Yesterday afternoon there was fan immense flight of what were presumed to be locusts over the city. The flight lasted for nearly two' hours and was towards the feast. We have not heard where it fended; Dut wherever it was it was fraught with disaster tothe' farmers. Such immense numbers of ingeets could consume a great: young tice plants. Birds of various Kinds were seen making attempts to eat the flying insects, but in the case of small birds' such sparrows, the attempt was not Their beaks seemed to easly off the backs of the
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