Southampton-Greensville County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Weather, 1878 

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Crop news: 
   Storm, 26 May 1878 
   N.B. RIDLEY, Worrell's P.O., 29 May 1878 


"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Sat., June 1, 1878, p. 2, col. 3-4 

  The storm of last Sunday afternoon is said to have been very severe in a 
portion of the country South of Petersburg, and did a good deal of damage to 
crops and property.  The course of the storm was from the southwest to 
northeast, and its track about half a mile wide.  At Hicksford a tree was 
blown across Mr. Tillar's house.  In Southampton county, Mr. George Hughes's 
house was badly damaged and his cotton cut down by the hail.  Mr. Hardy's 
house, in the same county, was also injured. Fences, trees, and crops were 
prostrated in the path of the storm. 
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"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Wed., June 5, 1878, p. 1, col. 3 

SOUTHAMPTON. 
  Worrell's Post-Office, May 29.- The present crop of wheat in Southampton 
is at least four times larger than any previous year since the war, and up 
to the 1st of May was the best.  But since the wet season set in the rust 
has attacked it, and while it is very slight compared with the reports from 
other sections, will injure the crop to some extent.  My own crop is the 
best I have seen, and will be ready to harvest next week.  I think I will 
certainly get fifteen bushels per acre, and some of my neighbors put it 
higher.                                      N.B. Ridley. 
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"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Wed., June 5, 1878, p. 2, col. 3 

    SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY. 
[Correspondence of the Rlchmond Dispatch.] 
   SOUTH SIDE OF S. AND R. RAILROAD, } 
                       June 3, 1878. } 
  Fine weather for young ducks.  Streams are flowing with great rapidity from 
the recent rainy time which we have had.  Vegetables are looking promising. 
Wheat, which is not cultured very extensively in this part of Virginia, is 
somewhat sorry, though the yield will be more than once thought for if nothing 
befalls it from now.  Our cotton crops are looking extremely bad from the 
cold, wet spell we had about the 1st of May.  Some are chopping out.  On the 
26th ultimo we had the severest windand hail-storm that's been witnessed in 
this county in many years.  It came from the northwest.  Hail-stones ranged 
from the size of buckshot up to hulled walnuts.  The latter was not so severe 
as the former.  Since the subsidence of the storm we learn, without 
substantial evidence, that every house except the dwelling was unroofed on the 
farm of James McLemore, near Boykin's Depot.  In numerous places the wind blew 
off tops of chimneys.  We hear of many other buildings of different kinds that 
were blown to pieces.  The dairy of Mr. E.C. Fergusson was blown down and the 
contents entirely demolished.  Several thousand panels of fence were 
scattered.  The width of this storm we supposed to be about ten miles.  The 
length we have not ascertained.                        A SUBSCRIBER.
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   Virginia newspaper project, at: 
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   - text of articles corrected 


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