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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION*. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JANUARY IOC D THE WEATHER BUREAU. Sow Our Weather Prediction* are Marie— The Instrument* Used Vml the Result* Atttaineil. The United Staton weather manufactory Is con siderable of an Institution, but it Is a little erratic at times, The supply of weather In not always reg- gtlated according to the demand, and, while the Country is never allowed-to be wholly out of weath er, frequently a large quantity In piled up for Which there Is no need. That may be said to have J*en the case during the past week or more. Gen eral Iln/en, fhe present head of the bureau, has many enemies, and various charges involving ln- Compcter.cy, have been made for the purpose of encompassing his removal; but if it were generally known that he is personally rcsjiousiblefor all the discomfort, trouble and loss caused by the late ex tensive snowstorm and “cold snap,” a great deal Of weight would be Added to the pressure Against him. “Old Probabilities,” a* the weather ofUccr is familiarly-known, has been the butt of many jokes, and at one time very little confidence was enter tained for his prognoMicatious: but since it has been demonstrated that lie can furnish all kinds of wen the i*, and plenty of’it, on very short notice, his proclamations arc treated with marked respect. Tlie weather Bureau, ns now organized, is a mil itary Institution, or an appendage of the regular it in charge- of the agricultural department, two thermometers we can, by reference to a ‘‘table ?f tell to u nicety the degree of satura tion ol the air. The anemometer consists of au THE WKATUEK BUREAU. ho positive action has been taken and none Is like ly to Ik-. Tlie service can be performed cheaper and better under the present system, and, owing to the*nature of the work, army discipline is not only advantageous but almost necessary. Throughout flic United State* there arc three hundred and seventy-six signal station*. in choree of nineteen officers and live hundred men of the signal corps of the army. Each station is provided with the Lest instruments, including all the late inventions for olden ing and accurately recording the con stant vitiations of the weather. From 133 or these stations telegraphic reports arc scut daily to Wash ington; (lie others report by mall. Reports are received from the trained observers at important stations three times every twenty-four hour*. There report* contain full particulars of tho weath er in the different districts. Seventeen stations Sn Canada, one In St. Johns, Newfoundland, nnd one in the northwestern part of British Amer ica send reports, and there arc over :»00 out- iignres conveying a large <tliu leans mem oil 10 Vigilt ClCrkr-, vliuil in nmiui has a special weather map before him on which ho marks the particular readings he has been In- atnictcd to take. There eight maps arc afterwards comhh.c d In one general map. which then fully freprttents all phases of tho weather throughout the territory covered. This mnp Is closely studied by an cx|*rt signal officer, the “storm centre” lo cated, the probablo course of coming storms de termined, nnd the complete "Indication*” made up for the several districts. , The first synchronous weather reports in this country were msde in November, 1H70. and since then the rervlec has n'aehed a high state of per fection. It is asserted by the officers in charge that ninety pe r cent of the advance bulletins issued aro Hilly verified, with occasional variations of a few Boms, while very few, If any, aro absolutely V. 8. NAVAL OBSERVATORY, axle from which radiate four arms ha\..» extremities hemispherical cu|»s to catch the wind, the velocity of which is estimated by tho number of revolutions per mluute made by the instrument. The direction of the wind Is shown by an ordinary weather vane. Itmustnotbc supposed that the signal officer is perched on his home top to ob serve the working* of these indicators, lie t ea' their record below in his sitting-room ns ma automatically by the agency of electricity on itrip of paper wrapped about a revolving drum. Suppose all tlie data in.at thcWashlngtonofllce .. 4:33 p. m., and that it is found that at Nashville, Teiiji., and a hundred miles nrouutl it in every di rection there is an “urea of depression.” au area of low barometer, say 29:2, while around Nashville as a centre we may draw a line showing a higher barometer, say, 80:02, at Cincinnnti. Indianapolis. St. Louis, lfcmphis, Atlanta, Abiogdon, Va.. and Wheeling? What is the forecast? There will be a flow of aJr—winds—inward from all points named toward Nashville. So far as practical effect is con cemed, low barometer is equivalent to a denres- lion of the upper surface of the sea of air in which we live, and high barometer is equivalent to an elevation, or wave, which will naturally flow down and fill up tho depression. There will, therefore, be an iutlow toward Nashville from all points of the compass. Like water flowing toward a hole in the bottom of a tub, the current of tho air will take ou a whirling motion, ami this cy clonic movemeut. which, in the northern hemis phere, under the influence of the earth’s rotation, is always from right to left, will go on increasing lu intensity. Violent winds whirling about Niuh- ville at a distance of about soventy-iivo miles, but a dead calm perhaps at the city itself. In the or dinary water whirlpool there is suction down ward, but in our whirlwind the suction is upward, with, Of course, a lower barometer. Tho warm, damp air about Nashville being thus carried by the cy clonic movement into the upper, colder and less dense regions of the atmosphere, becomes then ex panded ami chilled go ns to be Incapable of sus taining longer in Its Burden of moisturei which falls as rain or snow. ^Continual rains and varying fierce winds attest the vigor of tho meteorological catastrophe. Hut cyclones do not remain stationary. Tlie record shows that the "area of low barometer" about Nashville, with its attendant winds and rains, may he expected to move eastward with a velocity of about thirty miles an hour. Instances occur in which steamers bound from New York to Liverpool overtake and outstrip the eastward moving area of low pressure. Sn far w e have spoken onlyof such areas. Hut areas of high barometer will present no great difficulty with the principles here presented kept well In view. An area of high barometer ccntcriiigat Nash ville, with low barometer at all places two him- dtew miles distant, would, of course, necessitate an outflow from that point, nnd the currents thus generated would, under tho influence of tho earth’s rotation, be deflected to the right. Such an area does not. however, io often produce rain: it is rather the condition of our tenure of good weather. The station on the summit of Pike’s Peak is one of the moit important, ns well as the highest, in the country. It is situated 11,157 feet above sea level, surrounded by perpetual snow, and In a region where many of our severest storms have their origin. The cut of it given above I* from a sketch by M. Seamans, of Colorado springs, nnd is a per fect representation. Water freeze* on the Peak every night in the year, and snowstorms lu July and August aro not au unusual occurrence. It Is nine miles, over a most difficult trail, from the foot of the mountain to the summit, apd the two men in charge "pack” their provisions ami supplies on horselmck. But they Iiare enough and some to spare for hundreds of tourists who lunch there, at a dollar a head, in the summer season. Many stay over night and "hunk" In the hut. In this way the signal officers do quite a thriving business, nnd tho honest pennies thus turned help lo compensate them for the isolated existence “ ‘ “ • — tatir - ** THE LATER STORM. A NEW AND COLDER STORM BREW- 1NG. The Coldest Weather of the Present Winter at I Paul-A Snow Drift 3,000 Poet Long-Trains Blockaded-Report* Prom Southern Cali fornia-Three Days Snow Storm. _____ top of tho bleak mountain. The station hi New York is also an important one. It Is situated in a largo cupola above the roof of the Equitable building, corner of Broadway and Cedar streets, ami commands a lino view of almost tho entire city, tho harlmr aud a SIGNAL STATION SUMMIT OF PIKE’S PEAK, wrong, seme account of the system and Instru me Hi- med may be interesting to tho majority ol Tenders. The bureau piuscs Its forecasts upon ob HcrvutUiiii ns to barometer, thermometer, hygro meter, unanometer, w eather vane, and rain gauge, made at ihesamo instant three times a clay at all Ihc stetfot.s. Each ob*wvcr inspects his instru ment?. at 7.85 a. nn, 4:35 p. in. and 11:35 p. in.. Washington time, and at one e telegraphs his report to M r-biiiytoti, when- tho bulletins are made up end itshcd In each ente one hour and twenty- five minutes after the observations are made—it t» u. in.. G p. in. and 1 a. in., respectively. Reliable weather j ropheer requires that at least four things be known respecting the condition of the atmos phere over a wide area—its weight as indicated by ; barometer; Jts temperature, os shown by the sometimes fouudto be of great s ice is t Ihl*vary ing weight of the atinof-phere at any given place Is Balance n against the w eight of a column of mer cury contalne * * * ‘ * Inches in len&._ a column of air one Inch square and extending to the upj tr limit of the atmosphere weighs fifteen pound-; a column of mercury of the same section and thir.y inches high w eighs the same; hence the power ot the uir under the conditions mentioned to sustain in a tube containing a vacuum iu its upper end a column of mercury or the height named. It follows, c f course, that tlie height of the mercurial *w»>TTc-u< iliat a falling barometer is an invariable iUccium : of a storm: the indications of the instru ment n:<. tobe relied on only In connection with ' those Of other instrument*. The thermometer? em ployed i.v the signal nn vice differ from those iu oral mu >’ me only in being self-recording as re- • Met re iiui ximnm and nrtuturast temperature. Tire!.! irljltyoftheniri* uot(ascertained abso lute Is— tl.nt i- to say. bv nn estimate of the jar- ccntfcccof weight of im l-iuro toweightof air—but vr J tli reft re nee to the degree of saturation. Tlie quantity of reointim-the afrwiii hold depend.- upon Umi nature, nnd al-o upou its density, or pres, feu re. A t UbiC root of air having a temperature ot EOdegree . and under a uniform barometric pres- fenre of.’-O inches, will hohl 4.2$ grain* of water. If. under tf-.i ic condition 6 , the temperature or the priMi.u < ril.c airi> iu< rtua-d, it becomes capable «jf held it g in suspension an increased quantity of water; 11: if temperature or pressure be lowered, there- v 1*1 result a deposition of a portion of the water in the form of a fog, dew, rain, frost, Mi»w or hoi!. There is then a point of feat mat on for each degree of temperature, a- well os for each variation or pressure indicated by,tlie Barometer. If thenir be chilled artificially it can lie made to dt j*»!t its mol-tnre—a* is seen to happen on the exterior of anunifier containing ice water. The len't chilling will bring tally saturate*! air to the "dev. jKilnt,’ 7 while a very dry air would need tobe I,rot yht almost to the freezing point before it ■would give up its burden of water. Evidently ex- pored water would not evaporate la a fully satur ated air. nnd will evaporate more or le*- freely in >poition to the degree of drynew. As ail s;x _ __ ‘'nt. Which i 1 JRB R.. r l|MpnM|i ..1 Gon»M>ot two ordinary thermometers, oue of which has Its bulb enveloped lu lamptrir k kept moist v ith water. In a dty atmosphere this water —-* *-“** “ - fc, UUr- "bliz- goed part of the Atlantic ocean. Tlie late zard” which swept over tlie entire region oast of the Rocky mountains was the severest experienced in many yean*, yet was not predicted or forecast by tlie weather bureau beyond the mere announce ment that a cold w ave was .approaching. It is doubtful If the claims of the institution for the perfection of its work can be much better sus- tallied now than in the daysof General Meyer, who became to cautious at one time that he put out the SIGNAL STATION, NEW' YORK, dguals only after his corns advised him the storm was coming. The coldest point during the late “snap” wa> in northern Dakota, where the ther- fanners in that region were out chopping woo l all day iu their shirt sleeves. If I Should Die Tonight, Ik-fore they laid it in Its resting place, And deem that death had left It almost fair. And. laying snow-white flowers against my hair. Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness, And fold my bands with lingering caress. Poor lianas, to empty and so cold tonight. If I should die tonight, SHU Errands on which the willing feet had sped. Tlie memory of my selfishness and pride, My hasty words, would all be put a-Ide, And so I should be loved and mom jed tonight. If I should die tonight, Even hearts e-dranged would turn once more to me, Recalling other days remorsefully; The eve* that chill me with averted glance Would look upon me a. 1 - of yore, perchance, And soften, iu the old. familiar way, For w ho could w ar w ith dumb, unconscious clay ? .S) I lniuht rest, forgiven of all tonight. Oh, friend*! I pray tonight. Keep not your kikes for xny dead, coM brow; The way h lonely; let me feel them now; Think gently of me: I am travel-worn; My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn; forgive, oh, heart*citrongr»i, forgive, 1 plead, . «—|* sbali not need ring tonight. >AqOU Favorite. It looks as if we were to have more trou ble with the weather. A new storm is brewing in the northwest anti it is already colder there titan it was last week. The south has escaped thus far, but may catch the blizzard during the present week. Tho signal officers think we will, 'llelow will he found some adventures of the storm that will prove interesting. Washington, January &L—Tho reports to the chief signal officer show that the antiei pnted blizzard has at last gotten under way and is playing havoc in the northwest. From St. Fanl it is repotted as the coldest of the present season. The mercury early this morning ranged from Sr* to .‘15 below zero, and at noon marked 20 to 25 degrees below, with a high wind blowing, making it exceedingly disagree- able. The railways are experiencing serious difficulty from the drifting snow. The greatest trouble is on the Pacific and St. Paul line, near Lake Pepin, where tlie wind is blowing the snow oil’ the icc on the lake into the cuts along the road, formiug a heavy block* ade mid greatly delaying trains. Four en gines have been at work since daylight “buck ing’’ the snow and endeavoring to clear tho track. In Dubuque, Iowa, the mercury is 12 to 15 degrees below zero, and still falling. The railroads are luidly blockaded. No trains on tlie Illinois Central, west of Dubuque, aro moving today. Tho passenger train leaving Sioux City Thursday evening was caught near Ccmsou in A DRIFT 3,000 FEET LONG and 20 feet deep. The engines arc dead nnd no provisions nrc obtainable. The thormome- tens 23 to 20 below. Superintendent Gilloas says it wi.'I take three to four days to open tho road. On tho Chicago, Milwaukee atul St. Paul the north bound passenger train and three freights nrc in the snow near Winona. Tiio trains from the north arc moving, but not on time. West of McGregor the trains are in the drift nnd everything h at a standstill. Two passenger trains aro blockaded at Colmar. A negro in instrcl company is snowed in licar Marcus and are giving performances on tho train. THE CUTS ALL SNOWED IN. The blizzard struck Marslialtown, Iowa, this morning, aud everything is snowed in. The barometer today was 21 below. Tho cuts nrc all snow packed. No trains can reach Marslialtown for 2-i to 48 hours. EUendale, Dakota, reports that with last night enmo tire* coldest weather of tho winter. It snowed all night and a strong northerly wind drifted the snow badly. Tho thermometer this morning was 40 degrees below zero. The storm has passed. For suddenness and severity, tho present blizzard has no superior in Minnesota, nnd few equals within tho memory of tho old est inhabitants. At sunrise today tho mercury stood 331 degrees lower than at 10 o’clock last night, or 23.5 degrees below zero; at 0 a. in. it reach ed its minimum, 20 below and at noon was 22 below, making tho extreme, for 21 hours, en ded at noon today, at 35 degrees. The protec tion afforded by the buildings of Minneapolis, reduced the scusible force of the blizzard con siderably, but the few farmers who fought their way in from tho country reported tho stonn of torriblo severity. From St. Paul, Minn., it is loarncd that tho blizzard, which has been raging sinco last night, is the worst known among tho railroads for years. In ©very direction it is very cold and blowing at a terrific rate, filling tho entt, and lu tho southern part of tho country making it impossible to keep them clear long oiiougu to run trains. Tho trains on tho Southern Minnesota division of tho Milwaukee road have been abandoned. A heavy freight train is stuck in tho snow drift* near Lako City. Tho through train from tho east is now about nine hours late. The north trains are practically on time, though exjicriencing rough weather. FIFTY-BKVEN DEGREES MELOW. It is 57 degrees iiolow zero at Fort Vincent. On the western division of the Milwaukee and St. l’nul everything is all right, though thoro is more or less drifting. The weather is intensely cold north and west, but no blockades. At Mediclno Fort, Manitoba, last night at D o’clock tho mercury was 40degrees below, and at Foit AHsioailioiiio 40 degrees l>elow. There is no blocadc. Tlie weather is cold today. The present cxpcricnco worst tho western road- have known for years. REPORTS PROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. The steamer Orizaba, which arrived hero to day from Los Angeles, brings tho details of tho devastation produced by the storm in that olty and vicinity. Tho rains of Sunday and Mon day and Tuesday wore supplemented by a c loud burst in San nornurdiiio valley, on tho last named day, and the Los Angeles river, almost without warning, became n raging tor rent and soon flooded tho southern central part of tho town. Tho water also covered 2.000 acres of orchards and vineyards. Tho river rc so two feet higher than tlie flood of Febru ary, 1884. Over fifty houses were washed awny or completely wrecked. Every bridge acrcss tiio Los Angeles river was swept away, also 100 feet of truck of tho Southern Pacific, and tlie local roads telegraph poles, were in cluded in the general destruc tion, nnd for three days the cits was cut off from railroad communication wit! the rest of tho world. Mrs. Kato Lytollo and Theresa Whitney were drowned while being taken from a partially wrecked house. It is thought a number of other lives have hron lost. A large quantity of live stock perished. The dainnge to property iu the city and county of Los Angeles is estimated .-it $500,000. Bismarck, D. T., January 23.—On last even ing’s last hound train was a party of hunters who have keen in the Bock mountains several weeks in Fcarehof game. They reported that iu many of tho valleys the snow is over twenty-live feet deep, nnd trappers nnd hun ters who have been in the mountains for years, say that they have never seen as much snow (here before. They predict heavy floods in the spring aud an immense June rUo in tho Missouri when the snow melts. struck the place at midnight Tuesday. Clay ton Gannott, Sol Camp, Charles Tuttle, Mar tin Riley, Jay Farris, August Goodwin, A! Soma and Martin PAttorsou were asleep in a cabiu whicli was supposed to be safe as it was built in a grove of heavy timber, but when tlie slide came down it snapped tho treos us though they were pipe stems, hurling them ngaiust the cabiu, crushing everything. Martin Riley and Au gust Goodwin had tlieir backs broken. Riley was suflbeated. When tho slide struck timber it divided, a part rushing across the gulch, burying a cabin on tho opposite side, occupied by threo men, without injuring them. The men worked their way out at noon and started to rescue their friends. On Wednesday evening, after cutting through numberless fallen trees they effected an en trance to tlie cabin nnd found three dead and the other five suffering terribly from suffix* tion. Sol Camp lay on his face, dead. Tho body of Jap Farris was pinned across tho buck by heavy timlicrs. Riley died in five minutes afterwards. His dying convulsions nearly caused the death of a man underneath him. Camp had sustained a terrible cut on tho head, from which the blood flowed pro fusely. He became terribly thirsty and, be- Ing in a position where ho could hold his hands under his bleeding head nnd life thorn to his mouth, he quenched his thirst with his own blood. All tho men found alive were nearly crazy when discovered. All were un dressed and had bitten themselves on the hands and arms in thoir delirium and present ed a sickening spectacle. They may all re cover, but iu tlie case of one or two it is ex tremely doubtful. Los Angeles, Cal., January 23.—Our tlrut wire communication with the outside world sinco Monday has just been established. A severe rain storm commenced Sunday And las ted till Wednesday, 4.55 inches fulling. On Tuesday morning there was a cloudburst in the mountains and tho Los Angeles river rose with frightful rapidity, going two feet hove flood of lh84. Dawson,Pa.,January 21.—Last uiglit a party of young folks were enjoying themselves on tho icc in Voughinghcny river, wkon n young lady named Riser foil into nil air-liolo. Her escort, James Marshall, rushed to her roscuo, but the ico broke letting him into tiio water. Before aid could reach them tho current swept them under tho ice, and both were drowned. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Salt Lake City, January 21.—At Park ( ity last night a suowslidc overwhelmed a miner, named Thorstrom. Early this morning a slide higher up the gulch wrecked the cabin of A. U. i’Allcrton. i’attcrton nnd his wife were killed. Nf.w York, January 22.—Health Officer Faison today seized several hundred boros of frozen oranges, poured carbolic acid over them aud dumped them at tho offal dock. They hud boon frozen in transit from Florida. Frozen oranges arc dangerous to health bocauso of the mould between the segments of the pulp after tho oranges are frozen, nnd because of tho im pregnation of the wliolo fruit with the essen tial oil of tho skin. Victoria, B. t’., January 22.—The distress among tho Chinese is appalling. Many of them aro begging, but most of them aro steal ing and housebreaking. Tho mayor has in formed the Chinese merchants bore that thoy must contribute to tlie support of their starv ing countrymen. It has been proposed to es tablish soup kitchens to relieve the prevailing distress. Dks MOINEs. Iown, January 21.—Tho Iowa Stnto Register thinks tho present will bo the severest winter ever known. The following from tho Register will show what aort of weather Iowa has had: This looks like Iowa winters, in i In northern Iowa at least. Snow tlmn was four feet on the level, and even the wagon ways were block- The writer of this remembers two months Jme when lu Grundy county, the farmers could not tako their horses out of tho barn, and when the only way to get mail was to go on snow shoes for it to the imstotuco six miles away. That was a blockade absolute. Home times, when tho snow was level with the fences, there would be a across a frozen creek, between Dalton and Spring Place, when the horso slipped ou tho glassy hurface, aud fell in auch a manner that his neck was broken. Mr. Holland’s loss is about $150. The cold wave In tho Cohuttahs drove many of tho wild animals Inhabiting those moun tains to the vallies below in reach of better protection and more food than could bo found in the rocky heights. In aomo instances the deer, driven desperate by the pangs of hunger, would approach near enough to the farm houses to he captured with but little difficulty. During tho recent severe cold spoil, as the dated swamps, embargoed, ti high land by ice. Captain Charlie Philips, taking in the situation at a glance, went to tho rescue nnd safely transported the cattle to tho hills. The Athens Banner says: Mr. M. B. Me Ginty comes up with the most marvelous talc of this century. Mr. M., like every other man in Atlicus that can afford it, hua a flue Jersey cow with a pedigree running back to the isle of Jersey. On tho Hth of this month, during tho first part of the cold wave, this now famous eow gave birth to a calf which froze to death. Yesterday this mi mo cow gave birth to another calf, that is alivo nnd doing well. It was ten days !>etw’ecn the birth of tho first mll'nnd the last one. Thisought cer tainly to increase tlie valuo of Jersoyi and especially Mr. McGinty'scow. A General Justice of the fence. From tho Monte/mini, Ga,, Record. It is said that in the neighboring county of Taylor there is a justice of tho pence who acta as judge, jury and administrator. Not long ago he tried a case of divorce between two colored |»eople. He put tho case to trial as a judge nud decided that both parties were enti tled ton divorce, ns a jury and then proceeded to administer on the effects of tho parties, giv ing the wonmn her share and tiio man his. It is presumed also that his littlo feo camo in nloinf towards the last. Whcthor short divi sion or long division wo cannot say. A Good Hal tbit Hunt. From tlie Griffin, Ga., New*. A few days ago Uncle Jeff Ellis discovered sixteen rabbits in Ids well as lie was clounlug it out. Hurtboldl nnd HJsStntuo, A little five-year old, who was traveling to California with her parents, astonished thorn by saying ns the train passed through a canyon in tho Rocky Mountains: "Why, mn, look at the picture on the rock,—n monk holding up a buttle with an electric light around it. Nowl know where Bartholdi got hi* idea of the statue of liberty.” Her father laughed: "Very likely,” he said, “but that picture stands for St. Jacobs Oil, which cured you of rheumatism last winter.” We respectfully call the attention of every stihfCTibcr to tho seed advertisement of .Tamos .MI. Gregory, Marblehead. Mass. His largo and complcto catalogue is sent freo. dated ychtorday says: Snow ha* l»cen rallingcon- timiosly for three days and covers the ground to a depth of almost three feet. This after- noon as tho four o’clock shift was waiting to go on at Aspen mine, the men heard a noise, and looking up, saw a snow slide coming down the mountain. They made a rush for the dump nnd got under it, thus saving their lives. The slide struck the shaft and engine houses, completely demolishing them and killing John Rose, n mine carpenter. The engine and boiler were badly damaged. The engineer was thrown nnder tho boiler, which \vn» buried under ten feet of snow. Ho was afterwards recovered alive. John Leonard, one of flic owners of the Conemara mine, nnd several other men were near the shaft house but cm aped with only a few bruises. At fivo o’clock tho fire bell announced flic occurrence of another slide. This time nt Washington mountain. Investigation febowed that two drivers, with their mules and wagons, hud been buried under fifteen feet of mew near Aquisition mine. Seven men, who fetarlcd from here this morning for Maroon pass to return nt noon, have not sinco been tcard from. It is supposed that they were buried under a third elido, reported to have orcurred on the pass nt about noon. There was another slide near Gamp Bird mine, but no demoge is rejKirtcd. Ail tho avalanches fol low rd in the track of one three years ago that killed five men at Vallejo mine. AfePEK, Cob. January 23.—Republican Ma roon pass rood has l**en the scene of a fearful loss of iifeduring the recent storm. While men were hunting yesterday for the bodfei in Thursday’s snowsildc word was ^pceived of an other further up the cintu. Anavalauch be <1 riven 'everywhere, across the country un<1 over the topsot life fences. This threaten* to bo a winter or deep snow. Old settlers in Iowa iomember winters when tho snow was four feet deep on tho level, nnd when every lime nod highway that was fenced was filled level with snow, and hor** remained useless in tho sta bles, and snow shoes were tho only methods of getting back and forth to town. This may bo such n winter again. It has a temperature and like they lipd—"a feeling” that there Is deal in tho air that ha* to come down. blockade is raised, it ia the duty of every ouc that has a family lu f •——•—- •- , bo htopped, If the snow shall come ns deep as itjefid, any in the winter of iHtfl-fl.*. WRAPPED IN A~STORM. The Element* Heading Down from the Northwest, Ran Francisco, January 21.—Ono of tho severest storms that has over occurred on this coast began on Sunday and reached Its height shortly afternoon today. It extended from the northern boundary of Washington territory to the aoutlicm boundary of California, and from the Rocky mountains to tho I’acifle ocean. There was an almost continuous fall of rain and snow, accompanied by wind, whl'di, from miles an hour, gradually incicarcd until about half part ono o’clock this af ternoon, when it blew elglrty-two miles au hour. The norm was predicted by the signal service, aud the cautionary storm signal was displayed by order of Lieutenant Glaaaford, from tlie flag staff of tho merchants' exchange building.* owing to this timely notice, many vessels remained iu port and thus escaped tho Airy of the storm. TIIF. SCENE ON THE BAY. Although the bay, inahlo the liarlmr, was very rough, the passenger* on tiio ferry IxMt- lieing made tca-slck, the shipping did not suffer. Con siderable damage, however, was dono throughout the city by wind nnd rain, Houses were unroofed, sheds, fences, trees, awnings, signs, church spires and many smokestacks were blown down, huge late glass window* were shattered, basements .. Hided and shutters broken. The car* were lifted from their tracks by tho force, of the wind, and n covered wagon was caught up and carried some distance. No loss of life, however, has been L Al)OUt 1JJ0 p. m:, wheg the wind was at fit. tho west wall of the Mechanics' pavll- tun nua blown in, and n few minutes after about hi feet of the roorof the building was carried across the street, damaging the buildinrr- on the opposite side. The damage to the pavllllon amounts to several thousand dollars. One of tho ino-t unfor tunate disasters caused by the storm was the col lapse of a two story building at MUdon and Thir tieth streeta. At the time of tho collapse Mr*. Annie Itumlolt, Miss Coyle and John Carroll were in the building. Carroll cscstud, but the women were burled tiuder the falling walls, and severely, perhaps fatally, injured. CUT OFV FROM Till: WORLD, The most serious rc suits of the storm was to cut off Fan; FrandfCO entirely, for the first tlmo iu it* history from telegraphic communication with tlie outside world. The wires began going down yesterday, one after another, until the final break < ( i um d about 12:30 this afternoon. For a short time the city wires were rendered useless. A lsn» for» e of men Is now repairing them, but up to mid uight no connection has been made. This dispatch i» sent from here by mail to 8acramcnto,wlience U will be forwarded to Its destination. Washout 1 have occurred on the Hoiithcm Pacific road at sev eral places between Majuvc ami Ynmn. They’aro not considered serious, and the road will lai repair ed in three or four daya at furthest. TIIE EXTENT OF THE DISASTER. Exact information cannot Ik- obtained. Little or i delay lias occurred on thr Central Pacific, al though there has been a snow AU between Triickee, allfornla. and Iteno, Nevada. No lu formation Wood Polnou. Three years ago I contracted blootl poison. I took mercury nnd imtash for six months without any henoflt. 1 then took Swift's Hpo- ific nud it soon drove awny every symptom of the disease. 1 recommend S. S. 8. on ovory occasion, as it is really a boon to humanity, nnd every one suffering with blood poison can tako it with great confidence. Frof. Edwin Baar, 234 East 32d street. New York, January 13,188«. Eczema. 1 have had salt rlioutn for a long time and have su fie red much from the offccts of moroury which J have taken for its rcllof, L have tmvo/feri all over tho United States and Europe nnd have nover found anything to bonoflt me ns S. 8.8. lias done. My mercurial rheumatism is all gono and my salt rlioutu is uoarly so. was also affected with malaria, and 8. 8. 8. has relieved me of it, aftor having tried qiiiuino and every thing else I could hoar of with no pcrmauciit benefit, 8. E. Kelsey, . Box iff, Baloui, Mans. January 11,1880. M t — II BLOOD HUMORS 11 H t SM!H, ATI ,M° ERUPTIONS, ITCHING AND a"!*™'i 18 kkln tortures, loathsome sore* and erl P>“P>T. iuborttell Ik I? . .TA L. ii of [bn Muort skin and *calp, W'ithlossof hair, from infancy lo iSV u ffiSSSS5? 1 i8fc^“ B “ Kc ” lTen '' ,to COVERED WITM SOUKS. 1 h*y e been afflicted since last |March with a Ddn disease tho. doctors colled eczema. My am MRS. CLARA A. FREDERICK, Broad Brook, Conn. SCALP, FACE, KARS AND NECK. I was afflicted with eczema on the scalp, fare ears and neck, which the druggist, where ! got your remedies, pronounced one of the worst ease* that had come under his notice. He advised inn to try your Cutieura remedies, and after five days’ me my scalp and part of my fare were entirely cured, and I hope in another week to have my ears, ucek, and the other part of my face cured. HERMAN SLADE, 120 E. -Ith Street, New York. ITCHING DISEASES CURED. Cutieura stands at the head of Its claw, espeo tally is this the care with the Cutieura Soap. Have * na au unusually good safe this summer, owing to o prevalence or an aggravated form or Itch through some localities in tlie country. In which the l utlcura Remedies proved sal i-factory. W. L. HAKDK2G, Druggist, Fnlontown, Ky. CCTICUItAlttMEDIKS. Are told by all druggists. Price: Cuticura 50 cents: Resolvent. 91;Soap,25cents. Potter Dboo Weakness. For Aching Hide* and Back, Kidney Pains, Sciatica, Ghost Pains, Weakness and Inflammation, tho Cuticrna Anti-Pain Plaster Is Infallible. 25c. sun wed wk MM •£5lood Re n ewer - Farewell to tlie Excruciating Fains of Itheu- tlani. I write to state my opinion of Guinn's Pioneer Blood Rkmewkr ns a blood mediclno and tho effect It has had on myself snd others. Words can hartlJy express all 1 would like to say, but for years I suffered tho most rxcrntlatlng pain from rheu matism and pain* arising from disordered conat ion of blood before using tho Blood Itciiewer, lie- ng for months unablo to walk or move my lower General Walter C. Newberry, formerly mayor of Petersburg, lms fallcn heir to 9500,000. MRS. WlN8LOW'B SOOTHING BYRUP tor Ohll- dreu teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays all pain and cures wind oolkL ttoents a bottle. Jamkm Smith, of Fayettovillo, North Caroli na, attempted to set lire to the bridge over Capo Fear river a short litno ago. He has been scutlto the insane asylum, Tlie Combination off ngrodlont* used In mak ing Hiiown’n Bronchial Trocuka 1* such a* to give the bc»tpq**lblo effect with safely. They aro tho l*-st remedy iu use for Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases. William Robertson, who died nt Magnolia, N. C„ the other day, left 205 descendants. Catarrh and Ilroncliltis Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome dlsca**, Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, nt last found n prescription which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dretdfu 1 disease sending a aeft Rddrrwcd stamped envelope to Dr. J. Flynn di (Jo., 117 East 15th st., New York, will receive tho receipt free of charge. declflwkoow , -tberpoi received,owfog to the lack of w ireVommimiration. GEORGIA OU ICE. riions o : the The largest Icicle ever seen in Taliaferro •ourity community was re|#>rtp«l at Mr. W. IL Kendrick’s mill duriifg tho recent cold spell. 15 feet long and 3 feet thick. A Bartow fanner’s pet heifer dropped a fine half Jerrey calf during the blizzard. The little rreuturc was about to freeze when found, but the little mother had Jain down behide It, plac ing her body in line with the bleak north wind, and ns nearly as possible encircling tlie baby calf. Mr. George C. Davis, of Taliaferro, says he raw some trees that would measure II inches in diameter that were spilt like you had driven an iron wedge in it. Jeree Holland, of Dalton, lost one of ItU most valuable dri ring hone* one day hit week in rather a singular manner. A com* rnercifeltnan attempted to drive tho anirual Prophylactic In Hlckness* ‘•Tho Typhoid Fever baa broken out bore again, hut wherever Darbys Prophylactic Fluid lias been freely used there lias been no Fever. —M. B. Lancahteb, 1*. M„ Kd. ‘(’sntral Ala- bemian.'” "Tho Fluid is not a deodorizer, merely, but b disinfectant—a destroyer of tho insalubrious element in an atmosphere which cannot bo breathed without danger.—New York ‘Evening Post.’ w Jostab Davis's Trouble. Josish Davis, North Middletown, Ky., writes: “I am now using a box of your Henry's C'arboltc fislvo upon an ulcer which, for tho past ten days, has givon me great pain. This salve is tho only remedy I have found that 1ms given me any casp. My ulcer was caused by varicose veins snd was pro nounced incurable by the medical advisers. I find, however, that Henry’s Carbolic Salve it effecting a cure." Beware of imitations. Dolan’ Sure Core KoolhWuh Dtntifrire. pared Ga. 1 For sale by all DroggUts and Dentlsta taken ilioiit one-half gallon; and it has now been two year* or mom Mnce Ihavo used It, snd have sinco suffered very little—nothing, com paratively speaking. I have also fUrnlsbod several persont* with tho Blood Kenower, and each of them experienced great relief Bom the use of It. Rockmart, Ga. g. h. CHERRY. Tho above Certificates are but a few Instanoes of thousands in our powemion, allowing sufferers who have been relieved of every form of Blood and 8kln diseases. Femalo Complaints, Dyspopsla. Byphills, Mercurial Rheumatism, Blood poison and Malaria! ForfUllinfoi-mstUm our free namphloi on Blood and Bkln Diseases will bo furnished on application to iho MACON MEDICINE CO., Mnoon , Ga. Bold'ln powdered form trftn or witnopt spirits; i Whwi HENRY’S Carbolic Salve The most Powerful Healing Ointmont ever Discovered. Ucnrj’i Ctrbollc Noire cares Sores. Hcnrjr’, Carbolic Nulrc alia,, Ilunu. Henry', Carbolic Nairn care* llralrc. Henry', Carbolic Sal re heal, PlmplM. Henry', Carbolic Nalro cures I'llcs. Henry’s Carbolic Nalrc lical, Cut,. Ask for Henry's, and Tako No Other, wnmvAR* or coroTEnram-t» nov2£-1p son lues wed Urn wky UNIVERSAL GRAVITY LEYEL. The Greutnt nnd Grandest Dlmveryofthe Age. NO HILL 81DB.MTCUK8, ETC. Detached from tabla; Cin usa ai two foot- measure, trUquarco, or any dctlrod angle. All ‘ on ' scientific principle*. No in?re Actual Certainty by gravity register. Farmer* and o'.h^rs can use with accuracy aud 1)3 Effective Work, 9 rhtl handling. Tlmoilnlltn* cost Eight Tlmo* at m tots mi T nu expert to UAui* pulato. Our Level with Patented Target $5.00, We place It in the reach of all. Manufacturers East aud our Hardware Arms fndotre it. Literal Discount to tho Trade. l'.c>(Miiu*ble agents with s-ma.ll capital aud team in make from 15 lo 910 per day. References and circulars on application. THE UNIVERSAL GRAVITY LEVEL CO.. JJ7 ti. Broad St., Atlanta. Ga. Mention this paper, wky TO ALL LOVERS ofUM PURE GOOD,UU..OMI IW.1I. tor Uw TOILET . and o r H 'ff’muTiSjiiui mo. . C O ITom. r«rrf«; new ■ took .ud OiU outfit, • cent* M. Otto. nor lOwylmi -ONE PACK, MAY I OOJ sa-'rt.”-' sep 1 wkflmeo 1 ^distinct pbint~1|