The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-17
Earn, an0 Eiresioe.
The Weather.

agree with US it is time that Old Proba
bilities' management of the weather
should be criticised. He has not full.
filled the popular expectation in any
regard. With all his signals and sta
tons, his wind and water meas
nres, his areas of low barometers and
high thermometers, he has not succeed
ed in establishing satisfactory relations
with Jupiter Pulvius, nor regulated the
weather with any degree of system. On
the other hand, the land, the sen, the
heavens, the lightnings, the winds,
and the boreal pole, have made sport Of
him, and combined to do all possible
havoc. Their efforts have been crowned
with the most complete success. Both
the exterior aud the interior of the
earth, as we'll as the upper air, have
been So shaken and mixed up that they
have exhibited every phenomena possible
to them, and seem to have inextricably
COMPOUNDED and confused the four sea-
sons. An unusually cold winter hes
been followed by an unusually late
spring, destitute of any thing like a
zephyr or May flower. When it has
not been cold it has been foggy; when
it has not been foggy it has been raining
hone of your sweet, soft summer rains,
but rains which have descended in solid
sheets and with terrific force, accompa-
MED with bolts which have shattered
dwellings and killed human beings al,
over the country. One day St. Louis
finds itself under water several feet
deep. Another day Jacksonville is flood
ed and finds itself waist deep in water.
The next day Kansas City gets dose of
rain, hail, thunder and lightning, and
the result is, houses are blown down,
fields and crops are submerged, bridges
are washed away, and even the gEasshop-
pers surrender to the forces of nature.
Little creeks few feet across are swOl-
len into rushing rivers, which flood the
low-lands and sweep off every growing
thing. In the early season, the foods
came and devastated the South, the East,
and the West, submerging villages in a
single night, sweeping of mills and dams,
turning thousands out of their homes
and paralyzing the great industries of
the country. What the water failed to
wash away, the great ice-gorges crushed
away, and human efforts to check their
destruction was powerless' The tornado
and the cyclone have added their fury
to the other disturbing agencies. There
has not been a month since January in
which some part Of the country has not
been exposed to the wrath of the hurri-
cane. Thousands of dollars worth of
property have been destroyed and hun-
dreds of lives have been lost by these
murderous agencies. They have been
quite impartially distributed. First,
one swept over the town of Houstonia,
Mo-, leveling twenty buildings. killing
six people, and injuring many others.
Rienzi, Miss, was nearly destroyed and
six people were killed. At Richland, s. |
c., many houses were lere!ed and two
people killed. The northern part of
Georgia was swept as with bosom, and
800 people were killed and property was
destroyed to the amount of several hum
dreds of thousands of dollars. In Lou
isiana, several people hake been killed.
In Mississippi, five we're killed In Ar
kansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio
and Minnesota, numerous lives have
been lost. and great amount OF proper
ty has been destroyed. While these
messengers of wrath have been speeding
on their way, the earth itself seems to
have been shaken to It's foundations.