Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-12-05
A Year Without q Sum.
mer.

/ Wnlie every one Is speaking
OF the present season as being re-
markable in its characteristics,
have gathered for your readers
some reliable facts of the year
1916, known as 1.-THE year without
! a summer" Few persons now
living Can recollect it, but it was
the coldest ever known through
! Europe and America. The ioi,
lowing is brief abstract of the
weather during each month of
the year:
January was mild, so much so
as to render fires almost unneces-
sary in parlorS. December pre-.
vious was very cold.
February was not very cold ;
with the exception of a few day 5,
it was mild like its predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous
during the first part Of ii; the re-
mainder was mild. A great ireshet
on the OHIO and Kentucky Rive Is
caused great loss of property.
April began warm, but grew
colder as the month advanced, and
ended with snow and ice and
temperature more like winter
than spring.
May was more remarkable for
frowns than smiles. Buds aud
fruits were frozen; ice formed
hslf an iuch thick corn Was
killed, and the fields again and a.
gain replanted until deemed too
late.
June was the coldest ever
known in this latitude. Frost,
ice, and snow We're common. AL
most every green thing killed =
Frui. nearly all destroyed Snow
tell to the depth Of ten inches i'll
Vermont, several in Maine, three
in the interior of New York, anu
also in Massachusetts. Considera.
BILE damage was done at New Or
leans III consequence of the r"pid
rise of the river. TIE suburbs
Were covered with water boats,
July was accompanied by frost
and ice. On the 5th ice wa
formed of the thickness OF a com
mon window glass throughout New
England, New York, and som'
parts of Pennsylvania. Indian
corn was nearly all destroyed /;
some favorable fields escaped =
This was true Of some OF the hill
farms Of Massachusetts,.
August was more cheerless, if
possible, than the summer months
already passed. Ice WAS formed
half an inch thick. Indian corn
was &C. frozen that the great part
was cut down and dried for fodder.
Almost every green thing was des.
troyed, both in this country and
in Europe. Papers received from
England state "that it would be
remembered by the present gen
Grafton that the year 1916 was
the year in which there was no
summer" Very little corn RI.
pened in the New England and
Middle Safes. Farmers supplied
themselves from the corn produced
in 1914 tor the seed of the spring
Of 1877. 1t sold from 81 to So
per bushel.
September furnished about two
weeks of the mildest weather of
the season. Soon after the mid
die it became very cold and fros.
ty; ice foimed a quarter of all
inch thick.
October produced more than its
share of cold weather; frost and
ice in common.
) November WINS cold and blus-
tering. Snow fell SO as to make
good sleighing.
December was mild and COM
Portable.
The above is q brief summary
| of athe cold summer of 1876" as
it was called, in order to distin-
guish it from the cold season.
The winter was mild. Frost and
ice were common in every month
of the year. Very little vegeta-
ton matured in the Eastern and
Middle States. The suns rays
seemed 10 be destitute of heat
throughout the summer; all ma
ture was clad in a sable hue, and
men exhibited no little anxiety
concerning the future Of this life.
The average wholesale price of
-four during that year, in the
Philadelphia market. was SIS per
barrel. The average price of
wheat in England was 93s per