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Show Grasshoppers At Work in S;m Pete and Beaver Counties Prosperous Spring City and Other points Boston Wool Market and a Report Re-port from Utah- ARtporterof the Knt.isTtK took a run ovei to Manli the other day and was permitted to see, on the highway, a portion ol the grand army ol U ippers that are and have been infesting tins portion ol San fete lor Some time. Trie army no extends fioin near Chester Ches-ter on the north to within one mile of Manti on the south. The hay meadows are full of tliem in places, and the ("uteri ("ut-eri are busy getting up their hay in order to save it. At Manti the pests are doing much damage. Hon. J. H. Hon-gaard Hon-gaard reports having lost about 11 acres of very fine oats. Much grain as well as h ay is 'e"K taken and serious doubts are entertained entertain-ed lor next year, as it is said the hoppers aie"mating ' an I when theyare at this stage they never leave any locality local-ity until they have deposited their eg?- The pei. file may yet repent having paid so little attention to the warning given them by Hp. Dorious, ofl-phiaim, and others b ith through die Reo ister an d other ways. A vigoiuiis warfare war-fare then might have greatly reduced their numbers, tut that task will almost be a hopeless one next year from ptes-ent ptes-ent indications, as the niytiads of them now in the field, will be multiplied per haps 10 fold; still we hope for the best and teel satisiied that the people will not give up without a stiuh'gle, (we know from past expetience that the "hoppers" will not ) It is to be hoped that these f jrebodui rs will not be realized, real-ized, and that the Grasshoppers will leave before they lay their egs. The Beaver t 'toman says the Glass hoppers are doing much damage at Muiersville. that county. It stems that this little village of Miueisville isdoomed to perpetual annoyance and almost utter desttuclioti from one pest or another. an-other. Some yeais she is almost eaien out ol existence by the lacktabbits, again she has the grasshoppers, a.id all the time she is troubled wuh a scare. ty of water amounting toalmost a drought. |