People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — WINTER IN THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

WINTER IN THE SOUTH.

Snow Falling Where It Has Not Been Seen in Years. Baltimore, Md., Dee. 28.—For the last five days the weather has been colder in Maryland than at any time during the last six years. The Susquehanna, the Gunpowder and the Patuxent rivers are nearly frozen over and near the shores the ice is thick enough to cut, and the ice companies and packers have begun to fill their storehouses. A number of oysterrien have been brought to hospitals with their feet and hands frozen. Should the present bitter weather continue the supply of Chesapeake bay and New York river oysters will be cut short Charleston, S. C.. Dec. 28.—A blizzard struck Charleston Tuesday morning, and for the first time within the last fifteen years the housetops- were covered with a thin coating of snow and sleet The mercury averaged about 3 or 4 degrees below freezing point