St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-10
In the South.
Special to the Globe.

MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 9.-The weather
for the past thirty-siX hours has been very
cold. The mercury dropped 10 IL above
zero before daylight this morning. Eight
degrees were recorded at Montgomery.
The wind was very piercing from the north
all day yesterday and the greater part of
the night, but has died down. Tonight
will probably show a still further degree of
cold. The cotton crop, occupying many
hundred acres around Mobile, is frozen
solid. and will entail a loss of $3.50, 600,
and the orange trees in exposed places are
injured. Ice thick enough for skating
formed to-day. This is the coolest spell
since 1856. when on Jan. 2 the thermome-
ter fell to Sc belew zero. The ink froze as
rapidly as the brushes were Withdrawn
from the marking pots. causing
suspension of work in the cotton yards.
Eighteen hundred and thirty-five was cold
date, also, the thermometer registering 6 >
at sunrise Feb. S of that year. This would
give : at 4 a. IN. The 9th and 9TH were
afterwards referred to in Alabama, Georgia
and Mississippi as the 'cold Friday and
Saturday." On the Sth it was 6 9 at Charles
tor and Is e at New Orleans. Bayou st.
John, emptying into Lake Ponchartrain,
was hard frozen. In 1928 the lowest tenn
perature ever recorded here was expert
enced at midnight, Feb. Is, Sc above zero.
A further fall of 2 > must have taken place
before daylight. Skating and sleighing
were enjoyed for two days.
AT GALVESTON.
GALVESTON, Tex, Jan. 9.-The cold
wave extends over vast area, and will re-
suit in immense damage to stock of all
kinds. All telegraph connection is greatly
impeded. Austin reports temperature 100
D of
frozen. At Laredo the temperature is So
below the freezing point. At Palestine the
mercury touched zero, the coolest weather
experienced there in forty years. The wa
ter works and street plugs were all frozen
and cracked. At Corpus Christi the mer-
curry fell "a . in twenty-four hours. MANY
of these points report the cattle suffering
from intense cold. The herds drift aim
lessly about seeking shelter. Many cattle
must perish, but it is yet too early to esti-
mate the total of damage or loss. The con-
tinuous northwest wind has driven the wa
ter out through the channel, exposing the
oyster beds and shells on the banks for
miles along Galveston bay. The small
lakes down the island are frozen three to
FIVE inches, which is something unprec-
dented in this vicinity. An oyster man
named Thomas jefferson was found lying
to death. A negro boy was found below
deck frozen fast to the wet bottom of the
boat He vas alive. but stuck fast. The
rescuers knocked the boy loose with plank
and he was thawed out.
AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Jan. 9.-Reports from
the state say that trains on the Louisville &
Nashville, Chesapeake & Ohio and Chesa-
peake d Southwestern are snow-bOund and
travel is suspended: The trains which
were due here last night have not vet ar
rived, and owing to heavy snow-drifts
travel may not be resumed for several DAYS,
Outgoing trains have been laid off. The
Kentucky legislature adjourned until Mon
day on account of the cold.
Reports from the state say that trains on
the Louisville & Nashville, Chesapeake dS
Ohio and Chesapeake & Southwestern are
snowbound and travel is suspended The
trains that were due here last night have not
yet arrived. Outgoing trains have been
laid off.
AT SALISBURY, MD.
SALISBURY, Nd Jan. 9.-Yesterday's
heavy rain was accompanied by a north
west gale which backed the waters of the
Wicomico river up into this town until
the entire business portion was flooded.
Business is suspended. The river is several
inches higher than it has ever been and
many schooners and a steamer are ashore.
The actual damage cannot be estimated,
but it will be heavy, as piers and bridges
are washed away and considerable lumber
lost. The water is slowly receding to-
night.
AT JACKSONVILLE.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. "a gale
has been blowing all day. At s o'clock to-
night the thermometer registered 81 , and
it is thought it will touch % . before morn
ing. Fears are entertained for the orange
crop, not over half of which is yet gathered.
At Pensacola the mercury was down TO
10 above zero this morning.
AT WILMINGTON, N. G.
WILMINGTON, n. c., Jan. 9.-The cold
wave reached here at a. m. The highest
velocity of the wind was twenty-five miles,
at Smlthville thirty-nine miles and at Fort
Macon siXty-two miles. The thermometer
here at p. m. registered 25 above. The
fall In the last twenty-four hours was % : 1.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 9.-The cold wave
continues. The mercury here this morning
registered 15o above zero, being Sc colder
than was recorded any previous year. DIS
patches from all sections of the state report
the weather the coldest ever known.
AT KNOXVILLE.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 9.-The lowest
famnara falra roachad WAS = haLovy 1a-< ~