The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-18
FROM NEBRASKA.

FROM NEBRASKA.
Revenue or the Capital..The
Wicked "HOppeF''-The
Poor HOmcsleadlcr.
OscEoLA. NEBRASKA,
Jan. 30th, 1875
4N.. EditOr:-We are still bless
ed with liberal share Of peace and
poverty, and will be for the year to
come. Since my last we have ex-
peri.nced some very cold weather
On Friday. January 9th. old Boreas
came down upon us, playing hob
with hay and straw stacks. The fol
lowing day the thermometer was 90
below zero. Old settlers say the
past month has been the coldest that
they have ever experienced in Ne
braska. Three weeks without thaw-
ing day is what may be called cold
weather. | watched the papers ex.
pecting to find many cases Of suffer
ing and death; so far find nothing.
The excitement is running high IN
this part of the State over The reno
val OF the State Capital from Lincoln,
to some more central part Of the az
ricultural district. At present the
fight is between Columbus and Clarks
Station, both on the l.. p. II. r. The
u. Pts working for Clark's, agreeing
to put up as good State House as
the one at Lincoln, and $4,000 in
addition. II i, should put no better
State building than the one now
at Lincoln. it would not amount to
much. as it is rather a shabby affair.
The State House will fall down in
side Of FIVE years if not propped.
While at Lincoln, attending the
State Grange, ] visited the different
State buildings, and was sadly disap-
pointed in regard to workmanship
and material. Some person has feath-
cred his pocket at the expense Of the
State, as is generally the case in pub
lie works.
Some Of my Iowa friends wish to
know if the ''hoppers" visit us every
year. No. Eight years ago they
visited this country, but not as nu-
merous as last year nor as early in
the season. If this "curse Of Moses
as the Irishman called them, were OF
yearly occurrence it seems probable
that the fertile plains which ten years
hence will form the richest agricul,u-
raj section in the United States
would never have been wrested from
the buffalo and the Indian. The''hop
pers' natural home and breeding
place is the high lands of the Rocky
mountains where rain does no. fall.
Last season being dry one. and the
winds favorable they came down on
Nebraska and other prairie States
similarly situated. Flying high in
the air their guaze-like wings are like
flimsy cloud between the observer
and the sun. At last down they come,
and the district on which they settle
the crops soon disappear. It's sup
posed by many that they eat their
way along like an army. This is not
so. In lowering of the tempera-
ture or rain storm The choppers
must depart. AS to their leaving
eggs here, ! think, is mistake, or at
least | was unable to find any las,
fall If they did the proportion was
small compared to the amount Of
choppers and as stated above. Ne
braska is not suitable for their hatch
ing and we need not give ourselve.
trouble on that account. Here, We
saved our wheat, two-ihirds Of the
oats, out light in weight on account
of dry weather in June; also late po
tatoes.
| On the extreme frontier Of the
State are homesteaders who had just
come, and who were dependent
on their sod corn for the winter and
the following summer. Their read,
means quite limited, in fact, in many
instances were entirely dependent or
their FIRST years crop. These resi-
dents lost their all and have not tn.
means to carry them through to an
other crop. Many of these are ex
soldiers; men who left their homes
at their country call and risked thei
all to preserve the liberties which
we so highly prize. Having lai,
aside the implements Of warfare, they
are now enduring the privations o
frontier life that the march of civil
zation may be onward and westward
These are the men that need relei
and where want is found. Not onl,
does Nebraska owe these men it
help, but every State in the unio
should come to their rescue. A por
tion have been compelled to sell thei
homesteads for little or nothing +
farmers who have the means to carr
on more diversified agriculture AM
make it more profitable.
The aid society has received tGS.
08O.OO. 1t is not doing in many re
poets just rs it should, but we mus
not grumble.
If any Of my friends wish to sen
anything to me, will see that it
!, applied to those in want. Seed fe
garden or field will be needed yer
J much Send all the sweet corn, pea.
beans, beets and other garden seed
, Seed corn we have none. Barley an
oats are not to be had only from tn
; Eastern part Of the State. Home
steaders have no money to buy will
, if they could be bought here.
, Donations can be left with Geo. |
, Burkett, Inland, or Mr.. Wampler, ,
3 Upton, who can give directions as
a shipping.
NC. FoY.
e p. S. Since writing the above,
z learn that Columbus has the insit
d track on the capital question.