Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-17

l. edrueStip nope tudt oUstdCles Vi loIh
will not be allowed to interfere Please
advise me by telegraph.
(Signed)
o. X. DAVIS, Governor
Chief Clerk Crosby forwarded this
telegram to Secretary Belknap, at New
London, with the Endorsement that there
appears to be no authority of law for
diverting an appropriation from its pro-
per source, even in cases of emergency.
ST. PAUL, July 8. Since the appeal
of Governor Davis of this state to the
War Department, mentioned in to-night's
Associated Press dispatches, is likely to
be denied, because of insufficiency of the
law, it is time for the people Of the
united States to be informed that utter
and wide spread restitution exists in the
southwestern counties of this state among
the new settlers, whose crops have been
destroyed for two years, and that urgent
appeals must be made to benevolence
everywhere for contributions in aid of
the starving people, who own farms un-
der the homestead and presumption laws,
but who have been unable to obtain sub
sistence from their farms because of des-
titution caused by grasshoppers. These
pests are now moving away to other
regions, to devastate and ruin other set
tiers, now in comfortable circumstances,
but in the meantime those whom they
have ruined are in starving condition.
The County Commissioners Of the diff
ferent counties of the state are making
appropriations to relieve the present suf-
ferings, but large and immediate help is
needed from the country at large. Con-
tributions of money or clothing should
be addressed to Gen. H. H. sibley, or
Gov. 0. K. Davis, St. Paul. Provisions
Or their equivalent are most needed.
The st. Paul Press describes the
scourge by grasshoppers as frightful.
They have devoured large part of the
crops of the entire region extending
through Martin, Watonwan, jackson,
Cottonwood, Noble and Murray coun-
ties-a district of country on the ex-
IRENE southwestern frontier, nearly fifty
by one hundred miles square. This
country was only opened to settlement
two or three years ago, by the construc-
ton of the St. Paul and Sioux City
Railroad, and being one of the richest
and most fertile agricultural districts of
the West, it became at once the theatre
Of an immense immigration, which
rushed to take possession of the splendid
agricultural lands on both sides of the
road. As usual, these pioneer settlers
were for the most part poor, and the de-
struction of their first crop, last fall, by
the devouring locusts, rendered them
objects of public and private charity.
The Legislature appropriated $500 for
their benefit, and private citizens con-
tributel largely, including seed for a
new crop. But now that is destroyed,
and these impoverished farmers, with
their crops annihilated in two successive
summers, are reduced to the extremity
of despair. Starvation stares them in
the face,
In Iowa, likewise, the grasshopper
plague has impoverished the people in
large sections. The destructive insects
are so numerous as to almost obscure
the sun in their fight.
CHICAGO, July Is. A dispatch from
st. Paul says Gov. Davis is disappoint
! ed by the refusal of the Secretary O.
. War to issuerations to families impover
ished by grasshoppers instead of tn,
: arms due the state. He has received
8 $4,000 from Ramsey county, and expects
, other counties soon to contribute $500
. for the relief of the sufferers. 1t i
y thought 5000 people are in pressing need
: while many on the frontier are in actua
: danger Of starvation.
a Two thousand dollars we're raised il
e Davenport, Ia, for the Iowa sufferer
/ from grasshoppers.
The crops in northern Dakota an,
g Minnesota are much injured by thi
# plague.
Protracted drouth is injuring vegeta
/, ton in central Iowa.
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