Blizzard Blowing Itself Out

Chicago, Feb. 11.- The blizzard whlcb has dominated nearly the whole country is slowly losing its grip. Bost the train that have been snowod in are beingdug out, and trafile is beginning to geC tho better of tli;-. drifts Kverywhere, however, the weacUer is still very uold. ïho : Atlantic coast is lee-fringed for along way I out. New York harbor is onlv kept cleai by continued work of tugs. The Britisli 1 stoamer City of Wakeflold has put in at Halifax, N. S., with her cotton cargo on j lire after battliug for ncarly a week with tho blaze in the Ceoth of th8 storm. In Florida sonie people estímate the damagj to oranges and ofcher fruit and , vegetables at Í1U,ÜO1),OÜO and talk of 93 per cent. of the orange trees being killed, i Tho monitors at nnobor in the James nvor btilow Kichmond aro frozen in. 1 seis in distress on th; Arlantic coast koep the Hfe-savers in constant work. Birds, rabbits and chickonfe hivé been killed by the cold in Deláware. West there is no great loss of lito reporte;! yet, but thero bas been great suffering.