The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-01-02

ltstefutY, uUus TRUE to us pJIcu'tpts ~ ""'
arctic. There was no sun. The wind wa
fierce and cutting. at was too cold &c
snow" people saId, but ii showed never
| theless. fast and furiously, for most OF tbt
day. By sunset the thermometer touched
zero. Yesterday mcrning at O'Clock II
stood AT 100 below zero; this morning at
O'Clock just the samP-10o below zero. The
Oldest lnnabitant has never known II colder
In these parts.
Not 40 Cold in Roanoke.
tCorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispaich.I
Bro LICK, Va. December 81. 1880.
The eclipse promised for the Dist was
on time. 1t was plainly visible here from
about 1870 O'Clock 10 8 o'clock A. NJ. About
enc fourth OF the suu's periphery was OBJ
scured. The thermometer on the Both ut
1880 O'Clock 4. VI. marked 30 below zero
this morning at 7:30 O'Clock 1t indicated 50
below zero. This. we believe. is the coolest
weather we have had since January 3, 1877,
when The mercury fell TO 80 below zero.
Then there were eighteen inches OF snow
on the ground; now there are only sixteen
inches.
Culpeper COOI-TweDty-iour Degrees
Below Zero.
iCorresponder ce of the Richmond Dlspatch.l
DECEMBER 81, 1880.
A polar wave struck our region Wednes-
day evening last about 6 O'Clock. Thurs
day morning the thermometer marked II
degrees below zero. Yesterday was a
clear and intensely cold day, followed bv
the coolest night we have had since 1857.
This morning the mercury marked "a de-
orees below zero, and at an exposed point
we learn rs low as 20 degrees. X.
Amelta Amazed.
fConespondence of the Richmond Dispatch
COURTHOUSE. December 81, 1880.
We are having real arctic" weather
with ms. The thermometer yesterday morn
inc at sunrise, IN tue open air, stood ri a
below zero; this morning at same hour 81
below. The snow is from eight to len
inches, and not melting at az. The coolest
weather ever experienced in these parts,
even by that venerable old gentleman, " the
Oldest Inhabltant."
The Oldest Inhabitant Heard From
fCorres pondence of The Richmond DIspatch.I
SHADwELL, ALBEMARLE COUNTY,}
December 81, 1880. !
Thursday night was the coolest ever ex-
perienced at this place. So says the Oldest
inhabitant. Al O'Clock this morning the
thermometer stood at 14o below zero. Ice
eight inches thick on the RIvanna. Snow
thirteen inches deep and badly drfted.
j. MAssTE SMITH.
FarmviIIc-Twenty Degrees Below
Zero.
| Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispach.l
DECEMBER 81, 1880.
The Thermometer indicated 300 below
zero-jo colder Than ever known here be-
| foie-at ! O'Clock THIS morning.
|
Drowned.
| Especial telegram to the D patch.l
NORFOLK, Va, January IA haiI-s.orn
prevails tonight.
The schooner Ellis, from New York to
day, reports losing overheard, on the 29th Of
December. Warren Kimsley, seaman, i
native of Cape May, N. ].
by Associated PresS.I
Two Negroes Frozen TO Death.
| ST. LOUIS, January IA special TO The
Republican from Bonneville, Mo-, says
1.-TWO old negroes, Ida and Henry
Slaughter (mother and SOM, were found
| frozen 10 death six miles from this place
Henry was lying in the road about one hun
dred yards from bis house, and bis mother
sitting at the freless hearth ut home. There
was plenty OF wood in the yard, and gooC
stock OF provisions and clothing in the
house. Henry was sixty and his mother
said to be over one hundred years old, an(
both were nearly helpless"
Ice I'm chesapeake Bay.
| BALTIMORE, January 1.-The steamer ID
III. Miller, from Boston, arrived TO-DAY. an(
reports ice all the way up the bay from
Cove Point, and very heavy ice from Poplar
Island. The ice.boats Maryland and +. G.
Latrobe both went down day to keer
open The track for vessels and TO render AS
>iSlance 10 any in need. The schooner Ey;
J. Smith, hence for Savannah 29th utimo
| became jammed in the ice, and was tOwed
into Annapolis for safe harbOr.
Much Suffering OH Account OF the Cold
FRED RICKSBURG, Va, January 1.-Muct
| suffering prevails OH account OF the unu'
sual and Intense cold, against which many In
the country were unprOYlded. Cattle have
been lost also by exposure, and game frozen.
Deer have been caught near dwellings in
the country, forced in by the severe cold
and want of food.
Low Thermometer.
BOsToN, January LIN the following
towns the thermometer is below zero :
Montpelier, W., - degrees; Woodstock,
W., &c; Milford, n. H., 2G; Newport, n.
H., %; Worthwhile. n. H., 81; CartwoOd.
n. H., and Hancock Junction, y. H., 30 /;
Antrim, n. H.. IS.
Another Sad Case
Charlottesville Chroniclel
Our readers will remember The sad case Of
The family OF Mr.. Dabnfy Trice, in tins
county, several months ago, when the whole
family were stricken with typbOidfeyer.
resulting IN the death OF two OF them, and
the long and critical illness of the others.
The family OF Mr.. Stephen Sampson, who
lives near, were assiduOus in their attention
TO their peigbbors, ana since that time have