The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-27
From the West.

CuIlaf VlSlLHIiOHS WAlCA N0Dlasha suhOtCNs
last year, and the tedious winter of privation
which the stricken country has suffered, you
and your readers may be DESTROYS of hearing
something from one, if not 'to the manor
born, who still speaks that he knows and
testi6es that he has seen. TO no class OF
people has there ever been more music sin
the winter is over and gene" than to the
Nebraskans this spring. With burning corn
stalks, lying in bed, or burrowipg in the
ground. the poor have managed to keep
alive, and to such, the budding trees, open
ing flowers and more genial sky, betokening
seed time, are a God-send scarcely appreci-
able to us, The spring, though consider
ably back ward, is quite in advance Of US.
Stock are occurring their living on the prair-
| les, and have been able to do SO for some
time Ia the draws" which are our ravines
on a huge scale. For early pasturage these
exceed anything I ever saw. Nestled down
between the divides" or Singh prairies.'
with an abundance of moisture, and the sun
pouring in these sheltered places, stock are
enabled to secure their living several weeks
before the iced starts much on the high
lands have never seen more wheat sown,
or ever saw it looking better With its
healthy emerald tint the fields, stretching
away until lost in the distance, look as fresh
as if just washed by 8 shower. With any
thing like a good year the wheat crop of the
state must'be enormous, the present year.
With the scare there has been on the grass
hopper question. the people have still bold
| " yentured ali en- the Issue OF the present
crop. As they express it they have "gone
ahead,as far as possible as though nothing
had happened Y and it is to be hoped and
prayed that these people who have wrestled
so hard with misfortune, may again have
bounti9ul hsrYest. We used their grain and
they need some of our capital. The vista
! ton Of lastyear would be calamity to US as
well as them . Such an event would I'M
QUESTIONABLE put the, country back many
years. but have faith that whatever comes,
we shall yet see that country Srejoice and
blossom as the rose" 1t is only question
Of time at the most, AID thai country has a
gtorloas Destiny 10 fulfill Whittier was a
philosopher no less than poet, when stand
ing here he
Heard the tread of pioneers
OF nations yet to be;
The first 1sw wash of waves where soon sna IL
roll human sea-" tAt
There is q severe logic in manifest capaci-
ties. 1t would take many seasons of drought
and grasshoppers to convince me that the
country west of Missouri Rivers with its
mighty agricultural resources,i not to be
one Of the gardens" where ''joy and glad
ness shall be found" Every new country
has deep seated prejudice to oppose. 1t is
hard yet to get many Of our eastern neigh
bors, who have never come to see, to believe
that Wisconsin and Illinois are much better
than fever and ague ''holes,' Inhabited by a
cross breed between ignoramuses and barba-
rians Nothing is more natural, to him who
has scarcely ever gone beyond the purlieus
of his native town than to pity all who may
not have enjoyed his privileges" Nothing
| takes the concei' out of one like seeing a
| little Of the world. The search for grasshop-
pers in Nebraska the present spring, has
/ been carried on to an extent that il almost
ludicfous. With the stories oftheir appear
ance il Missouri and Kansas, the people are
thoroughly frightened. and are out pro
speeding, As often as story is started oil
their reappearance, many go to see, but thus
far tley have been like the ague OF the
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locate several miles off. A few have been
seen ia some places perhaps, bnt except for
TIE Generalization upon the subject, they
would not have been noticed. There proba-
Il bly, never was year when they We're less
seen. The faith of the people, notwith-
/ standing the past, is seen in the tide Of emf
grafton pouring westward. In Iowa. partic-
ularlE. there has never before been anything
like it. The r. r. companies owning land
have never made heavier rates than during
March and April, 1875. At the present rate
the Burlington & Misso uri River r. r. Lands
will be closed out before another year. The
company are planning monthly excursions
through their Lands which give to all a
chance to sec the west, at about one third
price and part of even this is RENTED where
those going out purchase the company's
Lands.
Ifany of the Badger state boys want to
buy land, see little of the world, go a hunt-
ing or fishing, or rusticating generally, with
jolly company Of stair women and brave
men, they can dc so June Sth. Starting
from Aurora and running somewhere near
kearney Junction and return. fifteen days
will be allowed in which to return on excur-
sion tickets, good on ally regular train.
Take your guns, dogs and fishing tackle and
HE away for few days from care and per
plexity for good time.
Is you are an editor you will write better
after It; If you are minister you will return
thinking the race is nearer the millennium
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