Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-07
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During Q cold spring, like that Just
past, people generally console themselves
with the reflection that the sun eventu-
ally will get the victory, and that sum-
mer will certainly come st last, though
IL coming may be delayed. Uncertain
- the weather Ii, the general features
Of the seasons recur with regularity
which warrants the confidence thus re-
posed In the ANIMAL return of seed time
and harvest; but there are instances on
record In which even the seasons seem
70 have lost their Characteristic features,
q IL the ordinary laws Of moteorology
had been temporarily suspended. A re-
variable case Of this kind, and one
which ths lonQ-continued cold weather
Of last sprina makes particularly inter
eotiag lust noW, j. hal Of the year l8l6,
which has been a 4 d !" tho year without
. SUMNER" A communication printed
in the Congrsgafiosaifst gives the fol-
lowing summary Of the weather Of this
remalkabls year:
January and February were mild;
March was cold; April began warm. but
ended In anow and loo. los formed an
inch thick in May, and fields were plant
ed over and over again till II was too
1ats 70 replant. June was the coolest
ever known In this latitude; frost and
Ice were common. Almost every green
thing was killed; fruit nearly all de-
Utroved. Snow fell 20 the depth Of Ten
inches in Vermont, seven In Maine, three
In the interior Of New York, and also in
Massachusetts,. There were few warm
days. Il was called q dry season; but
litiis rain fell. The wind blew steadily
from the north. cold and dsrce. Mothers
kuit extra socks and mittsns for their
children In the spring. and woodpiles
that usually disappeared during the
warm spell In front Of the houses were
speedily built up again. Planting and
shivsring wsre done together, and the
farmers Who worked ont their taxes ON
the country roads wore overcoats and
mittsns. IN town in Vermont q flock
Of sheep belonging 10 farmer had been
sent . usual 10 their pasture. On June
18th heavy snow fell IN New England.
The cold Wno intense.
A farmer Who had Q largo field Of corn
n Tevksbuyy built nros around Il At
night 10 ward Oh the frost; many an
evening b and his nsighbors took turns
watching them. He was rewarded With
M only crop Of oorn In The noiQhbos-
hood. Considerable damage was done
IN New Orleans d Consequence Of the
rapid nm Of tho MisssasipN river.
foaxu were entertained that the sun
was cooling Cd, and throughout New
kngland ell pienis we're strictly pro-
July was accompanied with frost and
ice. IndiAn corn was nearly all de-
stroysd; some favosably situated fields
escaped. August was moro cherries. II
poonihlA, than the Gummer months which
prsoeded 70. Ice was formed half an
inch In thickneas. Indian corn was %
fro1sn that The greater part vas ont
down and dried Tor fodder. Almost
every green thing waa destroyed in this
country and In Europe. On NE S0th
NOW fell q Barnet, forty miles from
London. Very little corn ripeued in
New EnQlAnd and the Middle States.
Farmers s1prlied themselves from the
corn produced in 1915 for seed In the
SPRING Of 1871. II sold at from "a 70 Is
per buahel.
September furnished about two weeks
Of the pleAsanteat weather Of the ssa-
e0n. but In the latter part Of the mouth
ios formed N tnnh thick. October had
moro than il ahare Of cold weather.
November wac cold and snowy. Decem-
Der was comfortable, and the winter fol-
lOwlng was mild. Very little vegetation
vas mAtured In The Eastern and Middle
States. The sun's rays seemed 10 be
destitute Of beat during tho summer; al
nature VS. dad In sAble hus, and men
exhibited no little Anxieey Ounoesnino
~ future q this ltfo.
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