St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-10-21
! was incorporated IN the winter of IS IS g

y was Incorporated in the winter Of '65 ST.
Ihe Laid5 Sssice was removed in April So, from
.oauk hap1dss, 70 Upper town. The post office
y IN Town, which is inhabited by in
d lsI and Hell-to.do German Catholics
4 lie Catholic chapel is here, and the bell be-
longing e II, is the first church going bell in
q and las also the distinction Of
being the first audible ii shcrburne and Benton
counties which corner on the opposite eide OF
tue river. There too is d school kept by q com
|pany Of Benedictine Nuns where music, draw
Inn, needlework and German are we'll taught
by ladies OF polished manners and unusual
proficiency.
Lower Town has two protestant churches, in
process OF erection one, about completed. We
nave public school in the Everett School
house, and handsome Library dedicated by
hon. Edward Everett. The engines Of IN ex-
ceilent saw mill and planning mill, sash facto-
ry and Of good Touring mill are this mo-
ment putting away within half dozen rods Of
our office. We have from fye to six steam boat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest proper
ton o. drones we have ever seen in any hive.
In the tall OF So Grasshoppefs came in a
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops. They deposited their larvae and died.
Early III the spring of 81 the young brood
came out and made such havoc that serious
fears OF famine were entertained by & large
portion Of the people but they left in July, and
SO many CT the late crops survived, thai with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was q large amount Of
food. In autumn it became a question whether
| there was enough for winter consumption with
what the people had the means Of purchasing
from below. The German settlers were eener-
ally Of the opinion that there was not, and the
Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower st. Cloud Indignation meetings we're
held. and strong resolutions passed condemn
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, and
one calculated to do the country great injury
by preventing emigration in the spring. The
Correctness of this view of the case is now Prov
en-. The third week Of May is here, potatoes
sell at Is cts. per bushel, corn 81 90, wheat
,25, oats 80 cts. and we have heard of no in
stance in which any have suffered for want Of
food; while 9 very large proportion OF Che en-
igrants who had last year designed cmigrating
to this point have been deferred by this bug
bear cry Of famine, and have gone elsewhere.
The time is now past at which the Grasshoppers
appeared last spring, and the minds Of the
people are set on rest as the question cf wheth-
er they left lavae, last year, before thew emf
grated It is evident that they went to other
localities as they came here to eat, deposite
their eggs and die. There is no sign that they
have LETT any deposits here, and as everybody
IS putting IN q crop of something good to eat
we expect next fall to be encumbered with a
surplus Of the good things of this life, and to
inundatc st. Anthony, Minneapolis and St.
Paul. with vegetables and grain after supply
ing the Pine regions and the laborers on the
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