The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-02-17

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built the past season by Capt. Jno.
IL. Monk, for Messrs. Weherie,
Werk & Co, Of Middle Bass, more
f than answered all expectations in
the ease with which she plowsd her
way through frldr of ice ou her
way from Middle BASS ana the IsI-
ands TO Sandusky and back For
weeks after the other Island boats
bad stopped lunniug. this brave lit
tie propeller was daily seen entering
The Bay and running races with
men and boys on skates OF horse
ana cutter Great crowds would
congregate on the docks at Sandus
Ky to watch the Eagle plow her way
through eight and ten inches of ice,
apparently without unusual effort
But when the ice bridge had gained
a depth Of twelve inches, and no
open water was left, the brave little
vessel gave it up and went into win
ter quarters.
The number of lives lost by drown
ing, of those who trust themselves
to the treacherous support of our
ice bridges, Is not large, but there
are always more OF less of such in
stances. The first we heard of this
winter was German, who left his
companions and started for home,
across an arm of the Bay. As he
was never heard of afterwards, it is
supposed he broke through the new
ly formed ice and was lost.
The second was man, whose
horse andcutter broke through the ice
near the end of one of the docks at
Sandusky. There were two men in
the cutter. One saved himself, but
was unable to assist his companion,
and while he was gone after help the
man, horse and cutter disappeared
The man was found the next day /
under the ice.
To break through the ice is a
matter of such frequent occurrence
that nothing strange is thought Of
it, and the occasional loss of a horse
or sleigh is only cause for an item of
news. The loss Of human life is
much more rare, and yet winter
scarcely passes without one or more
instances transpiring,
We are building an extension of
our dock here this winter. Last
week, while the teams were hauling
stone over the ice along the lake
shore, bob sled loaded with stone,
broke through the ice. The driver
jumped of, and unfastening the
double-trees, saved his team from
being drawn down with the sled.
The team following were so close
that the driver could not stop them,
and they plunged into the opening.
Assistance was close at hand, how
ever, and while some held the horses
by the brides, others cut the har
ness away and with ropes proceeded
to choke the animals This is inva-
riably the first move made, for as
soon as the horses wind is cut off
he ceases to struggle and turns over
on his side. when lie can be pulled
out on the ice by head and tail
Last Monday and Tuesday we ez-
periencad the most severe north
east snow-storm known to that "a
nous individual, the oldest inhabit-
ant" For siz houEs the wind blew
with 81 velocity averaging nearly fifty
miles an hour-highest "a miles.
5now-drifts accumulated at various {
places to the height of 4, and 10
feet. The days following days were
cold, the mercury ranging i
rom four above to u below zero. s
Altogether we are having one Of the J
'snuggest" winters imaginable. |
The peaches are oil killed, say the t
but that is nothing new. '
They are killed every winter Seri- {
,usly, 7 think they are badly hurt, t
1ut how much it is impossible to 1
ell. I
Leo Weltz, of WILMINGTON, writes v
ne that Col. Trimble has ordered !
800 of the variety euphoniously O
.alled the "Gudgeon," and praises t
he fruit very highly. have fruited I
t here from trees procured of Mr.. Z
Yeltz, and find it much inferior to Z
3mock and Salway. Mr. Weltz says a
7e think too much of the Salway. o
f he viii come up here in October [
We will show him such peaches (the G
d a
5alway) as he had never dreamed Of a
or delieiousness and beauty.
Yours very truly, J. W. G. Q