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Vowliatan Hill, King George county, Virginia. — The month of April was 

 boisterous and cold. The weather has been more like that of March. There 

 was ice on the morning of the 10th, fatal to cherries, apricots, plums, and many 

 of the peaches and early apple buds. Pears seem to have resisted the cold. 

 Wheat has improved very much. The continued rains have retarded the plant- 

 ing of corn. The amount of rain in April (3.21 inches) exceeds the aggregate 

 of February and March. 



Wytheville, Virginia. — April 9. — Peach and cherry probably injured by the 

 cold snap ; the blooms filled with water ; thermometer went down to 21°. 14th, 

 strawberries blooming sparingly, and on the 24th plentifully. 



Cahcll Court House, West Virginia. — April 14. — Thunder-storm from west; 

 hard thunder with zigzag lightning ; it passed to the northeast. 15th, straw- 

 berries in bloom. 30th, peaches were all killed in the bud ; but few trees 

 bloomed ; apple blooms very light. 



Atlanta, Georgia. — April 1. — Pear trees in full blossom. 5th, thunder and 

 lightning in the southwest at 7 30 p. m. 6th, apple trees in full blossom. 22d, 

 thunder and lightning all around from 9 to 10 p. m., with copious hail ; not 

 very much damage done. 



Grenada, Mississippi. — Rain from the 19th to the 22d of April. Great freshet 

 on the 23d ; the Yalabusha river higher than for fifteen or twenty years past. 



Austin, Texas. — Thunder and lightning on the 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th. Partial 

 frost on the 8th. Thunder and lightning on the 13th, 15th, 17th, ISth, and 

 30th. Chuck-will's-widow heard on the 30th the first time. 



Clarhsville, Tennessee. — April 14. — E,ain from 10^ a. m. to 5 p.m.; a few 

 peals of thunder about 3 p. m. 21st, about 1^ this a. m. commenced raining; 

 between two and three o'clock several heavy showers ; no thunder observed. 

 22d, rain from 4 J p. m. to 7 p. m. ; at the beginning there was a fresh squall of 

 wind from the westward, and a few peals of distant thuuder. At lOj p. m. a 

 light shower ; barometer unusually low. 



Chapel Hill, Texas. — April 9. — Frost. 17th, diffuse and forked lightning 

 northeast, from 7 p. m. to 12 p. m. 18th, heavy thuuder and rain west, at 5 a. m. 

 19th, northers with rain at 7.30 a. m, with heavy thuuder west during the fore- 

 noon. 20th, diffuse lightning east for several hours before day ; thermometer 

 at sunrise, 45°. 



Chilcshurg, Kentucky. — April 9 and 10. — Heavy white frosts. 14th, a 

 thunder-storm passed a few miles northwest at 8 a. m., and a succession of 

 thunder-showers during the day. 21st, a succession of thunder-storms last night, 

 beginning about 2 o'clock and lasting until day. 22d, thunder-storm at 7 p. m. 

 passed to the north, and at 8 p. m. a heavy thunder-storm came up from south- 

 west with showers of pelting rain. 23d, barometer low this morning. 24th, 

 two thunder-storms to-day, one to the north and the other to the south. 26th, a 

 heavy white frost this morning, doing considerable damage to gardens, killing 

 cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, some of the grape shoots, and all tender vegetables 

 that were exposed. 28th, a thunder-storm at 5.25 p. m., with strong wind and 

 hail, doing sume damage in blowing down trees and fences. The rain appeared 

 to be almost a sheet of water, but lasted only six minutes. 



Taylorsville, Kentucky. — April 7. — Began snowing last night and continued 

 all day. Sth and 9th, considerable frost. 14th, thunder-showers, zigzag light- 

 ning, hailstones the size of peas. 24th, light frost. 25th, northwest wind strong 

 all day ; cold shower at 11 a. m. 26th, heavy frost, destroyed early vegetables, 

 shoots of grapevines, &c. 



Bethel, Ohio. — April 7. — Three inches of snow fell to-day ; the deepest snow 

 of the winter. 26th, light frost ; plantain slightly frozen. 30th, fruit prospects 

 are not very flattering. The snow of the 7th, the cold which followed, with the 

 frost on the 26th and cold north Avind, have caused the plums all to fall, many of 



