Show THE grasshoppers BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS I 1 A LETTER netter R in the st paul prem press dated Win clone minn minu may 22 says there are arc fields which a few daya days ago proui promised hied an abundant harvest that today to day arefa arenas destitute or of anything green or verdant as the streets with within in your city and this thi is the work of the grasshoppers and they aro arm riot not yet as large as common house flies what may we expect when they become be collie full grown if they are not by a merciful providence destroyed it was in yiew view of these fact t at the people of several counties i inferred red together and concluded to meet in to consid consider eithe erthe the best and most proper means of providing against this areat reat calamity and I 1 speak what I 1 lo 10 0 know when I 1 say that it was never in the minds mainds or of arl any that this convention should be called for the purpose of asking for more present reller relief and the only question that will be discussed at that thal convention is ivi whether lether if it becomes necessary we will ask our pur i neighbors to furnish us with su sufficient frici 1 eatlo to sustain us lis for another year and remain and prepare our farms for another crop or abandon our new but pleasant homes other newspaper reports state that the inhabitants of half a score secre of counties iu in that part of the union are rennet rennee fleeing ing before the gras grasshopper er visit visitation atlon ution as people sometimes do before the pestilence 1 f T that i ba ama tea it rf may i y |