New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-08
LATEST NEWS from MARX Ian.

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The unwelcome Intelligence is brought to US
b,, The Mark Lane Express" of London, Eng
land. that new enemy of agriculture has arisen
in this country so formidable that " the planters
re in despairn IL seems that while DR.. Llntner
and The Tribune have been fighting the bugs ana
the winged creatures OF the air IN general
the ereeping things of the great deep have come
m. and. with n sly glance at the able Editor OF
q" The Mark Lane Express have begun tearing
IN the surface Of the earth and utterins strange
unnatural cries Leaving the Doctor In hot pur-
suit OF "a new lghtning-b bug, with red I!ght OIL
his mort side and green one on his starOoard, we
urn uncomplainingly 70 the London discovery
The trouble sighted by the Editor of the eagle
eve from his Mark Lane observatory is IN the
Fgypt, Miss, district We begin our ac-
ouaintance with the Egypt, Miss, district with
measure The enemy is the crawish lhis
scourcc Of mankind has come up out OF his wa'"ry
home and is sweeping over this new Egypt ike
the pagues which came up against the EeSP' Vi
old The Egypt, Miss, district lies painting IN MS
rrosp This crawfish is according to Inc La
Dress. "A fierce aggressive creature, hungry as Il
buzz-saw and peppery Mayor Gleason, OF Long
island CITY. They burrow in the fields and
keep the surface broken and wet, says Inc
Mark Lane Express, and the planters are IN
despair Where once the light-hearted planters
Of the Egypt district looked out over thsr h"pPy
fields ripe unto the harvest, they now gaze across
, barren waste OF crnwish tcarlIS up the SURFACE
Of the earth and then jumping IN ana ripping up
the next LAYER under the surface Our lar-seelhs
I.ndon contemporary anticipates general rise oil
nrices Of farm products all along the line since
the outbreak OF tho crawiish.
But asks the reader, why do the planters oil
the Egypt Miss, district stand idly by IN despair
yyhy not up and at EN-? That is just what 'hey
are doing answers " The Mark Lane EXpresS'
The crawfsh has been attacked in every way,
but in vain. Colonies of coons have been est@o-
b,bcd but 10 no purpose" says The Express.
The crawfsh may tear up the surface OF me eSrth'
but the sportive raccoon is on his trail lie
great trouble seems TO he 81 lack Of coons' II
there could be a coon for every orawiish-bet'er'
FL, tbaro were two coons for each maraudering
craynsh-" Tho Express would hopn for better
rcspIts As IL is the ooons are doing what they
can Occasionally frenzied planter scizes a hoe
mr. baseball bat or other weapon and goes out nnd
cocouraces the Woodworking coons by slaughter
ing n few crawfsh himself but 1t seems to make
u,tle dircrcucr On these occasions the poor
coons vyag their striped tails only coon can
and ovnress their satisfaction. II is unfortunat"
that the crawiish has no parasite like the gram
,nhis which IL will be remembered, converts
,r.elf into a hotel on the American plan for the
lepeGt of IFS parasite until at last, too late the
Iicless aphis finds itself inside OF It's parasite
Nature. however, is doing what she can Tor the
crawfsh plague, as The Express says that an
army Of birds hover over the country preyinS on
tbe crawfish. but without diminishing the num-
bers.7 With the light of heaven ooscured ny
great hocks Of birds OF prey, with mighty army
Of hungry crawiish below, and with colonies OF
nlovful tame coons trying to drive them up into
the trees. the outlook is indeed dark. We do
not wonder that there is despair in Egypt ana
Mark Lane There will be- despair everywhere
when the state of things is known For our part
we are free to confess that We do not know what
* to he done about it, We would suggest, how
ever. chat anybody having a supcriuous tame
coon Immediately forward the same 20 the planters
of the Egypt district care of the Editor OF =" The
Mark Lane Express. We this day start the
movement by shipping The Tribunes Office COON
as indicated, per European express.