The Minnesota Grasshopper Plague
A gentleman who has recently returned to St. Paul from a tour in "Western Minnesota saya that the grasshoppers have laid waste a section of country 60 miles wide and extending indefinitely from the southern border in the direction of the Northern Pacific Eailroad. At the present rate of progress, the destroyers will run over the border sometime before the close of the season. Dispatches received in St. Paul represent that there are 4000 people in the devas.tated regiĆ³n without food, and in danger of starvation. Legislativo aid is asked. This news merely confirms the predictions that were made last year in these columes as to the probable reappearance of the grasshopper in Iowa and Minnesota, and the great suffering likely to ensue. A more distressing calamity than a visitation of this description can scarcely be imagined.
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