The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-31
FROSTY FREAKS.
BoREAN BLASTS BRUSQUELY BANlSH
TIE BALMY BREEzEs.
Arctic Airs Invade the Sacred Precincts
of the Southern sun, and Give the
Natives Touch Of Northern
winiers-AimOst Unpreee-
dcnted Cold Weather.

much milder, the thermometer starting
in this morning at 8 degrees below and Ii
now about 9 degrees above. A similar
change OF temperature is noted through
out the Northwest.
MILFORD, Pa, December S0.-Last might
was one Of the coolest ever known in this
section. The thermometer stood at Is de.
grees below zero. At Erie Summit, near
Lackawana, % degrees below.
BUFFALO, N. Y, December SO-The
snow storm still continues with no imme.
diate prospect of abating. 1t is one Of the
severest ever experienced. All trains on
the New York Central Railroad, which
should have gone east this morning, have
been abandoned. The Chicago express
from the east, due here last night, Is of
the track at Lancaster.
MoNTo oMERY, Ala, December 30-At
six o'clock this morning the thermometer
stood degrees above zero.
WILMINGToS n. O., December 30.-The
cold wave reached here last evening. The
temperature was the lowest for yeara.
At 7 o'clock this morning the thermome-
ter was II degrees above, and at 10 o'clock
| II degrees. Snow fell last evening, but
only for few minutes.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, December 30.-We
are having the coldest weather since 1857.
The thermometer was 10 degrees above
zero this morning. The oranges on the
trees in the city were frozen. It ia feared
that the fruit up the river is badly dam.
aged. About one.third Of the crop has
already been gathered. 1t Is not known
whether the trees are injured. A dispatch
from Sumter county say the oranges are
not damsged there. This county is about
ITO miles south OF this city.
CLEVELAND. December 90-The ther.
mometer dropped 10 IL degrees below zero
last night. The cold is intense.
ClNClSNATr, December S0-The river
closed here at 5 o'clock this morning, and
the news indicates that 1t is closed, frozen
solid over, for quite distance below. The
sky is haZy and the thermometer stood at
noon 20 degrees above zero.
WAsHISGTON, December 30-Gt is in.
tensely cold here. The Signal office reports
that between II o'clock last night and Z
o'clock this morning the minimum tenn
perature was degrees below zero. At
IA. N. the thermometer registered de-
grees below, and at IL O'Clock 2 degrees
above.
RICHxoND, December 30-The weather
to. day is the coldest siIce the 18Th Of Jan.
uary, 1857, when the thermometer stood
at S degrees below zero. 1t was the same
figure to-day at sunrise.
ALBION, N. H., December S0.-The Sc.
verest storm OF the season is raging here
to-day. Thermometer 10 degrees below
zero.
WnEEsBARRE, PA December 30-Cold-
est morning OF the season-l0 degrees be-
low zero.
DANvILLE, Va December 30-Weather
coldest ever known here. Snow foil all
yesterday until alter night fall. At I P.
n the thermometer stood at above zero,
at nine 9 below, at midnight degrees be.
low, and at six this morning l2 below
zero.
PHILADELPHIA, DscenberS0 Last night
the mercury, which at 8 P. N. recorded !
degrees above zaro, rapidly declined until
at Z this morning It marked S degrees he.
low zero. 1t was still lower in various
parts OF the city. but this was the official
report at the United States signal office.
At 10 o'clock this morning 1t had risen to
zero. At Wilmington, DEL, It was de.
grees below. Reports from the exposed
places along the u ne Ridge, in the Lehigh
and Schuylkill region, showed an average
temperature OF from II to % degrees be-
low, the latter being reported at I.enharts'
vile. 10 the same region most OF the
country roads are blockaded by snow,
Farmers are pulling down fences and driv.
ing through open fields on account OF the
snow drifts making the roads impossible.
NEW YoRk, December 30.-At 8 O'Clock
this morning the thermometer marked
zero.
GALVESTON, December 3O-A NeW,
special from San Amino says that the
night OF the 2Sth was the coldest on
record there. At6A. n the thermometer
showed 10 degrees above zero, ice two
inches thick, wafer pipes frozen through
out the city, new water tanks frozen and
delayed train at Dallas. The mercury
yesterday fell to 4 degrees above zero.
| CoLuMBUs, GA, December 30.-The
coolest weather on record. The ther'
mometer in the city stood degrees above
zero; on the Alabama hills, zero. The
snow fall OF yesterday materially suspends
business.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, December 90.-
The Thermometer fell last night to 8 de-
grees below zero.
CHARLEsroN, S. G., December 30-Tht
temperature this morning was lower than
it has been slhce 1885.
roRoSro, Can, Dec. 80 0-Dispstchet
from the northwestern portion Of 0nta
rio tonight report a severe suow storm
to-day. Trains are much delayed.
BuFFALo, December 30.-The storm con
, tinued severely during the night and uF
to- three o'clock this afternoon. No passen
/ ger trains were sent out on the New York
, Central road or Erie road until this even
, log. The Canada roads are but little al
fected by the storm. The trains on thI
Lake Shore are running behind time.
MONTREAL, December 30.-The extreml
! cold OF the pas: twelve days has madl
good Ice roads across the st. Lawrence
, near this city.
DOWN THE RIVER.
ClXclSSATI, December sO,-River L
feet. Owing to the back water from tn,
!, , guage below, the harbor will opened here
I. The ice Is solid and thick. Weather mod
, Grating, but cold and cloudy.
LOUISVILLE, December S0.-River falling
1 feet inches in the canal. Weathe
:. moderated about IS degrees. The river 1
4 gorged at Rock Haven, and 1t is fro1eI
4 over at Six Mile Island. No ice Ia run
). ming here. The New Albany and Jetfer
! sonville ferry boats are making regula
Ak
CAIRO, December SO.-Rlver II feet
inches and falling. Weather clear
Thermometer u degrees. The Mississippi
: is frozen over above, and parties wAIket
q across to-day. The Fannie Lewis Is six
! teen miles above awaiting a thaw. Tht
Ohio is full Of ice and reported gorged q
' Carrsville. The Kyle aud Sherlock ar,
laid up here.
0 RARR SIGHT AT LOUISVILLE.
2 LOUISVILLE, KY, December SO.-An ez
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