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at 9 p. m. G2^ ; on the 20tli, at 7 a. m. 61% at 2 p. m. 40% at 9 p. m. 25". Jan- 

 uary 24. — At 3 p. m. heavy thunder and lightning in the west. 



Jackson, Mississippi. — January 19 was uuplea;?antly warm, the warmth last- 

 ing till after midnight. About 4 o'clock a. m. of the 20th, a violent storm of 

 wind and rain came on, accompanied with thunder and sharp lightning. The 

 temperature fell below freezing point by daylight and appeared to continue fall- 

 ing all day. The storm, with the change of temperature, but without the thun- 

 der and lightning, extended at least to Vicksburg and Meridian. — Correspondence. 

 Helena, Arkansas. — The warmest day of the month was the 19th, mean 

 tem]ieratare 72§°, and the next day was the coldest, mean temperature 22§°. 

 Wythcville, Virginia. — January 8. — Barometer at 2 p. m. and 9 p. m 

 28.4 IS. This is much hig-her than has been recorded before. The position 

 is two thousand two himdred and fifty-seven feet above the sea. 



Beaufort, North Carolina. — January 8 was the coldest day of the winter \ 

 ice an inch thick formed in the ponds and creeks. A terrific gale set in from the 

 north and proved very destructive to commerce. Thermometer 12^. It was 

 something remarkable for this climate. 



ClarJcsville, Tennessee. — January 8. — The barometer was higher (the ob- 

 server thinks) than it has been in the last fifteen years ; at 11 a. m. it stood for 

 a short time at 30.500 inches, which is nearly an inch above the annual mean. 

 20th, yesterday was very Avarm, the mean temperature 69.87^. The wind 

 was quite fresh from the southward, increasing to a gale after dark. Between 

 9 and 10 p. m. faint flashes of reflected lightning at the northern horizon. Rain 

 from 9| p. m. to midnight, then snow till about 4i o'clock this morning, covering 

 the ground to the depth of two and a half inches. At 9 o'clock last night the 

 temperature was 71°, at 7 o'clock this morning 17^, a fall of fifty- four degrees 

 in ten hours. 



Nashville, Tennessee. — The newspapers mention a iievere gale at Nashville in 

 the night of the 29th, blowing down several houses, and that in Edgefield, op- 

 posite Nashville, the mercury fell to 8^ below zero, with an inch and a half of 

 snow. 



Olmstead Stalion, Logan count;), Kentucky. — The storm of Friday uight, 

 January 29, was one of the most terrible ever experienced in that section of the 

 country. The weather was excessively warm up to midnight, when it com- 

 menced blowing and raining. Every house in its track, which seemed to be one 

 mile in width, was more or less damaged. The fences for miles were blown 

 away, leaving the country bare of them. — Newspaper. 



Danville, Kentucky. — The thermometer fell from 64^ at 9 p. m. of the 19t]), 

 to 24° at 7 a. m. of the 20th, and to 8= at 7 a. m. of the 21st. 



Liouisville, Kentucky. — In the night of the 19th of January, at midnight, a 

 storm suddenly came up with a strong blow from the west, followed by heavy 

 rain, accompanied with occasional peals of thunder, the, storm closing with a 

 light fall of snow. The thermometer in six hours changed from 68° to 15% a 

 fall of fifty-three degrees from midnight to daybreak. 



Chilcsburg, Kentucky. — On the 19th the temperature at 9 p. m. was 64° ; at 

 the same hour the next evening it was 12° 



Westerville, Ohio. — During the night of the 19th there was a heavy storm 

 of rain accompanied with thunder and lightning, and considerable wind ; after- 

 wards hail, and, on the morning of the 20th, an inch of snov/ was on the ground, 

 and the thermometer, v-^hich at 9 p. m. of the 19th stood at 61°, had tallcn to 

 20° at 7 a. m. of the 20th, and to 6° at 7 a. m. of the 21st. 



New LisLon, Ohio. — January 8. — The highest barometer ever observed 

 in this section of the country. 13th, heavy rain last night, with high wind, 

 sharp lightning, and heavy thunder; air this morning clear and bracing. Ther- 

 mometer 60° at 9 p. m. of the 19th, 48° at 7 a. m. next morning, and 8° at 7 

 a. m. of the 21st; no rain mentioned. 



