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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
FIndIne Gold br Accident.


Gold as rule, is the last thing you
will see in gold bearing soil. You
may have ID under your feet at the rate
Of 500 to the bucketful of dirt. and
not grain will you see, urless that
soil happens to be fnrrowed by re.
cent rain. Then IL a stream OF water
has cut it away, washing it clean to
the ledge, you may see lying thereon
the dull yellow bits, and you may take
them for bits, and you may take them
for bits of brass filing. Gold in its
native state is not a snowy metal, not
near as snowy as the glittering yellow
ish pyrites of iron which so often by
the inexperienced has been mistaken
for the genuine ore.
A man long out of luck, strolled one
morning in an aimless mood of mind
out of the town of Columbia, Tuolumne
county. He sat down under a tree
and with his stick commenced poking
and prying at rusty looking boulder
in the soil before him. As he con-
tinued to poke and pry dull yellowish
bit of color appeared beneath the
coating of reddish rust with which the
lump was covered-rust accumulated
during its long rest from the iron
permeated soil. He examined more
closely, and found himself in posses
sion of q nugget, nearly all gold, and
worth about $4,000. ..t .-..l
The strikes which came under my
observation were all the result of
similar aecidents-as at Chambers
Bar on the Tuolume, where the SEEM
ing misfortune of breaking reservoir
led to q rush of water over ground
where no gold was supposed TO be,
and in the deep furrow cut by the
water, there on the ledge lay course
gold; as on the Mariposa trail. where
one day luckless man. packing grub
and blankets, sat on a bit of white,
Jagged rock to eat his dinner, and
after eating and while smoking he
idly pried with his jack knife bits from
the rotten ledge and found one of the
richest quartz veins in the state; as at
the Rawhide Ranch claim in Tuolumne,
where the long continued winter rains
of 1862 (ifty-nine consecutive days
of drizzle and hard showers, all the
level country under water, landslips
everywhere, communication cut on
with Stockton, and -four at $100 per
barreD-well this caused a cave of
dirt in a bank claim supposed to be
worked out, and revealed thousands
and thousands of dollars in course,
ragged Jumps, just as it had fallen out
of the rotted quartz matrix. A famous
professor came a few months after
ward, made survey of some ground
adjoining, pronounceditrich, pocketed
his 81, 500 fee, and on that ground and
on the strength of that survey certain
capitalists built expensive mining
works, aud when / passed by them
years afterward the squirrels and
woodpeckers only held possession, for
the professor could not see under
ground any better than anyone else.--
Jacksonville (FG.) Nea0s-HcrGld.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
The People See the. Point.

Happily the day of the monepelies is
over, During four years of control of
executive power the Democracy has given
back to the people a hundred million acres
of tho peoples lands misappropriated by
the monster corporations. The importa-
tion of cheap European contract labor has
been stopped, and that still moro fearful
scourge, the invasion of Asiatic labor, has
been brought to an end. The customs
laws, no longer administered for the ben
eft of few guilty partners of delinquent
officials, are executed with an even hand,
so that the honest merchant may continue
in trade without fear of the poorhouse.
That public Office is public trust has
ceased to be an aspiration and has become
o realization, and officials arc no longer
Cue masters, but have become the ser.
wants of the people. ...,
The voters of the United States, having
tried many things, will hold fast to that
which is good. They will command the
next congress and the reelected president
to 20 forward in the path of progress and
reform. They will have nothing to do
with the Republican reactionists or their
policy of reaction except to bury them
under an adverse majority so great that
no set of men will ever dare to make te
the American people propositions so un
constitutional, SO treasonable tothe spirit
of free and equal government as the Re-
| publicGns now propound - New York
| Star Ia.. $50 Hs.t 9r D.. lf|F.
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Grew a Beard After Death.

About thirteen years ago Hal Clay
ton, one of the best known gamblers
on the coast, died here of fever. He
was rich, and his remains were placed
in n costly metallic casket with a glass
case and consigned to a handsome
tomb. His wife, who was frantic with
grief, placed her diamonds on his
shirt-front The stones were valued
at $500. Fearful lest the gems would
be taken from the vault she placed Il
watch at the tomb, and it was main
tanned for many weeks. Clayton was
Southerner, and the body was dis
posed of after the Southern fashion.
above ground. t0i. ",t :. t.fa
A few days ago George Dobbs, who
has the care of the cemetery was pos
scssed with curiosity to visit Hal
Clayton's tomb, and, securing the keys
of the vault, took o look at the re-
mains. He was astonished to find that
Clayton's beard and moustache had
gro Nn under the glass case to such an
extent that they reached below his
knees. The beard was rich brown
color, extending in wavy masses over
the body and having perfectly
healthy appearance, as it might have
had on a living man. The beard had
been growing in this way for thirteen
years.
| Clayton had a romantic life. He was
engaged to handsome young girl in
the South and left her to seek his for
tune. She became tired of his absence
and, setting out to find him, drifted
homeless and friendless from one min
] ing came to another. After years oi
this life she met her former lover, but
was so changed by her wandering life
that he refused to, marry her. After
his Reputation of his old sweetheart
he became sick, and when lying a
deaths door she came to his bedside
and nursed him back to- health, Fillet
with gratitude at her devotion, he re
newed the affection Of his youth ant
married her. She proved devoted
wife, and when he died she built a
4 large expense the vault where his re
|iuains now lie, and in which his beart
has been growing all these years
Whether the diamonds are on his shir
front is not known, as the beard hide
the body from the knees up. -Carso'
4 (NeU.) Special, seI s-.ag3z. ,4al sir ,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
Rialn. Insnr... Thurman.

The afflicted patriarch Of UE,provvllsd
beyond endurance by the insinnations Of
the three ~comfofters.r exclaimed In his
anguish: "0h, that mine adversary had
written bookP Judge Thurman is away
ahead of Job in that particular. Several
of his adversariesa have written books,
and in mono Of them IN there anything
the Judge need fear to have Published.
All that speak of him are complimentary.
Many little adversaries have written, and
the great adversary, Blaine. of Maine, has
written q book called Twenty Years in
Congress-" and as he had no idea that
Judge Thurman would ever again be O
candidate, he was under no temptation to
tell anything but the exact truth And
this is what he said, volume u, page 441:
n HHis rank In the senate was established
from the day he took his seat, and was
never lowered during the period Of his
services. He was an admirably disci-
plined debater, was fair in his method of
statements, logical in his argument, honest
ln his conclusions. He had no trick in
discussion, no catch phrases to secure at
tention, but was always direct and manly.
His mind was not preeecupied and en-
crossed with political contests or with
h1AAlIC VI bbuOCs AA7 AlnSA LdbuLoA uA40
cultivated tastes outside of those fields.
he was a discriminating reader, and en-
-joyed not only serious books, but inclined
also to the lighter Indulgence of romance
and poetry. He was especially fond Of
the best French writer's. He loved Mo-
liere and Racine, and could quote with
rare enjoyment the humorous scenes de-
picted by Balzac. He took pleasure
in the drama, and was devoted to
music. In Washington he could
usually be found in the best seat
of the theater, when q good play was
to be presented or an opera was to be
given. These tastes illustrate the genial
side of his nature, and were fitting COM
plement to the stronger and sterner ele-
ments of the man. His retirement from
the senate was O serious loss to his party
"a loss, indeed, to the body. He left
behind him the respect of all with whom
he had been associated during his twelve
years of honorable service"
How it must hurt Brcr Blaine's feelings
now to read the attacks on the Judge by
Foraker g. Co. Judge Thurman retire
ment was "a loss, indeed, to the senate, u
so great loss that tho American people
are going to put him there again to pre-
side over. that body. Brer Blaine may
wipe his eyes; Judge Thurman will be
appropriately honored.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12

Foraker has begun war OH Mrs. Thur
man. She carried delicacies to rebel pris-
oners in war times. Her heart was
touched by sickness and suffering. She
did what she could to keep fair page in
history for the north, when things went
so cruelty at the south. For this Foraker
assails the venerable Mary Thurman,
with us much spirit as he rode out against
Frances Cleveland. The obiurgations OF
America delight Foraker: He hurries to
Chicago on o special train, proud Of his
latest decd of chivalry.
Mark NEEDLE also made hit by craving
kicks. In advancing to kick Foraker il
is cruel to Ingalls, to call Ingalls, o For
aker, yet it is still less merciful to For
aker to call Foraker an ingalls,.
When synonyms are so scarce, each Of
these Republican Stentors must bear with
The Herald. Chicago Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
~ The Argument Of Ignorance.

A Republican organ which can see ''no
man of great ability in, the Democratic
party and finds that organization ''piti-
ably weak in the mental .caliber Of it's
most conspicuous men as compared with
those of the other side, must be singu-
larly hard up for material with which to
fiatter the ignorance and vanity of the
groundlings Of party. The proposition
that all the intellect or all the virtue is
confined to one party. and that another
party comprising thirty-odd millions Of
citizens of this country has none, may be
believed by the ignorant negro field hands
who cast nearly all the. Republican votes
in fifteen states; but no Intelligent con-
traband" would stomach any such parti.
san rot st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12


b On certain occasion o gentleman
was relating To- a companion the sub
stance, of q newspaper, paragraph
which he had read, to the effect that
Foote, during trip through Scotland /,
had dropped into church in d sparse
" settled region, where the minister
was delivering d somewhat caustic
sermon to his people. In the course
of it he warned them with the, ut.
most earnestness against the, sin of ex-
travagance3 ins dress. s'.And there
wasn't, declared Foote, "a pair Of
stockings in the. whole congregation.
..How, could, he have expected to find
pair of stockings, when there was
but, one Foote thereg inquired the
listener.-Editor's DrGwer IN Harper's
ltsy y,y,;a,o bSld VS. q 5fta 1850 Z iasF T3ps
4nUgG~Hse., 4,s ,aatt4g AZ ,l.4ss,d MI, III,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
WHY nemncrnts ShonId Win.

The reasons why the Democratic party
should win the coming campaign :rc llu'
merens.- The party presents a ticket that
commands the respect and has the conii-
dence of the American people. The party
platform speaks in no uncertain words
for reform. The issue is made up and
the Democratic party is before the peo-
pie asking approval of its four years OF
service. The administration will go be-
fore the people with confidence born of
success asking an Endorsement. The re-
forms inaugrated and SO far as possible
carried to a. successful issue speak
loudly in f,uvor lof Grover Cleveland S
1876, through their leader, the late H..
mented statesman, Samuel j. Tilden,
promised the country reform in national
affairs which the present chief executive
has, with courage not always found 10
public men, carried out. The Democratic
party has proven to the country that
what it said in 1876 80 Sand has again
repeated in 18SS-was honestly said and
every word meant. To be recognized and
restored to power was asked by the Demo.
cratic party and Demoesatic rule for four
years has shown that the confidence thus
bestowed was not misplaced. @t.
The oil absorbing question before the
country is whether the people want -four
years more of prosperity, such as we have
nearly passed through, or q return to a
maladministration Of public affairs sucl
as disgraced the American republic fol
years prior to the present order Of things
There can be but one answer from tht
good Judgment of the people, and that
will be to let well enough alone. Til,
people know that but one party in til,
country can be trusted to carry ou
the demanded reforms 4 in the ex
isting unequal and oppressive wa
tariff, The people know that the Re
publican party created this war tariff
fostered it and refused TO remove its op
pressive burdens that bear heavily on /!
per cent. of the people. They know ever,
movement OH the part of the Democrat
to equalize taxation to the benefit of capi
tai and labor alike have met with tn
most persistent opposition from the Re
publicans in and out of congress. If til
Democratic party, with its manly, out
spoken and courageous reform policy, can
not win, then Il must accept defeat, bu
the good judgment of the American peopl
will sustain the party that has taken sue
q firm stand for equal rights for all.-
Cleveland Plain, Dealer. l.,, -
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
Grover ON Pensions.
HE GROWS INDIGNANT AT MRS
DoHERTY'S CLAIM.
He Objects 60 "Indiscriminate Aims
Giving" to the Old Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, July ga message
was received la the Senate from the
President, vetsing bill granting pen
sion to Mary Duherty. The message
states that a large share of the reports
of the Senate Committee on Pensions
adopted also by the House Committee)
consists of the petition in which the
woman says that her husband (who
had served in n New Jersey regiment)
left her in 1865, and has not been heard
of since. She had received u pension
as the widow of Daniel Doherty, until
il was discovered that he was alive and
living in Philadelphia, and was himself
drawing pension there. She had sue
eeeded in getting the pension i'm the
first instance by much false swearing.
The police records of Washington (her
residencel showed her to be woman
of bad character, having been arrested
nine times for drunkenness, larceny
and other misdemeanors.
Continuing the President says that
the theory seems to he established that
no man who had served in the army
could be the subject of death or i'm
paired health, except AS the result OF
army services, medical theories being
SET at naught. Even suicide was traced
devious and wonderfully curious ways
to service in the army, and the adjudi-
| cations Of the Pension bureau were
over-ruled in the most peremptory
fashion by special acts of Congress. He
would yield to no man in desire to
see those who had defended the Gov
ernmen liberally treated Unfriendli-
Il i
easily and sometimes dishonesty
made. The true soldier was good
citizen and would be satisfied with
generous, fair and equal treatment
The pension list of the republic should
be q roll of honor, not matter of i'll
discriminate aims giving. He had at
tempted to stem the tide of improvi-
dent pension enactments, but he still
felt share of responsibility in letting
too many of them become laws. .,
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A weak Nomination. !.

Gen. Harrison's nomination Is not in
any sense strong. He is lackiag in most
of the qualities which combine to, make O
great party leader and popular candidate
before the people. He has not been esl
pecially distinguished either in military
or civil life. Gen. Harrison cannot carry
Indiana and he cannot be elected. He is
identified with the cause of monopoly,
and in this campaign monopoly is going
to be defeated. The platfoiA adopted at
Chicagolis the most oatspoken, audacious
and aggressive declaration of the force OF
monopoly that any political partyin tht
United States has ever had the effrontery
to put forward. Standing on sneh q
platform, o far stronger candidate than
Gen. Harrison would be certain Of defeat.
His personality viii cut little figure in the
campaign outside Of Indiana. -Indianapo-
Lis Sentinel. sas,3 i 4; ,3,s,,s9 u Z;
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-12
To the Citizens Of Henryeo.


/ FAR what the eelebrated DR.. Mcfarland Gays
] about Lirsr diseases I'm Northwestern Ohio.
The liver is the largest gland OF the body and the
abrdt0Ty OF mans whole y STEM and is the primary
eanse Of more trouble in this climate than al elso
/, combined. 80 much has been said and so much
has been suffered, and many lives have been sac
riheed to the false practice Of overlooking the great
cause and doetoring It's many effects, such Rheu-
mAtism, Sick II Headache, Neuralgia, Dropsy, Heart
Disease and Constipation Costiveness, and stom-
Ach Diseases, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and many
effects arising irum q disordered condition of ihe
liver. And ret Il goes on every day. Well, DR.. how
can this be helped7 ! will tell you how: Cail at
Humphreys Drug Store, and buy for SfO0, which
s the price Of one call from your physician, enough
10 cure any case of liver complaint. Ask for Nc
FArlands Indian Pills. SO pills in each bo1.i Dose
pill al bedtime. Take them regular and you will
soon where you have been wasting your time
and money. They cure every time. Remember. all
the effects disappear we'll. Do not stand In your
own light, but go at before Il is too late. This
Is what they cure by regulating the liver: Sick
Headache. Nervous Headache, tOstiveness, Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia, Piles aud Stomach Diseases Of
all kinds Also, Heart Troubles, dyspepsia, Chflls
and Fever.
Druggists that keep them throughout the county:
Humphrey. Napoleon; ]. ]. Collins, Deshler, Long
& Tuttle, Florida. Agents: Henry Bortz, HOlgate;
Mrs. McCloud, Texas; Mrs. y. B. Right, Liberty
Center; S. +. Spangler, Malinta. II there is no
agents near you send TO the Dispensary of Dr.. R.
Mcfarland, Genoa, Ohio. Sent 10 all parts OF the
u S., upon receipt of price, by sender.
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AGnAssHorrEn rssaevB.
Teams stopped In the Road bs the In-
sects. f.H

IsantA Cruz sHrLl
Reports have been brought 90 this
city for some time from the country
about three and one-haif miles from
town, on the Ben LomOnd road, above
Cowell's lime-kiln, that grasshOppers
in large numbers were destroying the
products Of the soil in that vicinity
A Surf reporter had a lengthy eonver-
sation with A. G.. Rose, who has a
ranch there, and learned the following
particulars: The gsasshoppers Matched
out in Cowell's grazing land and made
their appearance in swarms about three
weeks ago. They then attacked the
grain fields and reduced the crops to
about one-half AS 1t is the custom of
the grasshoppers to attack one vegeta-
ton and then another, they went from
field to field, and, as most of the grain
is cut and dry, the devouring insects
have now attacked and are devouring
the pumpkin, corn and potato crops,
and from appearances will clean them
out. The suffering ranchers are afraid
that when these crops fail the grass
hoppers will attack the fruit trees, and
are preparing to put Paris green upon
them. At times the grasshoppers have
collected in such numbers on the road
that teams have been stopped by the
horses becoming scared at the swarm
ing OF the insects in front of them. Mr..
Ross has had ten acres of pumpkins
entirely cleaned away, and out of
about ten tons of hay he has only four
or five tons left. There is another
swarm on Thurber's petroleum grounds,
near Robert Majors place but, ms they
have NOT reached IL vet. and as the
grain is cut and nearly dry, no damage
is expected there.
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Deccptions by Dishonest spiritualists

Deccptions by Dishonest spiritualists.
One of the most successful forms of
deception consists in the exhibition of
spirit pictures" When these are not
produced by actual substitution, or
what is known to the profession as
"palming," chemistry lends IFS useful
aid to the perpetration of the fraud.
The well-known property of certain
cOlOrless salts to assume color. when
saturated with equally colorless solu-
tions of other salts, is often made use
of by the Spiritualistic fraternity. A
picture painted with solution
of the lead-acetate will immediately
become black when il is moist
ened with some fluid contain
ing sulphite. Silver salts, too, have
properties which are exceedingly curl
Gus, and photograph treated by a
mercuric solution, disappears, to re-
turn when moistened with solution OF
the iodide of potassium. Perhaps, one
of the most tiimsy impositions is that OF
spirit photography, two negatives being
taken. One of these contains an opaque
likeness which. by n very great stretch
Imagination upon the part of the credu-
lous individual, may be supposed to
resemble the face and figure of some
dead friend or relative, and the other
is a simple photograph of the sitter,
When these two negatives are super
imposed and the print is made, it will
be found that the result presents the
dim outline of a ghostlv figure lowering
above the living subject. With the
proper amount of sIeight-of-hand, this
trick may be made to deceive persons
who possess little or no knowledge o
chemistry or photography.-Dr. Altar
McLane Hamiltnn, in The American
Magazine for July p a..- .t,s.,...., a,
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The Beaver in Commerce.

A few days ago reference was made
to the danger threatening the beaver.
In Ontario the little animal is seldom
met with, and in Quebec the colonies
are few. The Northwest, however,
has favored the beaver until within
the last two or three years, during
which time such attacks have been
made upon them, owing to the demand
for the fur, that extinction is imminent.
We owe much to the beaver. At one
time the beaver skin was the currency
of Canada, and later on the hunting
of the beaver was the principal occu-
patton, and the export Of his skin the
principal commerce of the country.
It is almost laughable to read of the
peculiarities of the beaver business
couple of centuries ago. Every fourth
skin belonged to the King of France,
and no skin could be sold except to the
| firm authorized by the King to buy
and to collect his Majestys share of
the catch. The skins were sent to
France to be manufactured into hats;
but the manufacturers would only pay
for them in hats. Had the merchant
or middleman in Canada the right to
sell the hats in France he might have
made money; but he was only allowed
to sell them in Canada, where they were
not wanted, or in the West Indies,
where there was little demand for
them. The restrictions upon the busi-
ness brought about a crisis The mer-
lchant, unable to sell the hats, could
not buy the skins as bi,ey came in; and
the Canadians, unable to sell the skins,
Iwere in short time on the verge OF
staryation.-10 Toronto Mail. Yfaa, .a
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A Frislsx Foundation.

In the person of Benjamin Harrison the
Republican party has nominated the
grandson Of his grandfather. This is a
risky founda&ion on which to build pop
ular success i'm America. New York
Evening Sun. ,,,- ...sa.-,. .s.,