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was 24 inches ; the amount in the corresponding months during the last fifteen 
years varied from 6 to 12 inches. 
Aurora, Indiana—October 1.—First frost observed. 
Richmond, Indiana.—October 4—A severe thunder storm, attended with a 
heavy gale from the northwest. It tore down considerable timber a little south- 
west of here. 
Columbia City, Indiana.—An inch of snow fell on the 30th and 31st. 
Merom, Indiana.—October 1.—Frost, the first of the season. 
Augusta, Ill—October 30.—First snow; just covered the ground. 
Ottawa, Ill.—October 23.—Ice formed a fourth of an inch, the first this 
autumn. 
St. Louis, Mo—October 1.—First white frost on bottom lands. 3d and 4th, 
thunder and lightning in the afternoon. 23d, heavy white frost. 
Rolla, Mo.—October 30.—Ice formed for the first time. Not rain enough 
during the month at any time to wet the ground more than three inches deep. 
Harrisonville, Mo.—October 12.—First light frost this morning. 
Plymouth, Wis.—Thunder showers on the 17th and 19th. First snow in 
the evening of the 29th. 
Manitowoc, Wis.—October 29th.—First snow this night. 31st—This October 
was the warmest in seventeen years, except 1854, when the mean temperature 
was 52.33°. 
Milwaukee, Wis—-The quantity of rain since June 1 is only 8.91 inches, 
which is only about half the average of the same period for twenty-four years. 
New Ulm, Minn.—October 22.—Ice an eighth of an inch thick. 
St. Paul, Minn.—October 12.—First ice formed. 
Sibley, Minn.—October 29.—An inch of snow. 
Fort Madison, lowa.—October has been extremely dry ; wells are drying up ; 
pastures are dried up ; farmers are digging wells deeper for water ; three-quarters 
of an inch of snow on the morning of the 30th. 
Algona, Iowa.——October 12.—-This morning the ground is white with frost. 
29th, one imch of snow. 
lowa City, Iowa—October 6.——First frost, very light; no damage. 234, first 
killing frost. 29th, first snow, one-tenth of an inch. 
Manhattan, Kansas—October 12.—Frost on low ground. 
Atchison, Kansas.—October 5-—-The ground covered with white frost this 
morning; but little damage done to growing crops. 12th—Very heavy frost this 
morning. 20th, thunder, lightning, and heavy wind and rain-storm from the 
northwest at 6 p.m. 
De Soto, Nebraska.—October 2.—WilG geese and brants flying south. 12th, 
first frost; tomato vines, &c., killed. Thermometer 30° at daybreak. 
Dakota City, Nebraska.—October 12.—First frost, sufficient to kill vines. 
Richland, Nebraska.—October 5.—Heavy white frost. 
Wanship, Utah.—October 8.—Snow three inches deep. 
NOVEMBER, 1867. 
Many of the registers north, south, and west, contain notices of “hazy,” 
“smoky,” and “ Indian summer” weather, beginning about the middle of No- 
vember and continuing from a week to ten days. 
Gardiner, Maine-—The mean temperature of November was a degree and 
two-thirds below the average of the month for thirty-one years, and the amount 
of rain an inch and two-thirds less than the average for twenty-nine years. 
Seven and a half inches of snow fell during the month. ‘There was good sleigh- 
ing eight days, and the river was frozen six days. 
Corinth, Maine—November 16.—Five inches of snow fell to-day. 
Stratford, N. H.—Sixteen inches of snow fell during the month, five inches 
