Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-16
A sCOUnGE.

WEDNESDAY. +: JULY Is. 1873
A TERRIBLE sCOraGE.
Southern siberia is afflicted with famine
and epidemic, occasioncd by the plague OF
grasshoppers. The affection from this
source in the West within the past few
years was slight as compared with the ter
rible devastation created by these voracious
pests In several II the districts in Southern
Siberia. At frat they appeared rcatseringly;
then they came in battIions. and next IN
clouds, destroying everything green before
them. The Tiais '.vjestwik" describes
the Consideration Of she people, who form
ed PROFESSIONS and resorted to prayer for
the abatement Of the scourge. But still 1t
increased. The grasshoppcrs filed the
brooks and wolls, making the water I'M
drinkable. They settled so thickly in the
streets that passageway was impeded'
They penetrated into the houses OF the
towns, filed the chimneys, and chokcd the
ovens. At this point the people discovered
that some more e~ffoctual means than
lamentations must be adopted to stay the
affection. business was suspended, and
all the members OF the communities, with
out distinction OF rank. age or sex, set to
work killing the invaders. BY this means
they nearly abated the evil; but they could
not ward off the famine aud disease which
followed. No plague like this has been
known since the days Of Moses.
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The Indian Agency Physician at Fort
Peck, Montana. got q front seat at the
great Sun Dance Of the Sioux near that
place, a couple Of weeks ago, and sends to
the Interior Department an account Of the
performance. The Red Men seemed to vie
with one another in the matter Of s~elf-tor-
ture, Ind the ones who could carry the
most buffalo heads attached to their bodies
by means of thongs passed through Sits in
their skin we're evidently regarded as best
calculated to make their mark OF the bat
tle-field. The festivities included a feast
of dog meat, some forty CANNES being
slaughtered and served up for the occa-
sion. Altogether the occasion must have
been a very enjoyable one--for the specta-
tors.
In one OF his letters from China, Mr..
John Russell Young tells how General
Grant and his party partook of birds nest
soup at Canton. That ought to help his
Presidential prospects. Thousands Of
simple persons who never cared a conti-
mental for the redoubted General will be
closely drawn to him now, but no nara
tive OF this kind can efface from the mcm-
DRY Of our people the terrible wrestle John
G. Fremont had with a grasshopper pie in
early life.
Bosros carefully provided for the small
boys amusement on the Fourth by giving
twenty free entertainments, consisting Of
concerts, jnyslery, vent~riloquism, mar
rionettes aad dancing. The performances
began early and lasted until sunset. In
consequence, not one youth blew his little
head, a-m or leg off in hoaor of the glori-
Gus day, and the Coroner's fees were moth
ing.
IT il not to Mr.. Charles Fosters dis
credit, says the New York "Sun." that no
formerly kept a store in Fostoria. Bat it
Is his everlasting misfortune that the
exigancies Of trade kept him behind his
o~xk.~ - =. k;..o .~lo., I~,.. E.u.. .-l
General Rice were lighting in the field for
the preservation Of the Union.
The cotton crop this year, it is reported.
will amount to about 1850, 900 bales. This
is a large increase over last year. and 400.-
900 bales more than the South produced
before the war, when in the full employ
ment Of the profitable slave labor, Of
which We have heard so much.
----~
Mr.. WArTERsoN, Of the "Courier-Jour-
nal" having been accused Of taking a
bride Of 500, 900 to support Tilden, retorts
gayly with q story, the point Of which is:
when I have 500. 600 l will let the news
paper business go to the bad, and engage
passage fer Europe.
ISaERsoLL says: Let mo prophecy.
In five years from to-day no man of in
telligencs in the United States will preach
the infamous doctrine of eternal punish
ment."
EASI RN n &c VS..
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
ESPECIAL TO TIE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
VIM. 8. Chambers Political Pre-
elections.
NEW YORK GUARANTEED AGAINST SOUTH.
ERIN PORTS.
Tho Foyer Abating in Memphis.