The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02

The long drought which has caused so
much inconvenience and damage this fall
seems to have prevailed all round the
world, if not in every part Of 1t, says
the Boston Transcript. Europe has
experienced it almost equally with this
country, and in Australia il has been more
severe than here. So great was the distress
in New South Wales that the government
appointed Sunday in September as day
of prayer for rain, and special services
in accord with the proclamation were
held in all the churches of every de-
nomination in Sidney and throughout
the province. The drought occurred in
the antipodean spring, and greatly retard-
cd planting operations, as well as doing
great general damage. IN many OlstrlclS
the grass was literally burned off the
earth, and the mortality among stock was
great. The railway trains carried sup
plies of water from lakes and rivers to all
stricken points along the lines, selling 1t
at the rate of 25 cents d thousand gallons.
The water supply of pfany towns entirely
failed, the Inconvenience experienced was
acute everywhere, and many agricultur-
lists were ruined.
All through our own south the drought
has been remarkable in its length, and
some odd situations have occurred. In
Kentucky the beds Of many streams that
have never before been dry are now tull
OF dust, the mud having become baked
hard and then broken by the wind. At
Uniontown, Ky, the Ohm was so low that
an old coal vein under the river bed was
worked, and thousands of bushels of coal
We're taken out. In many places along
the Ohio, Mississippi and other streams,
old wrecks have been uncovered by the
lowering of the water. and the residents
along the banks have recovered lots of
more or less valuable cargo and junk.
At Milton, Ky, there is a big sand bar,
on which many big barge of coal has
struck and foundered. This bar was en-
tirely uncovered recently and the people
living nearby went to work with ordinary
field plows and turned up tons OF coal.
In Maine and other eastern states the
drought has been severe. The Ice crop
promises to be short, because lots of lands
have gone almost dry, and there is no
water to freeze. These general condi-
lions have existed all over the continent,
and in the northwest the situation is as
bad as in the east and south
In a meteorological sense, the autumn
of 1895 has proved remarkable. one TO
be long remembered by those who md
interest and pleasure in the absorbing
subject, the weather. In recent years
the autumn of "a is the only one at al
comparableNto the present, as we remark
ed in a previous issue. A dozen times
in the past six weeks the most remarlSa-
bic veerings of the wind have been re-
marked. marked rise in temperature
following southerly winds that brought
up rain clouds apparently occurred with
more or less regularity. The rain woul1
begin gently to fall with every prosp ect
of falling to saturation, when suddenly
the wind would veer to the northwest,
and by morning we would have cold
wave and the dust even not allayei. In
nearly every instance the threatenjnss Of
rain eliminated between sunset AMI 10
o clock p. m. This note is written anthe
latter hour of the evening of Nov. %.
An hour or two ago conditions of atlaos-
phere existed as above observation-disclosures
tions that would have warranted one
stalking his ALI that there would he a
downpour before midnight when 10! after
just enough rain to wet the steps, the
wind proceeds in its northerly coui sc,
clearly indicating a fall of 20 degrees or
more by morning-possibly another frost
wave and as dry as those that preceded
it during the past thirty days.
But the rain will come before very long
and doubtless a multitude may be heard
to vociferate: Hold! Enough Enough!
From the condition of the underground
streams, December and January viii. be
called on to supply a rainfall several Times
greater than the normal for these nonths
The aggregate precipitation for Seprem-
Der, October and November (up to the
25th) has been 2.22 inches. which gives Il
deficiency for that period of 10 or II
inches. The preceding three months
DUNE, July, AugusD were not wet months
either.
SO we need to look out and be prepared
before long to get in out of the wet.
Surely with all our troubles, we are stlll
endowed with the necessary sumption
in due time to safely avoid the coming
shower. Let us draw up around the fire
and discuss ways and means" Tor 1895.