The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-28
skaAV nR 4.
HARD winter Impending.

Without claiming TO be spcclally
weather wise ourselves, although We
have some views of our own on the
subject of the Seasons, deduced nom
observation, experience and study,
we cannot but attach sufficient credit
to the signs and tokens which old
hunters and Woodmen on this Contl-
nent. and scientific calculators in
Europe are adducing to sustain the
prediction that we are TO have an early
and severe Winter throughout the
Northern Hemisphere.
The beavers aud prairie dogs In the
West and Northwest of America,
along with many other animals that
house themselves away in the cold
season, have greatly advanced their
preparations for the frost this year,
and on the Atlantic coast the Storm
King sends US no equivocal or infre-
EqueRt warning,
/ In Europe, no less important an
organ of learned opinion than the
/ Bulletin de- Association ScientiJiQWe
(Bulletin of the Scientific Society,",
Announces that the Winter of 1S69-70
will be exceptionally severe on tho
( Eastern Hemisphere. 1t reminds its
readers of the fact that the Winter of
1860 was very remarkable for its
i mildness, Its mean temperature not
| having exceeded 6 deg. s. m. The
three most moderate preceding Win
tiers of the century had been those of
| 1922, 1923 and 1884, when tho mean
| temperatures were 8 deg, 6 deg. and
| 6 deg. q m. respectively.
Previous to our century, the only
Winter among those Of which the
/ temperature was calculated that APP
preached 1869 in mildness was IN
| 1797. The severe cold snap which
came in January last was another
pointsof resemblance between these
Il two seasons, for there was no such
/ lowering In the temperature in the
4 mild Winters that we have mentioned.
The other singular Accomplishments
of this similarity will attract the no.
tice Of any close observer.
NJ. Renou, writing to the BulLetGsl
| above mentioned, tells the world that
. since the atmospheric perturbations
of 1880, the years have been warm
. er. clearer and dryer, and the barOm-
eter pressure lighter than before
The anomalies, he thinks, cannot fail
to find their compensation ere long
the Winter before last closely cor
responding with that of 1928, and
everything betokening that about 1870
we shall have q great Winter Ike
that of 1S29-30. ~ t.-
TO those whose business consists in
the sale of all sorts Of Winter wear
and seasonable material, this is nc
: unWelcome news especially when
comfort and plenty already fill theil
: homes-but to the poor it IS alarming
Fuel, clothing, bread and all, they
apprehend, will be dearer, and work
harder TO get.
Meanwhile, tho fearful tempests
that have recently ragged along the
Atlantic coast, and far away into the
: interior, have destroyed heavy stocks
of grain and cattle, and although, al
, the geld operators told the Govern.
: ment before the Wall Street plot
American wheat could not be sold ID
Europe to compete with the Black
Sea and Mediterranean article while
gold was as low as the thirties, the
foreign demand, In view Of long and
!, heavy Winter, may yet help to en-
, hauce rates for the necesaaTies Of
life.
AS it is, We arc not sorry 10 per.
! ceIYe tnab our 1nl8nQ TRADERS are ndst'
! ening to lay in sufficient stocks Of
goods while prices are comparatively
, low, thus enabling their people to buy
, at rates which viii leave them some
cash on hand for the agricultural re
! quirements of next year.
! The s0Udnts are not Invariably
right, but there is accumulated evi
dence in their favor to show that OF
general indications, and careful com
4 parsons kept up for years past, they
{ can make some fair predictions con
corning the year to come. at al
events, thrift and wise preeautior
never do any harm, and should th'
. phenominally severe season thus pre-
{ dicted ensue, our friends may no
n blame US for having given them thi
hint in good season. -NelC York Her
camille Journal.