The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-09-04
benton County.

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Of ths Front srDAn--y sd,esion ccp,ips Fire AZ
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csfrsspeni@no, Of tie floas.r and Denpsrat
SACk RAPIps, August 20 1886.
The curse Of Utah. and "al the region round
about Salt Lake, ia upon US ; not the Mormon
ism. but the grasshoppers. They have come
down upon ~ like hail-stoncs, and when they
advented On ,s they came "a Of a Sudden,
like clap Of thunder in clear sky. We had
no intimation Of their approach and had only
u exclaim, one line morning alter most wei
come and refreshing shower, IN the language Of
Delilsh to Sampson, The Philistines are upon
US" as Shakespeare says They Eat every thing
that is green, and all vegetation caves in before
their devastating march. They have made sad
havoc with the wheat fields and potatoes-
which have suffered some from drought-haye
submitted TO another calamity, and have al
lowed the "pestilence which walketh at noon
day" TO ride roughshod over them and denude
them OF their fair proportion They eat
you ever "hearn tell Of = and ~ for oats, if
yon could only see how they take them down
you would think think that every grasshopher
was knce,jumper regular snorting brcechy
iropshod horse. The people, in selfdefence
and for cat preservation. have 10 NOV their
crops and cock them up like hay and they
work at nightly moonlight alone" or in
squads, just IA they can make il most couven-
,..st L...xs
destoyed 1t, except IN bottoms, where 1t grows
80 thick and heavy that they cannot destroy il,
and even there they have left their card 1t
seems to me that the prediction Of Scripture in
regard TO locus,s that they shall destroy every
green thing is about to lie fulfilled and
would advise you--if you have enough Of the
| milk OF human kindness IN your bosom 10 i'm
pei you 10 love your "feller critters" to warn
the know nothngs and black republicans to
| get out OF the way, as our old friend, Mr.
DAsIEL TICKER, has been advised for several
years past Ill was run over by the smokolo
| tive bullgine on a railroad track, az you well
know, and it is possible that they may he eaten
| Up ~ 'ke srasshoppeTs. Sase them It you
can, until November there will he u frost then
| that will kill them and the grasshoppers too,
and serve asa caution to somc other insects
besides.
! suppose you have read in the F,onf,ernan
about the awful necessity OF that valuable,
most interesting ind highly respectable news
paper being stepped in lis publication tor two
weeks. Well nobody "kecrs" whether you
have or not. will tell you the whole story,
and then you may Judge whether the statement
OF the proprietor" Of that dclcctable print is
true or not The proprietor" comes out over
1 90. A
and tries to excuse himself for the non-appear-
ance Of his paper for the last two weeks" by
saying that the forms ON the imposing stone
were broken up and thrown into PIE !" but
whether it was mincc pie, pumpkin pie, cus,ard
pie apple pie, or pot pie or meal pie, he says
not. Judge, however, from what little know
Of printing Office, that it was nieiee pr
What pity il is that man protesting 10 be
proprietor OF a newspaper should not know
to spell pr Docs he think that printers are
sugar candy dealers and restaurant keepers =
Well you don't Know what he thinks So no
more Of that.
The proprietor" OF the Foaomui goes
on with whole column OF apology" and
charges Mr. DAVID GILMAN, Of Watab. with
the crime Of throwing the forms into p,. MIR.
Gilman called 10 SCI the proprietor for the
.
Fronfisrnadn. and he waited some time. Fl
nally the foreman went away 10 dinner, and was
gone so long that Mr.. GILMAN locked up the
place and went away with the key. That is
all there is ab0nt it, so far as Mr. GILuAx is
concerned A person may walk into the Office
at amy time without much force and do wha,
is charged on Mr., GILMAN by the proprietor
Of the aforementioned most Interesting hebd0-
! a MI Ia hot a., A.,
well known in St. Paul, in Washington county
ard in oil parts of the Territory by settlers
who have resided in the regions msn,ioned Tor
the last eight years, is guilty OF the act, il Il
most unjust aud outrageous accusation.
The "proprietor" knows that Mr.. GILMAN is
one Of the most upright, honest generous. hon.
orablc, goodhcar,ed and charitable meE in the
whole Of Minnesota or elsewhere. and yet TO
eclipse WArAB he condescends 10 deame him.
The renewal OF the county seat is attributed to
Mr.. GILMAN. and TO abuse him tor the missing
numbers OF the Frontermdn for two whole
weeks is all very well, but how does it sound. "
when that same paper has been suspended here.
tofore, last winter and spring for three four or
five weeks, under the pretence that no paper
could be obtained TO print it on. The ofice
was not in pi then; ard | remember another
thing that in its opposition to Henry NJ. RIcE
that paper made its appearance regularly,
whilst good Democrats were fighting against
its mighty influence" There was no want OF
paper then: and now when the proprietor"
secs fit TO suspend the canse ia charged on the
misconduct Of one Of the best men that can he
found anywhere. Fifty.,wo numbers consti.
tn,e volume OF weekly paper bat I think
that less than iorty Of the FronherIqan have
been issued during the pas, year. Cause:
great economy, at the expense Of subscribers.
HE>Ry NJ RIcv, fifty dollars
soon as get through with the GILMAN part OF
the "proprietors' story This "proprietor"
says that he (GnNAS) g@ a sevtre blow on
the head while engaged in dsgracefhl row at
81. Cloud on the evening Of the Fourth, in
which young BEcNEs MAS killed and 81 on.
! True, he received blow mot g3 III on the
head while engaged rs peace officer in the
aforesaid row. but the person who struck him
was Immediately choked down by that same
Mr.. GusAS, and order was restored by his ex-
ertions; be being the deputy ior this district Of
our highly es,ecmsd L. :. Marshal. NJ. W. In
WIN. ESP II was on this account thai he was
engag,,d IN the "disgnoeful row to preserve
order in his district. as . god citizen and
public oGficsr. as all the testimony Of witnesses
on the examination OF the person who was mp-
posed 10 have killed BacKxR plainly shows
What malice. theu, is exhibited in this attempt
to Disgrace All houorable man who has q family
growing mp aboat him to inherit the infamy
that may be iastensd on him by such s,dsslong
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