The Columbus journal., 1881-03-09

dwelling, barns and sheds this win,
ter because of his seven acres of tim.
Der to the north and west of them
He says that timber for protection
should be about 200 yards from
buildings, then the drift does not
reach them.
During the storm Hulst & Price
shipped two car loads Of corn from
Fremont to supply the demand here
until farmers could reach the town
with their surplus. They are enti-
tied to the thanks of the communi-
ty. especially as it was done as a
matter of accommodation and not
to make profit.
Some farmers are already pre-.
pairing for machine work. We saw
two Ssturdsy--one slowing corn
plows into his wagon, the other in
quiring for extras for a seeder.
While the snow lies on the ground,
one to fourteen feet deep, it looks
like personificstion of Faith to see
these things thus.
1t really did not snow last FRI
day from the clouds in this imme-
diste vicinity, but the usual Nebras-
ka March "zephyrs" lifted the snow
from Mother Earth and sent il a ying
thick and fast through the air, and
a stranger, not accustomed to the
sight, would have pronounced it al
old fashioned snow storm.
Two splendid looking locomo-
tives passed through the city west
ward bound Saturday, for the Utah
and Northern narrow gauge road.
The country west of us is develop
ing rapidly, and in few years Ne
braska will be the centre of pOpula-
tion and wealth, ss she now is the
geographical center of the Union.
If q newspaper comes to you
through the mail, and you continue
to receive it from the post-oftice you
are, under the law, obliged to pay
for it, whether you ever ordered it
sent to you or not. If you wish to
discontinue any periodical, at any
time, pay up what you owe and then
refuse to take it from the post-office.
We are in receipt of communi-
cation without signature, apparently
written by farm hand who has had
heavy work to do in the storms, and
has not slept on the downiest beds
or lived on the finest of victusls.
There are thousands of such, not
only "hired" men, but "bosses," too.
In fact, we are all roughing it, more
or less.
The Nebraska farmer is more
than ever convinced that shelters for
stock should be close and substan-
tial. During the civilized life of the
state, stock enough have perished in
storms to pay the cost of erecting
good lumber shelters on every farm,
and it should hereafter become
special object with every stock raj
ser to provide ample, close shelter
for every beast.
The Columbus Gazette, edited
by VIM. Burgess, made its fret ap-
pearance Tuesday of last week. 1t
is a seven-column folio, patent out
side, neatly printed, ably edited, and
modestly asks for such place in the
public favor as its just merits and
value as a recorder of local events
may entitle it to. In the same spirit
its contemporaries will welcome it
to the ranks of journalism, where
honest emulation to serve the pub
lie in the best possible manner is the
ruling spirit.
"A gentleman Of this county had
two dissgreeable incidents happen
to him, showing what trouble
small mistake may cause. First he
received a money order from a dis
tant state, but it was made out for
Columbus, Ohio, instead of Coulum-
bus, Nebraska, and had to be sent
back for rectification to where it
came from. Next a draft on New
York was sent to him by a learned
man who had written on the back
Of it, "Pay to -" naming our
friend, but had neglected to sign
his own name, and 40 it had to 90
back, too! In both cases considers
BILE delay and trouble and some ex-
pense were caused by SO small a
mistake.
The events of the last few weeks
have had tendency to convince the
that there is something,
after all, in the Mother Shipton
prophecy Of the end of the world in
1881. The elements of nature, at
least those OF the snow-producing
kind, have been "on the war-path,"
80 to speak, SO that the once "besu-
tiful snow" has become not only Sc
verely monotonous, but a very SER
ious Inconvenience. He who has
never seen our "blizzards" knows
nothing of their fury. The storm Of
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
last was fair sample Of what a Ne
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