Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-28
The Wenther.

The Weather.
We continue our record of the weather as cb-
served at different places during the recent 'cOld
term.
At Newport, R L, Sunday morning, the 18th,
the thermometer was 10 below zero. The snow
storm at that place was frightful, the streets
blocked up. and the mail was carried by hand
At Smiths Mills, three miles from New Bed
ford, and also at wild's store. in North Fair
haven, the thermometer stood at Ii below zero,
on Saturday morning, the 22d
At Blackstone, the thermometer was 80 below
zero on Saturday morning, % below on Sunday,
and % below on Monday morning.
AtTauuton, Saturday morning, Is below on
Main street, and 30 below at the Lunatic Hospi-
tai in that town.
At Bath, N. H., Friday morning, % below zero
in the morning, II below atevening, 50 below at
nine P. NJ, and not less than II below, at any
time during the day. On Saturday morning, the
mercury thermometers were all CONCEALED, and
the shirt thermometers indicated the astonishing
depression of ftty-tt0o degrees beloU zero ! AT
half-past eight o'clock it had risen only to fifty
degrees belOso.
At Bethlehem, N. H.. on Sunday, the 18Th,
Is below in the morning, and 16 below at noon.
On Friday evening, the 23d, SO below on Satur-
day, at sunrise, IS below, and at nine A. NJ, 81
below.
In woodstock, Vt, on Monday morning,
letter to the Boston Journal says =" All OF our
mercury Thermometers were down to 40 below zero
this nsrning at seven o'clock and spirit Their
mometer indicated 43 below. In December, lS45,
sha ,,oar.s,yv FILL IN An below zero %
At Brunswick, Me-. on Friday night, the 23d,
according to Prof cieaveland's thermometer, the
maximum was IS below zero at eight A. NJ, on
Saturday, il stood at 80 below.
In Salem, says the Gazette, there was little va
ration in the temperature between Friday and
Saturday mornings. On Friday, at six A. NJ, at
Mr.. N. z. Averell's house, in Boston street, the
mercury stood at % below zero and on Saturday
morning, at the head of Federal street. the mer-
curry was "a below. The mercury in Reading was
from 80 to SO below. In Marblehead it was low
est on Friday-22 below zero-and at no time in
the day higher than below. At Ipswich on
Saturday, % to 80 below. Topsfeld, on Saturday,
The mercury, Monday morning. was below zero
in the most sheltered exposures in Salem, ana in
neighboring towns it did not indicate much
higher temperature than on Friday and Saturday.
In Hamilton, it stood at Is below, and in Read
ing from ~ to Is below.
The railroad communication between Salem and
Boston was entirely stopped from Thursday even
ing to one p NJ. of Saturday. Many of those en-
gagged in clearing the tracks, &c, were severely
frost-bitten. Mr. Goldthwait, conductor, was so
chilled on Friday that it was with difficulty he
was restored partially. He was brought to his
home on Saturday afternoon, still disabled from
the effects OF his exposure
The Norfolk County Railroad was not opened
through till Monday evening, when the Boston
mails for whole week, containing the Boston
letters and papers for that length of time, for
Blackstone ard vicinity, we're received. The
snow drifts across Walpole Plain were, in some
places, twenty-five feet deep. They were cut
through BY going in and carting the snow out
When the path was cleared, the train passed
through deep cuts, where the snow was, in many
places and for considerable distances higher than
the tops of the cars. There is from twice to
three times as much snow from Blackstone to
Boston, and from Blackstone to Providence, as
there is in this vicinity.
At Greenfield on Friday and Saturday morn
ings, the thermometer was 26 and 80 degrees be-
low zero.
At Providence, on Saturday the thermometer
at the Journal Office was 20 below zero; at DR..
Tobey's, the hill above the College, 81 degrees
below; and at John Meader's, standard Their
mometer fell to 80 degrees below. On Monday
morning the thermometer at the Journal office
was u below, and John Meader's was % below.
At Pleasant Valley it was 80 below on Saturday
morning, and was still 20 below at 8 o'clock A.
M. Professor CaswelPs thermometer, at the col
lege on Friday, indicated IA below zero at sun
rise, below at 10 o'clock P. NJ, and 10 below at
10 O'Clock in the evening, giving mean temper
AZURE, during the day, of nine and SeUep-tenths
degrees beloD zero, being, as the Professor be-
heves, undoubtedly the coolest day on record in
that city.
In this city on Sunday morning the thermome-
ter was 10 to II degrees below, and on Monday,
8 to 10 below.