Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-03-16
NEWS In TOWNS ABOUT
IunDrldge.

IuBDrldge.
Elmer L. Noyes is reported to be very
sick.
Whitney post holds its next meeting
Saturday evening.
ID. s. Phillips OF Bethel was a guest at
Chas. II. Aliens last week.
Mrs. Emma Burke OF South Royalton is
guest at Moses Nj. Webster's.
Miss Mamie Earle returned from Chel-
sea Thursday. after a short visit.
Miss Maud Snog OF Sharon was a guest
of Miss Mabel Wight last week.
Lewis Campbell OF Lebanon, n. H., is a
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. /. ID. Campbell.
Miss Hattie Farnham went to Lowell,
Mass, last week for an indefinite visit.
Mrs. r. ID. Monkey, who has passed sew
eral weeks with sister in Barre, is now
at home.
Mrs.De Eta Stewart, who recently went
TO Richford for a short visit, returned
Thursday
Walter Carpenter OF Chelsea is reported
TO have hired the Royal IL. Drew farm.
He will move here soon.
W.B. Porter of Lebanon, n. H., is q
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. b. Gould. He
arrived here Friday evening.
Mrs. Herman S. Allen OF Pomfret and
Mr.. and Mrs. Will S. Robbins Of Chels1
were visitors at Mrs.Ellen Goff's last week
Frank Porter is reported to have hired
w. b. Gould's farm for a term OF years.
Mr.. Gould's trade with Irving Ormsbee is
of.
Some horse owners have become a little
alarmed at the spread OF the mango and
are asking that the affected animals De
quarantined.
Geo. W. Rowell, who has spent the past
year In Massachusetts,, will return here
soon. James NJ. Roweli moves 10 the
Foster farm.
Mrs. Hannah E. Cook Broughton, who
recently celebrated her 94th birthday an
niyersary, is quite strong and healthy and
has fair promise OF living TO see a full
century Of life.
Rev. George Severance, whose home was
in this town several years, recently died
At the home Of Mrs. Georgia Preston, his
daughter, ia Mortified Farms, Mass. His
body was brought TO Sharon for burial
last week.
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
former Orange county boy, who is now
south on a pleasure trip, recently wrote a
TunDridge friend of the Jalmy air, beauti
ful roses, etc, he was enjoying and offer
cd some merry words Of coincidence to the |
friend whom be supposed to be buried in
Vermont SHOWS aud suffering from *.
IRENE cold. Like unto The genial John |
Harris, he has experienced a change; the |
particulars follow
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2s, 1899
DEAR C-:-If you are not frozen stiff |
nor buried in deep snow | shall be thank. |
full. There will not be any more roses in |
my letters this season. / just escaped |
freezing myself, and the "sunny south" !
Is completely paralyzed by the wave
which swept these Gulf states two weeks .
ago. met the sleet and cold in Mobile 4
Saturday evening. Sunday and Monday
thought ! should perish. | was in a
room nearly as large as AS kitchen. All
the tre had was in little CRATE on one
side OF the room. It was zero weather.
The ice formed on my pitcher during the
day while my fire was irving to warm the
upper atmosphere. All the water pipes in
the city froze, the gas went out, the Mig
gers would mt leave their beds and shan.
ties to do single thing no wagons went
out TO deliver goods OF any kind All eggs.
vegetables, Oysters dealer in the mar
ket lost 600 barrels 81 oysters: they were
chunks OF Ice potatoes and everything
perishable froze. There are no stores.
you know, down here, and there are no
cellars Tor keeping things. The south
never had such an experience and when
lhe warm Gays came the water flooded
houses and stores through "busted" pipes.
All the great palms, palmettos, rose vines
and beautiful semi-trOpical plants which
have been such an attraction in this part
OF the country, are like so much old
brown paper, or rubbish. All early veg.
etables which we're getting a good start,
have gone with the flowers, and all the
Louisiana oranges are killed. The cold
water so paralyzed the fish OF the Gulf
that men picked up with their hands car
loads OF trout, snapper, sheep head and
mullett just fioated on the surface. What
racket the weather has kicked up this
winter All over the country 1t has been
terrible.