| Show correspondence 1 nies lies refuted related toquerville may 1877 editor deseret News in the salt lake of may maj 11 there is some corre from toquerville headed bilking the sick saints sainta anice priestly I 1 game the Saint esses and gentiles mill ILC permit us through your valuable and interesting paper to reply to this his lying correspondent for the fact ot of its being published in the columns of the is sufficient evidence of its scurrility now for the facts in the case the party referred to by this lying scribbler who dare not publish hi his is name was got up for the benefit of the sick and needy seedy of this thia place and not for a sick brot herand heraud the young ladies had not charge of the party nor its proceeds iroc eeds but M black had the sole control the proceeds of the party were forty nine dollars not sixty as the liar far asserts and have been distributed as its follows to C grainger fourteen dollars to ij groves on a ged aged widow five dollars to J bowyer five dollars seven dollars and twenty five cents were paid for music and lights seventeen dollars and seventy five cents were placed in the store subject to the order of mrs einman kleinman Ki the president of the belief society for the benefit of the sick and needy five collars were tendered to W W ham blo buo luu guu would not accept of it hence the proceeds did not go into the pockets of george and martin slack first counsellor and tithing clerk neither were the sick saints bilked As officers of the mercantile coop 3 thousands of dollars are deposited in our hands by gentlemen from silver reef and other places who do not require the scratch of a pen for security but bul who dare abede deposit money with the r or its lying corps of correspondents respectfully georue GEORGE sei SPI LS M SI acu ACK the tho grasshopper or br locust i to the editor of the western rural the locust grasshopper and mantis are all of the same species although known by detomo to be quite distinct insects theary the gry ory thes ious or asiatic grasshopper hor hoe P er or locust as it is sometimes ca called led ia Is the farmers pla pia plague guein in several of the states and much attention is being paid for fon the destruction truc tion of these pests the following account may perhaps lead to an investigation and prove of service should the african bird be introduced to this country in a zoological description of south africa published by wenly henry 0 bohn london 1851 isai in his universal geography founded on the works ot malte maite brun and Bati ethe following account of the locust bird can be found The ther locust bird a species of thrush congregate in places where locusts migrate and feed upon the larvae of the insects in 1828 abany was and almost every vegetable substance i consumed by locusts but ina irka short time them these were followed by my reads of locust birds which speed ily lly cleared them off again in an |
