Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-10

HABITS OF GRASSHOPPERa.--a UOiitu coTteo-
pendent of the Colorado Crexas) Citizen, gives
some curious facts in relation to the grasshOp-
pers which have recently swarmed in that region.
He says:
'grhey have an especial fondness for wheat
and cotton, but don't take 50 kindly for corn
The only vegetable they spare is the pumpkin.
4 The most deadly poisons have had no effect upon
them; fumes Of sulphur they rather like than
otherwise; mosquito nets they devOur greedily;
clothes hung out TO dry they esteem - rarityi
blankets aud gunny- bags they don't appear 70
fancy, They swim the broadest creeks IN safe
ty, sun themselves awhile, and then go On.--
THE whole mass appear to start and move at
the same time, travelling for an hour or two,
devouring everything in their way, and then
/ suddenly cease, and not move perhaps for
week, during which time no feeding is noticed;
and finally, they carefully avoid the sea-coast-
GREAT appprehensions are felt in the South
ern States that the coming summer will be
very sickIy one, and that the dreadful scourge
j ofthe yellow fever, from which the South was
so unusually exempt last summer, will return
with greater virulence than ever. THESE fears
/ are based upon the fact that the long continued
freshets at this particular time are likely to
breed febrile diseases.
The General Assembly Of Presbyterians, re-
Gently in session at Chicago, has decided by
vote Of 100 to 90, that divorces cannot be grant
ed unless adultery can be clearly shown; and
that any one marrying person divorced for
any other cause. is himself guilty of adultery
in moral view Ofthe case.
SERGEANT BERNEY, Of the New York Mayors
squad has returned home, after an absence OF
some two weeks, having been on tour through
several of the Eastern States, DISCRIMINATING
some seventeen lottery and gift concerns, which
have for long time been carrying on most
extensive business, realizing thousands oil dol
lars.
A gentleman who lately Travelled through the
Mohawk valley, N. Y, states that the farmers
of that region, instead of the Old-fashioned hg-
ure of ragged man with wooden gnn for a
searecrovy, now hang up hOoped skirts in their
cornfields, and the carrion birds are effectnaly
alarmed by this modern, fashionable eontri-
vance.
THE celebration of the completion of the East
tennessee and Virginia Railroad. at Greenyille,
Tenn. ON Thursday, passed off successfully
About 10, 900 persons were present Speeches
and dinner formed part Of the proceedings
grand ball took place at night.
DuRNo u hurricane IN Shenandoah county
Va, last week, the bridge over South River, on
the New Market and Sperrysville turnpike, val
ned at 81 ID. 900. was blown down. A wagon and
four horses went down with it, and one Of the
horses killed.
A reconciliation of the damage done by the
recent hail storm in the vicinity Of FredeFicks-
burg, Va, estimates the loss TO be $3.50, OOO.-
Over $50, 900 bushels of wheat " ere destroyed
in length of ten and within breadth Of three
miles.
The Brooklynites, n. T., continue not little
excited over the Miss Clegg abduction case. The
young lady is now staying with her mother,
while Mrs. Brown, the alleged procnress, has
been hound over to answeF any Indictment the
Grand Jury may find against her.
TnE Court in session at Eiyria, Ohio, last
week, granted five divorces, dismissed hve other
divorce cases without prejudice, continued
one, and passed three others to the heel OF the
docket.
TuE Episcopal Convention of Minnesota, after
n stormy session at St. Paul, has adjourned
without electing bishop, as a radical difference
of opinion seemed to exist between the lay and
clerical delegates.
THE Committee of Investigation in the Penn
sylvania Bank case, completely exOneTate ex-
Postmaster General Campbell from any Suspi-
cion of completely in the fraud alleged to have
attended the sale of the bank property.
A good country minister lately prayed fervent-
" for those OF his congregation who were too
proud TO kneel and too lazy to stand
WILLIAM BUKNs, while in the Mott street
Catholic Church, at New York, Sunday, receiy-
ing the sacrament fell to the floor corpse
SoME young ladies Of Providence have been
amusing themselves with tabLedur ViUdHs, rep
resenting Mrs Herbert IN her dlnereht Poih1s VI
her eccentric career.
LEWIS county, Va, on the oath ulr., was Wis
tied by a destructive freshet, sweeping every
thing before 1t. The damage sustained was
$4,000.
IT is said that So, 900 has been paid to citi-
zens Of Whately, Mass. this spring for tobacco
The farmers are preparing to raise more this
year than ever before.
a man named Jim, " died at New Orleans on
tho 2sth ult, from tie effect Of drinking six
teen glasses of gin, which he had done on
wager.
An ordinance has been passed in Norfolk,
levying capitation tax of six dollars ON every
free white male inhabitant over twenty-one
years old
A baby is flourishing in Union county, n. Y,
only eleven months old, aud weighing sixty
pounds
"REDucRD By DTsPEPsIA TO NIKE skELKToN."
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