New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-02
4 ILDER 1ENPERATURE.
THE MERCURY FALLING.

TIE HEAT TEMPERED BY PLEASANT BREEZE
A SLIGHT FALL OF RAIN-DEATHS AND sun
STROKES.
Yesterday was another day of respite from the
almost Intoerable heat which prevailed for nearly
a week. The suns rays pierced through the clouds
at times during the morning hours, but they were
tempered by a refreshing breeze. All classes APP
peared to appreciate the change-partlcuarly those
whose labor is out Of doors, and those VINO are
kept at active exercise within close rooms. The
streets presented a mere animated aspect
than they have borne for several weeks.
Comparatively speaking, everybody was happy.
EXCEPT the soda-water and lemonade
ycnders-whoss spirits rise and fall with
the mercury-who may be said to have been much
dcnressed Those who bad their stock in trade
wheels changed their posts in search of customers.
and were disappointed every time. During the at
ternoon dark clouds driftcd across the sky, but
there was no iuiflment of the promise of ram Ii-
til about p. ~, when there was slight rainfall
for few minutes. The sky continued vercast I'M
til dark, and everybody hoped and many predicted
that the much oHgedfor ram ut last AT hand.
At Central Park the record of the thermometer
was lower than on the previous day. At 8 4. m. 1t
was ITO and at - m. $50. Had ii not been for the
clouds and the fresh breeze this temperature would
have been uncomfortable The maximum for the
Indicated $50: 10y $3.50 the mercury had declined
again TO $40. During the greater part of the dag
the wind blew from the south, at an average rate
of ten miles an hour. Late in the afternoon 1t
yeered to the southeast, and increased in velocity
IN twelve miles an hour. The maximum reading
| of fine sun thermometer was at noon. when it indi
Gated 1869 In the middle of the afternoon 1t lndi-
| cared S7o-49J lover.
Professor Draper said that the rainfall for June
| was far below the average for that month during
! the last forty-One years Ram tell ID days OF
| June last year and amounted 10 80 inches TINS
| wear during the month of June there was rain only
| IN SIX DAYS, and the total rainfall was only LA
| inches. The average rainfall fortune for the icrtv-
one years was 4.l3 inches. There were some years
during that time when II was less than that Of last
| month In 1873 1t only .76 of an inch 1910
~ of an inch; $50 @ of an inch In 1865 and 1867
there were good rllhlaiIs III june Reaching ABOUT
| 10 inches in each year.
| At Hudnut's the thermometer was also on its good
behavior and not so much an object OF interest
as on days when the temperaiure was higher The
record al a. IN. was 50 4 A. M. 7O0 ; . "A. H.,
! S3o and AZ II M. $50 AT $3.50 the maximum was
reached-Sfo .By 6 p. III. the mcruary went down
| a0oIn to 100 For the entire day the temperature
rangcd from 80 to 70 lower than on Wednesday,
| Tie Signal Bureau reports show that there vas
general decrease III the temperature Throughout the
country. The lowest temperature was at Dulu,n
| Mimi where it was so IA TALL OF ~ and at A.
| pena Mich, where II was the same. AT Shreveport
la. il was highest, being go. The readings for
| other well-knOwn cities are as follows: Albany
SO ian increase of Boston, So increase, 1927
Ct,raeo. TO Cincinnati. To- decrease, So: New
orleans. SO PittSburg, 72'; Burlington. VI, So.
The following table shows the rainfall III the sew
| eral places reported IN decmais Of an inch:
Athena Mich. .0S; Cairo. H.. 90; Chicago. .09
IndlanapollS 49, keOkuk, Iowa, .O2; Louisville,
! 40: Marquette. Mich. OF Milwaukee, AZ: Nash
VILE O3; New-OrleanS, 30; st. Louis, LIZ; To-
| ledu. Ono, OF.
! Although the temperature was much cooler than
on Wednesday, the number of deaths reported 10
| the Bureau OF VITAL Statistics was 1S9-only two
| less than Wednesdays record. Following IS list
of the deaths and prostratlons from the ELECTS OF
| the heat
| ADAMS. DANIEL, age tmrtyhVe dled al fIiteehthst'
and the North River ,
AsrFRN EDWARD, age eight months, died at the Found
ing Asy un. ,.> ,,. -, .
Ihrty-s 'Vcnth-~t
GANrLEY RICHARD, age two died at No Az East sew
KANE iIfNRY age thirty-two. died at No 335 C1na'-s
KELLY. BRIDGET age nineteen, dieI at No. l0| East
seventy -th'd-,t. , 49, -.
KEIsON TER, age hye months, ded AT No do west
| twenty -fif,h-st.
| McGANY MARY age sixty. died at No. p West-st
NUIIGAN SAMUEL age forty five, OF M. ~ thompson
| ST. WAS frustrated at No 81 Carmluc-st.
| REILLY MARY T., age three months, died at No. All
East Fifiy seycntl-St. . 49,.
REILLY THOMAS age three, died at No GO East Nine
surElDAS, MARY f. age three months died at No. 792
| Tenth-aVe. - -
TuIY, JAMES. age foryhye, died at No. 400 W'st
| Thirty -hfth-,t. -
WrslfAN AGNgs age six months, died at No. 54i West
| Tw"ntynnthst.
WOLF WILLIAM died at the Chambers Street Hospital.