St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-11-15

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surveyed aud platked what II ~. called middle
town, NAiah .Adioi1s md NAs AishS 4P TIE fiyr
r,Iwhls General Lowry surveyed aud plated
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ths town 10 name AZ 81 ST, Cloud; 81. TIL name
i Wap Incorporated Il the winter az IS 49,
Ths. Land, Omee - removed II April '6S ron
Sapk Rapidl % tic Upper town. The post ot6ee
j - Middle town, which Z, inhabited ,by In
du1trious and ven to do German Catholes.--7-
The Catholic chapel i here, and the bel1I be.
longing 70 i, IL the 6rst church going ben ii
being tie first audible "a Shsrhnrnea and Benton
the, river, There too Is school kept BY com
pany Of Beledictine Nuns whore music, draw.
ing, needle1ork and German are we'll taught
BY ladies. Of polished manners; and unusual
proficiency ~ yIfHV~14H EEfrtID .as7s3
Lower town haetwo protestant churches, in
process Of erection, ono quite completed We
havesS public school in the Everett School
house, aud handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Rdward Everett. The engines Of an ex-
cellent saw, mill and plsipings mill, sash faoto-
ry; and : good Touring mill are this mo-
ment pulling away within half q dozen rods Of
ourtof6oe. We have from I'VE to six steamboat
arrivals here weakly and the smallest proper
ton OF drones We have ever seen in any hive.
In the tall Of $50 Grasshoppers. Game tn q
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties. ,destroyi the greater portion; Of the
crops. They deposited their larvw and died.
Early In 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
50 many Of the late crops survived, that with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was q large amount: Of
food. In autumn it became question wheth-
or there was enough fer winter consumption
with. what the peoplehsd the means Of purchas-
ing from. below. The German settlers were
generally Of the. opinion that there wasnot, and
Ike Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to
ask contributions. When this became known
in Lower st. Cloud Indignation meetings were
held, and strong resolutions passed condemn
ing measure %. 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 pro-
ven. The third week of May is here, potatoes
sell 1t 25cts. per bushel, corn 81 90, wheat
1,25, oats, 80 cts. and We have heard Of, no
instance in which any have suffered for want
of food; while ; very large proportion Of the
emigrants who had last year designed emigra-
ting to this point have been deferred by this
bugbear cry of famine, and have gone else
whore. The time is now past at which the
Gra.shoppers appeared last spring, and the
minds Of the people are set on rest as the ques-
tion of whether they left laws, last year, be-
fore they emigrated. It 10 evident that they
went to other localities as they came here to
sign that they have left any deposits here, and
as everybody is putting in crop of aoms:
thing good to eat, xesexpeet next fall to be en-
umbered with surplus Of thesgood things; Of
his life; and to mandate st. Anthony Mime
polls and st. Paul, with vegetables and grain
fer supplying the Pine regions and the Ia
"orers on the Rail Road. 1nl lr..I p.i,.9n, r., :