MILLIONS OF CROWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2178, 17 February 1881, Page 2

MILLIONS OF CROWS.

The latest " yarn" from America is the following, which we take from a late number of the Lexington B.C. " Press." It; ii & little " teller " than usual, but coming from such an excellent authority as the above it must, of course, be quite true : —" A gentleman who resides near the elegant premises of Mr Inksheep, about six miles north of our cily, reports what is probably the mos stupendous thing in the way of a crow-roost that has over been seen since Noah's crow went to roost in the olive tree. The roost is in the magnificent woodland of Mr Inksheep, and our informant estimates the number of birds at 150,000,000. He says the largest oa trees have been uprooted and smaller ones crushed into kindling wood by their weight ; that the noise made by them is so great that people for three miles around have to stuff cotton in their ears and ure only enabled to communicate with each other through speaking-trumpets after the crows begin to assemble. Cattle weighing 1500 pounds have been killed by the birds and their bones picked clean, and the skeletons of hogs and sheep, which weighed 150 to 200 pounds, are dangling from the trees, where the crows have carried them, and the whole country is strewn with bones, as in the prophet's vision of " the Valley of Johoßaphat." Shooting at them :'■ exceedingly dangerous. A gentleman in the employ of Mr Inksheep fired two shots into one of the trees and narrowly escaped suffocation from the falling birds,"