Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-07-28
MONDAY

Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock. the
Thermometers in different paris 81 the
city ranged from So to So; but towards
noon was few degrees cooler.
This excessively wastn weather,asv Ill
be readily imagined, has been the cause
of much inconvenience and uneasiness
to our citizens, and its effects upon the
laboring classes have been particularly
destructive. The deaths from expo
sure to the heat, and the imprudent
drinking of cold water, we think may
be estimated at t,centy .tiUs or thirty
and majority of these, are unfortunate
sons Of Erin.
Yesterday our streets wore solemn
| appe arance-the funeral hearse was
seen moving in every direction.
We have heard ofthe destructive ef-
fects of tine weather TO tie brute crea-
ton. The owners of the Providence
line Of Stages, Il is mentioned, have lost
several fine animals, and deaths have
occurred on otherroutes.
Most of the workmen employed IN
building stores and houses, or in other
expose situations, have been compel
ed to quit their work and seek safety
in the shade. The Patriot states, that
some skaters, on the roof of building,
became ParaIy sed ty 'he influence of
the sun. and were 50 weak, as to re-
qure assistance TO get down. Several
priva'es OF a company ordsred 10 at
tend a funeral. on Monday morning, be-
came so faint as 20 be Obliged to leave
the ranks-oue OF them died on Tues
day.
We understand that, at the request
OF his honor the Mayor, the master
builders have agreed TO abstain from
labor, during the or'inuance of the
warn weather from IL O'Clock A. VI.
To 5 P. NJ. This arrangement, if the
weather should continue as it has been
SINCE SUNDAY morning. may be the
means. Under Heaven, of preserving
the lives Of ainumber Of human beings.
Com. .4dr.
SALEM. jury iI.-The last four days
have be Ell remarkable for the excessive
and overpo~ ering heat of the amos
phere. On Sunday, the thermometers,
placed in the shade. in various parts of
the town, ranged from 90 to 81 degr. es,
at mid day - On MONDAY, one or two
degrees higher, Zone ofthem at 50 de-
grees at . O'clock in the moining) and
on Tuesday, between and . O'Clock,
the thermometers in Essex street. i'm
the shade, rose to 100, 1902, and even to
lo4 degrees. Yesterday the heat was
not quite so oppressive, the mercury
having fallen few degree. In the
m, rnlng, it stood about So at neon, 95
at Q O'clock, p. nj. about SO. A
thermom eter exposed to the sun, rose
in few minutes to 1876 degrees on Mon
day.
The Providence (R. ~ Gazette says.
Monday was the warmest day which
has been experienced in that town for
several years. Ia the shade, the Their
moneter, between, l and O'Clock p.
nj. stood at 99t. At sunrise, the heat
was very oppressive. On Tuesday, at
q. T. NJ. the mercury stood at 96 in tie
shade. In the afternoon, coloured
man, John Greene, lost his wife by
drinking too freely Of cold water.
The Providence Patriot says, the ex-
cessive heat of Sunday and Monday
last, was fatalto the fish at Brush Pond,
near Mashapang Point, in Cranston
This pond contains about three acres,
g. the water hetw cen two OF three feet in
depth yet so intense wasthe heat, that all
the fish therein were su fl Gated. Sever
al hundred peach, pirkerel. sc. some
weighing pound and q half,
we're found floating on the surface Of
the water, and large quantities we're
taken trom the boitont without any
signs of lite. The poet, therefore, was
not dealing in the impossible, when he
aid the fishes are beginning tc sweat,
Sc.