St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-10
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yane Gray swisshelm, Editor
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Many who have known lis as settled
\ for LII, at Swissvale, with our life work
before ~, in editing the paper we
had established, will think II strange
to hear Of lis now ON the confines Of
, civilization. That We may not lose
whatever little reputation for sanity
we may have enjoyed, It is necessary
to say, that early in the fall OF SO
cur strength utterly and suddenly
failed. TIE editorial half written
4for the next weeks Visiter, could
never be finished, fox hand and brain
were numb. This sudden and unex-
planned withdrawal from outpost was
unjust and injurious to the gentleman
then proprietor Of the pittsburg Visi-
ter; but we had labored under great
disadvantages in residing eight miles
srcm the city, and beng encountered
with the full amount Of domestic
cares and anxioties which usually fall
70 the lc* Of women. Every year had
added to our inability to give anything
%to, - h
rial work :; and when at last we could
do nc more, there was no reason to
assign, and none why we should not
die except for the sake Of one who
would nestle in our bosom even while
she sobbad, ." Mother, your bones
DC hurt me SO :" 49, ST.. -E.5>:., s.a
That would not do; and last
Spring we got up out Of bed, made
what preparations we could and came
10 the only near relatives we have.
living; sister and her family who
had emigrated to this place, hoping
the change would be beneficial. A.
We arrived here in the latter part
Of June and found the grassIoppers
busily engaged in destroying the
crops SO far as could be heard from
they had finished up the wheat, the
Strawberries and young fruit trees,
garden vegetables they had taken up
roots and all, ana had left but little Of
corn and potatoes. They were still
at work and the question was, 'swhen
will they stop2'' -. r. -
Early in the Autumn previous they
had come in one might settling upon
ths prairies like a shower of hail;
stripping many Of the gardens in AN
hour and utterly destroying the crops
then standing. These had deposited
their larvae and died, and it was the
young brood that was now at work.
Would they emigrate, and how soon :?
WAS now the question; and one that
was answered early in july, when
for ten days or more, millions Of Sill
very wings, going with the wind, dar~
kened the air like an April snow
storm. t%t.% .&f @: &.&r {;
During all this period Of anxiety
ana prospect Of famine, it occ urred
70 us that the peopls had a very
CHEEKY way Of submitting to circ,u11m-
stances, not solemn face rs be seen,
or a lamentation to be heand.. Folks
looked at the black, warn" soil and
nodded their heads, knowingly. as
much as to say, g Well, the grasshop-
Iers are in luck this time; bat it will
wv wv" s"'a 'hoAs' u BfdE.*' esseI$"
:. Their cheerfu]neys was rewarded,
for after the pests left, the late crops
in most: places revived, and Yielded
abundantly, and all that sowed root
+: crops after thsy:left, reaped plenteous
rewards. Some few localities lad
not been visited at all by the mi Il: !;
tory horde, and in the county there j.
AZ abundance of corn ~ potatoes taii.
Dps r., psets and squasl,es, to supply
the wants Of man and: bea;t,' while
some faw persons have good crops oos''
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