So goes the world....

January 9: Mercury 12 deg.

below zero but we took a sleigh for Nunda.

Trains all blocked by snow and no mail for several days, yet we had a full house and good meeting." Extracts from one or two letters written home will give some idea of this perilous journey: HALL'S CORNERS, January 11, 8-1/2 o'clock.
Just emerged from a long line of snowdrifts and stepped at this little country tavern, supped and am now roasting over a hot stove.
Oh, oh, what an experience! No trains running and we have had a thirty-six mile ride in a sleigh.

Once we seemed lost in a drift full fifteen feet deep.