam and Peru, 85
deg; Portugal, Pekin, and Natal, so
deg; Siberia, II deg; Australia and
Scotland, rs deg; Italy, Venezuela and
Madeira, IA deg; Prussia and New Zea-
land, 70 deg; Switzerland and Hum
gary, &c deg; Bavaria, Sweden, Tasma-
mia and Moscow, IS deg; Patagonia and
the Falkland Isles, 55 deg; Ice
land, As deg, and Nova zem-
hla, coolest of all, 81
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Rapid Growth of the West.

The West draws new settlers into its
! capacious bosom by its fertility, its free
homesteads, and its infinite demand for
labor, whether skilled or unskilled. 1t
also drives them to take shelter under
its wings by competition.
New England once raised her own
breadstuffs, but she has long ceased 50
to do. The produce of richer and
cheaper lands competed with her farm
ers, till it proved more than a match for
their skill and energy. Many of them
then turned to manufactures, but a still
larger number were hence driven West.
They made their own some of the cheap
acres there, and enlisted in the ranks
of the agricultural army which had
vanquished them.
Thus the West is constantly acting on
the East with an increasing weight, and
that of larger and longer lever. Here
is one secret of its rapid growth.
It is forty years since the first white
families entered Iowa. But no moro
than one-third of its present population
were born within it's limits two-thirds
have come in.
OF it's twelve hundred thousand to-
day, about one-haf were born in some
more eastern State. Foreign countries
| being further than the Atlantic slope
from the West, have hitherto felt it's in
fuence less-but even they were long
since driven as well as drawn to send
their sons thither. The influence ex-
erted upon them has been of the same
nature with that which has brought
| Westward so many of our own East.
Hence one-sixth of the population of
Iowa has come into it from beyond the
| Atlantic.
Not one-sixth of the population of
| Nebraska were born within its limits.
More than twenty-five thousand home
steaders and pre-emptors have fled
| claims in the 1and-office at Lincoln, a
capital not yet six years old-and within
the last three years about three thousand
settlers have bought farms on the land
grant to the Burlington and Missouri
River railroad-on ten years credit and
six per cent. interest, and, on contracts
made since 1872, no installment of the
principal due till the beginning of the
| fifth year-and then only one-seventh.
The Westward tidal wave was never so
strong as to-day-but it will be stronger
tomorrow. The stronger it grows
the more strength it has to grow
stronger. Nor can it fail to wax still
more mighty till so many of the Euro
pean millions have migrated that the
| density of population and the rate of
wages shall have become well-nigh
equalized on both sides of the Atlantic.
| PROT IL ID. Butler.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
A World of Suicides.

Prof. Faraday has given it as his opin-
ion that all who die before they are a
hundred years old may be justly charged
with sef-murder; that Providence hav-
ing originally intended man to live a
century, would allow him to do SO if he
did not kill himself by eating unwhole-
some food, allowing himself to be an
noyed by trifes, giving license to passion
and exposing himself to accident. The
French savant Flourin advanced the
theory that the duration of life is meas
ured by the time of growth. When the
bones epiphysis are united the body
grows no more, and it is at twenty years
that this union is effected in man. The
natural termination of life is five re-
moves from the several points. Man,
being twenty years in growing, lives, OF
should, five times twenty years; the
camel is eight years in growing, and
lives five times eight years !; the horse is
five years in growing, and lives twenty
five years ; and so on with other ami
mails.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Illustrated Journalism.

Some months since, an illustrated
daily newspaper was started in New
York city, called the Graphic. Many
thought that its existence would be very
short, though it was an nattractivenovelty.
1t seems, however, that its publication
is financial success, and the probabili-
ties are that illustrated daily newspapers
will soon become as plenty as blackber-
ries. RoaUelrs AaUerican Newspaper
Reporter says: The process of illus
tration used by the Graphic. Company is
secret, jealously guarded by the pro-
prietors, and is yet upon its trial. The
rough theory, however, may be of inter-
est to our readers. Upon q sheet of
paper is spread layer of oily transfer
ink used by the ithographers, and over
that a THU: layer of a Photographic pre-
paration which the action of light readily
tion is then photographed and the mega
tive placed over the prepared sheet. The
action of the light, passing through the
unobstructed parts of the negative, de-
composes the surface of the sheet, and
leaves the image in sort of bas-relief.
The other portions are then removal,
and the sheet laid over one of the porous
stones used by the photographers. and
subjected to pressure. The oleaginous
ink sinks into the stone, and makes, in
oil, as it were, the outlines of the de-
sired picture. The stone is now sponged
with water, and is ready for printing.
The ink-roller of the press passes over
it, leaving no trace whatever on the clean
portions of the surface, but coating every
place where the o1eaginous transfer ink
has touched, and printing the picture
upon the sheet of paper that follows.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Austria-The Cause of the Financial
Panic

A Vienna letter thus tells what the
mania for wild speculation has done In
the Austrian capital. Will Americans
heed the warming -?
"Many old, respectable banking
houses have gone on the list of bank
rupts along with the crowd of mushroom
concerns which sprang up under the in
huence of the mania for speculation that
has prevailed during the past year. In
the great crisis of 1859 the total loss oc-
casioned by the fall of stocks quoted on
the Bourse amounted to twenty-five mil
lion FORMS Already it has exceeded ten
times that amount. The chief sufferers
are now speculative banks and numerous
building companies. Hundreds of bub-
BILE companies were organized, and their
stock was snatched up at prices absurdly
inconsistent with the prospects of the
profit they offered. Almost every day
saw new banks organized with mythical
capital, whose stock was palmed off on
the credulous public by the influence of
the names of a few barons and counts
upon the lists of directors, and by the
putting of subsidized newspapers. The
building companies outnumbered the
banks, and were about as unworthy of
trust. They undertook everything, from
erecting monster hotels to putting up
soda water pavilions. Cotton and woolen
factories, iron works, breweries, mills,
| etc., were built without any regard to
the demand that existed for their pro-
ducts, and the speculative fever iduced
people to buy stock not as an invest
ment, but in the hope that the next day
somebody would give higher price for
it. Hundreds of costly buildings have
been erected in Vienna by these build
ing companies in a style of elegance be-
! fore unknown"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Items of Public Importance.

The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. is making energetic preparationsfor
assuming, on the Doth inst, the duties
heretofore discharged by district asses
sors In relation to assessing taxes on dis
titled spirits and tobacco, the banking
tax and the tax upon legacies and sue
cessions. 1t is already apparent that
the complete knowledge and control of
the brewing, distilling and tobacco man.
ufacturing business obtained by the
Commissioner through the Capitalization
of affairs in his office will result in large
additions to the revenue derived from
these sources.
I'm answer to an inquiry from the Sur
yeyor of Customs of a Western port of
entry, the Secretary of the Treasury
decides that the law and regulations al
low an agent or attorney to make an
entry of imported goods for an import
er and give bond for the production OF
owners oath, only in case of the sick
ness or absence from the port of such
owner or consignee, and then only in
case due power of attorney is fled
therefor. This decision is of general
interest and Importance.
Next September we are to receive
from Great Britain the Alabama indem-
nifty. This period is rapidly approach
whole amount is to be paid in gold, in
Washington, on day named, the move
ment of so much coin is attracting at
tention as a circumstance very likely to
disturb the English market, which can
not be agitated without affecting our
own. It would be well for the managers
of our financial institutions to bear the
near approach of this payment in mind.
The Attorney General has just given
an important opinion to the effect that
the law to abolish the franking privilege
is not to be construed to prevent the
transmission of letters containing cur
rency for redemption. It is the wish of
! the Secretary of the Treasury that as
fast as fractional currency or legal ten
der becomes worn, it should be ex-
changed for new notes. The Govern
ment, on the payment of ordinary
| postage, permits all such letters to be
registered free to and from Washington,
that no one may have any excuse for
repudiating money. An adverse deci-
sion would cut off this privilege, now
availed of to large extent all over the
country.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
TON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873.
"Why, who else could it be?" said

"Why, who else could it be?" said
Tom, simply.
"Wen,h said mother, ST ought to
have remembered you never did anything
like anybody else. But, still, why In
the world did you go to work in such a
roundabout way ?"
''I wanted to see how you took to my
idea," said Tom.
'sAnd how did you suppose we were
to guess your idea meant May ?' mother
asked.
"Who else could it be?" repeated
Tom, falling back on what he evidently
found an unanswerable argument. 1t
was no use talking to him. Mother
gave it up with q shake of the head.
"And you won't want another house
then, Aunt Anne?" said Tom, sudden
ly. That set mother off again Tom
joined with her, and altogether don't
think we ever passed a. lperrier evening
than the one that made us acquainted
with Toms wife.-Kate Putnam OS-
good, in A2ozoletoes' Journal.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
Foreign.

ME1ssoNNIER has sold a picture on
which he is still engaged, entitled
"Charge des Cuirassiers, for 300, 900
francs.
A TRAVELLER says that in Spain UNI
brellas differ in size from an ordinary
dinner-plate to a small tent, and their
colors are as various as the tints of the
rainbow.
BISMARCK is o great consumer of lager
beer, introducing it into his dwelling
house in small kegs, which are on tap
at all hours of the day and night, and
on all occasions.
THE neatest and prettiest passenger
boats one sees abroad are those sailing
up and down the Clyde from Glasgow.
They are magnifcently fitted up, swift,
and in summer crowded to the waters
edge.
THE grand prize of $4,000 francs for
the most useful French industry has
been awarded to M. Pasterlr for the i'm
provements he has introduced into the
manufactures of silk, wine, vinegar, and
beer.
Is NAPOLEON dead? A correspondent
of the Prris Figaro says no, and that
the person inferred at Chiselhurst is a
counterfeit Emperor, While the real
Bonaparte is travelling quietly through
France, testing the political feelings of
the people.
A LONDON reporter, finding the tele-
graph Office door closed and the porter
asleep, while the operator was at work
beyond hearing the knocker, in an upper
story, procured entrance by telegraph
ing from another office to a clerk ia
Glasgow, who in turn sent the message
back to London. The double process
occupied but very few minutes.
CoNsTANTINoPLE is to have, for the
first time under Moslem rule, a public
exhibition of paintings, in disregard of
the fanatical scruples which have so
long forbidden the Turks to tolerate the
representation of the human form by
brush or chisel. The Turkish painter,
Ahmed Efendi, initiated the movement,
with hearty support from the Govern
ment.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
4 SPIRITUAL soNe.
BY GEORGE MAcnoNAnD.


Weep I must-my heart runs over;
Would he once himself discover
Only once from far awayI
Holy SORROW still prevailing
Is the weeping, is the wailing:
Would here were turned to clayI
Eyermore see him crying,
Ever praying, ever dying;
Will this heart unending beat?
VIII my eyes in death close never?
Weeping all into q river
We're a blessedness too sweet
Is there none with me lamenting?
Dies his name in echoes fainting?
Is the peopled world struck dead? :?
Shall / from his eyes, all never
Drink love and life forever?
Is he now and always dead
Dead What means it-sound of dolors I
Tell me then, pray, ye scholars
What imports the symbol dim.
He is dumb, and all turn fro me;
No one on the earth can show me
Where my heart might look for him.
Earth no more while I am in it
Can provide one happy minute;
All is but dream of woe.
/, too, am with him departed:
Would lay with him still-hearted
In the region down below!
Hear, oh, hear, his and my Father!
Speedily my dead bones gather
Unto his-oh, soon, pray!
Grass will soon his low mound cover
And the wind will wander over,
And the form will fade away.
If his love they but perceived,
Suddenly had all believed,
Letting all things else go by;
Lord of love him only owning,
All with me would fall bemoaning,
And in bitter weeping die.