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wild clucks flying southwest. 17th, level ground was thawed from two to ten 

 inches deep, with from nothing to ten inches of frost still underneath yesterday, 

 and is rapidly freezing up again to-day. 20th, rainy morning and evening; 

 thunder and lightning froai 4 to 6 p. m., and a thunder-gust, with heavy wind, 

 after midnight. Rain or snow on twenty-four days during the month. 



Kingston, Ohio. — March 20. — Thermometer at 9 p. m. 66° ; same hour next 

 day 31°; thunder-storm between 5 and 6 a.m.; also a heavy thunder-storm, 

 with high wind, late at night and early next morning. 



Toledo, Ohio. — March 20. — Rain nearly all day, with a severe shower in the 

 evening, attended with sharp, loud thunder, quick flashes of lightning of a pale 

 bluish light and some hail. The shower seemed to come from a northwestern 

 portion of the horizon, which was rather unusual for a March thunder-shower. 

 Thermometer at 9 p. m. 33°. 2Sth, sleighs out, and sleighing quite good on 

 paved streets. 



Milnersville, Ohio. — March 21. — Yesterday was showery, and last night, 

 about an hour after midnight, a furious storm of lightning, thunder, wind, rain, 

 and hail for a few minutes occurred. No serious damage has been done here so 

 far as known. 



Homestead, Michigan. — March 20. — Snow, hail, and rain ; thundered at 5 p. 

 m., when it was snowing; a war of elements to-day; mean temperature of the 

 day, 17-^-°. April 3, the wind was northerly during most of the month of 

 March, and the temperature low ; but few days to remind of spring. The ice 

 on Traverse bay is twenty inches thick ; this is unprecedented. Snow at this 

 date thirty inches : it has gone off some for two days past. Not a pound of 

 sugar has been made, and the buds are as dormant as in February. Heard first 

 robin and crow this morning. 



Lansing, Michigayi. — March 20. — At 6 p. m., brilliant flashes of lightning, 

 followed by distant thunder. In about fifteen minutes a peculiar hurtling 

 sound Avas heard in the east, gradually approaching, and soon a furious fall of 

 hail, some of the stones measuring an inch to an inch and a quarter in diameter, 

 in the form of an oblate spheroid, and containing an opaque nucleus, and in some 

 instances there Avere alternate concentric rings of opaque and transparent ice. 

 The hail lasted about half an hour, followed by a heavy fall of rain and occa- 

 sional dashes of hail. The lightning, which was of great brilliancy, with heavy 

 thunder, lasted till ten o'clock and gradually passed off to the southwest. The 

 thermometer at 2 p. m. was 28°, and at 9 p. m. 31°. 



Holland, Michigan. — March 20. — Lightning the past night ; a little rain and 

 sleet in the forenoon ; thunder and lightnins; in the afternoon, with rain and 

 hail, the rain continuing till lip. m. 



Columhia City, Indiana. — March 20. — Several hard claps of thunder in the 

 afternoon. Five inches of snow fell from 11 p. m. of the 18th to 5 a. m, of the 

 19th. Two and a quarter inches of riiin from 3 a. m. of the 20th to 10 p. m. of 

 the 21st. Thermometer on the 20th at 9 p. m. 28°. 



Balbec, Indiana. — March 31. — Frost not out of the ground except in the 

 most exposed situations. Ice in pond eight inches thick. 



Richmond, Indiana. — March 20. — Interrupted rain till 9 a. m.; turned warm 

 very fast from that till 1 p. m.; barometer very low ; thermometer 62° at 1 p. 

 m., when the wind changed suddenly to the northeast, and t!ie temperature fell 

 fifteen degrees in thirty minutes. About 5 p. m. the wind changed back to the 

 southwest, making a full revolution in four hours. At this time a heavy bank 

 of cloud lay in the west and northwest. From 7 till 10 p. m. there was a great 

 deal of lightning; the rain then began, but not very heavy. At 9 p. m. the 

 thermometer was again 62° ; at 7 next morning, it had fallen to 31°. 



Spiceland, Indiana. — March 20. — Considerable rain, lightning and thunder 

 in the morning; thermometer at 9 p. m. 63°. 



