Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The blizzard which recently spread itself over the _country was particularly severe in the Eastern States. The tide along Cape Cod was the highest known in many years. The snow in Maine and Vermont is in many places five feet deep. The mails at New York suffered marked delay. Convicts at Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, saved" the lives of three men found clinging to the riging of a wrecked schooner, and the life-saving crew at Scituate rescued fourteen men from two vessels. It is estimated that more damage was done during forty-eight hours on that part of the coast than for the past ten years. Eight vessels were reported ashore at Truro and Provincetown, Mass., bnt no lives were lost. In New York City from four to six horses were required to each street car. A woman was blown from a sidewalk into a cellar. A party of about sixty ladies and gentlemen living on Staten Island left in the evening, to attend the theaters or the opera in New York. They could not land, owing to the severity of the storm, and were compelled to remain on board the boat all night. The schooner Mary G, Farr, of Philadelphia, caught fire at sea, off the New Jersey coast during the storm. The boat was wrecked and every soul on board was , lost. At Pittsburg the snow blockade was unprecedented, railway trains being entirely abandoned for a dime. In the Northwest the storm did great damage, It is believedthat, in Southern Illinois, the peach crop is killed. The mercury ranged from 50 below zero in Manitoba to 11 above at Mobile. Irwin Underhill was frozen to death near Elgin, 111., John Lang at Burlington, lowa, and a letter-carrier froze his feet and hands at Evansville, Ind. The cold wave extended south to tlie Gulf of Mexico, and at Galveston, Tex., a man was frozen to death. In Florida the manges remaining on the trees are frozen, aud their loss will probably be complete. In Arkansas the thermometer reached 4 deg. below. In Louisiana, throughout the sugar belt, it fell to an average of from 1 to 12 deg. above, and iu one locality in Texas the cowboys were astonished to find it 4 deg. below. The area of low thermometer seems to have extended through the entire range of Southern States, round the coast from Texas to Maryland, accompanied by more snow than the people have seen there for years. The billiard match between Vignawx and Schaffer has been made, and the stakes of $2,500 a side are in the hands of the stakeholder. .. .A fight for $2,500 a side has been ranged by Joe Coburn between Paddy Ryan .and. John L, Sjjllivau v t<) take place ...in a. room, with five friends of each contestant attendance.. Louis and Cairo Railroad has been leased by the Mobile and Ohio Road for a term of forty-five years at $165,000 a year.