The Colorado Beetle

The Cologne Oazette statea that, from careful observations and inquirios made since the burning of a potato fteld in tlie neighborhood of Cologne, it is evident that the object of that destruetive procesB has been completcly attoiueil. ïhen ■ ík no furtlier trace visible eitheïof Celoi-ailo beetles or of larVii', DiMtlif-v above the soil nor in the same. Tliere is reason to believe that not one beetle has escaped. The Government has given strict directions to all who may flnd beetles, larvi, or parts of the same, to give them up without delay to the mthorities. The lieivhsanzeiger, in an official piiragi-aph, states tiiat it is not knovm by what means the beetle was ftrst imported into Germany. The Swedish Government has, in _ consequence of its appearunce, prohibited the rportation of potatoes from Westorii