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moved from N. W. during 20th and 21st, lower clouds from S. W. 

 During 22nd the air felt "close" and the clouds were threatening, 

 though not very heavy. They were flying fast and at times veered 

 westerly. Towards nightfall they massed heavily in the west. Ve- 

 locity of the wind was ten miles per hour and this remained nearly 

 constant throughout the storm. Discharge of electricity wag very 

 vivid and the thunder violent. Precipitation began at 11 P. M. and 

 lasted in its greatest violence until 1 A. M., or a little later. By 2 

 A. M. it had lulled into a gentle rain lasting into the next day. At 

 the time of greatest rainfall the wind fell off to four miles per hour. 

 The rainfall during the night was 4.19 in. This is the largest re- 

 corded at this Station. The damage done in the immediate vicinity 

 was great. All mill-dams and bridges on neighboring streams were 

 washed away. Haw River, Deep River, and the Neuse were reported 

 deeper than in many years before. 



Referring to the charts of the U. S. Signal Service, we see that 

 this storm approached from the N. Pacific coast on the 18th and 

 swept across the country. Violent local siorms and tornadoes were 

 reported South and East, especially in the Mississippi and Georgia. 

 Dangerous gales were reported off the coast from Jacksonville, Fla., 

 to Boston, Mass. Nine Stations in different parts of the State re- 

 ported a rainfall of over three inches, showing the storm to be very- 

 general. Two tornadoes Avere reported also, one in Martin county, 

 and one in Sampson county. 



The auroral display on the 24th, following the storm, was very 

 widely observed and was especially noted for the southerly latitudes 

 in which it was seen. It was rather faint at Chapel Hill being visi- 

 ble between 8 and 9 P. M. 



University Meteorological Station. F. P. Vexable. 



ANALYSIS OF A DEPOSIT OF ZINC OXIDE. 



As is well known these deposits of impure zinc oxide are some 

 times found in furnaces where zinc-bearing ores are used. The 

 name cadmia is given them in Dana's mineralogy. The green flame 

 of burning zinc is noticed at the tymp of these furnaces and was 

 formerly looked upon by furnace-men as indicative of sulphur — es- 

 pecially as this burning left on substances in the near neighborhood 

 of the tymp a coating of zinc oxide which was yellow whilst hot. 

 The specimen examined was sent through the courtesy of the man- 

 ager of the Longdale Iron Co. 's furnaces. According to analysis no 



