The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-02-09

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thanked them for their handsome
present, and told them it should be
used in any school | taught in Lou
lisa. Ii anybody Having a desire for
information villas Superintendent
Mcclure what was done with the
dictionary he will answer the ques-
ton. Excuse me for thus referring
to'a matter thought everybody un-
derstood, ard will turn to more
interesting topics.
This is one of the most delight
full days I ever saw in any country.
IL may be said of Dakota weather
that
"When 1t is good it is very, very good,
/ And when 1t is bad it is horrid."
To-day there is not breath of
wind stirring, the sky is crystal
clear and sapphire blue, and over
coats are u burden. By tomorrow
the mercury may be at the foot of
the column and tue wind fifty-miles
an hour. And vet no disastrous
physical conditions result from
these sudden changes. have ex-
perienced these more than once,
and l have never had such good
health.
All your readers are familiar
through the newspapers with the
awful blizzard of January 18th,
The coming of Spring alone will re-
veal the CHASTITY horrors of that
terrible day. Then the melting
SHOWS will show many strong
man, tender maiden and helpless
child who yielded up their lives to
the Frost King on that memorable
Thursday. I was in Pierre that
day, having gone down the day be-
fore. All that day the mercury
twas at zero and below, but had o..
very heavy flannel underwear, a
heavy suit Of clothes, chinchilia
overcoat, buffalo ooercoat, seal
skin cap apd arctics, and consequent
| ~ my ride Of thirty-eight miles was
not in,olerably cold. | got into
Pierre late in the afternoon, laid in
the supplies had gone to buy, and
was all ready to leave for home next
morning. But didn't leave the
next morning if | had started these
lines would not now be read by you
| was ready to leave, however, anc
had gone out before breakfast foi
something | had forgotten thu
night before, and gaa going bach
to the hotel with an oldEresident o
Pierre. The mercury was 20 abov'
zero, and my friend was just saying
| would have a better day for my
return trip, when as we came to
corner a peculiar sort of wins
: whirled around it, and my friend
/. looking up, said, Are you compel
! ed to startto Fort Bennett to-day?
| said, Mo- "Well", SAID he, 70.
Cd | would stay right here
: there's going to be blizzard. w
had not reached the hotel before sh
, came. You who have never see
! such display Of the might and tel
rcr of storm like the one whic
ragged that day, and which wa
the cause ofover three hundred pee
pie losing their lives, can have n
idea Of its dreadfulAorce. In Pierr
8 business was suspended excer
V in cases where merchants had gon
S early TO their stores, and they stay
il ed there because they could not &c
:. home A prominent business ma
y told me that his sales during th
S d4v amounted to forty cents. A
e day long the wind howled and roar
$ ed, blowing at the rate OF fifty-mile
d an hour and from all points of thu
s compass at the same time, TIL
e air was full of snow and sand, tn
y sky was almost BLOCK, and the mel
6 curry away below zero. In the he
/ tel Office, with a huge stove file
l. with coal and wood, the window
n were coated with ice an eighth OF a
a inch thick. l would frequentl
a scrape off "peep hole" and dul
l. ing occasional streaks of light on
Of could see across the street, flappin
is in the gale, canvas sign bearin
/, The most unreasonable and ma
r row. freezing legend, ice Cream
IS When morning dawned the storl
p hao subsidized, but il was cold,
lie than ever and the snow drifts 81
II feet deep. When Saturday came
lie could stand itno longer, and dete
to mined to go home. We got alon
ct pretty we'll until we struck a hig
a. prairie five or six miles wide, wit
n deep snow and occasional deep'
is drifts. We had TO 60 slow, and
70 thought | should certainly freei