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Plymouth, Wisconsin—July unusually hot and dry ; mean temperature 6° 
above July average for 4 years past. 
Geneva, Wisconsin.—Katydids the 24th ; wheat harvest began the 25th. 
Rocky Run, Wisconsin.—July 9th to 20th, mercury above 90° every day at 
2p.m.; longest excessive heat in nine years ; people prostrated by it all through 
this section. 
St. Paul, Minnesota —July 29th; violent thunder storm, with high wind ; 
lightning struck eight or ten times in the city, but did little damage. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.—Hottest month recorded here. Thunder-storm the 
29th, lightning doing some damage here. 
New Ulm, Minnesota-—Aurora borealis on the 8th, 10th, 14th, 15th, 19th 
and 25th; most splendid on the 10th. The Jatter noticed specially in reports 
from St. Paul, Clearwater Lake, Minneapolis, Dubuque, Iowa, and generally in 
northwestern States. 
Clinton, Iowa.—Hottest month recorded here. 
Dubuque, Iowa.—Month marked by uniform high temperature, steady bar- 
ometer, and absence of winds. Records for 16 years show no July with so 
high a mean temperature. 
Fort Madison, Iowa.—Rye harvest began the 2d; wheat the 16th; potato 
bugs cleaned out our potato patch the 18th; oat harvest the 19th. 
Guitenberg, lowa.—Great and long continued heat delayed harvesting. 
Winds few and light; several horses killed, and some men sickened by heat. 
fowa City, Iowa —The hottest month in 30 years, in all of which the average 
temperature was, at 7 a. m., 64.9°; at 2 p.m, 82.6°; at 9 p. m., 70.2°; and of 
all the observations, 72.3°. This July the means were 75.6°, 89.1°, 79.5°, and 
80.8° for similar observations, respectively. 
Waterloo. Iowa.—Longest, greatest, and hottest drought known in 11 years. 
No copious rain before 31st. 
Rolfe, lowa—Blossoming of wild flowers about a week earlier than last year. 
Fontenelle, Iowa.—F light of grasshoppers, 3d to 20th, when all were gone. 
Katydids heard on 9th. Wheat harvested 26th. The warmest July on record. 
Logan, Iowa—Grasshoppers left early in July. 
Allenton, Missouri —TVhunder storms on 11 days; thermometer in shade 100° 
and upward on 13 days. : 
Rolla, Missouri—High, even temperature; no cool nights; heavy dews; 
thunder and lightning for 18 days, almost in succession, without cooling the air. 
Jefferson City, Missouri.—No beneficial rain since June 9th, and distressingly 
hot; grapes wilting on the vines. 
Hermitage, Missouri.—Twenty days at and above 98°, and 11 days 100° to 
110°. Thunder showers daily from 3d to 24th. 
Leavenworth, Kansas —Like Indian summer 24th to 29th, both inclusive ; 
thermometer 100° degrees and upwards on 16 days. 
Holton, Kansas—Heard katydid on 12th. Much suffering from heat; on 
20th thermometer stood at 113° in shade for one hour—on 20 days it was 100° 
and above. 
Elkhorn, Nebraska—The hottest month in 11 years; breezes soft and ener- 
vating, and nights still, sultry, and often without dew. 
Omaha Agency, Nebraska.—Fine growing season. 
Harrisburg, Utah —The latter part of July was the hottest season ever 
known here. 
Wanship, Utah.—-Clouds of locusts daily, sometimes obscuring the sun, until 
the 25th, when host after host successively rose, organized and passed away. 
In rising their wings rattled like a hail-storm. In about two hours thirty such 
swarms rose and flew away. For two days afterwards swarms were seen over- 
head, flying from other quarters. 
Port Townsend, Washington Territory.—Fine season for gathering crops. 
