Show HE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS mun sUN SINGULAR GULAR SCENES IN JAFFA x letter dated at jaffa palestine julie juno describes describe sa a visitation of locusts as e hows lows X i in tile the month of april last we vre observed twice large black clouds klinc kiino ling smoke moving toafa to and fro as if swayed by tile the wilid wind ohe oho morning came down and prove dito ie lacfi Io custo so great ih number that the tinie whole land was covered etli them rhe hie grain at that time ads was full in ear aj aad nearly lipe ikpe i ipe but the locusts did vot lot r ot xich OF h it or any other vegetation so soa son an after afier however I 1 it was observed ilat flat they buried themselves in the soil a aid ald lid aid there deposited their innumerable eggs r xhu he arabs and peasants saw tile the approaching pro aching mischief efy and went through the land in thousands digging fo fod foe r these eggs they succeeded to a certain de greey greel and destroyed incredible iu numbers ij rs tind with ili ill water and fire but all their had very little effect f about the middle of may small blab black creatures rea tures at a distan distance e resembling jar large lange e ants were observed accumulating in jn large heaps the country and a few days after they had been thus seen they be bean began an to leap and manifested the coming calamity and invasion of the fearful army as described so emphatically I 1 in joel ii li the people now be began bean an to sweep them to together ether and b bury ury or burn turn them chemin in ditches dug du for the purpose but all to little or no effect and as they grew a little margerthe lar larger gerthe the extent of f their multitude began to be s een seen and the coming catastrophe could not be i mib mih mistaken taken the roads were covered with them all marching in regular lines like ilke armies of soldiers with their leaders in front and all the opposition of man to i rest irest their pi ogress progress anva as i in n vala vaia am they first co consumed the plantations around lydda and all the iii ili smaller alier aller villages near them and then entering the towns and villages c consumed on the tle victuals ac in th the mar market ket and street by y degrees forcing for ciner themselves into tl ili til loume louse and an 1 co verill the aen aea i well as inide inside it em that eve even aih which is moistened by their sal gal salici I 1 vt is i poisoned for the cattle that fee on the remnants which are left all lie I 1 myself saw nifty fifty oxen dead in lio ho villages of delta daggon and i ish that had fed fedon fedor on the remnant of lur dut rali rah inizan f indian corn left by the i locusts all ali ail alid the night before last twenty I 1 more dici diu 1 l from the marxe cause aboud two t 0 beeks ago they were seen seea to a fearful extent all around jaffa but still without wing wings the town for several days appeared applied forsaken all shops were w ere shut all ail business suspended almost all the inhabitant ai had gone out io to destroy and aud drive away aay the invading army they tiley made tremendous ditches di and burie boned land fand and burned counties myriads myni myri ads butas but before all in vain for the aw more mone a til they der deA destroyed royed the mote more see seemed 10 to arise from hiding places and as they grew in mie nie size sie so they seem seemed edlo to grow iii in multitude and toward the east earit from here they the covered the tile ground for nor miles and mile miles to a hight of several inches I 1 As ks their wins wings are still too small to amiable enable them to fly and find to visit the everal several hundred gardens within the cultivate il tl part of the district of jamma jaffa they ha have e hitherto confined their destructions destruction true truc tion to the outer gardens of which about anity fiat y have been completely laid waste aste every tery green leaf vegetable tree treb and even tile the bark of young trees devoured q hul hui iid lid these beautiful gardens look fook like a birch tree forest in winter our garden was ohe of the first attacked for several days we ive saw saw the fhe destructive host hosl advancing all our orr farm servants as well as s leeral several lilied hired laborers were wen employed to keep them theto off to I 1 drive them away or bury burg them hut but t ve I 1 found them as joel describe de tile them chap ii vere ver e 7 they shall not b break rez rel a their ranks ranka who can doubt the word of god when uthen we have these evi evl evidences dens before our eyes true our men broke their rank ranks for tor a moment but no sooner r had they passed th the gr men than mhd ehdy closed again aud and ili lil arched marched forward through throng cil ill hedges and ditches dit elies clies as if united by some mysterious power causing them to open before man and to close again as soon as they had bad cassad him on the instant they forced their way into the garden defying all human efforts effort sto to p prevent theland the mand a day the whole gardon j to the extent pf af eight acres aeres was cover covered edwith with them alii alil aili and the trees to the number of three thousand san as ag well as every other green leaf with the exception of the tile palm trees and the prickly pear li hedges edges 0 were stripped ed whether riether eating or drinking reading or writing 61 az lying awake in bed for it is impossible to sleep one hears their noise from without like the noise of armed hosts or of the running of many waters and within they keep dropping on and about you at meals I 1 am kept busy driving them away while I 1 drive half a dozen away from the bread as w many will jump into the sugar basin or even into my cup of tea tle tye and when undressing they leap out of our very clothes without our having known that thia they were there news has just rea readied eheal cheAl p u from froine the olive trees in those mountains been stripped and niver river oude budge the soil is so thickly covered with these creatures that many ninny of the animals led there to drink refuse to pass on another letter of a later date says tha that t they they are in nowise decreasing dec dee decreasing reasin rather tather the 0 opposite every native inhabitant has been teen ordered by government to bring fifteen pound weight of locusts daily dally and those aholo not are fined xa 1 steril sterling each time the T oldest paper in the civilized wo world rid ria is tile the gazette dc dep deF firis which hib iii ili lii in n 1865 enters its year 5 I 1 1 queen Vict viet victorias salary is alo aio about ut two millions per annum |