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Worcester, Mass—Heavy rain from 14th to 17th, in all 4.81 inches, the 
largest amount ever registered here in a single storm; the record has been kept 
twenty-five years. The total amount for the month was greater than for any 
previous month since August, 1856. 
Lunenburg, Mass. —More rain fell during this month than in any month for 
twenty years. 
West Newton, Mass.—August 31.—Slight frost in low lands; no damage. 
Richmond, Mass —The storm of the 15th and 16th caused a ‘flooding of low 
meadows, and roads were badly washed. Frost is reported on low lands on the 
31st, but not enough to do damage. 
Kingston, Mass.—August 4— The unusual phenomenon of an August freshet 
is witnessed to-day. The water is not often any higher in the river in the 
spring than it is now. 
Newport, R. 1—Three inches and six-tenths of rain fell on the 2d of August 
from 2 a. m. to 6 p. m.; this was more than fell during all the rest of the month 
together. 
“Columbia, Conn.—The month has been remarkable for the great quantity of 
rain, and for the number of unpleasant days, making it almost impossible to cut 
and secure the crop of hay. 
Middletown, Conn.—The fall of rain during the month was more than double 
the average of August for nine years, including the present. 
Garrison’s, NV. Y—There has been a great amount of wet and overcast 
weather during the month, and the amount of rain is almost unprecedented. 
Depauville, °N. Y.—The month was remarkable for its calm and cloudless 
weather. On twenty-five days the wind was from the south or southwest. There 
was along drought; no rain of importance fell during the month, except the 
13th. A few occasional showers of short duration have kept the earth from to- 
tally parching 
Nichols, N. Y—Drought severe up to the 13th; at the end of the month 
the grass as green as in June. 
Palermo, N. ¥Y—This has been a very dry month, and vegetation has suf- 
fered for want of rain. There was a violent tornado 12 miles southwest of here 
at 3.30 p. m. on the 14th. 
Minaville, N. Y—August 31.—First frost last night. 
Rochester, N. Y—August has been exceedingly dry, no rain of any conse- 
quence having fallen between the 25th of July and the 28th of this month. 
With so little water-fall the drought would have been very afflictive if the tem- 
perature had ranged only a little higher. The August in which the least rain 
has fallen in thirty-one years was in 1843, when seven-tenths of an inch fell, 
which was only two-hundredths of an inch less than in thismonth. The greatest 
amount of rain in any month in thirty-one years was 6.83 inches in Septem- 
ber, 1853. 
Buffalo, N. Y.—August 31.—The drought in this vicinity is unusually severe. 
Pasture lands are parched and brown, and farmers in some of the adjoining towns 
are feeding their stock with hay. 
Newark, N. J—The mean temperature of August was thirteen- Tamdredthe of 
a degree below the average of the month for twenty- -five years. The quantity 
of rain was more than in any August during the same period, except in 1843 and 
1853. Two and a half inches fell on the 9th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the heaviest 
fall was from 12 m. to 3 p. m. in the northern suburbs, but not extending two or 
three miles north. The Morris canal broke its banks and overflowed a “portion 
of the water-works. 
Greenwich, N. J—The rain on the 9th was less than two-tenths of an inch. 
On the 15th, with some showers on the 16th, four inches fell, being the heaviest 
rain that has occurred here for twenty or thirty years. 
