Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-27

We copy from our exchanges some addi-
tiunatitems in reference to the severity of the
cold in different localities. The Springfield
Bep,e5lican says:
"Saturday morning, the mercury sank
to lower point than we have any pre-
vious record of in thus latitude The Their
mometer, which is usually quoted in these
columns, stood $50 below zero at sunrise Sat-
urday morning. Others in this city and the
neighboring towns ranged from % to 81 be-
below Up to 10 and Ii o'clock the mercury
remained below zero, but at noon it had got
above, and the weather then became decided
ly mlder,-so mild that the regular Saturday
afternoon fall of snow tor the last month did
II t altogether fail as. The cold came back
late at night, however, and Sunday morning
the mercury was 81 below zero, the coolest
morning of the winter after its immediate
predecessor.
The only morning which disputes the palm
with Saturday in GOODNESS, of which the 10.
cal records or the oldest lnhabitant" bear
testimony, was Sunday, January 4, 1885,
when thermometer at Daniel Lombard's
house, where the Chicopee bank now stands.
was down to 81 below zero; at 10 O. clock the
same night it was "a below, and on Monday
morning 80 below; being ON the whole about
as cold night as that of last Friday.
Two such days as Sunday and Monday of
last week alone would mark a generation
the one by the fact that the mercury was be-
low zero all day, and the other by lis gale
and snow storm from the north, terrible iii
force and GOODNESS. But the Al hours from
Thursday at p. m. till Saturday at 10 a. m,
witnessed the greatest achievement of King
Frost During all that time the mercury got
M hiYln fkn,, A 1,,1., 80
of the entire Al hours must have been at
least Is degrees below
The g oldest lnhabitant" must 'td dry up -
after this. The youngest of us are as wise as
he on cold weather. We have seen and suf-
fered worse than the worst of his experience.
Future generations will stare in wonderment,
perhaps in doubt, when we gable to them
Of the winter OF 1857.
The Lowell Ne,os of Saturday says:
The weather last night was still colder than
the hight previous. This morning the Their
mometers at North Chelmsford and at Nc
Farlin's, Pawtucket street, in this city, indi-
Gated temperature of 80 deg. below Zero
The Boston Atlas of Monday has the fol-
lowing
1.-The thermometer in this city was 16 de.
grees below zero, in Cambridge from 20 to %,
in Roxbury H., in Brookline 10, at Jamaica
Plains %, in Maiden 80, in Melrose 49, in
Braintree IA, in Reading from So to 81, in
Waltham IS, in Medford IS, and at West
Roxbury %.
AT Montpelier, Vt, the mercury fell to 80
degrees below zero, and CONCEALED. Of course
1t could go no lower.
At Woonsocket, r. L., on Saturday, the
mercury ranged from "a to 80 degrees below
zero. 1t was p degrees below at the depot.
AT three different points in Smithield, R.
l., within circuit of mile, at seven o clock
on Saturday morning, the mercury was at 16,
"a, and % degrees below zero.
AT North Providence, at the same time, it
was thirty-ttoo degrees below.
Thermometers in several different locations
in Washington Village, Coventry, r. l., ind-
Gated 80 degrees below.
The Hartford Times calls Saturday the cold
est morning of this century at five o. clock
the thermometer was 80 degrees below zero
at the railroad depot in Asylum street, and 80
in Mr.. Tndor's garden, and at the Insane Re-
treat.