Nebraska Advertiser

A special telegram from Yankton, D. T., of the 10th inst., to the Omaha Republican, says:

The grasshoppers have been here fourteen days, evidently awaiting a north wind, and have committed great ravages to the growing crops. They lit yesterday as far east as Fort Dodge, Iowa, and river men report them west and north of Fort Randall. They took flight this afternoon south in great numbers, though not as thick as I have seen them. Between here and Sioux City gardens are generally destroyed. Corn is very greatly injured, some fields being utterly ruined. Local papers are suppressing the truth by ignoring the actual condition of things. It would seem that Nebraska, unfortunately, must experience another locust visitation, being already upon her northern and western borders; but from here I do not expect such a fearful devastation as two years ago, since they do not seem to be so numerous, and the season is much more advanced.

The hoppers have not as yet visited this county, nor any part of Southern Nebraska. We heard of a few in the Republican Valley, some two hundred miles west of Brownville, but their stay was short, and no damage to speak of was done. We do not anticipate any trouble from the pest this fall. Our nearly constant winds from the south and southwest during the warm seasons of the year will prevent such a visitation from the grasshopper regions of Minnesota and the north, the only direction from which any danger is apprehended this year.