Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-07-25
NORTH MOUNTAIN.

|, Mr.. Jacob Rhoe saw a great meteor
about as large as aflour barrel recently
Posters are up for a grand hop tC
take place in Ellis woods, near here
on August 1st.
Mr.. VIM. Porterfield's ice-house
burned this week. Cause unknown.
/ The thresher and traction engine OF
MIR. VIM. Light is in this section
threshing out wheat. The yield aver.
ages about or 8 bushels to the acre.
Some party wounded two ofMr. Or
rick Cunningham's mules with shot,
this week. 1t is supposed they were
trespassing when shot.
The colored people held a picnic in
Lemons woods last Saturday. The
Clearspring Brass Band was over and
| furnished music.
Last Saturday while Mr.. Geo. Hill
was cutting grass he ran over bum
blebee's nest which caused him trou-
BILE. Mr.. Hill fired the nest, and the
fire breaking out burnt about three
loads of hay and $50 panels of fence.
Luckily, they got the fire under con-
troll before it reached his stock-yard /;
but it was narrow escape, being only
ten yards distance from it.
Last Friday morning, at 2 O'Clock,
Mr.. John A. Tabler, of Welltown,
died. The funeral service was preach
ed at Hedgesville Episcopal Church
by Revs. Roller and Leavell. The
interment was in the Episcopal Gem
etery ON Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. NJ. F. Tabler, of Mo-, arrived
home last week.
Mr.. Lewis Wolford's mother is Wis
iting at his residence at Spring Mills.
Messrs. Richard Hammersla and
Daniel Fleming bought the right for
Berkeley Co. to manufacture an iron
ing board last week. Mr.. Jacques, of
Hedgesville, has contracted to make
the boards.
The majority for months school
for Hedgesville at Tuesdays election
was "a.
1t is said that Mr.. Jim Sperow
hauled two loads Of gold to town last
week. Well, no, not gold exactly,
either; it was hay. The two loads
Melted him $S6.
We suppose we will have to join
with LEONE in praise of the typos
They hashed us up considerably last
week, but we got off without any
broken bones.
Since the cicada or harvest fly, COM
monty called II year locust, is of the
past history of its habits may inter-
est your readers. The first rising was
during the evening of May 2Sth. For
several evenings following lin all
about twelve,) at dusk they were OBJ
served in augmenting numbers climb
ing heavenward-up fence, bush and
tree. The greatest risings occurred
during the evenings of the 9Th, 9Th
18th of June, on the latter of which
they rose in multitudes. After that,
for or evenings succeeding, few
came up, and then ceased rising. They
Matched ont through the nights and at
sun up in the mornings the concert
began. The female is silent. The
male has the power to make a grating
sound, produced by a pair of stretched
membranouS organs acted upon by
powerful muscles and situated on each
side of the front part of the abdomen.
which sound is popularity supposed to
resemble the word Pharoh, the pha
being made with the abdomen elevat-
ed, and the vanish, rob, caused by
bringing the abdomen downward to-
ward the object on which 1t is resting,
the sound apparently being for the
purpose Ofattracting the female; thus
showing our hero to be true vOtary
Of the power of song and winning a
mate through his musical endeavOrs.
After a week or ten days of song
and Irritation, passed amid the emer-
aid boughs of the trees, the females
steal awhile away" and begin to
bore the tender twigs and to deposit
the eggs. The part improperly called
the sting, is, in reality, the organ
through which the egg is deposited,
and consists of three parts, two CHS
els, one on each side of hollow drill.
In boring the twig the chisels are
put into very rapid motion, working
to and fro alternately, while the in
sect keeps pressing the drill deeper
and deeper, until it is embedded its
entire length in the wood; without
removing it, from Is to 20 eggs are
deposited through it into the groove
in a double layer very rapidly; then
withdrawing the drill, another groove
starting near the same place as the
uTSb 10 Ilduc, Uut ulFcISIDS IIOIu III
the two forming an inverted V. Each
female lays from to 500 eggs. The
end of the twig farthest from the tree
is broken off by the wind and falls to
the ground and decays, thus making a
plant for the next II yr. crop. The
process of development is divided
into four stages: the egg, Larvae, pupa,
and fly. Sometimes sensational stor-
les are published ofpeople being stung
by the cicade, but we believe that to
be SANDER. In the first place the
organ is not intended a weapon of de-
Tense secondly, Il person is not apt
to allow bug to remain on him long
enough to sting him and the cicade
cannot sting flying. We cannot vouch
for its remaining with us for the pop
ular forty days, our account shows
they arrived May 2Sth, and were no
more July End. ALPHA.
Thos. Bean, ESQ.,, Tabins, Hardy Co.,
West Va, says In the year 1884 he used