The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-10
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EDITOR LAMOILLE News:

EDITOR LAMOTLLE News:
Agreeable to invite and promise, |
will pen a few paragraphs relative to
matters and things in the Hawkeye
State. From a business outlook pros
poets were never brighter here then at
the present time. The yield of 1879
for both quantity and quality exceeds
any previous year. | often hear of 30
bushels threshed wheat per acre, and
the average is rather over than under
20. For the first time in the history
of the county (Sac) wheat this season
has been rated No. at the elevators.
The yield Of oats is simply immense
the ruling price, ID cts. per bushel,
testifies Of the fact. Corn hereabouts
is the staple crop, and those who
planted largely acted wisely, for it has
been a splendid corn year, and corn
fed cattle and hogs are money in the
farmers pocket. There has been no
frost. Better than all, that fatal
scourge, the grasshopper, has notmade
his usual autumnal visit, depositing
countless trillions Of eggs for spring
Matching. We all believe their reign
of terror is over. All in all, the peo-
pie of Iowa have no reason to COM
plain; on the contrary, we shall be
surprised if the approaching Day of
Thanksgiving and Praise is not OBJ
served with three-fold ferver. In the
spring the signs of the times were du-
bious to say the least. In the swarms
of grasshoppers, some shrewd, ingen-
ious fellows whose eyes are generally
open to the main chance, imagined
they saw the opportunity for specu-
lation. The result was that q great
number Of mechanical contrivances for
their capture and extermiation sprang
into existence as if by magic. Pat
ents were applied for, and fortunes
were fondly anticipated in rights to
sell and manufacture. Some of these
machines were to be used by hand,
some by one, two or more horse pow
er, and even steam was recommended
for propelling them. Kerosene, coal
tar, water, fire, men connected with
them to assist in the work of destruc-
ton. Some of them answered their
purpose. to certain extent. | have
known of one operated by man and
two horses to catch ten bushels OF
grasshoppers, actual dry measure, in
day. But the effect was similar to
pumping few hogsheads Of water
from Lake Superior. Natural causes
alone could suffice for a deliverance.
Thanks to kind Providence these OPP
portunities put in an appearance and
the grasshopper made his disappear
ance. One Saturday late in June the
sky was filled by them returning, and
the next day fewer people than usual
felt like going to church, and those
who mustered up courage and went
wore very long faces, but the pests
never alighted, and to-day are in fact
| gong out OF remembrance. we arc
willing to forget them.
Politics just now is at fever heat
the election taking place Oct. 9. There
are four tickets in the field for stat,
officers: Republican, Democratic
Temperance and Greenback; the re-
spective standard bearers being Hons
John II. Gear of Burlington, John p
Irish Of Iowa City, Elias Jessup o
New Providence, and Daniel p. Stubs
Of Oskaloosa. AS plurality elects
Mr.. Gear will, of course be our mex
chief magistrate, but his majority, i
indeed he gets q majority at all, will
be reduced far below that of some o
his predecessors. He is the represen
tation of the license wing of his par
ty, and ought never to have been nom
mated. Senators in rs districts, one
half the number comprising the Sen