New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
GENERAL NOTES.

A man died the other day in Boston, and
Of his friends offered TO lay out the body It
found necessary 10 call in assistance and an Irshman
summoned In moving the corpse tho head was
left without support and dropped back wherenpon, nat
urally enough eyes and mouth opened The aston.
shed Irishman gave yell and rushed from the room,
calling ont to the monrners wait III get sniirk
and I'll Kill him shure ~ ~
The California papers don't agree as to the
value Of further immigration to that State and the
chances that newcomers will prospect The Sacramento
Bee inclined to think that there people in the
State and asserts that all the Of labor
filed The San Francisco AAa the other hand, while
admitting that there enough idle people IN California.
and that there is there for immigrants who have
well-defned object in view, insists that abundant
opportunities exist for OF energy and courage,
especially II they possess little capital at least have
enough money to sustain themselves for reasonable
time The root Of the matter lies Ia that last clause
which applies not only In California but everywbere
else. The man who goes to a new home without any
money In his pocket almost invariably wishes ne mad
stayed in the old one
A gentleman who went to Aiken, s.. c.. in
December in search OF sweet warm laden with the
odOrs OF pine groves sends 70 THE TRIBUNE melan-
choly of his experience He writes that there
has been mist rain than half the tme and that
the wind IS often bleak and clustering that only
% robust nvaids can so out OF doors. The mercury
has jumped about like acrobat between 80 and 1872
For week the ground frozen SOLID and snow and ice
and wraps when they out doors and gen.
orally keep them on in the house. From October to
April there is no from the pines, though the
natives say there is such thing IN the summer The
houses are properly provided with beating appa
ratus aud visitors from the North beginning 10 think
that they might well have STAYED at home so far as
the temperature 10 concerned No aoaD s mas Deen an
exceptional winter In Aiken 1t has been everywhere
else
A story of almost incredible endurance and
forude comes from the far West with the reports Of
floods and snowstorms Three men, including E. d. N.
Cooke superintendent Of the stage line, started nom
Fort FetermaD on the upper North Platte River for
Rock Creek Station on the Union Pacific Rail rad, on
blackboard drawn by two powerful horses. The snow
was falling fast and drifting badly and before they
reached the twenty-two-mile station they had COM
pleely lost the trail and the horses suffered to
about guided only by their instinct After
time they left the blackboard behind endeavored
TO push forward on horseback At point Mr.. Foote
was nearly killed by his horse, which fell backward into
snowdrft eight feet Deep After this the horses were
abandoned and the men struggled along on foot hands
faces and badly frozen The three men hadth
sacks Of mail and The first would
stand on bis masack and throw the coat ahead of him.
allowing him to take one STEP Then each man would
follow on step by step, and the last picking up the
fourth bag would heave 1t ahead for the first to step
on In this way they made something like three miles
and when the third night set IN they
began calling for help, and 10 hah an
hour or 70 we're answered. Other calls were made
aud they were again answered by the firing OF gun
but the wind was strong they could not form any
idea OF the direction 1t from. Again ana agaln
they called and finally light seen; and IN an hour
and half they made the last quarter OF mile nndnR
the starting point The dryer lad to be dragged the
knew that safe, it seemed impossible for me g
Ta fen s n IN seneh the 70 w is%
entering the barn could not eat