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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
SELLING OLD GOLD.
Suggestions for Those Who May Wish to
Dispose of Well Worn Jewelry, Etc.

Suggestions for Those Who May Wish to
Dispose of Well Worn Jewelry. Etc.
Many have occasion to dispose of old
art cles, or those no longer wanted, like
rings, watch chains and the like. With
honest dealers there is no trouble in get
ting their full value, which depends upon
the amount of pure gold they contain.
The particular form or shape, however
much regarded by the owner on account
of memories or associations, is seldom
of any value to the purchaser. unless
for rare specimens of bric-a-brac. Let
it be understood that very few articles
are ever made of pure gold. That
metal is too soft to wear well, and of too
pale a color to look well, for most pur-
poses. Our gold coins are alloyed with
one-tenth their weight of a mixture of
silver and copper. For manufactured
articles, certain percentage of other
metals is melted with gold. This per-
centage is reckoned in "Carats," or
"Karats." A Carat is one-twenty-
fourth. Thus, 18-carat gold means that
18-24ths of it, or 3-4ths, is pure
gold; II carat means 12-24ths, or one
udl Solu. AhC OCSo ouCh do
rings, bracelets, setting for stones,
More articles are made of 16 carat.
Most of common jewelry ranges be-
tween IA and 10 carat. Pure gold, and
alloys down to 10 carat, Will resist any
single acid, not being eaten or oxidized
by nitric acid (called aqufortis). A
mixture of nitric and muriatic acid will
dissolve pure gold, and any of its al
loys.
The 1s carat gold is a clear yellow;
16 carat has richer reddish yellow; IA
carat is shade between gold and cop
per. Lower grades take on a more
coppery hue, though none but experts
would decide against 10 carat; and as
nitric acid will not affect it, it passes
for gold. For service, ii to 16 carat is
good enough; for expense, or show, 18
carat. In buying gold articles, the pur-
chaser, if honest, makes close estimate
by the looks, by special gravity and acid
tests and pays fair price for the gold
contained. Sometimes he buys an ar
tcle to be paid for after assaying. An
ord nary price in this city is 4 cents per
pennyweight for each carat. CA penny
weight is "a grains.) Thus, if an old
chain weighs 10 pennyweights, and IS
estimated at 16 carat fine, it will sell for
by 16. or 81 cents per pennywe;ght,
and the 10 pcnnywe!ghts chain would
bring S6.40. If Il carat quality, it
would bring times IA, or Sc cents per
pennyweight; for II carat, 4S cents, and
for 10 carat, 40 cents per pennyweight
Gold is reckoned by Troy weight,
having 20 pennyweights to the ounce,
and y ounces of 4SQ grains each in the
pound (of $3.50 grains). The common
or avo rdupoi' pound contains 1000
grains or 16 ounces of 4374 grains each.
The Troy ounce is very nearly one
tenth heavier than the avoirdupois
ounce. An avoirdupois ounce contains
almost exactly 1SA pennnyweights Troy.
An avoirdupois pound is very trifle
over LIS Troy pound. Prairie Farmer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Liverpool Chamber of Commercs
has adopted a resolution denouncing tbs
Governments policy of giving contracts
for the carrying of mails to subsidized for
eign steamers. This action has particular
reference to the carrying of American
mails from Southampton by German
steamers.
The attempt to bring out Hungarian
miners to work the mines in the Northwest
Territory has failed. A number employed
in the Saskatchewan mines proved worth
less and Scotch and English miners had to
be sent for.
In letter approving of the erection of a
statue of Golden at Stockport, Mr.. John
Bright denies that free trade is imperiled,
and adds: "An American recently asked
me il it would be possible to return to pro-
lection in England. 1 replied, it is not i'm
possible but it will not come until the
United States restores slavery"
The Bulgarian Government, in reply to
the inquiry whether the election of the
Prince of Mingrelia as Prince of Bulgaria
would be acceptable, has notified the Porte
that his election would be incompatible
with the terms Of the treaty of Berlin, and
therefore Bulgaria would not accept him.
The jury in the case of Charles W. Adams
against his father-in-law, Lord Chief JUS
tice Coleridge, for libel and defamation,
returned verdict in favor Of the defend
ant on the ground of privileged communi-
cation.
A conference representing 400, 900 colliers,
held at Manchester, England few days
ago, passed resolutions limiting q days
labor in the mines to seven hours.
The loss of the bark Sara Anderson,
while on a voyage from Coquimbo for En-
gland, has been confirmed by advices re-
ceived at Valparaiso. The captain, his
wife and the crew were all lost
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
EATON. OHIO. THURsDA4. DECEMBER 2 1886.

The steamer Seneca Walker. from New
York, collided with the sloop William May
in the harbor at Norfolk, Va, on the 25th.
The sloop was sunk. No lives lost.
jefferson Bromley, who kept railroad
boarding house at Wichita, Kan, on the
25th shot his wife and then killed himself.
The woman may recover. The couple
were quite aged.
The work of appraising the infected cat
tie in the Chicago distillery sheds is pro-
crossing slowly. Up to the 26th the ap-
praisers had managed to get through with
$50 animals valued at s11 ,S44.
Francis Palms, one of the oldest ard
wealthiest citizens Of Detroit, Mich, died
on the oath. He leaves an estate valued at
s16,0Oo,OO0.
The Union Pacific railroad has completed
arrangements to establish weather serv-
ice over its entire system similar to that in
use by the Federal Government.
The British bark Drumadson was burned
on the 26th while lying in the harbor at
Galveston, Tex, and is a total loss The
crew had a narrow escape. Most of her
cargo, consisting of 1,7o0 bales of cotton,
was saved in a damaged condition.
At Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth Robert Hill
shot and killed his brother Tony, and then
placing the pistol to his own temple killed
himself. The trouble was caused by whisky.
F. b. Kortkamp's jewelry store at st.
Louis, was entered by burglars on the 26th,
who got away with about 5000 worth of
diamonds. watches, and gold and silver
ornaments.
Oklahoma, L T., advices state that the
excitement following the report of the dis
covery of gold in that country is increas-
ing. Aparty of prospectors has been out
for some weeks prospecting along the
streams Of the interior, and are well pleased
with the outlook. About 800 claims have
been staked out.
Three Russians living near Roscoe, D. T.,
recently found bottle by the roadside
and drank it. 1t proved to be aconite, and
all three died.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail.
road Company have settled about half the
damage claims growing out of the disaster
at East Rio, Wis, October 2S. The hus.
bands of Mrs. Scherer and Mrs. Johns, of
Winona, Mimi, have each received S., 900.
commercial traveller for New Yorl,
house has filed claim for the loss of new
trunk and four quarts of whisky.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
an express car on the Missouri Pacific rail
road few nights ago. While the train
was standing at a small station two men
entered the car, but were arrested by the
conductor and messenger.
The one thousand Cincinnati coopels
who recently struck for higher wages have
adjusted their difficulties with the manu-
facturers and are now at work.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02

hold the Administration responsible
for these local losses and for these set
backs is unfair. They declare that
Mr.. Cleveland has not concerned HIM
self with the petty details of politics,
but that he has been reasonably con-
siderate of the position, the power,
and. relatively speaking. of the rights
of politicians of large degree, whose
primacy in the leadership of the party
is attested by the results in contests of
large proportions, and by the consent
of large communities.
There is much to justify this con-
clusion. He who talks with men on
the street, at their places of business.
or on the avenues of travel, finds that
the President is highly respected, that
his honesty is admitted, that his firm
ness is appreciated, and that his
homely, direct, personal way of doing
things contrary to precedent and out
of routine, has commended him to the
people. as truly as it may have lost
him the regard of that limited and
superstitious class, the politicians by
profession.
The President certainly has a coign
of vantage in the Presidency itself
which is not to be lost sight of. His
Administration can not be regarded as
a failure without a confession of judg-
ment against the party itself. The in
clination of Democrats to succeed on
their own behalf must be made
synonymous with the effort to repre-
sent that the administration of their
own election has been successful also.
This does not mean that the party is
bound to the denomination of Mr..
Cleveland, or that Mr.. Cleveland is
bound to submit to a denomination and
to place his leisure and large portion
of his future at the further disposition
of the people, unless he shall so desire.
But it does mean that the party is in
good shape and that it is as able to
make the present Democratic Admins
tration an instrument in the perpetua-
ton of Democratic control of the offices
as it was to make the Jackson Admin
istration a factor in the election of the
Van Buren Administration and the
Pierce Administration factor in the
election of the Buchanan Administra-
ton.
There is no disposition among Demo-
cratic statesmen and politicians to an
tagonize the President LOW, or in 1886
to commit themselves to an unalter-
able programme for 1888. But there
is a realization of the collective strength
of the Democratic party, and there is,
so to speak, a reconsideration of the
lessons of the late election, which
strengthen and encourage the heart of
the party, and which correspondingly
depress the expectation and hope of its
adversaries.-George Hope, in Brook
| Inn EAGLE.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
LATER NEWS.

AT Reading, Pa, Frank Karner was
arrested for numbering his wife and burn
ing his residence to hide the crime.
Granville Brown, aged fourteen years,
was burned in a barn near Mt. Vernon. KY.
AT Lima, O., Fred Powell, pumper at
an oil well, was overcome by gas, and died
in short time.
AT midnight Saturday a man named
Coleman was tarred and feathered by citi-
zens of Corunna, Mich, for social irregu-
larites.
GEoRG HATzELL and Miss Sadie Allen,
of Buffalo, shot the rapids and whirlpool
in Niagara river, in torpedo-sf aped bar
rel, on the 2Sth. They were in the water
three-quarters of an hour and were taken
out on tho Canadian side just below tho
whirlpool, in good condition.
WILLIAM CossGRovE was killed and
John Vandling and Henry Park seriously
wounded in a colliery explosion at Forty
Fort, Pa.
GOVERNOR IRELAND, of Texas, states that
the reports of starvation in Northern Texas
are untrue, though want exists.
MICHAEL DAvITT, in a talk in Montreal,
called Rosa driveling idiot and McDer-
mott Thoroughbred villain.
EDWARD LEE, Chas Moore and 6. B. Lev
anger lost their lives in he Duluth elevator
fire. The total loss is estimated at SS65, 900,
and the insurance over 500, ,000
THE seven-year-old daughter of Louis
Rinker, of Miami County, Ind, swallowed
a teaspoonful of carbolic acid, mistaking z
| it for medicine and died
| AT Wabash, Ind, recently, Mrs. John
Sasher was granted a divorce shortly be-
fore dinner, and at p. m. was married to
Samson r. Smoke.
| A MEETING of stocknen was held at st.
Louis recently to protest against the new
oleomargarine law.
PAPERS have been filed at Milwaukee in
suit to determine the streng of titles to
one hundred and eighty acres in the heart
of Superior City, valued at SOD 0oo and
covered with costly improvements.
COLLISION between an engine and
freight train occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern road, near Anderson Station,
KY, Sunday. Ed. j. Drohan, engineer,
and John Maher, q boy, were instantly
killed and Frank Lockwood, engineer of
the freight was seriously hurt.
| COLONEL Z. MCLAUGHLIN, OF Independ-
ence, Mo-, postal clerk, was killed, and
F. H. Beebe, also postal clerk, was fatally
injured in a raj road accident on the Mis-
souri, Pacific raj road, near Kansas City.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt at
Columbia, s. c., Sunday afternoon.
IS. S. II. CLARKE, formerly manager of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company, has
been elected successor t. the late III. NJ.
Hoxie, First Vice President of the Missouri
Pacific railroad
IT is proposed to use gas as fuel In the
Columbus steel mill, making 1t from uu.
msrshsntahls eesl slack
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
TRIBUTE TO HONESTY.

President C1eve1and's Fitting Reception
st the Hands of Harvard's Scholars.
Both Old and Young-Iustructive Words.
There was warmth and heartiness
about the greeting extended to Mr..
Cleveland in Boston that testified how
close and strong are the bonds that
unite him to the people. 1t was a spon-
taneous tribute to faithful official,
honest, straightforward public servant,
who places duty before every thing and
is staunch and true under all circum-
stances. In the oldest and most emil
nent university in America, surrounded
by the most distinguished representa-
tives of New England education and
culture, the Democratic President
was the recipient of honors and
courtesies of which any man
might be proud. From the reyered
president of Harvard down to the
youngest graduate, every one was
eager to testify his respect and ad-
miration for Mr.. Cleveland. While
much of this enthusiasm was owing to
the high Office of the distinguished
visitor, a very large proportion of it
was caused by the sterling qualities
which have characterized his public
career. The unvarying success of that
career, due to fidelity, high purpose
and earnestness. was an example to
the young men around him and a SUBJ
jcct of admiration to their elders and
professors. The occasion was one,
also, calculated to inspire the most
sluggish breast. Fair Harvard, young
and vigorous, ardent and ambitious,
after two hundred and fifty years of
life, was in her gaycst and brightest
mood. Around her gathered her chill
dren, among them men of world wide
fame, all filled with the same affec-
tionate feeling for their alma Mater.
10 her were offered the noblest tributes
that American lips could utter in Mr..
Lowelps grand oration and DR..
Holmes impressive poem. Most in
structive to the young graduates were
MIR. Cleveland's we'll considered words
on the duties of American citizenship.
After all it comes to this. the people of the
United States have one and all sacred mis-
sion to perform, and your President not mQ ore
surely than every other citizen who loves his
country must assume part of the response
bility of demonstrating to the world the sue
cess of popular government. No man can
hide his talent in u napkin and escape the
evade the stern sentence which his fathless
ness invites. In parting with YOU now let me
express the earnest hope that Harvard
alumni may O ways honor the venerable nsti-
tuition which has honored them, and that nc
man who fOrgetS or neglect5 his duty to
American citizenship shall find his alma Ma
ter here.
1t was day to be remembered in the
annals of Harvard and one worthy OF
the occasion and the distinguished as
semblage. And in the opinion of many
who attended the quarter millenial, the
brightest feature there was the pres.
ence of ''the handsomest Democrat in
America. ALBANY Arqus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
Rare Lolo Manuscripts.

Two interesting MaS. have lately
been presented to the British Museum
by MIR. Bourne, British Consul at Chung
king, in China. The larger of the two,
which fills seventy-three folios, is in the
Lolo character, and is written in poetry
of five characters to line. The smaller
one (thirteen folios) is in the writing of
the Shu:-kai, Shan tribe living in the
Southern portion of the province of
Kwei-chow. This is the first specimen
of the writing of this tribe which has
reached Europe. The characters are
plainly adaptations of contracted forms
of an early kind of Chinese writing, with
an admixture of pictorial signs. The
work is on divination. each sentence
ending with words of good or evil
augury.-N. Y. Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
important Testimony.

Call the next Witness" said the
Judge of court in Iowa. As he spoke.
q man took his place on the witness
stand. "Hold up your right hand"
s.But, /"
"Hold up your right hand, 1 tell
your
The oatn was administered.
..Now," sad his Honor, ''tell what
you know about this case"
.'Well, all got ter say am dat Gin
eral Podgers he hab got home, an he
send me ober ter 'vite ye ter dinner, an
nay fur We tsr be sbo' to come. fn' dem
.pcr-ribs ain es g;ttin' eeldF'-- Yoata's
Eampanfea,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
Would Cover too Much Space.

81 have an article which would like
you to publ sh. he said to the editor
ut is entitled What Some Journalistic
Don't Know about Journalism. ~ =
II am afraid, SIR replied the editor,
shaking his head, obviously. .tlsat its
necessarily great length wo,i,d crowd
out eli the .v,ttlssmt iix: ~ a. u
SsisA
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02

The doctors are falling into agree
ment that the excessive use of tea is
working great injury to its consumers
Tea is now set down as more deleter-
ious than coffee, especially when taken
hot. This being the case with good
tea, it is painful to think that the arti-
cle commonly sold and used is in quat-
ity far below that which our grand
mothers were wont 10 gossip ever. --
Philadelphia Record.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02

Those who take anodynes to pro-
mote sleep, instead Of procuring it by
moderate bod act vities in the OPEN
air, make dangerous experiments
Health iAontaia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
WAsNINoTON.

Colonel McCawley, of the Marine Corps,
in his annual report to the Secretary of the
Navy. says that the inspection OF the diff
ferent posts during the year has bsen satis-
factory. Tho corps now consists of 1,SS5
men and eighty officers.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the California National bank, of
San Francisco, to commence business with
capital of s2Oo0Oo
The annual report Of the Quartermaster
General OF the Army shows that during
the last fiscal year 10 now buildings were
erected at military posts and 236, 1S0 per-
sons and 100, 19f tons of freight transported
at the expense of the Government There
has been little complaint as to clothing
furnished for use in the army.
Nearly all Of the annual report of Com
mander W. T. Sampson, superintendent of
the United States Naval Academy, is de-
voted to an argument in support of Pro-
posed change in the academic course That
change. which he gives various reasons in
favor of it, Is that cadets should be assigned
to the different branches OF the service at
the end Of four years, instead of six, abol-
ishing the two years course at sea before
graduation as useless.
The annual report of W. s. Schley, Chief
OF the Bureau of Equipment and Recruits,
shows expenditures during the last fiscal
year of $S3, 900 less than the appropriation
He recommends that $4,000 bs appropri-
ated for improvements at Coasters Harbnr
Island, the headquarters of the training
service. and advises the construction of
two modern steam cruisers of 90 tons for
training purposes.
Nothing was known at the State Depart
ment in Washington on the 26th beyond
what has appeared in the newspapers with
regard to the reports from the City of Mex
leo. charging Minister Manning with grave
indiscretion. Not much Importance is at
tached to the reports which are believed to
be highly exaggerated.
1t is snid that no further action will be
taken by the Government in regard to the
suits against the Bell Telephone Company
until the decree of the Circuit Court at
Columbus o., shall be officially promulga-
ted, which will not be done until the court
reassembles December z
Correspondents between the Canadian
and United States authorities confirms the
report of a recent Indian massacre in the
Northwest.
Secretary Whitney has issued an order
for the discharge of all the employees in
the civil establishments of the Washington
navy yard, with the exception of fore
man and clerk for each department of
the yard.
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Confession and Restitution.

Most OF the contributions to the
conscience fund of the national
treasury are unaccompanied by the
name of the person making restitu-
ton or a statement of the fraud or
mistake by which the writer became
possessed of money which his con-
science will not let him keep. But
there are some exceptions, and the
letter of which the following is a copy,
received at the treasury not long ago,
enclosing q worn and much soiled ten
dollar bill, is one of them:
"GRIDLEY, GEoRGy, Febuery4.
Mister treasury, pleas take this ten
dolers it ID all | have got and / nave had it
a long time but I dont want it no more for
my old man said as how he had stole a
mule from the yankees just after the sur.
render and as how he reckin il mite be
stealth for the war wa done over with
and he did not have any rite to take moth
In from the yankees no more and SO I don't
want no stealth in my family and / reckin
the mule want wuth more than ten doiers
for it war a spawned old critter anyway
and | Amt got no more money your
umble servint
"AEN GRAY Hoes.
Up. S.-My old man died last week"
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came home, that she might see you
once more, but You werelong in com
ing, dear. Therel therel My poor
child, you must not give way like this
/ did not mean to reproach you"
From that day Esther has been a
changed girl. She didlovehermother,
but it was a sad thing that only her
mothers death could make her real
ize it. And now every Whit-Monday
is consecrate6 to her memory. With
the children, the mothers grave is WIS.,
tied and fragrant flowers laid upon it;
but flowers on the grave cast no fra
GRANGE backward over the years that
are gone. And with bowed head, in
her heart she cries, go mother! moth
er! would / had brought to you, while
you lived, all that my heart now offers
you of love and gratitude!".
And yet, at that grave there always
comes a feeling of rest andpeace to her
repentant, sorrowing heart. And she
goes forth once more to her home-du.
ties. earnestly striving to be all she
should be to the loved mes now de.
pendent upon her.
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who May Bear Arms.
From Che Dubuque Herald.

FIpln Tic bupu4uS LIcfatiAs
The United States Supreme Court
has rendered an elaborate opinion on
an interesting question OF demonstrations
al law never before passed by that
tribunal. 1t is on that amendment to
the constitution which declares "a
well regulated militia being necessary
to the security of a free State the right
OF a people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.v
TIE law of Illinois prohibits any
military organization except the State
militia, to parade in public without
license. The captain of a German
society that had paraded with arms
was tried and sentenced for q violation
OF this law. The prisoner raised and
carried to the United States Supreme
Court the objection that the statute
under which he had been convicted
was contrary to several provisions of
the federal constitution, and notably
that which guarantees to the people
the right to keep and bear arms.
The court sustains the law. 1t says:
Military organizations and military
drill and parade unier arms are sub
jects especially under the control of
the government of every country.
They cannot be claimed a. a right in
dependent of law. Under our politi-
cal system they are subject to the reg
ulation and control of the State and
Federal governments acting in due re-
gard to their respective prerogatives
and powers. The constitution and
laws ofthe United States will be search
ed in vain for any support to the view
that these rights are privileges and
immunities Of citizens Of the United
States independent Of some specific
legislation On the subject