ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

414
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 2545 - 2552
WEATHER (Cont'd)
2545 - H&G June 25:2/3 - The squall from the northwest on Saturday
(June 23) afternoon, raised the water in the harbor so as to inundate
the lower floors of several warehouses. The rise vas very sudden and
unprecedented. (verbatim) (1)
2546 . H&G July 19:2/3 - Yesterday at 3 o'clock, P.M. Dr. B. S. Lyman's
thermometer stood at 96 degrees. Mr. N. E. Crittenden's at 95 degrees,
both in the shade and air. Thermometers at noon to-day, 96 and 97.
(verbatim) (1)
2547 - H&G Sept. 4; ed: 2/1 - It required but the frost of Sunday night
(Sept. 2) to render this season, what it may now with safety be termed,
remarkable for its sudden changes and the extremes to which those changes
have been carried.
Now we have Jack Frost among us destroying what little life and vigor
the vegetation has retained.
"Corn, vines, potato tops, in short all the more tender vegetables
have met with one common fate; even the dew drops standing upon the
leaves of cabbage were frozen hard as winter ice." (5)
2548 - H&G Sept. 22; ed: 2/1 - Whi Ie we write the gentle rain drops begin
to patter against our window, and the first time for months, the clouds .
have come into competition wi th the street waterer.
"Welcome rain! thousands Welcome thee! ... Pour from the clouds, as
in days of old, nor stay thy falling until the dove again finds no resting
place!" (2)
2549 - H&G Sept. 23; ed: 2/5 - The weather Saturday night and Sunday was
rough and boisterous, with rain enough to lay the dust, and refresh
dying vegetation. "To-day a clear sky and smilil1g sun,with a pure,
heal thy and invigorating atmosphere." (1)
2550 . H&G Oct. 3; ed:2/2 - "The Equinoctial with us was not worth noticing,
and the weather continues clear and dry. Not so down East. The
Atlantic coast has been swept by severe storms and gales, doing more than
usual damage to shipping .• Marine lists present a melancholy record of
disasters." (1)
2551 - H&G Oct. 29; ed: 2/4 - "The Weather - Snow. - October is stepping
out in a pet. Last night, he stormed frozen tears, and this morning he
appeared rough and blustering as Old Winter. His dun garb bas turned
white, and his breath hangs iCicles 'all round my hat. '" (1)
2552 - H&G Oct. 30; ed:2/4 • Snow-Snow. October 30th, 1833 a regular
bui 1 t snow storm all day. How wi 11 this read October 30, 1900, a lovely
Indian summer day perhaps.
"The weather has been I ike pol itics - full of change, the latest
always the worst for decent people." (I)