The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-18

r,"'' o' the ulN. LONDON s great white,
, silent ciy. The SCOT and Crime of the
Town have not yet made the Snowa IA vas, col.
i'ction "t dit. There has been miuhtv
W'nd' ana the snow lies here and there in
"r'''S' hvc or SIX feet deep. Last night it
was up to ones knees in Regent street an
Portland Place. he on,nt;I;
running. few cabs. ~ SAI1NS,,
along the ''....a Designs. On, ,u, ... :,
.y "ry h2BRUSHES. night Mr. pirra,, ii Ia
SAS '"S'iivd for the nLt ,nd ',' ~,
my "" w's about tn retire. IIr ,,;,t,J
'bedTr, ''ch log {" put il on the fir, nm ~
was ", '''S tel with II, and was up,bl, 49, :.
! ccds Sc' out OF the fire. Mrs GooJr,s,a,
and h "''n ia'', but owing To h. in,ir,m;,;
In sonI "hao'c to do anything toward rrI;nr;n
much as Y t9 IL kn amy al. .... ,l,.. 't,'''n
the weather is ~ last, by almost supcrbuma,
storms having swept thct t>,:f bed to her bro,Lrr
John o Gruat'S to Lana - an, :,
| lIollyhcad Railway was yesterday blockcu
with snow at Abcr, and the passengers by
the Irish express had to be taken back
again to Bangor. i" not know how the
weather may have affected the Amcrican
mail, but no papers nor letters have reached
me since the posts that arrived il the mid
die Of last week. At st Ives, after light
iny through tremendous seas and being twice
driven back, lille boat saved tive men from
French schooner that had struck the rocks.
Off the northeast coast two vessels are known
to have been totally lost with all hands,
At liarwich 4 lilo boat going to ship in
distress was cnp>izrd. Two coal vessels were
dashed upon the new railway steamboat
pier at Rydc, causing damage to the extent
of $50 900 Along some of the railway
Il, a., E,,f
Even trains from Brighton Can hour from
London) were obliged oput back. In Scot
land, Inverness aud foriar are without wa
ter, and the frost and snow have stopped
the supply of gas at kirkcaldy. The Cal
edonian Canal'is frozen up, and in Lcith
Docks the sailors walk to their ships on the
ice in which tho vessels are imbCddcd Six
ty persons have been admitted to the Lon
don hospitals within the past twcntyiour
hours with broken limbs and contusons from
accidents arising out of the weather The
'circular wind yesterday, something like
that which swamped the Eurnicc, flung
people down i'll the streets. Whistles wcro
blown in vain for cabs ut the West End
clubs. The Thames, chokcd with floating
ice, rose last night under the influence of Il
high tide and the wind. 1t burst in tor
rents upon the low lying districts between
AVestmiHis.er aEa. BIacS SfriarS - Jtagc.. Tho
scenes Of misery and distress that resulted
from the inundation were hcawending.-
D Hundreds Of poor families were struggling in
the snow to recover their "houschold gods"
: from the torrent. Many bargcs were
sunk, one Of them containing Il valublc car
go of preserved meat. The tel 'graphic de-
= : partmcnt Of the general postoilicc announc-
ed last evening that communication with
the provinces is almost entirely suspended.
At Gloucester the roof Of the Great Wcs-
tern Hallway depot was carried away by the
wind. AT Gravcscnd the Customs steam
u launch was sunk and the Survey steam dock
- tug was wrecked. The new railway pier
was also destroyed. In Dcvcnshiro tho
) London mail train was completely showed
; up at Brilcstow. The trade of Portsmouth
was closed, the snowdrlts i'll parts most
" exposed to the channel winds being from
five to eight feet high In many largo
cities the tramway cars and omnibuscs have
S not been running for two days. The steam
C crs for Holland and France did not venture
S out yesterday. At Wolvcrhampton. a ter
% race Of elevated houses had every chimney
e stack torn down by the wind, and in each
K case they fell through the roof into the bed
l. chambers. The snow continues 10 fall
+ while write, and is blown about by the
. wind in binding clouds An army OF Ia
!. borcrs is digging passage for such traffic
|. rs remains around the parks The cold is,
o however, nothing like so intense as in Amcr>
y lea. but it is more trying, probably. because
. it is uIaccompaincI by the atmospheric dry
o ness and clear skies which characterize win,
/. ter weather in the United States.
DEATH FROM COLoRED SroCKINGS.--