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Show Cricket Eaid. They have got crickets bad in Nevada, .The Elko Independent of last Saturday says : The blacks are again upon the war path the black crickets. A belt of them, said to be one mile wide and of unknown length, marching southward, stiuek the Humboldt river about six miles above Elko on Wednesday last. Their -number was so great and the individual in-dividual crickets of such -formidable size that horses became frightened and could not bo forced through , the moving mass. Beaching the river, the front rank wavered, but the pressure was so great from the rear that they plunged into the stream and blackened its sur face fir hours, about two-thirds of the number reaching the opposite shore. Our informant states that the river presented an animated scene during the passage of the crickets- fish gathering gath-ering from far and near to participate in the feast, and as the crickets would attempt to escape, the trout kept the surface of the water in constant agitation, agita-tion, by leaping into the air after them. The he.aira was from north to south, and some democrat, having no respect for a fallen foe, suggests that, "seeing the election returns, the blacks have abandoned Idaho altogether " Cricket armies are not to be sneezed at "when they go marching along." |