The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-10

THERE does not at present seem to be
a notable prediction for military life in
the ranks of our regular army. Accord
ing to recent report from army head
quarters, over 1,7QO men have deserted
within the last ten months, being pro-
portion of in IL
IT is stated by New York paper that
the couple married in balloon to ad-
vertise Barnum's show didn't live to-
gether three weeks. He boxed her ears,
he auburn-haired bride broke his nose,
and the theory of the eastern current is
still unsolved.
z The Indianapolis Sentinel is the
happy defendant in two libel suits, dam
ages being laid in each at the respectable
sum of $4,000. The suits are based
upon the publication by the Sentinel of
certain alleged facts which came to light
in the course of an investigation into the
management of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum.
HENRY G. STRATToN, formerly Post
master at MoorestoD, N. j., who was
sentenced in the United States District
Court to pay fine of $1,000 for unlaw-
ully OBTAINING and opening letters, ap-
peared before the United States Com
missioner for that district, the other day,
and took the necessary obligation that
he was not worth the required amount,
and therefore could not pay it. In ac-
cordance with the act of 1874 In such
cases, Stratton was therefore discharged.
1t is a striking comment on our Con-
gressional enactments for the benefit of
the postal service, that after the LIST of
July newspaper can be sent from
Brooklyn to Constantinople for two cents
which would require four cents to carry
it from Brooklyn TO New York. The
rate of postage on newspapers sent
abroad after July 1 will be two cents on
papers that do not weigh more than four
ounces, while at home the rate is one
cent on every ounce.
CARRUTH, the Vineland editor, has SO
far recovered that he is now able to walk,
and he Will doubtless resume his edi-
--torial ,labors before very long. An ounce
of lead is still situated somewhere in his
head, and its influence upon his literary
style Will be watched with some interest.
His recovery Will establish the fact that
lead in the brain of an editor is not neces-
sarily fatal, and hereafter when aggrieved
individuals desire to assassipate editors
they will remember the story of Carruth,
and, instead of foolshly shooting their
victims in the head, they will aim their
ayenging pistols at scme vital part of the
editorial frame.
The reports from the West do not
confirm the apprehensions which were
at first excited by the reappearance of
the grasshopper pest. 1t now appears
that the pests are not generally distrib-
uted over any considerable section of
territory, but are to be found here and
there only, with wide intervals untouched
between their different Matching places.
In many counties in Western Missouri
and Eastern Kansas they have rayaged a
few farmers only. In other counties a
few sections of land will be found to
have suffered. Nowhere, it seems, have
the ravages of the pests extended over
any whole county, and in only very
few cases has general destruction OF
crops been visited upon any entire town
ship. 1t appears that the eggs were de-
posted and the insects Matched out
upon small tracts, rarely ever more than
few acres in place; that the young
grasshoppers, while wingless, do not
travel far from their matching places,
and that as soon as their wings are de-
yeloped they leave in general easterly
direction.
The list of steamers which have gone
down by fire, or wreck, Or explosion,
since the beginning of the present yeal
= is simply appalling. an average, 6
steamer has been destroyed every week
since the LIST of January, involving an
average loss of forty lives. Here is the
frightful catalogue Jan. 4, steamer
blown up on the Tyne, 10 lost Jan. L.
steamer Cortes, sunk in the Bay of Bis
cay, 26 lost; Jan. 13, British steamer
Bride, sunk, 20 lost; Jan. IA, steamer
Alice, from Cardiff to Constantinople, q
lost; steamer Berar, from Odessa t.
Cardiff, 20 lost Jan. 90, steamer Thor
nabia, from Cardiff to Bombay, 20 lost
Jan. %, steamer Mongal, near Hong
Kong, 6 lost; Jan. 26, steamer Lochna
gar, from Aberdeen to Calcutta, 16 lost
Jan. 80, steamer George Batters, from
Porthcawl to Gibraltar, 81 lost; Feb. 16
steamer Berlin, off the Japanese coast
80 lost Feb. 26, steamer Hong Kong
from London to Japan, II lost steame
Vicksburg, at Fire Island, lost Marc
3, steamer Gutenberg, off the Australia
coast, 166 lost; March II, steamer r. B
Hart, at the foot of Island No. 1O2, Mis-
sissippi river, 16 lost; towboat R. A
Babbage, near Cairo, 8 lost March 1G
steamer William J. Lewis, at Chester
ILL.,, 5 lost March 25, steamer Ruby, i
Puget Sound, 10 lost March 26, steame
Lizzie Rea, on the Mississippi, lost
April 4, steamer Flu Sing, 80 lost Apr
81, three steamers burned at New Oh
leans, rs lost May 3, steamer st. Luke