The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-09
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Years Ago. s5rl,,sss ..ssss,. Il n. I.
While every one Il speaking Of the present
season as being remarkable In It's characters
t,cs. a correspondent of the Boston Globe bas
gathered for the readers of that paper some SOM
reliable facts Of the year 1916, known as
sstbe year without a summer Few per
sons now living can recollect it, but It was
tho coolest ever known through Europe and
America. The following is brief abstract
Of the weather during each month OF the
year:
january was miid-so much so ~ to rem
der fires almost needless in parlors. De
cenlhes previous was very cold.
February was not very cold. WIN tne
execution of few days 1t was mia, IKE us
predecessor. A.,
March was cold and boisterous during the
first mart Of it; the remainder was iniiu. II
great freshet on the Ohio ana hentucRy
rivers caused great loss OF property:
April began warm, but grew colder Us the
month advanced, and ended with snow and
ice and ,cmperature more like winter than
spring.
May was more remarkable for frowns than
smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen. ice
formed half nm inch thick, corn killed, and
the fields again and again replanted until
deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known IN TINS
latitude. Frost. ice, and snow were com
mon. Almost every green fhing killed.
Fruit peorly all destroyed. Snow fell 10
the depth OF ten inches in Vermont, several
in Maine, three in the interior OF New YORK,
and also i'm Massachusetts,. Considerable
damage was done at New Orleans III collSe-
Uuepce of the rapid rise of the river. The
suburbs were covered with water, and the
roads were only rassallc with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and ice.
On the 5th ice was formed Of the thickness OF
a common window-glass throughout New
England. New York, and some parts oil
Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly all
destroyed; some favorably situated fields
escaped. This was true OF some OF the I'LL
farms of Massachusetts.
August was more cherries, II possible
than the summer months already passed Ice
was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn
was so frozen that the great part was c'll
down and dried for fodder. Almost every
green thing was destroyed, both in thisroun
try and in Europe. Papers received from
England state I" that it would he remembered
by the present generation that the year 1916
was year in which there was no SUMMER .
Very little corn ripcned in the New England
and Middle States. Farmers supplied them
selves from the corn produced in 1915 fol
the seed of the spring Of 1917. 1t sold al
from 81 to s. per bushel.
September furnished about two weeks o
the mildesC weather of the season. Soon at
ter the middle it became very cold anC
frosty ice formed quarter of an inch thick
October produced more than its share o
cold weather; frost and ice in common.
November was cold and clustering. Snow
fell so as 10 make good slcigting.
December was mild and comfortable
The above is q brief summary OF "tht
cold summer of 1876" as it was called, il
order TO distinguish it from the cold season
The winter was mild. Frost and ice were
common in every month Of the year. Very
little vegetation maturcd in the Eastern ana
Middle States. The suns rays seemed to b.
destitute of heat throughout The summer; all
nature was clad in IL sable hue, and men eX
hibited no little anxiety concerning the
future Of this life.
The average wholesale price of -four during
that year in tue Philadelphia market was
Sl3 per barrel. The average price OF whea.
in England was nincty-three Shillings per
quarter.