, 1874-05-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

:, Ths eh,nch:.bug haa sppoated in posoy .ud
Gibson Counties, Ind.
1t is reported that tho pay cur Of tho Toledo
Wabash l. Western Railroad has bcen attachod
at Toledo by some Of tho employees for their
wages. There is considerable dissatisfaction in
this city among the employees, many Of whom
haya not been paid since laHt January, aud ara
injuriously running on tick.-Fors Wayne {lnd.)
On tho 1ut OF May, inst. Mr.. Benjamin Wal
Iaco Of KeArney Junction, in attempting 10
cough, partially swallowed a vt1lcanized rubber
plata on which were three artificial teeth 4
fourth ono having beon broken OH. The plats
lodged IN bis throat for come twenty four hours,
and tho doctors finding they could not get 1t up,
wont 10 work to get it down into his stomach, and
fiually succeeded, and It has been thBre eyor
since.-0ndha Herald
Gro sGpors arc oonie!n t. seems ths
different articlea in different places. Warriok
reports spploH and peachea in abundance, and
pears and cherries soarce. At other points,
peaches are scarce, cherries plenty. Pears will bo
great danger from cut-Worms, aud ths army
worms arc appearing in tho meodows, and 4
black, dee-sized bug, is damaging tho litchcn
truck. Tobacco has boon cut short hy wormB
and bug, in many places, and II ls believed the
The Albion (lll.) Journal aaSs that tho oat.
erpllers are making fearful destruction Of fruit
trees and tho timber In tho woods In Edwards
County. and mnny Of the farmers have fears that
sons Of thotr best timber will bo ruined by theae
pests. In another paragraph 1t says: "The
caterpillars wero almost too much for the train
on tho AiT Lime lust Saturday. On the grade
from craokels Station, coming this way. Those
worms had congregated on the raila IN placcs
some inchcb deep, and when the train came along
tho drivers mashed them, which mado the rail as
alich as II 1t had boen sonped Tho train had to
back down aud make several attempts boforo It
could got over The grade"
Ali aooounta agree that the rotato-buR moyo-
mcnt this season III unusually early and formidA-
blu. Mr. JoBeph Bennett informed us on Batur~
day that on field Of potntooB on tho Island,
which hs planted in April, thoro ara an average
OF nine bugs to each potato. In patch hs hns
L. FraBicr eHtimates the number OF bugs on hin At
half dozen to each plant. He has noticed
many Of thom on tho wing. aud they invariably
fly eastward, OF course, unleBs tho bugs
oomo to premature and unexpected
end, they will completely destroy tho ro-
tato crop thus aoaBou. It is enid, however,
that certain species of ant has appeared and III
gatiou OF the alt-potato bug ant should ba o1,-
couraged by MI moaua.-ldusoatine (la+) Jour-
s.at
This Ia tho way tho Wh,te CLOUD Cnief sums
ZIP tho history Of Tho Four Kings Of Topeka,
Knn.: "Ahont year ago the Topeka Common
toealh contained poem entitled The Four
Kings, In Which the fame Of four OF Toreka's
lak the lumber !, klng' Anay Wilson, ths psttls
ADKINS, the money king. Within tho year grost
ohAngos hRvo takon place in tho fate Of those
kings. Hugo Kulak Ii dead, and bis immense
lumber business neattored in different hands.
T. D. Mills IL played out In Kansas, aud has gone
back to original prineplea-zunning real-satats