The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-05-10
From the Baltimore Clipper, Of e3d uit.l
THE LATE COLD WEATHER.

From the Baltimore Clipper, Of Esd ult.l
THE LATE COLD WEATHER.
DAMAGE TO THE FRUIT AND CRors -
Our exchanges from every section o. the
Union bring u accounts Of the damage To
the crops and early fruits by the recent,
cold weather. In the vicinity Of E!lico,l's
Mills, the Howard Advocate says the peach
%, .pricots, cherries, figs, pIums and wnl-
nuts, we believe have been destroyed.
The Westminster (Md.) CarrolI,oninn
SAYS, that snow fell in that place on We'd
nesday last to the depth Of two inches
The flowers and fruit trees had suffered to
an almost total extent.
Tho Leonnrdstown Beacon SAYS: ave
examined large number of peach. pear,
apricot, and cherry blossoms on Tuesday
morning, and found tho young fruit not
only destroyed, but the cups in almost eve
ry instance filled with ice. We did no,
examine the apple trees, but as they ore
usually more backward than the others,
they NAV possibly have escaped injury"
The Ekton Democrat Of Saturday saws:
i showed rapidly on Wednesday lust,
and continued until Thursday morning.
Had il not melted il would have been seve.
raj inches deep. The warm sun Of yes,er-
day caused it to disappear. The thermom-
eter stood at 4 deg. below the freezing
point this morning At sunrise.
The Hagerstown News learns from Rev.
Mr.. Conrad, who passed over the mountains
between that place and Gettysburg, on
Thursday, that in some places the snow
laid in drifts two or three feet deep. This
is truly on extraordinary fact for record in
April.
The Hagerstown Herald Of the 18th, says
the weather for few days past, has been
ms cold rs midwintcr, and tina, six inches OF
snow had fallen on the Alleganies.
Ia Middletown, three inches Of snow fell
on the 10Th. Indeed all the papers from
the western counties Of Mary land give the
same accounts.
The Pittsburg papers state that the bligh,
has been no less destructive in that region.
The peaches, pears and plnms nre ruined,
and cherries very much nipped.
In Cincinnati, tho frost was equally Sc
we're.
In Zancsvilc aud TIM, section of Ohio,
all the more forward fruits are deserted.
The Norfolk Beacon learns from friend
who has just passed through the counties
Of Charlotte, Cumberland, Powhatan, and
Chesterfield in Virginia, that the recent
severe frost has almost, il not entirely, de-
stroyed the fruit crop, and seriously injured
the wheat sufficiently forward to he ioin,cd.
Its effects on gardens have been mos, dc.
struc,ive. The tobacco plants havo been
nearly killed.
The Pc,ersburgh Intclliccncer SAYS the
forward wheat in tina, vicinity is ncary all
destroyed. One farmer, whose wheat n
week ago looked remarkably well, has
turned his cattle upon his fields. So much
was the wheat injured BY the frost that he
found il idle TO la.k for crop.
The Raleigh Register says. in that local
ity most Of the vegetation of the gardens
has been destroyed, and the tolingc Of
many Of the trees withered End bnckcned.
What the effect NAV be On the fruit trees
remains 10 be seen; though We npprehend
that they, too, have fallen victims 10 the
lingering, insaiiaic appetite Of winter.
ln Fayetteville, H. c.. the snow nccnmn-
lated in level places 10 the depth ofupwaris
Of four inches, and during the day aud
night icicles formed in abundance.
DESTRUCTION By THE CoLp At THE
SoUTn.-from all parts of North aud South
Carolina, Georgia, aud Alabama, the nc
count comes OF wide extended destruction
10 the growing crops, by the snow and
irosts, on the 18th and 10th ins.nn's. The
Cbarles.own papers give copious extracts
from ditIeren. parts to this effect, mud dis
patch from Macon, Georgia, records the
destruction of the cotton, wheat and corn
crops, and also the fruits and vegetables,
in middle and upper Georgia aud Alabama.
From one-half to three-quarters d. the cot
ton was up. Tho destruction is general
and wc fear very disastrous. .Miliedgc-
rillc Journal says that the wheat was fully
cared. The worst oft is, that IN nlmos.
every section there is said 10 be no cotton.
seed 10 re-plaa,.