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Weekly Weather Chronicle,
War Department, Office of the Chief
Signal Officer, Division of Tele
grams and Reports for the
Benefit of Commerce and
Agriculture.
Washington, D. C., June 19, 1873.
General Summary for the week ending
Thursday, June 19th, 1873.
During the past week two storm-centres
have moved from the Northwest eastward
over the Lake region and New England to
the British Provinces; a third is now ap
parently located north of Like Superior.
An area of high barometer has descended
from the Northward and passed southeast
wardly over New England.
The largest tolal amounts of rain during
the past week have been reported from the
following stations: Lake City, Fla., 2.02
inches; Savannah, 2.29; Montgomery, 2.-
53, Mobile, 2.59; Lynchburg. 2.C0; Wil
mington, N. C., 2.63; Galveston, 3.09; and
Shreveport, 3.18. Between one and two
inches has also been reported from eleven
other stations, mostly in the Southern
States.
Thursday, June 12.—Generally cloudy
weather from the eastern Gulf to Tennes
see and eastward to the Atlantic; heavy
rains having fallen along the coast from
northern Florida to Norfolk. Southerly
winds and cloudy weather in the northwest
with rain and threatening weather in Min
nesota; the winds veering to Northwest in
valley of the Red River of the North du
ring the day. From Northern Michigan
to Missouri and thence eastward over the
Ohio valley, the Lakes, New England and
Middle States generally clear and fair
weather, with northerly to easterly winds.
Ftiday, 13. —The storm-centre progess
ed slowly southeaswardto the Lake region,
the barometer having fallen from the Lakes
to the Gulf. Areas of rain are reported
from Southern Minnesota, northern Wis
consin and Michigan; from the eastern
Gulf coast to the Indian Territory, Mis
souri and Southern Illinois, and in Alaba
ma and Northern Florida. Clear and part
ly cloudy weather over all the Atlantic
States, Lower Lakes and Ohio Valley an J
the Northwest. Generally fresh easterly
winds have pievailcd in the Atlantic States
and Southerly winds over the Lakes.
Light rain was reported early in the morn
ing the day clear and
Rocky Pacific coast stations.
Saturday, 14.—The centre of depression
progessed southeastward toward Lake Erie
during the day. Heavy rains fell in the
South Atlantic States, Tennessee and the
Ohio valley, and occasional light rain was
reported from New England and the lower
Lake region; elswhere clear or fair weather.
Sunday, 15. —Prevailing cloudiness,with
occasional rain, was reported from New
England, the Middle, South Atlantic and
Gulf States, and in the morning from the
lower Lake region; clear or partly cloudy
weather from all other sections, with high
or rising temperatures from Tennessee to
the Upper Lakes and northwest.
Monday, 16. —Cloudy and rainy weather
prevailed in the Gulf States, heavy rains
falling in Western Louisiana; partly cloudy
weather, with occasional light rains in
Georgia, from Tennessee to eastern lowa,
and from the Lower Lakes and Western
Pennsylvania to the St. Lawrence valley
and northern New England; generally clear
warm weather from the Carolinas to South
ern New England, and over the Northwest
and I'ppcr Lake region.
Tuesday, 17. —Prevailing cloudiness,with
occasional rain, was reported from the
Southern States, heavy rains falling in cen
tral Virginia and western Tennessee; gener
ally clear weather from Illinois and Wiscon
sin to New England and the St. Lawrence
vuiiey with lower temperatures from Mich
igan to western New York and northern
New England; falling barometer, partly
cloudy weather, brisk and high easterly to
southerly wind* and bijji temperatures
from the Northwest.
W.dntsd ly, IS. —Cloudy weather, with
southerly winds and occasional rains, pre
vailed fiotu the Gulf to southern Missouri
and the Ohio valley, heavy rains tailing in
Missix'ippi and southern Alabama; pattly
clouuy weather and li n ht ruin over lake
Superior, the St. Lawrence valley and
n n thern N w England ; clear weather el.-i
--wbere from the Atlantic to the Rocky
Mountains, with temperatures in the after
no n above 9W Iron, i'.orida to Maryland.
Thursday, 19. —The morning repot ts
show cloudy weather in Tennessee and cen
tral Albania, as al<u in northern IL»w
England and the lower St. Lawrence valley;
pre.ailii'g vlear weather and west uly to
sou’.hwestvily winds elsewhere from the
Missouri and Miss> s ; ppi rivers eastward to
the Atlantic.
7i/17.7?.<.
Duiittg the past week tl.e R .1 And Ar
kans: liver-'have clanged ba: little. As
com;■ .o.C'l with the re; rt; M June Uth.
tlie M."cun I* lifieo.i inches higher at
F at U ....1..:, NJ.ceu at
St. Joseph, and thirteen at Boonville;
thirteen inches lower at Kansas City and
twenty-one at Jefferson City. The Missis
sippi is about one foot higher between Le
Claire and Warsaw; it has fallen two feet
at St. Paul, eight inches at St. Louis, and
nearly three feet at Vicksburg, but has
risen one foot at Cairo, and eight inches at
Memphis. The Cumberland has risen
nearly five feet at Nashville, The Ohio is
eight inches lower at Cincinnati, but higher
at Paducah by five feet; it has also risen
slightly at Pittsburgh, Marietta, Louisville
and Evansville.
Published by order of the Secretary of
War, Albert J. Myers,
Brig. Gen. and Chief Signal Officer,US. A
Copy . furnished for Thos. J. Perry,
Secretary of the Agricultural and Mechan
ical Fair Association of the Cherokee
Country of Georgia and Alabama.
Strange Signts in Rome.
Passing by some of the grand old ruins
in the midst of what was once the heart of
ancient Rome, we see a sort of cattle-pen,
and there you may see the shoeing of the
buffaloes, which is certainly a curious and
picturesque sight. There stands the great
sullen-looking beast, determined to resist,
but presently a great beam of wood is pass
ed over his head, and his neck is bent down
and tightly fastened with ropes to another
bar below; then after sundry kicks and
struggles, his hind legs are raised and bound
with ropes to another bar, and thus secur
ed. two thin plates of iron are affixed to
each foot, and the strugling beast is releas
ed, glaring viciously at his persecutors.
This leads us to inquire a little into the
food of Romans. Buffalo beef is course
and tough, and too dear to be often eaten
by the poor, who, indeed, seldom eat meat;
but passing through the streets, we see
stalls at which cookery for the million is in
progress. This consists of two large ba
sins filled, one with small pieces of vege
tables of all kinds, but chiefly cauliflower,
and sometimes morsels of fish, and the
other with a thin batter. Close by, on the
ground, stands a great brazen vessel full of
oil, boiling and bubbling over a charcoal
brazier. The presiding genius, a female
in full Roman costume, takes a piece of
vegetable on a fork, stirs it round in the
batter, and then drops it into the boiling
oil, repeating the process till sufficient for
a dish rises to the surface of the caldron,
whic-b, whnndono a Ugh* Brown, is taken
out with a skimmer and offered for sale,
so many pieces for a baiocco, and the en
terprising vender seems to carry on a thriv
ing trade. Here is a man with a lot of
chesnuts roasting and selling. There goes
a boy with a tray selling ricotta, a sort of
cream cheese made of goats’ milk, very
sweet and good. Here is another crying
polenta dulce, a sort of pudding of corn
flour, much esteemed by the lower orders;
then there is also macaroni, eaten plainly
boiled, and well sprinkled with Parmesan
cheese by those who cun afford it, the latter
being exposed for sale ready grated in sacks
at the shop doors, being largely used
by all classes with soups and other comesti
bles.
Notwithstanding the innumerable Ro
man candles, light? in Rome are few and
far between. It is only within the last ten
or twelve years that gas has been introduc
ed; and even now many of the streets are
left in utter darkness, and the houses, even
the best streets, are wholly without lights
on the stairca-es; and as the houses are all
let in flats, and the common staircase is un
protected in most cases by a street-door,
it not frequently happens that thieves lurk
on the landings to rob the unwary. There
fore it is the custom for every one to carry
a small piece of twisted wax taperand some
matches, to light in going up your own ora
neighbor’s. st airs, and to talk or laugh, or
sing loudly, in order to five notice of your
approach, that any intruder may get out of
the way. Every door, too, is provided
with a small opening, carefully guarded
with an iron grating, through which you
may survey whoever knocks, that you may
not admit a robber unaware.-. This ex
cessive caution and distrust is perhaps nec
essary in a city where, until lately, religious
and political freedom were unknown, where
spies Were supposed to lurk in every house
hold, and an incautious word might con
sign the uttcrer to prison ami to death.—
Par ore's H - dJy.
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ted States. Says the New York St ir:
“Edmund C. Hubbell, a comp'witor
now employed in New YorkCitv. is the
fastest compositor in tin Unit- 1 States.
He recently composed, in one hour s
time, 2,M5 oms of solid nonpareil tv pc,
twenty-t ight t ins wide, and had but
five errors iti his pr-of. Ho hasb-tu
known to set 20,000 ems in ten hours,
and 1.5 9) in iris avera-e day’s work -
d. ••.ributsng tyi’e ami correcting proof
in ten hours. His frirmL claim him
t» be the fastest typo in the con:.try:
and.arc willing and anxious to match
him a .ri:>t any io to set t- e from
one t > tci h >”v
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