Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-02-17
Too Cold.


in order. We do not care whether they |
are or not, this thing has gone to where
forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and as ii |
is certain nothing worse can come than
what is here already, we propose to tell
the truth concerning the abominably cold
term that has been. inflicted upon suffering
humanity
We had good, respectable winter before
the tenth of January, and were behaving
deccntlv under it. Not a murmur was
heard because the thermometer had kept
for six weeks below the freezing point
and there was no intention Of making any |
to come and a mild month of February
would have made Il very fair average.
But Just before the extra session there
came "cold wave,' and before it had
passed Old Probabilities telegraphcd that
another had started away out beyond Min
nesota Since then there has been such a
succession of these waves that it is becom-
inc evident they are supplied by some in
cxhaustible "Sunless sea" of cold air
Whether this never-failing reservoir is
supplied by currents that flow through
"caverns measurcless to man from polar
rcoions. or whether the windows of heaven
are broken and clear communication es-
tablished with the freezing regions OF the
upper air does not make any difference.
There remains this wretchcd certainty that
| for five weeks the northern part of this
country has been oppressed by an unre-
| lentinr, absolute absence of heat. The
thermometers have gone up once i'll
while a little way from old habit and not
because there was any legitimate reason
| for it. One of our correspondents who, a
short time since, complained of weather
that was only four degrees below zero is
in imminent dan ger of committing suicide
because of his chagrin that he should be
on record rs condemning the finest
weather Of the season.
Last week the New Workers stopped
Dragging about their ice bridge over the
East River whereby they avoided the
necessity of ferry to Brook yn, and opened
their eyes in wonder at the spectacle of
pedestrians walking across the venerable
Hudson itself. for the foreign realms of
the Jerseys We're united by the zee to the
knickerbocker shores of Manhattan Island.
Ferry boats ceased to 90 on time and IN
some cases to run The sanctity even OF
the Beechcr-Tilton trial was not regarded,
and enc day was lost by Mr. Evarts and
one of the jurymen becoming ice-bound
upon Il ferry boat between New York and
BROOKLYN Long Island Sound was made
almost useless for purposes of navigation.
and all along the New England coast the
poor sailors were freezing and being east
away on ice rugged and unmanageable
vessels.
Nevertheless it was reserved for Satur
day and the northern part of New Eng
land and New York to record the worst raid
of the season. 1t was cold enough here
in Montpelier, any where from II to 81,
but some Of our neighbors were still worse
off In Brattleboro, Saturday morning,
the thermometer marked from 20 to 80
below, according to location. ST. Johns
bury marked SO below. Concord WAS
shvering, and at Baskerville it WAS IS
below In some of the New llaml shire
towns between White River junction and
Concord the mercury froze, not up bat
| ! 81, ell ..,,,
cludel not to look any more.
The cold wave appears to have been the
; worst in that part of New Hampshire
Just north of Concord. At Warrcnsburg.
New York, Il little north of this part OF
Vermont, it was III degrees below. and
somewhere in the western territories,
where the prohbitory law is not strictly
enforced and they have spirit thermome-
tiers, there is a place that rcjoiccs in a
record of Sc degrees below zero, We
canddly submit that this sort of thing, t.
q u man of Mr.. Beecher's vivid imagination
+ might " seem like Dante Inferno that
is like the coolest portion of that inho>p-
5 table, and vet too hosptablc, region.
= The railroads have been seriously block
( ed by the SHOWS Of Thursday, and the
, succeeding gales of wind Those in thi,
t. section did noblv, though they were obliget
to run some of their trains good way:
h behind time. In northern New York sew
eral roads were abandoned till the storm
was over, and in the region about Oswegc
I there were no trains for a number Of DAYS
!. The same story over again might be tol,
+ of Canadian roads and those still farther
@ west.
n The matter may be summed up by say
. inc that it is undoubtedly the scvcres
@ winter of the century. And to make it al
i the more wildly realized, dispatches come
n from the southern hemisphere saying tina
Il at Melbourne, Australia, which is nearl,
: under foot " the heat is intense, ant
has reached II degrees Fahrenheit in the
shade. Bush fires have occurred, ant
6 great damage has been caused" lie
- them roast who can.
/ New HAMPsIIIRE.-The political pc
: begins to boil though rather quietly as vet
: There are three candidates for governor
Il Cheney, Roberts and White-rcpublican
:. democratic and prohibition Both repub
y licanS and democrats profess to believ,