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Waterloo, Il1—In the night of the 24th and 25th of April ice formed in the 
lower part of the county, especially throughout the whole American bottom, 
while on the hills there was hardly any frost, except along the ereeks. ‘The 
same occurred during the night of the 27th and 28th. 
St. Louis, Mo.— April 21.—Thunder aud lightning in the east at 74 p. m. 
Waupaca, Wis.—Apvril 27.—Ice a quarter of an inch thick this morning. 
Delavan, Wis.—April 16.—Grass pretty generally started. 30th—The buds 
have started on very few trees yet. 
Milwaukee, Wis—April 4.—Ice left the Milwaukee river. 23d.—TFirst 
steamer arrived from lower lakes. 
Minneapolis, Minn.—Ice broke up in the Mississippi river at this point April 
16th. Ground frozen very hard and ice formed a quarter of an inch thick on 
the night of the 26th. 
St. Paul, Minn —April 22, 23—Heavy flood in the Minnesota and Missis- 
sippi; water higher than since 1859. 4 
Algona, Iowa.—Apvril 30.—Snow all gone, except in deep ravines where it 
drifted to a great depth. i 
Towa City, Towa.—April 24—Hard frost, ice half an inch thick. Season 
very backward. 
Lawrence, Kansas.—April 20.—Rose bushes, cherry trees and cottonwood 
trees coming into leaf. First flower of the season found on the prairie. 
Manhattan, Kansas —Apvil 3.—F ost left the ground; first ploughing 
Olathe, Kansas —Apvril 14.—Heavy thunder storm at 5 a. m. 
Richland, Neb.—April 21.—Grass generally starting on the prairies. 
Glendale, Neb—April 24—Thermometer at 5 a. m. 22°; ground frozen 
hard. 
Aspinwall, Panama—The mean temperature of the past April at 7 a.m. 
was 79°.1, at 2 p.m. 799.2; at 9 p.m. 799.0; being only one-tenth of a degree 
higher at 2 p. m. than at 7 a. m. and two-tenths higher than at 9 p. m. 
EARTHQUAKE, 
A number of the registers from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri men- 
tion the shock of an earthquake in the afternoon of April 24th. 
NOTES OF THE WEATHER.—MAY, 1867. 
Gardiner, Me-—Mean temperature of the month 29.92 below the average of 
May for thirty-one years. Amount of rain 12 inch above the average of 
twenty-nine years. 
Steuben, Me.—The past month was the wettest May except one on record at 
this station. 
Lisbon, Me—May 31.—There was so much wet weather during the month 
that farmers have been able to do but little sowing and planting. 
Cornish Me.—Temperature of the month about one degree above the average 
of the last thirty-five years. 
Stratford, N. H—May 19.—Ice thick as window glass this morning. 
Lunenburg, Vt—May was very wet, but all crops, though backward, 
promise well. 
Craftsbury, Vt—Rain fell on every day during the month except four. 
Barnet, Vt—May 31.—The season is more backward than for several years. 
The Connecticut river was higher this month than before since 1850. 
Kingston, Mass—May 14.—Thunder shower last night. 
Richmond, Mass—May 31.—The month was cool and very wet. A snow- 
drift formed in December, remained in sight until the 26th. 
Lunenburg, Mass.—TVhe past, May was the coldest since 1858. 
Newport, R. I—Thunder storm from 11 p. m. of the 13th to 3 a. m. of the 
14th. 
