The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-03-19
Letter From Nebraska.

TABLE Rock, NEBRASKA, Feb. Goth, 1875
1Eg;S d MteHigencer: Your weekly visits to
| my Z. o. box continues with uniform reguari.
| ty. Why letters addressed to me by friends in
the east do not come with the same regularity
| and promptness, l cannot tell. Generally the
| AgiS and the Baltimore County Union are at my
pleasure by p NJ, on Tuesday, the week after
they arc issued, and it is real treat to feast the
| eye and mind on their contents. You are par
tiol TO short letters, hence will state facts in
! brief.
| We have had SINCE Jan. : Ii, very cold wealth.
| err. Friday morning, jan 9Th, at about A. NJ
| the wind began blowing strongly from the north
and about 6 A. NJ, the mercury ran down to IS
| below zero, and the wind bowling and the snow
drifting with sand and everything that could
| be detached by the storm, until at times it was
| impossible to see twenty yards from ones door.
! By 6 A. NJ. the following morning the mercury
sank to 22o below zero; aud at Lincoln, 65 miles
! North West, at the same hour, it was 80 below
| zero, but fortunately the storm was less severe in
| point of blowing. No one thought of leaving
heir homes farther than to go to their barns and
stock yards. Our mail agent from Pawnec city
| 6 miles south west of this place, was frozen bad.
! ly, on the morning Of the Sh of January. He
| left Pawnce city for this place with the mail
driving pair of fast horses 10 an open buggy
had himself wrapped in coats, blankets and
| robes until he could not manage TO drive with
| any more. He drove through, running his team
| nearly all the time, but on reaching our depot
he was found to be badly frozen and in u stupid
| condition. One of his horses was frozen severe
| W. its mouth wide open and frozen stiff clear up
| to its eyes. Cold water and snow were profuse.
| ly applied and both horse aud driver in few
DAYS were again on duty
I have been here eleven months, and sum up
| my observations as follows Nebraska has the
grandcst scenery, the finest roads, the largest
grasshoppers, the finest weather, the coolest
and the hottest weather, the hardest winds, the
scyercst storms the finest soil, the best grazing
lands, the best oats, wheat and barley, the fin.
est common stocks of horses, cattle and hogs
and less rain fall than any country / ever saw
Rain don't remember of an hours continued
rain here this winter 1t rGined about half
day in September last, nearly one whole day in
December, and that is about all since last MAY
and june we had n few right good showers
then. The soil can stand an unusual amount of
dry weather; but no vegetation could stand
such hot winds ~ We had here last sea.
son.
Much suffering still exists in the new settle.
ments west of here. People who came here one
and two years ago are The principal sufferers,
their corn crops failing entirely, and having but
little or no small grain their cases are truly
pitiful in many instances. Large amounts have
been sent to different parts Of this State and
Kansas, and these supplies are, generally, such
things MS the neccssaries of life.
A bill has Just passed our Legislature author
izing an election in this (Pawnec) county, to
vote for or against the issuing of twenty thous-
and dollars III bonds, TO be redeemed by taxa
ton in one years Time; said bonds to be sold,
the proceeds to be invested in grain for seed,
etc., and the grain 10 tie sold on one years
time, without interest TO farmers unable to buy
and pay cash. The purchaser, however, is re-
CURED to give the commissioners in charge
good security. This will do much good in our
Judgment, as it will relieve very worthy class
of our settlers.
Money is very scarce and interest high land
sharks numerous, ready 10 seize upon the poor
farmer, like hungry vulIure, take his lfes
blood, simply because he is mean enough to do
it, has the money and can do it,
Any man in the east having few hundred
dollars, healthy family, willing to work. who
| thinks he would like this climate, could do
well here now, in purchasing. Improved farms
are offered very low, from 80 to $50 per acre,
in quantities from forty To thousand acres
1t is stated upon a thorough investigation
that there are only 20 families in this county
that are suffering, or who would suffer if not
relieved by charity; but there are thousands in
the frontier counties whose truthful cry is,
"givc lis bread or we die"
Our Legislature took some action in relieving
the entire State, but we are not acquainted with
the provisions of that bill in particular
But soon spring will come, our icy rivers will
be gushing with foaming water; the trcss will
put forth their leaves 50 green; our praires
will be covered with grass and flowers, and be
filled with joyous bird>; and hearts now sad
and mouths now dumb will be loving and prais-
ing the God whom we now so imperfectly
serve. MORE ANON.