The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-21
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IMpoRrANr DISCOVERY BY .OIp Pro
DABIbrr1Es'sA GREAT ATMOSPHERIC
WAVE UNDtLATINa AcRoss THE CoEr1
NEEr.-Ths researches of the signal
Office have just been rewarded by a
beautiful and highly important mete-
geological discovery. On the coast of
|England, from time immemorial, thu
phenomenon of tho great November at
mospherio wave has been the speculation
Of scientists and senmen: bnt Sir John
Herschei and others have supposed il
was peculiar aud confined TO England
and Western Europe. Which it reaches
from the South Atlantic, and over which
it rolls in long continued unduiatiqps
from October to January. constituting
an important element in the pher ON e nal
character Of European winter. On the
18th OF November similar atmospheric
wave began to break over tho shores Of
oregon and British Columbia, ns shown
by the weather kilograms. BY the even
ing OF the 18th it bud spread over nearly
oil OF the Pacific States and Territories,
Utah and Nevada, and at mid night was
pouring through the passes of the Rock y
AtAooheoibos oI AAuIotuJ, LuS 14tn, I
descended upon Colorado. Msbreskn.
Kansas and the Indian Territory. On
Friday morning it extended in uubroken
magnitude and magniGcence from Ore
gon and Washington Territory East WA, 4
through the great trough or depression
of the Rocky Mountain backbone to
Idaho and Montana, aud stratched
thence to tie Lower Missouri aud Lower
Mississippi valleys and over the Western
shores of the Mexican Gulf. This dis
covery will enable meteorologists to
anticipate, by many duys, tho Eppruach
OF winter, as it advances from the Pucitio
coast Eastward in the grent current OF
Westerly winds. 1t serves to clear up
the old mystery of American winter
storms, showing that they originate in
the Rocky Mountains, upon whose cold
and loftiest submits in Nevada, Utah,
Colorado and Southern Wyoming the
vapor-laden air Of this wave, coming
over the warm Pacific, is now seen to be
condensed III the overwhelming suows
of the forty first parallel. AS this vast
,orial wave is probably, like the English
wave, continued in successive undula-
tions for two or three months, it NAV
assist in explaining the comparatively '
high temperature and light precipitation
in winter along Puget Sound and East-
ward.
Is IT TIE HORSE DISEASE AMONG THE
PoULTRY?-Ws have {bad news for
Thanksgiving day. Up the Hudson and
from the highlands and lowlands Of this
river back to the Susquehannah, and
| now much further VIC know not, O terri.
BILE disease has broken out among the
poultry. Chickens are dying from il
by hundreds, and ducks, geese and tur.
keys in the market are said to betray
evidences of the same malady. It ap.
pears 10 resemble the epzooty; the fowl
affected iias Ii iunuing as tbs uuso.
But, in addition to this symptom OF
catarrh, the victim becomes dizzy, its
head swels and it soon dies rs OF cerebro
spinal meningitis. In another Part oi
this paper, We give the latest information
on the subject, and, from the facts pre-
sented, it appears that this disease il
really assuming the form of destructive
pestlence among our doc, estic fowls.
New Fork Herald
! SENSATION AMONG INSURANCE. CoMpA.
MES. Insurance circles in Now York nre
excited over rumors that judges in ad-
Joining Counties are ready to appoint re
celvers on &c partc statements, with q
view OF making money ont Of the mis-.
fortunes OF the comp anies. Underwriters
say they will resist all such action, and
hope the next Legislature will 80 i'm.
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