Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1865-11-18
The plague of Locusts.

-Uth, describes a visitation OIL lOcusS as
follows
In tho month Of April last We observed
twice largo dark clouds, resembling smoke,
moving to and fro as il swayod by the
wind. One morning these clouds came
down and proved to be locusts, so greatin
number that the whole land was covered
with them, The grain at that timo was
full in ear and nearly ripe, but the locusts
did not touch it orany other vegetation.
Soon after, however, 1t was observed that
they buried themselves in the soil and
there deposited their innumcrable eggs
The Arabs and peasants saw the approach
Ing mischief, and went through tho land
in thousands digging for these eggs; they
succeeded to q certain degree, and dGs'
troyod incredible numbers with water and
fire, but all their efforts had very little
effect.
About tho middle Of May small black
creatures, at a distance resembling large
aus, vera observed accumulating in largo
heaps throughout the country, and few
days after ,bcy had been thus seen they
began to leap, and manifested the coming
calamity and invasion OF tho fearful army,
as described so emphatically in Joel Ill
Tho people now began to sweep them to-
gotb0r and bury or burn thom in bitches
dug for tho purpose, But all to little or
no effect, and as they grew little larger
seon onj tbo comin~ cataetroSbo corId
moi 5o nisfotcn VIZ roads woro coyeraa
Win Them al morchinr in roanInr lines
uko armios Of Soldiers with t6oir leaders
IN front and MI tho onnosition Of man 10
arrest tbclr prorrpss W.T. in yair
Tbav 6rst consumed tina nlantotione
around Ramlcb LyIJo and tbo smaller
yillnaes ncar t6om and tbnn entering tbe
town3 ,,J yillocos conspmod tLn yict9al,
g. IN tbc mor2ot onJ siroots Lv GAsroos
for3ing tbomsclyoa nto thn ho;sas md
eoyorina thowoIl, ontside nswcllasinsidc
Il soems tGot cycrytbinr wLiob il moisten.
Cd hv NAN solico is noisonnd Cor thocsI-
III tRoF fn5d mn tbs Irmnonf3 wbicb nrs
ioft oIidio mrgolf saw gftv orcn dcaJ
in tho yiIl,.a ni Dolto nre';or md Zor
fariSh that Iad fod on tbe remnant Of dur.
rnh iTnJian cnrnl IsfI bv tl,o locnsts nnd
tGn MONT brroro last tyon,v mona dioI
from H. somo ennss
About two w1el,s ogo tbey ware soon ia
fearlu. oytcnt ali round Jada, but still
withont winas rba town for ,eyoroI days
annoarod f5rsoken. oil sbops were sInt ali
busiu5s, susponded. Almost all tbo IN.
hnhifanls ba5 coma ont IA dsstroy ond
/ Idriyo awav Ma invading army, tbov made
/ tremendous ditchcs, ana buried and burn
ed countless mvrials. buF rs beforc MI in
vain, for tbe mora tbev destroycd tbe mora
eponcl IN oriso from hiding nlnccs. and
as NAV arow in sizr so tbev seemed to
grow in multitude, and toward the east
from bbro thoy coyered the ground for
miles and miles to n height of several in.
che5. AS their wings are still too small
10 enable them to ly and to visit ,tho sew.
eral hundred gardens within the cultivated
Ear. of lhe district Of ,m0a, they hive
hitherto confined their distinctions to the
outer Gardens. of which about GfW have
|baon c5mplotely hid waste. every Green
|Ionr yegenbIo, troo. and avon th5 bark Of
Iyon1r lTSos. deyonr5d. and tboso bGanti.
TIM g9Dl91s look lk0 n birch troo forest IN
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