Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-24
Tuesday, Jan, "a,

Tuesday, Jan. a.
AdviCes from all sections of the country show
that yesterday was a cold day that will rank
with some of the most severe on record.
Throughout New England, this was especially
the case In Maine, it is stated, the mercury
sank to point almost without precedent; at
Lewiston, the lowest figure reached is recorded
as twenty degrees below zero; at Wiscassct the
thermometer registered ten degrees below zero
at early morning; at noon, so steadily was the Sc
verify of the temperature maintained that the mer-
curry stood at the same point; a Bangor dispatch
states that at that city, the coolest point regis
tered was twenty -four below zero, while Calais
reports thirty; dispatch from Belfast says {:
This is the coolest day of the season. AT 80
A. M. the thermometer indicated seventeen de-
grees below zero. Our bay and harbor are COM
pletely free from ice. New Hampshire dis
patches report q similar condition of the weather
in that state. A telegram from Portsmouth, re-
ceived last night, says: Sunday night was the
coolest here since 1857, and a gale from the
northwest. Thermometer was nearly down to
zero at shutdown, and twelve degrees below at
sunrise this morning. The following dispatch
was received last night, about midnight, from
Prof. Huntington, of the party spending the
winter on the summit of Mt. Washington:
81 have never noticed any period of storm
when the barometer sympathized more closely
with the velocity of the wind than during the
last twenty-four hours. Constructing two
curves at the same time, and the scale of one
Representing the velocity of the wind, the other
the corresponding barogram, the difference in
the length of the ordinates of the two curves, in
diagram on a small scale, is hardly percepti-
ble."
1t is noticeable fact, that, at the time of the
observations mentioned in the above, the mer-
curry, at the Tip!Top house, had fallen to only
one degree below zero, as recorded in the table
at the head of this article. At Lawrence, Mass,
the mercury at seven A. NJ. yesterday stood all
the way from five to thirteen below zero, accord
ing to location; four miles from there it was
down TO fifteen below. In the neighborhood of
Poughkeepse, n. Y, the lowest degree register
ed before noon was four below, but the cold was
constantly increasing, with prospect of bring
ing the mercury TO very low point. A Toron-
to dispatch, of last night, says: 1.-THE weather is
intensely cold, with strong wind and snow.
The thermometer indicates seventeen below
zero, and in Montreal, this morning, twenty-six
below"
A New York dispatch, dated at one o'clock,
this morning, says:
ga snow storm, accompanied by driving
northeast wind and intense cold, began in this
city early yesterday morning, and continued
without cessation, all day, and, up to this hour
with no signs of abatement. The amount of
snow that has fallen is comparatively small, but
the day was the most severe and uncomfortable
of the season. The storm appears to have been
widespread along the coast, and far into the in
terror. War department kilograms at mid
night report snow at Chicago, Cleveland, Oswe.
go, and Rochester, with the temperature as fol-
lows: Buffalo, five; Chicago, twenty-five;
Cleveland, seventeen; New York, ten; Oswego
three; Philadelphia, nine; Rochester, zero; ST.
Paul, ten; Washington, H."
Asw go to press, the snow is still falling,
although not in such abundance as when the
storm began. The wind, which was very pow
erful at eight O'Clock last evening, abated some
what about midnight, but, since that hour, has
grown stronger, driving the snow in miniature
drifts in the street. The point to which the
mercury fell in this city yesterday is variously
stated, records differing with localities At four