The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-01-04

and | never understood them SO
well before that time as I do now,
! Yas yes; God sse4 us a., and God
loves ma All"
THE MErEoROLOGIcAL DIS
COvERY.
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The Storm and Weather Bureau
at Washington, has made an i'm
portant discovery, ii which people
9sdown east are considerably inter-
ested. For q time as far back as
the landing Of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth, this eastern section of
the country has had the reputation
of being the place where cold, snow
ice and all the other paraphernalia
Of winter are manufactured. Our
neighbors in other States have be-
come accustomed in speaking of
Maine to be taken with chatter
ing Of the teeth. like that which
afflicted s1poor Harry Gill" To
think of this frozen country would
create chill, and viGt to it was
considered like trip to the Arctic
regions. The distinction of Maine
as a frosty State has been of the
6 grand gloomy, and peculiar"
sort Nothing but the massive
rhetoric of a Webster is adapted to
a description of it as it existed in
the popular Imagination. The peo-
pie of the sunny but malarious
South, always supposed until the
Maine regiments came down among
them in war time, and enlightened
them in many things, that this
State was coverered with iceberQs,
and that here . man existed who
had charge Of the north wind, stuf-
fing lis hat into a hole in the North
Pole to check the wind. and with
drawing it when he desired to send
q tempest abroad The rebels
could not stand the charge of the
Maine troops because they carried
usch q vAiilimg inA AauzSss ssiitzzs Il lle1,1.s.
The yellow fever abandoned New
Orleans when Butler went there
with his Maine regiments, retreat
ing before their frosty breath, as
though December was approach
ing; such was the fame of this sec
tion abroad as regarded its freezing
capabilities.
It was not only strangers who
had the idea that this region enioy-
ed Q monopoly of the ice and snow
business, but until a very recent
period those who were born upon
the soil and grew here to manhood
and old age, were inclined to be-
ieve that we had bigger drifts,
thicker ice, and keener frosts than
any other State could boast of
Thousands of our citizens have
gone West to find q warmer climate
and less snow. That was the stand
ing argument for ssWestward, no !"
during many years. The post of
flee sent back only intelligence of
balmy and delightful breezes, with
a little sfever and ager," not word
Of snow and cold to trouble man or
beast. It was only when railroad
and telegraph traversed the West
that we began to learn with great
surprise in this part of the world
we We're not exclusive possessors of
the frigid treasures Of the cont
nent. At first we were of the opin-
ion that such reports were false.
How could they be true we thought
when our neighbors had been going
West for years to escape our rigor,
GUS winters and bask in the pleas
ure and sunshine of the prairies,and
had given MS no notice Of disap-
pointment? Still the railroad and
telegraph persisted in their reports,
and they sent them 80 loud and
stong last winter, fortified by tales
snow plows, Of beiearur
ed trains; and by the testimony of
half starved and frozen passengers
that we began to believe them, al
though we then deemed II possible
that last winter was an exception.
that some mistake had been made
by the doorkeeper Of the elements.
and that the icy sceptre would be
returned to edown east" it's ancient
and rightful possessor.
But the statement now sent ont
rom the Office Of old Probabilities
1t Washington settles the case an
Ehoritively and forever against rs
4 isnow determined that the Rocky
Mountains are the true throne Of
whence he .swoops down
With his icicles and sleet and snow
visiting the plains and the hills Of
'he West first, and paying his re-
'pects to sdown east" ct q latter
lay and IN . milder fashion. After
his announcement there win be
ess chattering Of teeth at the men.
ion Of "down east," less emigration
o the West in pursuit Of mild win :
erA and more contentment IN this
'orner OF the country with our al
natic circumstances. Il is not inn
'osnble that many Of our friends
vho went westward TO escape the
old and SHOWS OF Maine TiIl 81
'oming back 10 enjoy thenewfound-
nildness Of our winters n this
3tate. Had there beensa Sicnal
Mice and stOld Pfobabflitiear vhen
hey emigrated, how much tsrnhIo