The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-02-13


up or come down; the hills were cover
ed with deep folds of frost log, and IL
the valleys the same tog seemed dark
dense, and as it were crushed together
An old shepherd, predicting a storm
babe him watch for sudden opening
thro' this fog, aud expect wind from
that quarter; yet when he saw such an
opening suddenly form at midnight,
| (having reached his own home,) he
thought all delusion, as the weather
| had crown milder, and a thaw seemed
setting in. He therefore went to bed,
and felt no more anxiety for his sheep;
yet he lay awake in spite OF himself,
and at two O'clock he heard the storm
| begin. 1t smote the house suddenly,
| Ike a OF eat peal Of thunder; something
utterly unlike any storm he had ever
before heard. On his rising and thrust
ing his bare arm thro' hole in the roof,
it seemed PRECISELY as If he had thrust
it into a snow>bank, so denseIy was
the air filled with falling and driving
particles. He lay still for an hour,
while the honSe rocked with the tenn
pest, hoping it light prove only a hnr-
ricane; but as there was no abatement,
he wakCned his companIon>shepherd,
telling him sit was come on such a
night or morning as never blew from
I the heavens" The other at once arose,
and opening the door Of the shed where
they slept, found drift as high as the
farmhouse already heaped between
them and its walls, distance of only
fourteen yards. He foundered thro' ,
Hogg soon following, and finding all
the family up, they agreed that they
must reach The sheep as soon as posi-
BILE, especially eight hundred ewes that
were in one lot together, at the tarthest
end of the farm. So, after family pray
ers and breakfast, four of them stuffed
their pockets with bread and cheese:
sewed their plaids about them, tied on
their hats, and taking each his staff, set
out on their tremendous undertaking,
two hours before day,
Day dawned before they got three
hundred yards from the house. They
could not see each other, and kept to-
gcther with the greatest difficulty
They had to make paths with their
slaves, rolled themselves over drifts
otherwise impassable, and every three
or four minutes had to hold their heads
down between their knees to recover
breath. They went in single file, taking
the lead by Turns. The master soon
gave out anu was -pcechless and semi>
conscious tor more than an hour, tho
he afterwards recovered and held out
Milh the rest. Two OF them lost their
headgear, and Hogg himsell fell over Il
high precipicc, but they reached the
flock at hal,>past ten. They found the
ewes huddled together in a dense body,
under ten feet OF snow; packed 50 close
ly, that to the Amusement OF the shops
herds, when they had eXtricated the
first, the whole flock walked out one af
ter another, in a body, thro' the hole.
! How they got home it is impossible
to tell. 1t was now noon and they
sometimes could see thrC' the storm for
twenty yards, y but they had only one mo-
mentary glimpse Of the hills through
all that terrible day. Yet Hogg per-
sisted in going by himself afterwards
to rescue some iocks Of his own bare
/ ly escaping with life from the expedi,
ton; his eyes were sealed no with the
storm, and he crossed a formidable tor.
rent, without knowing it, on wreath
of snow. Two OF the others lost theme
selves in deep valley, and would have
persisted but for being accidentally
heard by neighboring shepherd, who
guided them home, where the female
portion Of the family had abandoned
all hope of ever seeing them again.
The next day was clear, with cold
wind, and they st forth at dayobreak
to seek the remainder Of the flock The
face OF the country was perfectly trans
formed; not u bin was the same, not a
brook or lake could be recognized
Deep gIens were filled in with snow,
covering the very tops Of the trees; and
over a hundred acres Of ground. under
average depth Of six or eight feet, they
were to look for four or five hundred
sheep. The attempt would have been
hopeless but for a log that accompa>
MED them: seeing their perplexity, he
began suutfing about, and presently
scratching i'll the snow at a certain
point, and then looking round at his
master: digging ut this spot, they found
sheep beneath. And so tie dog led
them all day, bounding eagerly from
one place 10 another, much faster than
they could dig the the creatures out, SO
that he sometimes had twenty or thirty
nUleS marked beforehand. In this way,
within week, they got out every sheep
on the farm except four, these last being
buried under a mountain OF snow fifty
deep, on The top Of which the dog had
marked their places again again. In
every case the sheep proved to be alive
and warm, though half sutfocated; on
being taken out, they usually bounded
away swiftly, and then fell helpleSsly
IN few moments, overcome by the
change OF atmosphere; some then died
almost instantly, and others were car
ried home and with difficulty preserv-
ed, only about sixty being lost in all.
Marvellous TO tell, the country people
agreed afterwards to re-
fer the whole terrific storm to some se>
cret incantations OF poor Hogg's litera-
ry society aforesaid; it was generally
maintained that a club of young dare
devils had raised the Fiend himself
among them in the likeness of a black
doS, the night preceding the storm,
aud he young students actually did not
dare to show themselves at tairs or at
markets for year afterwards.
L-Atl'atsv nouthly.
During the Two centuries ana half of Span
sh domination there was c,rcely sign OF life !
md progress inChji- In 1908 the total amour,