Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1869 — Potato Bugs. [ARTICLE]

Potato Bugs.

A fimeapoiHlciit of the Laportc Union and Herald writing from Valparaiso, says the “Colorado bu-'” or “ton linedSpearinain” ( dccimlinCota) is a western insect traveling eastward at the rate of about fitly miles a year, ami it is calculated tlt«y way reach the Atlantic coast abmit the year 1880. AeiorTing to Dr. Schriner, “the female deposits its eggs to the number of about seven hundred, at interval* during forty days, in somewhat regularly arranged clusters.” Six days after tive eggs are deposited the larra appears. They feed upon the foliage of the plants for about seventeen days when they descend to the ground, anil there change into the pupae state. The perfect beetle appears in about two weeks after tlie pupae is formed, begins to pair in six or seven day's,ami on the fourteenth day the female commences to deposit, her eggs, tuns requiring about fifty days from egg to **gg again. The beetle feeds upon the potato plant but is not uear ’so destructive as the larva. The only remedy yet. discovered to prevent the ravages of the bug is killing them. This must be done by crushing them one by one, or by collecting thetu in some vessel and burning tliem. Now is tbe time to do this if yon would save the potato crop. ‘ -rt mmm oIt is said that if a little corn meal or brail be sprinkled around young plants, it will effectually prevent the ravages of the cut worm. This is a cheap remedy and easily applied. Try it around the young cabbage atul tomato plants. v We have been told that beet seed matures better, and with less blasted grains if a temporary shade of brush or cloth be made over the plants while in bloom. The record* of Connecticut for the year show that the divorces numbered morwtban one-tenth of the marriages. The grashoppers are largely increasing in numbers in Missouri, and depredations are 4aily becoming more extensive v tWo arc fifty Chinese Catholics in S*u Francisco. Some of them sneak Latin fluently and are from the Catholic seminaries <jf China. London has a hospital devoted to the accomodation of sick children, which last year relieved 15,661 patients.

t Small ppx is raging at Idavillc, \Vhjtc county. Mach.nc iuado brick« sell at six dollars per thousand Ul Plymouth. A Woman’s Rights Convention is in session at Indianapolis. C. P. Roswell, of Uentou couuU> planted sixty acres of Ofcuge seed, this season. lion. Jnmes A. Ghormlcy, member of ihu Legislature, from New Albany, died last Sunday of pulmonary disease. Attorney General Williamson sustains the legality of the appropriation hill which was passed by the Legislature at the extra session. The eonditon of the “Old City Grave Yard” is a disgrace to us as a people, says the Laportc Union and IJerald. An infant daughter of Mr. Uriah llaliinger, of Monticdlo, w as taken with spasms on Monday of last week and died in ten minutes. The Winamac Democrat comes to us in a new dress and its typographical appcarauce is very much improved. The papers say that lion. Anson Wolcott, of WJiite county, is preparing to plant 320 acres in apple trees, this fall. The people of Monticello are preparing to lay the corner stone of a new school house, on the third of July next. The eitv fafhers of Kentland have decided to build a town hall, jail and engine room, all under one roof, the building to be 20x40 feet in size. George Bidewolf, a little fellow eight or ten years of age, got his hand terribly lacerated in the cog-wheels of a hand car, at Mouticello, last Saturday week. Mr. Luse, Collector of the port of i Louisville, and proprietor of the New Albany Commercial , contemplates establishing a daily Republican paper at Louisville, Ivy. The ladies and gentlemen of Laporte amuse themselves by raiding on the Indian mounds in that county.- Week ago Monday one party of explorers unearthed u copper hatchet, a pipe moulded in t he form of a woman, ami some arrow heads. Another party went out the succeeding Wednesday and found a few hones. r

The Republicans elected their entire municipal' ticket at Washington City, by over 3.000 majority. A grcattbJß;herK , *meeting is to bo held in Berlin, in which three thousand teachers will participate. Boric, Secretary of the Navy, got desperately seasick 6n a reoent excursion to Annapolis. It is said that he threw up everything but his commission. The telegraph reports a riot at the municipal elections in Washington, on the 7th. One person was killed and three or four wounded. The proceeds of a crictts #n l menagerie exhibition, given at Atlanta. Georgia, on Friday, W'ere devoted to beautifying a portion as the city cemetery, in which a portion of the rebel dead tire buried. The celebrated breach of promise trial of Craig vs. Sprague, at Wheaton, 111., has just been concluded. The jury returned a virdiet in favor of Miss Craig, for the full amount of Iter claim, SIOO,OOO. Pretty sure cure for u broken heart.