The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-12-03
COLD spNnEH agAv BACK.
The oldest Iaii.s,,i ,ah, ont.,o..e nv n
Member n. ~. -. 90. Y

a"er o. the NDlni.te Cfcll.
III don't miss sny guess very much
we VIII have snow before morning"
exclaimed P:stroliaa1 Josh Spears.
you remember, the winter of
1162-63 was a very open one. In fact
II l remember rightly, there was but
little weather too chilly for a man to 20
In his shirt sleeves. Why, was run
ming around then barefoot quite a
cilunlco n lad 1t wasuin many re-
sPects = most remarkable winter. For
insts.nee,=yy5 cut hay on the Ist of Jan
nary Wen, the winter went away and
spring happened along. 1t was lust
like any other spring; but an old In.
dian ehisf -AE,.Ib lived, noar our house in
Brown eeahtysssia tiias before the year
was done the winter would make up
for lost time. We didn't psy much at
tention to the warning. laughing it
AWAY rs an Idle jest, and soon it dropped
out of mind entirely The 23d day of
August. 1853, was the hottest slay ever
knew. The sun raised blistcrs ON the
street pavements, and wells :. thousand
feet deep went dry. 1t was not safe
for any person TO be where the sun
could get a goc$l square lick mt him. If
lac did he would shrink up and die right
there. About : o'clock IN the evening
light breeze came mp, and the people
vcntured out. In the western sky
there was Just such cloud as pointed
out to yen a few minutes ago. We
didn't know what it meant then, bat
we found 0utlater on. BY s O'Clock that
evening the atlnosphere was cool and
pleasant. and every one went to bed to
catch n little sleep, for the intense heat
of the previous nights had driven sleep
from our eyes. In the moTning there was
six feet of snow all over the town
Every BIT of rsrIninS- water was now
frozen. wells and seisterns were frozen
SOLID, az grain aud vegetables life we're
killed, and flowers Nvithered before the
snow like bananas before my friend
Hart. Several houses where the win
dOws had been left opened were half
filed with snow. 1t was u ,,acking
cold morning, the mercury was 80 dogs.
below zero salltl- il. seemed TO be growing
chill:er every minute.
About II o'clock q high wind came
up, and the snow WAS piled in drifts
about the city Is was banked up
tltltl-alSG lAEC 444EeIeE1Lu cillINn TO
height Of 80 feet As If that was not
enough. at2 O'clock in the afternoon.
the snow eoinineaced falling again.
1t did not come down ike plain, every
day winter snow. There were no flakes,
but spheres about the. size Of base balls.
They We're rs hard as chilled steel until
they struck the earth, and then they
burst, not because of the hardness of
the grousd alone = though it was frozen
70 hard that it cciiid not be broken
with dypaIIite-1 caFtri,l. ses-bnt there
was a i1eeulier at:nosa iies;e condition
that was heightened when the snow
ball came i'm eontaet with the earth,
and this Drought about the BURSTING / !
mentioned previously. There WAS not
theficast fbit of noise Attendant on the
bursting -o@~, I might say, by a-violent
attack ON the English language that |
the explosion was perEeetly noiSeleSs. |
But thousand different colors darted
and dashed from the fragments. 1t
was the most wonderful pyrotechnie.
display ever witnessed It was broad
daylight, too. The result of this
sti-aisse pansturaI ,s'Iowcr OF sI,owbaIls
was that OYER iifty fcet Of snow was
piled upCa Hiatt city''=
sNYher.s- wgicre were the peopIeT'
asked Sar.st Joyc9 !. dvoice faint from |
ssppressel emotion.
sfDeasLi ESsfy ioae Of them dead In
that city Of 2J,0o9 souls not single |
person esFpg4.l 1FreE @ere s:nothered
by the sl!o1 81 i.it:Si by the pellets |
that game from tie clouds Noliving
tlIiisg. rot even q dog, escaped, and
when the glad sunshine came out again
aud nielted he sllo%, the raging waters
washed the Buildings from the face of
the eslFtis end to this day not n sign can
be found 81 tiie once Beautiful and en-
At Ibis meuicslt a commotion oc-
CURED TT the fSont door Sergt John
Lowe rsish ID breati L sssiy intot,le room
viii the inteifgqiice that a man had
bsen froztn t. detst:i on Bi:llo street.
near iidiar3. Q'S;eauc, and the club filed
Quito capture the body befTae it could
get away -Indianapolis News.