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Minnesota. — The first appearance of thi^: cold, Avliich the registers thus far 

 received exhibit, was on the morning of the 22d. At St. Paul, in Minnesota, it 

 began on this day, and th(! fall was sudden. At 7 a. m. the thermometer stood 

 at 51 degrees, which was lower than it had been at that hour on any previous 

 day of the month, and 23 degrees lower than at 9 p. m. of the preceding day. 

 The temperature, not steadily descending, but fluctuating somewhat, reached the 

 lowest point on the morning of the 29tli, when ice was formed an eighth of an 

 inch thick, and corn was killed by a very heavy white frost. 



Nebraska. — At Fontenelle, Washington county, in latitude 41° 31', and not 

 far west of the Missouri i iver, the cold was first noticed also on the morning 

 of the 22d, the temperature at 7 a. m. being 62 degrees, which was lower than the 

 morning temperature of any previous day, and 13 degrees below that of the pre- 

 ceding morning. The coldest day of the month was the 24th, the mean tempera- 

 ture of which was 50 degrees, and the lowest temperature was at 5 a. m on the 

 29th, when the thennometer was at 30 degrees, and there was a heavy frost, 

 killing corn, sorghum, &c., in low situations. 



Iowa — In Kossuth, Dubuque, and Muscatine counties the cold began on the 

 morning of the 22d. At Muscatine city the greatest change was on the 24th. 

 There was frost in the morning, and at 9 p. m. the temperature was 26 degrees 

 lower than at the same hour on the preceding night, and at Dubuque it was 25 

 degrees lower. In Clinton, Buchanan, and Johnson counties the depression was 

 also manifested on the 22d, but later in the day ; and at Fort Madison, Lee 

 coimty, in the southeast corner of the State, in the night of the 22d, or morning 

 of the 23d. At Iowa city the temperature was 23 degrees lower at 2 p. m. on 

 the 24th than at the same hour on the 23d ; and at Algona, Kossuth county, it 

 was 20 degrees colder at 9 p. m. on the 22d than at the same hour on the 21st. 

 There was frost to injure vines on the 25th, and on the 29th the frost was 

 general and severe throughout the State, and at Lyons, Clinton county, ice was 

 formed in low places. On tlie 30th the frost was lighter. 



Wisconsin. — At Beloit, in the same latitude with Dubuqe, Iowa, the cold 

 also appeared on the 22d, but a little later in the day ; the temperature at 7 a. m. 

 being about the average for that hour, and at 2 p. m. lower than at 7 a. m. 

 At 9 p. m. on the 23d the temperature Avas 19 degrees lower than on the pre- 

 ceding night, and 27 degrees higher than on the following night. The frost 

 was heavy on the last three days of the month. 



Kansas. — The three stations from which registers have been received are all 

 in the efistern part of the Statt-, and the cold began in the evening of the 23d. 

 At all three of the stations the maximum temperature of the month was on this 

 day, while at 9 p. m. it was lower than at that hour on any previous day. At 

 Fort Riley on the 23d the thermometer fell 31 degrees from 2 p. m. to 9 p. m., at 

 Manhattan 24 degrees, and at Lawrence 33 degrees. The temperature at Fort Riley 

 and Manhattan at 2 p. m. on the 24th was 32 degrees lower, and at Lawrence 

 35 degrees lower, than at the same hour on the 23d. The observer at Fort Riley 

 reports a light frost on the 25th and 29th, and at Manhattan a frost on the 30th 

 sufficient to kill vines. 



Missouri. — Only two registers have been received — orie from Harrisouville, in 

 Cass county, on the western border of the State, and the other from Wyacouda 

 Prairie, Lewis county, near the northeast corner. The fall began late in the 

 night of the 23d, or early in the morning of the 24th, the temperature at both 

 stations being higher at 9 p. m. of the 23d, and lower at 7 a. m. of the 24th, 

 than at those hours on any previous day of the month. At Harrisouville the 

 temperature at 9 p. m. was 34 degrees lower, and at Wyaconda Prairie 36 

 degrees lower than on the 23d. At Harrisouville there was a light frost on the 

 24th, 25th, and 29th, and at Wyaconda Prairie on the 25th a frost killing corn, 

 sorghum, vines, &c., on low grounds, and injuring them very much on the 



