| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| April 16, 1862 |
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| Great Freshet |
| The rain on last Tuesday night
was the heaviest south of us experienced for many years. It was also
accompanied with unusually severe thunder and lightning. All the
railroads running into Macon were injured more or less, and trains
stopped a day or more. |
| This destructive and excessive
rain has thrown planters behind with their work. The washing up of corn,
fencing, and loose ground, is great. The wet spring threatens rust to
the wheat, oats, &c., |
| Milledgeville Recorder |
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