The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29

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np1H June ns Il day Of fa.tiuR nld
pinyir. IN order tu Invoke miraculous
Intervention tO scure away tile Ernss-
hnppcra, " not looked upon nH n very
ludltioug state paper aud o good deal
Of fun II being pOked nj that Official,
The proclamation, however hnssoryed
10 arouse the people to u proper sense
Of impending danger, aud excite them
- action In nrrcstiug the calamity ~
far ~ possible. The people of Missouri
are not praying people, but II pro-
family can be utilized ~ preventive
agent, they are prepared to clean out
the pests In short order.
In addition to grasshoppers the
chinch bugs exist In great numbers
and are doing their part In finishing
up vegetation. The merchants and
business men ofSt. Louis are much en-
erclscd oyer the impending calamity,
us they ARE largely Interested In Il
peCuniary sense and otherwise.
Many hope IL may be uverted, but II
is the general belief that the ravages
will continue and increase to such an
extent that great suffering and distress
must ensuc to the entire state.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, May 22.-The
grasshoppers have MS yet done but lit
tie damage here. They are thick, but
very small, and moving southwark. \
| little of the early vegetation has suf-
fered, but wheat and corn have es-
capped with but very little injury. In
northern Kansas scarcely any damage
has been done, and the crop reports
from southern Nebraska are very IA
vorable. 1t is perfectly safe to predict
that this immediate vicinity will suffer
but little.
A recent letter from El Paso, Texas,
says: We have now hanging over us
II prospect of famine and restitution
that has excited n general apprehen-
sion of starvation among the poorer
classes. The tale can be told by one
word -grasshoppers. They are now de-
vouring everything in the valley
grain, grass or fruit.
The prospect is, indeed, a gloomy
one. Completely isolated from the
gaze ofcharity;without adequate means
of communication with those whose
commiseration might be our only hope,
if the ravages of the grasshopper are
not checked, or if prompt and ener-
getic assistance is not afforded, this
county will be depopulated, and that,
too, by starvation.
As yet there is no present want. Inc
supply of last years grain is not yet
exhausted, but as half the growing
crops have already been destroyed be-
fore the grasshoppers have attained
half their growth, it may be seen that
the hope of reliance on our own re-
sources is but narrow one.
We make no present call for assist
ance. We only ask That the people of
lower Texas be prepared to grant a
speedy and eflectual succor. Well ac-
quainted as ] am with the generous
charity of all true Texans, my heart is
filled with gloomy forebodings when !
reflect OH the seven hundred miles of
deserts between them and the objects
of their pity. The confines of Texas
may vet witness scenes of starvation
and woe not unequal in their horrors
to those of India and Persia.
ljEiS MOlNES, ~" AhtN Va -'''''
day last an Irishman, n wealthy far
mer, living about ten miles of Lewis,
in Cass county, took his daughter,
thirteen years old, to a granary near
the house and attempted to violate her
person, but failed from physical I'M
possibility and the screams of the
child. He then, with threats of GER
tain death, eXtorted from her prom
Use of secrecy. She made the response
and was released. In ab'ut an hour
she went unobserved to the house of
her uncle, mile distant, where she
related the details of the outrage upon
her. He at once procured warrant
for the arrest of O'Connor, and the
officers proceeded to his farm. Arriv-
ing there about daylight Tuesday
morning, they demaned admittance to
the house, and at first were refused,
but soon the doors were opened, when
they were confronted by three hired
men. They asked for >O'Connor, and
were told he was in bedroom in the
west side of the house. The inn
mediate report of revolver was heard
in the bedroom and the door was
broken open, when the boGy of O'Con-
nor was found lying on the floor with
wound in the right breast. He ex-
pired in few moments, but uttered
not word. 1t is evident he surmised
the visit of the officers, and preferred
death to arrest and impending retribu-
ton. The deceased was about forty
five years of age, and his family con-
sisted of wife, two beautiful daugh-
tiers, and son fifteen years of age.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, May 22.-Since
the suicide of O'Connor in Cass county
on Tuesday to prevent arrest for out
raging his little daughter, another
daughter has disclosed u horrible ac-
count of persistent attempt to COM
nit the crime upon her by him for two
years. but failed, though she kept the
secret through constant threats ofdeath
| by her father. He had been suspected
| Of some evil intent towards his
daughters, and his hired men had Sc
cretly guarded them at nights for some
| time. His wife LETT him few days
since, owing to his threats to kill her.
TOPEKA, KS, May 24.-There has
| teen no material change in the grass
homer outlook in Kansas for the last
few days. The little pests are still
without wings, and their work of de-
struction is limited to particular local
lilies. They appear to be most plenti-
full and troublesome in the southeastern
border counties, and in two or three
counties along the line of the Central
Branch road from Atkinson. The
twenty or thirty counties SO seriously
injured last year have entirely escaped
this season, and their prospects for
crops of all kinds have not been SO
good for the last'five years. Some dam
age is being done in the central part of
the state, but not enough to cause
alarm in the southeastern counties
where the insects are the thickest.
About one-fourth of the farm area
is embraced in the scope of their
operations. They seem to be massing
in large numbers, which is said to be
an unfailing sign of early departure.
1t is a well demonstrated fact they al
most invariably migrate upon full de-
yelopment, and present indications
point to such O course. In that event,
Indiana, Missouri and Illinois, and,
perhaps, other states still further east,
may expect q visit from them during
June and July. Millions upon millions
of them are being killed, but enough
will escape to do serious mischief
somewhere before the summer ends
The farmers in the deprecated por-
lions of Kansas are considerably dis
couraged but not disheartened. They |
say that there will be plenty of time to
replant the destroyed crops and get a
fair yield, if they can get rid of the
grasshoppers by the 10th Of June.
ST. PAUL, May d. The Pioneer
Press publishes dispatch from a con-
siderable number of localities in all
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