Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1877 — A Snow-Bound Family. [ARTICLE]

A Snow-Bound Family.

A case where a family was literary snowed in and not able to hold communication with their neighbors for nearly a week has just come to our notice. On Saturday last two of our citizens who had been attending a turkey shooting match in South Brighton, having more fowls in their possession than they cared for, determined to present a pair to an invalid friend who lives in the neighborhood. They accordingly drove in the desired direction, and after considerable plowing through immense snow-drifts and an upset or two, reached the premises, which extend a considerable distance in front of the house. But on arriving it was found there was no path to the house and ingress seemed impossible. One of the gentlemen, however, after nearly a half-hoof's floundering through the drifts, succeeded in beating nis way in with the greatest difficulty viy taking the top of the -fence aa a support. On reaching the house it was with difficulty that he could ascend the front steps, owing to the drifted snow. His arrival was hailed with satisfaction

bv the family, which was then composed of only the invalid gentleman ana his daughters, who explained that they had been thus mowed In for nearly a week, having been totally unable to hold any communication with their neighbors, as the road waa comparatively untraveled and the houses were far apart. They said, however, that they bad not suffered, as a good supply of hams, mackerel, salt pork and cider remained in tho cellar. They had found it useless to attempt to shovel their way out, as tho drifts were so high and the house was so far back from the road. On the 1 following day two men and a plow were dispatched by their visiters to “shovel them out.” — Jiocheeter (N. Y.) Exprett.