The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12
A SNOW-SLIDE.

| With these remarks Mr. Brown returned to
| his seat and this exciting incident came to
close.
A sNOW-SLIDE.
Vivid Description of the Little Cottonwood
Avalanche.
| [From the Salt Lake Herald.l
A miner of Little Cottonwood, who
saw the descent of the recent snow-sides
in that canon, thus describes it
"There goes snow-slide |" exclaimed
my companion, as, in the midst of q
heavy sleet, we ascended the canon where
we had been assisting in the exhuming of
the corpse of a victim, at the scene of a
late disaster. EDO you not hear it 2"
and shrin whistling sound which at
tracted my attention, deepened into a
| low, gutteral-like roar, increasing in
volume and power at every instant, until
the artillery of Stone River seemed but
O whisper in comparison.
ssWhere is it?" / hurriedly asked,
while the air at that distance seemed to
tremble in consonance with the motion
of monster still invisible.
From the bed of Little Cottonwood a
smooth incline rises at an angle of twenty
degrees from the horizontal, terminating
In a perpendicular somber wall ], 900 feet
in height, which is again surmounted by
recedlng quartzite cliffs, through which
two narrow gorges cut their way, diver
ging In different directions, and, making
q scallop in the horizon, are lost to view.
Amidst the blood-curdling uproar the
phenomena were invisible till the gorges
at the summit filed the level with the
moving snow. Rocks, as if in rage at
their inability to stand the shock, gave
way from their foundations with an
audible growl. Clumps of trees, CEN
turles In maturing, snapped like stubble,
their dark branches describing the undu-
latlons of the surface as though a strug-
gle for existence was theirs until
overtaken by some more powerful
wave of the avalanche. They sink
gradually and disappear jutting crags
/ of quartZite shake off their disconnected
I portions, which, tumbling down their
jagged sides, bury themselves noiselessly
> In the moving masses that, having united
! at the converging point, rush toward the
! edge of the abyss with increased fury.
: Nothing more terrible than the successive
; tplunges of the disconnected portions of
the avalanche over the precipice can well
: be conceived. Compressed by contact
with obstacles In its course, the van of
i the volume has attained the sohdity of
ice. Retarded by variations of the in
; cline, it seems to pause on the edge of
t the precipice as though in sensitive
dread of the terrible shock which awaited
it Impelled by the tremendous pressure
s behind, it juts over the gulf unsupported
: a distance of fifty feet, until, severed by
its own tremendous weight, it strikes the
earth with crash only neutralized by
the uproar above it. With duller thud
+ and an irregular roar for an echo each
b separate descending body ahghted on its
3 predecessor, piling higher and higher al
3 each successive descent, as preparing FOL
q the grandest tableau of the sublime spec
9 tacle. Higher and higher, until assum
!; ing the proportions of o majestic column
z it conceals the bluff behind it half dis
tant to the top.
t "Win it falla" asked my companion
3 as transfxed by the phenomena he utter
: the first words that have escaped him.
eyes, it must fall. See, it is swayint
already" Great God, what scene
y Colossal in its magnitude, yet symmet
k / rical I'M proportion to the scenery in re
9 lief superb to the vision, indescribabl
In it's destruction. A swaying motion,
graceful sweep, boom indispensable il
: power, the crags and canons no NUT
q auditors of the performance. In tone
. of thunder they hurl back their applause
! Case of Meanness.
. was telling to Uncle Rufus Stebbins
k not long since, the story of q mean man
$ It happened up in New Hampshire, a
old Deans store, in Eaton. It was at
= = time when money was scarce, and whe
! all sorts of trading at the country store
t was done in barter. One day ma
q named Sipper-an old sponge from Crat
!, Hollow,-called at the store, and wante
= darning needle, in exchange for whic
he offered an egg. Mr.. Dean accepte
o the offer-took the egg and furniahe
the needle.
Z Z "Wal," said Slipper, amt ye gei,
q to treat 1"
I "What +" cried the storekeeper, i
SURPRISE" on that trade2"
ssSartin. A trades @ trade, amt il
q Some's big, an some's little but tt
.e little ones may be big ones by'm by"
\ We'll, whatu you have7"
at Slipper said he'd have glass of wine
and the wine was poured oat.
- sSay, MIR. Dean, wouldn't you in
@ put an egg into that ere wine2 Like
ID 80.
1t Ready now to humor so mean man
. any way, Dean broke into the man
n glass the Identical egg which had be<
le paid for the needle, and which, as it ft
le into the wine, proved to have q doub
N yolk-
e "Hii Look herei" demanded 81
ID per. This ere eggs got double vol
IN Don't you think yots ought to giVe n
e, another doy7aiss' needle -
8 "Pooty alfred mean, that, sa
n Uncle Rufe but / think we've q
his beat up in Sagadahock. Sam Pork
e. his name is. Skmmin' milk on the to
ID an then turnin' il over an slimmin' q
Z. = bottom amt a circuAostance. Why, ol
= day Sam happened to be loafn' arour
he Zack Marston's cooper's shop, and
found q STRAY bung- hole an blame me
an he didn't have the cheek TO go in and a
~ Marston to give him a barrel that a0osl
Sc fit that ere 6asag-hoLe !! "-NeU YO
n. Ledger.
o TIE first iron manufactured in t
- United States was made In Pennsylyani
AZ and furnaces were erected and the ira.
ed commenced In 1715. Some jealousy "
,gs ns thereby excited in the mother countr
e so that In 1719 bill was introduced
e the English Parliament to prevent t
It erection of rolling and sitting mills
ed America From the Pesa5ssytv0n
10 so Gazette, published in Philadelphia, y
., learn by a paragraph dated March 13t
f ns 1890, that: g On Sunday night la
.cE died Thomas Rutter, SEN, of short ]
ger ness. He was the first that erected |