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La Grange^ Teiin. — Dense smoke 4tli ; very "smoky lltli to 14tli; ligLt 

 frost 2Sth. 



Arcadia, Ky. — Montli warm and pleasant. 



Westerville, Ohio. — Heavy frost 1st. 



Urhana, Ohio. — Most of the month hazy and smoky ; mean tempera- 

 ture higher than usual; ten days cloudless. 



Elmwood, Ohio. — Streams lower than ever known before. 



Farmer, Ohio. — Mouth remarkable for extensive fires, and want of 

 rain. 



Sanduslcy, Ohio. — Nine very smoky days. 



Boivlinr/ Green, Ohio. — Month noted for fires on the prairies, in the 

 woods and swamps, and smoke everywhere ; also for scarcity of water. 



Mount Auburn, Ohio. — First killing frost 29Lh. 



Grand Banids, Mich. — At nineteen observations smoke has been so 

 dense that the clouds could not be seen. 



Litchfield, Mich. — Severest drought within the memory of the oldest 

 settlers; great destruction of hay and timber at the north of the 

 village. 



Benzonia, Mich. — Dense and almost impenetrable smoke the first 

 sixteen days and the 23d and 24th. 



Copper Falls, Mich. — A stormy, unpleasant month. 



Northport, Mich. — Extensive fires in the State 8th; air hot in the 

 evening, (8 o'clock, ) almost suffocating, Sth. 



KnlghtHtown, Lid. — Still dry, and wells failing. 



Fort Wayne, Lnd. — The woods and prairies on fire in every direction ; 

 air full of smoke; wind hot and dry Sth and 9th; frosj^t 17th and 18th ; 

 ice 28th and 21)th. 



liising iSun, lnd. — Ohio River lo\7er than for thirty years ; width from 

 bank to bank, 093.22 yards; month very dry. 



Chicago, Lll. — Hurricane for a few hours 14th. 



Aurora, Lll. — Dense smoke 24th and 25th. 



Louisville, Lll. — Violent gale from the south all day; great conflagra- 

 tion in CLicago ; a dry month ; wells nearly empty. 



Manchester, Lll. — Month dry; pastures unproductive; dews light; 

 streams unusually low; fruit good and ])lenty. 



Hennepin, J/L— Smoky 4tli, 5tli, 23d, and 24th. • 



Marengo, Lll. — The drought that comiueuced the 1st ultimo, and con- 

 tinued to the 30th instant, was probably the greatest ever known here. 



Dubois, Lll. — Great wind-storm from the southwest 9tli and 14th; 

 first killing frost lotli*; drought still continues, 31st. 



Galesburg, J//.— Month verv fine; warm davs following the storms, and 

 but little frost. 



Bayfield, ir<A\— Heavy frost Gth ; rain 11th, 12th, and 13th ; light snow 

 31st. 



Madison, Wis. — Snow 31st. 



Bloomfield, Wis. — Fierce tires have raged througli our northern coun- 

 ties, destroying evei'ything in the section burned ; five. hundred persons 

 are said to have perished. 



. Mosinee, Wis. — Smoky 3d and 4th ; woods on fire in a great many 

 places 5th ; fire in the woods, everywhere about us, Sth. This has been 

 a beautiful season, but rather too dry. 



Embarrass, Wis. — Furious fire in the woods, southeast and southwest, 

 destroying everything before it, 1st; soaking rain, that stops the devas- 

 tating fire, 14th ; snow 31st. 



Milicauhee, Wis. — Smokj^ ; fires all the way from Lake Michigan to 

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