The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-29
l'ELEGRAPHIC.
ENGLAND SNOW BOUND.

ENGLAND SNOW BOUND.
LONDON, January 1.-The whole
country is suffering more severely
than can be imagined from the really
Arctic weather of the past week. Al
though communicates between most
Of the great towns has by this time
been reopened, many hamlets and
villages are still completely cut off
from the world without by the snow
and ice, for which, as a matter of
course, people are less prepared here
than in America. Food is scarce,
cattle are frozen stiff in their sheds,
and at least score of human beings
have persisted in the street. The
Queen at Osborne, in the Isle Of
Wright, and the Prince of Wales,
who is here in London, have manag-
ed to get about in sleighs over roads
impossible for their vehicles, an ex-
ample which tradesmen in the towns
might follow with advantage. AT
present, however, the shop-k eeping
classes seemed stunned and helpless
under this unusual visitation, and
their customers suffer accordingly.
In Pail Mall and Piccadilly there
are entertainments of snow five feet
high in the country districts the
roads are actually on level with the
hedges, while there are drifts fully
fifteen feet deep in many places. The
Thames above the bridge is frozen
over, and thousands of skaters are
enjoying themselves upon its icy
surface. In the poorer parts Of Lon
don scarcely any drinking water is
procurable. Trade is entirely sus-
pended except in the necessaries OF
life. Outside of London letters can
only he delivered by foot messen-
gers, all wheeled traffic being imp0s-
sible. The railroads are only kept
open with the greatest difficulty the
other business of the country is car
ried on by means of narrow foot
tracks cut through the snow. Moth
ing like the present weather has been
known since the great frost of 1914,
when bullocks were roasted on the
ice in the completely fr0Zen-over
Thames. London ran short of Goals,
and the Solway was frozen over.
DECISION IN A RAILROAD SUIT.
New YORK, January 24.-Suits
have been brought by Elias Asiel and
others and Maurice Seligman against
the Kansas Pancific Railroad in the
Common Pleas Court to recover in
terest on certain cOuponds. and for
interest on number of bonds which
the company issued three years ago,
and which are still unpaid. The
company set up as answers in both
cases that ii had been consolidated
with other railroad companies under
the name of the Union Pacific Rail
road Company; that the bonds in
question were secured by mortgage
in which foreclosure proceedings had
been taken in the United States
courts of Kansas, and motion was
recently made to transfer them to the
United States court in this city. A
motion was made to-day by plaintiffs
for Judgment in their favor, on the
ground of frivolous answers put in
by defendants and other reasons, and
Judge j.. r. DAILY ordered Judgment
foi plaintiffs in beth cases.
THE PENNsYLVANIA SENA FORSYTH.
HARRIsBURGH, Pas. January "a.
The seventeenth ballot for Senator
taken to day did not differ material.
" from that Of the past four day s.
The only Democrat from Allegheny
county voted for the Republican eau
Gus nominee. This was the only
dssertion from the Democratic ranks.