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Grenada, Mississippi. — Highest range of thermometer at sunrise, 75° on 

 the 14th ; lowest, 52° on the 30th. This is the coolest weather for the season 

 bj 4° that has been in this place in ten years past. 



Norwalk, Oliio. — There was a very cold rain on the 17th and 18th of June. 

 Many sheep perished in northern Ohio. It is estimated that in Huron C' lUntj 

 alone a loss of fifty thousand dollars was sustained. The fall of rain has been 

 greater than in any month heretofore recorded by the observer. 



Kelley's Island, Ohio. — The storm of the ISth and 19th of June was one of 

 the most severe ever known at this season of the year. The destruction of life 

 and property on the lake was very great. It is estimated that more than ten 

 thousand sheep perished in Erie county alone from the effect of the cold and 

 wet, immediately alter shearing. 



New Lisbon, Ohio. — June 29. — Some frost this morning. 



Urbana, Ohio. — June 29. — Thermometer at sunrise 42^. There was frost in 

 several localities about Urbana, but the observer could find no evidence of its 

 effects on the most tender vegetation in his place. 



Keiv Harmony, Indiana. — The rain fall at this station for the months of 

 April, May, and June is only 5.54 inches, the lowest amount that has ftiUeu 

 during the last fourteen years for the same period. 



Sandwich, Illinois. — The average temperature of June w^as lower than that 

 of the same month for nine years. 



Riley, Illinois. — The mean temperature of this month was 1.78^ below the 

 average of June for eleven years, and the amount of rain about one inch below 

 the mean for the same time; yet on account of the rain being divided so 

 equally through the month the supply has been abundant. Every rain during 

 the month (with but one exception) was accompanied with severe winds, some- 

 times approaching to a hurricane, which has packed the ground very hard and 

 crusty. 



Dubois, Illinois. — A greater amount of rain fell during June than in the same 

 month for sixteen years. 



Galesburg, Illinois. — June has been dry, and vegetation is backward, espe- 

 cially corn. 



Manitoiioc, Wisconsin. — June 1. — Hoar-frost ; thermometer 35° at 5 a.m. 



Embarrass, Wisconsin. — June 17. — Very slight frost this morning, nipping 

 squash and other vines in a neighbor's field. 21, shower at midnight, with 

 heavy thunder and sharp lightning ; heavy wind, taking down very many 

 trees, thi-ee miles north and west from here. 



Plymouth, Wisconsin. — June 8. — From \\ to 6^ p. m. a severe thunder-storm 

 prevailed from west and southwest to northwest and north, attended by a hur- 

 ricane-like wind from southwest to west, and some fall of hail. 



Minneapolis, Minnesota. — June 25. — Tornado from 8.15 to 8.45 p. m. The 

 entire roofs of large stone buildings, as livery stables, car factories, &c., were 

 carried off, and the fronts of small buildings torn out. 



Saint Patil, Minnesota. — The temperature of June was 1.85 degree below, 

 and the amount of rain 1.94 inch above, the mean of eight years. 



Afton, Minnesota. — June 25. — A heavy gale of wind, rain, and hail from 8.25 

 to 8.50 p. m., destroying an immense amount of property. The wind had been 

 blowing gently from the southwest ; about an hour before the storm the lightning 

 was extremely vivid, and dark cumuli began to appear in the northwest ; in a 

 moment the wind changed into the west-northwest and came wath the force of 

 a tornado, sweeping everything before it. 



Guttenbcrg, Iowa. — June 11. — Tornado at fifteen minutes to 2 o'clock ; trees, 

 fences, &c., destroyed. 



Clinton, Iowa. — June was rather wet ; there were a few days of very hot 

 weather, but on the whole the month was cool. 



