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Hampden (Massachusetts) Journal. 
On Thursday July 21st, the mercury stood at New Ha- 
venin the same. situation as reported on the 11th, at94. ~ 
: New Haven (Connecticut) Journal, 
The thermometer, we believe, for the last two days, has 
scarcely varied during the day, from 95 degrees in the 
shade, and the mercury has not fallen much m_the night 
season. ‘Lhe. ravages of death, yesterday, were truly me- 
lancholy. ‘Twenty-five inquests were held upon the bodies 
of persons who came to their death by means of the heat, or by 
drinking cold water; and there have been several cases to- 
day—some before 8 o’clock this morning. It seems to do no 
good for the press to admonish the public upon this sub- 
ject; and those who return from the burial of friends, with a 
strange fatality, drink and die in a few minutes afterwards. So 
true is it that “all men think all mortal but themselves,” 
We observe this morning that the civil authorities are put- 
ting cautions upon the the pumps, printed in large letters. 
New York, July 25, 
On Wednesday, the mercury at Salem rose to 102 degrees. 
On Monday and Tuesday, at the same place, it rose no high- 
erthan 90. At Albany, during the first five days of the week, 
the mercury has stood at about 97 in the hottest part of the 
day, and morning and evening at 80. 
The heat in France has been exceedingly oppressive. On 
the 19th of July, about 30 miles from Paris, on an elevated 
spot, and in a shade witha northern exposure, the mercury 
rose by Reaumur’s scale to 32 degrees above 0, equal to 104 
of Fahrenheit. Water, in a brass kettle, was so heated that 
persons could not hold their hands in it, and stones and metal- 
lie substances were so hot that they could not be held in the 
