The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-11-27
The Polar Wave,

The thermometer at Deadwood, Dakota
Territory, was 26' below zero on Saturday
night,
An cid man named Schroeder was frozen
TO death in the woods near West Plains, N. ].
on sunday night tramp was found frozen
TO death on hotel stoop in Poughkeepsie
Monday, and the body Of Robert Lott, farm.
er, was found frozen stiff at Romney, Dat,
Monday morning.
There was thunder storm at Long Branch
on Saturday night, followed BY very cold
weather, the thermometer falling to 20 de.
grees. From seven to ten inches of snow fell
in New Hampshire during Saturday. The
temperature at Brussels, Ont, fell TO zero,
Sunday evening, and the ground was covered
with two feet OF snow. The Erie and 0swego
Canals, in Western N. Y, are closed by ice.
violent wind storm ragged at Father
Point, Quebec, on Sunday, the wind occasion.
ally reaching n velocity Of "a miles per hour.
The temperature fell to zero in number OF
places in Ontario during Sunday night, while
in the Canadian Northwest il ranged from
zero to ten degrees below. AtWhitehall, N.
T., the temperature was nine below zero
Monday morning, and the Champlain Canal
IS frozen, the ice being two inches thick.
Thirty loaded boats are blocked between
Whitehall and Fort Ann. The ice on the
Wellahd Canal, in Ontario, is from two TO
three inches thick. Ten inches of snow fell
Monday at Oswego, n. Y. The temperature
in the north and west ranged from zero to lso
above. Telegrams from Chicago and Toledo
Monday night, report the weather unusually
cold for the season, and navigation on Lakes
Michigan and Erie practically closed.
Heavy snow fell at Scranton and Milford,
Pa, and light snow at Albany, N. Y, on
Saturday. Along the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad in Virginia, from Staunton to Hun.
tington, snow fell, with temperature seven
degrees be low the freezing point.
| Wednesdays papers contain the following:
-Despatches from Detroit report that the
continued cold weather has finally closed
Lake St. Clair, The suddenness OF the ice
embargo has caught large feet Of loaded
vessels throughout the chain of lakes. There
are seventy fOur vessels bound from Buffalo
\ TO Chicago frozen up at different points on
Lake Erie; twenty eight vessels from Chica
/ 60 for Buffalo are in the ST. Clair river or on
Lake Huron, and ,Wenty.ou laden vessels
/ from Escanaba bound for Lake Erie ports
The prospects of any OF these vessels getting
to their destinations are slight.
| 1t is now pretty certain that the vessels
ashore in the rivers, as we'll as those remain
| ing IN port at Quebec, will all be frozen in.
4 The result Of the sudden and unexpectedly
early severe frosts at Quebec is almost sure
to be the destruction Of property to the extent
Of Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars. Some Of
the great light-ships and large numbers Of
buoys in the lower st. Lawrence will be lost
| Navigation on the Connecticut river was
closed yesterday.
A despatch from the lighthouse keeper at
Rulicosti, near Quebec, says; awe yesterday
/ experienced the seyerest storm seen here for
the last seven years. The shores this morn.
I ing are strewn with shell fish rarely seen here,
showing that the sea was heavy enough to
break the beds
/ AT Dallas, Texas, an old negro, named
| Charles, who was missing for some days, was
found Tuesday frozen to death, it is supposed,
during the storm last week.
| A despatch from Winnipeg, Manitoba, says
that the thermometer has dropped to 25 de.
| grees below zero. Rev. Father Hert, Of Bat
tleford, Manitoba, while hunting few days
ago got lost on the plains and died from ex.
posure and fatigue. His body was found near
Battleford.
| On Wednesday morning the temperature
was 20 degrees below zero at Fort Benton,
Montana; 10 below zero at Breckenridge,
MIMI; zero at Cheyenne, W. T., North Platte
| Neb., and st. Paul, Mimi, and above zero
Mt Denver, Col. There was a heavy snow
storm in Central Illinois. A light snow fell
in Chicago, and was followed in the evening
by clear and cold weather. The Mississippi
river was closed by ice at Davenport, Mus.
caline and Rock Island on the 2lst inst, the
earliest date Of closing for SO years Il is
said that, owing to insufficient railroad facili.
ties, there is an insufficient supply of coal in
portions OF Wisconsin and Illinois, and the
early coming Of winter has caused rapid rise
river was closed from Hudson to Albany, aud
navigation upon it is considered at an end for
| the season, unless an une xpected thay comes