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St. Paul, Minn. —tThe fall, as a whole, was more wet and unpleasant than 
in many years. Snow-fall in November, 10 inches. 
Minneapolis, Minn.—Snow, 6 inches, 9th ; firstice in Mississippi river 11th; 
skating on ponds 21st. é 
New Ulm, Minn —Minnesota river thick with snow and ice 16th; frozen 
over 17th; not yet crossed by teams 30th. 
Sauk Centre, Minn.—Faint auroras 20th, 25th, 26th; nearly a foot snow on 
ground—18 inches in November; lakes frozen 3 to 4 inches. 
Clinton, Iowa.—Month uniformly low temperature—not very eold—mostly 
cloudy and quite damp. 
Dubuque, Iowa.—F requent lightning in south, and afterwards thunder, 7th. 
Monticello, Jowa.—Ditfuse lightning and thunder southwest, evening of 7th; 
ae 2 inches, 17th, (24 days earlier than last year ;) farmers ploughing 
30th. 
Muscatine, Iowa. —First snow 10th; many wild ducks 29th; snow-fall, 2 
inches. 
Bowen’s Prairie, Iowa—First snow 17th; month cold and unsettled; much 
corn not yet gathered. 
Guttenberg, Iowa—An unpleasant month for farmers and farm stock. <A 23- 
years’ resident says the Mississippi was never before so high at this season. 
Independence, Iowa.—Month began and ended fair and pleasant, but for 12 
days there was not a ray of sunshine visible. 
Marble Rock, Iowa—Beautiful till 7th, rainy and snowy till 11th, cold and 
cloudy till 25th, beautiful ever since. 
Algona, Iowa—Mostly rainy and snowy from 7th to 24th, since then pleas- 
aut; snow gone and river open. 
Boonesboro’, Iowa.—Sun shone but two brief intervals between 15th and 26th. 
November had 14 days entirely cloudy, 9 clear, 6 snow, mist, or rain, 3 smoky ; 
temperature 675° below November, 1867, and 1.39° below the average of 13 
ears. 
y Rolfe, Towa.—Thunder storm to northwest, and then snow storm from north- 
west, 15th ; streams frozen 17th; ground now frozen 6 inches deep. 
St. Louis, Mo—First snow, a few flakes, 17th ; snow 19th. 
Rolla, Mo.—Month a trifle cooler than last year, but extremes less ; range 
last November 89°, this November only 55°. 
Hermitage, Mo.—November steadily cold, but no extreme, as in 1867, when 
thermometer sank to 8° below zero on 30th. 
Warrensburg, Mo.—Mild and smoky till 8th; first snow, slight, 9th. 
Oregon, Mo.—Diffuse lightning and heavy thunder 8th a. m.; ground frozen 
an inch 10th; heavy thunder, no lightning seen, 15th; 19th to 29th, thawing, 
snow and ice, roads very muddy. 
Leavenworth, Kansas—Sharp lightning with rain 8th; snow 9th; thunder 
storm 15th: from 14th to 25th, dull, cloudy weather, longest spell ever known 
here. 
Atchison, Kansas.—UHeavy thunder storm 15th; Missouri river full of floating 
ice 19th; coldest November in 5 years; snow-fall, 10.4 inches. 
Lawrence, Kansas.—First snow 9th; (earliest winter since Kansas was set- 
tled;) sudden snow on 16th caught farmers all unprepared; one third of potato 
crop not gathered ; snow-fall 6 inches, more than in all last winter. 
Holton, Kansas.—Since 15th the worst November I ever saw here. 
Council Grove, Kansas.—Roses, snowballs, and Wilson’s strawberries bloom- 
ing and fruiting on Ist, but latter lack color and flavor; fine hail and rain 9th ; 
ground frozen 10th; 12 inches snow 23d, the deepest snow since admission as 
a State, yet this November is 3° warmer thar any in same period; splendid 
weather, “ bating the snow,” 30th. 
De Soto, Neb.—Snow ending in rain 9th; distant thunder storm 15th; vio- 
lent snow storm 16th; Missouri river frozen over 20th. 
