Daily Republican., 1885-08-28
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PHrI.ADELPMIA, Aug. %. 1ss5.--TD,
caprtcious mercury registered 53MS
yesterday morning at Z O'Clock. MaDy
people went about town in the crum
pied overcoats of last Spring, and thos,
who did not have overcOata kept on thu
| sunny side of the street until midday
1t WAS the third day of the cool wave
reign, and blessed relief Il was for tn,
thousands who had been suHeIing from
the sweltering heat for week previous
People came back from the seashore IL
crowds, and there WAS Q steady Aow o
travel fromAtlantio City and other Ne~
Jersey resorts, aud from the noun tain
and points along the New York lake,
back to the city.
Tbs highest temperature recorded hJ
the Signal Service observers was SO
This WAS at O'Clock. Last night II
fell 30 and indtca tons we're that there
would not be much Of An increase o
temperature 70 day. A North west Wind
blew nearly all day, and the weather
will be clear as well as cool. All over
the country yesterday the tenn
perature was nearly station.
ary. There was y marked fall In
the South Atlantic States and rise in
Eastern N ebraska, but aside from that
there was very little change. Atlanta
had mercurial fall of 16o audCharles
ton of 15o, while Augusta shivered
when the mercury showed change OF
23c in twelve hours. At North Platte,
Neb there was rise OF lie, and q,
Omaha rise of 60. The coolest place
in the country except Philadelphia was
Alpha. Mich, where the temperature
was $50. Shreveport, La, always hot,
sweltered at $40, and New Orleans
3 mpera iuce was 76o.
The indications point TO stationary
temperature to-day and propable rise
on Saturday.
A COAST srREwN WITH wREcKAGR
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. T.-Cap-
tain VoRel, OF tho steamer City Of Pal.
atkS, from Charleston, which arrived
here this morning, reports passing
twenty or thirty large vessels tetaliy
dism asted, the result of the recent gale.
None of them, however, asked assis.
tanco. Captain Vogel also reports
finding the hull of the Charles pilot
boat John Stoddayd At anch, dismasted
and full OF water. He went close up to
her but foun1 no one, and be believes
that her entire crew are lost The
ocean, from Charleston TO St. Johns
Bar, IL covered with drift stuff from
vessels.
THE DAMAGE AT CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, Aug. N.-The city ia
slowly recovering from the effects Of
Tuesdays cyclone. The damage to
hsrves will probably reach half a
million dollars, but large gangs OF
hands are at work, and in few days
sufficient accom- modations for all pos
sible busin ess will be provided. There
| Is even now no interruption or any ad.
ditional expense to shippers. A heavy
rain yesterday afternoon aggravated
the annoyance to persons whose roofs
weII blown of, but will not inc rease.
materially, the general loss. The ID.
tai loss of the phosphate companies in
and around the city Is now estimated
at S35 600.
Some estimates are that between the
caterpillar and the cyclone three
fou sths of the cotton crop of the Sea
Islands is destroyed. A Norwegian
named Lanstook was drowned in the
harbor BY the capsizing of his toat.
The Italian bark Msrianini, which is
now off the bar, lost masts, sails and
rigging, and one seaman was washed
over board and drowned. The German
bark Fl. Peters is ashore, and the bark
Freiheit, sunk in Cooper river, Is a
total loss. Tne Norwegian bark Flid,
the Swedish bark Adelaide and the
Nor wogian bark Hemdis were brought
into collision by the gale and all lost
the greater part Of their spars and rig.
ging. The Norwegian bark Medler liz
in the stream iismasted.
The town of McClellanville, between
here and Georgetown, suffered severely
| by the Storm. A number OF houses
were blown down and tho loss TO tur
pentine and terrapiI farms in tht
vicinity was serious. The roads in the
far-famsd Magnolia cemetery, in thu
suburbs of Charleston, and In thu
Catholic cemetery adjoining are washed
ont and many monuments blown dowi
and defaced.
| THR NORTHWESTERN FRoSTS.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-The Times sum
mary OF reports from crop correspond
euts In the Northwest regarding tin
cold snap says: Light frosts are re
ported from various points in Wiscon
sin and Iowa, the damage to crops be
ing inconsiderable. The weather is ex
CT ptionally cold for the season through
out the West.
SNOW IN THE CENTRAL BELT.
HUNTINGDON, Aug. 27.-Consid derabl
snow fell last evening at Houtzdale
Clearfield County, and along the bas'
lof Stone Mountain, in Jackson an
Barree Townships. this county. Th
weather to night is extremely cool.
FROST IN CLINTON COUNTY.
Lock HAVEN, Aug. 81 Light frot
is reported this morning in variou
parts OF this county, but not enoug
to damage vegetation seriously. A fe'
slight flurries of snow fell here yesteI
day.
FROST IN VIRGINIA.
STAUNToS, Va, Aug. H.-There ws
q heavy frost here last night. IL
Igardens and late corn were badly dan
aged.
!, Attempted Robbery.
The Media American says: Thr'
times in the past four years has the res
4 dence OF Thomas v. Cooper at Wasl
= ton and jackson streets, Media, bee
q entered with burglarious intent I'll
Q last attempt WAS made Friday nigh
s but like the others WAS unsuccessful
. far rs abstracting anything therefron
= Some time during the night fO0tfa
: was heard in the library, and upon il
i estigation stranger WAS discovert
/ lin the act Of raisiug . window, whit
" the burglar alarm pealed forth its lot
:. warning. Before tie would-be robb
DO oonld he IN ade n DrisOuor he had reach,