The Hillsborough Recorder

[Medical Intelligencer.]

EXTREME WARM WEATHER.

Hartford, Conn. July 18.—Such excessive hot weather has prevailed during the last week, as has rarely if ever been experienced by our oldest inhabitants. During Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the thermometer ranged from 96 to 102 degrees in the shade. On Monday, most of the laboring people were compelled to quit their work, and our farmers, out of humanity or self-interest, probably a little of both, permitted the horse and the ox to remain undisturbed at home.

Salem, July 13.—Fervid weather—some glasses in the shade are as high as 104. Several gentlemen who have been in Norfolk, where, for many days, the thermometer stood from 102 to 108, say they never felt the heat more oppressive there.

Newburyport, July 12.—The weather yesterday and the day before was oppressively hot. The thermometer stood at 95 on Monday and 98 Tuesday.

Dover, N. H. July 12.—On Sunday last, at 3 o'clock P. M. thermometer in the shade, stood at 97, one degree higher, we believe, than had stood before this season. In one place it stood at upwards of a hundred. On Monday, at noon, the thermometer stood at 94—At 2 P. M. at 99, under the shade of a tree.

Portland, Me. July 11.—The weather, on Sunday, was unusually hot and oppressive. About 2 o'clock the mercury in the thermometer rose to 93, and continued at that height almost the whole afternoon, and at sunset 91. In the evening there was much sharp lightning, and about 10 o'clock a smart shower.

New Haven, July 12—Our thermometer stood at 99 degrees yesterday (Monday) morning before sunrise; about noon, the mercury rose to 95 in the shade, and varied very little from that point till sunset.

New Haven, July 11—On Sunday at three o'clock, P. M. the thermometer stood at 90 degrees exposed to a free current of air, and unaffected by any other cause in the nature of the atmosphere. At 5 o'clock this a.m. (Monday.) the thermometer stood at 81 degrees.

New York, July 23—There were twenty five cases of sudden death in this city yesterday, most of which were in consequence of drinking cold water. This afternoon, we understand, there were five or six deaths from the same cause. The weather continued intensely hot, without any appearance of its moderating.

Philadelphia, July 28.—Besides the accounts which we have daily received of the fatal effects of rays on men on horses, and on fish, we yesterday learned that even some of the feathered tribe have become its victims. The swallows which inhabit the large shed house at the navy yard, are daily dropping down dead among the workmen. This curious and uncommon incident, induced one of the others to ascertain the temperature by means of a thermometer. In the commandant's office, 98 deg. In the ship house near the rope, 106 degrees.

The Weather—We do not recollect to have experienced, during any former summer, so long a continuance of extreme hot weather, nor is it within our recollection, on any former year, that the heat was so generally felt over the continent.

There is nothing remarkable in the heat of this summer, the greatest intensity has been felt to the north and east of us.

Heretofore gentlemen from the south sought a refuge from the oppressiveness of the sun's rays, by a trip to some of those fashionable places of resort between the lakes and Boston, but now if they wish to avoid heat, they must stay at home, and regale themselves under their own southern foliage.

The late excessive heat is said to have occasioned the death of multitudes of fish in Concord river, Mass. Such an instance, it is stated, occurred in the same place about forty years since.

Heat.—The Weather, notwithstanding heavy and repeated showers of rain, continues warm and disagreeable. The mercury ranges generally from 90 to 100. In New York it has been as high as 96: and in Baltimore on Thursday it stood at 98°. The northern papers continue to publish the deaths of persons caused by heat and cold water: and we have counted more than seventy which have occurred in Boston, New York and Philadelphia in the course of a single week.

Pet. Intel.

In New-York, during the week ending on the 16th inst. there were one hundred and ninety seven deaths! Of these, 92 were men; 54 women; 36 boys, and 35 girls. It is said that in the grave yard of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, there were 26 interments in one day last week. Thirty-three of the number of deaths were from drinking cold water, a considerable number from apoplexy, inflammation of the brain, &c. making nearly sixty sudden deaths.

From the National Intelligencer.

We have been amused at the sort of exultation with some of the newspapers announce the degree of heat in their vicinity during the late (and we are constrained to add, present) warm weather; much as if they were speaking of an extraordinary production of nature, or an extraordinary birth, and we were about to add to it the exclamation, "beat this who can?" A Newbern N.C. paper states that "on Saturday week the thermometer in the shade, was up to 106." The Yates Republican replies: That's nothing. A thermometer in the shade, in this village, [Penn Yan] stood at 106, on Sunday last at 12 o'clock." The following paragraph from the People's Friend, printed at Little Falls, is in another taste:

"The extreme heat of the weather for a few days past is beyond what we recollect to have previously known in this country. It seemed as if the course of nature itself was changed, and we were doomed to undergo all the fervor of the Torrid Zone. On Monday, the mercury at Utica stood at one hundred and one degree— in the shade. Such is the temperature which the bard of Avon must have had in mind, when he makes Faulconbridge cry out in King John:

"Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot
Some fiery devil broods in the sky!"