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Mt. St. Mary's^ Md. — Heavy gale 2d ; beautiful aurora a. m. 3d ; thunder 

 ITtli. 



Johnsontown, Ya. — Raiu aud strong wind 2d; thunder shower ISth ; 

 toad 22d ; peach blossoms olst. 



Hanqyton, Va. — Tliunder-storni 15th; Babylonian willow in full leaf 

 31st. Not a flake of snow this montli. 



Zuni Statio7i, Va. — Maple {acer ruhrum) in bloom 2Gth ; brilliant aurora 

 30th. Grass green; is this winter ? 



Baeon^s Castle^ Va. — Hard wind and rain 2d; brilliant aurora 3d; 

 robins in gangs 9th ; thunder showers 15th, 17th ; daisy 21st ; alder 24th. 

 Means, January, 18(38, 35.9° ; 1SG9, 40.4° ; 1870, 48.2o. 



Comorn, Va. — Auroras 2Gth, 31st. Ice on six mornings ; plowing every 

 week; dry till 24th; last week wet. 



Fairfax C. if., Va. — Lightning and thunder-storm, strong wind from 

 southwest 17th ; aurora 28th. 



Vienna, Va. — Gale with raiu, hail, lightning, and thunder 17th ; fan- 

 shaped aurora in northeast 18th. 



Piedmont, Va. — Slight rain and snow with high wind 31st. 



Piedmont Station, Va. — Blood-red sky north and northeast, then formed 

 a perpendicular column 3d ; birds singing 12th, (the wren has remained 

 here ;) blue birds ICth ; plowing 22d. 



Lexington, Va. — Ice three inches 10th ; great thunder-storm 17th. 



Lynchburg, Va. — Aurora 3d ; ice three inches 10th ; j)lanted potatoes, 

 .peas (sowed 14th) coming up 24th. 



SnoicviUe, Va. — Heavy storm 1st ; thunder-storm 17th. 



Wytheville, Va. — Terrible suoAV-storm all day and night 2d, (drifts seen 

 31st ;) thunder storm 17th. 



Cabell C. H., Va. — Heavy rain, high wind, loud thunder 17th. 



Albemarle, N. C. — Eain and gale all day and night 2d; most magniii- 

 cent aurora ever seen here, white and ros}', a. m. of 3d ; thunder-storm 

 loth ; thunder and gale 31st. 



Anderson C. II., S. G. — Snow-storm 3d; furious wind and rain 17th; 

 alder blossoms 18th. Month wet. 



Goicdeysville, 8. C. — Warm and pleasant 12th to 31st; clover and 

 wheat growing finely. 



Bin f ton, S. C. — First snow to whiten ground in manv vears. 



Atkinta, G'a.— Thunder and lightning S. E. 15th ; thunder K W. 24th. 



Penfield, Ga. — At midnight 5th a loud roaring noise for fifteen seconds, 

 jarred buildings, felt at points twenty miles S. W., thirty miles N. E., 

 seventy miles S. E., and at Macon sky illuminated as by fire in ]S". E. 

 The first, was it an explosion of a meteor? — the second, an anrora ? 



Carloicville,Ala. — Heavy thunder-storm 15th. 



PilatJca, Fla.—Wmdj 1st, 2d; gale 3d ; frosts 3d, 4th, 5th, with ice 6th ; 

 then warm to 31st. Orange, peach, and i)lum in blossom. 



Houston, Texas. — Frost, ice 2d, 3d; auroras 3d, 26th, 2-7th, 28th. 



Lavacca, Texas. — Cold and clear 1st to 5th; heavy thunder-storm 

 p. m. of 13th to a. m. of 14th, incessant lightning all night, melted 

 telegraph conductors. • 



Xew Orleans, La. — Strawberries blossom 12th to 21st; summer days 

 24th to 31st, but nights cool. 



Columbus, Miss. — Thunder-storm, high wind day and night 16th. 



Marion, Miss. — Snow-storm 1st ; hyacinths 11th ; larks, blue birds, frogs, 

 13th ; peach and plum blossoms 27th. 



Natchez, Miss. — Heavy thunder-storms 19th, 24th. No clear days. 



Elizabethton, Tenn. — First thunder-storm of 1870, 17th ; robins 20th. 

 Much plowing this month. 



