The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-05

there have decided to withdraw their
agencies. Fires are said to be of almost
nightly occurrence.
BALTIMORE is excited over the mar
riage in that city of a scion of English
nobility to colored woman. The Bal
timore papers set up the bridegroom as
o direct descendant of the Plantagenet
family of England, and that at one time
he stood first-late chance of ascending
the British throne.
The permanent agency for the five
civilized tribes has been finally located
at Muskogee, Indian Territory, by
Major ingalls,, United, States Indian
Agent. A building will be Immediately
erected, to cost $4,000, and model
farm in connection Herewith will be laid
out and put under cultivation to Illus
trato to the Indians how modern farming
operations should be conducted.
THE Worcester Spy gratifies the peo.
pie of Massachusetts with the announce
ment that they are more heavily taxed
than the people of any other State in the
Union. The State and municipal taxes
for the current year amount to $17.10
for each each individual of the popula-
ton, while each New Yorker pays only
$11.O6, and the fortunate dweller In the
sparsely settled State of Texas only
$1.37.
The system of direct importation of
foreign goods to interior citi IS is having
its effect on the commerce of the port of
New YORK. New York's imports of
merchandise for the fiscal year ending
with June 80 were 1856, ,OOO, 900, against
S376, ,OOO, 900 in 1874 and s413, ,OO0, 600 in
1878. The exports of merchandise were
$262, 900, 900, against $3O4, 600, 600 in
1874 and $27O,OOO,OO in 1873. The
total volume of trade has therefore de-
creased over $60, ZOO, 600 in one year.
Col. GmDERsLEEyE seems to have
thought it necessary to dissipate the i'm
preston that this country was ''a land of
rifemen." 1t was only the day after the
Dollymount contest that az Irish paper
spoke of us as ga nation of forty mill
ions, who are familiar with the rifle from
their cradle;" and no doubt it was sin
cere in thinking that our infants went to
Central Park with Remingtons slung to
their backs for fear of Indians, and that
hotel sojourners in New York could have
for breakfast the buffalo they had shot
about sunrise.
The point to which gold has fallen,
during the last few days, gives the
Treasury officials at Washington more
confidence in the practicability of en-
forcing the law for the substitution of
silver for fractional currency. If gold
can be long maintained at this point,
they hold that greenbacks are worth as
much as gold, and silver coin can be
foated. The plan of the Treasury is, in
the event that the gold premium shall
warrant it, to put in circulation about
October the very considerable amount of
silver coin already on hand, and which
can easily be coined, and to keep it
floating by the monthly coinages.
The Illinois railroad companies have
surrendered to the ticket scalpers, the
melancholy conclusion having been
forced upon them that the law passed
last winter to break up the scalpers'
business was unconstitutional. The
public are interested in this matter to q
large extent, and they will not regret
that the inalienable right to sell mer-
chandise should receive this striking
illustration. At the same time they will
as heartily rejoice at the punishment OF
any ticket-scalper who shall purchase
stolen tickets as they would in the case
of the keeper of any common fence.
house.
LAST spring Prof. Riley, of Missouri,
one of the most slillful entomologists il
the world, studied the physiology and
habits of the locust, observed the nature
of its parasitic foes, and then predicted
that most of the grasshoppers would per
ish long before harvest, and that the
survivors would emigrate to some dis
tant field. The prediction has bee1
fully verified. The locusts that survived
the climate and the attacks of the insec
world took wing and vanished from al
the counties where they had found foot
hold, "toward. the Rocky Mountains
through the Montana wind-gap and t
the northwest passage, perhaps. II
may attack the Alaskan banana crop, bu
it is hoped that h will whet his bea.
against the volatile iceberg of the north
and become another victim to Arctic e1
ploration. He will doubtless be TO
lowed with mingled gratitude and sc
icitude by all the inhabitants of th
State.
PROF. FRANCIS A. WALKER, Superb
tendent of the Census, in his Statist
cal Atlas of the United States," Just pul
lished, gives an interesting picture ,
the way in which the center of popul
ton has shifted since 1890. 1t was the
near Washington. In1SOOit had move
few miles west, and the merest trihe
the south. By 1910, its westward WI
lad been DETECTED little more towal
the south. In 1920, it had shifted
great distance to the west. In 1880,
was nearly in the longitude of Pittsbur
and at the most southern point it b
aver toucbad Since then If hoe o,.o Il