Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-02-05

cines, telling us that We Will have another
week OF it. We are no longer in the dark, i,
for he brings us candles. He also brings
ten or a dozen essential drugs and installs
me doctor and nurse for the train.
Friday, 26.-Ten more men went down
the road to-day, including Colonel Skinner,
the mail route clerk and both express
agents. We have beef from that killed on
the island, and the rescuers and shoyelers
go TO work well fed and encouraged. have
a sick baby on my hands and a man in the
smoking room who was hit in the pit of the
stomach with shovel, as he fell at the
shock of the engine collision al Hood River.
The poor fellow is a car-painter from The
Dalles, and has no business out in the cold.
He is patched up with medicines and no,
drinks, but looks like death as he lies there
in the cold. At i:30 we were pulled back
to Niento, where there il a very fat Irish
woman cooking in the section house.
Saturday, 2I.--lt is much warmer, aud
We have hot biscuit for breakfast from the
section house. and Major Duxbury goes to
the profigate extent OF buying pies from the
thrifty dame. 1t is stormy, and the snow
tiurries keep going up and coming down the
mountain. Three hogs and some -four are
hauled down from Hood River. and the
Princess is installed as cook in the section
house, owing TO the tendency Of the fat
woman 10 charge high prices for small ra-
tlons, as well as to seemingly forget the
difference between her apples and chickens
and the company's -four In the emgrant
car yUIng woman gets sick. She looks
dirty and discouraged, poor thing 20 lock
wise and give her some homeopathic pills.
which cure her. The break of SUNSHINE
through the west make Bierstadt pictures
against the dark mountains, with their frost
work. be shovelers begin 70 get mutinpus
because they have no more meat We hear
Of the death Of the engineer. Hudson, at
Mosl.T, and We go to bed gloomy. Pre-
scribe drops OF whisky on lump Of sugar
for the haby's cough, There sjus, whisky
enough IN the outfit for one very small baby
with a very small cough.
Sunday, 2S The oii painter /, again
in hospital, and we have case of smallpox.
The subject j. one Of the emisrant car brides
aud ". move her To the express car. There
is skary talk OF smallpox and it takes deal
OF assumed wisdom to keep the little exlled
colony from breaking out in expressions ot
alarm. \ caboo>e j, off the track near hy ;
the storm has blown the track full where It
vas shose|ei out and everything seems to
be against Us. Even Robert. the Pullman
car porter. tell. George, the other porter. Of
his dream that We shall MT reach Portland
till the l4th Of January. They both appear
10 be gioomily affected by the dream.
Monday. 29-lt - colder, but there -
sunshine. There Is row IN which hun
gry man, biscuit aud pistol figure. The
biscuit j. saved. The fat woman goes on
baking pies on a compromse arrangement.
while w st al. day IN the car looking at the
far away shining summit Of the mountain
across the n,er, as It coldly CLEANS like the
iFosling on wsd.ng cake. The newly
married couples observe the similarity, AMI
one of the brides slyly kisses her voung hu,-
hand. This makes the car slightly warmer.
We send for more medicines, but can get
neither whisky nor brandy
Iucsda;, 3O-Wc sit aruun in blankets
and hear that the Northern Pacific suowpios
is coming.
Wednesday, 81, The Northern Pacific
outh, came lunglns past IT, a. 1880. En-
gineer Bogue and Superintendent Buckley
came IN, covered with ice would have bren
S'dI 10 see lHrh' II covered "''h post H't-
TEN glory. We feel good, and expect 10 get
GU; AT once. vii We hear they are stack IN
'he sac" "''hln m"e Of =. me pa'.rn,
gers IN the rear car seem 10 have settled
down contentedly to board Al the expen.. 81
the rairoal company LIONS, Fiander.
and myself steal a chersr r!nd and proceed
to see the old year out.
i"uI'4'i' Jan l. l"''--- .hace New
lear c'i on McNaAGh' ana STACY III buck
icy S%f-ho cAfH', no "'He'"ho''! informal
but hAh most HeliShhul ume gan r.
member nothing n New lorA "f "a'htn--
ton, IN me va! oi Ne" Year ca'i, mnrr
Asrfehh!". y - good n s"t q iHenis iicr
ana st ,, rea! hre ~ J;3o "e doubled
up nN mH'siHS al passengers IN one sleeper
aud one e"ach aud pn'ird out only To get
stuck !!tt!e helo" our OLD camping place
FRIDAY Moved again AFTER breakfast
10 Sheiifoch' where The sun sAone upon SIX
teen locomotives oil at "IFA on the point.
ne men were cutting WOOL all nigh'. There
are now working nearly four hundred men
to get Us out We are rrJoiced 70 reach
Bonner'l!!e; and make a hilarious night OF
1t ~ the baggage car.
Saturday, 3.-AwoAe early, while 1t IS
Vet dark by tie pleasant voice OF Sanoorn,
purchasing agent for the \. 7, Who invites
me over to Sam An;ersons car, where the
day - spent most happily. Flanders, The
Pullman conductor, no" passenger ~
Monroes car, disburses tAe medicines ~
day lie IS a trained drug clerk, ani let
ter doctor than |. Pulled back To tue Cis
cades. where there Is plenty TO ca; at the
government mess house, and where Mrs'rs
Carroll and Brosnlee make Us more than
welcome Experience the novel sensation
OF eating with knives and forks. The wealth
er changes, and chinook wind thaws tn
ice. Tons Of 1t come crashing of ths ear
during the hlsht. Miss Nlcktls enalrr>
every discomfort but says never ~ impatient
word, and We all gather about her section to
absorb somewhat OF her calmness. She has
been across the Atlantic IN her brothers
sailing vessel, and knows what it is to 60
slowly.
Sunday, 4.-Here We are in our third
SUNDAY. The ladies 90 shopping, and re
pair to the dwelling houses 10 freshen up,
while few over iastidoas men change their
shirts tor the trst time in three weeks. We
aud We all fee satisfied that the day is well