Morris tribune., 1881-02-10

father and grandmother, Mrs. Doty and
Mr.. T. Doty, which occurred at POUCH
keepsie, New York, last week. Another
communication from Mr.. o. 8. Hagerman,
who was called home to Ohio by a message
announcing the serious Illness of his
mother, contains the sad intelligence Of
her death and burial before his arrival.
Delays in the transmission of the telegram
announcing her illness deprived him of the
consolation of either being with her during
her last illness, or of even participating in
the last sad rites.
ToUGH-A Mr. Colby, of Alexandria,
left Glenwood on Wednesday of last week
for Morris, having as passengers two COM
mercial travellers, who. with their luggage
made n good load. The party had rough
time of it, ana did not reach Morris until
sunday evening, even then being com,
PEELED to abandon the sleigh and luggage
and walk the last three miles of their
journey. AL, hands were thoroughly ex-
hausted, and were it not that some OF our
townspeople rendered assistance they
would have been compelled to abandon the
team, the horses being badly cut and well
nigh tagged out. from laundering through
the heavy snow drifts.
LECTURE.-For the fifth in the series of
literary and musical entertainments, ar
engagements have been made for the APP
pearance of the Rev. T. McClary, OF Min
neapolis, who will deliver lecture at
Brisbine's hall on Friday evening of next
week. This announcement will give
great satisfaction to all our readers, many
of whom will remember with pleasure the
occasion of the reverend gentlemens pre-
vious visit to our village. The subject
chosen for the occasion is entitled "Sun
shine in Labor" and as Mr. McClary pos
sesses the happy faculty of securing and
returning the attention and interest of his
hearers, we can assure the public that a
rich treat is in store for them Mr. Nc.
.Clary will be accompanied by his daughter
Little Zue" who is al Interesting and ut
tractive little speaker. .. ... ......
COLLISION. accident resulting in the
injury of a conductor and brakeman, and
The burning of cahLose and freight Car,
occurred on this line, near Hancock, early
this morning. A west bound freight train
after leaving Hancock, was stopped after
proceeding about two miles, and the engine
being nearly out of wood and water, came
on 10 Morris for supply. As usual the
customary precautions were taken, tOrpe-
does being placed on the rail some dis
lance in the rear of the caboose, and deem
ing themselves secure, the conductor, Dem
lit, and brakeman, went into the caboose
and laid down to rest Shortly afterwards
an extra freight came laundering along
and crashed into the caboose. injuring the
two as above named, but TO what extent
we are unable to learn, and setting it on
fire. The fire communicated to the ad.
joining Car which was laden with imnli.
grant effects for this place, and both were
totally destroyed. The engineer of the
rear train claims that for some reason the
torpedoes did not explode, at least he did
not hear them if they did.
OYSTER SUPPER, &C The oyster supper
and sociahle given last Thursday evening,
by the ladies of the Episcopal church, was
unfortunately, owing to the stormy state of
the weather, only very sparsely attended
However the few who braved the storm,
were amply repaid for their trouble, as the
supper was both liberal in quantity and ex'
cellens in quality The valuable and di
versifed collection of choice(?l works OF
art. was Il capital burlesque and created NJ
little merriment The collection of ridicu
lous objects was capitally arranged and
contrived, the travesty and caricature being
perfect. and SO wlimsically absurd in theil
extravaganza rs to provoke much merri
ment.. 70 give some idea of the numer
GUS articles or groups which formed the
play upon the titles of the works of art EN-
braced in the catalogue, we will give a few
examples. For instance, the Last lay OF
the Minstrel, by B. Antam." was Il bantam
egg, Skeleton in every home."a hoo,
skirt, View of Red See," the letter c..
colored red, The missing link, by Peters,
II link of sausage from Peters meat mar
ket. Flour of the. family, BY Stone {
sack of flour from Stone s. Co.'S mill
Cain and Abel,'a cane and bell, "a
perfect foot" a twelve inch rule. "Study
of fish in oils,"a box OF sarlines. Som,
eighty eight objects were embraced in thu
catalogue, one and all of which were wei
cuntrived and original in their preposter
business. 1t is to be regretted that more o
our citizens could not attend. ~.
| BUcKING SNOw.--One of the grandes
and most thrilling sights we have seen TO
many Il days, was the working of hug
snow piow, while engaged in clearin,
away the snow drifts which INSTRUCTED tn
track Engine "A. with ponderous iro
plow in front, came down from DOnnell,
Monday morning, where they had bee
storm stayed" over night; and as it wa
Known she was to put in appearance dun
ing the forenoon, crowds assembled a
every available point of observation t
witness the combat At about noon tn
pillow hove in sight, and after little della
in getting mp heavy head of steam an
making ready for a rush at the monstrou
drift accumulated in the wood yard, sll
started ut furious rate, sending tile ZOOS
snow in graceful curves high into the all
and throwing il many feet each side of tn
track u; she rushed madly at the larg
drift. The shock when she struck was tel
rife. the snow going many feet int
the air, in two large, almost solid column.
but the drift was a heavy one, from ten I
twelve feet deep, and despite the momel
tum of the engine, she stopped buried [
the stack, and within q few feet of the en-
of the obstruction. AS soon as the sno
was cleared and the engine freed, auoth'
charge was made, and it was kept up ui.t
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