The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-22
SNOW AND FROST.


.-npr,D sToRM-CRoPs SERIOUSLY
VIC - nnIrcUrED-DECEMBER WEATHER IN
,pR1I-MERcURY AT A LOW POINT
,-rcr SPRING wEATHEB-THE TEMPER
,q1-RE YESTERDAY.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-The temper
..ro rcnorted to the Signal Office this
~, ,rsnipc ut 435, is as follows at the places
mod Port Huron, Mich, II degrees
i,,l bDvo zero; Buffalo, 20; Cleveland, %;
,,nona Mich. %; Pittsburg, Pa, 24
Tarsnto. % Philadelphia, Baltimore and
washington. 50; New York, 30 Toledo
,nJ Nashville SO; Norfolk, 81; Portland,
,l Wo 36: Boston, 3S; Chicago, 20; Cincin-
nati ' - Pembina, Dakota, 48; la Crosse.
MIS- MIS- 55; St. Louis, 81; St. Paul and
1I,nphis. 60; Montgomery, Ala, 81;
Icav6nworth, 60; Vicksburg and Omaha,
-. New Orleans, 75 Galveston, 7G.
The weather has moderated since morn
mo The following are examples There
,g5s change from the morning Of II de-
,rass at Port Huron, at Pittsburg, 10 at
chicago. % at LOUISVILLE, / at New York,
q at Cincinnati, and at Washington and
Baltimore.
CROPS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April IA heavy
west and nothwest wind has been prevail
inc here for the last thirty-six hours, ex-
fo9ding as far South as Montgomery, Ala.
This morning the ice here is quarter Of
an inch thick, and is very cold. There is
ice an eighth Of an inch thick at Corinth.
Miss, and all exposed vegetation is frozen.
L IS believed thatal fruit, cotton and wheat
IN this and adjoining States have been ser
iously injured, if not entirely killed The
thermometer is down to 20 here, and was
y in Montgomery, Ala, this morning.
Tonight cold west wind still prevails,
causing great uneasiness among farmers
and fruit-growers. The frost is more severe
than it was last night.
In THE NORTHWEST.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 17.-Despatchcs
from various points in Michigan, Northern
Illinois and Iowa state that, owing to the
severe weather that has prevailed for the
last forty-eight hours, small fruits, apples
and peaches are killed in many localities,
and in some cases the trees themselves.
High winds have prevailed throughout the
above mentioned section, and the thermo-
meter has ranged from eight to twenty de-
grocs above zero for some time.
AT MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS. Tenn, April 17.-There was
heavy frost here last night, killing vcge-
tables and seriously damaging fruit pros
rects. 1t is not believed that cotton has
been seriously injured.
KENTUCKY \ SUFFERER.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 17-Thcre
was quite heavy fall Of snow here yester-
day and to-day, and tonight the thermo-
meter IS several degrees below freezing.
kilograms to the Courier-JournaZstate that
the same snow-storm and cold have pre-
vailed throughout Kentuckey and Ten
Dessee and that great damage has been
done to fruits and Tobacco plants.
4 Low THERMOMETER.
CINCINNATI, O., April 18-Reports
from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio show
taat the weather during the last two days
has been the coldest for this season known
IN many years, the thermometer ranging
from y to % degrees above zero. The
carly fruits are thought to be killed and
the tobacco crop seriously injured.
In New HA1IPsHRE.
LANCASTER, n. H., April 17.-Snow
tell here during the night to the depth ot
ten inches.
NIPPING FRosT.
AGUsTA, Ga, April 18.-There was 6
killing frost last night, doing serious injury
n Georgia and South Carolina. 1t was
the hardest freeze in years, and the truck
farms are badly injured.
AT NORFOLK.
NORFOLK, Va, April 18.-It showed
here last night and to-day. The cold snaI
has killed fruits and early vegetables, anC
the loss to truckers is very heavy.
Capt Paul Boyton, the amphibious man
crossed the British Channel from England
! to France in one Of his Ife-saving dresse.
last week. He was in the water ffteer
hours, and professed to be not in any way
hconvenienced. His apparatus is highly
commended, and Will probably be generally
adopted by vessels carrying passengers.
There is little girl in Harrisburg