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plOughed and sOwcd in this town" The win ter following was what was then called and IS sill spoken of, as the "hard winter" The snow was at least five feet deep on an average level: but very much drifted. "FOr forty days there was not in any exposure the least thaw." In the winter of l78O-al, the snow fell very early, and very deep; ''the fall crops were not all gathered, and the cider not half made" 1783-84, was winter of severity -'84 and '85 was remarkable for great snOws. Through the month of March, and to the goth of April, it lay or feet deep, ard would sustain any passing of loaded teams in the forepart of the day. '85 and '86 was on the whole pleasant winter. The most remark able storm that season, was on the st day of the roads in many places for several days.- The fall of '86 was very severe,-the HOnsa- tonic was frozen in November, so as to be passable on the ice. The 9th of December will long be remembered as one of the most dreadful storms in the memory of nen-one person perished il this town" II shall pass for the present any particular notice of the seasons until l7G6-they were mild, and with very little sleighing, and people began to think that the northern and western settlements were almost ann!hilating our winters,-butthe snow of '97 and '98 convinced the world that winter was to remain. The winters of 1900 -O1-02 were mild.-18O4-5 was very sc- vere-on the 10th and 1th of Oct. 1904, the snow fell half leg deep, which was the earliest and deepest snow for 50 years. iSO5-6-7, were mild. The storm of 24th Dec. 1911, was perhaps the coldest one that remember in Goshen, pc rished. This storm was also attended with this peculiar circumstance-it was not preceded by any strong indications or progression in it's commencement, but the first blast of wind that struck the earth, and the snow that came with it, were as great as at any succeeding period of the storm. Snow fell Nov: 11th 1920, and very cold, which made good sleighing fora week." When speaking of our present severe winter, the a. bove "reminiscences are rendered somewhat in teresting. The last Vt. papers say that the snow on the west side of the mountain is about four feet deep upon level-that barns, sheds, and other OUt-buildings, were much injured by the weight of snow upon them, and many of them were crushed to the ground. $500 it is said will not repair the damage done in this way to the iron works in Fair Haven, Vt In Albany the snow is about three feet deer, accompanied by uncommon severity of cold. We, in this place, who were for abo ut week ending the 2lst inst. shivering in cold which caused mercury in correct thermometers to range from zero to 19 degrees below, are not solitary sufferers from severe weather. We will here remark, although it may be contro- verted by some, that Litchfeld Hill is indeed not generally as cold here as at Albany, or at the river towns in this state At Albany and at Hartford the thermometer has stood at 19 deg. below zero, when here it stood only at l2. AL tlc SOuin, me weather naS been lln- commonly seycre-more so than has before been known since 17SO. There was skating on large bodies of water near Augusta, Geo. and the river Savannah was at the same time fast bound in ice. In Maine, the thermome- ter has, in several places, ranged from ls to g. deg. below zero. He giyeth snow like wool; He scattereth hoar frost like ashes He cast eth forth His ice like morsels; Who can stand before his cOldr'

 The "bull," spoken ofin the following com muniCaton is an error of our own. The wri- ter has approred instead of opposed, in his manuscript We may perhaps be allowed to state that the gentleman alluded to, as being the author oftwo communications in favor of MT. Merwin's election, is not the author, and that he never saw the last piece until he saw it in print. We have indisputable evidence of this fact.

 FOR THE COUNTY POST.

 Mir. SMITH,

 Sir--The writer who advocates the preten- sions of MT. Merwin to the office of represen- tative to Congress, and who take it is the