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mean temperature 3|'. These sudden chaugos have caused a more than usual 

 amount of sickness. Ground frozen forty-one inches in t]oe graveyard at the 

 end of the month. 



Aurora, Indiava. — On the 7th, Stli, and 9th, the barometer was higher than 

 the observer ever before saw it ; the highest was on the Sth. This great atmo- 

 spheric wave did not seem to produce anj effect on the heahh of the community. 

 20th. — There was a severe thunder-storm hast night ; be! ween midnight and 

 2 a. m. this morning the wind changed suddenly to the northwest. At 9 o'clock 

 last night the thermometer indicated 65^; at 7 this morning 10^. The prevail- 

 ing diseases of the month, in this section of country, have been of an inflammatory 

 character, with occasional cases of diphtheria — none of tlicm extremely malignant, 

 Sp'iccla7\(l, Indiana. — January 8 — At 10 a. m. the barometer stood half an 

 inch higher than at any former period since June, 1861, when the observer 

 began to keep a record. 20th. — There was considerable rain, with lightning, 

 thunder, and some hail, about the middle of last night, and a little snow between 

 then and daylight. The thermometer yesterday, at 2 and 9 p. m , stood at 

 61°, and about 9 o'clock this morning at 5^. 



Richmond, Indiana. — January 8. — Barometer reached its maximum at 9 

 o'clock this moiniiig. 20th. — Yesterday was a very warm day, and it became 

 warmer after night, with frequent flashes of lightning across the Avest. At 11 

 p. m. the theiTuometer was 63^, the highest the observer ever saw it in January. 

 At this time there was a heavy cloud across the west, and the vivid flashes of 

 lightning Avere followed by heavy thunder, while a strong south wind blew .so 

 warm that a person nnght imagine himself in the middle of summer; rain and 

 hail, and afterwards snow, from 11.30 p. m. till betv/een 2 and 3 this morning. 

 The thermometer fell fifty-six degrees in eight hours, and the barometer fell .603 

 in the same time ; the most rapid change the observer has on record. 



Dubois, Illinois. — January 11. — Depth of frost in the ground six inches; 

 thickness of ice on ponds and creeks, four inches. 15th, heavy thuiuler in the 

 west from 8 to 10 a. m.; a violent storm of wind from the west from 2 a. m. till 

 6 p. m. 19th, exceedingly warm for the season; temperature at 11 a. m. 70^; 

 frost nearly all out of the ground ; wild geese and ducks flying north ; diffuse 

 lightning in the southwest at 5 p. m. ; terrific thunder-storm at 6i p. m. from 

 the west, the wind blowing a violent gale — changed to the northwest at 8 p. m. ; 

 commenced snowing and sleeting, and became intensely cold ; the thermometer 

 indicated (Si^ at 5 p. m. ; and on the 20th, at 5 a. m., 3^ below zero — a fall of 

 sixty-five degrees in twelve hours. 23d, diffuse lightning in the south at 4^ 

 p. m., with distant thunder. 29th, blue birds singing like spring. 



Golconda, Illinois. — January 19. — At 10 p. m. the thermometer stood at 70^, 

 very close and oppressive, with appearance of a heavy storm in the northwest; 

 at 101 the storm burst; very sharp lightning with heavy and quick thuiider, 

 and for a short time heavy hail. At il{: the storm was over and the sky clear, 

 and thermometer 28 \ At 4 o'clock next morning the thermometer was 10^. 



Marengo, Illinois. — January 8. — Barometer the highest ever observed at this 

 station. 19th, snow from 4 p. m. to 9 p. ra., four inches. 



ManrJicsfcr, llliiwis. — January 19. — Thunder about from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.. 

 with very vivid lightning from the west. 



Augusta, Illinois. — January 15. — Shower, accompanied Avith some thunder 

 and lightning, between 4 and 5 p. m. 19th, a mist from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., then 

 sleet or hail, and, at last, snow. 23d, snow twelve to fifteen inches deep ; good 

 sledding to the 29th, and rather poor to the 3l3t. 



Winnebago, Illinois. — January 8. — The barometer at 7 o'clock this morning 

 was .460 inches higher than any previous observation recorded here, and more 

 than an inch above its normal height at this station. 15th, first sleighing this 

 season. 19t,h, heavy fall of sleet or frozen rain from 3 to 7 p. m. 



Clinton, Illinois. — January 12. — Lightning in the east a little after sundown. 

 19th, lightning and thunder, commencing at 6 30 p. m. 



