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Show Grasshoppers. Mr. Milando Pratt, recently arrived from Bear Lake Valley, informs us that the grasshoppers grass-hoppers had visited that county and destroyed about one-third of the crops, principally at St. Charles and Round Valley. Still, there will be a plenty to bread the people and leave a surplus The pests had gone in a northwesterly direction from there. As Mr. Pratt was coming to this city by way of Ogden Valley, he passed through an immense host of grasshoppers ou Blacksmith's Fork, apparently g"ing towards Cache Valley, as they, too, were moving in a northwesterly direction. I' would be a relief of no ordinary kind if these destructive insects were to take a permanent per-manent departure from the Territory. |