The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-01
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n GENERAL FREEZE.
leo and Snow In all Parts OF tho Country
The Kango Of tho Thormometer.


The Range OF tho Thermometer.
/ COLUMBIA, Decembcr 29.-Bcforo
daylight this morning a heavy snow
storm began and continued till noon,
when the ground was covered three
inches deep. Since 1872 there has not
been 80 heavy a fall of snow hero.
Several merry parties of sleigh riders
started out this morning but came to
grief in the slush as soon as the sun
shone. The streets were alive with
snow ballers, and both sexes engaged
III the rare sport with keen Zcst. The
railw way trains entering the city to-
night arc all behind time in consc-
fined to this locality. Tonight the
mercury marks IS degrees, and is fall
ing every hour. Passengers who
reached here tonight from points on
the Charlotte, Columbia g. Augusta
Railroad report q very heavy fall of
snow. At Charlotte and Rock Hill
the SNOW is twelve inches deep.
NEW York, December 29.-At z
O'Clock this morning the thermometer
registered as follows: At Escaraba,
Michigan, 18 below zero; St. Paul,
Minnesota, 18 below; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, 10 below; Lacrosse, Wis
consin, Is below; Keokuk, Iowa, 15
below; North Platte, Nebraska, % be-
low; Leavenworth, Kansas, Is below;
Omaha, Nebraska, 13 below; St.
Louis, Missouri, 13 below; Cheyenne,
Wyoming, 13 below; Alphena, Michi-
gan, Is below; Detroit, 10 below; In
dianapolis, II below; Cleaveland, 4
below Toledo, below; Buffalo, l be-
low; Cincinrati, zero; Rochester,
New York, 8 above zero; Pittsburg,
above; Washington, d. c., IL above;
Philadelphia, II above; Albany, 18
above.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, December 20.
-Ihe heaviest snow ever known here
fell last night. 1t is five inches deep
and the weather is intensely cold.
COLUMBUS, GA, December 29.-Four
and a half inches of SNOW, the heavi-
est fall on record in this section. 1t
fell this morning. The thermometer
at p. IN. was 20 degrees above zero
and it was growing colder. 1t is now
clear.
GREENSBORO, N. c., December 29.-
The snow storm here is the greatest
and most severe in twenty years. The
snow is now fifteen inches deep and
still falling. Many people suffer great
~ 1Or want OF wood.
RoNDoUT, N. Y, December 29.-At
seven O'Clock this morning the ther-
momctcr indicated 10 degrees above
zero. It is showing.
WATERTOWN, December 29.-Twclve
to fifteen inches Of snow fell last night
and it is still showing. The trains are
delayed.
IMMENSE IMM1GRATIoN.-Up to Christ
mas morning the number of ilnmi-
January l, 1880, was 3l8,937. III the
five days that remained before the
year closed it was expected that the
aggregate would exceed $4,000. By
comparison with the totals of previous
years these figures are interesting to
contemplate. Take the statistics for
1854 as an instance-thc year that is
noted for being the one in which emf
grafton was enormous, aud whose
record has not heretofore been beaten.
Then immigrants came by sailing YES
sells only, and some days small armies
of them were landed. On the 9Th of
June thirty-flve ships brought in 49,
500 steerago passengers. At that date
the bureau OF emigration was not es-
tablished at Castle Garden, and ves-
sells put passengers ashore ut their
various docks. The statistics for the
year show that the number of foreign
ers landed in the port Of New York
was 319, ,223, but this number included
stcerage and first and second cabin
passengers. Of steerage passengers
alone 1880 falls but 286 behind, and
several steamships are due with their
quotas.
SCARED TO DEATH.-Last week, says
the Hartford (Md.) Democrat, the
children at public school No. 8, near
Carsin's Run, proposed to play ghost,
and selected Annie Sicabie, little
girl about eleven years of age, as their
victim. They accordingly organised,
and, without the knowledge Of Annie,
posted one Of their number In the
pines enveloped in sheet. To this
place they led the unsuspecting little
girl, and at a given signal the shectcd
figure made its appearance. The chill
dren who were III the plot ran md
hallooed "ghostl" and with them ran
little Annie, believing she had seen
real ghost. She reached the school
room door and fell insetlsiblc, literally
frightened to death. She was taken
to her fathers house, near by, and died
the same day.