The Daily Astorian

Notes from the Editor.
We are in receipt of notes from the editor of The Astorian while on his way east in which he writes, under date of 3d inst., as follows: We met west bound train at Wahsatch at 2:25 P. M.; all well. The snow is plentiful to-day, but no obstruction is caused thereby; it is only a little blinding to the eyes. I wished I had my smoked glasses to-day. The weather is delightful.
On the 4th, we met west bound train at 2:30 P. M. at Otto. We meet one train every twelve hours, alternate day and night. Bishop Morris passed west yesterday afternoon. The weather continues mild and pleasant, but there are evidences all along Laramie plains of past vigorous winter. Twenty-one days since was the worst that this country has experienced for ten years. Cattle are dead on all sides of us, and immense amount of snow drifts still remain.
We will meet west bound train this afternoon, 5th, at Valley at 1:50 o'clock, and will reach Omaha at 4 p. m. This morning at breakfast at Grand Island we met the embraces of Boreas, outstretched to enfold us and give us a taste of winter such as we have not experienced for twenty years. Talk about an Oregon winter; look at the blizzard here to-day, and we are pushing right along headlong into it at the rate of thirty miles an hour. When we reach Chicago to-morrow we will tell you how we like it, so far as we have got. Snow is not deep to-day, but it is most infernally cold.