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Glendale, Nebraska —The nights during this month have been remarkably 
cool, and often cold, but as the thermometer has fallen but little previous to 9 
p. m., and has risen rapidly after sunrise, the depression shows but little in the 
recorded temperature. 
Elkhorn City, Nebraska—July 31.—Some wheat and oats have been cut, 
but there is an unusual difference in ripening, and much will not be fit to cut for 
a week or more; the promise is good for a large yield of both; corn is still 
backward, and will require a long season to make a good crop. The month is 
below the average temperature, 
Cathlamet, Washington Territory.—A correspondent writes that this has 
been the rainiest July he has known during a residence of sixteen years on that 
coast. 
Great Salt Lake City, Utah—The season has been very fine for farming, 
but on the last day of the month the grasshoppers came by millions. 
Wanship, Utah—July 31.—First appearance of a cloud of grasshoppers 
over Wanship; they have destroyed half of the grain in Cache valley,and all 
the fruit and a great amount of grain in Davis county. ‘They are swarming on 
the lower part of Weber river. 
Marsh Ranch, California—The only rain which fell during July was a few 
drops on the 30th, between 5 and 6 a.m.; it was accompanied with thunder 
and lightning. 
NOTES OF THE WEATHER, AUGUST, 1867. 
The tables for August show extraordinary rains near the Atlantic coast, while 
the interior suffered from drought. In the following notes brief extracts have 
been made from some of the registers to show the date and amount of a few of 
the principal falls of rain. It will also be seen that an extensive frost occurred 
at the end of the month. All the references made to it on the registers are 
embraced in these notes. No other frost is mentioned by any of the observers. 
Gardiner, Maine—The mean temperature of August, this year, was about 
one degree above the average of the month for thirty-one years. The average 
rain fall for the month for twenty-nine years is 4.09 inches, this year 8.49 inches, 
or a little more than double. The largest amount in any August previously 
recorded was 7.49 inches in 1856. 
Cornish, Maine-—TVhe mean temperature of the month was nearly five and 
a half degrees above the average of August for thirty-five years. The amount 
of rain was the largest ever recorded at this place in August. 
Lisbon, Maine.—F our inches of rain fell from 7 a. m. of the 16th to 7 a. m. 
of the 17th. This storm caused a great amount of damage to roads, bridges, 
and railroads. At the deep cut, five miles from here, the railroad was washed 
eighty feet in leugth and thirty feet deep, no cars crossing again until the 21st. 
Antrim, N. H—tThe rain storm on the 16th is said to have been the heaviest 
that has occurred here at this season of the year for forty years. 
North Barnstead, N. H.—More rain fell during August than in any month: 
since the observer has kept a record, a period of ninety-two months. 
Stratford, N. H—August 31.—Frost in low places this morning, doing but 
little damage. 
Claremont, N. H—August 31.—Slight frost this morning, the first of the 
season; no harm done, unless to tender crops in exposed places. 
Craftsbury, Vermont.—A slight frost on the night of the 30th, affecting vege- 
tables on the low lands. 
Middlebury, Vermont.—August 31.—Slight frost this morning. 
Williamstown, Mass.— August 31.—Slight frost in places. 
