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frost tins morning ; water standing in vessels skimmed over with ice ; surface 

 of ground stiflFened. 



Manchester, Iowa. — September 21. — Hard frost, the first to do any hurt; 

 tliermometer 29° at sunrise ; ice three-sixteenths of an inch thick. 



Guttenherg, Iowa, — September 14. — First flock of cranes goi;ig south. 15th. — 

 First white frost seen in spots this morning. 30th. — The month has been 

 very calm, the Avind at no time above a very light breeze. 



Council Grove, Kansas. — September 1. — Between noon and 1 p.m. the whoW 

 heavens seemed full of grasshoppers, course southwest. By 2 o'clock they began 

 to alight, and in fifteen minutes every available bush and all herbage became 

 loaded. 2d. — Multitudes of them are leaving to-day ; there still remain over 

 half their number ; entire cabbage-heads are eaten by them, and cornfields 

 stripped of their leaves, loth. — There still remain enough to destroy what is 

 left of vegetation ; farmers have stopped sowing wheat, as it is devoured as soon 

 as up. 



Bellevue, Nebraska. — September 21. — Frost killing tops of grass and vines, 

 and injuring late corn considerably, 



Richland, Nebraska. — This was tl- ' coldest September in eight years, and, 

 except the last week, was ver}' showi \y and wet. 







