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Elizahethton, Tenn. — An umisually warm Marcli; tlie season about a 

 week earlier than usual. 



Arcadia, Ky, — First bloom of strawberry IGtli; aurora 17tL, 9 p. m. 



Cleveland^ Ohio. — Auroras evenings of loth and 17th. 



North Fairfield, Ohio. — First thunder-sliower IStlij the season quite 

 two weeks earlier than nsual. 



J\'o>f/< Bass Island, Ohio. — Hea^^■ g^ale from west night previous to 

 1st; ice in Lake Erie broken np 1st; heavy tlinnder evenings of 2d and 

 14th ; aurora 17th; very heavy white frost 18th and 25th. 



JJrhana, Ohio. — The month warmer than any March for twenty years 

 past. 



Bethel, Ohio. — The month has been very changeable, though not very 

 cold ; plowing done most ot the month. 



Algena, 2Iich. — Auroras 10th and 17th. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. — An unusually pleasant March; navigation on the 

 Detroit and tSt. Clair opened 19th. 



Yevay, Ind. — Brilliant aurora l7th. 



Bpiceland, Ind. — The finest March for many years. 



Charleston, III. — Aurora 17th ; the earliest spriug for several years. 



Belvidere, III. — The month unusually mild and even ; good plowing 

 since 8th ; some grain sowed 13th. 



Manitoicoc, ^yis. — Auroras 24th and 27th. 



Ililuaiilee, Wis. — Ice left the Milwaukee Eiver 9th. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — Only one warmer March during the last six 

 years; bluebirds 28th. 



Konislia, Minn. — On the prairies the ground is frozen more than three 

 feet deep, and plants usuallj' considered hardy have been killed ; very 

 little snow until March. 



Clinton, loica. — First boat u^) the river 9th ; bluebirds and robins 

 10th. 



Burant, Iowa. — Aurora 17th. 



Independence, loica. — A very warm and pleasant March, and remark- 

 able for the amount of thunder and lightning; farmers commenced sow- 

 ing grain by the middle of the month. 



Lofjan, loiva. — No rain during the month; siich a March has not been 

 known here since 1850. 



Bt. Louis, Mo. — On the 8th, 2.30 p. m., a destructive tornado swept 

 over the river and a part of East St Louis, its course being apparently 

 from south to north, nearly. At its commencement the sky was as 

 dark as night. 



Hematite, Mo. — Heavy thunder-storm from the south on the Sth at 

 1.30 p. m. ; aurora 17th. 



Cave Spring, Mo. — A sudden change from warm to cold about 5 o'clock 

 \}. m. Sth ; strawberry blossom April 1. 



Leavenworth, Kansas. — The average temperature of the month 11°.3 

 higher than that of last March. 



Paola, Kansas. — On the Sth a storm from the northwest, commencing 

 with small hail and from that changing to a violent snow-storm, with 

 heavy thunder and sharp lightning. 



Williamstoum, Kansas. — Blackbirds Lst; jilowing 2d. 



Bellevne, Neb. — Aurora 17th ; a very pleasant and dry March. 



Ifebrasl-a City, Neb. — Farmers generally began plowing and sowing 

 about the 1st. 



Benver, Col. Ter. — The month unusually windy and cloudy, and its 

 mean temperature 13°.3 higher than that of last March ; hrst rain 24th 

 and 25th. 



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