The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-05-23
THE PLAGUE.
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hnd Wehtern 'teNns, .I
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May g2, REPORTS al
daily reaching here trom all tho oouu
Ties " western Missouri OF the appeal
anle OF myTlads Of grasshopper6, an
great apprehension " felt among IA
lafmefa, IN some Of the counties ia
insects are Matched out and have hoI
ped away, In Others they show n dlr
position 10 remain and grow up will
the crops, ft..t.
Tho Infested district comprises ia,
counties OF Lafayette, jackson, Pettla
buchanan, Platte, johnson, Cass, IA
line, M0nlleau, Oregon, liay, and II
fact, oil OF nthweslern Missouri. til,
first i've OF the above counties are III,
richest aud most p0pulous In the state
and WIN average at least tlfty thousnnC
lnhabltaLls. The graashoppers m,
still Matching out, but m0af VI then
are about Qne.thlrd grown, but not yet
old enough 10 lly, They are now feed
Ing upon the young oats and whonl
and smotherlng down everything ~
they 80. 1900.
Advlcca nom several counties state
that great fear and anxiety prevail
among the people, aud many are pre-
parlpg to move away. Meadows ARE
disappearing rapidly, aud farmers ar,
sending their stock oil where they can
be gra2ed. last week u meetlng Ol
GlLlz0ns IN Jackson county was held IL
consider the situation, AZ that meet.
Ing " was reported that one Auhdred
and twenty bushels Of grasshoppers
had been killed by ditchng the week
previous. Many more had been dis.
posed of by burning. This fact Will
give soma idpa " the fparipl numbers
In that section. Last year several
counties were raynged by grllsshoppers
and chlnch bugs, rendering great
many people entirely destitute, There
IL great DISTRESS among these people
now, nnd many OF them are menaoed
with staryati0n.. .fCIak LaAunA
Meetings have been held IN various
portions Of the state for The purpose of
raising relief money. To-day, the Mer-
chants Exchange, Of this CITY, received
from q, q. Crimes, o well known citi-
zen Of Lexington, In Lafayette county,
one bushel go pounds) of young hop
pers in the crystals state. The embrl-
otto insects were on exhibition this af-
ternoqp at the exchange, and attracted
many curious VISITORS Many Of them
had Matched out in transitu, and others
were IN the process of leaving their
sheh; Mr.. Grunls, IN his letter to the
exchange states that, IN company with
one assistant, he gathered the bushel
of eggs In flfty-five minutes. In some
counties, such rs Platte and Buchanan,
farmers do not apprehend much seri-
Gus sdangar 10 FhelF erops. Residents
of that particular region, In attendance
at the grand lodge Of Odd Fellows
in this city, state that the hop
persT exlst only IN patches, seat
tered over the counties, and that they
travel In lunches, oil going rapidly to-
ward the northeast, and that they will
have left the country before the crops
are old enough to be much, hurt, They
thinl. corn. viii he Injured q llttIe, while
It is In q tender state, bpt by the mid
die of June they will have left the
country, which will be too early to do
much damage to that cereal.
The governors proclamation setting
apart June as 4 day of fasting and
prayer, in order to invoke miraeulous
Intervention to scare away the grass
hoppers, Is not looked upon as a very
judicious state paper, and good deal
of fun is being poked at that official.
The proclamation, however, has served
to arouse the people to q proper sense
Of impehding danger, and excite them
to action in. arresting the calamity as
far as possible. The people Of Missouri
are not,a, praying people, but II pro-
fanitycan be'utilized as q preventive
agent, they are prepared to clean out
the pests in short order.
Inssadditioni TO igrasshoppers the
chinch bugs exist in great numbers
and are doing their part in finishing
up vegetation. The merchants and
business men Of st. Louis are mpch ex-
ercised oyer the impending scalamity,
as they are largely Interested in a
pecuniary sense and otherwise.
MANY hope il may be: averted, but IL
is tile general belief that the ravages
will continue and increase to such an
extent that great suffering and distress
must eDSue W tuo ohtifo oe"'o' ,p,
ST., joseph, Mo-, May %-The
grasshoppers have as yet done but 1T
tie damage here. They are thick, but
very small, and moving southwark. A
little Of the early vegetation has snf-
fered, but wheat and corn have es-
caped with but very little injury. In
northern Kansas scarcely any damage
has bean done, and the crop reports
from southern Nebraska are very IA
yorable. 1t is perfectly safe TO predict
that this immediate Vicinity Will suffer
but little.
, A recent letter from Ell Paso, Texas,
says: We have now hanging over us
a prospect of famine and restitution
that has excited q general apprehen-
sion OF starvation AMONG tite poorer
classes. The tale can be told by one
word-grassh6ppefs: They are now de-
vouripg everything In the valley
grain, grass fruit.
The prospect Isl indeed, a gloomy
one. Completely Isolated from the
gaze ofeharitywithout adequate meaps
81 eonimpnlcatien MIR tha s,!,,, T u ,,S
eopmiserationlrp ight beoAr only nope,
little rapagesi pfIthe igrasshoppers are
not checked, or If prompt yapp enei-
getio assistance Ia not 'ahordeu, thls
county will be depopulated, and that,
too, by starvation. si'1 aiH,gH .s9so1,ls
As yet there u no present want. Inc
supply. of last years grain is not yet
exhausted, but as half the growing
erops have already been destroyed Ne
fore be srassaSPIeIs hs ~ .s ss,a, ,I9s3
half their growthflt pay De sesn. 'ga'
the hope OF reliance on oarAown re-
sources Ia but o narrow one. 20 y,
We make no, present gall for ASSIST.
ance we only ask that the people OF