Watch Your Carpets--a New Pest

Considerable outcry (says the Rochester Union and Adrertiser) is boing made in neighboring villages concerning the ravages of a new pest that has lately arisen, nainely, the carpet bug. These bugs are desoribed as being about twioe the size of the common cimix lectularius, or bed bug, and covered with hair. Their color is a muddy back. The first time these bugs were heard from in tliis section was at Danville last year, whero they did considerable damage. This" year they have increased and extended their territory, for it seems that they have becone a source of extreme annoance in Brockport. A lady who resides in that village informed a reporter of this paper yesterday that there is not a single house that had escaped their depredations. In her house, she says every room was invested with them, and they had eaten'large holes in every carpet in the house. Their favorite mode of procedure is to folio w the seam of the boards and eat their way clear through. In some instances the carpet had been eaten clear through so clean that it looks as if it had been cut with a very sharp knife. In other rooms they had eaton large patches out of it, generally picking out th9 center of a breadth. The lady referred to says she has tried everything to get rid of them, but without avail. Tobacco seems to niake them livelier than ever, and as for bug poison, they regard it as a luxury and grow fat on it. We have not as yet heard of them making their appearance in this city, although being so close to us, it would be reasonable to oxpect a visit from them at any tiins. In the meantime, perhaps some of our scientific men wüi have a remedy jrepared for them.